New Fliptrix audio ‘Flashbacks’ (cuts by DJ Jazz T) lifted from the ‘Vultures EP’ available now on all good digital platforms. Look out for the highly anticipated 5th solo album from Fliptrix entitled ‘Polyhymnia’ produced by Molotov. The album is released on 08/10/2014 and features The Four Owls, Chester P & Rag N Bone Man.
PScril is a conscious rapper who has worked with Big Poo and has shared the stage with the likes of Talib Kweli, BIG Krit, Immortal Technique, and more.
PScril is an acronym for: Possessing Skill Character& Righteousness In Life.
This track is an entirely relevant song with the sad case of Michael Brown and events which have occurred since over this past week, where police were reported to have shot an 18 year old unarmed black man to death, PScril drops “The People Vs The Pig”. Obama has even spoken on it, and the people are finally fighting back with all the police brutality and deaths in the news lately.
The Greenville, NC emcee (who has only been in the game since 2012) but has already done work with Big Pooh and shared the stage with Talib Kweli collaborates with Jaemix on this conscious track. Deep messages are spread throughout the song to help our younger generation focus on the positive aspects of life and at the same time educate them on the harsh reality of our surroundings.
The opening track from the duos new album also titled ‘No Prisoners’. On This joint the two loose sight of the glitz and glam and go in on them BARZ…Literally leaving no prisoners behind.
Intergalactic oddballs and long-time YNR affiliates Strange U take matters into their own hands on this long awaited sophomore release. King Kashmere IV and Doctor Zygote continue in the vein of their 2013 Eglo debut with a brand new 7 track EP release entitled “EP #2040” – dropping September 16th as a free download, followed by a limited stamped vinyl pressing.
The first track “The Cake is a Lie” is available now here…
Directed and edited by XCON and produced by Will X Movement, “Grab A Cloud” is the third video from Dan-e-o’s third album, “Inevitable”, which is out now on URBNET Records.
Featuring his protégés, the duo L.I.U. (Slick Mason & Conwell), both the track and video capture the trio reviving back and forth rhyming, expressing their undying needs to escape being held down in order to fulfill their dreams.
Chicago’s Mpulse collides with Sacramento’s Swerve on this new joint. They go back to the roots and leave the hook at home as they trade bars.
Mpulse’s free album, “Be Incredible”, drops on Aug 27th. The free album will feature production from Don Cannon, Novacane, Keef Boyd, and a few other frequent Mpulse collaborators. There will be no features.
Manchester Hip Hop group The Bluntskins are rappers Cheech from The Mothership Connection, Bill Sykes from The Natural Curriculum and DJ/Producer Pro. P, ‘Roll N Burn’ is the 4th release taken from the new album “Cali Ku$h”.
Today, XXLmag.com premiered the latest leak, “All The Way” (Pimp Hop) from Statik Selektah’s forthcoming album, ‘What Goes Around’, and also premiered the full album stream for the project as well.
There are very few things that are more talked about in Hip Hop than what Hip Hop ‘is’. Everyone has their ideals and opinions on the matter, old and young and all in between all have differing things to say about it. Cue Jam Baxter and Jon Phonics to completely push all the boundaries with this release, Fresh Flesh. A phenomenally unique piece of work that is certain to be incomparable to basically everything else this year/most years.
Jam Baxter is someone who shatters the walls of anyone’s expectations of a rapper and in doing so has become that rarest of things – someone who very almost quite nearly everyone rates highly. Hip Hop is such a competitive scene it’s not often people agree on someone so widely. ‘Fresh Flesh’ continues to cement his ability to turn a phrase in such a way you have to check it back a few times to truly get it, and his seemingly inability to speak in normal sentences. Hahaha I jest, but it needs stressing that the way he words things is like a computerised thesaurus of slang and scrabble demolishing words. It’s really, really hard to try and tell you about the subject matter of this EP because of his fondness for mind bending imagery, but I’d say it’s like a melancholic psychedelic monologue on humanity. If you’ve heard him before you should understand that. Plus for me to go into interpretations of these tracks lyrically would be quite the task and it’s better you listen with your own ears to this mad genius.
Baxter never seems to go for the obvious beats, and with Jon Phonics production on this you can see why. Phonics comes with his electronica style production, but with Hip Hop veins running through it, creating an ethereal and airy landscape that goes from minimalist to head noddingly neck wrecking in the same track. His contribution to ‘Fresh Flesh’ is far more important than many producers who just do the same thing over and over. His part in this is perfectly realised and it’s clear to see why people have been salivating for more from these two since Baxters appearance on Phonics ‘Half Past Calm 2’ back in 2010.
Listening to ‘Fresh Flesh’ is so easy due to the calm nature of it, from start to finish its a complete work of art. I don’t know what they do in schools these days but if they aren’t teaching Jam Baxter in English lit and Jon Phonics in music class then they’re missing a trick. The fact that this was written, recorded and mastered in roughly a month shows the level of talent herein. This is bound to become a lot of people’s favourite release this year and sure to become the soundtrack of many a late night/early morning blazing chillout. Reviewing this has been one of the greatest pleasures it’s been of mine to do so. Plus given it’s my first review of something Jammy B put out you’re lucky this didn’t descend into an essay on why I think he’s one of the best haha. Get this is you like something different and you really appreciate writing and production. High Focus again with a big big release.
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