Hip Hop - Powerful

Squeezing the Minutes from the Days

Professing Vol. 2

A Musical Introduction to FTO. Asheville NC Hip Hop

NC Hip Hop

Hip Hop Lecture Series

CShreve the PRO

A whole bunch of  music that I 'liked' and 'reposted' during 2014. There's not really an order to this list. Just tried to make it flow nice, though some of the songs at the beginning are ones I feel are especially dope. Had this list compiled for a couple months and am just now making it public. Probably a little late on that... ah well... fugg it. Moving on...

Most Likable "Liked" Songs of 2014

The Warning-Produced By: L. Jones (1100 Hunters)

NC Hip Hop at it's finest
@bigpurpington on production @seeshreve on the podium
i guess that's why i'm best when i got broccoli
http://FTOlife.com

C.Shreve the Professor - My Philosophy (prod. by P.U.R.P.)

Peggy the Nun

Isaiah Rashad - Shot You Down (Remix) ft. Jay Rock & ScHoolboy Q
MixedByAli 

http://Twitter.com/IsaiahRashad
http://Facebook.com/IsaiahRashadMusic

Official Music Video: http://youtu.be/vUaqIoXGVV4

Isaiah Rashad - Shot You Down (Remix) ft. Jay Rock & ScHoolboy Q

the Tape: http://www.datpiff.com/Trapbo-Chad-The-Tape-mixtape.543555.html
Trapbo' Chad & C.Shreve the Professor show you how we see it
http://twitter.com/trapbo_chad and http://twitter.com/seeshreve
http://FTOlife.com

Trapbo' Chad | C.Shreve the Professor - Parallel (prod. By SpaceGang)

Download "DORNER vs. TOOKIE" via hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

DvT ft. Open Mike Eagle, VerBS, Nocando, KAIL, Busdriver & Rheteric Ramirez

2nd official release from the forthcoming Professing Vol. 2
Shreve + Handbook = Hip Hop
keep up if you're inclined: @seeshreve and @HandbookYork
artwork by kuchi 3star
http://facebook.com/freetheoptimus

C.Shreve the Professor - What They Need (prod. by Handbook)

VORTEX

Playing a gut-bucket slide on his 3-string Cigar Box Guitar while singing and stomping on a tambourine, (Songwriter) Jeff Powers creates his own “gumbo” styled brand of Roots, Blues and Americana. Imagine what would happen if Neil Young joined the Black Keys and then you have an idea what Jeff Powers sounds like!

Juke Joint Jam

If it's a man's world, why you maraud at midnight?
http://FTOlife.com
http://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com

C.Shreve the Professor - Midnight Marauders (prod. by Flue)

#NCHipHop on some York flavor
Official VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r1QDivmMwE
http://twitter.com/ItsDeliMan  http://twitter.com/seeshreve 
http://twitter.com/HandbookYork  http://twitter.com/FreeTheOptimus

Phlo Deli | C.Shreve the Professor - It's All Live (prod. by Handbook)

Mind Ninjas all up on some other shit
BLT - http://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/album/burning-leaf-technique

Mind Ninjas - Truth (prod. By Good Shepard)

C.Shreve and iLe Flottante has become quite the winning formula
Vol. 2 - https://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/album/professing-vol-2

C.Shreve the Professor - Mona Lisa (prod. by iLe Flottante)

@seeshreve and @C_Pitt link back up with ROMAINNN
https://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/album/professing-vol-2
http://FTOlife.com

C.Shreve the Professor | C.Pitt - Tyrannosaurus (prod. by ROMAINNN)

intro track to Professing Vol. 2
https://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/album/professing-vol-2
http://FTOlife.com

C.Shreve the Professor - Daze (prod. by Aspie)

This song is from my album, "They Told Me This Would Sell". It's about how cats will do anything for fame and money. It's a different twist on it though.

Blackface

The Spotlight feat. AR Banks, Smidi, Alpha Lee & C-Mills. 

The Spotlight

After numerous performances, http://twitter.com/seeShreve and Snoddy finally have a proper collaboration. And on a Mikey Kotz beat no less. 
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9zD2IFA9M
http://FTOlife.com Asheville stand up. http://facebook.com/FreeTheOptimus
http://soundcloud.com/martin-snoddy http://soundcloud.com/freetheoptimus

C.Shreve the Professor | Martin Snoddy - Natural Selection (prod. by Mikey Kotz)

Taylor McFerrin - The Antidote (feat. Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote)  

From the forthcoming album "Early Riser" on Brainfeeder. 

