Metal Lungies

Bronx dude $amhill drops a powerful song about growth in the old New York tradition. He and the guys behind LUV NY form one of the more exciting boom bap movements in recent memory.

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A video for one of the ML Certified Funky Fresh Joints® from Chuuwee’s Wild Style mixtape.

The video for “The Symbol” is easily the best of the year and- oh, man, subtly animated cover art. They covered every base. Good ass music too.

Download: Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers

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The Brown Bag AllStars bro down in the video for the DJ Rhettmatic-produced cut from Brown Label Part 2. No Asher Roth.

Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous meets Los Angeles.

Boiler Room TV presents a new episode this week featuring ?uestlove behind the boards. The entire set is a tribute to J-Dilla and features some unheard Roots rehearsal tracks of Dilla beats. I would recommend just downloading the podcast, instead of watching the whole video. These broadcasts always contain a bit more NY hipster douche than I can stomach. As always, someone from the youtube comments section sums up my feelings completely:

I love The Bolier Room concept, but it almost always pisses me off. You have a world class DJ spinning mind blowing sets and what do you have going on in the back ground? Bored looking hipsters looking at their smart phones while half heartedly shuffling about to the beat. Can’t they get a crowd that’s gonna let off and enjoy the experience instead of just tweeting about it?

#BEEN #TRILL is a DJ/Creative collective that is affiliated with some guy named Kanye. As a part of the launch of their clothing line collabo with cool clothing heavyweight Stussy the crew cooked up a very smooth mix with #rare edits/remixes of everything from Jamie XX to 2 Chainz. This has pretty much been on loop since Thanksgiving. My personal highlight is this Jessie Ware remix. If you know what that Are You That Somebody remix is, drop knowledge in the comments.

I picked this little gem up yesterday at Unique Thrift.

We all remember the classic film; but what about the album it inspired? This late 90’s comp included the likes of Will Smith, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, Ginuwine, a young Alicia Keys, The Roots, D’Angelo, Trey Lorenz (his name will be the answer to a jeopardy question one day), Nas, Emoja, ATCQ, an early Destiny’s Child, 3T, De La Soul, Buckshot LeFonque, and the legendary Danny Elfman.

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A smooth jam from The Game and hometown hero Wale. I’ve never been the biggest Cool and Dre fan, but this might actually redeem them from the travesty that was Celebration (real Bone Thugs fans feel me on that).

Who is that singing in the background?  Cool or Dre? Some of those ad-libs are borderline humorous.

Wale and mixtapes have a history.. a real good history. This past Wednesday he dropped ‘Freedom Of Speech’, the first song off his upcoming DJ Clark Kent assisted, christmas stocking stuffing mixtape Folarin. The track is good enough to have even a Republican head nodding to the Obama sample. Tip your curly W caps to whoever No Credit is for the beat (I kind of hope No Credit is actually an anonymous beatmaster that wants no credit).