This is Episode 28 - Pete Rock Tribute - originally aired on June 14, 2015

Hosted by veterans DJ Toast & Paul Nice and broadcast live every Sunday night 10pm-12 midnight (EST) from 91.5 WRPI (Albany NY), Toast & Paul bring you 2 hours of the best in vintage & contemporary true school Hip Hop.

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Grown Man Rap Show - Episode 28 - Pete Rock Tribute - Paul Nice & DJ Toast

Gill Scott Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Beat

Three Sides to every Coin 
By D Flow & Ray West
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After a series of great releases in 2015 Red Apples 45 is proud to release another piece to the catalogue . 
This time bringing it all the way back home to the Bronx with one half of The Ghetto Dwellas & DITC affiliate D-Flow .
Pairing the MC with the Red Apples own producer Ray West  they bring you 
"Three sides to every coin "
A play on words plus some insight into the fast pace hustle of NYC's paper chase.
There are many reasons one would strive to get ahead in this town & in this Ep D-Flow breaks down 3 different reasons why .
Hence Three Sides to Every Coin. 
Executively Produced by AG , Mixed By Dave Dar & Art work by the legendary Joe Buck the record Contains 3 full songs , 2 instrumentals & one 7 minute instrumental piece by Ray West titled Soliloquy .


1. Invasion
2. Henny & Sour 
3. Live life 
4. Live Life instrumental
5.soliloquy 
6. Jenny & Sour Bonus Beats 

All tracks produced by Ray West 
Side A mixed by super star Dave Dar
Side B mixed by ray west 
Executive producer : AG 
Dedicated to Party Arty

Invasion

DF-0088 - D-SMOOTH - DROPPIN SMOOTH LYRICS EP

Our 88th record is from Providence, Rhode Island’s D-SMOOTH! D-Smooth had 2 12” singles in 1988 and 1990. Our EP will feature those tracks plus a few more previously unreleased cuts direct from D-Smooth’s vaults. More details to come! Follow us for clips and updates. dopefolksrecords.com

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DF0088 - D-SMOOTH - 4 THE HARDWAY - Feat. Mastermind, Cousin Jonah & Ed O.G.

No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It’s somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn’t ignore the arsenic in the air. 

As Orrick tells it, “Portraits,” his latest album for Mello Music Group is a return to form. 

“I tried to strip everything down to what I think I'm best at: simple, concise portraits of who I am,” Orrick says. “Whether that be finding myself through self-portraits, portraits of everyday workers, portraits of the current political moment or portraits of myself told through the eyes of people I encounter daily.” 

From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump’s America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There’s nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, sad-eyed, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones. 

The Michigan native is an acerbic poet, but too unpretentious and sarcastic to ever call himself that. In his love letter to his long-time girlfriend (“Lazy Buddies”), Orrick fantasizes about the pair decamping to a town an hour outside of Paris, where they can blissfully split a bottle of cheap wine. Then he mocks himself for being a little corny. But that’s part of its charm—through his ruthless honesty, we can see ourselves as we actually are—prone to idle delusions, indolence, and self-obsessed. 

“Portraits can often be overlooked, but there are so many details in the face that tell innumerable stories about what the person portrayed might have been feeling or going through,” Orrick continues. “I'm trying to find those details, within myself and within America today." 

On “Anywhere Instead,” he grouses about how most days he doesn’t want to leave his bed until noon, staring at his phone, wishing for imminent death. It’s a nothing matters, gallows humor that anoints him a laureate of existential dread. He captures the terror of the void, the ambiguity of not knowing where or when your next direct deposit will hit. He’s wise enough to understand how little he understands, allergic to cheap irony or forced symbolism. As he points out on stories, “not every story has a meaning, not every moment has a reason, sometimes you just let the music play and tell you what to say.” 

It’s obvious how loudly the music speaks to Orrick, who is rarely short of opinions or serrated observation. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of “Portraits” thump via a gifted arsenal of producers including Nolan the Ninja, L’Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra. Only two guest rappers appear, Fashawn and Orrick’s partner in Ugly Heroes, Verbal Kent. Orrick carries the rest of the weight and you sense the Atlas burden he shoulders. 

But for the all the poignant complaints, there’s a soulful profundity at the core of the album. It goes further than stress over bills, nicotine and liquor compulsions, and a search for deeper revelation. If you can hear a song like “Mom” without slightly crumbling, you might be iron-born. It’s a eulogy for Orrick’s late mother, dead at 45 without seeing her children grow up, without the opportunity to take pride in her son’s ability to realize his dream—however flawed it can occasionally seem. It’s here where you sense the power of these Portraits. They capture the pain that too many of us feel, that manifests itself in so many distinct ways. For a little while, we understand the raw f&cked up complexity of what it means to be a human being in a lunatic world. The portrait is personal, but it’s all of us too. 
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Portraits Mp3

The Rubric

Chris Orrick - The Rubric (feat. Verbal Kent) (prod. Calvin Valentine)

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DiVE serves as proof that Black Milk remains one of hip-hop’s most consistent artists. This 11-track EP follows the rappers journey of betrayal, self-forgiveness and maneuvering through life’s toughest lessons.

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Black Milk - Out Loud

The dramatic return of the first official Wu-Tang Clan affiliated group that launched the careers of SOM founders Prodigal Sunn and Killah Priest along with longtime members Heaven Razah (formerly Hell Razah) and 60 Second Assassin!

Features guest appearances by Wu-associate Cappadonna as well as underground superstars Planet Asia, LA The Darkman, Shaka Amazulu The 7th and more!

SOM’s first album debuted at #20 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1998 and went on to become one of the defining moments of the Wu era!

Will be supported with a full publicity campaign by Matt Conaway of MacMediaPromo!

Available on both CD and on limited edition GOLD vinyl LP (only 300 made)!

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Sunz Of Man - Karma feat. 12-O’Clock & Tristate

Soul Survivor II - Instrumental

Truth Is (Instrumental)

Ground Up (feat. Devin Hailey, Nbrown, GQ Nothin Pretty, Sticky Money & Stevie Franks)

On My Own (ANIMUS Chapter 6)

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