DUNC from DTMD provides BOOM with a stellar set of beats on this new EP, From PG With Love. Stream and buy below.
Category: History
Rock – ‘Da Streets Want Blood’
The sadness of the death of Sean Price has meant Rock, his partner in rhyme, has struggled to create a tribute track. He’s finally recorded one though, and its a hard-ass tribute, expressing the anger he felt at having nothing to blame sean’s death on.
Listen here.
DJ Premier takes us down memory lane
Its hard to write a post about this without making puns related to DJ Premier being in deep concentration, so fuck it. Watch the maestro in deep concentration as he throws back to Who’s Gonna Take The Weight and Full Clip, live at the recent PRhyme show in New York. Classic shit.
J Dilla – ‘Dillatronic’ (stream)
Ma Dukes has made the new Dillatronic collection available for stream in advance of it’s release, making this a great day for us die hard J Dilla heads. Listen on the link below, and cop it when it drops in a few days.
Stream it here (H/T Okayplayer).
Classified – ‘Filthy’ feat. DJ Premier
DJ Premier provides the cuts on this new one from Canadian emcee Classified, who is gearing up for the release of his new album, Greatful. Watch the walk-down-boom-bap-memory-lane video below, including classic clips of Preem cutting up.
J Dilla – ‘Dillatronic #34’
Another new track has surfaced from the soon-to-be-released Dillatronic collection of unheard beats by J Dilla, and of course, its dope. Listen to Dillatronic #34 below, and pre-order the project here.
Marvelous Mag – ‘3 Man Weave’
Marvelous Mag continues his run of tributes, this time spitting new bars over the classic beat from Sound Bwoy Bureill by Smif-N-Wessun. Shabaam Sahdeeq and MM’s fellow #TheWinners crew member Smooth are also along for the ride, and you can listen below.
Jaylib – ‘Heavy’ (remix)
Stones Throw recently celebrated Cassette Store Day by releasing Champion Sounds B-Sides & Remixes, featuring reworkings of tracks from 2003’s epic pairing of J Dilla and Madlib, Champion Sound. This remix of Heavy from Madlib is nothing new, but those who have never heard it can stream it below.
Domingo – ‘Part Deux’ feat. Fat Joe
The latest drop from Domingo and his collection of unreleased joints, Sessions & Lessons, features Fat Joe, who reminds us here of those days when he was still rugged and raw. Listen below.
K-def & The 45 King – ‘Zulu Strings’
The recent, now sold out, Back to The Beat project featured unreleased material from two of hip-hop’s greatest producers, The 45 King and K-Def. Volume 2 is on it’s way, and will include this new track, Zulu Strings. Listen below.