St. Laz the self proclaimed king of New York’s underground rap scene drops his new brand new single ‘The Mic’ which comes with a superb music video directed by Elroy Isaac. This future anthem is produced by his long time partner in the Hip-Hop game Dr.G, a Manchester based producer who is making some serious moves.
“I made this song and video to remind the Hip-Hop community what true lyricism and real rap music is about”, says Brooklyn’s St. Laz, “everyone is so distracted and dumbed down in the rap game they forgot there’s only one thing that really matters and that’s your skills on the mic”.
This single is taken from much anticipated album ‘The Coalition’ from producer Dr. G which features St. Laz, Virgil Kent, Scottie Flippen, Chox (chose) Mac, Poe Mack, Crafsmen, Ghost Dog, Rap P, Stockmashin’, Born Ready, Big Sono, Twisted Insane, Fatal Hussein, Young Noble, Yukmouth, Outlaws, Hell Razah, Inspectah Deck and drops February 2014.
Willie The Kid and Bronze Nazareth have collaborated on a musical effort of grandiose proportions. Appropriately entitled ‘The Living Daylights’ the LP is a 13-track venture containing the earthy and whimsical sound of Bronze’s production and the colourfully complex wizardry of Willie The Kid’s literary prose. The collaboration is seemingly long over due as both Willie The Kid and Bronze Nazareth are natives of Grand Rapids, MI the second largest city in the state. Finally, they match wits on a musical landscape which blends the new age, boom-bap sample driven production from Bronze Nazareth’s legendary Wu-Tang Clan infused sound; with the vibrant and refreshingly intricate disposition of Willie the kid’s bristly rhymes.
Today, the duo releases a new track, “Delirium,” from The Living Daylights, featuring Sean Price & Sha Stimuli (produced by Bronze Nazareth):
‘The Living Daylights’ will be released in January 2014.
Tracklisting for Willie The Kid & Bronze Nazareth’s ‘The Living Daylights”:
Track by Si Phili, dedicated to Leon Briggs who died in police custody 04/11/13. Please support the Briggs family and J4L campaign by joining the facebook group page at www.facebook.com/justice4leaonbriggs and also download this track from
‘The Mission’ is a a new thirteen track mixtape from the second city’s M3 & Dirty of Nothink 2 Prove. It features Cipher Jewels from Moorish Delta 7 as well as beats by him too, which is solid dopeness and the mix is hosted by Mykill Million a true vet in the game of mixtapes. Heavy beats and reality rhymes, I love the clarity and honesty in this release and this is a great introduction to this Birmingham crew.
01 – Stay Focus
02 – Eat
03 – Calm Myself Down Feat. Miss She She (Prod. by Cipher Jewels)
04 – As I Sit An Gaze Feat. Lowkes of ABL
05 – Live & Learn Feat. Cipher Jewels of MD7 (Prod. by Cipher Jewels)
06 – How Long Will It Last Feat Von M
07 – The Mission
08 – Keep It Movin
09 – How Long Can I Keep It Up Feat. Dece Divine of N2P (Prod. by Cipher Jewels)
10 – Tell Us Why
11 – Wake Up Feat. Cipher Jewels of MD7 (Prod. by Cipher Jewels)
12 – Survival (Prod. by Dr. G)
13 – Watching Over You Feat. Angelic (Prod. by Adot R)
Jazz T & Dr Zygote’s official flip of the underground classic ‘England’ – taken from ‘The Dragon Of An Ordinary Family’ (Remixes).
Features remixes from M-Phazes, Om Unit, Kidkanevil, Mo Kolours, Mr Thing, ARP 101 and more! Cassette contains Dropcard with free digital download and die-cut ‘Jehst’ logo sticker.
High Focus Records are proud to present new signing to the label Ramson Badbonez with a brand new album ‘A Year In The Life Of Oscar The Slouch’ produced entirely by Charlie Mac which saw its official release yesterday!
This concept album covers the journeys of Oscar The Slouch as he navigates month by month through the gritty crime ridden streets of inner city London featuring Fliptrix, Rag N Bone Man, Jam Baxter, Mystro, Joker Starr, Genesis Elijah and more! We gave one of our newer writers Adam the opportunity to review the album, here’s what he had to say…..
High focus bless us with yet another dope album, this time in the form of Ramson Badbonez first release on the label. Now first off I feel I have to admit I was pretty unfamiliar with Badbonez before this. I’d heard bits and pieces here and there such as his fire in the booth and the track with Jam Baxter on Baxters Gruesome Features album. I had always enjoyed what I heard but this was my first full length listen. Oh how foolish I have been!
But what an introduction, 12 solid, and impressively realised tracks that actually made me worried how many dope fucking rappers I’ve been slyly unapreciating.(probably quite a few, it’s a good time right now) With a natural style almost incomparable to others, he’s a very confident and fluid mc.
‘A Year In The Life of Oscar The Slouch’, is, as the title suggests, a journey. As the man says himself in the booklet it’s a “conceptual representation of crime in the city element, at one of its highest activity points encapsulated within a specific time period .” He basically wrote the review himself there hahaha, which is good because doing a write up of an album this good is a very ying yang experience.
It’s easy to lavish praise on every aspect, but at the same time I still want you to realise I genuinely loved this album and I’m not just saying a bunch of nice shit about it for the sake of it. Obviously there have been a lot of people killing it, even just in the last year, but Badbonez has a place near the top right now!
