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Delicious Vinyl brings you Sunset Blvd, the new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind.

With its rapturous single “Quicksand” featuring Common, Sunset Blvd also teams Yancey Boys with De La Soul’s Posdnuos (“Beautiful”), The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 (“Rock My World”), and T3 of Slum Village (“Jeep Volume”), making it clear that the Dilla legacy is being represented by those who knew and collaborated with Dilla in his lifetime. Additional guests on Sunset Blvd include DJs Rhettmatic, C-Minus, and JRocc (Beat Junkies) as well as rap roughneck Guilty Simpson and R&B strongman Eric Roberson. “We’ve created an album that would make Dilla proud,” says Frank Nitt, who grew up with Dilla in Detroit. “But this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013, and we’ve assembled the best artists possible to represent that.”

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Yancey Boys "Quicksand" (feat. Common And Dezi Paige)

We’re winding down our Mos Def / Lee Fields tribute project with the final tracks of the mixtape. Today’s blend is the longest in the series and has quite the backgrounder. “Hurricane” was the title track to the 1999 film about the life of wrongly-imprisoned boxer, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. The song was a collaborative effort by the heavy hitters in the Okayplayer camp (Common, Mos Def, Dice Raw, Jazzyfatnastees, Flo Brown & The Roots) with each verse highlighting different moments in Carter’s life. Apparently, the lyrical structure was inspired by Bob Dylan’s classic 1975 protest song of the same name.

We thought the vocals were a good match for Lee Fields’ ‘Do You Love Me’ and feel the somber mood of the finished mix really complements the lyrical content. A timeless tale for the ages....enjoy!

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The Roots, Common, Mos Def w/ The Expressions - Do You Love Hurricane? (Steely Chan's Blender Mash)

Common’s “1-9-9-9” was the lead single off Rawkus Records’ “Soundbombing II” compilation. In hindsight, this collection really seemed to capture the zeitgeist of late 90s, East Coast indie hip hop. We decided to re-freak “1-9-9-9” with gratuitous layers of bongo rhythms courtesy of Shawn Lee’s “Bongo Fury” and “26”. Highly recommended for fans of The Incredible Bongo Band.

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Common, Sadat X & Shawn Lee - Bongo 99 (Steely Chan's Blender Mash)

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Common & Bilal - Funky For You - May 16, 2000 Oslo, Norway

Common & Bilal - Funky For You - May 16, 2000 Oslo, Norway @ BLAA

Common- No Sell Out (Prod. by No I.D.)

K. West – The Morning Ft. Raekwon, Pusha-T, Common, 2 Chainz, Kid Cudi, D Banj

Pharoahe Monch feat. Common & Talib Kweli - The Truth (1999)

Premiering on Billboard.com this week (http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/1537534/common-j-period-the-next-chapter-still-love-her) and celebrating the release of NY Times best-selling author Adam Mansbach's novel, Rage Is Back, J.PERIOD joins forces with hip hop icon COMMON for the exclusive new single, "The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)" [Produced by J.PERIOD].  "The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)" celebrates the latest episode in COMMON’s lifelong lyrical love-affair with hip hop, over exclusive production by J.PERIOD, and marks the second installment of a literary first: exclusive promo music released in tandem with a new novel. 

Set against the backdrop of graffiti-era New York, Manbach’s Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called “the great American graffiti novel.”  A must-read for any literate hip-hop fan, Rage is Back is available in the iTunes bookstore (http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/rage-is-back/id540077534?mt=11) and is currently one of Amazon’s “Books of the Month” (http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Is-Back-A-Novel/dp/0670026123). 

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