Category archive: Hip Hop

We’ve been keeping a close eye out for Arnhem’s most funk influenced producer for a while now. And it is with great pleasure to formally introduce to you Henning. One of those Dutch producers who should be on your radar and if he wasn’t, then I hope now he is. His new “Villains Day Off” joint is of the Evil Genius Soundsystem Volume 1 release which just came out. The project consists of Henning, Jaystar, City Lights and JeeJaa. Henning came correct with the best track on the whole release if you ask me though. You can snatch a free download here by the way.

Henning – Villains Day Off

1-O.A.K.‘s debut album just came out via Honor Roll Music. Very nice Cali vibe going on here on “Special Request”. I suggest everybody to go download this motherf*cker for FREE right now. Can’t go wrong for that amount right. Download link is working again so make sure you download over here!

1-O.A.K. – Long Time

Yesterday Mez hit me up with yet another dope song he and his buddy Jonny Sass recorded. Eventhough Jonny doesn’t have a lot of time to record, they managed to squeeze out “The Right Way”, which is available as a limited free download here. The sound is very raw, but I hear lots of potential with these guys. More music from Mez can be found here by the way.

Jonny Sass – The Right Way (prod. by Mez)

So Blu drops this new “UCLA” album out of the blue. It’s entirely produced by Madlib and you gotta love the cover! The quality of this release is incredibly poor though. Almost started to doubt whether this release is official or not. There’s only 2 songs on there that stand out and the overall quality of the vocal recordings is horrible. Dunno if this is worth $15 to you guys, but if you’d like to buy this visit this Bandcamp page. So it seems Stones Throw pulled this one of the net saying this is not a Blu X Madlib collaboration project.

I must confess…kinda late with this one, but it just reached our inbox. It seems that Speek Greene is working on a compilation EP (that he’s co-producing) entitled “Rock Paper Soul”. No idea when this is coming out, but this Morris Alan joint produced by Kev Brown is sounding nice yo. Hurry and grab a free download of “Let It Ride”, because there’s still 78 available at the moment.

Morris Alan – Let It Ride (prod. Kev Brown)

Last week we brought you part 1 of Robert Glasper Experiment‘s “Move Love” remix contest. Two fresh new remixes from Vlooper and Union caught our attention this week. Oh remember submissions are due Monday in case you still want to enter the contest.

Robert Glasper Experiment – Move Love (Vlooper Remelange)

Robert Glasper Experiment – Move Love (Union Remix)

We’ve been listening to Australia’s M-Phazes for a while now and this guy has been blowing up. Yesterday his new “Phazed Out” album came out with features from J-Live, Saigon, Inspectah Deck, Big Noyd, Termanology, Chubb Rock, Sadat X, Heltah Skeltah, Masta Ace, El Da Sensei, and a lot more legendary hip hop artists. Not really my type of hype, but I was digging “Perfect Timing” with CL Smooth and Skyzoo. Give the album a listen and if you decide to buy, grab it on .

M-Phazes – Perfect Timing Ft. CL Smooth & Skyzoo

The homie Front2blaq hit me up on Facebook the other day and told me to check out Viridiana. Together with Mr Day she worked on the song “My Happiness” which is out via Favorite Recordings and available for purchase on .

Viridiana – My Happiness Ft. Mr Day

Another leak from KCRW‘s Mathieu Schreyer. This time it’s a track from a Raphael Saadiq‘s unreleased album “Pookie Blue Room”. You can read Mathieu’s inside story below.

“Back in 2004 Raphael Saadiq opened his studio doors to Spacek to produce an album for one of his sub labels. The album was supposed to be called “Pookie Blue Room” and features 10 songs produced by both Steve Spacek and Morgan Zarate with Raphael singing on all of them and featuring guest appearances by Common, Q-tip, Ledisi, Steve Spacek and Sir Bentley….anyhow the album was never completed and therefore never released…” [Shouts to DJ Rahdu and Mathieu Schreyer].

Raphael Saadiq – They Don’t Know You Ft. Common & Ledisi (prod. Steve Spacek)

Raphael Saadiq – I Miss U 2 (prod. Morgan Zarate)

Another Tall Black Guy 7″ just came out via CrossTalk. It took a while, but finally “Mini Therapy Chops” is now available for the fans. Eventhough the B-side “Love The World” is a doozy. It seems only fitting to stream the A-side called “Sweet Europe” right?! Go buy a copy and support good hip hop music in the process!

Tall Black Guy – Sweet Europe [112kbps]