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The lead single from Lazerbeak's upcoming "Cameron" LP, the third in his series of instrumental albums dedicated to his children.

Produced by Lazerbeak
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering
Artwork by Andy McAlpine

Summer Blockbuster

The latest single from Lazerbeak's upcoming 'Cameron' LP, the third in his trilogy of instrumental albums dedicated to his children. Album out October 1st on Doomtree Records.

Pre-Order: http://store.doomtree.net/

Music created, produced, and performed by Lazerbeak
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering
Artwork by Andy McAlpine

Layups

The second two tracks from Lava Bangers II, to be released two tracks per month over the course of 2022.

Written and produced by Lazerbeak
Mixed by Joe Mabbot at the Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton
Art by Andy McAlpine

Doomtree Records 2022.

Lazerbeak - "Rain Delay"

The 17th single from Lava Bangers II.

Written and produced by Lazerbeak
Mixed by Joe Mabbot at the Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton
Art by Andy McAlpine

Doomtree Records 2022.

Lazerbeak - "Rockers"

Buy on iTunes: http://bit.ly/FaroutProf
Buy at Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/FaroutFE
Watch the Music Video: http://bit.ly/FaroutVideo

Produced by 84 Caprice

Catch Prof on Atmosphere's North of Hell tour:
11.02.14 - Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House 
11.04.12 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
11.05.14 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom 
11.06.14 - Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina
11.07.14 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
11.10.14 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
11.11.14 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's 
11.12.14 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
11.14.14 - Richmond, VA - The National 
11.15.14 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
11.16.14 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
11.17.14 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place 
11.18.14 - Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
11.20.14 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue Theater 
11.21.14 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection 
11.22.14 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom

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Prof - Farout

All Over the Place

Different Trish

From Doomtree's 2009 release "FH:XV (False Hopes 15)"
Produced by Lazerbeak

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Cecil Otter "A Rickety Bridge"

Taken from Doomtree's 2007 release "False Hopes"
Produced by Cecil Otter

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Cecil Otter "A Hundred Fathers"

Beyond, Mr. Gene Poole, Extreme "Look Into Our Wilderness" [Produced By ANT]

"Look Into Our Wilderness" was featured on "Effort", the 5th Headshots Tape released in 1997. 

Watch "A Moment In Rhymesayers Episode 2: Headshots Crew" now to learn more about how the Headshots Crew came to be: http://bit.ly/RSE20vid-2

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Beyond, Mr. Gene Poole, Extreme - Look Into Our Wilderness (1997)

Raps by Sims and P.O.S
Beats by Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger (Sick Trim 4 Lyfe)

Recorded at Flat Black Studios
Engineered by Luke Tweedy and Joel Anderson
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering

© 2024 Doomtree Records

Shit Rules

Sunday, March 29th, 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of Blueprint's debut solo album on Rhymesayers, "1988". We've been celebrating this anniversary for a whole week with special posts on Instagram and Soundcloud, PLUS we've sale-priced the album (CD and Digital) at Fifth Element for a limited time. This week only, you can buy "1988" for just $4.99! Order the album from Fifth Element now, and we'll throw in a free digital download of DJ Rare Groove's official "1988 Live" mixtape, which was the exclusive bonus offered with the album pre-order back in 2005. 
Get the album now and experience the sounds of 1988!
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"No Half Smokin'" was a B-side cut on the "Print Is Goin' Off" 7-inch vinyl release, which dropped around the same time as the "1988" album. Both songs were reinterpretations of 80's Hip-Hop classics; Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" and Biz Markie's "Biz Is Goin' Off", respectively. The original songs were both released on the Cold Chillin' label, so the labels for this 7-inch were also reinterpreted to mimic the 12" single labels on those original Cold Chillin' releases.

