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Read moreSchoolboy Q, is back in the Smokebox for the second time. He talks about westcoast music, smoking over seas, and giving up backwoods.
Read moreCommon goin in off the dome with a legendary freestyle back in 2005 on Westwood’s Radio 1 Rap Show. Press play below.
Read more“Word Of Mouth” is taken from iNTeLL’s new album “That Was Then This Is Now”, which is due out this Friday, August 25. Watch the visual for “Word Of Mouth” above and pre-order the LP here.
Read moreOpen Mike Eagle is back with a new song and video from his upcoming album, “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream”. “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream” is a searingly political record for systolic political times. It chronicles the life cycle of the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on the South side of Chicago that was demolished completely ten years ago. Families that had lived under the same roof for three generations were forced to scatter, condemned by bureaucrats and faceless cranes and public indifference. Mike Eagle brings the Robert Taylor Homes back to life–literally, with arms and eyes and a head like the dome of a stadium–and fights until the last brick is made to crumble. Pre-order the LP here and watch the video for “Brick Body Complex” above.
Read moreMozzy is the latest MC to come through for MASS APPEAL’s Stairwell Freestyles series, delivering a raw, piercing set of gangsta rhymes. The Sacramento rapper has been prolific in his mixtape releases, dropping two new ones earlier this year, as well as collaborative projects with Blac Youngsta and Gunplay. (He clocked 14 total mixtapes in 2016, we’ll see if he beats that record.) Last week Mozzy continued his independent hustle with “1 Up Top Ahk”. The standout release has got people calling him the next hot product out of Northern California. Mozzy’s bars come from a previously unreleased track, full of mean lines like, “A brother looked different when I seen him in a coffin / I told him that I got him, I visit that nigga often / Bulky four nickel on me daily till I lost it / Keepin’ hundreds I just lost the location where I tossed it / Slumpin’ at the spunky tell him run it like a faucet.” Check the full Stairwell Freestyle above, and stream “1 Up Top Ahk” on TIDAL, Apple Music, and Spotify.
Read moreSnoop Dogg teams up with Haha Davis on a new freebie called “Dis Finna Be A Breeze”. Produced by MYGUYMARS, Niggarachi and Franco Valli. Stream and download below.
Read moreG Herbo’s “Humble Beast” album will be dropping soon. Stay tuned!
Read moreAt right around the 1:32 mark of the latest episode of MASS APPEAL’s “Rhythm Roulette,” featuring the magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff, you can see the legendary artist and actor pensively place his chin in his hands as he carefully listens to one of the three records he dug out of the crates at random, figuring out which portion of it he’ll use just minutes later as he crafts his instrumental. At that moment, it becomes clear that this isn’t just a bit of press for Jazz. This is life. The act of making music is home for him, as he alluded during the introduction of the segment. So much so, that the records were brought to him. Jazz, who regularly tours internationally, didn’t have time to hit the record store after returning home from a recent trip, so his friend and vinyl enthusiast Gene Brown brought the crate digging to Jazz in the back of a van. And dig he did. After the DJ swiped off the traditional blindfold, Gene revealed that Jazz had come up with Back for More by Al Johnson—“classic”—Say No More by rock act Les Dudek, and the 1973 self-titled album by funk act Reuben Howell. “You know what that is?” exclaims Jazzy as he listens to one of the records, turning around to check for incredulous looks on the faces of his comrades. “That’s scratching! That’s scratching with someone singing on it! That’s why I was tripping!” Despite being at the forefront of DJ culture
Read more“Search Party” in stores 9/8. Pre-order now.
Read moreDave East talks working with Prodigy and Erykah Badu, dating and “Paranoia”.
Read moreWifisfuneral chops it up with Rosenberg on Hot 97.
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