Ant - Collection of Sounds

"Color In The Snow" by Atmosphere featuring deM atlaS, Joe Horton and Toki Wright. 

Beginning February 12, Rhymesayers and Atmosphere bring you the Fourth Annual "Welcome To Minnesota Tour,” with performances from: Atmosphere, Toki Wright X Big Cats, No Bird Sing, deM atlaS and Jimmy2times. 

WELCOME TO MINNESOTA TOUR 2014:

2.12 - Mankato - Verizon Wireless Center 

2.13 - Duluth - Clyde Iron Works 

2.14 - Rochester - Mayo Civic Center Auditorium 

2.15 - Fargo - The Venue at The Hub 

2.17 - Minneapolis - First Avenue (SOLD OUT)

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Atmosphere - Color In The Snow Feat. DeM AtlaS, Joe Horton & Toki Wright

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Atmosphere - Bitter

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The end of 2008 saw Grieves enlisting the help of friend and collaborator Budo to co-produce Together/Apart bringing his signature swiss-army knife, multi-instrumental backdrop to Grieves' hauntingly poignant narrative. The album began taking shape in New York as the two built off the success 88 Keys and Counting had generated and paired it with the intensity they developed from  their live performances.  The recording process began to shadow the theme of the album as it saw tracks recorded in Colorado and Washington in addition to New York, infusing it with a mixture of regional influences while still maintaining a cohesive sound.  As the album neared completion the title took on a double meaning for Grieves as he explored new subject matter in the absence of trust, refuge in addiction, acceptance and honesty in self-reflection, and trying to find his place in the world without forgetting his roots.  

Together/Apart concludes three years of self-discovery that has ultimately lead to Grieves' most emotionally charged and daring album to date. 

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Grieves - On The Rocks

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Written & Produced by: deM atlaS
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deM atlaS - All We Got

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Listen to "Show Me The Way" Feat. Aloe Blacc, the brand new single from Dilated Peoples forthcoming album Directors of Photography. 

Produced by: Jake One 

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Dilated Peoples - Show Me The Way Feat. Aloe Blacc

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SONG CREDITS:
Written and produced by Aesop Rock
Cuts by Forest Pond

LYRICS:
The brand reads “Animal Farm”
A fugee on the lam, runnin’ with a lamb in my arms 
Trail of rabbits harboring the farmer’s brand of cigars 
And cattle after, after that it’s like a ramp to an arc 
Planned a garlic salmon, already romancing the fingerlings 
When reminded why the ringer’s off, it only ever “ring ring ring” 
Out of radio silence a bad miracle
Panic in the paradigm, attacking the familiar world 
Evacuate, bleeding heart, I had to let the horses out 
Who each step forward to bow free to ignore the corral 
Freedom ain’t a circle per the management’s “normal amount” 
It’s when the chorus vow to normalize the horse’s mouth 
Black Philip free to b-a-a what he b-a-a’s
From a growing blob of jail-broken oxen and hogs
I know some pigs’ll splinter off I seen ‘em mixing with the bosses
Sipping gin, as if the trough is less prestigious than the office 
It isn’t, receiving a transmission from the future 
Where your time around them humans ain’t protect you from they butcher’s Block, a bunch of us are meeting at the moor behind the the Orkin 
You coulda been a presence at the origin
Should you feel unsettled or some melting into madness 
After entertaining more second chances than Velma’s glasses
From a person place or otherwise increasingly disruptive trend 
You could always run the red, or break the glass or jump the fence, yea

It was always all of a sudden 
All’s well 'til it’s all of his palm on the button 
I am always into something 
I am always into something 

It was always all a whodunnit, 
All told, it was all of us up 'til it wasn’t 
I am always into something
I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

I can introduce you to another realm
Help you with the move, but only you can go fuck yourself 
Cut to helter-skelter in glorious technicolor 
With bumper to bumper sending turtle shells at one another
It’s treasure hunters budding in some cannonball running of bulls 
Sweating in the dead of summer, red X on the bread and butter
Pardon while his pedal power shed the inseparable umbra
Reset the pecking order, still ain’t pick a second number
Detective on some "how you get so mega extra ultra?"
I said "never check the weather and always dress for the tundra" 
Merry “Dawn of the Mummy”, heard a call in my slumber
Woke to a thousand years of sauce of the month in a bunker 
Yum, you could be the lunker under pepper X, 
I feel like professor why, why are all my friends depressed? 
Why’s this party feel like when I walked back into Selmer’s Pets
In precious tears like “why are all my tetra dead... yet again? 
Landspeed entirely contextual
Glacial-pace grand prix, “space invader camera B!” 
Cam or not, copy room, camp ground or canteen
Every time you stand down, I pop out yelling “and… scene!” 
Make a million paper cranes, blindfolded
Both arms stuck in different crane games 
Underwater, over coals, whole of his spirit above him 
Call now, I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

