i kid; that depression been here and stays here. but it does help me remember that, sometimes, good stuff happens.
anyways, i got word the other day that Danny Brown was due to drop his next album, Quaranta, on Nov. 17 (digital) / Jan. 19 (physical), and i was ready. a few months ago i started making a Danny Brown playlist with my favorite songs from his career—didn't realize i was making it in anticipation for the album that The Alchemist produced. or that it would be a "spiritual book-end" to his 2011 opus XXX. yeah. it's that kind of party.
I'd tell you guys all the info about Payback that I know, but I don't know much. I know it's Danny!'s next project, and is due out late September. Rumor is you should be able to decipher the guest appearances if you decode Danny!'s Tumblr. I'm also told that "Been Away Too Long", a cut from the project, should be out in "just a few days". #shrug - mum's the word until the word is spoken.
Soul Khan has a free album, Soul Like Khan, dropping tomorrow via 2 Dope Boyz. The majority of the album is produced by J57, but don't let that stop you from listening to it. Cats like Marink, Maticulous and Elaquent are also on the boards, with a slew of certified spitters on the project. Hit the jump for the tracklist bits, and keep it locked for this release tomorrow!
Indianapolis born Producer/Rapper Indiana Rome is gaining attention in the St. Louis hip-hop scene with the anticipation of his new album. He is currently producing for the likes of Tef Poe, Rockwell Knuckles, Corey Black, Kings of Midwest and more. As the newest member of The Force Indiana Rome is making his mark and turning heads. Indiana Rome’s upcoming project “Who the Hell Left the Gate Open?” promises to be well rounded with contributions from The Force’s Tech Supreme, DJ Needles, Rockwell Knuckles and more.
Who The Hell Left The Gate Open? is set to drop October 26th; hit up Rome's Bandcamp page for up-to-date leaks from this project.
BBE is dropping Pugs' new album, The Decade, on October 26th. It's a compilation of tracks he's done over the last 10 years, so the title is perfect and its guaranteed dope. If you're not up on Pugs, you need to grab this and get an idea of the fire he's been putting out for the last 10 years, seen?
El Da Sensei's new album with The Returners, GT2: Nu World, drops on October 12th and features Sean Price, Treach, Akrobatik and many more. Check the tracklist, and enjoy the free download for "Nu World"
The Strange Games… series which began in the summer of 1997, represents the blueprint for modern R&B and rap music. It joins the dots between 70s soul, 80s rare groove and 90s mass market hip hop. This compilation contains a wide variety of styles of tracks, from classic dance-floor fillers as well as lesser known delights. A more accessible diggers delight if you wish with an emphasis on quality track and not just songs worth having for a two second sample.
Conceived by BBE bossman Peter Adarkwah over 14 years ago, this fifth volume is mixed by longterm BBE stalwart, one of the world's best DJ Spinna. Featuring a much more worldly selection than its predecessors - tracks by the multi platinum selling War to Sylvia (Founder of Sugarhill Records) sit side by side with world music underground icons like C.K. Mann and Francisco Aguabella. This volume is the 5th in a series of compilations that appears to have the widest appeal of all BBE’s compilations and proves to be even better by the fact that there is a bonus mixed CD by the one and only DJ Spinna!
Tracklist:
01. Ned Doheny - Get It Up for Love 02. Sylvia - Sweet Stuff 03. The Ambassadors - I Ain't Got The Love (Of One Girl On My Mind) 04. Richard Evans - Capricorn Rising 05. Starvue - Body Fusion 06. Sylvia St James - Motherland 07. The Soul Searchers - Ashley's Roachclip 08. Willie Hale - Groove On 09. Eddy Senay - Cameo 10. SSO - Faded Lady 11. Cal Tjader - Morning 12. Francisco Aguabella - Ramon's Desire 13. The Philly Armada Orchestra - For The Love Of Money 14. Family Tree feat. Sharon Brown - Family Tree 15. The Perfect Circle - The Hands Of Time 16. WAR - War Is Coming, War Is Coming 17. Hiroshi Fukumura - Hunt Up Wind 18. Wood Brass And Steel - Always There 19. C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Asafo Beesuon / Obaa Yaa Aye Me Bone (Medley) Edit 20. Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter 21. Bill Summers - Brazilian Skies
My love of boomboxes has come back, and I'm on the hunt for a hype one. Need to get a sick one. That was the aim when Skyzoo and !llmind crafted this project, which features cats like Styles P, Heltah Skeltah, Rhymefest, Torae and Buckshot. And I know I want it - on tape. Hit the jump for the tracklist. In stores October 5th, the same day as NBA Jam for the Wii!