This song may not have been heard as widely as the album, so we thought we'd share it here, too. This 7-inch is still available in limited quantities at Fifth Element for only $2.99! Get It now: http://fifthelementonline.com/products/blueprint-print-is-goin-off-7-inch-vinyl

Blueprint - No Half Smokin'

In honor of the latest edition of "A Moment In Rhymesayers" video series, which focuses on Headshots tape #4: History, we wanted to post up a track from the tape. No song seemed more fitting and perfect than Soul Eqlipse "Think". "History" was recorded and released for, as well as, is dedicated to Soul Eqlipse/Abstract Pack/Headshots member Sess, who had passed away earlier that year. Soul Eqlipse was a group that consists of two members of The Abstract Pack; Sess and Glo. We asked Glo to give us his memories on the song "Think" below. Check out this special video and dedication to Sess here: bit.ly/RSE20YT

In my opinion that was the best song we've ever written together as Soul Eqlipse, because it was the realest! Every song we ever wrote was about rippin MCs or how hip hop we were and when I presented the concept to Sess he was with it. It's also IMO that his verse on there is one of, if not the, realest he's ever written. He was brutally honest about his drinking and smoking habit, and how/why he did it. He gives advice that he was never given about some things people should think about before they chose a religion, etc… But, also the fact that he has all this wisdom about these things, but didn't "have the balls" to follow through with what he knows that could save his life. Ironically, after we wrote the song and had performed it a couple of times, Sess started really trying to slow down a little for his sons, being an even better father, and in his life in general. That song also showed me the power of substance in MC'ing vs. just rappin for me. As in, how I wanted to do my art. The (Abstract) Pack really started  recording (their official debut album) "Bousta Set It" shortly after his death and that was the last time I ever used cusswords in my lyrics. That song changed me, changed us, changed him. 
-Glo Pesci of Soul Eclipse/The Abstract Pack/Headshots Crew

LYRICS:

Glo's Verse: "I got a problem, I got a real big problem/But, this situation goes way past using a condom/But I must admit sometimes I don't roll on one/Diseased? No, not at all son, but am I really sure about the origins of my sneeze/and high Feev's I seem to catch to easily/all to often, nowadays, plus I'm constantly coughing/Exhaustion just from walking, could it be ways I'm caught in/a zone of coincidenti-ality, past technicalities / of girls I boned, or is God simply saying he's mad at me?/That'll be ill, but still I know/It's a combo of the last two this time's been passed due / LIving life off the mercy of the Lord/Now I ask you, 'Is it worth it?' Hell no! Sure, I scored/But, after once or twice you get bored/Looking into the face of someone who you have no care for/And, then she relays she's pregnant, but, that's not all, there's more/You've been diagnosed with WHAT??!! Though I say I didn't give it with conviction, I'm unsure/HMMMM, Did I when we did it?/My conscious tried to mention my symptoms, I didn't listen/So, is it / Chlamydia from Lydia or Syphilis from Phyllis/Or Gonorrhea from Lawana or Leah/I'm looking in the mirror, 'I Can't believe ya, I can't believe ya'/You played yourself and gave yourself to undeserved crotches/and now my skin is plagued with splotches/I ruined other peoples lives, as well as mine/It's too much for my conscious, more stress than Brent Sayers or Pharoah Monch combined, mixed/How did I get caught up in this mess/I guess I should thought, yes, that would have prevented/gave help in giving myself respect/but it's too late, life has dealt me a bad card/or did I take it?/Or did my bad decisions make it? / As whatever spreads I can't shake it and it will not stop/But, I'm too scared to see the doc, I just keep on until I drop/Y'all, I'm on call with death, my picture's posted on His mail room wall/But could have one good thought and decision, stopped it all?/I'll never know…"

Hook: "Just think…just think…what if you could just, just think, just…think, what if you could just, just think, just think, what if you could just, huh, just blink yourself away/but, you can't you're here to stay/So, you best make decisions to live and see the next day/But, HEY, do what you wanna do/But, before you do something stupid, think it thru, man, think it thru…"