I am always into something

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Aesop Rock - Infinity Fill Goose Down

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Atmosphere - Sunshine

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The lead single from Atmosphere's 6th official studio album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold dropped April 22nd, 2008. With over 10 years of evolving and perfecting their sound, Slug and Ant's storytelling, song writing and musicality has never been more poignant. Sit back and listen as "Shoulda Known's" marauding bassline carries you through a torrid story of addiction.
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Atmosphere - Shoulda Known

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Rhymesayers heavyweight Brother Ali returns with the second single from the highly anticipated sophomore full-length The Undisputed Truth. Released April 24th, 2007. 

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Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn

The official audio for "Welcome Back" from Ant's album Collection of Sounds Vol. 3.

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mixed by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound.

Ant - Welcome Back

Sunday, March 29th, 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of Blueprint's debut solo album on Rhymesayers, "1988". We've been celebrating this anniversary for a whole week with special posts on Instagram and Soundcloud, PLUS we've sale-priced the album (CD and Digital) at Fifth Element for a limited time. This week only, you can buy "1988" for just $4.99! Order the album from Fifth Element now, and we'll throw in a free digital download of DJ Rare Groove's official "1988 Live" mixtape, which was the exclusive bonus offered with the album pre-order back in 2005. 
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"No Half Smokin'" was a B-side cut on the "Print Is Goin' Off" 7-inch vinyl release, which dropped around the same time as the "1988" album. Both songs were reinterpretations of 80's Hip-Hop classics; Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" and Biz Markie's "Biz Is Goin' Off", respectively. The original songs were both released on the Cold Chillin' label, so the labels for this 7-inch were also reinterpreted to mimic the 12" single labels on those original Cold Chillin' releases.

This song may not have been heard as widely as the album, so we thought we'd share it here, too. This 7-inch is still available in limited quantities at Fifth Element for only $2.99! Get It now: http://fifthelementonline.com/products/blueprint-print-is-goin-off-7-inch-vinyl

Blueprint - No Half Smokin'

The official audio for "Prelude Revisited" from Ant's album Collection of Sounds Vol. 4.

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Bass, keys, guitars and some extra percussion by G Koop.
Mixed by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound.

Ant - Prelude Revisited

The official audio for "Darker Colors" from Ant's album Collection of Sounds Vol. 4.

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Bass, keys, guitars and some extra percussion by G Koop.
Mixed by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound.

Ant - Darker Colors

The official audio for "Classical Piano Number Seven" from Ant's album Collection of Sounds Vol. 4.

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mixed by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound.

Ant - Classical Piano Number Seven

The official audio for "All Sounds In Place" from Ant's album Collection of Sounds Vol. 4.

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Bass, keys, guitars and some extra percussion by G Koop.
Mixed by Anthony “Ant” Davis.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound.

Ant - All Sounds In Place

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced, Written & Performed by Aesop Rock
Keys by Asher Fulero
Additional vocals by Homeboy Sandman & Slug

LYRICS:
Suit of calluses, active and moving callous
Anomaly in the algorithm, do the algebralculus
I’m all of Alexandria’s information in aggregate
Ruling elder giving you the hell that melt the valuables 
Riddances, grid at my back I’m in the diagonals 
Evolving, shiv in his back he shatter the manacles 
Man down, damnit can he manage the variables 
Manually override these overnight Emmanuels
Man, m-m-m-mayday, it’s the tapering of the straightaway
The making of a bedlamite, the straightening of the theta wave 
Working on a way to cure this sudden inexplicable 
Urgency to secure a sure-shot-shaped paperweight 
Pay the man, simultaneously in survival mode 
And looking like a hundred violations of the firecode 
Designed to die alone moments out the styrofoam
But not before these no names go the way of the dial tone, don’t

