Metal Lungies

Another track off Ghetto’s Trunk Music mixtape. Worst rapper name since Game.

Download: Ghetto – Bang Bang (ft. Ea$y Money) (produced by MoSS)

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All Star is an emcee out of Nashville who’s been stranded on Cash Money for ages – but I’m ignorant and haven’t been paying attention to how much praise he’s been getting. “Homies” is a heartfelt dedication to the friends who supported him while he was stranded in industry limbo. You might recognize that Barry White sample from Raekwon’s “North Star" (Jewelz)” and “Return of The North Star”. Very, very dope.

This off his upcoming tape Starlito’s Way 3: Life Insurance.

DOWNLOAD: All Star – Homies

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Danny!’s new album is FREE!

Danny! is what Charles Hamilton would sound like if he didn’t suck. Playful, sharp rhymes over slightly left-field production. You have no excuse not to download it since it’s FREE!

Download: Danny! – Where Is Danny?

CLASSIC cheesy club banger from Bobby Valentino Jeremih Pleasure P Verse Simmonds. I love how Game raps about having a gun on him on a song meant for 14-year-old girls. Game’s fierce verse compensates for OJ, Jermaine, and Juvi’s shitty ones. I’m about to get some chick pregnant to this one!

Download: Verse Simmonds – Buy You A Round (Remix) (ft. Jim Jones, Jermaine Dupri, OJ Da Juiceman, Juvenile, Game)

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Director John Colombo did his best to explain the bizarre (and totally awesome) video for one of the best tracks off Slaughterhouse.

Read our review and grab the audio here.

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Wale condemns gold-digging women on this 9th Wonder-produced gem. Mr. Folarin has a knack for exploring relationship issues without being a cornball R&B rapper.

Sucks that this wasn’t on Attention Deficit.

Download: Wale – Beast (produced by 9th Wonder)

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Bonus: Wale – The Manipulation (produced by Best Kept Secret)

off The Mixtape About Nothing

“Cool” is the first in a series of 7” singles from Tres Records featuring producer Chikaramanga of Giant Panda. The Tres family has released some of my favorite albums of last two years; Big Tone’s Art of Ink, Shawn Jackson’s First of All… and C.R.A.C. Knuckle’s The Piece Talks.

Future installments will feature Co$$ and Shawn Jackson.

Download: Chikaramanga – Cool (ft. Big Tone)

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Congrats to YelaWolf on earning himself a blurb and a big ol’ picture in the New York Times on Friday:

Doing the nasal Dylan impression on the hook, which turns “Subterranean Homesick Blues” more druggy, is YelaWolf, a white rapper from Alabama with a classic rock jones and a glorious, tinny drawl, as heard on last year’s mixtape “Stereo.” On his forthcoming mixtape, “Trunk Muzik,” he boasts, “Trashed off the glue you build an airplane model with/In the gutter like an empty PBR bottle is.”

But since everybody knows Metal Lungies has ten times the clout of the New York Times, YelaWolf called me from Juelz Santana’s video shoot for “Mixing Up the Medicine” to talk about his career thus far and his artistic direction. Not the bum ass Times.

ML: I heard a rumor that you signed to a major. What is your label situation?

YelaWolf: Nah, just Ghet-O-Vision right now. We aren’t signed with any major.

ML: Is anything on the table?

YelaWolf: I don’t know, man. I don’t even ask questions. I don’t deal with that shit after being at Columbia. I just kinda trust [A&R, producer] KP and [my manager] J Dot. They’ll let me know if something serious comes across the table, or else it’s usually just a bunch of talk and a bunch of letdowns.

ML: So you were at Columbia originally?

YelaWolf: Yeah, ‘07 going in to ‘08 we signed with Columbia and we were there for a real short time before Rick Rubin came in and fuckin’ shut everything down. So me and KP and J Dot left as a unit and started grinding for the last couple of years on the street as Ghet-O-Vision.

ML: Killer Mike described you as a cross between Dungeon Family and Lynyrd Skynyrd. How would you describe your sound?

YelaWolf: That’s pretty good. That pretty much hits the nail on the head. I definitely derive a lot of melody from classic rock and as far as content goes, I derive a lot of my inspiration from MCs out the Dungeon Family of course. West Coast, Hieroglyphics and East Coast, BIG, Jay-Z, Mobb Deep, Group Home. Lyrics and beats, man.

My classic rock – I was born into that. That was just where I was at. I had a single mom, 15, 16, and she was really heavy into classic rock, so I was surrounded with that, but hip-hop came through– my mom’s boyfriend was touring with Aersosmith doing lights during the Walk This Way tour and when I was a kid they bought me a Run DMC t-shirt, a “My Adidas” CD and some Beastie Boys shit and that’s how a I found it. And then fast-forward, I just really fell into it along with skateboarding and shit, I just soaked up all this pop culture.

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The real Birdman.

Usually, we only mention Birdman in reference to his jewelry collection and his finance tips, but apparently he has an album coming out for some reason. Using his Bird-powers, he got Bun B and Drake to spit acid all over this track. If you can endure Birdman’s verse, you’re in for a treat.

Download: Birdman – Mo Milly (ft. Bun B, Drake)

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Odd and cute charming fan made video for this track off Jay Stay Paid. Directed by the awesomely named Marcus McDammit.

While we’re on the subject, here’s a little bonus Dilla beat , the instrumental to Common’s “Love Is.”  So very fresh.

DOWNLOAD: J Dilla – “Love Is”