The God just blessed the world with this gem via his Twitter. Produced by City Parks. This is quality music right here…
Sadat X - ‘The Fake Out’
Here’s a mix that abcdrduson made of some of Todd Ray’s work from back when he was killing it behind the boards.
In case you missed it back in 2007, you might want to read my three part interview with T-Ray while you listen.
Download: T-Ray – Best Kept Secret
Note: This is a proper vinyl mix rather than some mp3 collection fuckery. Salute!
Tracklisting:
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This was a limited-edition vinyl release a month or so back, and now it’s appeared as a bonus cut on the new K-Def Night Shift LP in glorious CD quality. I’m guessing the parting shot at “all the sell-outs, all the people that wanna talk about flowers and meadows” is a PM Dawn diss. “Everybody that wanna front with their shirt off” is a bit more general though… Unless this was the same time that Young MC tried to comeback on some brolic shit?
This is almost enough to let me forget about 14 Shots To The Dome…
Back in 1994 K-Def was working on some beats out of the B Room in Marly Marl‘s House Of Hits when LL Cool J walked in on his session and said “let’s make some tracks together”. Uncle L had always wanted to rhyme on a track using the famous ESG breakbeat ‘UFO’, so he had Def lay it down with some scratches and then went to town with the mic. Both thought they had a sure fire hit on their hands but unfortunately it was never used. The DAT tape of the studio session was feared lost for several years before it eventually turned up stuck behind a radiator!
LL Cool J - ‘It’s The Hip-Hop’
As more and more new rap music continues to suck, the task of finding recent shit that doesn’t make me want to cut my face off with a broken bottle and slowly peel the skin off has become more and more difficult. Naturally, all of these songs are old news on the internets by now but if you’re reading this that clearly isn’t an issue for you anyway.
Weekend officially redeemed. Produced by Arch Druids.
Marcberg: Reloaded coming soon….
Roc Marciano - ‘Emeralds’
Torae drops his For The Record LP tomorrow, but here’s a pro tip – Marco Polo brought the best track to this project, which includes contributions from DJ Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock and Diamond D to name a few. Looks like Canada finally won something.
Torae - ‘You Ready’
‘Ness reppin with Big Bird. That ‘Art of Diggin’ CD is a must-have, by the way.
Courtesy of The Grim Times.
Prince Paul just pulled this out of the vault for Halloween. Who said Twitter was useless?
“This is the First song we recorded as the Gravediggaz in 92″ . It was the intro to our demo and it was actually recorded the day I introduced these guys to each other at my house . This track never made the album but It was one of my favorite productions. This was the track that started it all .. RIP Poetic . Enjoy.”
The house that hatred built ( Unreleased Gravediggaz demo 92 ) by DJ Prince Paul
Stream only, and with tags, but any new Mash-Out is good Mash-Out in my book. From the Sparta album, due on Babygrande.
MOP & The Snowgoons - ‘Get Yours’
Since there’s nothing much going on in terms of new music that I give a shit about, I may as well respond to the mock outrage of a comment on the last post:
“I notice here at Unkut, you do not relate to hardcore Hip-Hop vs Rap people as much as you like to play both sides of the fence and confuse the two”
This whole stance has always amused me. If KRS-One had his way, everybody would have subscribed to the theory that ‘rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live’ and world hunger, war and Auto-Tune would all now be wiped-out. Is refusing to use the word ‘rap’ unless you’re referring to bubble gum music really going to achieve anything? For starters, the word ‘rap’ just sounds better in any conversation you might possibly have at any point in time. Grown Man Rap, Yacht Rap, Blog Rap, Emo Rap…try saying ‘Grown Man Hip-Hop’ and not sounding like a douche-hammer.
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New vinyl drop from the Live Guy, now without glasses. Wax has the original, remix, instros and accapella. Uptempo Rap lives…
Large Professor - ‘Key To The City (Mad Scientist Remix)’
Nothing says ‘I’m out of decent ideas’ like the good old Alter-Ego album. For most rappers, it’s not really much of a stretch to adapt another personality, since 95% of them are acting anyway (except for everyone who’s gone to jail, natch). This was published in the last rag that’s still willing to print my increasingly incoherent ramblings, so of course I spent a whole five minutes throwing it together…
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Smiley finally drops the video to this Chaze produced cut from last year. Directed Benjamin Di Giacomo for Meight Production.
You know how sometimes you wait for something for such a long time that you begin to doubt that it will ever happen? This record was almost like that, except for the fact it actually came out last Friday! Rather than unleash 14 tracks of Bitter Old Man Rap, which would be somewhat understandable coming from a 20-year veteran not named Nasty Nas, Trem has delivered a remarkably well-rounded testament to perfectionism and the humble art of mastering your craft. Equal parts fiercely traditional yet unmistakably modern, For The Term Of His Natural Life sticks to the classic rap album blueprint while never neglecting to refine and improves the timeless recipe. Nothing on here sounds eager to please or compromised – Trem simply climbs out of the dungeons of rap, plants the flag and dares the competition to try and step up to the challenge accomplishment. Witty wordplay scales the often treacherous peaks of the Brag Rap mountain, but don’t get it twisted and confuse this anything retro or throwback.
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Dallas Penn just unleashed his own visuals for this track from Thug Matrix 3. Which do you prefer – the official or the home-made recipe?
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