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JAYYDEE MIX

Step Up 4 Soundtrack Songs (HD)

From the upcoming Oddisee mixtape "Tangible Dream"

Mixtape available exclusively with "The Beauty In All" his new instrumental album everywhere October 1st.

Produced by Oddisee
Vocals by Oddisee

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Oddisee - Own Appeal

R2(Revolutionary Rhythm)

Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJ1TSLzVLI

R2 - 1 Step Ahead prod Rythmatical

From Black Milk's latest full-length album, If There's A Hell Below. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow

Physical and Digital on Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-hell-below

If There's A Hell Below
01. Everyday Was ft. Mel
02. What It’s Worth
03. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu and Ab
04. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock
05. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
06. Detroit’s New Dance Show
07. Story and Her
08. All Mighty
09. Scum ft. Random Axe
10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B
11. Grey for Summer
12. Up & Out 

What It's Worth

2pac - Until The End Of Time (Remix)

from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family"
Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/

About the Album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family."

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping.

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus.  A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap.

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic.

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed. 



L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Taken By The Night

Black Milk ft. Mel - Everyday Was

The Loneliest Punk

Today's Your Day (Wachagonedu?) (feat. Chali 2na)

The Dag Savage - EP

When It Rains (feat. Aloe Blacc)

That's O.K.

The Final Adventure in Stores November 13. Pre order on itunes today http://smarturl.it/TFAPreOrder

Murs & 9th Wonder - Tale of Two Cities (Original)

Full Circle

Make Your Move

"Heroes In The Healing Of The Nation" Available NOW:
http://www.zioniandthegrouch.com/store (includes exclusive "Heroes" bonus track)
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At last! West Coast hip-hop stalwarts Zion I & The Grouch return with their sophomore collaborative effort Heroes in the Healing of the Nation. The long-awaited follow-up to the group's 2006 critically acclaimed Heroes in the City of Dope could not arrive at a more fitting hour. This time around Z&G raise the stakes to expand the playing field from City to Nation, inviting listeners everywhere to join them on their quest in channeling their highest selves. Amp Live provides the bulk of the banging backdrops as Zumbi and The Grouch consciously kill it with a well versed ease.

On the rousing "It's Goin Down" Zumbi and The Grouch are at their best, pontificating the ups and downs of everyday life along side Soja's lead singer's reggae-inspired chorus. The semi title track "Healing Of The Nation" boasts a rare Amp Live vocal appearance where he effectively and infectiously whisper-yells "Get yourself up!!" over twisted guitars and signature heavy bass kicks. "Rockit Man" takes fans one level higher with an unforgettable soulful Silk-E performance before blasting off into infinity and beyond!

Zion I & The Grouch have been leaders marching to the beat of their own 808's for some time now but the group suggests that we're all cut from the same cloth. "Anyone changing other peoples lives for the better is a hero to me" explains The Grouch of the album's title. "People are going through a difficult transition these days," adds Zumbi. "We want this album to aid in that process."

Heroes features an array of musical brethren, including Freeway, Fashawn, Casual, Mystic, Eric of Rebelution, Jacob Hemphill of Soja, Eligh, Codany Holiday, and the R.O.D. Heroes in the Healing of the Nation is due out March 22, 2011.

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