ITSRAP Round-Up Vol.5 05/2014

from Jaded Incorporated's upcoming debut album "The Big Knock", out June 17, 2014.

Written & produced by Jaded Inc.

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The first 100 pre-orders of "The Big Knock" vinyl LP will be signed: http://myplay.me/190e

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The Big Knock

Half Moon Bar OK

Kool Keith - Eldorado (Prod. Dj Junkaz Lou)

Bandcamp: http://officialkoolkeith.bandcamp.com
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Kool Keith - Eldorado (Feat. A.G)

Skyzoo x Torae x DJ Premier= "The Aura". Nuff said... 

The Aura, produced by DJ Premier (co-produced by Antman Wonder). The new single from the "Barrel Brothers" LP, in stores NOW: http://bit.ly/1joNnol. 

Twitter: @Skyzoo / @Torae

The Aura

Listen to Mary J. Blige's new track "Suitcase" off the "Think Like A Man Too" movie soundtrack, available everywhere June 17th. Pre-order the album on iTunes now and get "Suitcase" INSTANTLY! http://smarturl.it/thinklikemantoo

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Suitcase

Suitcase ("Think Like A Man Too" Soundtrack)

'Nobody's Smiling' - The Album - Available July 22nd 
Pre-Order Now: http://myplay.me/19wf 
Signed Album Booklet Packages Available 

Buy The Single: 
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Edited iTunes: http://smarturl.it/iKingdomEd
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Full Music Video Coming Soon Directed By Hype Williams. 

Watch The Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q345U7qHsOU 

Nobody's Smiling

Kingdom (feat. Vince Staples)

Buy On iTunes 

Here's the first song from my new continuous compliation album: iMAKE GOLD!
The inspiration behind this album iMAKE GOLD! comes from a personal mantra I had during COVID year (2020). To motivate myself to create, I would tell myself to "Make Gold!" It’s a reminder to me that life is precious and every moment in the studio is an opportunity to create something valuable.


I'm setting off this journey with a self-titled track I produced and rhymed on back in 2021. When I have alot on my mind, I usually look to write it down in my journal. Sometimes my journal entries turn into songs like this one. In this journal entry, I was reflecting on dealing with dealing with changes in life from summer to summer.
I felt like this was a good starting point.
Here we go.
Let's Make Gold.


Produced, Written, and Mixed by 14KT
for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)

iMAKE GOLD!

14KT - iMake Gold!

Track 2 from my album iMAKE GOLD is here! I HAD to bring in my bro Buff1 for this one. Jamall Bufford is hands down my favorite emcee. Biased? Maybe. But when your brother’s been on point since day one—delivery, bars, storytelling, crowd control, authenticity, and cleverness—it’s just facts. So… what chu mean? Ha! ✨️

This joint came to life during an Athletic Mic League retreat in Michigan. One night, we did our own version of Rhythm Roulette—picking 2 records and making a beat from them. Then, my crew and a bunch of creative homies threw names in a hat to form random groups and create a song. Fate put me and Buff together in the same group, so you already know we had to cook up another classic!

Much love to everyone rocking with the tracks so far!
I’ll be dropping new music track by track as this journey unfolds.

Watch the album evolve at Karatgoldmusic.com

Wake up, iMAKE GOLD!

Lyrics: Buff1
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)


What Chu Mean? ft Buff1

Track three added to the iMAKE GOLD compliation album! ✨️

This joint started in 2021. I first heard C-Red rhyme from #WhiteCoatWednesdays on her IG. Every other day I tuned in to hear her rhyme - pen game, delivery, spirit, voice - Dope! One day I showed her some love on a post and she hit me back like "we should work!" YES! I knew we could make something cold. A little after I connected with C-Red, I was watching this documentary about the history of Sugarcane and the transatlantic slave trade. The seriousness of the documentary, inspired the feel of the beat when I was creating. Raw, serious, and it also reminded me of some ol' mid- 90s Kool G Rap sound. I could hear C-Red's voice and flow complimenting the beat, so I sent the idea to her. YO! When I first heard what she sent back, I played it like 10 times back to back.

Much love to everyone rocking with the tracks so far!
I’ll be dropping new music track by track as this journey unfolds.

Watch the album evolve at Karatgoldmusic.com

Wake up, iMAKE GOLD!

credits
released May 2, 2025

Lyrics: C-Red
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)

Sugarcane ft. C-RED

Here's the 4th track from my album, iMAKE GOLD! (Pronounced: Make Gold!) ✨️

"This track started in 2017 at Assemble Sound in Detroit during my first studio session with Nolan The Ninja. Nolan was locked in and I was inspired. He came up with the title and wrote his verse about having a Moetic mindset - young, fly, hustling to win. I was a fan of a Hiphop group called the Fat Killahz for years and wanted to work with emcee Fatt Father, so I reached out to him to complete it. Some more classic Detroit heat!"

Shoutout to everyone tuning in and rocking with the tracks so far!
Much more music to come.

Watch the iMAKE GOLD! album journey unfold at Karatgoldmusic.com

Wake up, iMAKE GOLD!


Lyrics: Nolan The Ninja, Fatt Father
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)

Moetic ft. Nolan The Ninja & Fatt Father

Track 5 off my project iMAKE GOLD!

I met SHAD at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Playlist Retreat (real dope guy!). I was familiar with his music before and loved how he rhymed. SHAD is always posting freestyles on Instagram of him just rhyming over instrumentals. There was this one verse he wrote over Kardinal Offishall's "Ol' Killin Time" beat that inspired me. While listening to SHAD's effortless flow and how he described and displayed dope emceeing simultaneously, I heard the whole beat in my head immediately. I started building the drums first, then listened to his vocals over just the drum track. Chopped up a sample then sent him a demo. SHAD loved it and wanted to recut his vocals to the beat. The track that you hear now became the first joint we ever made together —which led to me producing SHAD's "REEL SPEAKERS EP".
(Please check that out too if you haven't 🔊)

First word he recorded over my beat?
“Classic.”
Shout out to the brother SHAD! 🙏

Wake up, iMAKE GOLD!

