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Dead Prez feat Busta Rhymes, Bun B, Black Thought & Yadi - Time Machine (Prod  Johan Hugo)

Fabolous releases Mixtape (Soul Tape 3) on Christmas 2013.

Fabolous - Cuffin Season (Soul Tape 3)

Jabee present to you a Free EP to celebrate the broken black hearted people of Valentines day. Many failed relationships, broken feelings, loneliness, and hurt to bring together a rock solid ep. One issue that wasn't touched on enough on Jabee's newest LP (#ewbanh) were the love songs. Jabee felt the need to showcase why "Love Don't Live Here". Please check out Jabee's  latest release on Murs newly record label, Label 316. Everything Was beautiful And Nothing Hurt.    

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New Joint "You" FT IamDes  Produced By IMASON MUSIC Neo Soul classic banger

You FT IamDes (Full Version) Prod.IMASON MUSIC

New music from Label 316 off of the record "Drive" by MC Optimal and Foundation. Please visit the record in iTunes http://bit.ly/PFC7gm

MC Optimal and Foundation Feat. Murs-Believe

From the 2014 album, ¡MURSDAY!

In stores now!

Purchase on iTunes >> bit.ly/1sR2IDz

Purchase now!

¡MAYDAY! x MURS - ¡MURSDAY! - "Here"

Lydia Liza: Vocals
Graham O’Brien: Drums, percussion
Joe Strachan: Fender rhodes
Eric Mayson: Additional vocals
Jon McDuffie: Cello
Jake Baldwin: Trumpet
Brittany Lynch: Poetry 


02 Pangaea

Buy on iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesBestiary
Buy on CD/Vinyl: http://bit.ly/Bestiary
Buy on Amazon: http://bit.ly/BestiaryAMZ
Watch the official music video: http://bit.ly/HMMJonathan

Jonathan is the first single from Bestiary, the sophomore release from Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic).

#Bestiary

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Hail Mary Mallon - Jonathan

Buy on iTunes: http://bit.ly/FaroutProf
Buy at Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/FaroutFE
Watch the Music Video: http://bit.ly/FaroutVideo

Produced by 84 Caprice

Catch Prof on Atmosphere's North of Hell tour:
11.02.14 - Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House 
11.04.12 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
11.05.14 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom 
11.06.14 - Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina
11.07.14 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
11.10.14 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
11.11.14 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's 
11.12.14 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
11.14.14 - Richmond, VA - The National 
11.15.14 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
11.16.14 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
11.17.14 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place 
11.18.14 - Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
11.20.14 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue Theater 
11.21.14 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection 
11.22.14 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom

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Prof - Farout

From the new album ALL HANDS out now on Doomtree Records! 
CD/LP: Doomtree.net/allhands
iTunes: smarturl.it/allhands

GRAY DUCK
Produced by Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger
Guitar by Jake Hanson

(Mike)
Ride on Blue Boy dipped in a Uni / dickin on a squad car, vickin on a fully / sick as a Sunni, strapped with a bobby / pullin on the pin, he Tutankhamun / Boots to the ceiling, boostin the serum / so sincere, brutes new to the feeling / Ridin on the old scene, buck if you hear me / bucks for the fabric of your fiber / bricked, dips, blicks, big, brighter / Bees in a trap? No, bees in a hive / Gee is for Geezus, Gs and a nine / Oh is for O.G.s, grease in the eyes / crease in the khakis, piece to the side / Forgotten youth when older mutants played Magneto / we believed the strip and never plagiarized their credo / Fashion cutter for the fascist, dirty-lipped and truly goony / Looney Tune Schooly Ds come off cartoony / No King Cloak and Dagger, Lavabanger Legacy / No anonymity, no forced validity / False Hopes, we got close, man, we got ghost / tough shows and rough roads until every sign said, GO!

