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Uploaded yesterday to YouTube, here’s a new track from Canadian jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD. It’s a cover of J Dilla’s “Fall In Love.” Download the BBNG cover for free here, and enjoy.
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A new mixtape, Lunch Special 4, from one of Brainfeeder’s top experimentalists, Jeremiah Jae. Be on the lookout for some heady wordplay and gritty, grimy, lo-fi beats backed with tons of samples. Find a download link right here, and check the cover below:
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On Watch the Throne, Kanye and Jay-Z team up for a celebration I’m sure their fans are going to love. The heavyweight MCs celebrate their relevancy, fame, and popularity with one track after another–occasionally stopping to make an introspective or societal observation. While the idea of the album
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Featuring Yelawolf, this Big K.R.I.T. track is from the Mississippi rapper’s forthcoming mixtape, the Last King 2. Obviously, I’m looking forward to this tape. Many of y’all already know how much I loved this guy’s last release. As usual, K.R.I.T.
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Here’s one of the many reasons I love MJF. He turned me on to this ish, so listen up. This has got to be the most interesting video I’ve seen since Shad’s “Rose Garden,” which also used reverse techniques to subtly line up Shad’s lyrics with
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When it comes to generating earworms, New York’s Das Racist works with a special recipe. The mistake most artists make is in trying to be meaningful or melodic. Nah, all you really need is an equal mixture of repetition and outlandishness. Throw “Michael Jackson, a million dollars, ya feel
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The ILLZ is Dominican-born rapper Delgis Jose Mustafa Rodriguez. The guy’s output since his ’09 debut, the Pursuit LP, hasn’t been plentiful, but it has been ambitious. Two of his most recent projects to drop is a compilation of his best material thus far, and a video mixtape.
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Pittsburgh-based teenage rap upstart Mac Miller has a new video out for his hit song “Best Day Ever,” the title track from the mixtape he released back in March. Miller may be associated with the college hip hop scene, but to dismiss him as just another frat bro rapper would
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A new video and track from Seattle MC Macklemore, featuring production from Ryan Lewis. In short, this video is fantastic. I wish it was around when I was in middle school and actually thought clothes and shoes mattered. Not that my parents had the money to lay down on a
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On the Cool Kids’ full-length debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles, the Chicago duo pulls together some impressive beats and features. The great beats are to be expected, but things really deteriorate in the rapping and lyricism departments. I know it’s band to simply get hung up over the lyricism
