The palm lady dreamt of this day/ so I'ma play the crib close, smoke 'em with the big toast and lay

Sep

25

K. Sparks and Pajozo - Definition.

Posted by knobbz

K. Sparks and Pajozo comprise the duo Definition. Here’s their free album Definition which features the song "Definition".  Yeah.

In all seriousness, Queens rapper K. Sparks and Swedish producer Pajozo make a pretty slick duo. They have a jazzy sound which at times is reminiscent of Pete Rock production from the CL days. Some songs are kind of generic, but the album (mixtape?) is solid for the most part.

Download: K. Sparks and Pajozo - Definition
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Sep

22

Dub MD & Illmind - Blaps, Rhymes & Life, Mixtape.

Posted by AaronM

01.) Get Ya Ass Up! (Intro)
02.)
Heltah Skeltah - Everything Is Heltah Skeltah
03.) Brooklyn Academy - Raise Ya Hands (ft.Jean Grae)
04.) Fresh Daily - Get Over
05.)
D. Black - The Come Up (ft.Skyzoo)
06.)
50 Cent - Make A Movie
07.) Supastition - Thankful (ft.Kil Ripkin)
08.) Naturel - The Bullets
09.) K.O. (K-Otix) - 48 Seasons
10.)
Torae - New Blood (ft.Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas & Fresh Daily)
11.)
Fortilive - The Come Up
12.) Broken English - Different World
13.) Skyzoo - Lyrically Inclined (ft.Wale)
14.) Naps N Dreds - Do What I Should (ft.Copywrite)
15.) Quan - Geez Like Deez (ft.Rapper Big Pooh)
16.)
Naturel - Resurrect
17.) 8th W1 - A Fool’s Lullaby
18.)
Faro-Z - Clap Ya Hands
19.) A.P.E.X. - One More Time
20.)
LL Cool J - Queens (ft.Prodigy, 50 Cent, Kool G Rap, & Tony Yayo)
21.) Wannabe? (Outro)

I actually haven’t heard this yet since my internet is fucked with a tiny download capacity, but trust if it’s Illmind, then it’s dope. Great selection of recent Illmind produced tracks. I’m impressed by the way he and Jake One balance the mainstream with the underground. An example to follow, to be sure. Oh, and Illmind has a blog, but you already knew that.

Download: Dub MD & Illmind - Blaps, Rhymes & Life Mixtape
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Sep

20

Black ELement - Missing ELements (Volume 1), Mixtape.

Posted by AaronM

Blended by Dub Floyd. Every Missing ELements track we’ve been posting, plus album cuts and rare tracks.

01. Missing ELements (Intro)
02. All I <3 feat. NAV (Prod. by Danksta)
03. The Itis (Prod. by 6th Sense)
04. Cant Call It (Prod. by Ryan Durkin)
05. Confirmation (Prod. by 6th Sense)
06. Keeps it Rawkin’ (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
07. We Gon Ride (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
08. Presidential Paradise (Prod. by BBoySpaz)
09. Cuz We Felt Like It (Interlude)
10. Human (Prod. by Kush Klien)
11. The Fabolous Life (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
12. The Equation (Prod. by Ryan Durkin)
13. Down?!?! (Prod. by Ryan Durkin)
14. Halle Berry (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
15. Loose Change (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
16. Sex Ed feat. T-Payne (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
17. Missing ELements (outro)
18. BONUS - Ama Tell It Like (Prod. by Rami Afuni)
19. BONUS - Folks Don’t Cost A Thing feat. NAV
(Prod. by Rami Afuni)

Download here.

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Sep

17

Charles Hamilton - And Then They Played Dilla.

Posted by knobbz

Looky here, Charles Hamilton. I secretly wish Will Smith would come be my best friend and hook me up with the girl of my dreams just as much as the next guy. But Hitch is not an appropriate movie to sample. Scarface? Yes. The Godfather? Sure. Seinfeld? If you do it right, yes. But randomly throwing in lines from Hitch is off limits unless you’re a pioneering oddball genius like RZA.

Um, oh yeah. Dude dropped another mixtape. This one is all Dilla beats and Charles keeps the rhymes nice. It’s a quickie though. After the eighth track, it’s all instrumentals. The second mixtape in the Hamiltonization Process. Whatever, at least he doesn’t constantly pimp his websites like before.

Download: Charles Hamilton - And Then They Played Dilla

via You Heard that New…

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Sep

15

Legend, DJ Nice & Statik Selektah - Back 2 The Basics (Leaders Of The New School).

Posted by knobbz

New joints from some of my favorites as well as other recent tracks. I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this, but the Blu, Curren$y and Stimuli tracks convinced me. If you want to show someone what hip-hop is about right now, link them to Metal Lungies. If they aren’t rocking with the Internet yet, give them a copy of this mixtape. DJ Nice, what’s good?

