Monthly Archives: January 2010



Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra – Take Notice (Live).

For those unfamiliar with the Suite for Ma Dukes project, Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson reinterpreted four J Dilla songs with a full orchestra and released their work as an EP in February 2009. VTech and Mochilla put on a show in2009 featuring a performance by the Suite for Ma..


Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik

The ML interviewee and Beat Drop contributor just dropped  Trunk Muzik, his third mixtape. We’ve talked about Yela quite a lot lately, but really this cat deserves all the praise. This is an incredibly strong, concise mixtape with great beats, great features and great rapping. Yela handles slow numbers and..

Fashawn – Memory Lane.

  Fash remakes the Nas album cut off Illmatic. The most dangerous emcee out of Fresno right now, and he keeps getting better. I honestly wasn’t that crazy about most of Boy Meets World, but if Fash is only 20, and I’m excited to see where he goes from here...