Arena.com Premiere/Feature: http://bit.ly/1ktxBw1

Whether you were a tagger, a b-boy/girl or a Hip-Hop head, The Artifacts were one of the best to do it on the underground scene back in the day. Its been nearly 20 years since the release of their debut album 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place,' and if you're curious to know how the former Boom Skwad representative El Da Sensei holds up on the mic in 2014, you'll see that he hasn't lost a step with his latest effort "Show Stoppa." Featuring a sparse and bouncy beat with sharp cuts supplied by DJ Devastate, the jam has the New Jeruz native dropping bombs like it was 94' all over again. "Show Stoppa" is taken from Coalmine Records forthcoming compilation album Unearthed (Mixed by DJ Revolution), which is scheduled to drop on May 13th via CD and digital download.. stay tuned!

'Unearthed' Pre-Order Links:
• iTunes: http://bit.ly/PMlYVL
• Fat Beats: http://bit.ly/1m6aZF3 
• UGHH: http://bit.ly/1h1cqwv

El Da Sensei - Show Stoppa (prod. by DJ Devastate)

"My homie AJ of Dynamite Bruhz hit me up and asked me on this record he was working with Sha Stimuli. I was hyped because Sha was always someone ti thought was a ILL spitter. He mentioned he was getting Wordsworth on it as well and Words was my man so it was a no brainer. I jumped on here and tried to keep up with those guys. #BEAST

MidaZ The BEAST x Wordsworth x Sha Stimuli x  D'Augustine - Locked In (The Chop Shop)

from the upcoming all new album from Has-Lo & Castle "Live Like You're Dead" - July 29th Digital, August 5th CD

Has-Lo & Castle - "Go To Work"

produced by Apollo Brown
vocals by Red Pill & Verbal Kent

After Ugly Heroes' 2013 classic self titled LP, Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent and Red Pill are back again with a new EP coming out August 19th.  The new EP features five new songs (including a Murs feature) and 4 bonus track b-sides.  Ugly Heroes will also being touring Europe for a few weeks this August, starting with the legendary Hip-Hop Kemp Festival before hitting London and a number of other spots (all the dates will soon be up on the MMG Event Calendar).  The new EP will first be available digitally with a vinyl edition to follow late in the year. Original artwork by illustrator Paul Grelet.

Ugly Heroes - Naysayers & Playmakers

James Baby

Village Voice Premiere: http://bit.ly/1uw09tK
A trio of rugged rhymers: Sean Price, the Brooklyn-bred lyricist that's quick to knock your block off Jailhouse Rock style; Diabolic, the aggressive Suffolk County rhyme sayer that spits with reckless abandon; and Vinnie Paz, the misanthropic Philly native who stays ready for battle, all make up the foundation for "Game Time," the latest release from Diabolic's forthcoming 'Fightin Words' LP, that's set to drop 9/16. Although Diabolic might not be a household name just yet, his accolades are worth mentioning: earning a spot on Billboard's Hip Hop and R&B charts, as well as receiving the HHUG Best Album of the Year Award with his debut 'LP, Liar & a Thief,' are quite the accomplishments. Over a slick cut from the Brooklyn beat-smith, 5th Seal, who manages to squeeze everybody from Das EFX to the late Guru in this Premier'esque scratch hook, "Game Time" takes things back to the time where lyrics were valued over everything. Pre-orders for 'Fightin Words' are now available through iTunes via digital download, or Fat Beats on either CD or 2xLP.

Previous: 
• https://soundcloud.com/diamondmedia360/suffolks-most-wanted-feat-ra?in=diamondmedia360/sets/diabolic-fightin-words-album
• https://soundcloud.com/diamondmedia360/diabolic-diabolical-sound-prod?in=diamondmedia360/sets/diabolic-fightin-words-album

Pre-Order:
• Digital (iTunes): http://bit.ly/1vtsnVR
* CD/2xLP (Fat Beats): http://bit.ly/1nyGHHK

Twitter:
• Diabolic: https://twitter.com/diabolichiphop
• Sean Price: https://twitter.com/SeanPrice
• Vinnie Paz: https://twitter.com/vinnie_paz

