Common – Sway In The Morning Freestyle [Video]

Common’s influence has paved the way for so many artists including Kendrick, J. Cole and Lil Bibby, so when he freestyles you can hear pieces of him they’ve incorporated into their own music. Joining us this morning he spit a crazy freestyle around the topic of the American Black Film Festival. Common flows smooth as ever as he drops names of influential black role models as well as mentioning things black people have had to fight against.

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Big D & Easy Mo Bee On Rap Is Outta Control [Video]

New York emcee Big D from Ultramagnetic MCs fame joined the crew at RIOC, along with platinum producer Easy Mo Bee to discuss the album they’ve recorded together. This Is My Life is the name of the album that’s been in the works for over two years. Big D remembers a beat he heard in Easy Mo Bee’s truck about 10 years ago and would ask for it every time they ran into each other. Once he finally obtained the beat, it was titled “I Rep NY” and the album was in the works. This Is My Life is executive produced by Easy Mo Bee with featured production from Just Blaze and Statik Selektah. Guest features include Rakim, Peter Gunz, Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers), Devastating Tito (Fearless Four), Smoothe Da Hustler, Lil Fame (M.O.P.), Mic Handz, and Skanks The Rap Martyr. Stay tuned for the 2016 release of this project.

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Sylvan LaCue – Emeryville [Video]

Here’s the official music video for “Emeryville” off Sylvan Lacue’s latest project “Far From Familiar“. The video’s essentially about chasing the woman of your dreams. It’s this perfect idea of the perfect girl in a perfect place that you can see, but never seem to get to. In the end, she finds you, just when you give up, and forces you back to reality. Which essentially means, she exists in real life, not just your dreams. #WiseUp

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Devine Carama – Performance Enhancing (Panda Freestyle) [Audio x Download]

“The release of ‘The Glorious BIG’ has been delayed a couple weeks after a weekend of last second collabs with Deacon of CunninLynguist & Young Chu. So to pass a little time, I decided to spit a few bars over the beat EVERYONE is talking about. Check out my latest track entitled ‘Performance Enhancing’ which features new rhymes of the popular instrumental ‘Panda’. I’ve also included the freestyle has a bonus cut on my recently release “500 Bars to Glorious” mixtape. My daughter’s (both teenagers) like it when daddy I ‘raps like today’s rappers’…… lol So I figured I’d go over a beat that the kids are turning up to these days, but give them a little substance while I’m at it. A little medicine in the ice cream, so to speak. Just having some fun!” – Devine Carama

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