Staring at the sun until one us blinks
When it does I’m running for the tunnels, hater blood in the Krink
Bloody hell, everyday I wake and one-up a king
Whose kingdom come to refer to me as “you wonderful thing”
One of the filthiest fish in the azure
Cut a political actor to particulate matter
Should it present as a pattern put the pig out to pasture
This ain’t that action figure in the original package, we in the shit with the taggers Bastards and bullies and baddies, and bitches and bummers 
Who shuffle out of the shadows with the limbs of another
Trapjaw’s head, Stay-Puffed arms and the cape of Vader
Over rollerblading Barbie with a bow from Hank the Ranger
Bullseyein’ danger, I’m a surgeon at 70 yards
As long as the target is not a Snellen chart
Hello from some hell and back to autograph an x-mark 
Leaving the treasure for the next man, the best part, don’t

Don’t show up at the get down talking that holy as if you ain’t hell-bound
Similarly don’t show up at the get up, talking that hellish 
As if you ain’t blessed up, just just don’t

I‘m on a higher kinda of prowess
I’m somewhere in the melee while I’m somewhere doing tai chi on a mountain
Only out of bed to pick the lock and smuggle in his Visigoths
Who’d love to redesign the hillside little box by little box
Or get these businesses to page a stranger on they intercoms
The kind that sound real ‘till you realize they did you wrong
Oh this is definitely checkers I don’t play chess
I sack a city, atlases actually weigh less
After, mermaid leather in the truck
It’s only in poor taste if you ain’t never been the one
Pickle the hand of whoever signal his mans
That’s a 5-wick candle and a bib in the sand 
My advice is: don’t approach him whether sobbing in the copy room
Or eating hot pretzels in the mezzanine at Nas and Wu 
Or at the hobby shop with Hanni copping model glue
Or meeting Bobby at the Bronx zoo, don’t

Don’t show up at the get down talking that holy as if you ain’t hell-bound
Similarly don’t show up at the get up, talking that hellish 
As if you ain’t blessed up, just just don’t

Aesop Rock - Checkers

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced, Written & Performed by Aesop Rock
Keys by Asher Fulero

LYRICS:
Ok, fuck all that bullshit though
I’m picky, I only open books that glow
Whodunnits and cozy mysteries, who stole the crypt keys 
Who showed the minions to the minced meat, it was me
Hut hut, helmet off, blitz the whole bitstream 
Override the A/V in, with A/V out the in-between
IV in, 1 of Epi, 1 of Ralph Steadman
Phoebe Judge, EPMD, the Amazing Kreskin
His bag is a braided bread, in the oven for 30 days
It’s never the same twice, it’s always a perfect bake
It’s purple prose when you're looking for just the facts
You wanna know where I been, some other where nothing’s mapped
Lost at the Waldbaums, faded facing 30-thousand square feet of wrong aisle Long Isle, strong man, roll up in a Pontiac siege tower 
Fire an arrow 45 degrees down
Accounting for the breeze
I can do that shit where you nock two arrows at once 
And shoot to counter separate things
I can hit a moving target from a moving target
It’s a rabbit from an equine, it’s an ET from a starship
The stoicism only misdirection for the metrics
It doesn’t represent the actual pressure through the plexus 
Or that maybe why I’m terrible with names is cause I’m special
At memorizing the exits during those same seconds
I jumped into a volcano
Climbed up, only to say my today is not on no today show
All recorded history is forfeit to the fuego
It’s infinite present tense, presently on some next
Referencing something ancient that play to current events 
In a way that feels just too flagrant to’ve occurred by itself 
I know that sound absurd as all hell
I don’t even know what I’m saying for certain, surely it’s “help”, uhhhh help?

