As 2008 comes to a close...

Living Legends dropped this new mixtape just before the holidays.

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

Living Legends - Legendary Music Vol. 2

As 2008 comes to a close...

Class of 2008

Damu The Fudgemunk - Over-Time

Chilll

Let me introduce you to Woodblue, a Japanese producer. These 2 albums are so fresh, relaxing, soulful and straight up on-point. The production and mixes are almost too good. Sounding very similar to the sound of the Nujabes or Tsutchie, but also it has its originality. Here's both of his LP's from last year, North Surface & North Letter. Talk about rainy day music, these albums will take you on a musical and mental journey.

Woodblue - North Letter (2007)

Woodblue - North Source (2007)

Electric Feel

Props to my man DJ Phsh for putting me on to this jawn last night. Smashh.

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)

New Peter Bjorn and John

New song and video titled, Hey (shut the fuck up) boy.

One word, freshh.

Get it here.

As 2008 comes to a close...

Track List
1. Subliminal Spit
2. Iconiclassic feat. Akilles
3. BINGO
4. Innerself
5. Wonderful Uncomfortable

Class of 2008 - Dope Album

Emcee Unless - The Rubix Qube Exclusive presents Forward

**Highly recommended.

Website here.

As 2008 comes to a close...

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

8thW1 and DJ GetLive - Crazy 8's

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Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

U-N-I - Fried Chicken and Watermelon

As 2008 comes to a close...

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

1. Best To Do It (feat. Royce Da 5'9 / Elzhi / Supastition)
2. Get 'Em (feat. Silent Knight / Skyzoo / Emilio Rojas)
3. Someday (feat. Torae / John Robinson / Talib Kweli)
4. Ladders Of Success (feat. Phonte / Wordsworth / K-Hill / Masta Ace)
5. Nobody Like Me (feat. Diamond D / Kaze / Edo G.)
6. It's Time (feat. SoulStice / Eternia / Kenn Starr)
7. Mind Of A Genius (feat. Chaundon / Shabaam Sahdeeq / Finale / Sean Boog)
8. Untitled (feat. East / Silent Knight / Fresh Daily)
9. 3 In The Chamber (feat. O.C. / Torae / Kaze)
10. This Land (feat. Silent Knight / J / Sinistah / Archrival)
11. The Knack (feat. Wordsworth / Stricklin / Torae)
12. All I Need (feat. Tiffany Paige / Supastition)
13. Start It All Over (feat. Skyzoo / Emilio Rojas / Median)

DJ K.O. - Picture This...

As 2008 comes to a close...

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

Kid Cudi - A Kid Named Cudi

New! Adele & Mick Boogie - Tracks from 1988

1988 is a great collection of Adele remixes brought to you by Mick Boogie. The goal here was to introduce Adele to a whole new audience by adding a little hip hop into her critically acclaimed album 19.

Download Here

Johnson & Jonson

Some new Johnson & Jonson from their Japanese release.

Johnson & Jonson - La La Land (feat. Be Young)

As 2008 comes to a close...

Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing & 100 Miles and Running

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtape

Wale - 100 Miles and Running

Yo Wale's band is crazyyy. Dude has everything that you could possibly think of...full band, horn section, percussion, back-ups, whatt.


W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.


Artistic Integrity

Classified - Trouble (video)

Viral video for Classified’s street single off his upcoming album, Self Explanatory, dropping March 2009. Look out for the official radio single this January.

Huh?

As 2008 comes to a close...

J. Period and Game Rebellion - Searching For Rick Rubin

In simplest terms, Game Rebellion is just a bunch of black kids making rock music. That's how they introduce themselves on their mixtape, Searching For Rick Rubin, which is a collaboration effort with DJ J. Period. But Game Rebellion is much more complex than that. Parts Mos Def, part Sex Pistols, Game Rebellion is nothing short of exactly what the music industry needs: a total and complete middle finger to fitting in, selling out, dumbing down, and whatever the fuck else the music industry makes artists do.

Class of 2008 - Dope Mixtapes

J. Period and Game Rebellion - Searching For Rick Rubin

Atmosphere Airlines v.2

Yesss...this makes up for the rain, soon to be followed by snow, that ruined the 60 degree day in Philadelphia. At least the Birds won. Brand new drop from producer Dela in promotion for his album dropping ?? yeahhh...what's up with that?