Tracklist:
01. Diabolical Sound (prod. by DJ Premier)
02. Introvert (prod. by Junior Makhno)
03. Higher (feat. Celph Titled & Swave Sevah) [prod. by Engineer]
04. Piss And Vinegar (prod. by Junior Makhno)
05. Suffolk's Most Wanted (feat. R.A. The Rugged Man) [prod. by The Snowgoons]
06. Feel Ya Pain (prod. by Engineer)
07. Norman Bates (feat. Taboo, Locksmith, Nino Bless, Apathy & Coal) [prod. by Level 13]
08. Living In My Own Head (feat. Block McCloud) [prod. by Level 13]
09. My Attitude (prod. by Engineer)
10. Victim's Story (prod. by BP)
11. Fightin Words (prod. by C-Lance)
12. Game Time (feat. Sean Price & Vinnie Paz) [prod. by 5th Seal]
13. A.M.E.R.I.C.A. (Truth Part 3) [prod. by Engineer]
14. Here We Go (feat. Coast) [prod. by Level 13[
15. Bad Dream (prod. by The Snowgoons)
16. Alien Manuscript (prod. by Junior Makhno)
Bonus Tracks:
17. Mission Statement (prod. by C-Lance)
18. A Day In the Life (prod. by Junior Makhno)

Diabolic (feat. Sean Price & Vinnie Paz)- "Game Time" (prod. by 5th Seal)

From the upcoming project "Words Paint Pictures" (prod. Apollo Brown) out 3/24 on Mello Music Group https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/words-paint-pictures/id959134547


Rapper Big Pooh - "Stop (feat. Steve Roxx / prod. Apollo Brown)"

CunninLynguists - 06 - Beautiful Girl

Beat, Production & Mix: Dj Billy Bishop (C. Makaseff) 
Lyrics & Vocals: Unknown Mizery (Sourav Deb) 
Outro Lyrics & Vocals: Wax Monk (U. Suri) 
Art: C. Makaseff 

Sounds Created @ Observatory Records 
Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved.

lyrics:

Digital Dogma:
Logged on
Metropolis dot com
Android noise
interrupting your thoughts bombed
docile passage
walking the plank 
route the gps
no reality
we in a TV set
monitors,
that would monitor the populous
UV
under thermometer
they can spot you quick
fossil fuels
turmoil from guns and steel
pipelines, 
so your cars can run/
cost of tears, 
turn soil,
dont succombe to fear
nows the right time
just to charge up, A
hundred lions
huntin for the meal
around hunters with abundance of fire
with no wood for the stove
in a trance
fire dance at will
contradiction
staring at the broken pills
a revolutionary womanizer, addicted to drugs
depressions a skunk
stinking from the overdose
aint fully sinking, cuz I know the flow
been across the road
and left the chickens behind
mizo meddle with the arson
leaving fire with minds
and thats the original
surrounded by snakes
and kings, building with those genuine
vinny vecci till he biddy bye
theres fire in the city sky
city skylines are cut with a iller vibe
golden feet, kick a speech
travel, with visions reach
try and keep your ears shut
before you feel the bang form the ear drums
broken vessel,
lost space merchant
they make you a star
then they break purpose
stay urgent, learn to tame and sway serpents
Fate charmer
karma farma
imma
collect my energy and sew my armour
the renaissance we never had
book of life without a author
penless travel,
theres a,
predestined story on 
every blank page,
leave you scarred up
never trust a blank face
running a campaign
cramming all the lions
into a rat race
shot guns
place your vote
drop a kennedy tear
when you living in the system
know the enemies near
a flock of geese
seeped in petroleum
they just died on the pier
i seen this life
break people into pieces unknown
circumstances
change the DNA
dancing alone
cavemen with computers
self esteem
relying on a button to share
social media
it aint social
nobody cares
smiling through emoticons
conning your self
when the day is gone
whats the status update
swipe right
for your soulmate
souless
digital dogma
russian revolver
refreshing the page
hashtags, your it
now your playing the game
my brother can you relate..
can you relate??
you wanna hit fast
but you dont want her to be late
rhetoric debates
dont be bathing in bait
its like we waiting to wait
feel like we pacing all day
havent
left your screen, 
killin zombies - till you a zombie
press start
planets will battle stars
dont die through your avatar
dont die through your avatar
dont die through your avatar
+
WE ARE
the point of balance at the cross roads
WE ARE
troubadours building fossils
WE ARE
golden hearts pawned and gone cold
WE ARE
almost dying through our avatars
WE ARE
almost dying through our avatars
WE ARE
almost dying through our avatars

DIGITAL DOGMA(kennedy tear) - Unknown Mizery & DJ Billy Bishop

Red Pill, Apollo Brown, & Verbal Kent are Ugly Heroes
New Album, Everything In Between, June 24th 
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/everything-in-between/id1094898313?app=itunes

Few things are more ugly or heroic than telling the truth. Life is often bleak, brutal, and over all too swiftly. Leaders are corrupt. Job prospects are limited. Cigarettes and shots of gin rarely lead to a peaceful finish. But between the lunacy and squalor, there exists those who make it all worthwhile: family, friends, and ruthlessly honest artists who remind you that you aren’t alone, shedding light on those dark nights of the soul.
 