Sess' verse: "Think of the ways for life before you pick the road you're living/and the plagues in life before you choose on a religion/Best to save your life before it plummets and falls/I say, I can,but YO, I won't because I don't got the balls/I toss fools out my life who give me worry and stress/Regardless of those I love and now I said at the rest/Angered by my own actions as I feel the tears roll/I try to hide it with the weed smoke, but it poisons my soul/Oh, why do decisions of your life come back to haunt you/Like what goes around, comes around, kid, hey, I won't front/You know, I done did some dirt and I'll probably ain't done/Shit, I just jacked this one kid for fun, who wants some?/Done did mad thinking and then came to conclusions/Losing my mind trying to find that one fusion/Of happiness, lavish living and a little bit of sexin'/Each time I try, I seem to fly into a different direction/Staying somber and broke, fu**ing some trick I don't care for/Therefore the hole that I dig myself gets deeper/Creep to the liquor store, to grab another 4-0/So I can drown my sorrow into that empty 40 bottle/My homies try to cheer me up with sticky buds and pretty hotties/I guess my body's tolerance has peaked/and to all of you out there popping that weak…you best ta' think"

Hook/Outro: "Just think…just think…what if you could just, just think, just…think, what if you could just, just think, just think, what if you could just, could just, could just blink yourself away/That kid Sess'll do some dirt with no delay/I paid attention to my Pops, he didn't' play/He'd say, "Pockets, I'm depending on you son, to pull your family thru/I could give a damn what you got to do/You could get to jackin' or even selling pearly yay/But, you gotta get that loot today/I won't be here tomorrow and the rent was due yesterday, yesterday, yay-yeah…"


Soul Eqlipse - Think (1996) [Headshots tape #4: History]

deM atlaS - DWNR

Available at Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/DWNRCD
& iTunes: http://bit.ly/DemDWNR

Tracklisting: 
01. Watabout
02. I Don't Care
03. Dandelions 
04. All We Got
05. Drive North
06. Down In The Low
07. Candy (Know Wat Can Be) 
08. Wannabe A Kid Again
09. Time Of Our Lives


deM atlaS - All We Got

Created by Lazerbeak
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering
Art direction and photography by TZBZ

Sorry's Not My Safe Word

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Two Boats

Raps by Dwynell Roland and P.O.S
Beat by YATA
Additional throwdowns by Casey Gerald and Ryan Amos
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering

Dwynell Roland x P.O.S - "Don't Call The Cops"

Go Ahead

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THE HOOD INTERNET still on tour 2016— 
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JAN 21 » The Crocodile, Seattle | http://bit.ly/thiseattle
JAN 22 » Mississippi Studios, Portland http://bit.ly/thiportland
JAN 23 » The Shakedown, Bellingham | http://bit.ly/thibham
JAN 24 » Ace Hotel, Palm Springs | http://bit.ly/thipalmsprings
JAN 28 » Mous Tache, Tijuana | http://bit.ly/thitijuana
JAN 29 » The Casbah, San Diego | http://bit.ly/thisandiego
JAN 30 » Constellation Room, OC | http://bit.ly/thioranjcounty
FEB 4 » Soho, Santa Barbara | http://bit.ly/thisantabarbara
FEB 5 » Natural History Museum, LA | http://bit.ly/thinhmla
FEB 6 » Starline Social Club, Oakland | http://bit.ly/thioakland

I KNOW ANGELS

"sleepdrone/superposition" by P.O.S off of Chill, dummy out now on Doomtree Records.


Doomtree Webstore: http://store.doomtree.net/artist/p-o-s
iTunes: bit.ly/POSChilldummyiTunes
Bandcamp: bit.ly/POSChilldummyBandcamp

featuring Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, Kathleen Hanna, Hard_R, Lydia Liza, Lizzo, Nicholas L. Perez

Chill, dummy

sleepdrone/superposition

P.O.S "sleepdrone/superposition"

"The Silver String" by Saosin from the album 'Along The Shadow,' available now
Order here: https://saosin.lnk.to/ATS 

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Saosin - The Silver String

DRUMS: KARRIEM RIGGINS (OBVIOUSLY!)
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Show Me Love (Skrillex Remix) ft. Chance The Rapper, Moses Sumney, Robin Hannibal

No April Fools joke here. After dropping the out-of-nowhere “Cross Countries” single earlier this week, Cecil Otter announces the immediate release of his new EP Dear Echo, available digitally through Doomtree Records.  Longtime Doomtree crew member and behind-the-scenes production wizard, Cecil has spent years developing his unique and signature sound, and Dear Echo pushes the genre boundaries even further for his most modern, lush, and experimental offering yet.  Recorded in Fall Creek, WI at Justin Vernon’s renowned April Base Studios, the six-track EP includes three brand new songs alongside their accompanying instrumentals, with production, songwriting, and vocals masterfully handled by Cecil himself.  Available now for download, Dear Echo will also see a vinyl release later this year.  Standard and deluxe LP packages are now available for pre-order from the Doomtree webstore, and include limited-edition white vinyl and an extremely rare signed-and-numbered screen-print series featuring the artwork Cecil created during the Dear Echo recording sessions.