Release date: 06/03/14

Taylor McFerrin - The Antidote (feat. Nai Palm)

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KoCO3qPGsk
@seeshreve and @HandbookYork are out to hold the Summer Ransom
#SummerRansom the album coming July 1st 
photo courtesy of #FTO skater/rider/surfer extraordinaire James Millen
http://FTOlife.com


C.Shreve the Professor - Summer Ransom (prod. by Handbook)

New album 'What We Do For Others', released 28 October 2022 on Brainfeeder: https://dorianconcept.lnk.to/wwdfoSo

Taken from the album Joined Ends, released 20 October 2014 on Ninja Tune ...

Draft Culture

Hands in the sky for your mans on the rise. One more time for the fans on the side. One pure rhyme for the feet on the ground. One more time for the beat that go BAOW! Lyrics: http://genius.com/Cshreve-the-professor-baow-feat-dj-jet-and-mike-l-ve-lyrics
#TwentySixteens and #FTOLive are on deck. Prepare yourselves. 
Mixed and mastered by EG Engineering. 
http://FTOlife.com
http://twitter.com/seeshreve 
http://twitter.com/LongLiveLive
http://twitter.com/JetMusake

C.Shreve the Professor | DJ Jet | Mike L!VE - BAOW (prod. by Nakata Slice)

Written and Performed by Kill Bill

Produced by Flawless Tracks

Kill Bill- Orange Slices (Produced by Flawless)

I told H.E.R. I love her, I don't think that she believe me....
Twenty Sixteens: http://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-h-e-r-prod-by
http://twitter.com/seeshreve
http://facebook.com/CShreveTheProfessor


iTunes

C.Shreve the Professor - I Love H.E.R. (prod. by ΔΣ)

We all family, it's all a Family Tree / I'll meet you up at the top like a canopy / Throw on a random beat and watch my man and me / Link the ground to the sky and that's a Family Tree

http://youtube.com/FreeTheOptimus
http://FTOLife.com
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Free-the-optimus-family-tree-lyrics

http://twitter.com/seeSHREVE   
http://twitter.com/MIKELIVELIHOOD

Produced by minthaze. Mixed / mastered by EG Engineering.

FTOLive

C.Shreve the Professor | Mike L!VE - Family Tree (FTO)

They told me make it count - I told em NO CHOICE....
Shep and Shreve snakin the crown and the loot, and then flying away....
Burning Leaf Technique

Mind Ninjas - Make It Count

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step) Instrumental ...
you c.shreve? not likely
THE RISE

C.Shreve the Professor - What's the Concept (Mobb Deep Ins)

way out where them orbits is / on point like swordfishes ...
Shreve with the bars, Shep Bryan with the superchops
Burning Leaf Technique coming soon
https://www.facebook.com/MindNinjas
http://freetheoptimus.tumblr.com
https://www.facebook.com/FreeTheOptimus

Mind Ninjas - Left At The Sky (prod. by Shep Bryan)

Look Like Basquait (Prod By SGP & Rah)

Robb Bank$

CDQ...More to come...Stay tuned YOTS on the way

Robb Bank$ - Look Like Basquiat Prod. By SGP & Rah (YOTS Version)

Mind Ninjas all up on some other shit
@seeshreve  @shepbryan
Burning Leaf Technique: http://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com

Mind Ninjas - Diamond Highway

Snippet...

"             " Before YOTS

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Robb Bank$ - Like That ft. Spaceghost Purrp

Written by Sole & Kaigen
Produced by Sole
Mixed and Mastered by Dee Jay Doc at the Synergy Studio

(Sole) 
living without dead time 
my land is an island of butter in a sea of corn syrup 
everyman is an island 
on this experiment 
kiss up to The All Thing 
offer your offspring 
count your broken fingers 
count your successes 
nothing is impressive 
in this land of excess 
watching it watch you while you enter the center 
stabbed by the steeple 
a living antenna 

(Kaigen) 
怠惰な右脳を叩いてみれば文明開化の音がする 
怠惰な左脳を叩いてみれば人類退化の音がする 
西暦20XX年 スイッチひとつクリックふたつ 
で簡潔に完結する 全自動の日常は何気にノンフィクション 
現行の不可能を可能にする夢の最先端技術でさえ 
一旦現実に追いつかれると「できて当たり前」「あって当たり前」 
というあらぬ誤解を与え、頭が高い上 に恩知らず 
な現代人は有り難味の足取りすら掴めなくなっている 

