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SCUMBAGz ft. Bishop Nehru

1st Single from Wati Heru X Kashaka's new project: DYSTOPIA FM.  

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BKWYA

"Remove yourself to improve yourself"

Vic Spencer is enjoying the success of The Cost of Victory. It's been over a month since it's release. Phones won't stop ringing. Tweets are still generating. Features from the artist are being executed. The streets already calling the hardcore album a classic. But Vic is still angry and he shows that well-appreciated aggression on Lecture with the Dead, a nonstop lyrical massacre and he blacks out over a loop of Lupe Fiasco's Little Death off his album Tetso & Youth. 

Eariler this year Vic had a online Twitter battle with Lupe and it shook the Twitter world as that was the topic of discussion for 6 hours. Vic say he did it for the sake of the culture and also because Vic thinks Lupe be battling weak rappers with no name for themselves. "Lupe was having lectures with the dead. And I was tired of it. So I called him out. Battle me. The best from Chicago. A hardcore rapper with a street buzz. Not these unwavy creatures."

People say Vic won the battle. Go look that up via the Twitter search engine and be the judge for yourself. That's after you listen to Lecture with the Dead.


Lecture with the Dead

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15 Yo Gotti Feat. Rick Ross - Down In The Dm (Remix)

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Hit Me Harder (feat. Jaymes Young)

this song is a real conversation starter. after working with tye hill in the studio for a few sessions of freestyling and punch recording, i began to get back to the old tree. the one who had something to say that was relevant to us all. in that session i came up with this hook that was both socially conscious and an obvious understatement. with all thats going on with our urban communities involving the police, i thought it be only right to say how i feel. and more than that i began to have debates days before with my white friends about their take on the isue of constant killings of young black men by police officers in america and the world. truth is i do have white friends and counterparts that i both adore and value and im positive that the feeling is mutual. what i found in conversation with these white friends is yea they definetly think somethings wrong or not right and somehow unfair, they just dont know how to help or be effective.. some even ask what can i do, what can i say?? who can i talk too.. at that moment were both often presented with an uneasy silence because i dont have the answer either. but what i can and often do tell them is say something!! denounce it on your social media's and have these discussions with other like minded civil people who will do the same. so in conclusion of these experiences i was compelled to put it in song thus titled "policemon"... in this song i ask the question as we all should meaning people of color.. how do my white friends feel about the fact that im a target here in america. who do my white friends feel about the fact that after i leave a bar or restaurant with you guys how its a real fear and possibilty that i can be pulled over and shot on the side of any street in america for all the wrong reasons and the recoil and consequence in whatever measure is unwarranted un just and 99% of the time unrectified or dealt with by the police and justice department as well as congress... i also go into detail about how i know people and have been at a time or two on the other side of the law, but in a world of limited avenues and opportunities for some there is still no reason to kill shoot or maim an individual because of their surroundings and condition. if a cop chases you and you run , that doesnt give them the right to play god in the ghetto! executioner and judge of the projects is a crime . so with that here is my song... i hope you all start healthy dialogue and speak out because the community is at risk and we cant do it by marching and looting. are white friends have to speak out!!

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policemon
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artwork by anthony harris @mp3dia

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The World Is Yours

Plug Walk

Beep Beep (Prod. Kemal)

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Taste (feat. Offset)

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GET OUT THE WAY CHILD

one day after convicted child killer and ex chicago cop jason van dyke was sentenced to 81 months for the murder of 16 year old laquan mcdonald. i felt compelled to express my feelings in a song last night.. i was heated to say the least, although this was the first time in the history of chicago that a chicago cop was convicted of wrongful murder on the job, which in itself is a great achievement in some peoples eyes when you count the thousands of minorities killed over the years caught both on and off film that got no justice or result. i will say this with the utmost confidence and realization of my reality that Black lives dont matter!! i will say that it is true just as we did have a black president once upon a time. i will counter any wager in stating that there is a system of oppression here in chicago and america that even noble, civilized caucasian and other folks cant undo. knowing this, i take it upon myself as a member of the Black community to say this!!! how many times do we have to be reminded of how vulnerable we are as a community to ones temperment at any given moment and time. wether it be people we went to school with who we now look at as opps, enemies because they sided with their neighborhood partners in unison rather than their academic alliances. the truth is the black community is sooo divided that one more dead teenager wont change the bottom line.while there are few of us who get it, the battle is huge.. we have to denounce this gang life and mind set of divide conquer and terrorization of our own people.. as a part of this community i see where we lack and why we get the results that weve been getting for so many years. we have to value ourselves once more. we have to unite and love each other as human beings. its so easy for us to get into arguments and shoot each other down, its so easy to assume a position of all out revenge for a friend that was killed and vow to go to war with a specific group of other disenfranchised poverty stricken people, cry when a cop kills one of us then go back to the same savagery as before. theres neighborhoods that have been at war amongst each other like tribes for over 30 years, but if you trace the root it may have started from as little as a lunch room fight or bus stop ass whipping or a woman. now 30 years later 40 people have been killed or maimed . paralyzed cuz your great uncle got his ass whooped in 1976... dont be mistake,  there is a reason that cops arent pandemically killing indian kids out in schaumbug.  or jewish kids up in lincoln park. point blank they arent as violent . they dont carry guns in packs of 10or  make commotion and bully each other. my brother we have to give all this bull shit up. we have to put the guns down. we have to graduate and care about our credit scores and our children..  in conclusion i feel like maybe we as a community killed laquan mcdonald.. just like as if i were to go do a drive by shooting in revenge for a fallen comrade , theres a 99% chance i wont get the actual person that violated. but i may get his friend or someone who allies with him. but in return the same happens to me and mine. where i dont actually get the payback but my boys father does. just for being out there at the time.. how real of a friend have i just been to my people. what ive just did was knock over a hornets nest and let the revnege loose on my loved ones. so yes, maybe we with our bragadocious antics in our music or our attitudes in our communities as well helped produce this wave of kids who dont respect a man or a cop with a gun in his hands. maybe this renegade attitude of fuck everybody but my group that we all have is the real killer. anyhow listen to this song. i teared up making it. i hope it expresses it self.

