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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
