S1 Details Lupe Fiasco’s “Tetsuo & Youth” & “Black Vietnam” Albums [Video]

In the last piece of our interview with Symbolyc One from this year’s A3C ProAudio conference, S1 talks about recording Lupe Fiasco’s upcoming Tetsuo & Youth album and says it’s a return to the classic Lupe sound and details the duo’s Black Vietnam project. Plus, we get a peak at an actual text message from Lupe. So there’s that, which is awesome.

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Vic Spencer – 24k Visuals Pt. 2 [Stream x Download]

“So the message is we can be saved from plague”. Last year, Vic Spencer had a campaign to get people ready for The Rapping Bastard called Red Button Series. Looks like he’s geared to prepare that campaign again with brand new material. Vic Spencer was listening to St. Louis native and the forever talented soul sensation Coultrain over Vic’s good friend Black Spade production again and was inspired to create 24k Visuals pt. 2 over some simple but crazy production from DC. Picking up from where he left off from the head nodding and effective 24k Visuals, Spencer is found spitting the craziest bars known to man calling men WCW’s, being safe wearing V chenille patches to cover his heart and sending lives to the abyss through UPS shipping services. That’s a lot to discuss in one record but like always, Vic Spencer manages to make it all flow perfectly. Vic Spencer was suppose to drop VicTree, a EP with MC Tree this month but it was push back to promote his 5th solo album entitled The Cost of Victory, which is slated to drop 12/15/14 on rappingbastard.com and iTunes. Just like Red Button Series last year, Vic plans to drop one or two records per week until Cost of Victory drops. The tsunami has arrived.

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