All songs have been featured on bescenempls.com and come from Twin Cities based artists, released from September to December 2012. Intended only to promote the quality tracks coming out of the scene.



Be Scene Mpls Fall '12 Compilation

hip hop

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Good shit

Sam "The Man" Santoro!

Beatz $/!%

New sounds for the summer...

If you like go check out steakboyandhammomatic.co.uk

Steak and Ham Vol 1

stoopid dope

Mobb Deep featuring Nas - "Dog Shit" produced by Havoc and Alchemist. 
Twitter: @TheRealHavoc @PRODIGYMOBBDEEP

"Dog Shit" Featuring Nas

In preparation for the release of his new album Introducin', Willie Evans Jr. lets loose this brand new song.

The Fool was recorded by chopping a video of a Stevie Wonder performance. You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrJpITrt8I The song itself deals with the raw emotion of a guy that's experiencing a heartbreak by the hand of a cheating girlfriend.

LYRICS:

If a flower had spikes you could still hold it/ 
hindsight 20/20 made strong like a steel tower veins full of ice or some other cold shit/ 
Beautiful/ 
told not to use dudes but excuse was a broken heart from the start pre emptive strike/ 
eyes bright let a cat see ‘em in the night/ 

I thought they were mine but I guess maybe next time/ 
You’re just a baby girl in this world right/ 

We probably end up in a bad situation where I’m happy but the face that I’m missin’ ain’t in front of me/ 
and everybody askin’ what the f*ck you done to me/ 
I guess that they can twitter with the birds when I see her we can have words/ 
But bad words bubble every time creatures and their comforts/ 
monster feature mum words I see it how you slum first then skate with the better men/ 
then you don’t believe in making money with a letter man/ 
I mean I make beats too but still cheatin’ is a horse pill that we all swallow thru forced drill/ 
and that’s a learned skill when you ain’t monogamous/ 
even harder learned when you’re at the bottom of a list/ 
of course you’re heartless/ 
I said I wouln’t but you said the heart wants what it wants so its harmless/ 

legs long as shit/ 
Damn I thought that they were mine but I guess you’ll have better luck next time/ 

Even inside of the poem I got Stockholm/ 
I’m not alone but inside my mind I’m not at home/ 
‘cause in my thoughts though you still deserve a knotted dome/ 
But I’m better in practice than you are an actress/ 
and we can ping pong about what facts is/ 
but I don’t wanna waste air on that f*cking wack shit/ 

thighs so thick/ 
damn I thought that they were mine but I guess you’ll have better luck next time…

Willie Evans Jr. brand new album Introducin' is coming out this Summer. The Fool EP will be available as a free download soon.

Willie Evans Jr. The Fool Pt II

Mac Miller- Best Day Ever

Kendrick Lamar - G'z and Hustlerz (Feat. Jay Rock)

taken from Akua Naru's new album "Live and aflame sessions", out now!

Akua Naru - Take a Ride

I'm a Fool

A Mashup / Remix of
 Silver Zephyrs by Haley Bonar
and 
I Dont Know by I Self Devine 

Silver Flight (remix/mashup of Haley Bonar & I Self Devine)

Produced By ID Labs 

I wrote this song at a period of time where it was very untrue in my life. I wanted to will myself out of Depression by trying to conjure the feelings I wished to be having. I feel that I am still very far from where I would like to be with my happiness, but this song is a stepping stone on a long road that is my pursuit. 

Phonetic ONE - Clarity (Prod. By Big Jerm)

DOGGONE REMIX. (and i felt like doing a cover just for fun)

Download Link

Danny Brown - Lie4 (Kaytranada Remix)

This is a track off da upcomin "The Official For Real its 2 E Z Mixtape Part 2" and its all about smokin dope!!  