(Dessa) 
Take the skins / hang em on the walls / not trophies, just reminders / what is left here when we fall

(Stef)
Ay, I’m pushing up on your tempo / she too stoned Nintendo / I’m Vint Cerf, she Pink Floyd / I’m jumpin out the window / Sike, I’m fly, I float aight right by / cut my own moat / get by with my chose fam / dismantle thrones / All the fuck in your station / all up in your dark / awkward in ya Marc Maron conversations / call em out the park / hangin out then Van Halen cabs in your city / all up on your block opposite the cops / y’all should all fuck with me / style like a Cadillac / crash with a battle axe handy / Gucci store fire on the couture / then planes, trains, and automobiles, I’m John Candy / Y’all just can’t stand me / I make em feel ridiculous / pickin apart they postures put together meticulously awful / in the air, hostile / the fingernails, watch em / sit and stare, box em if I gotta / Panic is the fashion / I arrow to the action / Pied Piper through all types a shit / types like me y’all ain’t fuckin with

(Hook)
Go get it / or go without / You going nowhere / run that shit into the ground / Go get it / or go without / We go for broke / and run that shit into the ground

(Dessa)
Struck by lightning / with a hand in the sand / came to with a fist fused in glass / Closed the circuit skull full of white light, mouthful of ash / Sparks on the pavement / dragging the chain / anchor’s off, man, lost it again / steady on gotta push through the rain / weather in the veins, came for this / train for this, fuck / made for this, pray they miss, duck / duck gray duck gets up and running / rest fall back like a bridge in London / brand new brakes I never touch em

(Sims)
You’re all spin move, you’re doing too much / rental car, trick cigar / I’m just laughing while that whole thing blows up / looking like I’m Joakim Noah / black mask, take your gas money / my name is Sims but call me David Lynch, I make em act funny / I ain’t afraid to change lines, state, date, or face / I’m option two when you skate or die but still survive on basslines / at least for the next eight months / then I change up like it ain’t much / you do the Roger Rabbit in Shape Ups / still blabbing bout some frame up vision / MN living gray duck risen / nay fucks given, way subliminal / class-war criminal trying to make my stance more pivotal / see what is left is suspect / the Pepsi Gen went crystal meth / and punk rock dads scream rap is dead / I laughed until I lost my chill / I’m really real, half Built to Spill half Kill at Will / half shark alligator and my Philly filled / Mill City kid in the field / gritty is in the blood, proof is in the track / fifty in the tank, on you like a Mac Truck / roll with a ton on my back / better back up fast

(Hook)

DOOMTREE "Gray Duck"

Featured track on the upcoming LP from producer Elroy Zhazbot, “Kicking Asteroids.”  Beat by Zhazbot.  Written and rocked by ‘Phate.

Cold Desire ft. Asphate

FINAL BOSS
Produced by Lazerbeak
Guitar by Jake Hanson
Additional bass by Adam Hurlburt and Ben Clark

From the new album ALL HANDS out 01.27.15. Pre-order today at Doomtree.net

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(Sims) 
There goes Johnny sweeping the leg / There goes Jake cuffing the hands / There are things that I’ll never understand / They’re just looking for a buyer / easy meat, cheap prey supplier / situation looking dire / shot back at the devil I was heavy under fire / It’s okay I’m reloaded / they can’t rap along but Goddamn they quote it / Goddamn it’s frozen / My heart is Minnesota, this boulder / If you didn’t notice, something inside of me is slowly exploding / I feel like Kobe on the sideline / Sidewinder missile, I am cyanide / inert for the last time, land mine / I am out of my Goddamn skull / pedal to the floor board I am all pulse / I don’t play fault, I just dust off / walk over them coals, iron out later / I ain’t waiting on an elevator / Each mark is a caption / Each line on my face shows exactly what happened 
(Hook) 
You’ll know what you need when it slips by / but I’m not looking back for the rest of my / Get up like I never fucking got up before / and I get it like I never fucking got it before / You’ll see how dark once they hit the light / know what I’ve made from the marks on my hands / Get up like I never fucking got up before / and I get it like I never fucking got it before 
(Dessa) 
Simon says / Miranda’s right / but William Tells it different / says Gideon / brought a rifle / was looking for a fight / The Housewives of Gomorrah / all boarded up from here to the border, sordid / falling on our own swords or standing still / heartbreak hill / I’ma make a fortune in small bills / to show that I can, give it back in my will / like the back of my hands I know hard work / my back, my hands / yeah both still hurt / Like a catamaran, two skins / one for the water / one for the wind / Like a battering ram, I get it in / lemme at it again and when the juniper blooms / we get a river of gin 
(Stef) 
Get up, let’s go, move homie right now / shut em up, they make it hard to keep the food down / Ninety-nine lives, livin by the Konami code / fold em all origami mode / Let the drama slow, never ever ever / I’m an adventure, keep em on they toes / Drippy-nose fucks flake, I dip past no breaks / skippin y’all, flipping y’alls hot cakes, eating / I’ma man the damn Weber / Stand aside, handle mine, add the cheddar / Kiss the chef / nah gut, skin, and eat the chef before he eats the rest / I’m here to keep the nest safe and sound the alarm / ride the earthquakes and hang ten harm / Y’all get tame, I’ma non-stopper / y’all flip the frame, we pull the copper