01. Torae - Back 2 The Basics (Intro)
02. Jadakiss - Who Run This (Feat. Jay-Z) (Produced By Baby Grand)
03. Joell Ortiz - Sympathy
04. Styles P - Villian (Produced by J.Cardim)
05. Stimuli - Walk On Water 2
06. Skyzoo - Bragging Rights (Remix) (Produced by Analogic)
07. Fashawn - Our Way (Feat. Evidence) (Produced by Exile)
08. Godchild - Another Day, Another Dollar (Produced by Mike The Martyr)
09. Reks - Money On The Ave (Remix) (Feat. Skyzoo & Termanology)
10. Cambatta - What It Do (Produced by Boonie Mayfield)
11. Statik Selektah - Mr. Popularity (Feat. Consequence)
12. Cory Gunz - Lay Me Down (Produced By Nottz)
13. Lil Wayne - Still Standing (Feat. Junior Reid) (Snippet)
14. Emilio Rojas & M-Phazes - 585
15. Kanye West - Love LockDown
16. AC - I Engineer (Feat. The Senate)
17. DJ KO - Someday (Talib Kweli, Torae, John Robinson & Tiffany Paige)
18. Statik Selektah - This Is It (Showoff Remix) (Feat. D-Dot, Redman & Black Rob)
19. Ced Hughes - Back 2 The Basics (Like This) (Produced By Ced Hughes)
20. Ludacris - Undisputed (Feat. Floyd Mayweather Jr.) (Produced By Don Cannon)
21. B.o.B - I’ll Be In The Sky (Produced By B.o.B)
22. ESSO - Thinkin’ Out Loud IV
23. Max B - Live Comfortable
24. Big L - Principal Of The New School (Unreleased)
25. Naledge - Happy Birthday (Produced By Statik Selektah)
26. Fashawn - Because I’m Black
27. Blu - HoldOn
28. Theo - 2055 (The Future)
29. Rain - Back 2 Life (Produced By Scram Jones)
30. Curren$y - Whoa (Outro) (Produced By Kid Eight)

Download: Legend, DJ Nice & Statik Selektah - Back 2 The Basics (Leaders Of The New School)

via OnSMASH

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Sep

12

Rapper Big Pooh - Rapper’s Delight.

Posted by knobbz

Rapper Big Pooh of Little Brother just dropped a dope mixtape with production from Nottz, J Dilla, Khrysis, Focus, 9th Wonder, Illmind and Tha Bizness. Never having been a fan of Little Brother, I was surprised to hear Pooh holding it down lyrically. Oh, and "Plastic Cups" is now the official beer pong anthem.

Download: Rapper Big Pooh - Rapper’s Delight

URB Magazine via Nah Right

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Sep

03

NandoMcflyy - SNES.

Posted by knobbz

Any mixtpae with Super Mario World on the cover is cool by me. I first heard NandoMcflyy, a DC rapper, on a song with Wale where there went in over some acoustic guitar. His mixtape is plenty more guitars and it sounds pretty good. I’ve been liking a few guys out of DC recently: Wale of course, X.O. and now Nando.

But dude gets a definite ‘fuck you’ for the song "Ash" which contains a sample that is just plain wrong. Not going to say what it is, but here’s a clue. It might even be worse than Charles Hamilton’s "Windows Media Player" track. Hate aside, check him out.

Download: NandoMcflyy - SNES

via WDIR

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Sep

02

Charles Hamilton - Death Of The Mixtape Rapper.

Posted by knobbz

New mixtape from the Sonic the Hedgehog loving Internet rapper Charles Hamilton. Good looks on having Shadow on the cover, because everyone loved that game.

Shit is kinda fresh. “Windows Media Player” is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard though.

Download: Charles Hamilton - Death Of The Mixtape Rapper

Peace to smokeYYY

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Aug

31

The Mad Rapper - Appreciate The Hate: The Mad Rapper Chronicles Volume 1.

Posted by knobbz

Hosted by the homie Statik Selektah, Appreciate the Hate is a NY mixtape in the classic sense of the word. It’s got hot verses from every underground NY rapper who’s never gonna blow and genuinely funny skits (the blogs one made me smile). On top of that, the tape is very polished and leaves the annoying DJ shit at the door. It also features the Joell Ortiz murder victim, "Brooklyn Let’s Go!".

The Madd Rapper/D-Dot’s relevance to NY hip-hop is often overlooked and at the end of the tape, there’s a bunch of his OG shit: rare Bad Boy tracks, the "Stir Crazy" track with Eminem and even "How to Rob". This tape is like a trip through old New York.

Download: The Mad Rapper - Appreciate The Hate: The Mad Rapper Chronicles Volume 1

via OnSMASH

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Aug

28

Busta Rhymes - I’ve Already Outshined Your Favorite Rapper: Part 2.

Posted by knobbz

Busta Rhymes has really surprised me with the quality of his music these days and I’m eagerly anticipating Blessed, which is supposedly tied up with sample clearance issues. Today’s Busta isn’t as goofy as he was in the old days, but he’s still more fiery on the mic than today’s average screwface monotone rapper. Game drops in with a great verse and the long forgotten thong aficionado Sisqo shows up on a song called “Hump On You”. Dudes in Busta’s camp like Show Money and  Reek Da Villain supply him with solid verses here and there too.

1. Outshined Intro
2. Nuff Gun Shots
3. This May Be My Last Time
4. Give A Damn f. Show Money & Reek Da Villain
5. Your Time Has Come
6. Packing Them Things
7. Close The Door f. Reek Da Villain
8. Cleaner Than A Preacher f. Pooh Bear
9. Run The Block
10. Kill The Whole Town f. Reek Da Villain
11. Flipmode Meets BStars f. Game
12. Can’t Fuck Wit Us
13. Missile
14. Hump On You f. Sisqo
15. Pimp f. Hayes
16. On Da Blocc
17. Head Banger f. Alfa Mega
18. Show Money - Do It f. Spliff Star & Busta Rhymes
19. Who Be The Nicest f. Reek Da Villain


Download: Busta Rhymes - I’ve Already Outshined Your Favorite Rapper: Part 2

via illRoots

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