the best bar in this whole thing is ripped from a common song lmao trash

Own Appeal

featured on 'I Used To Lust H.E.R.' 
cashusking.bandcamp.com 

Lucille Ball (Hades)

From Black Milk's latest full-length album, If There's A Hell Below. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow

Physical and Digital on Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-hell-below

If There's A Hell Below
01. Everyday Was ft. Mel
02. What It’s Worth
03. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu and Ab
04. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock
05. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
06. Detroit’s New Dance Show
07. Story and Her
08. All Mighty
09. Scum ft. Random Axe
10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B
11. Grey for Summer
12. Up & Out 

What It's Worth

This is the first leak from Choosey's upcoming release titled Left Field dropping on Dirty Science records Oct 14th, 2014.

After producing albums for Blu Fashawn aloe blacc dag savage and more exile is gearing up to drop yet another album with so cal rapper Choosey. But before the Choosey and exile album Choosey is dropping the free "left field album" peep the first release 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-lpCkmxx4

Choosey - Fly Me To The Moon (Prod. by Exile)

Pat App - Retrograde 
Produced by: Tom Misch
Mixed by: Phillip David Adams (napproductions317@gmail.com)
Artwork by: Pat App & Levi Turner

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Retrograde

from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10.
prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett

If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce.
 
For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.
 
Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell.
 
If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards.
 
But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.



Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte)

Claire produced by Nameless

del friends (writing exercise)

We released Jonwayne's "Cassette" late last year, raps & beats designed to look like a pack of cigarettes. Soon after, we got a cease & desist letter from smokes giant Philip Morris demanding that we pull the cassettes and have them destroyed. No use fighting The Man, so we're taking that cassette out of production .... and here's our new one.

Cassette 2 is all new music, 36 mins of raps & beats from Jonwayne, feat. Jeramiah Jae, Zeroh, Quelle.

Cassette 1: http://stonesthrow.com/news/2012/07/jonwayne-cassette
Cassette 2: http://stonesthrow.com/news/2013/03/jonwayne-cassette-2

del friends (writing exercise)

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