The Day After the Verdict (Laquan Mcdonald)

The Day After the Verdict ( Laquan Mcdonald)

Since the acclaimed mixtapes Sunday School and Sunday School II came out in 2012 and 2013 respectively and the EP Goat that came out in 2018, Tremaine Johnson, better known as Tree hasn’t released much music to long waiting fans.

His unique style and sound, Soul Trap, which combines Tree’s own take on soul music with modern day hip hop, is back in full force with the new release of Nothing is Something in collaboration with fellow Chicago native Vic Spencer.

The album consists of 10 songs, which runs just under half an hour but all the elements of the distinctive growl from Tree is there, reminiscent of the wisdom and flairs of soul he delivered in his Sunday School mixtapes. It’s a tough and gritty mood that Tree creates, with positive old-school twists, an underlying head-bumping bassline and clever lyrical bars littered with a few Gospel influences.

The album is unique and refreshing, a good change to the monotonous and over-flashy rap in today’s day and age. 


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nothing is something

Nothing Is Something

it’s been a minute since we heard from MC TREE. Back in 2013, on the heels of his vaunted Sunday School project, the purveyor os SoulTrap played Pitchfork, toured Europe and collaborated with brands like Scion and artists like BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah. Then, he seemingly walked away. While Tree has been in the city’s periphery, never straying too far from the scene, his output dipped, creating a demand that only this week got satisfied. Teaming up with none other than Vic Spencer, the pair dropped their collaborative album, Nothing Is Something yesterday, and the hip-hop heads locally couldn’t be happier.

TREE has been vocal on social media as of late, pushing towards an inevitable return and if this project is any indication of the kind of work we’ll be getting from him in the near future than count us here for it. Dive in below, catch the whole project streaming on Mild Sauce Radio and keep it locked for more on TREE soon.

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Ya Cold

On Nothing IS Something, the two come together, once more, to deliver an album packed with some of their best bars to date. Pay special attention to “Lucifer Callin” and “Cognac and Beer”. 

Their latest work displays the pair’s versatility and lyrical depth. Over the album, Tree and Vic provide ten consecutive bar-heavy, introspective, and exactic hip hop tracks. Sometimes playful, sometimes hard-hitting and precise, the duo master each unique vibe. Throughout,  though the album’s sound is very current, there's more than a note of reminiscent hip hip for Chicago rap purists.



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Easy

On Nothing IS Something, the two come together, once more, to deliver an album packed with some of their best bars to date. Pay special attention to “Lucifer Callin” and “Cognac and Beer”. 

Their latest work displays the pair’s versatility and lyrical depth. Over the album, Tree and Vic provide ten consecutive bar-heavy, introspective, and exactic hip hop tracks. Sometimes playful, sometimes hard-hitting and precise, the duo master each unique vibe. Throughout,  though the album’s sound is very current, there's more than a note of reminiscent hip hip for Chicago rap purists.




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Lucifer's Callin (Ft. Chris Crack)

Cognac & Beer

Gospel

Polo G feat. Lil TJay - Pop Out

Letter To Project Mayhem

Steamer by Brian Fresco, Chance The Rapper, Kami de Chukwu, Vic Mensa & Tokyo Shawn

Light Skinned

I SOULDN'T BE SO LOYAL

KILLA MAN

prod by tree x mike williams

dirtiest throne the album
tree

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Hope U Didnt Get Over Me

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