New look, same ol' CTR. Trying something new for financial reasons, so bear with us for the love of hip-hop.
I know nothing about Diz Gibran. With that said, I love this album/mixtape/whatever this is that Crooks & Castles helped put together. Props goes to intransitt for telling me to give this a listen. I’ve had it playing for the last few days and I’m really in to it. Here’s a little info I found and a couple tracks I think you should check out before you grab this. And yeah, I know that this dropped in April. I guess I missed this one.
Diz Gibran – Just Me ft. Moonshine
Diz Gibran – City Lights
Los Angeles native Diz Gibran is not the type of MC that listeners have come to expect from the west coast. Stylish, witty, introspective and heartfelt, Diz makes the type of Hip-Hop that is hard to put in a box. He developed a love for the craft of rapping at a young age and has been doing it ever since. He never pursued it as a career until recently, he simply made music for the sheer love, respect and fun of it all. It became his outlet, a form of therapy to express life’s ups and downs, pitfalls and triumphs.
Diz Gibran creates the type of music that people feel and relate to, the kind of hip hop that fits whatever mood you’re in. Diz speaks on his life experiences, both good and bad. Along with his friend and producer Moonshine, the two make classic material without even trying, and as a result are rapidly building a buzz amongst hip-hop fans and industry executives alike.
In a short time and without much support, Diz Gibran has performed alongside such notables as Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, The Game,and Clipse to name a few. An aspect that sets Diz apart from his contemporaries is his work within the fashion industry. Diz has been popping up in magazines and on fashion blogs in the U.S. and overseas for years, and as awareness of his music increases so does the demand. Diz Gibran is in a perfect position to set the world on it’s ear. Along with his crew The Great Wall (Pacific Division, Basik and Kartwright) and his partner Moonshine, Diz is set to give the world a differing view of what the west coast has to offer musically. Mixing style, substance, joy and pain; Diz Gibran is an MC that will quickly be respected and regarded as one of the greats.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, BJ The Chicago Kid, Bleu Collar, Diz Gibran, Kartwright, Moonshine, Pacific Division
Eyedea & Abilities’ By The Throat is due July 21st on Rhymesayers. Pre-order this here or here. After seeing these two live I’m definitely buying this. Check this track out.
Eyedea & Abilities – Burn Fetish
After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, the dynamic duo of Eyedea & Abilities return with the follow up to their 2004 critically acclaimed sophomore album E&A. With biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date, By The Throat cuts right to the vein and advances far beyond Eyedea & Abilities battle tested history (winners of HBO Blaze Battle, Rocksteady, Scribble Jam and the DMC’s).
Throughout the nineties the duo played an important role in the development of the emerging underground Hip Hop scene alongside friends Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, EL-P, the Living Legends, Sage Francis, Blueprint and more. Always pushing the boundaries, Eyedea & Abilities have not only grown but have elevated their talents and once again successfully brought them together with By The Throat.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, Abilities, By The Throat, Eyedea, Eyedea & Abilities, Rhymesayers
I’ve been waiting for this release for a while now. I’m glad it’s finally here. I became a fan of Toki Wright when I saw him perform at the Paid Dues festival this year. Well, actually when I saw Brother Ali. I talked about it here when I found his former group The C.O.R.E.’s album. Definitely check this release. Here’s a track featuring Brother Ali you can sample. Tracklist is after the jump.
Toki Wright ft. Brother Ali – The Feeling
You can buy this here (@ amazon) or here (@ itunes).
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, A Different Mirror, Brother Ali, Grouprip, I Self Divine, Living Legends, Rhymesayers, Scarub, Toki Wright
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Before renowned hip-hop producer J Dilla passed away in 2006, due to complications from Lupus, he had already set to tape a multitude of unreleased tracks. Jay Stay Paid or J$P, features music culled from the Dilla’s old floppy disks and DATs and tracks laid down during his time spent in the hospital. More than three years after his passing, Dilla’s mother Maureen Yancey, better known as “Ma Dukes,” and esteemed producer Pete Rock decided to compile Dilla’s unreleased beats and samples into a cohesive LP. The format of the project runs like a radio program with Pete Rock acting as the DJ. While primarily instrumental, J$P also features guest vocals from Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, and M.O.P.