Roll it Up! prod by Sevadar Sehaj

http://www.facebook.com/KendrickLamarmusic 
twitter.com/kendricklamar
http://www.kendricklamar.com

Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees (ft. Jay Rock)

Kendrick Lamar - Poetic Justice (ft. Drake)

Pre-Order 'Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors' Deluxe Album + Digital Booklet Now On iTunes: http://smarturl.it/iVLADR 
Pre-Order "Dangerous Deluxe Package" (Deluxe Album, Autographed Lithograph, Limited Edition T-Shirt) Now: http://smarturl.it/bbvldr

Big Boi Lines f/ A$AP Rocky & Phantogram. 

Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors available 12/11/12.

Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors

Lines (Album Version (Edited)) [feat. A$AP Rocky & Phantogram]

Pre-Order On iTunes

Me & Bobby Raps now tell me whos stopping that

Big Dylan & Bobby Raps - Everything is All Guccington

The Prime EP OutNow. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-prime-ep/id574596508

2morrows Victory - Elektra (225)

first single off of Cornbread, Pearl, & G coming Dec. 11th

C.R.E.A.M Dreams

Up In It

1. Curren$y ft Young Roddy - Pick N Roll

1. Everybody feat. RM Nalm Myers - Custodian Of Records (2012)
2. A Word Of Advice feat. Doom - Fog (2002)
3. Coffee Break Theme  - MC Esoteric (2011)
4. Deathless Fascination - Esoteric Vs. Gary Numan (2007)
5. Coffee Drop - Paul Nice
6. Most Hated In 1987 - Mr. Magic (1987)
7. The New Style - Beastie Boys (1987)
8. Miles & Trane - John Robinson & PVD (2012)
9. Chilling With Chuck Chillout - Ultramagnetic MC's
10. I'm Large - DJ Chuck Chillout & Kool Chip (1989)
11. A Mess, The Booth Soaks In Palacian Musk (Live on KEXP) - Shabazz Palaces (2012)
12. Average - Madlib & Kazi (2001)
13. Coffee Drop - Schoolly D (2011)
14. It's Gettin' Hectic (Unreleased) - Boogie Down Productions
15. Keep It Lit - Shawn Lov & Rich Quick (2012)
16. Remember faet. Freddie Gibbs - Sean Price (2012)
17. Severed Heads Of State feat. El-P - ILL BILL (2012)
18. Sound Bwoy Bureill - Smif-N-Wessun (1995)
19. Scooby Doo - Cypress Hill (1993)
20. Radio feat. Greg Mack of KDAY - Eazy-E (1988)
21. Zen Meditation - Super DJ BrownBum
22. WBLS Marley Marl Promo - MC Lyte
23. Long Live The Kane - Big Daddy Kane (1988)
24. Einstein Effect (prod. by The Custodian Of Records) - S. Habib
25. Jimbrowski feat. Kool DJ Red Alert - Jungle Brothers (1988)
26. Heroes And Villains Part 2 - Will C. (2011)
27. THANK YOU!

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And Now A Few Words From Our Sponsor: 

Are you a hero or a villain? 
 I apologize to those who have been asking about new shows, but the reality is that I have been too busy in the last bunch of months to put any together, which is a good thing! Teaching a hip-hop class at a university, working on some very cool re-issues and just really enjoying new life. 
 This will be the last show until further notice and I think it will only be on this page for a day or so, however I will try and post it elsewhere. My subscription on sound cloud runs out on the 3rd of January. Grab all those old shows as they may be taken down. This particular selection features some of my radio heroes; Kool DJ Red Alert, Chuck Chillout, Greg Mack, and Mr. Magic, so it is a semi radio tribute as well.
 I can not thank yall enough for the support, this show really helped my transition to Nashville from Jersey City. Stay in touch as there will be new things from me, like the super delicious Fat Boys re-issue. Bla bla bla....

