From The Out Of Print LTD EDN LP and CD
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KutMasta Kurt presents: Kool Keith - You Know The Game

Taken from the album MK Ultra: Operation Hypnosis.

CD version coming soon. 

www.KingUnderground.com

Lewis Parker & Eastkoast - Prophesy (Taken from the album MK Ultra) CD version coming soon

produced by Lewis Parker
Lyrics by Jacky Danz

01 Comin wit da hitz

produced by Illingsworth, guest raps by Illingsworth, Dom O Briggs, and F Virtue

Stop Hitting Yourself f Illingsworth, Dom O Briggs & F Virtue

FREE CHRISTMAS DOWNLOAD! After the success of the KingUnderground/WODV collaboration we thought it would be a nice touch to say thanks to the fans of Lewis Parker, with this special Christmas day, FREE download! 

The track is a remake of the 'Fake Charades' song that featured on Lewis Parker's first full length LP 'Masquerades & Sillhouettes' back in 1998'. The beat has been reworked in the SP-1200 and the vocals have been rapped again! Also features the instrumental version too! 

We hope you enjoy it & have a Merry Christmas from Lewis Parker & KingUnderground! 


Game of charades

Hieroglyphics Imperium and Elevation Nation present "The Hierotrope Series"; A collection of 7" 45 singles with 2 sided on-record phonotropic artwork that comes to life, animating when viewed in a camera/phone in direct light (The more direct light the better - see below for details). The music for the series will be a variety of unreleased songs from the Hiero vault, and featured singles from upcoming projects released monthly.

All design/animation of the series is created by Unjust, long-time Hieroglyphics collaborator, and in-house producer. Keeping in tradition with Hieroglyphics' tradition of innovation, landmark creative quality, and independent ideology, this series gives it's listeners/viewers a truly unique bonus value, adding an extra layer of visual stimuli to the beloved physical act of playing a record. Marrying art, music, and technology, The Hierotrope Series promises to be on-going treat for Hip-Hop heads, vinyl heads, and tech-heads alike.

The first single is First Light (Opio + Pep Love), "Livin' the Life" b/w "FU2", 2 previously unreleased songs that were cut from The "Fallacy Fantasy" album, Produced by Unjust. This will followed by the lead single from the upcoming self-titled album "Rap Noir" (Tajai + Unjust), "Make It Rain" b/w "Watch out". Keep up and check for the new release of the month at ShopHiero.com where you can also sign up for a monthly subscription plan, with subscription-exclusive limited edition (1-100) alternative phonotropic artwork.

First Light "Livin' The Life"

After building a steady buzz over the past few years, Brooklyn trio PENPALS reveal one of their strongest tracks to date with their new single, “Trip to Peru,” featuring dusty production by Lars Viola.

For those unfamiliar, the PENPALS are rappers Cynic the Apache and Rapswell, with producer Squires behind the boards. And to date, they’ve made waves in the NYC underground and elsewhere with several ill projects, like their 2015 self-titled debut, which was followed-up the following year with, Made for the Underground, produced entirely by Jazz Spastiks (a/ka/ The Slipmat Brothers). With “Trip to Peru,” the group sounds more focused than ever over Viola's jazzy, piano-heavy instrumental. 

In addition to delivering sharp and clever wordplay throughout the track’s verses, Cynic and Swell wisely bring their humor to the chorus as well. Their Wheel Of Fortune-referencing lyrics are as absurd as they are catchy, to the point you’re likely to have “We got it down pat/ Sajak” for the next week (or more).

There’s no word yet on when we’ll hear a new project from the trio, but we should be in for another stellar installment in their discography if “Trip to Peru” is any indication. Give the track a spin, and head over to the digital retailer or streaming platform of your choice to support!

Twitter: 
• PENPALS: https://twitter.com/PenPalsNYC
• Lars Viola: https://twitter.com/Lars_Viola

PENPALS Online:
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpalsnyc
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/penpalsnyc
• Bandcamp: https://pen-pals.bandcamp.com
• Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyPENPALS

Dead Letter Bureau

To Whom It May Concern

Trip to Peru (prod. by Lars Viola)

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. 
credits

Portraits Mp3

Lazy Buddies

Chris Orrick -  Lazy Buddies (prod. Apollo Brown)

Self-Portrait

Chris Orrick - Self-Portrait (prod. Nolan The Ninja)

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Bait

The Perceptionists - Bait (prod. Paten Locke)

Aim Steady (feat. G Dot & Tone Spliff)

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