Another one from the K.R.I.T. Wuz Here mixtape dropping May 3. Between Curren$y and Devin the Dude, Big K.R.I.T’s guests on this tape have consumed enough weed to wake up Bob Marley.
via The DJ Booth
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Statik Selektah and Bumpy Knuckles team up for this slow, menacing banger.
via Xclusives Zone
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Apparently there was some white kids in Utah that got in deep trouble for rapping at McDonalds drive-thru (late pass please?). The Colbert Report chronicles their dramatic/violent/epic story, with Fabolous making a cameo as an expert on all this gangsta rap stuff. Note to self: bring a vest if I ever visit a fast food spot in Utah.
“Do Not **** With The Drive-Thru”
Watch it here. (The 2nd segment)
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The inbox bore fruit today.
Maryland rap group Phred Diamond prove that even the most tired subject matter, in this case ‘doing it big,’ can be spun into something original. “Do It B.I.G” has a whimsical, wandering through the woods beat, which is oddly juxtaposed with rhymes like, “Do it so much, forgot today was tomorrow / Don’t wanna take ya girl man, I just wanna borrow.” The song ends abruptly, but I wish they had the fairy-tale hook play out for another.
Their mixtape NOWALATERS is due June 4th.
Truck North is teaming up with Columbus, OH group The 3rd for the Reconstruction mixtape and they somehow nabbed a DJ Premier beat. On the hook, Premo uses a ghostly cry of “Is anybody out there?” in place of his usual scratches, giving the song a more left-field sound than his standard boop bap.
via Nah Right
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This is the first B.o.B song I can really get behind, but I was also a month late on So Far Gone. According to TeamSupreme, the version of this song that will appear on The Adventures of Bobby Ray may sound “slightly different.”
via TeamSupreme
And as long as we’re posting unfinished songs, here’s Lupe’s “What U Want,” which leaked in February.
via Maxpreme
Sphere: Related ContentAlabama’s most recent Interscope signee pays tribute to Cypress Hill on this track from Peter Rosenberg’s upcoming tribute mixtape. Given his drastically original yet accessible sound and his eye-popping appearance, I believe Yelawolf could be the first blog-borne rapper to snatch widespread mainstream acceptance (sorry Wale). Unless, of course, we jinx him by making statements like the one I just made.
P.S.: Yelawolf told me last month that he was recording with the Neptunes soon. So that’s going on.
via Rosenberg Radio
Sphere: Related ContentIf you are New York tonight this is going to be yet another SOB’s can’t miss show of a rising star along the lines of their J. Cole & Wale shows they’ve had in the recent past. Don’t sleep.
B.o.B’s debut B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray drops April 27th.
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Safe to say Torae murdered this.
Way above ya head like yarmulkes,
I’m fire every day like Hanukkah.
Damn. I hope the readers understand the risk we run posting Torae tracks. He told us in no uncertain terms what he would do if we leaked another song.
Off LeftBack, out April 20
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On “Rotten Apple,” 50 Cent said “Rap full of good guys, 50 Cent is the villain.” In 2010, that bad guy is undoubtedly Game. He’s earned that status from his incessant shit-talking at Jay-Z. Taking meetings with the president and buying basketball teams, Jay-Z is the symbol of hip-hop’s progress. Game on the other hand represents everything dirty and despicable that exposed the world to hip-hop. On “Diamonds,” Game devotes several bars to his obsession with Jay-Z:
She got her Jays mixed up.
One of us went pop.
One ride 26s, other one ride stocks.
One of us hugged B, the other one hugged the block.
They both loved Big, but one of them fucked with Pac.
They both touched a mil, seen stallions on the real.
I’ll let you decide what’s real and not real.
Fans of both artists are dying for Jay-Z to respond, but Hov may be too well-to-do for rap beef nowadays.
via Xclusives Zone
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