ORDER “Home Grown Internationally Known” The debut album from Toledo’s own M-Eighty & Nino Graye featuring all Toledo guest emcees & producers including Mike Flamez, Ghiftd, Mugsy Mahonney, WADE, Raine Wilder, Proficey, Philippe, Bones tha Lion, DJ Zik, Vherbal, C-Fifth & more from www.glasscity419.com or digitally on ITUNES at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-grown-internationally/id571033559
This is the official net video for Styles, Itch & Phalla C’s version of the A$AP Rocky song ‘F*CKING PROBLEM’. Video by UV.UK http://www.urbanvibeuk.com
Jose, aka @MarquisMontes, comes through with his second Narcicyst collabo for his recently released Leap Of Faith EP and collaborative project. With Narcy opening up the vaults to his music, Jose took the concept of the positive vs. the negative in the dance of life, and created an interpretive visual art piece merging his vision with the title track off the EP. With leaps, sing language and interpretive dance, this video attempts to show the delicate balance between making out from struggle, and releasing out of it.
The Narcicyst’s Leap Of Faith EP…..
The Narcicyst returns with his new fresh sound, leaping into horizons and music he’s never shared before. This new 6-track EP contains some of his most personal content yet, speaking on jumping over the hurdles of independence in music and life that you are bound to relate to. As the seminal release on The Medium, his multimedia arts label and culture brand, Narcy has teamed up with his listeners to create an ‘art and action project’ entitled the Leap Up. He is asking people to log into the tumblr page and add their work, music, writing, photos, art and videos to engage directly with the public. He will be releasing extra bonus tracks, as well as accapellas for producers to remix as the process grows.
It’s a big year for our friends over at Hip Hop Kings as they make the transition of rebranding to HHK Mag, which we wish them all the best with. Here is a previously unreleased video of a FOURTY FIVE minute Q+A session Ryan Maxwell hosted with Masta Ace, Wordsworth, Stricklin and Marco Polo during a tour of the UK last year.
They stopped off in Leeds for an exclusive “an audience with”, and played “Son of Yvonne” to a 100+ crowd, then Ace opened questions to the floor.
“This song is the sum of all my most genuine fears on the path to success. I didn’t try to speak for everyone when I wrote it, I just felt like I needed to express all the fear, loss and fuck it that goes on in those quiet moments away from the mic. There’s triumph in the end though. When through it all you realize that there’s nothing you would change. You accept the challenge and know that it only makes the success sweeter.” – Trek Life
Motel Eola is a 19 year old hip hop producer from South East London and this is the “Before Rap” promo video for his debut beat tape “Kids Looking For Gold” available for download/stream from www.moteleola.bandcamp.com
http://www.hardknock.tv Exclusive in-depth interview with Tito Lopez. In part 2 Tito tells Nick Huff Barili the story of how he first meet Dr Dre at Encore Studios and how he ended up free-styling on the spot for him. He goes on to talk about ghostwriting for Dre, elaborates on what the creative process is like working with him and even goes us insight as to why he thinks Detox hasn’t come out yet. Tito also recalls being in the studio when Kendrick Lamar and Dre were recording The Recipe and how he tried to get on the track to no avail. Tito says there aren’t too many new artists that he wants to work with but Kendrick Lamar and Odd Future are a few he would. As the interview continues Tito addresses beef he had a while ago with Saigon which he says started because he felt Saigon was disrespecting the Southern Rappers.
Check out Tito’s Freestyle and part 1 of this interview at www.hardknock.tv
Dope producer Pete Cannon has just released a new beat tape, 14 banging instrumentals from the UK producer who has worked with the likes of Guilty Simpson, Maffew Ragazino, Sway, Foreign Beggars, Dr Syntax, Dirt Dike, Stig of the dump, Jam Baxter, Verb T and a whole host more. You can stream or download for just £1.99 here…..
Upcoming 18 year old Long Island rapper King Myers finally wraps up his 1st studio album, Kingology: The Mind of a Young King. Scoring features from Hip-Hop legends Rakim & Bumpy Knuckles, as well as eOne Music’s new signee Fred The Godson, King is on a mission to give the hip-hop world a breath of fresh air with “Kingology”.
It’s finally arrived folks, the 5th volume of the Scotland Standup Mixtape Series is available now for free download.
Scotland Standup has been promoting Scottish Hip Hop for over 3 years now and with the blog reaching newer heights each day we felt it was time to release yet another of our compilations.
The mixtape features the cream of the crop of Scottish Hip Hop.