Sour Soul from Ghostface Killah and Badbadnotgood is out very soon, and the supreme team has released a new track to tease us. Street Knowledge is a change of pace from Ray Gun with MF Doom, but still has Ghost dropping classic lines.
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During his travels touring through France, Jeru the Damaja recently contributed to online series Just One Record, where an artist breaks down their favorite album. Jeru picks an absolute hip-hop classic, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Towards the end, he also breaks down the producers he’s currently working with. No mention of that reunion with DJ Premier, but hopefully Primo is one of the artists he says he can’t reveal yet.
DJ EFN has been dropping some absolute gems of late, and latest track Who’s Crazy is also a DJ Premier banger. Vocals are from Stalley, Troy Ave and the legend Scarface, with unreleased samples of GURU’s voice cut up to perfection on the hook. DJ EFN’s album Another Time hits stores soon.
After last week’s C-Rayz Walz mixtape from Lord Ron, the man himself has dropped a new single, Flying Monkeys, from upcoming album The Kangol Kid.
That long awaited new Cannibal Ox album is just around the corner, and the group have treated us to another track, Blade: The Art of Ox. This one features The Artifacts (both of em!), and Wu-Tang legend U-God. It’s also produced by Black Milk, which is always a sure-shot sign of quality.
J-Live has gifted us another track from his upcoming album His Own Self. Red & the Kid is another banger from one of the most talented writers of all time, and you can check it out below.
Opio from Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics has teamed up with producer Free the Robots for the upcoming The Subconscious Mind EP. Watch the trippy video for single Let the Bass Go below, and let us know what you think.
We recently got some snippets of Big Shug’s upcoming Triple Ogzus album, and now we’ve been treated to a video for single Off Rip, featuring Termanology and Singapore Kane. The beat is DJ Premier by numbers, but an average Primo beat is still better than most other producers. Listen out for Shug addressing that whole shady business with Solar that transpired after Guru’s death.
The Juggaknots were one of the most impressive groups to come out of that late 90s classic era of New York underground hip-hop. Not a whole lot has been heard of them since, but now boutique indy label Chopped Herring Records has dropped Baby Pictures, a collection of unreleased tracks and off-cuts. Listen to a few snippets below, and let us know what you think.
Former The Roots rapper Malik B and Mr Green release Crown of Thorns, another track from their forthcoming Unpredictable album.