After self-producing several of his own solo albums throughout the 2000’s, Cecil Otter rose to fame as one half of the mashup duo Wugazi, a remix project that overlapped the gritty raps of Wu-Tang Clan with the sounds of post-rock vets Fugazi.  The project went instantly viral and garnered high praise from the likes of NBC, Rolling Stone, MTV, and even Jay-Z’s own site, Life + Times.  Dear Echo marks Cecil’s first new collection of solo material since 2008’s Rebel Yellow.

Dear Echo

Cross Countries

Cecil Otter "Cross Countries"

After self-producing several of his own solo albums throughout the 2000’s, Cecil Otter rose to fame as one half of the mashup duo Wugazi, a remix project that overlapped the gritty raps of Wu-Tang Clan with the sounds of post-rock vets Fugazi.  The project went instantly viral and garnered high praise from the likes of NBC, Rolling Stone, MTV, and even Jay-Z’s own site, Life + Times.  Dear Echo marks Cecil’s first new collection of solo material since 2008’s Rebel Yellow.

Cecil Otter "Beauty"

No April Fools joke here. After dropping the out-of-nowhere “Cross Countries” single earlier this week, Cecil Otter announces the immediate release of his new EP Dear Echo, available digitally through Doomtree Records.  Longtime Doomtree crew member and behind-the-scenes production wizard, Cecil has spent years developing his unique and signature sound, and Dear Echo pushes the genre boundaries even further for his most modern, lush, and experimental offering yet.  Recorded in Fall Creek, WI at Justin Vernon’s renowned April Base Studios, the six-track EP includes three brand new songs alongside their accompanying instrumentals, with production, songwriting, and vocals masterfully handled by Cecil himself.  Available now for download, Dear Echo will also see a vinyl release later this year.  Standard and deluxe LP  packages are now available for pre-order from the Doomtree webstore, and include limited-edition white vinyl and an extremely rare signed-and-numbered screen-print series featuring the artwork Cecil created during the Dear Echo recording sessions.

After self-producing several of his own solo albums throughout the 2000’s, Cecil Otter rose to fame as one half of the mashup duo Wugazi, a remix project that overlapped the gritty raps of Wu-Tang Clan with the sounds of post-rock vets Fugazi.  The project went instantly viral and garnered high praise from the likes of NBC, Rolling Stone, MTV, and even Jay-Z’s own site, Life + Times.  Dear Echo marks Cecil’s first new collection of solo material since 2008’s Rebel Yellow.

Grime

Cecil Otter "Grime"

Taken from "Life playing tricks" EP
Produced, mixed and arranged by ProleteR

Licensed and released by Banzaï Lab Records

Available on all platform :
Multimedia link: https://lnk.to/proleteR-LifePlayingTricks 
Vinyl edition available here https://banzailab.bandcamp.com/album/proleter-life-playing-tricks-digital-vinyl
Bandcamp : https://proleter.bandcamp.com/
Facebook : www.facebook.com/ProleteR.beats
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/proleterbeats
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/proleter_official/

Mastering by Christophe Chapelle (www.sinetracks.com/)
Artwork by Sbuone (www.sbuone.com)

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ProleteR - Destiny

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Tidal: tidal.com/track/61264601

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"Gun Smoke"

"Wave" ft. Moncelas Boston and Sophia Eris out now on Doomtree Records.

