"The Mainstream is weak, the underground ain't dope no more!" Hip Hop is a surplus nowadays. So much music coming out... yet more than half of it will not be remembered. This site is dedicated to search through all Hip Hop and bring what we feel is the good stuff today. This isn't a website committed to bring you commercial rap or underground; this is strictly for the Hip Hop Heads. No bias regardless of popularity or abstractness. "Dope beats, Dope Rhymes, what more do ya'll want!"
No real major albums this month but we still got some new singles from the likes of J. Cole, Drake, Asher Roth, and Chance the Rapper (who's beenputting inwork lately). Additionally several artist, such as Kris Kassanova, CyHi the Prince, KRNDN, and Dee-1, dropped some respectable projects. Nothing too amazing but still some new music to ride to. Enjoy!
Very simply put, these posts will be me paying respect to artist(s) I unfortunately sleep on at first but as I eventually give them a shot, I kick my self in the ass for initially passing them up. Let's hope I keep these posts to a minimum.
This time around I will be paying homage to the Brooklyn trio, Flatbush Zombies.
If you're like me and have waited till 2013 to listen to this group for the first time, I urge you to download their free mixtape,D.R.U.G.S.which dropped last July. They've previously worked with A$AP Mob and I recently saw a THC interview where the production crew stated they were looking to produce some beats for them. That would most definitely be something I'd love to hear.
For this week's throwback I've decided to go with the east coast jazz/funk trio. Digable Planets is most definitely one of my favorite old school groups and if their Vinyl wasn't so rare and priced at $300!!!! then maybe I would have this album on my wall. This track is actually from their 1993 debut, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) which I highly suggest anyone to buy a copy if they don't own one (I might even possibly slap someone for just merely downloading it). Track 1-14 are straight GOLD!
So it all begins back when Noisey did a "Back and Forth" with ASAP Rocky and Danny Brown (which in case you haven't watched yet, go watch now! These two deserve their own reality TV show). Amongst their various topics of conversation arises the, "Would you fuck an older lady?" question. With this conversation in place, Katy Griffin's name comes up and both rappers agree they would smash. Katy Griffin finds out about these "Back and Forth" videos and decides to bring them up in her own talk show and states "I would pull a train". Just when you think it can't get anymore odd, Katy Griffin actually books the two dope rappers to come onto her talk show...
Looks like my favorite rapper is gearing up to drop his sophomore album, Born Sinner. In preparation to get his fans ready, J. Cole has graced us with this 5 track EP. Along with the 5 dope tracks, he has written this small note to the music hungry consumers:
It’s time.
I appreciate you giving me the time I needed to grow, experiment, and find the direction for my 2nd album.. And I have.
Along the way I’ve recorded at least 4 albums worth of material, lots
of it being unfinished demo versions waiting to be polished up, some of
them are great songs and important stories that just won’t make the
album (either they don’t fit Sonically, don’t fit Theme, or there’s just
not enough space) .
Tonight, I want to give you a few of these songs
because you deserve them. It’s hard as fuck for me to keep all this
music from you for so long, so I know it’s been hard for you to wait.
Thank you for your patience. Vibe out to these songs in their raw form,
no polish.. just a lot of my soul..
The wait is over.
Truly Yours, Born Sinner
PS- 1st single coming this week. The album is hands down my best work yet. Can’t wait to share.
Unlike all them fair weather fans out there (*cough* SAM! *cough*), I support my boy Jermain no matter what he does. Listen to this interview and tell me this man let the limelight get to him.
