Monochrome is second single from L'Orange & Stik Figa's upcoming project, "The City Under The City"

The new single establishes the setting for the story of "The City Under The City" and shows movement from a monochromatic life into the colorful depths below the surface.

"As I wax poetic over past aesthetics,
craft a legend of a time before the apathetic.
Let’s start a tab. What will you have? Is that cash or credit?
How about a glass of purgatory with a splash of heaven?"

L'Orange & Stik Figa - Monochrome

Duo Anti-Lilly and Phoniks release the official remix to "Blue Dream" as they continue to gear towards the release of their project "Stories From The Brass Section" coming 1/31/2014

Anti-Lilly - Blue Dream Ft Devin Miles (Phoniks Remix)

A Valentines Day special

One of three Phoniks remixes off the new Tiff the Gift (@tiff-the-gift) release "Better To Give". Cop it for free or donate at http://tiffthegift.bandcamp.com/

Support independent hip-hop!

All three of the remixes I did on this album are crazy, as is the rest of the LP, which features superb production from VA's Kameleon Beats (@kameleonbeats)

And don't forgot I have a new album coming out with Houston emcee Anti-Lilly (@antililly) at the end of the month.

Peace! Enjoy

Free DL @ Bandcamp

Tiff The Gift - "Changed Hearts" (Phoniks Remix)

Released 15 January 2010 
All tracks written and produced by Richie Cunning 
All songs recorded and mixed by Richie Cunning at the Rec Center, Santa Cruz, CA. 
Additional mixing consultation by Rob Rush 
All cuts performed by DJ M.F. Shalem 
Saxophone on "Night Train" performed by Mani Vafaei 
Mastered by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters 
Layout and design by Shalem
Photography by Trevor Traynor (trevortraynor.com)

Last Stop

White Sands is a 7-track record by Homeboy Sandman produced by Paul White.
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2014/02/homeboy-sandman-white-sands

Homeboy Sandman has a tradition. With each new record release, he drops a bonus track celebrating the new release.  It's time for "White Sands OUT NOW," produced by El RTNC.

ON TOUR
Mar 13: Bremen, Germany @ Lila Eule
Mar 18: Lyon @ Le Periscope
Mar 20: Eindhoven, Netherlands @ Studium Generale.  
Mar 22: Trondheim, Norway @ Leuten Fest

Homeboy Sandman - White Sands OUT NOW

Taken from the forthcoming release Strange Journey Volume Three. Produced by Kno. Photography by Sol Exposure.

In The City f. Zumbi Of Zion I

Official video link: http://youtu.be/Yqy_YfwOVuc

'Lights Off' produced by F Draper (@FdraperCLP) is a record about the struggles we all go through in every day life. In addition to highlighting the stressors, the song emphasizes the determination and will to be men to our families. The 'Dephacation' album represents the underdog MC fighting to take back our music from those who seek only to brag about the profit they make. We strive to feed our families and our communities. Please support GOOD music on iTunes here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dephacation-prod.-phoniks/id868637472

and on Bandcamp here:
http://dephacation.bandcamp.com/releases

Follow Awon on Twitter @Awon1988
Follow Dephlow on Twitter @Dephlow
Follow Phoniks on Twitter @hookedonphonikz

Awon & Dephlow - Lights Off (Prod. F Draper)Dephacation LP.(Video link in description)

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae
guest vocals by Gift of Gab

The Night Took Us In Like Family
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

About the album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family." 

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. 

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. 

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic. 

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed.

L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - All I Need (feat. Gift Of Gab)

from the album Mr. Lif "Don't Look Down" coming April 15th
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881?app=itunes

Artwork by Dan Lish

Produced By Caliph-NOW - T. McConnell for May the Day Break Music (ASCAP) / written by J. Haynes for Virtua Stab Publishing (SESAC) & Selina Carrera (BMI) / Mixed & Mastered By: Mike Cip @ Split2nd Entertainment 

Mello Music Group, 2016


Mr. Lif - Let Go (feat. Selina Carrera)

Stream the new project from A-F-R-O & Marco Polo, 'A-F-R-O POLO.’  All scratches by Shylow.

Get 2 bonus tracks, “Lair of the Black Worm,” and “Joe Jackson," when you download or stream the EP at all digital retailers:

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A-F-R-O POLO

Long Time Coming

"Long Time Coming" feat. Shylow (Prod. By Marco Polo)

BUY Kooley High presents... David Thompson on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kooley-high-presents...-david/id482360470

Days Passed Me By

HipHop • Jazz • Space • Soul • Funk // Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth

Mr. Lif - Let Go (feat. Selina Carrera)

Mello Music Group

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