February 2010
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Prof & St. Paul Slim - Horses in the Ghetto...
Stophouse Music Group is proud to announce the music video for “Horses in the Ghetto,” a standout on this summer’s wildly popular Recession Music album. The track features production by the Beatchefs and verses of lawless cowboy-sized swagger by Slim & Prof. Recession Music, “arguably the best local rap album of the summer” (City Pages), is available for...
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Big Sean – Supa Dupa Lemonade
Big Sean – Supa Dupa Lemonade
I dropped the video just a few posts below. Now we have a CD quality version of the freestyle. Dope shit from the homie Big Sean.
January 2010
76 posts
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B.o.B – Fuck the Money ft. Asher Roth (prod. Kanye...
B.o.B – Fuck the Money ft. Asher Roth (prod. Kanye West)
This is a radio rip but it’s with out a doubt worth posting anyway. B.O.B. recruits Asher Roth to spit over this crazy Kanye West best. This is off B’s mixtape that drops Monday, Feb 1st. The mixtape is titled May 25th because that’s when his album drops.
Freeway & Jake One ft. Raekwon - One Thing
Freeway & Jake One ft. Raekwon - One Thing
Freeway & Jake-One recruit Raekwon for the lastest track to leak off the duo’s upcoming album The Stimulus Package. It drops on February 16th.
shouts NahRight.
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Big Sean – Supa Dupa Lemonade (Video)
Big Sean goes over Gucci’s “Lemonade” beat. Some real nice lines. Fresh!
Finally Famous Vol. 3 coming soon.
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Nero – Far Away From Here
Nero – Far Away From Here (Produced by Woody)
I shouldn’t have to say anything. Just download it. Nero did his shit for The March of Time mixtape that John (Airtime Collection) and I dropped last fall. I can’t thank him enough.
We haven’t officially heard anything from the homie Nero since August. Well worth the wait. Let’s get far away from here.
Yep, ya dig.
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Donnis - Gone Behind The Scenes (Video) +...
Donnis - Gone
First off - if you don’t have this track in your library just do yourself a favor and download it now. This track has “Day N Nite” status…funny cause Fool’s Gold has picked both the first single for Kid CuDI and now Atlanta’s Donnis.
If you like that. Just download the full mixtape.
10.Deep x Donnis - Diary of An ATL Brave...
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DJ Khaled – Put Your Hands Up ft. Young Jeezy,...
DJ Khaled – Put Your Hands Up ft. Young Jeezy, Plies & Rick Ross (Dirty)
DJ Khaled – Put Your Hands Up ft. Young Jeezy, Plies & Rick Ross (Clean)
Other than “We Takin Over” tracks like this are always a bit of a toss up when they are coming from Khaled. This is one is aight though. I guess.
Khaled’s album Victory is set to drop March 2nd.
sniped these links from...
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Kidz In The Hall - Land of Make Believe (Album Art...
Tracklist:
1. Intro 2. Traffic 3. Flickin 4. Out To Lunch ft. The Kid Daytona 5. Bougie Girls ft. Russoul 6. Jukebox ft. MC Lyte 7. L_O_V_E 8. Will II Win ft. Marsha Ambrosius 9. Take Over The World ft. Just Blaze & Colin Munroe (co-produced by Just Blaze) 10. Fresh Academy ft. Chip Tha Ripper & Donnis 11. Simple Life feat. Amanda Diva 12. Running feat. Tim William 13. Do It...
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Mos Def - The Tournament [Unreleased]
Mos Def - The Tournament [Unreleased]
Apparently this one didn’t make the cut for The Ecstatic. As a Mos Def fanatic I find this to be a nice little gem. If this were the industry 10 years ago - a track like this never would of seen the light of day.
In other news the Mos Def & Doom show here in Chicago at the Congress Theater has been postponed until Feb. 13th. Press release below....
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Prof & St. Paul Slim - HORSES IN THE GHETTO Video...
Stophouse Music Group is proud to announce the music video for “Horses in the Ghetto,” a standout on this summer’s wildly popular Recession Music album, will debut Sunday, January 31st. The track features production by the Beatchefs and verses of lawless cowboy-sized swagger by Slim & Prof. Recession Music, “arguably the best local rap album of the summer”...
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Smoke DZA – Marley & Me ft. Devin The Dude,...
Smoke DZA recruits fellow Marley Smokers Devin The Dude, Curren$y, Asher Roth & hookman June Summers for his Smokers anthem “Marley & Me” produced by Scoop Deville. Directed by Creative Control. – OnSMASH
How could I not post this. Ha - good stuff from all the fellas. Cameos galore.
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Bun B & GLC - Happiness Before Riches + Wale ft....
Bun B & GLC - Happiness Before Riches
Bun B was in Chicago back in December and he dropped in the studio and recorded a pretty official joint with GLC.
