Magestik Legend – Just Enough For The City [Stream x Download]

“Just Enough For The City” was originally meant for a freestyle project I was working on with 14KT. We were just blindly picking up random records out of a pile and making freestyle beats out of whatever sounded good. The goal was for every beat to be made in minutes and for every verse to be a real freestyle. Nothing was written. As KT was making the beat, we somehow came up with a quick hook idea and KT plaid keys to the melody. I took the track home to The Legend Lab studio and freestyled whatever came to my head first, with a 5th of Hennessy as my copilot. This track is one of many from that freestyle batch.” – Magestik Legend Grab Magestik Legend’s solo effort “Legend Has It” here, if you haven’t already.

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Mr. Green feat. Raz Fresco – Step Into The Booth [Video]

“Filmed in Taos New Mexico, I got to visit an ancient pueblo belonging to a Tiwa-speaking Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It’s a very interesting place, it’s estimated that it was built between the years 1000-1450. When you’re there it feels like you are in a different time period completely. After the Pueblo, I headed over to Andrea M Pacheco’s house so she could play me some Mariachi music. She put on a dope performance and explained a bit about the instruments. Her day job is to sell religious artifacts so there were all kinds of cool pictures and pieces around. Back in NYC, I made a beat out of Andrea’s Guitaron and had Raz Fresco come through. When Raz came over we hung out for a while, he smoked a few backwoods, and then kicked a dope verse. Be on the lookout for his album ‘Pablo Frescobar’, out July 1.” – Mr. Green Mr. Green’s dope “Live from the Streets” album is out now.

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Naledge – Push The Limit [Video]

Jabari “Naledge” Evans performed his new single, “Push the Limit,” this morning in a surprise appearance at the 2U annual company meeting, Dream 2U15. Evans, who graduated from the MSW@USC in 2014, wrote the song to explore education’s impact on society and to celebrate his own experiences earning his MSW online at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. A hip-hop artist, youth advocate and entrepreneur, Evans worked throughout his master’s studies to examine how hip-hop can help disadvantaged children develop self-esteem and pro-social behavior. Today he works with inner-city youth in his hometown of Chicago. He also founded The Brainiac Project, an organization that works with at-risk youth to empower them through the recording arts.

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