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Detroit artist Red Pill hits us with the title track off his upcoming EP “Day Drunk”, which will be dropping November 27th. Pre-order your copy here. The “Day Drunk” EP is a record to wash away the feeling when your cash is gone. Today, Red Pill is on some “love life” shit. Bottoms up. “Day Drunk” begins now. Day Drunk EP by Red Pill
Read moreIf you’re a fan of lyricism and bars then “Soko Flow” is a must listen. Red Pill (Ugly Heroes) forms a three man lyrical tag team with Clear Soul Forces members L.A.Z. and Noveliss over a NAMELESS beat . The final product is akin to when Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko worked together to craft timeless art at Marvel Comics back in the day. The second single from DJ Soko’s debut LP “Domino Effect” showcases three of Michigan’s finest emcees, one of its best producers in NAMELESS and DJ Soko’s scratches serve as the finishing move before the cover so the ref can count three. DJ Soko, Red Pill, L.A.Z., Noveliss & NAMELESS all pretty much transformed into the Rap version of Voltron then form Blazing Sword on “Soko Flow”.
Read moreDa Wednesday Underground Flava – Underground & Old School Hip Hop Non-Stop Host: DJ P.R. Today’s show includes a shit load of new music from the likes of eMC, Nappy Roots, Red Pill, Camp Lo, Oddisee and many more! Enjoy. Record Of The Day: Oddisee – A List Of Withouts Playlist eMC feat. B-Real – Stoopid Nappy Roots – Hazy DJ EFN feat. Inspectah Deck, Guilty Simpson, M.O.P. & Bernz – Another Time Red Pill – Kids Camp Lo – Black Jesus **Record Of The Day** Oddisee – A List Of Withouts Raekwon feat. ASAP Rocky – I Got Money Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah & Rick Ross – Revory (Wraith) STS x RJD2 – Hold On, Here It Go Snoop Dogg feat. Kendrick Lamar & Rick Ross – I’m Ya Dogg Kendrick Lamar feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg – Institutionalized Tyler, The Creator feat. Kanye West & Lil Wayne – Smuckers De La Soul feat. Nas – God It Saga – Reservations Wu-Tang Clan – Never Let Go Download here (right click and save as…)
Read moreDirected by Jay Brown. From Red Pill’s dope new album “Look What This World Did To Us”.
Read moreDa Wednesday Underground Flava – Underground & Old School Hip Hop Non-Stop Host: DJ P.R. Today’s show includes new heatrocks from Saga, Inspectah Deck, REd Pill, Mr. Green and many more! Enjoy. Record Of The Day: Red Pill – Blues Playlist Saga feat. Roc Marciano – City Streets Inspectah Deck feat. DJ Revolution – These Broken Wings CZARFACE feat. Meyhem Lauren – Deadly Class Raekwon feat. Snoop Dogg – 1,2 1,2 GZA feat. Tom Morello – The Mexican BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah feat. Tree – Street Knowledge **Record Of The Day** Red Pill – Blues Mr. Green feat. Espiritu Andino, Freddie Gibbs, Chill Moody & Apollo The Great – Clap Tyler, The Creator feat. Kanye West & Lil Wayne – Smuckers Kendrick Lama – The Blacker The Berry **J. Rocc Live @ Boiler Room** Download here (right click and save as…)
Read moreRed Pill’s dope “Look What This World Did To Us” album is out now.