1. Welcome Back
2. Multi Barz Of Fury (Remix) - CL Smooth
3. Work It Out (Remix) - Q-tip
4. P.S.A (Elemental)
5. My Nigga - Elzhi (from the album Changes Of Atmosphere)
6. My Style Is Fly (Unreleased Mix) - Jazz Lib feat. Fatlip
7. Party & Bullshit (Remix) - Biggie
8. The Bullshit 2k9 - G.Slim
9. Long Life (Remix) - Talib Kweli
10. Mars - Blu
11. The Sag - Aloe Blacc
12. The Sidewalks (Dela’s City Mix) - J-Live
13. Trigger Happy Police
14. Motown 2k9 - Finale
15. All I Know - Reach
16. It’s Love (Remix) - DJ Tonk feat. Noelle Scaggs
17. Stressed Out (Remix) - A Tribe Called Quest
18. La Voix Claire (Remix) - Dany Dan
19. The Pursuit - Supastition & Brotha Soul

Dela - Atmosphere Airlines v.2

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Class of 2008

Nouveau Riche - Free Money EP

Unfortunately, Nouveau Riche broke up in the Fall of 2008. They left us with this unreleased EP.

As 2008 comes to a close...

Class of 2008...Dope Mixtape

Cookin Soul Presents - Isaac Hayes Tribute

Damn I Wish That Shoe Hit Him In The Head...

Say goodbye to the worlds greatest polluter, asshole.

As 2008 Comes To A Close...

I'll be putting up some of MY favorite releases, mixtapes, and new material from throughout the past year. Here's what I got so far and I'm sure the list will only get longer. They will be posted gradually, I have to dig up all the artwork and track listings. Oh..and I know that some of them are from 2007, but I sure as hell listened to all of them for all of 2008.

Class of 2008 - Dope mixtapes
Cookin Soul - Isaac Hayes Tribute
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
Wale - 100 Miles and Running
J. Period and Game Rebellion - Searching for Rick Rubin
KiD CuDi - a KiD named CuDi
Fall Out Boy - CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration
DJ K.O. - Picture This...
Novel - 808s and Mixtapes
U-N-I - Fried Chicken and Watermelon
8thW1 and DJ GetLive - Crazy 8's
Unless - The Rubix Qube Exclusive
Nouveau Riche - Free Money EP

Class of 2008 - Dope Mash-ups
Blueprint - Blueprint vs. Funkadelic
Jay-Z vs. Oasis - OJAYZIS
Jay-Z vs. Coldplay - Viva La Hova
Outkast vs. NIN - Nine Inch Naliens

Class of 2008 - Dope Instrumentals/Beats
Damu The Fudgemunk - Overtime

Class of 2008 - Re-issued, Re-mixed, or Re-done
Outkast - Southern Royalty
DJs Statik and Lil' Dave (Illvibe Collective) - A Taste of Conga
Beatnick & K-Salaam - Common S.T.O.R.Y.
Hezekiah - Philadelphia Gangster (Jay-Z remixes)

Class of 2008 - Get Live
The Roots - Live at Sirius Studios 4.28.08

Class of 2008 - Albums of the Year
**These will not be up for download, you can get em on I-tunes or buy a cd. They are worth it..
Noah23 - Rock Paper Scissors
Dela - Changes Of Atmosphere
The Roots - Rising Down
People Under The Stairs - Fun DMC
PaceWon and Mr. Green - The Only Color That Matters Is Green
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War)
J*Davey - The Beauty In Distortion
Janelle Monae - Metropolis-Suite I: The Chase EP

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
Kaboose - Excuse Me
Jake One - White Van Music
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens (2007, but I listened to it for all of 2008, and Blu crushed 2008)
Little Brother - Get Back
Common Market - Tobacco Road
Blue Scholars - Bayani (2007, but I listened to it for all of 2008)
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
C.R.A.C. - The Piece Talks
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
Skillz - The Million Dollar Backpack
Verso - Audio Visuals
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Gnarles Barkley - The Odd Couple
Radiohead - In Rainbows
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Hot Chip - The Warning
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face

TV On The Radio - Dear Science


Class of 2008 - Who I'm Diggin On
Blu
Wale
Santogold
Diplo
Spank Rock
Janelle Monae
Nikki Jean
Res

Tokyo Police Club

Class of 2008 - "Who Made That", Top Producers
Exile
Sabzi
9th Wonder
Khari Ferrari
Rick Rube
Mr. Green

New Aesop

This was first given away (in a package dubbed the Ghosts of the Barbary Coast project) at a Jeremy Fish art opening in San Francisco. All who attended received a USB keychain pre-loaded with the new Aesop cut, the instrumental, lyrics and a Quicktime slideshow of artwork by Jeremy Fish. If you aren’t aware of Fish’s work, he was responsible for Aesop’s entire booklet for None Shall Pass, Silly Pink Bunnies, and tonsss of ill art. Anyways… Def Jux has now put up the package online and available for fans that didn’t attend the show. Thanks 2db. I included some recently released cuts with Aesop also, enjoy.