Off of RubyHornet & DJ RTC present Closed Sessions Vol. 1.
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Wale ft. Fat Trel - O Let’s Do It
Wale goes over some Waka Flocka Flame. Huh?
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A-Trak - Loonies To Blow ft. Drake & Birdman
A-Trak - Loonies To Blow ft. Drake & Birdman
My favorite DJ just put his own spin on Drake & Birdman’s “Money To Blow” for his upcoming remix album Dirty South Dance Vol. 2. If you were around me in the summer of 2007 all you heard was the original Dirty South Dance. It is incredible I’m telling you. I still play it.
For those who aren’t familiar with...
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Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Packag-ing...
Wow this is some of the most incredible packaging I’ve ever seen. Leave it to Rhymesayers to drop the dopest shit ever. Fast forward a bit and you can see everything that is going on from the bills with lyrics on the back, the wallet (which holds the cd and more,) credit card that lets you download instrumentals online and so much more. Amazing stuff.
The Stimulus Package drops Feb....
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Freddie Gibs & Mikkey Halsted - On My Own (Video)...
Two of the best up and comers, both with Chicago ties drop one hell of a fuckin video. Visuals are real slick and the song bumps too.
Brought to you by Fake Shore Drive.
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Big Sean lets loose some info about his upcoming mixtape Finally Famous Vol 3 and talks about how Kanye influenced how he creates his music.
Big Sean talks dropping his new album which was just finished and...
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Kid CuDi - cudderisback (Video)
During a stop in Boston for his latest tour run Kid Cudi and the crew put together a little documentary. Directed by Jason Goldwatch/DECON, the video goes to the tune of Cudi’s latest song “cudderisback”. It’s pure jokes so enjoy and laugh a bit. – DatNewCudi
If you haven’t heard the tune - it features CuDi quickly dropping some bars over the exceptional sample of Vampire...
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Freeway – Trap Door + Redman – Oh My
Freeway – Trap Door
New rhymes from Freeway for DJ Booth.net’s Freestyle Series.
The Stimulus Package drops via Rhymesayers on2/16/2010.
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Redman – Oh My
Off Redman’s Reggie Noble 9 1/2.
shouts 2DB.
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Pharrell - Key Note Speaker at Midem (Video)
Pharrell recently spoke as the key note speaker at Midem - a music conference in France. I watched through this 40 minute interview over the weekend and it was worth every minute. Pharrell says some truly insightful stuff about our world today in relation to the music business, technology and much more. Definitely worth the watch if have the time. I simply felt inspired after watching it.
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White Noise – Spoiler Alert! (Mashup Mixtape)
White Noise – Spoiler Alert! (Mashup Mixtape)
A new mash up mixtape from mash up artist White Noise! I would include myself on the list of people that are pretty hesitant when it comes to posting up new mash up artists. So many people have done it now that it takes something special to stand out from the rest. I don’t think anyone splices together mash ups that sound as good as Girl Talk...
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Wale Backstage at the Sprite Step Off (Fake Shore...
Wale backstage at the Regal Theater in Chicago before his performance during the Sprite Step Off. Folarin answers questions about the Windy City, fellow up-and-coming artists, and his future plans.
spotted at FSD.
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Nas & Damian Marley – As We Enter + Kil Ripkin –...
Nas & Damian Marley – As We Enter
Nas & Damian Marley – Strong Will Continue
Some brand new music from Nas & Damien Marley off their upcoming project Distant Relatives which is set to drop in March (hopefully.)
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Kil Ripkin – Aftermath pt.1 (prod. Eric G)
A fresh new track from east coast MC Kil Ripkin who is working on and will be releasing a new album this year on Torae’s...
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Rick Ross – Mafia Music 2 (Produced by The...
Rick Ross – Mafia Music 2
Some new Ricky Ross just dropped. This might be the first track we are hearing off his new album The Teflon Don. Banging beats as always from Raaaaawse. Produced by The Olympicks.
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Joe Budden – 40/40 f. Royce Da 5′9″ (prod. Soulsearchin’)
1/2 of Slaughterhouse goes in.
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Curren$y – Lemon Kush
Curren$y – Lemon Kush
Yet another one from the jet settaaaa Curren$y whose anticipated mixtape Smokee Robinson is set to drop Superbowl Sunday. I’m assuming you can guess the topic of discussion on this one. Also dropped some footage below of Spitta performing at St. James Church.
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Ludacris - How Low (Video)
I’m a Luda fan for life. This is a jam and the beat knocks. But I fuckin despise the chipmunk voice in rap songs.
Battle of the Sexes drops in March.
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Common - Next Time [Unreleased]
Common - Next Time (Prod. by Kanye West) [Unreleased]
Well this is some classic shit. Unreleased Common from the Finding Forever days.
