Skyzoo - A Dream Deferred: Cover Art & Track Listing

I can't wait for this to drop. Also check out Skyzoo talking about his writing process below.

Slum Village & Mick Boogie - The Dirty Slums Mixtape

Random Axe - Chewbacca (Music Video)

Chewbacca is feature on the self-titled album, Random Axe.

Random Axe - The Hex (Music Video)

Random Axe - Cover Art & Tracklist

01. Zoo Drugs
02. Random Call
03. Black Ops (Featuring Fat Ray)
04. Chewbacca (Featuring Roc Marciano)
05. The Hex
06. Understand This
07. Everybody, Nobody, Somebody
08. Jahphy Joe (Featuring Melanie Rutherford & Danny Brown)
09. The Karate Kid
10. Never Back Down
11. Monster Babies
12. Shirley C (Featuring Fatt Father)
13. Another One (Featuring Rock & Trick Trick)
14. 4 In The Box
15. Outro Smoutro

Random Axe drops June 14 on Duck Down Records

Erin Edwards (@EFIE0130) Presents: The Black Milk Live Experience

Words, pic & video all by Ms. Edwards

While it’s quite obvious that live bands dramatically enhance the experience of any performance, their usage is relatively sparse in Hip-Hop. Black Milk’s Album of The Year ranks as a personal favorite from 2010. Its rich, soulful instrumentals were ideal compliments to Black’s very personal and introspective lyrics. Already known for his production work, Black opted to don a musical director cap by implementing and leading a live band in playing his MPC-crafted beats. He not only utilized these musicians – phenomenal drummer Daru Jones, skilled keyboardist AB and Malik Hunter on bass – in the recording process, but also incorporated the band as a mainstay of his live show during the Album Of The Year tour.

Oddisee - Mental Liberation (Deluxe Edition)

Press Release:

After organizing session files on the harddrive, some Oddisee bonus materials from the "Mental Liberation" vaults have been rediscovered. It was such a pleasure finding them, that we decided to post them up and give the entire album and unearthered bonus materials away free all week!

The bonus material includes two instrumentals: one which was previously exclusive to Japanese vinyl is called "Is That Why You're Here?" and is a particularly jazzy track, heavy on the horns; the second is also horn heavy with an irregular drum pattern and is entitled "Revival". The third bonus cut is a track Oddisee produced that Motion Man laid 3 verses over called "Holding It Back".

Black Milk On Carson Daly

The Grammy Awards Get It Wrong Again

Normally I don't watch award shows, but with there being no more Sunday Night Football and the fact that 70% of my Twitter timeline would be tweeting about it, I decided to watch the Grammys. I had grown tired of award shows in entertainment in the late 90's or early 2000's. Most of the time none of the artists that I cared about wouldn't sniff a nomination, let alone perform.

At this point I only check for the best rap album to see who got snubbed for a nomination. This year the nominees were Drake's Thank Me Later, Eminem's Recovery, B.o.B.'s The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 & The Roots' How I Got Over.  I had no problem with Eminem winning for Recovery.

I thought it was the best of the available choices.  If I were given run of the Grammy Awards, my nominees would be:

Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Skyzoo & Illmind - Live From The Tape Deck
Meth, Ghost & Rae's - Wu-Massacre
Eminem - Recovery
Black Milk - Album Of The Year




My winner would be Live From The Tape Deck with Black Milk's AOTY a CLOSE second.

If it were up to you, who would've been your nominees and who would you have given the Grammy to?




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Black Milk Live In Pittsburgh On 2/11/11

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Black Milk - Welcome (We Gotta Go) Music Video

Music Reviews In A Minute: Black Milk - Album Of The Year

I have been kicking around the idea of reviewing music on this site for a while now.  I just was looking for another way to do it than your typical write up with flowery language or overuse of street slang.  I also wanted to do reviews in a way that would be more than just me telling you what I love, but to also give you my perspective along with that of another.  I have certain artists that I love and may give a very bias opinion on, but I want to hopefully counteract that with alternative point of view or at the very least, another point of view.  A Cali girl and a PA guy should be varied enough in points of view, right?

The plan is to review current as well as classic albums in a quick and concise fashion.  I look at the classic albums as a baseline for our tastes in a matter of speaking.  We will be getting to the classic albums soon enough, but first up Dayrell and I will be reviewing Black Milk's Album Of The Year.

Black Milk - Deadly Medley (Music Video)

Looks like Black Milk brought out the big guns, Elzhi & Royce, for his first video off of Album Of The Year.

Black Milk Discusses His Album Of The Year

Black Milk - Welcome/Album Of The Year Track List

Welcome (Gotta Go) is the first single off of Black Milk's September 14th release, which he bravely named, Album Of The Year.








Track Listing

01. 365
02. Welcome (Gotta Go)
03. Keep Going
04. Oh Girl (Featuring AB)
05. Deadly Medley (Featuring Royce Da 5'9" & Elzhi)
06. Distortion (Featuring Melanie Rutherford)
07. Over Again (Featuring Monica Blaire)
08. Black and Brown (Featuring Danny Brown)
09. Round Of Applause
10. Warning (Keep Bouncing)
11. Gospel Psychedelic Rock
12. Closed Chapter (Featuring Mr. Porter)

New: Black Milk - How Dare You

Here's another song to hold you over for Black Milk's forthcoming release, Album Of The Year, which drops September 14th.  We all know how solid album release dates are.

Black Milk - How Dare You

Guilty Simpson - Ghettodes

This past year, around the same time Madlib was creating his remix of Guilty Simpson's Ode To The Ghetto for his Madlib Medicine Show #1 release, we had Oh No remix the tracks as well, using samples from the Now-Again catalog. Oh No's collection Ghettodes is not meant as an album, but you put 14 tracks together and you might as well call it that.

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01. American Nightmare
02. Piglets
03. Riches
04. Futuristic (Featuring MED)
05. What To Do
06. Rob
07. The Ghetto (Interlude)
08. The Ghetto
09. Y'all Scared
10. Dreads
11. Killer
12. Runners (Featuring Black Milk)
13. Raw (Interlude)
14. Kinda


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Royce Da 5'9" - The Bar Exam 3

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01. Intro (Most Interesting Man In The World)
02. The Most Interesting Man
03. Go Hard Pt. 1 (Featuring Kid Vishis)
04. On Fire (Featuring Crooked I)
05. Skit
06. Real Hip Hop (Featuring Black Milk & Elzhi)
07. Acapella
08. It's Over Freestyle
09. Nobody Fuckin’ Wit Us (Featuring Bun B, Crooked I & Joe Budden)
10. Airplanes Freestyle
11. Most Interesting Man In The World Skit #2
12. Beamer, Benz, Or Bentley [ShadyMegaMix]
13. I Hate Your Pants (Skinny Jeans)
14. Forever Freestyle
15. In The Club
16. Most Interesting Man In The World Skit #3
17. Go Hard Pt. 2 (Featuring Kid Vishis)
18. Vagina
19. Psycho (Skit)
20. Psycho
21. Drama (Featuring Trick Trick & Junes Flow)
22. I’m Not Slaughterhouse (Interview)
23. 187 (Saigon Response)
24. Most Interesting Man In The World Skit #4
25. Taxi Driver
26. Iceman Skit
27. Lyrical Hitman (Featuring MarvWon)
28. Most Interesting Man In The World Skit #5
29. Spark Yo Brain

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New: Royce Da 5'9" - Real Hip-Hop

Royce Da 5'9" - Real Hip-Hop (Featuring Black Milk & Elzhi)

New: Black Milk - Don Cornelius

Black Milk - Don Cornelius