(Hook) 
(Mike) 
Python wings, viper claws / I been breaking all types of laws / diamond teeth, steel cut jaws / got raised by fightin dogs / Been around the block so many times, can’t find my house / wanna fit the earth in the palm of my hand but it keeps on bustin out / Father figure, figure 8, motherland turned motherboard / Satellite-ville fly the flag of the HD SMPTE color bars / Plasticine, whole world building outward / Second Life, no cheats for the first / Warp Whistle level up out the gutter, all hunger no thirst 
(Wait for it...Hook) 



Doomtree started as a mess of friends, fooling around after school, trying to make music without reading the manual. The group had varied tastes—rap, punk, indie rock, pop—so the music they made together often bore the toolmarks of several styles. When they had enough songs, they booked some shows. They made friends with the dudes at Kinkos to print up flyers. They burned some CDs to sell. The shows got bigger. Of necessity, Doomtree's seven members (Cecil Otter, Dessa, Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan, P.O.S, Paper Tiger, and Sims) figured out how to run a small business. Lazerbeak's garage became the merchandise warehouse; P.O.S' mom's basement became the webstore. A decade and fifty releases later, it's all properly official—Doomtree is now a real, live label with international distribution—but not too much has changed. Doomtree still partners with people who aren't jerks. If they can't find something they need, they make it themselves. Although each member has a career as a solo artist, every so often the whole crew convenes to make a collaborative record as a group. The most recent Doomtree record was called No Kings. A lot of people liked it. Happily, some of those people were writers at places like Vice, NPR, Rolling Stone, etc. According to the Village Voice, Doomtree is "one of the most talented and dedicated rap groups working today." VH1 says the crew has "the aggressive energy of a punk act with just the right amount of hip-hop swagger." In support of No Kings, Doomtree made laps around the US and hit Europe a couple times too. They played at festivals like Lollapalooza, SXSW, and Belgium's Dour Festival.

The newest Doomtree record is called All Hands, due January 27th 2015. The title nods to the nautical rally cry, "All hands on deck," and the album stands as the most collaborative and cohesive project the crew has yet produced. The production from Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, and P.O.S twists through 13 booming tracks, building the raw and epic soundscapes that the group has become well known for, while adding more of-the-moment musical elements and techniques for a genre-spanning effect. This is the sound of old friends fine-tuning their craft, both together and individually, for over a decade, and it shows. Lyrically, All Hands sounds hungry as all hell. The three-year gap between Doomtree albums has given each of the five emcees substantial time to grow as solo artists, and the group's return finds everyone tour-tested with plenty to prove. Sims, P.O.S, Mike Mictlan, Dessa, and Cecil Otter drive home razor-sharp cadences, hard-hitting punchlines, and monstrous choruses, passing the spotlight back and forth until the house lights come up.

To write All Hands, crew members sequestered themselves in a cabin with no cell reception to distract from the task at hand and no neighbors to be bothered by the music playing through the night. The process informed the product: the record creates and operates within its own sphere—a particular mix of menace, humor, beauty, and adrenaline. Though the Minneapolis sound is present on All Hands, the record is as much a product of seven friends, relying only on each other, working in international waters.

Both the catchiest and densest album in the group's catalog, All Hands adeptly walks a tightrope of immediately memorable hooks and in-depth lyricism that rewards repeated listens. The result is equally worthy of up-to-11 trunk-rattling drives as it is late-night headphone sessions.

Buy on iTunes

DOOMTREE "Final Boss"

Produced By: Evan Slack

DWNR, deM atlaS's debut EP on Rhymesayers is available now via:
Physical | Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/DWNRFE
Digital | iTunes: http://bit.ly/DemDWNR
Stream | Spotify: http://bit.ly/DWNRsp

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#DWNR
#DWNRart

deM atlaS - With A Smile

Produced by Biz-One. Leak from Ab Rude & Myka 9's secret lp AyeM Ray-DIO dropping Fri. Feb.13th here: https://keepthefeel.bandcamp.com/album/ayem-ray-dio

Sunshyne - AyeM Ray-DIO

Here's a previously unreleased track from Toki Wright produced by Doomtree's Lazerbeak. "I'm Not Lying" is part of the Unreleased Exclusive series as part of the Rome Sessions (tracks written while Toki Wright was touring Europe in 2012 between album releases). 