(Sole) 
you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade 

you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade 

under the gun i was born 
same as yall 
but from a different end 
we're children of the atom 
all dysfunctional cousins 
always grieving the loss of innocence 
and permanent childhood 
they airbrush the city but we can't eat off the streets 
the enemy is within and it taunts while we sleep 
surviving on seeds our competitors are meek 
mountains tumble to the sea 
still waters run deep 
steady running on E while dreams get recycled 
machine replacing man better call that an arrival 
man becomes machine to ensure his survival 
organic or inorganic its a natural cycle 

(Kaigen) 
度が過ぎるまでに完備された甘美で快適な 
世の中を譲る覚悟も更々ないくせに昔は良かった 
と軽々しく過去を美化するのはやめておけ 

(Sole) 
you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade 

you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade 

(Kaigen) 
度が過ぎるまでに完備された甘美で快適な 
世の中を譲る覚悟も更々ないくせに昔は良かった 
と軽々しく過去を美化するのはやめておけ 

かつての最大限はいつしか最低限と化し、気がつけば 
常識のように携帯しているあれもこれも昨日までは 
その必要性すら理解しがたい機能だったはずなのにいざ 
なくなってみると途端に不便に思えてくるから困ったもんだ 
常用すれば急速に依存していく薬物楽々グッズ 
怠けたがる本能を誘惑して無自覚の欲求を度々おびき出す 
怠慢な人間の習性を利用したビジネスモデル 
元来備わった人体の性能を伐採して不養生な需要を 
放し飼い 砂漠化してからようやく事態を 
問題視し始める体たらく どうにかしたいけど 
どうしていいかわからず、過去問を引っ張り出してみたが 
自分で解くのもめんどくさいし 誰かに聞けばいいや 
と手っ取り早く結果だけをおねだり ゆりかごから 
過保護に育てられた頭も体も心も深刻な 
運動不足 基礎忍耐力はなくなり、我慢の出番は激減 
穴だらけの堪忍袋をぶら下げ、自己実現 
に向かう千載一遇の耐久レースも少々急な坂に 
さしかかるなり億劫になり途中棄権 
文明の利器に頼りきりで自力が錆び付き 
引きこもりの五感の社会復帰 こんなんでは極めて困難 

(Sole) 
you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade 

(Kaigen) 
痒いところに手が届けば届くほどひとつを失えば 
全てを失う脆弱な贅沢 僕らが追い求めた豊かさの実態さ 
テクノロジー 古今東西山積した課題を打開していく快刀乱麻　 
しかし同時に諸刃の剣であることも確か 巷の過ちの大方 
は使い道を踏み外した先輩方の罪深き住処 
風向きに翻弄されることなく過剰包装の暮らしを見直し 
底なしの拡大を続ける身の回りの簡単便利 
とのお付き合いも結構ですが無用心な深入りは控えめに 

(Sole) 
you cant hold up a falling building from the basement 
the dead can be reanimated 
but will walk no more 
the world will not be fixed by an upgrade

Sole & Kaigen - Don't Try To Stop It (prod. by Sole)

@seeshreve and @ItsDeliMan ripped some @HandbookYork production
Sit it down if you can't stand it / why you waitin hatin you can go make me a damn sandwich....or keep it movin
http://youtube.com/freetheoptimus

C.Shreve the Professor I Phlo Deli - KEEP IT MOVIN (prod. by Handbook)

Wait For Me

Free the Optimus founder/MC http://soundcloud.com/freetheoptimus
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dz8m7I16TtxL7TAuFDu8Z All That I Feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Iv4cJIGk0 
Carolina Proud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OEYu3i7LJw The Toast: https://bit.ly/2B0ub1b Catacombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIEoJk4_wk FadeAway:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mQcvnkn-w
1234 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa53v-XN1W4
Summer Ransom (album DL): https://freetheoptimus.bandcamp.com/
Crews' Corpses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBra7yObnxk
What It Do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5L-GlWTtqM
The Feast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZUeHSQfEm8
Summer Ransom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KoCO3qPGsk
Live @ The Local: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwhxTU02f8