Chicago hip hop eccentric Mick Jenkins has a new single and video out titled “Roots,” which showcases the MC’s spacey flow and clever bars. While he may be too subtle and downplayed to have a legit hit, this guy will surely blow up with those who like their hip
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Adultery and betrayal are being served up in this new music video for the track “Gilgamesh,” which is one of many tracks from Billy Woods’ latest album, Dour Candy. Mostly, the album explores some dark themes within the personal and business dealings of a small-time drug dealer, putting this oft-mentioned
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DOOM and Oh No working together on this new collaborative, 5-inch single from Oh No’s forthcoming Ohnomite album. /via/
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Danny Brown layin’ it down over an instrumental from the late Detroit hip hop legend J Dilla. The cut is off a new CD celebrating Detroit at a longstanding hip hop mecca, and showcasing the new crop of MCs the city has to offer. The album’s release date is
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26 rappers on one 22-minute track. Sounds insane, and it is, but Mishka curated it like it was nothin’. They tagged it with the title “Hyperbolic Chamber Music,” too. The song’s got a smooth instrumental that calls out to the g-funk beats the West Coast was pushin’ in the
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A new track from New Jersey’s most vile, perverse, and unsettling rapper, GDP. The dude’s lyrics, like usual, are dark, and make me wonder if he kisses his mother with that mouth. The beat here really makes the track. The refined string sections wrap around the rhythm like
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MP3 Last year, I covered quite a few up-and-coming MCs, and one of the most clever I came across was a young buck by the name of Milo. His debut mixtape, I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here, was one of the first releases I’ve heard to take the
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Download via DJ Booth: Jean Grae- Cookies or Comas I told you this was coming! Featuring verses from Styles P., Talib Kweli, Royce Da 5’9”, and Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae is getting some great MCs on her latest mixtape. Of course, the New York MC is no lightweight herself.
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A really uplifting video from Minneapolis rapper M.anifest. The Ghanian native has a new album coming out this year titled Coming to America: Immigrant Chronicles. Admittedly, he’s not bringing anything revolutionary to the table, but M.anifest embodies all of what makes hip hop great: Good beats and
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A while back on this blog, I talked up NYC rapper Meyhem Lauren. He’s got a great double album out titled Self Induced Illness. Meyhem has a partner in crime who’s got a discography of his own, though: Action Bronson. His latest LP is titled Dr. Lecter, and
