koool (feat. Homeboy Sandman)

Can't Lose

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

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow
CD / Vinyl: 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 

Gold Piece ft. Bun B

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)

Marvelous Mag teams up with Planet Asia and Smoovth to make this soulful J Dilla Tribute. 

Far Away feat Smoovth and Planet Asia prod by J Dilla

Pre-Order

Summer Nine Five (Produced By Jimmy Dukes)

FRIENDS UNIVERSITY!!!

Rapsody - Don't Need It - Ft. Joey Bada$$ & Merna

Rapsody - "Don't Need It Remix" Ft. Joey Bada$$ & Merna - Produced By Young Guru

Super producer Oh No & and Gold Chain Music’s Tristate team up for a new collaborative project entitled, 3 Dimensional Prescriptions; which will be released on 1-13-2017 via Hieroglyphics Imperium. 

 Produced in its entirely by Oh No, 3 Dimensional Prescriptions features collaborations with Evidence, Casual, Westside Gunn, Gangrene, Hus Kingpin, Lyric Jones, Brotha J & Planet Asia.

 Today, Oh No & Tristate unveil the first dose of 3 Dimensional Prescriptions with the Evidence assisted “Exit Thru The Gift Shop” which was exclusively premiered by Mass Appeal.

“This album is doooooooooope!!” Oh No commented to Mass Appeal.  “The rhymes, beats and the artwork; the entire album is sick!  Everyone is going to be pleasantly surprised by the approach Tristate and I took with carving this album out.  It's a complete album, one you can listen to from start to finish.  3 Dimensional Prescriptions is an official banger.” - Oh No


Tracklisting For Tristate & Oh No’s 3 Dimensional Prescriptions:

 

1.)  “Intro”

2.)  “Showroom Floor”

3.)  “Custom” f/ Westside Gunn, Hus Kingpin & Lyric Jones

4.)  “Networth”

5.)  “G.T.D.” f/ Xiomara

6.)  “Sun Raise Son” f/ Casual, Brotha J & Bro AA Rasheed

7.)  “Wind Chime Wizardry” f/ Planet Asia

8.)  “Imhotep”

9.)  “Movie Script” f/ Rogue Venom

10.)                     “Tears On My Nautica” f/ Washeyi Choir

11.)                     “Spaceship”

12.)                     “Write Wrongs” f/ Gangrene

13.)                     “Latest Drug” f/ Washeyi Choir

14.)                     “Exit Thru The Gift Shop” f/ Evidence

 

***All Tracks Produced By Oh No

3 Dimensional Prescriptions (Final Mix/Master)

Tristate - Oh No "Exit Thru The Gift Shop (Feat. Evidence)"

Phonte never disappoints. Off his upcoming solo project, Charity Starts At Home dropping September 27th. | Buy here : http://www.amazon.com/Charity-Starts-at-Home-Phonte/dp/B005EYP728

Phonte - The Good Fight

From Black Milk's No Poison No Paradise album

CD, Vinyl, LE Vinyl: blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/no-poison-no-paradise
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/no-pois…luxe/id690380563

Artwork by Joonbug

Sunday's Best / Monday's Worst

We are proud and honored to be the official ambassadors of Jamla Records.  The incredibly talented men and women are working tirelessly behind the scenes to provide you, the party people of the world, with an amazing soundtrack to your lives.  Stay tuned as we share some of our favorite songs, as well as new music, from the artists of Jamla Records.