Same bat-time, same bat-channel 
Same flatline, same plaid flannel 
Same bad gamble, same graf name on the ax handle
Brand new taxidermied mammal on the mantle
Man, man, I ain’t sneaking by the sleeping bear
I mean, if you ain’t down to let it eat you, why you even here? 
Pigeon on my shoulder like a goth Rio
The putdown Picasso here to un-massage the ego
I’m friend or foe depending on the content in your keynote
And not above the lobbing of a rotten tomatillo
Honestly, it’s getting hard to watch like paradise for parking lots 
Nevermind that parking lots are paradise, the paradox
Oh the places you'll go and exploding aerosols
The running with a boiling beaker in a pair of tongs 
Drink a shot of ant and roach, eat a bowl of Cherry Bombs 
With peri-peri, no, with chimi-churri sauce 
Boyhood drawing b-boys with big sneakers
Til the shoe fit, now they pouring plaster in the foot print
Take it to the lab, show the cast to the bull pen
All you get is choruses of “I call bullshit”
That’s how a giant flyeth under the radar for so long
Y’all underestimate the day-arc I’m on
The stay dark at dawn, carnival barker, the autumn Barbisol marksman
The can up the arm of his Nautica parka
At large, from playing dig dug at the IHOP
To undead 3-inch-punching a pine box
To, magus of the month, 3 months standing
In more than magenta, yellow, and Cyan Ink
It’s a wave, it ebb and it swellIt could celebrate the memory or separate the cells
it could focus on excelling or accentuate the Hell
That’s excellent, Can it send help? Cuz uhhhh… help

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Aesop Rock - Send Help

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Produced, written & performed by Evidence

"Nothing To See Here" is the first solo release from Evidence since 2022. Paired alongside a music video as well as newly announced tour dates, the evidence suggests he's getting back in his bag.

Evidence - Nothing To See Here

This track is from Boom Bap Project's debut album on Rhymesayers, "Reprogram", which released ten years ago yesterday, on June 21st 2005. In honor of the album's tenth anniversary, we're offering both CD and Digital versions for only $4.99, for a limited time! PLUS, when you buy Reprogram, you will also get Boom Bap Project's "Welcome To Seattle" Mixtape forFREE! Also available, a FREE D/L of "The Shakedown", a full album that features the same production team as "Reprogram" and a nice array of guests, that Boom Bap Project put together for their supporting tour for the album. Get yours NOW:  http://bit.ly/BoomBapProject 
 
The History: Emerging out of Oldominion, one of the most prominent crews to represent out of the Northwest, Boom Bap Project had a distinct musical goal in mind. The plan was revealed in the group's name –hard beats and hard rhymes– a.k.a that good ole Boom Bap. Armed with strong Hip Hop sensibilities, unbreakable confidence, and lyrics primed to hit you directly in the head, Nightclubberlang (a.k.a Karim) and Destro Destructo attack the mic relentlessly, as their vocals ride atop hard-hitting production from an accomplished line-up of beat-makers; Jake One, Vitamin D, Bean One, Jumbo The Garbageman (of Lifesavas), Snafu, Sayeed, DJ Scene, and Mr. Hill. The album is enhanced by scratch work for DJ Scene, as well as some quality guest appearances from Gift Of Gab (Blackalicious), Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples), DJ Vin Roc, The Lifesavas, Grayskul, Snafu, and Choklate. Then, just before the release of Reprogram, Boom Bap Project also released the free mixtape, "Welcome To Seattle", to give the world a taste of what was to come. This mixtape featured a wealth of freestyles, rarities, and unreleased music, including verses from Supernatural, Cool Nutz, One Be Lo, and JFK of Grayskul. "Welcome To Seattle" now comes as a FREE D/L when you buy "Reprogram" (CD, LP, or MP3) at FifthElementOnline.com. 

Boom Bap Project feat. Rakaa (of Dilated Peoples) - Cut Down Ya Options (2005)

SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Beat Butcha & Coop The Truth
Written & performed by Evidence

Evidence - Different Phases

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Evidence & Sebb Bash
Cuts by Babu
Written & performed by Evidence

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Evidence Outta Bounds

Atmosphere - Really

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced by QThree
Written & performed by Evidence

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Evidence - Dutch Angle

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AUDIO CREDITS:
Produced, written & performed by Aesop Rock.
Keys by Asher Fulero.
Additional vocals by the Miranda family, Bavitz family & Labine family.
Artwork by Justin “Coro” Kaufman.
Mixed by Joey Raia.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound, NYC.