Last September, Sky 7th hit you with Trouble On The Way, which was a prelude to his Trouble Man album... which is finally set to drop on tomorrow, Friday the 13th! Dude reps hard for my little KhemLab clique, and is just a very talented artist in his own. Features on the album include Deacon the Villain, Rappin' 4-Tay, Lou Sleefe, Cyrano Sinatra and Justin Terio. Loads of fresh beats, spread out over 18 pure Hip-Hop cuts. Hit the jump for the full tracklist, which includes two leaks. Then check for the album tomorrow!
This past May marked the two-year anniversary of Camu Tao's passing, but I got a bunch of info earlier today regarding his first (and final) solo album, King of Hearts, that will finally be getting released via Definitive Jux/Fat Possum Records on August 17th. The sound from these demos and home recordings is a departure from what you might associate with Camu - he's doing a lot more crooning on this, and the sound leans more to the leftfield ElectroPopPunk feel than the harder Hip-Hop edge he had previously been associated with. He wrote and produced the project, and its an interesting chapter on a talent that was truly cut short. He channels fucking Prince on "Get At You", and its a pretty stark contrast to the rest of his catalog. Peep the tracklist:
01 Be a Big Girl 02 Bird Flu 03 Death 04 Fonny Valentine 05 Actin a Ass 06 Get at You 07 Ind of the Worl 08 Intervention 09 King of Hearts 10 Major Team 11 Plot a Little 12 The Moment 13 The Perfect Plan 14 Play O Run 15 When You're Going Down 16 Fuck Me
After the jump, check out El-P's letter from earlier this year, which also mentions that the Central Services (El x Camu) EP from 2005, Forever Frozen In Television Time, will be released for free to coincide with the release of King of Hearts (did you hear "What God Should Do"?).
Cy just put out the Everliven Sound LP, but got a new deal with XOXO/Sony Red, and has an album with long-time collaborators The Beatnikz that's due out on August 31st. Here's the tracklist:
1. My Platform (Express Line Intro) 2. Zion Land 3. Believe This (No Money) 4. The Flyness 5. Give i Fi i Name 6. Armagideon 7. Door Peep 8. Love feat. Mary Lou 9. Don't Kill Your Brother feat. Skit Slam 10. Come Mek We Run 11. Where I Am 12. A Little Way Different 13. Almost Home
You can pre-sale the album via Amazon. Homey is on tour this summer, peep these dates:
July 17th - Lyndhurst NJ Show @ The Locker Room Sports Bar 231 Stuyvesant Ave July 23rd - w/ Canibus - July 23rd New Brunswick , NJ @ Court Tavern July 30th in Innsbruck , Austria : http://www.pmk.or.at/ August 7th in Berlin , Germany - Berlin Tube Station (Friedrichstraße 180) August 14th Munich , Germany - Munich Crux (Lederstr.3) August 21st - Album release Bday/Party Show - @ Court Tavern 124 Church Street , New Brunswick NJ
I posted the old version of this release earlier this year, and we got hype when we heard that the Rollin' Rockers signed with Ever Ready for the new and improved version of Bang!Bang!, which is available for pre-order right now. That pre-order's for the sick USB drive version of the album, which comes in a fresh pharmaceutical pill form - all in limited-edition colorways, exclusive mixes, videos, photos and other content! Get your order in now, as they start shipping June 16th.