Read moreAfter a few leaks, Red Pill finally hits us with his brand solo effort, “Look What This World Did To Us”. Dopeness! “Look What This World Did To Us.” The command is rhetorical. You’re already aware of the echo, the generational discontent and alienation, the whispered and denied calls for absolution. No need to look around, just check your bank account and sigh—or echo Biggie and scream, “fuck the world.” Or melt into the couch and absorb Red Pill’s debut for Mello Music Group—a novel disguised as an album, a surly hymn from poisoned lungs. It’s a confirmation of what John Cage once declared: “all great art is a form of complaint.“ Or maybe the better comparison is Bukowski, memorializing the “broken factory windows of emptiness.” That makes more sense in Ferndale, Michigan where Red Pill calls home. After college graduation, “Leonard Letdown” started working at a machine shop. A temporary gig turned into a labor daze. The dream of converting music into rent money seemed more elusive by the day. Depression compounded. The empty packs of cigarettes turned into cellophane towers. The whiskey mixed with an absence of hope. This album is a signal flare, an escape route, and catharsis. This isn’t just hip-hop, this is an attempt to distill the disillusion and cure the hangover. It’s both a brilliant mission statement and a jazzy funeral for what was promised but never delivered. This is for those who played by the rules only to discover that the game was
Read moreDa Wednesday Underground Flava – Underground & Old School Hip Hop Non-Stop Host: DJ P.R. Today’s show includes a shit load of new music from the likes of Nine, Sean Price, Earl Sweatshirt, Ludacris, Action Bronson, Kendrick Lamar and Red Pill. Enjoy! Record Of The Day: Nine – Watch Me Playlist Method Man – The Oath **Record Of The Day** Nine – Watch Me Sean Price feat. Havoc – Anderson Silva Jay Electronica – Road To Perdition Earl Sweatshirt feat. Vince Staples – Wool Earl Sweatshirt feat. Wiki – AM Radio Fashawn – Out The Trunk Ludacris – Charge It To The Rap Game Action Bronson feat. Chauncy Sherod – City Boy Blues Joey Bada$$ feat. Action Bronson & Elle Varner – Run Up On Ya Kendrick Lamar feat. Rapsody – Complexion (A Zulu Love) Kendrick Lamar – Hood Politics Rapper Big Pooh feat. Jalen Santoy, Novej & Lute – Kings PRhyme feat. Dwele – You Should Know JR & PH7 x Chuuwee – Save The Last Dance (For Someone Who Cares) Red Pill – That’s Okay BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah feat. Elzhi – Gunshowers Download here (right click and save as…)
Read moreOff of Ugly Heroes member Red Pill’s solo project “Look What This World Did To Us“, which is due out April 7th. Detroit musician and writer, Red Pill, pens his newest melancholy ode to real life over L’Orange production that sounds like something scored for a Charles Bukowski film soundtrack. Red Pill says: “The entire album “Look What This World Did To Us” can be reduced to this one song, “That’s Okay”. It’s about the Millenial Generation’s quarter life crisis. Simple, daily problems like getting a wrong fast food order can seem like tipping points. No one is immune to the transition from adolescence to adulthood. It’s just a matter of how we deal with it. I’m still trying to figure that out.” Look What This World Did To Us by RED PILL
Read moreIf the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce. For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest. Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L’Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell. If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On
Read moreTaken from Red Pill’s forthcoming album “Look What This World Did To Us”, dropping April 7th. Pre-order here.
Read moreDetroit’s Red Pill is getting ready for his Mello Music solo debut album
Read moreCheck out the lead single from Red Pill’s forthcoming solo album “Look What This World Did To Us” coming 4/7 on Mello Music Group. Pre-order now. This is for those who played by the rules only to discover that the game was rigged. This is a toast for those entering their late 20s and still acting like adolescents. It’s an anti-Valentine to marriage and mortgages. It offers empathy for those buried under student loan and credit card debt, but who refuse to sink. Even if the smoke rings appear like nooses, this is an artful rebuttal to the nihilism.
Read moreDa Wednesday Underground Flava – Underground & Old School Hip Hop Non-Stop Host: DJ P.R. Heatrock after heatrock – you know the motto! Record Of The Day: Joey Bada$$ – Paper Trails Playlist Wu-Tang Clan – Ruckus In B Minor Wu-Tang clan – Hold The Heater **Record Of The Day** Joey Bada$$ – Paper Trails Joey Bada$$ – Born Day (AquariUS) Sadat X – We In New York Red Pill – All Of Us Your Old Droog – Get The Paper Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD feat. DOOM – Ray Gun Ghostface Killah feat. AZ & Rell Here I Go Again J. Cole – G.O.M.D. Run The Jewelz – All My Life The Diplomats – Have My Money **Throwback** Jay-Z – Roc Boys (And The Winnder Is…) Jay-Z – Intro/A Million And One Questions Beanie Sigel feat. Jay-Z – It’s On Memphis Bleek feat. Jay-Z – What You Think Of That Download here (right click and save as…)
Read moreRed Pill, having just signed a multi-album deal with MMG, decided to let Mello fans know that he has put in his 10,000 hours and is ready for the solo artist limelight. His opening track is produced by new-teammate Oddisee, who back in 2011 after watching Red Pill preform at SXSW spoke to Apollo Brown suggesting he produce something with him. “Red Pill was thoroughly impressive on the mic and in front of the crowd,” says Oddisee about the experience. Apollo then went on to form the group Ugly Heroes with Red Pill & Verbal Kent in 2012 before releasing their first group record in early 2013. Interestingly Red Pill had purchased production for Oddisee about 5 years before and sat on it, waiting until he felt ready enough to do it justice. Cut to five years later and Red Pill has signed a deal as Oddisee’s teammate and is working alongside him. Appropriately, this forms the first track of the “Learning To Punch EP” and is titled “Smile.” The second song on the album is the heartfelt journalism of “All Of Us” – an emotional and well thought out response to the violence and brutality recently shoved into the forefront of American communities. Finally west coast producer Duke Westlake brings an introspective soundscape over which Red Pill unleashes the angst of being hungry and the focus of turning “one day” into today. “Learning To Punch” is a concise power punch combination from the newest Mello emcee, and an indication
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