Available for purchase at https://soultools.bandcamp.com/

Photo taken at The Colosseum in Rome

I'm Not Lying 
Lyrics by Toki Wright 
Rome Sessions - Unreleased Exclusive 

you put yourself inside my shoes 
whenever listening to tunes 
it's my positioning it proves 
how much our distance moves 

so fish into this pool 
to see what you can catch 
I'm underpaid and overstressed 
and stepping out the waters wet 
couldn't overstep 

some preparing for the second coming 
some are daring yet their running 
funny some will say they getting money 
but the money doesn't run me (it don't) 
Toki 

I wrote this poem in Rome on Via Giuseppe 
with a liter of the fountain water 
and a bag of Nestle 
out a dream about a nest egg 

to lay away 'cause Labor Day 
be playing with my paper chase 
so I just grip a Paper Mate 

and sketch a way up our of debt 
through what I could do best 
I could have fly a jet to Budapest, you bet 
but what do you expect? 
(I'm gonna sit around waiting on somebody to tell me where I can go and what I can do? Not this dude!) 

No I'm not the biggest artist on my label 
but I got a space to place 
my paper plate up at the table 
got my videos on cable 
and I play in San Diego 
just me and my microphone 
to keep my life at home stable 

so I bust it like I got a budget 
gotta love it 
ain't afraid to show my heart in public 
and I'm not a pundit 
not a puppet 

people tell me I should talk about more politics 
but life is politics 
so yahll should follow this 
acknowledge its 

punishment to spit positive 
but hey I gotta live 
I've got a kid 
I've got to say exactly how it is 
not these fibs 
('cause rappers be straight lying. Straight up!) 

I got a beat from Lazerbeak 
the other week 
I told him that I need to speak 
I couldn't sleep 
I wrote a speech 

I seen a rapper on TV 
he beat a woman to the ground 
while his homies looked around 
as he rose into the air to stomp the ground 

It made me think about the generation 
that's about to take over the nation 
and what we could do to save them 

'cause if we just waiting patient 
then my daughter'd be a patient 
and I couldn't try to justify complaining 

I know the world is yours 
the world is mine 
so it's about that time 
that we drew the line 
and grew a spine 

cause there's no moment better 
than the present for the timing 

I'm not lying!!!
credits
released 13 February 2015 
Written by Toki Wright - Nanjotokimitsu Music (ASCAP). Produced by Lazerbeak - Legend Recognize Legend (ASCAP)



Toki Wright - I'm Not Lying (Produced By Lazerbeak)- Rome Sessions​/​Unreleased Exclusive

Lakefront Property

The Dogs Are Always Faster

Uncle Danny

Without A Two Weeks Notice

The Waterfall

"Blood Drive" was originally going to feature Slug and MF Doom, but for some reason it just didn't work out with Doom.  When Slug sent me this demo, he attached the following instructions for Doom:


"MAP for DOOM
ROGERIO (blood drive)

8 bar intro - DOOM DIALOGUE?
20 bar verse - SLUG
4 bar solo chorus - SLUG
4 bar flute bridge - NO VOCALS
20 bar verse - DOOM 
4 bar solo chorus - DOOM
4 bar flute bridge - NO VOCALS
8 bar outro. - SLUG DIALOGUE?

tell DOOM don't do stacks on his 20 bar verse.  keep verse one-tracked.

tell him i stacked 3 vocal tracks for the chorus, and explain the layout of the choruses.
have him follow my structure for the chorus, but use his own words.
tell him to put his "stand-ups" on separate 4th vocal track so we can fly his voice onto my chorus and vice versa (I'll say the "stand-ups" in his chorus, he'll say them in mine)."



I love this beat, and I think Slug really killed on here, but when I listen to the album this song sounds unfinished to me.  I almost didn't include it, but Slug really wanted this verse to balance out the "frat rap" quality of "Gittit".