Aesop Rock - Tomorrow Morning
Aesop Rock - Tomorrow Morning (Instrumental)
The Gigantics - The Explanation feat. Aesop Rock, Onry Ozzborn & Eligh
Tokyo Police Club - Baskervilles Amplive Die Hard Remix feat. Aesop Rock & Yak Ballz
Tobacco - Dirt feat. Aesop Rock

Let Me Introduce....

HATER
Yeah, someone actually did it, they made their emcee name Hater. For real though, I met this cat back about three years ago and he's got skillz-to-kill. Just Listen, trust mee. Dude has some crazy rap singin shit going on with dope melodies. Some stuff is like five years old, some only a year or two. My favorite is still the Foot In Mouth Remix over RJD2s Ghostwriter beat, I will never hear that beat the same way again because of this, no joke. Oh, and My Headphones and the classic Chronic Love Song.

Foot In Mouth Extended Remix
B-Side
Fantasy
OK By Me
My Headphones
Flasing Lights(Remix)
On and Off
Spit, Look
You Got My Love
Chronic Love Song feat. G-Dub

808's and Mixtapes

Novel did a remix over a new Kanye joint called Amazin', based on the positive feedback, he decided to throw together a lil remix album. Check him out on I-tunes.


01. Intro-spective (feat. Adelle)
02. Welcome To Heartbreak Freestyle (feat. Spree Wilson)
03. Hard 2 Stay Afloat
04. Southern Boy (feat. Ced Hughes)
05. Wild West (Breakbeat Version)
06. Amazin (Remix)
07. Lost! (Remix)
08. The Fighters (Remix) (feat. Joell Ortiz)
09. I Can Be President (feat. Joell Ortiz)
10. Music (feat. Ced Hughes)

Novel - 808sand Mixtapes

10 Deep x DJ Benzi

The New Deal Mixtape


01. Benzi - 2nd Time Around (feat. Wale & Brother Ali)
02. Colin Munroe - Piano Lessons (feat. Joell Ortiz) (Produced by Black Milk)
03. Izza Kizza - Back To Miami (Produced by Koolade)
04. We Major Freestyle (Produced by The Kickdrums)
05. Blu - Spacejive
06. Wale - Pot of Gold (feat. Daniel Merriweather) (Produced by Mark Ronson)
07. Kidz In The Hall - Cool, Relax (feat. Jay Electronica)
08. Kid Sister - Get Fresh
09. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Dipo Remix) (feat. Amanda Blank)
10. Kanye West - Paranoid (Remix) (feat. Big Sean)
11. Common - What A World (feat. Chester French)
12. Donnis - Party Works
13. Blaqstarr - Get Off (Produced by Diplo)
14. Jackie Chain - Rollin (Remix) (feat. KiD CuDi)
15. Benzi - Jockin (feat. Donnis, Naledge & Chip The Ripper) (Produced by Mano)
16. Hollywood Holt - Hollywood (Chaise Marcel)
17. Tittsworth - DAF (Say Wut Remix) (feat. The Federation)
18. Naledge - 10 Deep Freestyle (Produced by Double O)
19. Skyzoo - So Close (Produced by 9th Wonder)
20. Daytona - Lately
21. Jay-Z - Brooklyn Go Hard (Mick Boogie Remix) (feat. Santogold & Notorious B.I.G.)
22. Brooklyn Girls

Download: 10.Deep x DJ Benzi - The New Deal

It's Official

It's official, The Roots are going to be the new house band for the Jimmy Fallon late night show.

I really don't know how I feel about all this. Not that big of a Jimmy Fallon fan but I'm happy for The Roots, makin' moves. I just hope this doesn't cut down on the amount of Roots shows that I get to see each year.

Kiva.org....You can actually make a difference.

I saw this pod on Currentv yesterday and I was blown away by the idea, it's just sooo damn good. This is possibly the best idea ever!

What Is Kiva?

We Let You Loan to the Working Poor

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money.

Visit Kiva.org to become a lender and find out more info.

Okayplayer tees

Straight from Okayplayer headquarters...

Now that the Tofurkey is gone, and you've picked all the marshmellows off the candied yams, it's time to get your head out of the clouds and start thinking about... SHOPPING! With "The Holidays" coming up, what better time than now to peruse the OKAYPLAYER STORE and pick out a fantastic t-shirt for a loved one??