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Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains Vol. 29 (1/2/2013)

random one for today. hanging with phil from  the Crosby // Grilled Cheese Spot // FTR etc  download link  here   http://www.sendspace.com/file/18q0od

for phil

Free Download here: http://bit.ly/15liSeE ... Promotional single for MC Till's upcoming jazz created hip-hop album. || http://www.rapzilla.com

Free Download

MC Till - Stilettos (Jazz)

Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa (releasedate: D/A: April 9th)

“I really like rock,” says Rokia Traoré about her new album Beautiful Africa, “and it was because of rock that I wanted to play music, but I didn’t want to make rock and roll in the Western tradition … I wanted something that’s rock and roll but still Malian and still me.”

When she was growing up, an older brother used to play her Dire Straits and Pink Floyd. “It wasn’t all I listened to—I discovered jazz and blues with my dad, and Malian and other African music, and French chanson, but it was rock music that made me want to learn guitar.”

There are three guitarists on the album, John Parish, Stefano Pilia and Traoré herself, but though the record is constructed around rock riffs and sturdy bass work, it still has a distinctively West African feel, thanks to the genius of Mamah Diabaté on the n’goni, the ancient, harsh-edged African lute. It’s an instrument that Traoré has used in compositions throughout her career, and she argues, “I’ve used n’goni in classical music projects, and it goes with blues, or jazz, or rock and roll. It’s a great instrument!”

Traoré’s changes of musical direction usually start with “a sound that I imagine…a sound inside my head.” She didn’t want to imitate what other people had done “because I need to do what I imagine—that’s the reason I’m making music.” But she needed someone to help her create the sound that she imagined, and eventually decided on John Parish, the writer, guitarist, and producer who has worked with Tracy Chapman, Eels, and PJ Harvey. During the recordings “he just asked me to listen to things and make my choice.” The collaboration worked. “This is what I wanted to make. it’s even more than I imagined.”

The past year has been a quite extraordinarily productive period for Traoré. The Barbican invited her to wirte three wildly different new sets of music: the acoustic Damou (Dream), the often bluesy Donguili (Sing), and the rock- influenced Donke (Dance), in which she set out to show “three different aspects of Malian culture and my own personality.” She has toured Britain lately on the Africa Express train, collaborating with Damon Albarn as well as Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones, who joined her backing band for the London finale. And she has continued acting as well, with British and European performances in Toni Morrison and Peter Sellars’ much-praised theatrical/musical re-working of the Shakespearian story of Desdemona, for which she wrote the music.

The songs on Beautiful Africa are in the West African language of Bambara, as well as French and occasional bursts of English, and the often personal lyrics are concerned with Traoré’s thoughts on her own life, and on her tragically battered homeland. The album’s title track, built around the sturdiest rock riff on the album, is very much a love song to “battered, wounded Africa,” and reflects Traoré’s despair and fury at what has happened to her country. “The flood of my tears is in full spate, ardent is my pain,” she sings, while arguing that, “Conflict is no solution…Lord, give us wisdom, give us foresight.” Other songs on the album include the thoughtful ballad “Sarama,” a praise song to Malian women, partly sung in English, and the personal “Mélancolie,” a surprisingly upbeat song about loneliness and sadness that has already become a radio hit in France. Traoré says that she was lonely as a child, partly because her father was a diplomat and constantly on the move. Another, more upbeat song, “Sikey,” is also autobiographical, looking back at the criticism she received when she first set out to become a professional musician, after all, she was not a griot, from a family of traditional musicians, but the daughter of a diplomat. And although she had no musical training, she gave up her studies in Brussels to return to Mali to create a new form of music, in which her songs would be backed by her acoustic guitar, along with n’goni and the xylophone-like balaba balafon, two instruments not normally played together in Africa.

Traoré, Parish and Stefano Pilia play guitars on the album, with Nicolai Munch- Hansen on bass, percussion from Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear), ‘human beatbox’ effects from Jason Singh, and n’goni playing and backing vocals by fellow Malian musicians Fatim Kouyaté and Bintou Soumounou, both members of the Foundation Passerelle that Traoré established in Bamako, the Malian capital, to help her fellow Malians prepare for careers in music and sustain the growth of Mali’s rich musical culture.

