Metal Lungies

Flying Lotus doesn’t produce hip-hop nearly as often as he should. St. Louis rapper Vandalyzm nabbed a beat for his new album Megatron Majorz Redux, which is out now.

Download: Vandalyzm – Get Dough (produced by Flying Lotus) / (Instrumental) / (Clean)

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Any updates on Detox? Let’s see.

October 09: Dre mentions that he’d like Jay-Z to appear on Detox as more than just a ghostwriter.

March 2010: Michael Yo from E! News lets slip that there’s a Dr. Dre and Jay-Z song coming out “this week.” It doesn’t.

April 2010: The song is called “Under Pressure” and Nah Right tells us it’s “an upbeat club record and Ester Dean wrote the hook.” It’s supposed to drop that coming Friday. It doesn’t. Dre says the song will drop “in the next two weeks or so.” It doesn’t.

May 2010: Dre says “Under Pressure” was delayed because Eminem wanted to drop. He says he wants to drop a single this summer.

June 2010: The song leaks and the world collectively vomits. Dre issues a statement saying it’s unfinished.

August 2010: Dre tries to feed us some bullshit:

I thought it would take at worst case a couple of years. For example, actual work time on The Chronic was nine months and actual work time on my last album, 2001, was about 10 months. The actual work time on this album is about half of that, where I’m seriously focusing on it. There is always something coming up. Like signing talent, old and new.

Dr. Dre has probably amassed a second career’s worth of material since he’s started working on Detox. It’s just a matter of time until he feels like releasing it, at which point he’ll be better known for his headphones than any music he may have made.

Oh yeah, here’s a new track that’s really funky, but only two minutes long. I want to shake the leaker’s hand at times like this. Despite Dre’s best efforts, we get to listen to his music.

Download: Dr. Dre – Turn Me On

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Just what you would expect from Curren$y; blissfully breezy, but sprinkled with jewels.

Download: Boo – Real Things (ft. Curren$y)

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Something dope while we wait for Raekwon’s other very scary collaboration.

Download: Twista – The Heat (ft. Raekwon) (produced by No I.D., The Legendary Traxster)

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Now that the obligatory defiant comeback single is out of the way and he’s assured fans that he’s done with Auto-Tune, Kanye has room to have more fun. As hip-hop’s most reliable hit-maker, Kanye can pull anyone he wants into the studio. On “See Me Now” Team Yeezy recruited Beyonce, Charlie Wilson, and producer of the moment, Lex Luger (“BMF,” “Hard In Da Paint”). Think of “See Me Now”as a more ballsy “Ego,” An upbeat ‘we made it’ song, perfect for graduations and bar mitzvahs. I can picture Levi Grossman and his friends celebrating right now.

Download: Kanye West – See Me Now (ft. Beyonce, Charlie Wilson) (produced by Kanye West, Lex Luger, No I.D.)

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Mark Ronson rekindles the amazing chemistry he had with Ghostface on his 2003 debut Here Comes the Fuzz’s standout single Ooh Wee. I remember I had that track on loop for months, as well as the 2CD Here Comes the Fuzz mixtape that was a teaser to the album. This new track is off of Ronson’s 3rd album Record Collection. The track was shamelessly ripped from Ronson’s East Village Radio Show, Authentic Shit, which is a weekly must-listen.

Update: At long last, here’s the CDQ. We had that radio rip early! All those blogs murmuring about a radio rip floating around are talking about us.

Download: Mark Ronson – Lose It (In The End) (ft. Ghostface Killah)

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After he left Aftermath, Bishop Lamont said in an interview that he would bless us with a tidal wave of unreleased music that he secured from Interscope:

We’re about to finally bless the world with a lot of music. It got to the point where it wasn’t fair to the fans or to myself to have to keep on waiting. I understand that labels have obligations, but it was difficult to have fans coming up to you and asking when I was going to get a release date. There’s a lot of crazy records I got to take with me. There’s a J Dilla record that I got with the blessing of DJ House Shoes. Tracks from DJ Khalil, Lord Finesse, 9th Wonder, Mr. Porter, Focus, basically a who’s who of underground hip-hop.

He also spoke of Dr. Dre records. But Bishop has been extremely quiet except for a few leaks like this one and his album The Reformation is nowhere in sight. Bishop announced today that a new project called The Shawshank Redemption/Angola 3 is due in September.

“Get ‘Em Girl” must be the record he got from House Shoes. Is there a Dilla expert in the house who can tell us if this beat is new? Talib Kweli says the song is “OLD as hell.”

Download: Bishop Lamont – Get ‘Em Girl (ft. Talib Kweli) (produced by J Dilla, Focus)

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True story: the kitchen scene was filmed in my apartment by Devin Chanda and the fine people at Scheme Engine. If you pause at 1:07 you can see my Tupperware container!

“Do Wrong” originally featured Pill and first appeared on DGK Stevie’s Vol. 1 mixtape and more recently Freddie’s Str8 Killa No Filla. “Part 2” is an iTunes bonus track for Freddie’s new EP. Produced by Atlanta brethren DJ Burn One.

I was indifferent toward Freddie until he oh-so-casually dropped this line:

I flirt with death; on the day that I fuck the bitch,
Bury me with my zipper down so my haters can suck my dick.

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Brake Lights recalls the belligerence of Game’s older mixtapes where he recklessly swung at G-Unit and whoever else shot him a funny look. But those rivalries are long dead aside from the occasional snide remark in an interview. Nowadays, Game is struggling to get a single on the charts and a release date that will stick. Game seemed pretty blasé about his album situation in a recent interview where he made it seem as if it’s just a matter of time before his big radio record comes along. And while he waits, here’s an entire street album of original material.

You have to admire Game’s enthusiasm. Rather than moping about leakers and record execs that don’t see his vision (hi Lupe), Game uses his connections and resources to record a project that’s pure fan service. Interscope would never release such a haphazard album without records carefully tailored to appeal to different markets and demographics. Despite completely original beats, it’s apparent that Brake Lights was recorded on an impulse. Game rambles about sex and homicide in glorious excess over surprisingly dark production from assorted b-grade producers. It’s all been said and done before, but Game’s charisma and audacity is magnetic.

Download: Game – Brake Lights

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Update: Here is the untagged version of the mixtape. “Stop” featuring Rick Ross is missing because DJ Skee doesn’t have the untagged version. I took the liberty of fixing the metadata, which was a jumbled mess.

Download: Game – Brake Lights (The Raw Files)

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De La Soul pays tribute to GrandMixer D.ST over an 80s electro beat. Remember kids, DJs can do more than ruin mixtapes.

Download: De La Soul – The Return Of DST (produced by Posdnous)

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