Hope we see an album from Lonnie in 2010.
spotted at Fake Shore Drive.
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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (Artwork X Tracklist) +
Gorillaz – Stylo ft. Mos Def & Bobby Womack
This track didn’t strike any chords with me but looking at this juicy tracklist I’m sure I will be able to find something to sink my teeth into.
Plastic Beach drops March 9th.
Tracklist:
1. Orchestral Intro 2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach ft. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 3. White Flag ft. Kano & Bashy ...
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Intuition - Buzzkill ft. Slug + Consequence feat....
Buzzkill ft. Slug (of Atmosphere) (prod. Equalibrum)
I don’t know that much about Intuition but he sounds pretty dope on this track. But we all know what this post is really for. Classic Slug over a friendly beat.
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Consequence feat. Asher Roth - Childish Games (Produced by Mr. Attic; Scratches by Statik Selektah)
New mixtape from Consequence titled Cons TV Presents… Movies On...
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P.O.S. – PinBoard Interview (Video)
P.O.S sat down for an exclusive interview with us while he was in London Town for a gig last year; We discussed the complexities of growing up in two very different towns with the black and white racial equilibrium, the difficulties of identifying himself with a particular sub-culture, how his album Never Better is, at its core, a Hip Hop album, his thoughts on why mainstream Black America...
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Rockie Interview + Fresh ft. YP & Bighomie DOE -...
Rockie Fresh ft. YP & Bighomie DOE - Fly Like This (Radio Rip)
Tonight on Radio DePaul the homie Q premiered this new joint from Chicago’s very own Rockie Fresh. Plus some nice guest work from YP and Bighomie Doe. CDQ expected to drop next week.
Below you can download Rockie’s latest mixtape Rockies Modern Life.
Rockie - Rockie’s Modern Life (Mixtape)
Catch Q’s...
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Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (Gigamesh Remix FINAL...
Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (Gigamesh Remix FINAL Version) (USERSHARE)
Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (Gigamesh Remix FINAL Version) (Click to stream)
Hey yo Mike Posner fans. If you downloaded Mike’s mixtape One Foot Out The Door you maybe have heard the “Cooler Than Me (Gigamesh Remix)” and you probably have it on repeat like I do. Well the Minneapolis-remixer-producer has...
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Dan Black – Symphonies (REMIX) ft. KiD CuDi
Dan Black – Symphonies (REMIX) ft. KiD CuDi
That Kid CuDi drops some rhymes over a track from UK artist Dan Black. This track has THE same exact snares as Rihanna’s “Umbrella.” Not sure if that is intentional but whatever. CUDI!
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Clispe - Freedom (Video) + Big Sean - Million...
I know this is a popular track with most Clipse fans. Not my favorite off Til The Casket Drops but I can fuck with this video….and anything related to the Clipse for that matter. DOOOORMAN!
Prod. Sean C and LV.
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One of my favorite joint’s off Big Sean’s UKNOWBIGSEAN mixtape gets the video treatment. I read on Big Sean’s twitter that basically the video just...
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Jay Electronica - Exhibit A (Music Video Trailer)
It takes a special track for me to post a trailer for a music video. This looks incredible. Can’t wait to see the full thing.
Jay is gonna have one hell of a year.
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Mikkey Halsted – U Love My Style (Ft. Kamilah...
Mikkey Halsted – U Love My Style (Ft. Kamilah Sumner & Miss Criss)
New shit from Chicago’s Mikkey Halsted. Expect his next project The Best You Never Heard is set to drop before the end of the month.
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Juelz Santana – Homerun (Ft. Lil’ Wayne)
I’m sure Juelz and Weezy have a sack full of tracks just waiting to leak. Word is this one actually has a video that is set to drop...
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Jay Electronica - Exhibit C (Live Video)
Jay Electronica hops on stage and performs the “it” song of the moment “Exhibit C” at Mos Def’s concert in NY a night or two ago. Diddy up on stage doing the ad-libs is interesting to say the least. Dope to hear this live.
Photos from the night can be viewed here.
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Chip Tha Ripper – Here I Am (prod. 6th Sense)
Chip Tha Ripper – Here I Am (prod. 6th Sense)
We haven’t heard from Chip since his mixtape dropped. Can’t complain about 6th Sense production either. Really dug 6th stuff on the Outasight mixtape too.
I guess this and many more unreleased tracks will be appearing on It’s A 6th Sense Mixtape Yo!! Volume 2 & 3.
RAP MUSIC
Drake - My New Shit (prod. Nottz) (Unreleased)
Drake ft. Colin Munroe - Where Were You (Unreleased)
Drake - Love & Gunz (Produced by Tha Bizness) (SNIPPET)
Drake feat. Von Pea of Tanya Morgan & Phonte of Little Brother - My New (prod. Nottz)
Gucci Mane feat. Pharrell Williams - Soldier
Three 6 Mafia feat. 8Ball & MJG and Yung D - Unite
T-Pain & Lil Wayne – Beehive Waist...