Props go to Claw over at 5vemics. I’ll be listening to this as soon as the Cavs game is over.
written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, Black Thought, Blu, Danny Brown, Diz Gibran, Doom, Frank Nitty, Grouprip, Havoc, J Dilla, Jay Stay Paid, Lil' Fame, M.O.P., MF Doom, Raekwon
Is an explanation necessary? You know what it is. Props goes to KirbyTheAlmighty.
written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, Blackout 2, Group Rip, Method Man, Redman
Check the newest solo release from Sadat X, of Brand Nubian fame. Dope album with some great features. Don’t sleep.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, Brand New Bein, Brand Nubian, Buckshot, C-Rayz Walz, C.L. Smooth, Craig G, Grand Puba, Ground Original, Grouprip, Jak D, KRS-One, Lord Jamar, Okwerdz, Poison Pen, Rahzel, Sadat X
I just got home from work and I’m about to give this a spin. I’ll post my thoughts after I give it a listen or two. Enjoy and support the artists.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, 2009 Releases, Abstract Rude, Rejuvenation
The long awaited album from The Grouch & Eligh has arrived. Make sure you pick this up when it hits stores the 21st. My pre-ordered copy can’t get here soon enough.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, 2009 Releases, Blu, DJ Fresh, Eligh, Gift of Gab, Legendary Music, Living Legends, Mark Bell, Mistah F.A.B., Mystic, Paris Hayes, Pigeon John, Sage Francis, Say G&E!, The Grouch
Three decades after hip-hop first cracked the Top 40, white MCs remain, first and foremost, a joke: fodder for sketch-comedy routines, YouTube parodies and reality TV. Eminem is the exception that proves the rule, and he had to createan outsize tragicomic persona ù the trailer-trash bane of Middle America ù to justify his existence. In a culture saturated by hip-hop, shouldn’t anyone be able to spit rhymes without shame, apology or having to crack jokes about his Star Wars action-figure collection?
Enter Asher Roth, a gangly redhead from the Philadelphia suburbs. Roth’s tight,
witty debut lives up to the Internet hype that has swirled around him for months. In the thudding “Lark on My Go-Kart,” Roth calls himself a “dork” and says he has “hair like a troll doll.” But he keeps the nerd-boy self-deprecation to a minimum and acts, you know, like a rapper: boasting nimbly (and often hilariously) about getting girls (”Lion’s Roar”) and getting high (”Blunt Cruisin’”) over chipper beats by newcomer Oren Yoel. Roth’s timbre and cadence will remind listeners of Eminem, a subject he addresses head-on in “As I Em.”
But he is his own man ù a blithe braggart, untroubled by the need to keep it real. And that white rapper’s albatross? He dismisses it with a couplet: “My friends said, ‘Homey, you know that you’re white, dude’/I said, ‘What, for real?
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, 2009 Releases, Asher Roth, Cee-Lo, Cee-Lo Green, Chester French, DJ Green Lantern, Eminem, Grouprip, Jazze Pha, New Kingdom
This album has been playing non-stop for me over the past few weeks after I saw The Grouch perform at ‘Paid Dues.’ I noticed it hasn’t been posted on here so I thought I would throw up the recommendation for anybody that hasn’t gave this a listen yet. Great all around album. Tracklist is after the jump.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2008, Abstract Rude, Bicasso, Living Legends, Marty J, Mike Marshall, Murs, Rafael Saadiq, Rio Amor, Scarub, Show You The World, The Grouch
I had heard the remix of Metropolis with Slug on Sean Likes Ugly Girls but besides that, I knew nothing of this group. That changed when I went to the Paid Dues festival last week and Brother Ali brought out a dude named Toki Wright. He has an albumed scheduled to drop on Rhymesayers in the second week of June, and I had the pleasure of hearing him perform one of the tracks off that album. I was impressed. So impressed actually, then the next day I scoured the internets for any information about this dude. I found what is supposed to be the first single off his upcoming album, A Different Mirror. I found a few tracks that he was featured on. And I found a group called The C.O.R.E. I ordered their album off of CD Baby (buy here) and popped it into my computer the second I got it in the mail today. I’m feelin it.
