Grip continues to make good songs based around going out/the shoes he wears when going out/people mistaking him for a hipster when he goes out. Meanwhile, Rittz deserves credit here for doing something different from what G-Side originally did with this beat and pulling it off well.
Rittz – Smash Potatoes (prod by DJ Burn One)
Damn Vans courtesy of Baller’s Eve
Smash Potatoes courtesy of DJBooth
I’ve been anticipating this and it didn’t dissapoint. Just the cover alone makes it worth a download (created by Ahyve himself).
Ahyve is a good rapper but I think I like him even more as a producer/arranger/selector. His original beats (example, example), his offbeat genre-bending remixes/reworks which at their best transform the source material into something completely different (example), the flow of the mixtape, the little asides and interludes serving as transitions, even his discerning tastes in beats to rhyme over – that’s what really elevates this collection from just good to something really interesting.
DOWNLOAD: Ahyve – A Space Oddity (Adventures Of Ahyve Volume 3) MIXTAPE
After an extremely aggravating work day this is hitting the spot just right.
DOWNLOAD: Zilla & Monster – Fuck You Freestyle
Zilla and Monster have a joint mixtape coming called Komin’ Out Da Red, and Monster has a solo mixtape coming called Gutta,Gangsta,Gutta. I think Zilla has a solo album coming too in early 2011. Should be good.
Sean Price on some smooth shit, although I’m disappointed by the lack of referenced to Don Francisco who is eternally the player president.
DOWNLOAD: Sean Price – Sabado Gigante
The song sampled here is Keni Burke’s rising to the top, might as well throw that in for good measure.
DOWNLOAD: Keni Burke – Rising to the top
Good idea, good execution, and the whole thing just feels very different from what everybody else is doing right now. My only complaint is the short length, but that’s minor. Generally, more modern rap needs to stray into blues territories. Seems like it would be a natural thing, considering how much rappers love to bitch vis-a-vis the fact that blues turns bitching into a profound art form.
DOWNLOAD: Weapons of Audio – Ode to Mannish Boy
via DJBooth’s Freestyle Series
Also, here is my favorite version of Mannish Boy, taken from Electric Mud.
DOWNLOAD: Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
ALEON CRAFT X INSIDE THE MUSIC X STANKONIA STUDIO 10.28.10 from Jeron Ward on Vimeo.
Self explanatory. Wouldn’t mind it being longer and in mp3 form.
Burke (apparently now aka Lil Chuuch) has a ton of potential, unfortunately he has yet to realize it. This ‘freestyle’ is a vague sliver of a premonition of how things could be. Imagine RZA and Burke taking the minimalistic aesthetic here as a foundation and building on it to create a full album, kind like a Wu-themed companion piece to Marcberg. Burk would need to get a bit more focused in the verses and RZA would need to make the backdrops a shade darker and weirder (and dustier) … maybe a just touch of tasteful distortion. Throw in some GZA (if he’s awake) and Killah Priest (if he is currently occupying a reachable quadrant of the space time continuum.) It could work.
DOWNLOAD: Rev. William Burke – Freestyle (prod by RZA)
Pharoahe Monch Freestyle on Toca Tuesdays from Toca Tuesdays on Vimeo.
Why leave it on video when you can have a perfectly good 320kb rip for your listening pleasure.
DOWNLOAD: Pharoahe Monch – Toca Tuesdays Freestyle
The audio definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but you get the gist of it. Is it plausible they can take what they did there and transfer it into a studio and onto a record? Fingers crossed.
Peace,
Employee
Fifteen-plus years ago in the future.
Peace,
Employee