LYRICS:
Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Build a road where there isn’t a road
Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Dig a hole where there isn’t a hole

Big Boss Bulldozer
Told that pile of debris to move over
Push around rocks you can push around weight
You should call a bulldozer if there's something in the way
Front loader cousin of the dozer
Bucket on the front dumping rubble on the shoulder
Of the road or sand for a highway off ramp
Tow a couple tree trunks free up a log jam
Back of the front loader a glorious backhoe
The long arm stretch out and pull the earth back home
Dig a trench for the plumbing and electric
Or a dig yourself a pond and put some fishy little friends in
Or skip the pond and start thinking major
That homemade lake that excavator
Add a concrete mixer and a dump truck
That’s a worksite thumbs up

Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Build a road where there isn’t a road
Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Dig a hole where there isn’t a hole

A crane will get a worker to the top of any building
A double drum roller pave the parking lot for shredding
I seen my buddy Louie send  a wave out to the driver
The driver honked the horn it made his day a little brighter
Most people think it’s noisy but you ain’t find us complaining
When those mechanisms roar it means the makers have been making
The graders have been grading and that map is slowly figured
Plus orange cones delivering what orange cones deliver
The sign says caution but the vibe says awesome
It’s both a safe distance is the wisest approach
It’s cool to see that heavy machinery live and up close
Just hit the deck when they start revving up or widening a road
I like a hole in the ground I like a wrecking ball in motion
For the crystal clear intention destruction is the motive
I also like a bird up from the ashes
Especially as a vehicle carrying something massive

Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Build a road where there isn’t a road
Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Dig a hole where there isn’t a hole

I love a good detour
Folk drive around I pullover “Give me more”
Flashing amber hazard lights sure to set the mood
For a forklift all the way to the moon stay tuned
I welcome any symphony of back-up beepers beeping
It’s music to my ears I rather it to sleeping
A welcoming cacophony of drills and demolition
The crashing and the clanging the decibels of engine
That articulated hauler want the center of attention
Though it’s more a gentle giant running extra heavy errands
Hauling garbage off the site and looking handsome in that yellow
Truck so long in the center it has an elbow
I love roadwork
I almost love it more than when the road works
Nothing hit the spot
Quite like waking up to Monday morning roadwork on my block

Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Build a road where there isn’t a road
Construction vehicles they move that dirt around
Dig a hole where there isn’t a hole

Aesop Rock - Roadwork Rappin'

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SONG CREDITS:
Produced, written and performed by Atmosphere (Sean “Slug” Daley and Anthony “Ant” Davis).
Features Yoni Wolf (of WHY?)
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway Studios, MPLS. 
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound, NYC.

#atmosphere #yoniwolf #WHY #jestures #yearning

Atmosphere - Yearning (feat. Yoni Wolf of WHY?)

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Audio Credits:
Produced, written & performed by Aesop Rock.
Cuts by Forest Pond.
Mixed by Joey Raia.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound, NYC.
Project coordinated by K. Beacham, E. Williams, A. Everson & J. Daley.
Executive produced by I. Bavitz, S. Daley & B. Sayers.

Lyrics:
I was on a cloud, cherubs brushing my hair
For several hours, you were on the ground, punching the air 
I’m a live one if infinitely under repair 
Some people call me Aes Rock, some “is somebody there?” 
Shh, Somebody’s not, and it’s more than a passive vacancy
It’s less than zero people stealing baguettes out the bakery
Witness like, “Who wasn’t that?” In route to prove a negative 
And losing, trying to enter antimatter into evidence
Break for expletives, back in holy country 
Where the neighbors cat is missing and no coyote is hungry 
And every lizard leapin’, I’m every bit indecent
Aiming for whoever presently king of the tetrahedron 
The funny part is who would even want to sit up there 
Throne shmone, I’m home in a Herman Miller chair
Working, hunched over something, blowing smoke, Kirby on his lap purrin  
Cervical spine chirping, chills
It’s perfect, certain as the plaid shirt tag reads Kirkland
I walk around late, cross a bridge and cross a bridge back 
Never passed a quiz for a bridge troll’s trick bag
Even if he offers 3 guesses I appreciate the interest but will not be taking questions
I will be taking any route I want including dead ends
To any place I want including all the many heavens, but 

It’s a mess out here, I heard it’s a mess there too 

Remember, when the smoke starts blowing, and your eyes start stinging
And your throat starts closing, what a little fresh air can do 