Produced by BJ Burton
Mastered by Huntley Miller at HM Mastering



P.O.S "Wave" (ft Moncelas Boston and Sophia Eris)

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Doomtree announce the release of their single “Spill Me Up,” the first taste of new crew music since 2015’s critically-acclaimed All Hands album.  The track, which just premiered on The AV Club, features raps by Sims, Cecil Otter, and P.O.S, with a banger beat courtesy of Lazerbeak.

The entire Doomtree collective (P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger, and Lazerbeak) are hard at work on solo projects this year and will be hitting the festival circuit this summer. Tour dates are listed below. Be on the look-out for a load of new tracks all summer long.

Doomtree Tour Dates
6/18/16 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater - http://rrfest.com
6/25/16 - Grand Rapids, MI - Electric Forest Festival 2016 - SOLD OUT
9/17/16 - Fort Wayne, IN - Middle Waves 2016 - http://middlewaves.com

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Doomtree "Spill Me Up"

Pre-order CD/LP from Doomtree.net: http://bit.ly/DTpreorder
Pre-order on Bandcamp: http://sims.bandcamp.com
Pre-order on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/simsmte
Pre-order on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2dua7sr

I love this beat. I think ICETEP captured some amazing feeling in this one, big rises and falls, sweeping synths, I don’t know, there is just something unique and special about that beat to me. This was the first beat I got for this album, and it was the last song I finished; I wound up turning it in the day before we went to mastering. The song is about immediacy, and that sense of desperation in immediacy.  I wrote this in memoriam of some lost friends. Something woke in me when they died. Something fierce and urgent. And I wanted to share that sense of urgency on this song, to share that expression of being relentlessly present and driven to do whatever it is that you want to do.
-Sims

More Than Ever

Brutal Dance

Cecil Otter "Rebel Yellow"

Rap music from the near and bleak future; or more aptly, from next week’s dystopia. Artería Verité is a concept album that ended up being more future-realist than conceptual.

While on tour two years ago, the newly formed AIR CREDITS— Chicago rapper ShowYouSuck and producer Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet— came by the Minneapolis studio of SIMS (Doomtree, Shredders) to collaborate for the first Air Credits album Broadcasted. Sims then took Air Credits on tour in support of his 2016 album More Than Ever, largely produced by Minneapolis artist ICETEP. Immediately following that tour, these four met up in the studio (first in Chicago, then later in Minneapolis) to create Artería Verité. 

Sims and ShowYouSuck handle the raps, pulp-driven snapshots from the wasteland and its inhabitants, their means for survival, their need to commune, their arterial link to one another through underground channels of communique. ICETEP and Reidell handle the production, sweeping synths over a vascular pulsing of low frequencies creating a tension, like a machine seeing its own blood. The songs speak to our baser needs to find each other, especially when in the shit. 

On Soundcloud :
@SIMSdoomtree | @aircredits (@thehoodinternet x @showyousuck) | @gabriel-aaron-bethke |

Artería Verité

SIMS x AIR CREDITS x ICETEP "Hologramme"

Rap music from the near and bleak future; or more aptly, from next week’s dystopia. Artería Verité is a concept album that ended up being more future-realist than conceptual.

While on tour two years ago, the newly formed AIR CREDITS— Chicago rapper ShowYouSuck and producer Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet— came by the Minneapolis studio of SIMS (Doomtree, Shredders) to collaborate for the first Air Credits album Broadcasted. Sims then took Air Credits on tour in support of his 2016 album More Than Ever, largely produced by Minneapolis artist ICETEP. Immediately following that tour, these four met up in the studio (first in Chicago, then later in Minneapolis) to create Artería Verité.

Sims and ShowYouSuck handle the raps, pulp-driven snapshots from the wasteland and its inhabitants, their means for survival, their need to commune, their arterial link to one another through underground channels of communique. ICETEP and Reidell handle the production, sweeping synths over a vascular pulsing of low frequencies creating a tension, like a machine seeing its own blood. The songs speak to our baser needs to find each other, especially when in the shit.

On Soundcloud :
@SIMSdoomtree | @aircredits (@thehoodinternet x @showyousuck) | @gabriel-aaron-bethke |

SIMS x AIR CREDITS x ICETEP - "Octadant"

M/MA by Will Putney

available 2012 on Equal Vision Records