But you may ask, what does this revamped version sound like? Well, I've been lucky to know Perpetuum and have heard the progression of the sound, and when I say that you should imagine P-Funk discovering dubstep, Electro and other genres and funking them out with a Hip-Hop appeal, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Tracks like "Litro", which now has a more upfront Drum & Bass edge to it, or "Thangz High", which ride that dubstep vein just the way I like it? Serious next-level shit. I always wish for more artists to take chances and really experiment - and you can tell that these Fresh Coasters are willing to twerk it, and get it. Just check out the Electro bouncefest of "Molly Ringwald", or the George Clinton 2410 head-nodder "Neon Lights"... man, I could go on and on. I hope to finally sort out an interview with these guys, going into all of this, but for the time being, check out the 8+ minute sampler for Bang!Bang!.
On July 13th, 6th Sense and Society will be dropping 6th's It's A 6th Sense Beat Yo!! Volume 2 w/ a limited edition run of CD and t-shirt packages. Word is these tracks will be flipped into superb visual experiences (aka dope ass videos) by some talented cats, so be on the lookout for those, too. Artwork by Black Marmalade. Hit the jump for the tracklist.
Still high off of "General Patton", I just got hit with the tracklist for Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty album, which is due out on July 6th. No Three Stacks, for those who were wishing wondering... shouts to BoBO for this one.
The new LP by The Infesticons comes in one of the highest quality packages we've ever put together. Designed by Oscar and Ewan (Wiley, Roots Manuva,) it includes a screen-printed outer sleeve with gold text, full colour inner sleeve with battle scene design by Mike Ladd and heavyweight 180 gram vinyl with download codes. Best of all, each copy is hand signed by Mike Ladd, and hand numbered 1-1000. Some copies even have extra scribbles and lines written by Mike during the process. You can see some film and images of the making of the sleeves here... This truly is a collectors' item and lovely release to own - there's only 1000 for the world, so snap yours up quick!
You should've already seen Dumhi + Elucid's "No Redemption" already, and the Dumhi album it was taken from, The Jungle, is set to drop on June 15th. Check out the tracklisting here:
001 Only The Strong Survive 002 No Redemption w/ Elucid 003 Into the Jungle 004 Dumhi Cannons w/ Random & Ethel Cee 005 Philly Cousins w/Reef the Lost Cauze 006 Kill That w/Che Grand 007 Bang Land w/Jermiside & Flud 008 Lions w/Reef the Lost Cauze 009 The Knife w/ Burke the Jurke & Reef the Lost Cauze 010 May Get Murdered w/ Reef the Lost Cauze & Oxygeen 011 To Walk the Streets
All songs produced by Haj of Dumhi Cuts & Scratches Dj Soulbuck (6), Dj Caliph NOW (6,8)
I love the Lessondary representation on here. Haj's been sorting out dumhi.com, and they posted the video for "Philly Cousins" today, check it out:
All of the hype will come to a head on June 15th. I don't think Drake has anything to worry about, but we're still like 3 weeks away from arguably the most anticipated album of 2010. Here's the official tracklist:
Last week, I asked heads on twitter what Hip-Hop albums they were looking forward to this summer, and a lot of them said the new album from The Roots. Def Jam has this coming out on June 22nd (a week after Drake's Thank Me Later), and I hope it comes out on time. This might also be one of the shortest Roots LPs ever. Don't know why I mentioned that, just seems odd.
Tracklist:
1. Walk Alone (Truck North, Porn, Dice Raw, Mercedes Martinez) 2. Dear God 2.0 (Jim James, MOF) 3. Radio Daze (Blu, Porn, Dice Raw, Mercedes Martinez) 4. Now Or Never (Phonte Coleman, Dice Raw) 5. How I Got Over (Dice Raw) 6. The Day (Blu, Phonte Coleman, Patty Crash) 7. Right On (Joanna Newsom, Sugar Tongue Slim) 8. Doin It Again (John Legend) 9. The Fire (John Legend, Rick Friedrich)
Wow - STS, Blu AND Phonte make appearances? Shouts to RR.
EDITOkayplayer says that this tracklist was missing a few tracks:
10. Web 20/20 (Truck North, Peedi Crakk) 11. Bonus Cut
Word is that there are 3 or 4 unnamed interludes, and the bonus track's name is not known as of yet. The listening session for this LP is tonight (5/20/10), so yeah, we'll see what comes about.
