[video] Intuition & Equalibrium "Finish With A Kill"
Seven-Year Itch
Call it the seven-year-itch.
Love this site, and I won't let it go (and I do make sure I'm posting things during the week), but I just didn't have the time. What I do have is a bunch of posts going up today. Not that anyone other than you seven care.
I do want to shout all of you out there: the folks who have been riding for years, the artists who have sent tracks or hit me up about pushing your music. Anyone who didn't believe. Anyone who slept. Everyone. I couldn't do any of this without you, and will continue to do it because of you. All of you.
Take a shot (or seven) for RTD. We're not going anywhere. Hell, we have a premiere dropping tomorrow. Fucks with us.
The Combat Jack Show: R.A. The Rugged Man
Dumhi - FELADELPHIA
Via Dumhi: "Last year I was in a beat battle. We made beats out of Fela songs. These are said beats. Best served in Spring!"
Knew Era "Pat Ewing"
Donwill x Ilyas "God Protects Us"
The Combat Jack Show: Noreaga
Via TheCombatJackShow: "This week, we welcome the Super Thug aka N.O.R.E. and get to the bottom of the long standing “beef” between P.A.P.I. and “super attorney” Reggie Ossé. Noreaga speaks on his history with Mobb Deep, Notorious B.I.G., Tragedy, Capone, Chris Lighty and other rap luminaries. Plus, Nore tells us about his trip to the fat farm to visit the late, great Big Pun. Get ready for Combat!!!"
The Bloggerati Top 10 Rappers In The Game
1. Kendrick Lamar
2. Nas
3. Action Bronson
4. Freddie Gibbs
5. Killer Mike
6. Pusha T
8. Roc Marciano
9. Kanye West
10. Big K.R.I.T.
What do you think? Here's the Bloggerati consortium that I was proud to be a part of:
Big Ghostfase (Big Ghost Chronicles)
Jeff Weiss (Passion of the Weiss)
Mobb Deen (Passion of the Weiss)
Arasia Magnetic (Former Executive Editor KevinNottingham.com)
Brando Caldwell (Managing Editor Day and a Dream)
Brad Gilmore (Day and a Dream)
Monica Jones (Day and a Dream)
Cecilia Smith (Day and a Dream)
Aaron McKrell (The Rap Up)
Nahshon Landrum (The Rap Up)
Jaap van der Doelen (Managing Editor The Rap Up)
Ivan Rott (Hip Hop Is Read)
Henry "Rizoh" Adaso (The Rap Up Founder / Editor Rap.About.com)
Khal (Rock The Dub / Do Androids Dance?)
Hardeep Aujla (The Word Is Bond)
Justin Tinsley (The Smoking Section)
Broken Cool
Dart Adams
Danny Veekens (The Find Mag)
William Ketchum ||| (Speech is my Hammer / HipHop DX)
I'll be hotlinking their lists in when I get a chance. Hit the jump for my personal Top 10.
The Combat Jack Show: Wyclef Jean
Marsten House "CORFU Cypher"
Featuring Biz Mighty, Voss, Rich Quick, Tray Digga, OHM, Jawnzap 7 and Skrewtape.
The Final Platinum at Fluid (3/27/2013)
An EDM Tribute to The Notorious B.I.G.
Von Pea & AEON - "Alone"
Solid Steel (3/08/2013)
Teddy Faley Presents Mario Deep
Cult Favorite - For Madmen Only
For Madmen Only is the debut album by Cult Favorite. One producer, one MC. Bass rumbles, the organ glitches and a congregation sways as one, eyes glassy. The leader stands at podium, eyes afire, face sheathed in the sweat of his exertions. Eager hands greet the prodigal and usher them into the midst of the flock. Otherworldly beats filter through arcane apparatus barely glimpsed behind hanging gaberdine. The temple is a storefront, the church is a streetcorner, the Word is profane.
Cult Favorite is New York. Producer A.M. Breakups’s sound was born upstate, and despite years making noise in the NYC underground, the rust belt embedded in his sound. Brooklyn’s own Elucid is his city in rhyme form, urgent, grating, unassailable; a leviathan. Both have critically acclaimed released work on their own but Cult Favorite is a startlingly coherent collaboration, pushing the boundaries of the genre and staking a claim to new territory. Nine tracks of millenial anxiety and fever visions, black noise and white phosphorous, this is For Madmen Only.
The Combat Jack Show: DJ Envy x Uncle Ruckus
Via TheCombatJackShow: The “People’s Choice”, DJ Envy stops by to talk about his role as the devil’s advocate on the Breakfast Club, his recent admission of infidelity to his wife, how other dj’s ain’t playing right, getting a gun pulled on him by Nas, and tells us his strategy to “kill a muthafucker breathin’”. We also get a call from The Boondocks TV series character Uncle Ruckus, who asks us for a handout and waxes poetic on the day’s race-related hot topics.
Rhymageddon
