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Dray Jr. // What Do I Do
Death Before Dishonor
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzEEdK-lVHw
iTunes link below:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/what-do-i-do-this-is-how-its/id898848398?i=898848419

What Do I Do (This Is How It's Done)(Dirty Version)

After bringing you classics like Blu and Exile's "Below the Heavens", Fashawns "Boy Meets world" and more.. Exile Does it again with his latest album teaming up with Dirty Science Rapper Johaz under the name DAG SAVAGE for their debut album E&J. With features from Blu, Fashawn, Aloe Blacc and more, this future classic is a must have.
itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/e-j/id815397010
for CD: tinyurl.com/ohhal9z
for vinyl: tinyurl.com/qjds4fb

2. For Old Time's Sake.mp3

Sample & percussion EP 
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Ray west & john Robinson

Red apples 45 brings you yet another artistic EP . This time combining ray Wests production and the great lyricist john Robinson of science of life.
Together they bring you "sample and percussion" - 
A Limited addition cassette tape produced entirely on an emu sp 12 turbo .
Complete with fold out double sided panel art and linear notes , a special guest appearance by J Zone and 4 bonus instrumentals on the b side .
Consider tho EP the prequel to more music coming from red apples & john Robinson . 

CLASSIC VIBES

A african american boy, soaked in his confusion, is completely fucked on Acid, joyriding on the 95 with two other friends. The boy has recently started to grasp life's contradictions and the abundance of them he is a product to. He feels annoyed by these realities and has this hidden urge to adjust his inconsistent ways he now sees as an immortality. The other two make fun of his urge and attempt to persuade him that these "immortalities" are the way life functions. After this debate the car is involved in a 
1.(CRASH) that sends him in a deep coma almost euphoric. He appears in a rural setting in the front of a old western thrift shop facing an empty field. No true known location but the boy has this strong assumption it's in North Dakota. out in the field this hologram appears displaying these capturing images that send him into more euphoric trances. 2.(BDMed/Murphy's Law) The boy is in this world where sexism has turned most women into manikins. However, he meets this beautiful woman in this robot phase with very few emotions left due to degrading moral destruction and unnecessary male dominance. They fall in love but she quickly begins to fall out then one day goes still; adjustable to only his desire. 3.(tryMees) The boy slips into phase 2 where it's him lounging on this couch on a echo park hill with a bunch of people with ski mask and jansport backpacks. They constantly offer him, the only unmasked one there, these baggies of drugs to conceal his vulnerability; his face. he takes the drug and after his patience it takes him into what seems like another dimension. 4.(PA/Autumn's Wisdom) In phase 3, the boy floats over a crime both in the day and at night where promises are broken with ease and leads the black population into a enormous pinebox. The words of an intelligent black woman will display the precious and untouchable creativity in black society. 5.(Untitled) This is phase 4 where the boy is beginning to leave this coma. The trance starts to involve his personal issues as of now, for this phase is about 3 woman in a van being taken to be raped by a GOD like figure. They all have their own troubling stories that morph their attitudes towards life and the boy tries to save them but they can't see or hear his cry. 6.(Pop's Wisdom) The boy is starting to awake but is hearing this lecture from his father but he can't quite understand him. It's like the teacher in Charlie Brown but his words are in the form of this beat. 7.(B.T.W.M.F.) The boy is back in the car, now parked in front of a 7/11 and realizes that all that time spent in North Dakota was just the experience of a bad trip with his friends. They laugh at him and he leaves, but not angrily. More so refreshed! As he leaves we assume it all was a product of drugs however he has a hospital bracelet on and is bleeding profusely. All three of them are! They're are dead!
Amir
 

1 Crash

Vinyl reissue. Back by popular demand with new cover art by Dirty Hans. 600 copies pressed on white wax.