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P.O.S. - Yeah Right (Video)
I’ve seen this on a Doomtree Blowout DVD but this is the first time I have seen it on the net. Off P.O.S.’s second studio album titled Audition.
spotted at Midwest Broadcast.
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Matt Boy White Spining Tonight on Radio DePaul
I took what I wrote over at FSD. TUNE IN!
Jugrnaut’s in-house DJ Matt Boy White will be spinning tonight on Radio DePaul’s Bad Service show hosted by myself - Pwelbs. I’ve been helping Andrew out behind the scenes over here at Fake Shore Drive. Born and raised in Minnesota, I now attend DePaul University and can safetly say I view Chicago as a second home. I host a hip-hop...
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Freeway – She Makes Me Feel Alright (prod. Jake...
Freeway – She Makes Me Feel Alright (prod. Jake One)
First official singles from the Jake-One & Freeway collaboration album The Stimulus Package dropping via Rhymesayers.
The album drops February 16th - pre-order now over at Fifth Element for a chance to win $100 cash! The great bearded one drops more info in this video.
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Mod Sun – The Other Side (prod. Statik Selektah)
Another one...
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Dessa - Dixon's Girl (Video)
Some visuals for the lead single off Dessa’s new album A Badly Broken Code - which might I add sounds amazing. I listened through it quite a few times this week and have concluded she with out a doubt shits on every other female rapper in the game right now. Yup. Doomtree.
This isn’t the best track on the album but dope nevertheless. Video is slick - I recall Dessa nervously...
Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock (DJ Dead Eye Mix)f....
Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock (DJ Dead Eye Mix)f. Jay-Z, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Cassidy, Styles P, Lloyd Banks, Ras Kass, Bun B, Trife Diesel, Young Jeezy, Raekwon, Joell Ortiz & Crooked I
Ok. Well…something like this doesn’t drop everyday. I mean I love this beat - but 19 minutes…
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Bun B - Adrenaline Rush X Don't Say Shit
Bun B - Adrenaline Rush
“And my Jordan game ugly, Elephant Man, I should hide myself”
The story goes (of course I’m summarizing)… Earlier today I received a phone call from Bun that went something like this: Bun: “I don’t want to insult your intelligence or anything, and I’m not sure if you noticed, but I’ve been dropping these freestyles over...
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Add-2 – I Came Up X Adult Swim (Get Out of the...
Add-2 – I Came Up
Add-2 - Adult Swim (Get Out of the Pool)
To celebrate Add-2’s video “Luxury” (directed by Da Visionaryz) being cleared for airplay on MTV and their various networks here are two unreleased Add-2 songs. First “I Came Up” using a familiar sample most may remember from the late great Big Pun & a song Add-2 recorded for Adult Swim that was never...
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K-Salaam & Beatnick Present: NY Is Burning...
K-Salaam & Beatnick Present: NY Is Burning (Mixtape)
I randomly downloaded this earlier today and have been enjoying it all day. A collection of remixes from K-Salaam & Beatnick. A pretty nice reggae feel throughout the tape. Nice sound. Check out the tracklist here - you can also stream the mixtape here as well.
spotted at illRoots.
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Nipsey Hu$$le feat. Iyaz - Return Of The Mack...
Nipsey Hu$$le feat. Iyaz - Return Of The Mack (prod. J.R. Rotem)
A brand new one from the current face of the West Coast. Hook from Iyaz - who recently received quite a bit of radio play with his hit “Replay.”
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PILL – Aine Given Up (Ft. Young Scolla)
Pill is one of the most exciting rappers out there right now in my opinion. Another fresh leak from the good fellas over at...
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Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beaming (prod. The Neptunes)
Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beaming (prod. The Neptunes)
Lupe Fiasco - I’m Beaming (Explicit x Instrumental x Clean) (.Zip File)
This track leaked about a month ago and Lupe and Atlantic Records went all nuts about it. I guess they have sent out this final and mastered version of the track as a possible first single for Lupe’s new album which is set to drop (hopefully) earlier than later in...
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B.o.B. - The Biz
B.o.B. - The Biz
I usually would be pretty hesitant to any track that features someone spitting over the classic Mobb Deep beat “Shook Ones. Pt. II.” But this is B.O.B. and he kills it. This is off his mixtape titled May 25th, which is actually the date his album (The Adventures of Bobby Ray ) is set to drop. About damn time!
If you missed the first official single of his album I...
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Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock (The Kings G-Mix) ft....
Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock (The Kings G-Mix) ft. Jay-Z
Snoop and J Hova? Damn.
Re-release of Snoop’s Malice N Wonderland drops March 9th.