I put together a compilation of some overlooked and/or underrated songs for the good peoples over at Passion Of The Weiss. Not meant as a comprehensive overview or a best of anything, just a bunch of random enjoyable tracks that mostly went under the radar. Full tracklist and dl link are below, please go read the fully annotated write up over on P.O.W.
Emcee Jermaine – Crazy 88
Flatbush ZOMBiES – Gucci Gucci
Troy Ave – Motion Picture
Shady Blaze – Machine Gun Spit
Western Tink – Practice Looking Hard Jr. Ft Shady Blaze
Hail Mary Mallon – Table Talk
Rittz – When The Sun Goes Down Ft. Starlito
Silky Johnson – Fast Life Instrumental
Danny Brown – Cartier Glasses
AZ & Cormega – murder on the daily
Yelawolf – Shit I’ve seen Ft Trae the truth
Ethereal – Recovery RMX ft. Micah Freeman and Opio
Zilla – Like A Jungle Ft Clova and Bentley
Marq Spekt & Kno – All Smiles (Plastic Mask)
ShowYouSuck – All Chill Everything
LG – Kool & The Gang Ft. Bonka
KD – Let Me Ride ft. Freddie Gibbs
The Outfit – The D-Funk Era
Davinci – Pangea
Sleepy Brown – You’re My Lady
Bout damn time we got some solo Bentley material. This is the first taste of his upcoming Books-N-Guns mixtape, you can see the cover for it below the jump. Bentley’s official debut album Intelligent Hoodlum will follow later in the year.
No time to write up properly, but here’s the gist: The S.L.O. is essentially DB49 under a different name with slightly less drunked debauchery. Their album is gonna be crazy, take my word for it. Cannes on the beat.
A new mixtape from O’Third Ent, put together in celebration of their official one year anniversary. It’s a pretty comprehensive overview of their short but productive existence. Several highlights from their debut In The Box are included, although I think that mixtape/album was a great release in of itself and is well worth hearing in it’s entirety (you can now get it on ITunes and DatPiff) The real appeal of the compilation is in collecting a lot of their more prominent loose singles under one roof – the workhorse manifesto ‘Can’t Outwork’em’, the inspirational ‘Somebody’, G-Side’s Bossman produced Huntspace voyage ‘I’m Sorry’, Zilla’s club oriented collab with Jackie Chain ‘Ladies on the floor’ – all included. There are also a few new songs too, I’m really enjoying the two by Zilla so they’re featured below. ‘Like A Jungle’ particularly is a a big favorite at the moment due to three absolutely ridiculous verses by Zilla, Clova and Bentley respectively.
Tracklist for the whole mixtape is below the jump.
Today we conclude the promotional portion of DB49 week with two exclusive solo DB49′er efforts, one from Bentley and one from Kristmas. DB49′s debut album Happy Hour drops tomorrow, you might as well start pre-gaming now. The album is conveniently free, so you have more money to spend on beer and weed and DB49 merch or whatever you like to get fucked up on. As of post time it’s around 9 only in certain parts of Europe and Africa, the rest of you got no excuse.
First up alphabetically we got Bentley’s I Know. The song is a slightly off-kilter/drunken take on typical rapper/r&b chick collaborations, dedicated to the universal subject of bitches. You get a nice mellow nod-inducing beat from Mr. Beatnik, two hilarious Bentley verses as bookends, and some sweet crooning from guest songstress Ahu in the middle (her phrasing of ‘I know all the bitches’ is profoundly bonerrific). There’s also a nice little bit reminiscent of the ‘vertical hold’ gag from The Man On The Moon, you’ll know it when you hear it.
Next we got Why I Wanna from Kristmas. Here Professor Kristmas gets his Harvard on to give a 301 level class about the in and outs of the W2 Boy philosophy, with detailed arguments and examples and an appropriate soundbite from ATL to drive the point home. The song was co-produced by Bossman and R.Dot. It premiered officially last night on Baller’s Eve radio.
Big thanks to Codie G for blessing us with the exclusives. Art credits go to Bentley (who came up with the idea for the pic above) and John Turner Jr (who brought it to life).
Another small taste of Happy Hour. This snippet of the upcoming Club Pictures video features Bentley addressing the social blight of promiscuity caused by irresponsible alcohol consumption. As usual, thanks to Codie G for the hook up.
Additionally, here is just one piece from the copious amounts of SMS related artwork created by our friend John Turner in the last few months (he’s also responsible for the cover of SteadyBloggin’s Legend Of Homebwoi).