By the first red sliver of daystar 
Somebody went and freed a couple chickens in the graveyard 
Weird flex, but I like a weird flex 
Like an odd duck who adheres to a spirit quest 
Per se, fish swim in circles where he curdles
Dogs purr, birds fly inverted 
Perps turn to serpents, but the waves are yay high
The surf is way up, and ocean water ain’t sustain the grapevine
Get barreled get spat through space-time
Beached where you dress strange, different plane and date line
Before the stop, stare, and questionnaire
Bitch, I dress like a Rocket Man everywhere
Pops had a pinball machine from the 60s
I can still hear it ringing when I’m pinging off epiphanies
Ping! Ping! Ping! There go the king of zing 
Who made it up the precipice and never kissed a pinky ring
Repel thru a skylight once a week, or feel like I’m someone I don’t wanna be
I used to party with animatronic Chuck E. Cheese
Any celebrities I met since then were fucking weeeeaak
The door knocker talks, might make you solve a riddle before you bother the boss
Y’all get off my lawn it’s a Bob Ross 
And no eye contact with the shop dogs 

It’s a mess out here, I heard it’s a mess there too 

Remember, when the smoke starts blowing, and your eyes start stinging
And your throat starts closing, what a little fresh air can do

Aesop Rock - Full House Pinball

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Produced by Aesop Rock.
"Bar Breaker" is the second official single from Prof's upcoming album, "Liability" due out October 16th, 2015 on Rhymesayers Entertainment. "Liability" is available for pre-order now!

Catch Prof this fall on the Liability Tour w/ special guests Nacho Picasso and DJ Fundo! http://bit.ly/LiabilityTour


Prof - Bar Breaker

Buy track: http://rse.lnk.to/LonelyRose

excited to show y'all this new song we made with our friends blueprint
& aesop rock. plain ole bill on the cuts, and g koop finessing the
instruments: this lonely rose

Atmosphere, Aesop Rock and Blueprint will be performing on December 4th at the Target Center for the Rhymesayers 20th Anniversary Concert: http://bit.ly/RSE20tix

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Atmosphere - This Lonely Rose feat. Blueprint & Aesop Rock

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"Rings" is the first official single from Aesop Rock's upcoming album, "The Impossible Kid" due out April 29th, 2016 on Rhymesayers Entertainment. "The Impossible Kid" is available for pre-order now!  http://rse.lnk.to/AesopTIK

Aesop Rock - Rings

Lyrics:
"3's company, Appetite for Destruction tee, Chunky Monkey, Funyuns, I can feel the cat judging me, please, I've seen you eat your puke and drink the toilet water, which completely renders your opinion void you little fucker, poison puffers hit the reef, hissing through their missing teeth, pissy like a minotaur with 6 hours in the middle seat, or middle schoolers protesting the mystery meat and Catcher ban, castaways, walk into the same light as Carol Ann, dagger in his teeth and treat a rapper like a rack of lamb, his allergy is middling, his middle finger's Plastic Man, dag, they want a de-radicalized youth, though it sort of undermines the magic of high noon, my right hand writing a diary of the dodgy, I do the wrong thing when all the right people are watching, it's a medley of defiance and outfoxing, born in a storm's eye alongside Long Island swamp kings, bonk, shoegaze rap, get your blue suede, get used to the goofy get-a-clue face, jump into the goon goose chase, try the kool-aid, try the blue plate it tastes like dooms day, off leash gryphons at the Westminster Kennel Club, as vessels of Beelzebub, bite the hand that belly rub, lug it to belfry, keep the pups alive and healthy, we as hunters treat the summers like a mother ripe for milking, up and feeding Alexander Pardee art into the silk-screen, still here, sleeping with the lights on and quill near, tour van, corpse paint, war moon, make the bass wobble like a 2-man horse suit, dork-proof, type to forge a sword in his dorm room, break fiends, drain 3s from the warp tube, long tooth, short fuse, stormtroopers over John Zorn loops, if you ain't core it ain't for you, trolls, bubbling from the lows, want nothing but to run him for the bulk of what he owns, homie all of this material ain't shit to me, the trinketry, the filigree, the antiquated theories of validity, I never really cared for the cars, the point A to B sound scared when it starts, trash can fire in the middle of his crib, where the coven swap recipes and riddles from the crypt, it's monsoon season, keep the log flumes leanin’, religious paranoia get the Doc Seuss treatment, breaking out the Bronx Zoo, tabletop the Mongoose, gray fade, ain't afraid to knock a few cogs loose, I'm from where it's defense on 3, and anybody with a fucking brain bump Sean P, old boy, might combine the carve with the stalefish, all aboard the mid-life snail's pace tailspin, you were busy authoring the holy grail of mailed-in, I was busy snow, sleet, heavy rain, hail, wind, ready aim fail shit, it's Hail Mary’s everywhere, over all the petty shit, under all the messy hair, I'm untouchable, uncrushable, plus ill, we don't need another hero we just want our cups filled, I'm trivial pursuit cards at the 40/40 buzz kill, Aesop Rock, code name: yo son chill."