Blood Drive (demo version) feat. Slug -- prod. by Benzilla & BK-One

Nothing But... (SCIENZE x JohnNY U. x Elle Pierre

On his 1st release with his new label (Deep Concepts Media), John Jigg$ is showing all wack emcees why they should take him as a serious threat. 
Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIme8gBK2m8

John Jigg$- War Games (prod DJ Supa Dave)

2. Don't Let Em Inside [LIVE]

1. Between Two Worlds [LIVE]

Prima Donna [LIVE]

Late Night Ecstasy [LIVE]

Between Two Worlds [LIVE]

Breath

Atmosphere - The Ropes

J.PERIOD presents #RAGEISBACK, the official music companion to the acclaimed new novel, Rage Is Back, by best-selling author Adam Mansbach. Paying tribute to hip hop culture and its birthplace, New York City, #RAGEISBACK brings together an all-star cast of icons & rising stars for a first-of-its-kind hip hop storybook in the spirit of classic book-and-record sets.  Featuring exclusive new tracks from Common (http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/1537534/common-j-period-the-next-chapter-still-love-her) and Talib Kweli produced by J.PERIOD, freestyles from Black Thought (http://www.okayplayer.com/news/j-period-black-thought-rage-is-back-freestyle-mp3.html), The Kid Daytona, Blu, Homeboy Sandman, Shad and more!  With audio book narration by: GZA & Danny Hoch.  

For official track listing, visit: http://www.okayplayer.com

#RAGEISBACK is also now available for DOWNLOAD. Visit: www.jperiod.com/rageisback or click for direct download: http://www.jperiod.com/upload/rageisback/jperiod-rageisback.zip

J.PERIOD Presents RAGE IS BACK [The Mixtape]

Okayplayer.com Exclusive! J.PERIOD recruits Black Star alumni and legendary lyricist Talib Kweli for the latest single release from #RAGEISBACK: "The Traveller" [Produced by J.PERIOD].  Look out for other #RAGEISBACK exclusives featuring Black Thought, Common, The Kid Daytona, Homeboy Sandman, Shad and more!  For more about #RAGEISBACK or to download the full-length project, visit: http://www.jperiod.com/rageisback   

"The Traveller" Feat. Talib Kweli [Produced by J.PERIOD]

**** Downloadable individually tracked version now available here--> http://www.djfinessenyc.com/store/   

 
This month marks the passing of the lauded rapper Notorious B.I.G. and to honor his legacy, New York resident DJ Finesse debuted a special tribute during DJ Premier's Sirius/XM show "Live From Headqcourterz" on March 8.

The mix showcases Biggie's a capellas paired with Premier-produced beats. While the original tribute was shorter for air-time, Finesse extends the tribute for hip-hop fans here with a special intro by Premier himself.

DJ Premier's "Live From Headqcourterz" airs every Friday night from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Sirius/XM Channel 44, Hip Hop Nation. DJ Finesse is a regular guest on the show, filling in for Premier as an on-air mixer.

Tracklist:
01 - DJ Premier Intro
02 - Flava In Ya Ear rmx over I Gave You Power
03 - Big Poppa over Ex To Next Girl
04 - Dead Wrong over 2 Thousand
05 - 10 Crack Commandments over One Day
06 - Who Shot Ya over Come Clean
07 - All About The Benjamins over Supa Dupa Star (1994 Demo Version)
08 - One More Chance over Recognize
09 - Long Kiss Goodnight over You Know My Steez
10 - Things Done Changed over The Format
11 - I Got A Story To Tell over Shit Is Real
12 - Real Niggas over Ready 
13 - Juicy over Nas Is Like
14 - One More Chance rmx over Freaky Flow
15 - Warning (Freestyle) over Mind Ya Business
16 - '95 Freestyle (7 Mac 11's) over Who Got Gunz
17 - Victory over Project Boy
18 - Kick In The Door over Come Get Me
19 - Going Back To Cali over The Invincible
20 - Mo Money Mo Problems over Golden Child
21 - Party And Bullshit over Now Your Mine
22 - Unbelievable


B.I.G. over Premier

Dessa "Fighting Fish"

Atmosphere-Smart Went Crazy
Slightly Stoopid-Metal Madness


Toki Wright - I'm Not Lying (Produced By Lazerbeak)- Rome Sessions​/​Unreleased Exclusive

Toki Wright

Toki Wright - I'm Not Lying (Produced By Lazerbeak)- Rome Sessions/Unreleased Exclusive