It is difficult to think of anyone else who can switch from ancient Malian culture to acting and then to African rock and roll. She will be touring Europe in May and June presenting her album Beautiful Africa during a run of summer festivals, including Glastonbury and Roskilde.

Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa

Lead Vocals by Amber Strother and Anita Bias
Background Vocals by Amber Strother, Anita Bias and Paris Strother
All Instruments, Arrangement and Production by Paris Strother with Strings by Tom Lea
Full song out 3/19!

Preview-In The Meantime

Gotham City

Thanks for the support! 

It is now available on iTunes!
US: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bus-stop-jazz-single/id415558530
UK: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bus-stop-jazz-single/id415558530

Lunice & The Jealous Guys - Bus Stop Jazz

Free Download here: http://bit.ly/11oZvyX || http://www.rapzilla.com

Benjamin The Esquire - Lyrical Catechism

Lil Wayne Trigger Finger Instrumental
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Lil Wayne Trigger Finger Instrumental
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Lil Wayne Trigger Finger Instrumental By iDBeatz

Yasiin Bey ( mos def ) x Mannie Fresh = OMFGOD BK X NOLA 

Black Jesus - Yasiin Bey x Mannie Fresh

Produced by DK
Background Vocals: TiRon
Drums: Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson

"From The Wonderful Prelude pt. 1" Available Here http://thecafeterialine.bandcamp.com/album/the-wonderful-prelude-pt-1

THE MASTER

While Cannibal Ox’s seminal debut, The Cold Vein, was released in 2001, Vast & Vordul are also currently in the studio recording their long-overdue sophomore LP, which will be released in 2013, as Vast states “we never broke up, but the timing is now right for a new Cannibal Ox LP. Iron Galaxy Records is about to take over.” 

After a successful west-coast tour run, Vast and Vordul are preparing for a east-coast run and recording new material for there forthcoming sophomore LP.  Today, Cannibal Ox announces the release of a new Maxi-Single, “Gotham,” which includes three new tracks and will be available on 4-16-2013.

Purchase link(s): http://www.amazon.com/Gotham/dp/B00C5CL5G4/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365170735&sr=301-1 

http://belowsystem.bandcamp.com/

IGC/Below System Presents: Cannibal Ox “Gotham” Maxi-Single:
1.) “Gotham” (Ox City)
2. “Gases In Hell” (Inhale)
3 “Psalm 82”
***All Tracks Produced by  Bill Cosmiq

Snippets of “Gotham” maxi-single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9MUgm2Udc&feature=youtube_gdata_player&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSY9MUgm2Udc%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player 

https://twitter.com/VASTAIRE2090


Blade of the Ronin

Gotham (Ox City)

'Gotham' (Ox City)

'Gases In Hell' (Inhale)

Psalm 82

'Psalm 82'

Wanna support? Buy the album here (CD, vinyl, digital): 
http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/ceremony

thanks for you support!

facebook.com/jakartarecords
facebook.com/raashanahmad

01 Raashan Ahmad - Mbeguel (love)

Bryant Dope "NNY" ft. Anthm
Produced by Hannibal King

From the upcoming mixtape, "NEW NEW YORK" 
Young One Records

Bryant Dope - NNY (ft. ANTHM)

1st official single from the upcoming Clear Soul Forces' Gold PP7's. ENJOY!!!

Gold PP7's

Beats x Rhymes x Life

Childish Gambino - Think of Me (prod. Chemist)

Off Funkmaster Flex’s mixtape "Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself?"

A$AP Rocky & A$AP Ferg - Max Julien (Prod. by A$AP Ty Beats)

Buy here: http://bit.ly/11oxpDE || http://www.rapzilla.com

K. Sparks - Autumn Blues

Q.U.E.E.N. Available on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/jmqueen

Download on iTunes

Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. Feat. Erykah Badu

itunes: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/greg-grease/id478357610
SVR/RVL/WAG


C.R.E.A.M Dreams

Greg Grease