An exerpt from their CD Baby page and the tracklist are after the jump. Don’t sleep on these dudes. Continue reading »
written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2003, AD, Jai, Larissa Rae, Metropolis, Muja Messiah, Prof "T", Red Eye Entertainment, Slug, The C.O.R.E., Toki Wright, Zsame Morgan
One of my favorite releases from 2008. This album must not be slept on. I mean shit, just check the tracklist after the jump. This is a personal rip of mine.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2008, 9th Wonder, Analogic, Archrival, Ayatollah, Black Milk, Buckwild, Chaundon, Diamond D, DJ K.O., East, Edo G, Emilio Rojas, Eternia, Hip-Hop, Illmind, J. Siinastah, John Robinson, K-Hill, Kaze, Kenn Starr, M-Phazes, Masta Ace, Median, Phonte, Picture This, Royce Da 5'9'', Silent Knight, Skyzoo, SoulStice, Stricklin., Talib Kweli, Tiffany Paige, Torae, Wordsworth
Here’s a personal rip of One Be Lo’s 2007 release, The R.E.B.I.R.T.H.
Enjoy, and support the artists!
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2007, EAC, Hip-Hop, One Be Lo, One Man Army, The R.E.B.I.R.T.H.
iTunes rip of that new Rapper Big Pooh album. Tracklist after the jump.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 9th Wonder, Ab Soul, Chaundon, Delightful Bars, E. Ness, Jay Rock, Joe Scudda, Jozeemo, K.Dot, Khrysis, Little Brother, Mushinah, O-Dash, OhNo, Phonix, Phonte, Rapper Big Pooh, Roc C, The Co-Op, Young RJ
Here’s the new Common Market EP. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I heard they took a different approach to this. I’m expecting big things.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009 Releases, Common Market, The Winter's End EP
Been waiting on this one since I heard about it in that YouTube video Statik Selektah posted right after they finished the album. It definitely didn’t disappoint. Saigon has been hit or miss with me, and I haven’t really heard too much stuff from him that I thoroughly enjoyed, but he spits some real shit over Statik’s production. I’ve had this album playing almost non-stop since I copped it on iTunes last night. If you enjoy it, I suggest you do the same and pick this release up.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, All In A Day's Work, Hip-Hop, saigon, Statik Selektah
The simple shortcut to describe Rootbeer would be “MGMT injected with some N.E.R.D. and A Tribe Called Quest”. With an even more upped-tempo vocal cadence dancing on top of beatscapes that awaken even the hippest of skeptics, the music will make you jump up like a chimpanzee.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2009, 2009 Releases, A Tribe Called Quest, Flynn Adam, Grouprip, Hip-Hop, LA, Mash Up, MGMT, NERD, Pigeon John, West Coast
Breezilla: I’ve been looking for this one for a hell of a long time (along with the rest of hard to find/rare material from Pete Philly & Perquisite), but I’m really excited to have come across this one. I’ve been heavy on the jazz/hip-hop/funk tip lately (Jazzanova, Jazz Liberatorz, Azymuth, Digable Planets, Panacea, etc.) and this one fits right into place. Turn this on, gimme a left handed cigarette and dimly lit room and I’m on my own planet. Vinyl only release so the quality sound quality isn’t perfect, but the music itself is soul warming. Check this one while it’s available. I just ordered the vinyl myself.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 2001, Azymuth, Benjamin Herman, Danish hip-hop, Digable Planets, Instrumental, Jazz, Jazz Hip-Hop, Jazz Liberatorz, Jazz Rap, Jazzanova, Jazzy, Panacea, Perquisite, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Rare
I first heard Braille on the Cunninlynguists’ track, Missing Children, but I never really researched much in to him. He’s a spiritual rapper, but doesn’t overdose on the ‘God’ aspect of it. I thought I’d throw this album up in case anybody else was interested in checking him out. The album includes production from Kno & 9th Wonder. Must listens in my opinion are Nobody & Right This Moment. Hit the jump.
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written by Chesbomb
\\ tags: 9th Wonder, Braille, Deepsix, Grouprip, Illmind, Jon Doe, Kno, Manchild, Ohmega Watts, Othello, Pigeon John, Rob Swift, Shades Of Grey, Sharlok Poems, Tony Stone, Weapon X
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