Tagged: album

Download: Mazzi & S.O.U.L. Purpose, The Inspection Album

Real New York, through the lens of a real New Yorker, that’s basically Mazzi in a nutshell. All the things that there is to love and hate about the Big Apple he embodies. The relentless … read more »

POSTED August 17, 2010 7:02PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , , ,

Video: Saidah Baba Talibah, "Place Called Grace"

Sometimes if push comes to shove, recording vocals over the telephone is the only option. Just ask Shyne, who was pretty industrious with dialing in verses from the bing. But the fuzzy reception of the … read more »

POSTED August 13, 2010 4:16PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , , ,

Download: The Budos Band III Album

Shaolin’s finest non-rap collective dropped their third self-titled release this week. The titles of tracks like “Nature’s Wrath,” “Black Venom” and “Golden Dunes” weirdly allude to psychedelic times in nature. Something is in the water … read more »

POSTED August 13, 2010 2:35PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: ,

Download: My M.O., Monkey Remix EP

The ladies of My M.O. are celebrating the release of their remix album tonight with a screening of their video at the event in the East Village. If there’s anything that should be consistent about … read more »

POSTED August 11, 2010 5:18PM IN SUITE903 Comments (1) TAGS: ,

Download: Zo!, SunStorm

The Washington, DC renaissance man of beats dropped his album last week featuring all the usual suspects from his Foreign Exchange label fam (YahZarah, Phonte, Darien Brockington.) In celebration of SunStorm, next Sunday August 15th, … read more »

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Download: Nina Sky, The Other Side EP

Queens reigns supreme today with the release of Nina Sky’s long-awaited EP, The Other Side. The twins make the 8-track mixture of hip-house a New York affair of new collaborations with the likes of Kidz … read more »

POSTED August 3, 2010 7:04PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , ,

Parental Advisory: Stream: Hidden Beach Presents Unwrapped Vol. 7

Check for updates on what your parent’s favorite musicians are doing in our weekly Parental Advisory post. This week the Hidden Beach Unwrapped series makes over classic rap songs into “hip” jazz.

POSTED July 14, 2010 2:54PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , , ,

Stream: Five Tracks from Avery Sunshine's New Album

There’s about two days left in Black Music month, the annual dedication to honoring the legacy of black musicians during the more difficult time of the ’60s and ’70s when their voices were fighting past … read more »

POSTED June 28, 2010 4:18PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , , ,

Inside Drake's Thank Me Later Liner Notes

The FADER‘s weekly visual accompaniment to a random tidbit of information takes on Drake’s Thank Me Later liner notes. Drake’s gratitude is way too much just for two pages, neatly text-wrapped around a photo of … read more »

POSTED June 24, 2010 7:01PM IN SUITE903 TAGS: , , ,

Download: James Pants, New Tropical EP

Stones Throw’s beat master James Pants is responsible for some of the most smoldering electro instrumentals on Peanut Butter Wolf’s label. To say that they’re completely electro without a tinge of hip-hop would do them … read more »

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