As Michigan’s anti-Surgeon General, Red Pill quips: “We may not be the heroes this world needs, we're definitely not the heroes this world wants, but at least we're here.” His partners in Ugly Heroes are Chicago MC Verbal Kent, and Detroit producer Apollo Brown. Their sophomore Mello Music Group release, Everything In Between, offers diamonds of wisdom amidst the existential dumpster fire.


Ugly Heroes - This World (prod. Apollo Brown)

The Analog Brothers are
Kool Keith • Pimp Rex • Marc Live • Ice-T • Black Silver as... 
Keith Korg • Rex Roland • Marc Moog • Ice Oscillator • Silver Synth

from the album Analog Brother - "Pimp to Eat"
iTunes https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/pimp-to-eat/id1095390546?app=itunes

If The Analog Brothers didn't exist, the weirdest scientist couldn't have invented them. Or perhaps they never existed. Maybe it's possible this was all a demonic 31st century hallucination cooked up by Kool Keith and cyborg alien pimps peddling flesh and white fluff acid. 

But how else to explain the ultra-rare, ultra-magnetic artifact left behind: Pimp to Eat. Originally dropping from the skies in 2000, it's being re-released by Mello Music Group, and remains the timeless mind-fuck that it was when it first emerged. It's a laser beamed synthesized hieroglyphic that could sound timeless in any century or sonic dimension. 

There are a few clear things amidst the craziness. The centerpiece of the record is Pimp Rex (AKA Rex Roland), the legendary Angeleno hustler, who did production for Body Count and the chorus on Ice-T's "I'm Your Pusher." He enlists his longtime collaborator Ice Oscillator (Ice-T), Keith Korg (Kool Keith), Marc Moog (Marc Live), and Black Silver (Silver Synth). These are the five fly horsemen of the apocalypse, the Analog Brothers delivering digital blows, oscillating sub-tones, and urinating out of windows. 

According to Ice-T, the original masters of Pimp To Eat were delayed when Kool Keith's vocals were stolen during the melee that followed the Indiana Pacers–Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship basketball game June 19, 2000 in Los Angeles. Who knows if this is true? Maybe Reggie Miller was the culprit? 

All we really know comes from the abstractions assaulting our eardrums. Rex Roland's tribute to the old analog sound, eerie synthesizers and pimp-slapping 808 drum machines. Ice-T and Kool Keith trade bars like a rap Scully and Mulder. In the first minutes, the erstwhile Dr. Octagon shouts out George Gervin, swap meets and the Ultimate Warrior. 

On "Analog Technics," the man better known as Black Elvis throws feces at celebrities at the Billboard Awards, sporting Superman underoos, and driving a lime green Corvette. On "More Freaks," Keith sniffs 8 grams of coke in Calvin Klein boxer shorts, watching Wide World of Sports. While Ice-T panders with Motorola Pagers, eating Grand Slams and asking you to meet him at the back of Denny's. 

This is how it goes across 16 tracks of interstellar pimping. Out of the attics of the insane comes one of the most overlooked rap classics of its era, full of bizarre boasts, ice-cold and meteor-hard beats, and the best bad examples. You couldn't say no even if you wanted to.

Bass, Strings, Vocals – Keith Korg*
Graphic Design – Sarah Dalton
Drums, Violin [Violyns], Vocals – Marc Moog*
Keyboards, Drums, Vocals – Ice Oscillator*, Rex Roland JX3P*
Mastered By – Gene Grimaldi
Mixed By – Kurt Kurzweil Matlin*
Photography By – Dr. Dave Stotts
Synthesizer, Vocals, Bells [Lazar Bell] – Silver Synth*

CD (w/ Free Download Code) http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/analog-brothers-pimp-to-eat/MMGABPTECD/
Vinyl (Black & Red Splatter) http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/analog-brothers-pimp-to-eat/MMGABPTELP/

Analog Brothers - "Country Girl" | feat. Kool Keith, Pimp Rex, Marc Live, Ice-T, Black Silver

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

http://bit.ly/TheImpossibleKid

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

Snowgoons - Timezones

Hassaan Mackey & Apollo Brown-Elephants

Pacewon & Mr. Green - She Be So Cold

Apakalypse & Beast 1333 feat. Jah Nigga Da Baptist - God Motive

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson-The Cook Up

From the album "Dice Game"

About the album:
Someone once said that life's a gamble. Kinda like shootin dice in an alley. The risk is high but the gain is higher, and when it's all said and done, you hold your breath and collect your dues. W ith lyrics that grip like a handful of ones, and beats that hit like ivory on cement, this album is just that, a Dice Game.

ILL

Simonetta Rubino