Aesop Rock - Untouchable (AR Version)

This song is a bonus track, available for free download when you purchase Aesop Rock's album, "The Impossible Kid", at FifthElementOnline.com

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Aesop Rock - Syrup Feat. Homeboy Sandman & Open Mike Eagle

stop snitching on yourself and listen to our song instead. 

Windows featuring Prof
Produced by Ant
Raps by Slug
Chorus by Prof
All live instruments played by G Koop
Recorded and mixed by Dillon Parker at Stophouse Studio
Art by Dave Quiggle

Atmosphere - Windows feat. Prof

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Spring is in full bloom, so April Showers are soon to follow, making it the perfect time for the return of the Weatherman. Evidence is set to release a new solo album on Rhymesayers later in 2017. "Throw It All Away" is the first sprinkling of what’s to come!

Produced by Alchemist, directed by Stephen Vanasco, shot entirely on Leica SL Camera.

Available now on all digital and streaming sites: http://rse.lnk.to/ThrowItAllAway

Lyrics:
"I got some money I'm a blow it all today 
they say Michael don't throw it all away 
and my reply was there's more on the way 
when I said it I was walking in the rain 

"I did a show in Chicago on the first 
now I'm back in LA like Chicago and First 
no sun but I'll father this verse 
that's all I'm probably worth 
and I'm from sunny CA to rain on all of this earth
Rainy terrain, receive the God sent messages 
we know the answer, but dance around what the question is
what is it
it's back to who's on first 
it's my dog 
it's his tail 
it's the chase 
it's the search 
it's the ignorance that causes all the bliss in my surroundings 
cause dealing with reality's like drawing out your boundaries 
and I refuse to be referred as less than a creative so catch me when I'm live in town as I've been demonstrating
That I could find my greatness in the waking of my absence 
and absolutely kill it when they're dealing out these bad hands 
a player plays what a players dealt
and carries baggage like conveyor belts 
and never fucking saves his wealth 

"I got some money I'm gonna blow it all today 
they say Michael don't throw it all away 
and my reply is there's more on the way 
when I said it I was walking in the rain

"I write to alchemist cause others don't inspire me I got my people and they got my back entirely
I kill with Iriscience on the side of me 
and by myself I lay em' out and iron out the irony
What a long winding road it's been 
with no sign of slowing up around it's turns and bends 
how many have friends that ain't foes within 
dirty laundry in the wash, but them clothes don't spin
I mean really, I kill two birds with one bullet
the target's when I line it up 
The triggers when I pull it 
out the gate 
a bit late, but the champ is back 
I need a third hand to wear my rings and hold plaques 
I hit the track like the runners new 
hands high like a stick up 
killer Michael running jewels 
It's true, the eyes slanted 
my Fam rock the planet 
don't take fans for granted 
like the money is due 

"I got some money I'm a blow it all today 
they say Michael don't throw it all away 
and my reply was there's more on the way 
when I said it I was walking in the rain

"I got some money I'm a blow it all today 
they say Michael don't throw it all away 
and my reply was there's more on the way 
when I said it I was walking in the rain"

Throw It All Away - Single

Evidence - Throw It All Away (Prod. by Alchemist)

Pre-Order "Overcast!" Vinyl Now: https://bit.ly/Overcast20

Celebrating the 20 year anniversary of Overcast, the full album is remastered and available on vinyl for the first time!

20 years ago, while building a buzz on the Twin Cities scene playing countless local shows, recording demos and endless freestyle sessions, Atmosphere released a milestone record that set the trajectory for a career that is still evolving and pushing forward to this day.

In the late 90's, for a brand new independent label, pressing a vinyl LP was an expensive venture. At the time, the focus of the young entrepreneurs was set more on expanding the foundation they had built in Minneapolis, so they invested their time and money into networking nationally by doing shows, MC/DJ battles, and sometimes traveling from coast to coast just to give CDs away, all in order to grow the fanbase. As a result of an ambitious plan gone right, Overcast will now, finally, see its way onto vinyl!