LADIES!! We've got a bunch of new styles for you as well.


Perfect fits, fresh styles, dope tees.
Speaking of DOPE, we've got the BONUS ?uestlove "DOPE" Tee- See Below

Commonsense

While we are on the Common tip, I got this Common Sense and Cee-Lo joint last week...I'm diggin it, nice one for the ladies, check it.

Common feat. Cee-Lo - Make My Day

Beatnick x K Salaam x Common

Beatnick x K Salaam x Common - S.T.O.R.Y. (Stories Told Over Remixed Years)

Gaming Industry Troubles...Snake Eyes

"But at the end of the day, it remains to be seen whether the decision to legalize slots gambling will have a positive economic impact on the state or be a net negative. Just look at Atlantic City, where 30 years of casinos has done little to change the broader economy there. The social ills of gambling - including increased bankruptcy, crime and divorce - are a real cost that undermine the benefits of the added tax revenue."

An excerpt from "Gaming Industry Troubles", an editorial from The Philly Inquirer.

Read this entire article from The Philadelphia Inquirer here. Learn more about what you can do to have your voice heard about the casino's that want to be built in Philadelphia here,

Wale - Nike Boots (the videos)

The Official Video...just dropped.


The official joint is aight, can't fuck with the dance video though.

Clipse Presents..

It's Here.

New Clipse Mixtape, a promotion for Play Clothes, their new clothing line. 

Get it here.

Nowhere To Ride

Epic....

NIKE 6.0 VIDEO “WRITING ON THE WALL”

Add Writing on The Wall to your page

This video is crazyy, Nike just dropped it and they have been filming with four riders (Mike Spinner, Dennis Enarson, Nigel Sylvester, and Garrett Reynolds) for the past year. They traveled to Atlanta, Miami, Dubai, China, Spain, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and San Diego. So much dope footage.

And you can download it for free right here.

Happy Turkey Day!

It's B-L-U....drop the E

Seriously, if you haven't heard Blu by now, you are missing out! Hands down, my favorite emcee in the longest time ever. Anything and everything that dude touches, I'm sooo down with. Please, do yourself a favor and listen to this cat, like really listen. You won't regret it. Tracks from all over the place, if you want more (and you will) you gotta hunt em down yourself. Here's some help, he has more than 5 separate projects with different production, features, and crazy collabs.

Thoughts
My GrandMa's Kitchen
Departing Flights
GloryUs
Baby Don't Leave Me Now (Johnson & Jonson)
Up All Night (Johnson & Jonson)
Love Don't (C.R.A.C.)
Alchemist - Therapy feat. Evidence, Blu, Talib Kweli & Kid CuDi
Keelay and Zaire - The Times feat. Blu, Fortilive and Nino Moschella
Evidence - For Whom The Bell Tolls feat. Phonte, Blu, And Will.i.am

Scanz Murderin' The Industry

Hmm what to say about Scanz....well recently he has been droppin weekly freestyles (titled Murder The Industry) with 2dopeboyz, picking a different "Top 10" beat from each week to get on. All I have to say is that dude has been killin it, on some real ishh. Check out all 5 weeks below. Def peep Scanz on myspace, I-tunes, and the Four Hour Future Blog. His album, Prelude To A Legacy, released on the Rawkus 50 is ill...a lil sample included below.

Scanz

What Them Girls Like (Week 1)

Love Lockdown Remix (Week 2)

Day-N-Nite Remix (Week 3)

Move Remix (Week 4)

Stay Up Remix (Week 5)

Assassin (most current release after Prelude To A Legacy)

I Am Hip Hop (off Prelude To A Legacy)

In My Tapedeck, Side 7 (Tokyo Police Club)

When I first got these tracks I was skeptical because I'm normally not a fan of many remixes to songs. I really only downloaded these remixes because I have been on a Tokyo Police Club stint lately while riding the bike....and I needed moree! After giving the remixes a listen, I was completely impressed and happy that they were so well done. Long story short, I just discovered "The Remix Company" also known as RAC (Remix Artists Collective). Sounds like a pretty cool idea, even though I still don't no much about them because their website will not load for me right now. Maybe you will have better luck. Original songs and remixes below.

Tokyo Police Club

Be Good

Be Good (RAC Remix)

Nature Of The Experiment

Nature Of The Experiment (RAC Remix)

Obama Bike

These bikes are sickkk, props to PedX for the link. Bikes by Thunderdog.