With boomin production from Charlie Mac and Ramson switching his flow throughout its hard to not reload the whole album over, even more so given the amount of heavy features, honestly it sometimes shows up rappers having so many sick collaborations on an album but this is not he case here. He sounds comfortable alongside all of them.
I won’t list them all but appearances from Jinxta JX and M.A.B from Three Headed Beast (who’s twitter account is a must follow, pure jokes) are probably my favourites. This album is also responsible for making something exist I never would’ve imagined, Jam Baxter and Joker Starr on one track ha, but the result is great.
Essentially I think the best thing I can say here is GET this album if you like hip hop, which if you’re reading this, then you blatantly do. I highly doubt you’ll regret it. If you do you probably wanna put yo weezy album back on!
Oh and also be prepared to be asked by people if you were just listening to sesame street samples.
30+ Albums, 10 Years in the game & over 400k units sold…..M-Eighty “The A&R Extraordinaire” features 25 tracks from 25 albums over the course of the past decade.
FREE DOWNLOAD beginning 11-12-13
SPONSORED BY HIPHOPDX.COM x RBC RECORDS
M-EIGHTY – “THE A&R EXTRAORDINAIRE” TRACKLIST….
1. BIOCHEMICAL EQUATION — RZA FEAT. MF DOOM (WU-TANG MEETS THE INDIE CULTURE)
2. IMPOSSIBLE — HRSMN FEAT. RBX (HRSMN 2014)
3. 5TH CHAMBER — BRONZE NAZARETH FEAT. PRODIGAL SUNN, 12 O’ CLOCK & SEAN PRICE (THE GREAT MIGRATION)
4. ALPHABETS — GZA (PRO-TOOLS)
5. HIGH RANKING — TIMBO KING FEAT. RA THE RUGGED MAN (FROM BABYLON TO TIMBUKTU)
6. FAITH DOCTRINE — THE WISEMEN FEAT. BEACE (CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD)
7. CALI SUN — MASTA KILLA FEAT. KURUPT (SELLING MY SOUL)
8. HIGH SOCIETY — ENDEMIC FEAT. TRAGEDY KHADAFI, RUSTE JUXX & AFU RA (TERMINAL ILLNESS 2)
9. GROWN FOLKS TALKIN’ — PLANET ASIA FEAT. TALIB KWELI (BLACK BELT THEATRE)
10. F.A.M — ALMIGHTY FEAT. KOOL G RAP (THE 2ND COMING)
11. I BELIEVE — KILLAH PRIEST (BEHIND THE STAINED GLASS)
12. S.O.N.Y — MATHEMATICS FEAT. BAD LUCK (THE ACADEMY V1)
13. SHOW EM’ WHAT CRAZY IS — THE UNDERGODS FEAT. TECHN9NE (IN GODS WE TRUST…)
14. SAMURYDAS — TERMINAL 3 FEAT. RAEKWON, KURUPT & KOJOE (THE ACADEMY V2)
15. CRUEL WORLD PT. 2 — SOUND SURVIVORS FEAT. CHINO XL, PLANET ASIA, COPYWRITE & BRONZE NAZARETH (FEEL THIS UNDASTOOD)
16. RAP IS LIKE CRACK — CAPPADONNA FEAT. SOLOMON CHILDS (EYRTH, WYND & FYRE)
17. DAYLIGHT — ALMIGHTY FEAT. KEVLAAR 7 (ORIGINAL S.I.N)
18. ONLY SLAVES DREAM — CANIBUS (MELATONIN MAGIK)
19. D FUNK (FUNK WIT US) — THE HEADHUNTERS FEAT. SNOOP DOGG, GEORGE CLINTON, KILLAH PRIEST & JAECYN BAYNE (PLATINUM)
20. M.O.A.N — SUNZ OF MAN (REMARKABLE TIMING)
21. ASSOCIATED — THE WISEMEN FEAT. GZA (WISEMEN APPROACHING)
22. PAPER CHASIN’ — JP BEATS FEAT. AGALLAH & PEX (THE WARNING)
23. FRESH FROM THE MORGUE — BRONZE NAZARETH FEAT. RZA (SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDMAN)
24. MASSACRE CENTRAL — KURUPT (PENAGON RYDAZ)
25. THE TAKE OFF — CHEDDA CHAPP (I.AM.HIPHIP.V1)
After 20 years of crafting tracks, legendary producer Havoc of Mobb Deep is making a selection of his signature sounds available to producers everywhere. The Infamous Producer Kit features over 200 sounds used on classic Mobb Deep albums like The Infamous, from Havoc’s earliest productions all the way up to the present day.
Simiah’s ‘Purple Dreams’ is a 6 instrumental track EP, re-mastered for vinyl by Mr Brown. Originally planned just to be a 10 track free download but now available on wax. Includes a vinyl exclusive, bonus song called “In This”. 100/300 copies available on purple vinyl.
“Working with Necro is a never ending workout, Kool G Rap says”
G Rap said: “Working with necro was like a consistent and never ending workout in the gym…like 1 thing after another but for a real good result at the end. This was the most intense mind excercise I had in a long time cause necro is hungry like he just debuted yesterday.”
Necro has created a playlist on his NecroTV channel where you can stream the entire, “Once Upon A Crime” album
Necro has also created another playlist for Behind The Scenes clips for The Godfathers:
Recent Radio Appearances Playlist:
Recent Interviews Playlist:
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