For this special 20-year anniversary vinyl edition, all the original recording sessions were transferred from the reel-to-reel tapes and mixed especially for vinyl by Joe Mabbot, long-time engineer for Atmosphere, dating back to God Loves Ugly. The album is pressed on triple white color vinyl and packaged in a custom built case-wrapped and debossed jacket, and includes three previously unreleased songs from the original reel-to-reel tapes!

Overcast! (Remastered Vinyl Edition)

Atmosphere - Sound Is Vibration (1997) [Remastered]

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On her latest release, “Forever”, the hip-hop heroine delivers an empowering message over an ominous bass line, dropping lines like, “No, I’m not flawless. I’m scarred up, and I’m fine with it.” Spitting bars and spinning words, she goes on to recount how mama taught her “stay woke,” admit her own body image struggles, and name-check Do The Right Thing. It feels like it could be rap’s own answer to the “No-Makeup Movement.” However, her message is just starting to resound on a grand scale…

A voice Okayplayer.com proclaimed “one of the most formidable microphone mavens in the game,” Sa-Roc is in the midst of finishing up her Rhymesayers Entertainment full-length debut— due out later in 2018.

Written by Sa-Roc
Produced by Sol Messiah

Forever - Single

Sa-Roc - Forever

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Watch the music video: http://bit.ly/AndreTheGiantYT

"Andre The Giant" is the first single from Prof's forthcoming album, Pookie Baby, out April 13th, 2018.
Pre-order today from iTunes, Amazon or FifthElementOnline.com and receive an instant digital download of “Andre The Giant” and “Time Bomb". Album available digitally, on CD and custom white-colored 2xLP vinyl.
:
Written and performed by Prof
Beat by Jordy Bangs & Willie Wonka

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Pookie Baby

Prof - Andre The Giant

Vocals: Prof, Sims, deM atlaS, Allan Kingdom
Beat: Cardo
Scratch: Mad Mardigan
Mix:  Joe “Avey” Sadowski

Go Wolves!

DJ Skee presents "Welcome To The Woods" featuring Prof, Sims, deM atlaS and Allan Kingdom

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Goddess Gang" is the ultimate squad anthem of 2018. The song barrels through staid interpretations of femininity and turns respectability politics on its head with a spitfire lyrical cadence and 808 heavy track reminiscent of the dopest HBCU marching band.
Throughout the Sol Messiah-produced banger, Sa-Roc rejects conventional expectations of female rappers so prevalent within the industry, demanding to be judged not on her appearance, but lyrical skill alone. “Beauty irrelevant, this is not pageants. I’m a rap dragon. Every time I open my trap its fire and your outlook ending up tragic.

Sa-Roc - Goddess Gang

Catch Grieves on tour: bit.ly/GrievesOnTour!

Grieves is on tour now, as direct support for Watsky's "Complaint Album Tour." If they're coming to a town near you, we suggest you grab tickets before it sells out! bit.ly/GrievesOnTour

Grieves - Man Down (feat. Chris Webby)

Happy Halloween from Grieves and his friend Prof!
Produced by Grieves.

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Grieves - Super Scary Monsters feat. Prof

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Free single off of "To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs"



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Atmosphere - Freefallin'

What better way to celebrate Atmosphere's "Welcome To Minnesota Tour" than with a deep posse cut of all the rappers performing on the tour?"Minnesota Nice" features Slug, Prof (Stophouse), Mr. Gene Poole & Felipe Cuauhtli (Los Nativos).

Atmosphere - Minnesota Nice feat. Felipe Cuauhtli, Prof, Mr. Gene Poole

Independent Hip Hop Record Label
Artist Roster:
Abstract Rude
Aesop Rock
Atmosphere
BK-One
Blueprint
Brother Ali
deM atlaS
Dilated Peoples
Dj Abilities
Evidence
Eyedea & Abilities
Face Candy
Felt
Freeway
Grayskul
Grieves
Hail Mary Mallon
I Self Devine
Jake One
Los Nativos
MF DOOM
Micranots
Mr. Dibbs
Musab
Nikki Jean
P.O.S
Prof
Psalm One
Sa-Roc
Semi.Official
Soul Position
Step Brothers (Alchemist x Evidence)
Toki Wright
The Uncluded (Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson)

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