Big Shug – For The Real (feat. Termanology, Slaine, Singapore Kane & Reks)
Dark Time Sunshine – Take My Hand featuring Swamburger of Solillaquists of Sound & Aesop Rock
Kendrick Lamar - A1-Everything (Feat. Meek Mill)
Nipsey Hussle featuring YG – All Birds [Freestyle]
Rick Ross - Triple Beam Dreams Ft Nas
Smokey Robotic – Unlike Anyone
I’ve been playing Pac Div’s Don’t Mention It (do yourself a favor and download it now at: http://itspacdiv.com/) pretty consistently since it was released for free download in April. It slaps from beginning to end, while managing to hit a variety of subject matter and moods. It most definitely deserves your listen, and probably a full review from us. And while it’s a little too late for a review, it’s never too late to give something a listen. And if one – two months is too old for you, you probably have a very serious downloading problem, and aren’t giving very much of anything a full listen. I know I’ve been that way on a few too many occasions.
Anyways, while pretty much the entire album is impressive, I have been finding my self listening to one song more than the others. “Don’t Forget The Swishers” is a song I think most hip-hop fans can relate to. The lyrics are funny but honest and while the topic is pretty much getting fucked up and hitting on chicks, it’s done in an down to earth and relatable way, rather than saying that every night they put on their $500,000 necklace, roll up to the club on four quarters, buy out the bar, and then run trains on supermodels in the handicapped bathroom stall. In addition, while hip-hop choruses more often than not fail to please me, Pac DIv always seems to do a solid job with theirs. I find this hook enjoyable as hell, and catchier than the clap. I think we’ve all gave the same message or felt the same way as the chorus at at least one point in our lives, but hopefully, much more than that.
Pac Div – Don’t Forget the Swishers (ft. Dom Kennedy, cARTer, Chip Tha Ripper)
Like it or not, this is hip hop. – 2010
I’m not sure how many people BET expected to tune into this year’s award show, but they were certainly lookin to make bloggers’ heads turn with their three-part “Cyphers” interludes. Considering that BET’s been almost unwatchable since Big Tyga left “Rap City’s Tha Basement” earlier this decade (there’s not a lot of room for credibility when you’re the poor man’s MTV), it’s great to see them extend an olive branch to some people who really deserve it. Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo, and M.I.A. were the “big winners” of the night, but DJ Premier, Mos Def, Black Thought, Eminem, Buckshot, Nipsey Hussle, and Joe Budden actually made the ceremony remarkable.
Granted, I didn’t actually watch the award show (the NBA started tonight; whoever planned that one over at BET should be shot), but this will go down in the memory banks as the one that featured Mos Def, Black Thought, and Eminem going verse for verse. When the Hip Hop nerds have heated arguments in their dorm rooms tomorrow over who came the hardest (pause), I would put my money on the exit polls favoring Slim. Thought, with all his talk of being underrated and unappreciated (he is in Hip Hop and of the three), stole Cypher #3, but if we’re going to be real, Joe Budden ran away with it, overall. Peep the other two Cyphers after the break and tell us who you think spit it best.
Who says L.A. ain’t hard? We rarely post mixtapes because we know you can get them on every other hip hop blog out there. If not that, you could always simply search in Google “mixtape rapidshare sharebee.” However, when it comes to mixtapes that feature city specific artist rosters, there are three cities which I will copiously show love. Those cities are: L.A. , Philadelphia and Toronto, AKA home. This tape from Barack ODrama includes bangers from L.A. mainstays Snoop, Crooked I, and Kurupt, as well as L.A.’s young and restless such as Jay Rock, Nipsey Hussle, and Glasses Malone. So if you’re in the city of angels and proudly call it home, download this tape, get your L.A. killer on.
MPFREE: DJ Nik Bean And DJ Drama – Streetz of L.A. 9
Don't send Maino to do Jay Rock's job..
Nipsey Hu$$le’s “Hussle in the House” has been banging the L.A. airwaves diligently for years. Nipsey released this remix recently with Maino and my man Jay Rock, Watts stand up. Peep the original, and then bang the hell out of the remix (Jay Rock puts it down).