Thank you for tuning in and rocking with the tracks so far!
Much more music to come.

Watch the iMAKE GOLD! album journey unfold at
Karatgoldmusic.com


Lyrics: SHAD
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)



Thee ft. SHAD

Track 6 off my project, iMAKE GOLD! is here!

This one is special for me. Of course ya’ll know my brother, the alien Wes from Athletic Mic League. Incredible lyricist. Amazing person and creative. One of ONE. But did ya’ll know he makes beats too? He goes by Scale Hands. A few years back, Scale Hands was in Los Angeles and pulled up to The Bassment (my studio), armed with two SP-404 MKII's. I cued up some drums on my Maschine, and in real time, Scale Hands chopped up this sample on the 404 as the drums looped. Lush Lofi vibes ✨️ I’ve written rhymes with Wes, shot photos, he’s designed the cover art for my first two albums and lended his valuable creative wisdom that inspired me for decades. I’ve performed on stage live with him, and now it’s an honor to say we've produced a beat together. Good times!
Shout out to my brother Scale Hands
Mic League Kingz 👑

Wake up—iMAKE GOLD! ⚡

🔗 Karatgoldmusic.com
Shoutout to everyone rocking with the journey! More tracks soon…

Produced by 14KT & Scale Hands
Mixed and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)



Dionne WarWes ft. Scale Hands

Track 7 off my continuous compilation album, iMAKE GOLD!

Gotta time travel a bit. This joint was born in 2020—a year of madness, pain, protest, and profound racial reckoning. Amid COVID's chaos, we mourned George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and carried the weight of Sandra Bland and Eric Garner's tragedies a decade ago. Creating music felt heavy for me. Many ideas I began from that time period remain unreleased because I wasn't in a good head space. Yet from that grief, art emerged. This is one of those records.

I made the beat back in 2018. I remember there was an album cover sitting in my studio that had the face of a black man that kept staring at me while I was working on the beat. I took it as a sign to make the beat tell the story of those eyes. I had someone in mind that I knew could bring the feel more to life. I sent a demo beat to my Playlist Retreat brother, Philly legend Rich Medina (DJ, poet, educator)—not just for his iconic voice, but I needed to hear his perspective on our fractured world. His line "Black Codes in Stealth Mode" hit me and that's what inspired the song title. It speaks to the resilience of Black and Brown communities navigating decades of systemic trauma… and to our unbroken spirit.

Love to Rich for blessing the jawn 👑

As we continue to Wake up - iMAKE GOLD! ⚡

Shoutout to everyone rocking with the journey!

Produced by 14KT
Lyrics : Rich Medina
Mixed: 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)
Mastered: Aria Mastering

Stealth Mode ft. Rich Medina

Track #8 off my continuous compilation album, iMAKE GOLD!


July 2024, last year,
We lost Sonya Massey to the hands of the police.
Amidst processing her tragic killing, I was building with my brother Tall Black Guy about expressing ourselves more in the moment as artists and challenging ourselves. TBG challenged me to make a beat using 3 James Brown records because I never sampled him before. It was mostly because I heard soo many classic Hiphop and R&B records that flipped James Brown since the 80s.


✂️ Challenge accepted.

My aim was to chop those records to fit how I was feeling about Sonya Massey's story in that moment. TBG put me up on Jermaine Holmes after sharing some work he did with him. I wasn't familiar with Jermaine's work at the time, but I knew he had an ill voice and that he sang background for D'Angelo on the Black Messiah tour. Days after I made this beat, Jermaine posted he was open to do features on his IG. I sent this beat to him, without even mentioning what inspired it.

KT : "Man I think you could do something powerful to this joint. Something the people really need to hear in these crazy days."
This record was Jermaine's response.

R.I.P Sonya Massey

released July 29th, 2025
Produced by 14KT
Lyrics : Jermaine Holmes
Mixed: 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)
Mastered: Aria Mastering

Land of the Free ft. Jermaine Holmes

Track #9 off my continuous compilation album, iMAKE GOLD!

This joint came together in 2020. I sat down to make a West Coast Erroll Flynnin pt. 2. That Michigan to Cali connection. I kept the drums simple but knocking. I wanted the drums to feel like something you'd hear cats beating on a lunchroom table. So i recorded myself clapping and beating on a table. Claps are a staple in my sound, to me, the hand clap is a fundamental element of that Funk. That James Brown, George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, Roger, Zapp, Marvin Gaye, Bernard Wright to Slum Village funk ✨️

I chopped up this sample, laid the bassline and I knew I had something ✨️I just had a studio session with the brotha Bishop Lamont and sent him the beat originally. He told me that it was really dope, but suggested that I should actually send the beat to my other brotha, the West Coast rhyme - scheme King - Mykestro. When he first sent back the demo, we both knew the joint went crazy! Then Mykestro told me he had to get the Legendary DJ Battlecat to lay talkbox for it - Woooo!

Shout out to Bishop Lamont for the alley oop, Mykestro and DJ Battlecat for blessing this one something wild for the West Coast!



Much love to everyone rocking with the journey. More soon…
⚡As we continue to Wake up—iMAKE GOLD!
credits

released August 22, 2025
Produced by 14KT
Lyrics : Mykestro, DJ Battlecat
Mixed & Mastered: 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)

Watch Whatcha Say ft. Mykestro x DJ Battlecat

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