Vinyl: http://www.kingunderground.com/product/fredfades-ivan-ave-breathe-ep-reissue
Digital: kingunderground.bandcamp.com/album/breathe

Buy Vinyl

Fredfades & Ivan Ave - Mirrors

produced by Illingsworth, guest raps by Illingsworth, Dom O Briggs, and F Virtue

Stop Hitting Yourself f Illingsworth, Dom O Briggs & F Virtue

Keeping with their commitment to not be pinned down to any particular genre comes Will Sessions’ latest LP, Kindred Live.The band, along with special guest Amp Fiddler on Fender Rhodes, synth and clavinet, pay tribute to the pioneers of jazz fusion by recreating the songs of genre-defining artists such as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report.

The album is composed of material recorded live during two separate concerts at one of Detroit’s most esteemed jazz clubs, Cliff Bells, and the energy of the performances and their effect on the audience practi- cally bursts through the speakers!

Kindred Live

Will Sessions featuring Amp Fiddler - Kindred Live

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No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It’s somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn’t ignore the arsenic in the air. 

As Orrick tells it, “Portraits,” his latest album for Mello Music Group is a return to form. 

“I tried to strip everything down to what I think I'm best at: simple, concise portraits of who I am,” Orrick says. “Whether that be finding myself through self-portraits, portraits of everyday workers, portraits of the current political moment or portraits of myself told through the eyes of people I encounter daily.” 

From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump’s America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There’s nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, sad-eyed, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones. 

The Michigan native is an acerbic poet, but too unpretentious and sarcastic to ever call himself that. In his love letter to his long-time girlfriend (“Lazy Buddies”), Orrick fantasizes about the pair decamping to a town an hour outside of Paris, where they can blissfully split a bottle of cheap wine. Then he mocks himself for being a little corny. But that’s part of its charm—through his ruthless honesty, we can see ourselves as we actually are—prone to idle delusions, indolence, and self-obsessed. 

“Portraits can often be overlooked, but there are so many details in the face that tell innumerable stories about what the person portrayed might have been feeling or going through,” Orrick continues. “I'm trying to find those details, within myself and within America today." 

On “Anywhere Instead,” he grouses about how most days he doesn’t want to leave his bed until noon, staring at his phone, wishing for imminent death. It’s a nothing matters, gallows humor that anoints him a laureate of existential dread. He captures the terror of the void, the ambiguity of not knowing where or when your next direct deposit will hit. He’s wise enough to understand how little he understands, allergic to cheap irony or forced symbolism. As he points out on stories, “not every story has a meaning, not every moment has a reason, sometimes you just let the music play and tell you what to say.” 

It’s obvious how loudly the music speaks to Orrick, who is rarely short of opinions or serrated observation. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of “Portraits” thump via a gifted arsenal of producers including Nolan the Ninja, L’Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra. Only two guest rappers appear, Fashawn and Orrick’s partner in Ugly Heroes, Verbal Kent. Orrick carries the rest of the weight and you sense the Atlas burden he shoulders. 

But for the all the poignant complaints, there’s a soulful profundity at the core of the album. It goes further than stress over bills, nicotine and liquor compulsions, and a search for deeper revelation. If you can hear a song like “Mom” without slightly crumbling, you might be iron-born. It’s a eulogy for Orrick’s late mother, dead at 45 without seeing her children grow up, without the opportunity to take pride in her son’s ability to realize his dream—however flawed it can occasionally seem. It’s here where you sense the power of these Portraits. They capture the pain that too many of us feel, that manifests itself in so many distinct ways. For a little while, we understand the raw f&cked up complexity of what it means to be a human being in a lunatic world. The portrait is personal, but it’s all of us too. 
credits

Portraits Mp3

The Rubric

Chris Orrick - The Rubric (feat. Verbal Kent) (prod. Calvin Valentine)

On March 9th, I got a lightbulb.

Sent a zip of B.I.G. acapellas to the homies.

This is the result.

Very satisfied with what the homies cooked up.

Enjoy.

-Shoes

What Do I Do (This Is How It's Done)(Dirty Version)

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