Requested by Ber. One of Slum Village’s ex-members. Never been a huge SV fan, but Baatin is most memorable for being the crazy member (I believe he is actually medically schizophrenic) and having the best verse on Tainted.

Baatin got his start in Hip Hop rapping and beat boxing in (86) with influences from MC Shan & The Juice Crew, MC Lyte and Big Daddy Kane to name a few.

In 89 he hooked up with T3 & Jay Dee and formed a group Slum Village. After dedicating 14 years of his life to Slum Village

Baatin decided to pursue a solo career. He left his fans with hits like Tainted from the Trinity album and Players & Climax from the Fan-Tas-Tic 2 album to remember him by.

With his new career Baatin plans to go to the top with his Titus Chapter 10 Verse 13 album amongst other projects. He will be releasing his album “Daytwah” in the future featuring production from Drummer of Iron Fist Records.

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A lot of people have been hyping this MC up as one of the hottest female MCs out there and being that she’s from Detroit they want to call her the female Eminem. Please disregard the Eminem comment if you’d heard that before because she’s nothing like Eminem, she just happens to be white and from the same city, still she’s nice. As a female myself I think I’m a fine connosour of female MCs and she’s aight (my dude NBS from WGTJ think she’s incredible). Anyway decide for yourself. I’ma keep my Jean Grae, Amanda Diva, & Apani B on heavy rotation, but this is a nice addition to any collection (femcee title aside).

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This has been floating around since the beginning of the month. Saw a grouprip released earlier, figured it’d be a nice addition to this feature. Not familiar with Colin Munroe? I pitty ya!

Colin Munroe kicks off December with the release of Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero, available for download starting yesterday on www.unsunghero.tv and OnSMASH. The free mixtape offers a glimpse into the world of this young, up-and-coming talent whose highly anticipated debut album Don’t Think Less of Me drops in early 2009 via Universal Motown. Free from the confines of one particular genre, Munroe fuses aspects of rock, pop, hip-hop and electronic music demonstrating his talent as both a musician and a producer.

Created in partnership with Sickamore & The Famous Firm, Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero was crafted over a two-month period in Dallas Austin’s Atlanta-based recording studio. The project includes appearances by Wale, Mickey Factz, Joell Ortiz, Blaqstarr and Skyzoo and showcases Colin’s wide-ranging influences, from a revox of Bob Dylan’s “Who Killed Davey Moore” to a remake of Q-Tip’s J. Dilla-produced track “Fever.” Munroe supplied the bulk of the production with additional contributions by Detroit’s Black Milk and Dallas Austin.

Tracklist after the jump. Some nice features on there!

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Hot single produced by Black Milk.

ARTiST: Invincible & Finale LABEL: Mello Music Group
ALBUM: Don't Sleep SOURCE: WEB
GENRE: Hip-Hop SiZE: 14.3MB
RETAiL: 00/00/2008 LENGTH: 05:58

QUALiTY: 320kbps CBR/44.1kHz/Stereo
Catalognr: MMG-DIGI-12-001

01. Don't Sleep 2:59
02. Don't Sleep (Instrumental) 2:59


Following the debut album of Brooklyn Academy, the one and only Pumpkinhead is back at it again with Picture That: The Negative. Make sure to cop this when it hits the stores!

Pumpkinhead - Picture That: The Negative

Label.........................: Scifen / Street Grind
Genre.........................: Hip-Hop
StoreDate.....................: Oct-00-2008
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.97 V2 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 59,0 MB
Total Playing Time............: 53:57

Release Notes:

bk all day….

Tracklisting

01. Picture That Intro 02:54
02. Vanquish (feat. Royce Da 5′9″) 02:41
03. The Gambler 03:06
04. Coastal Office (feat. Murs, Aloe Blacc) 03:18
05. Get Money 03:46
06. Wake Up (prod. by DJ Rhettmatic) 02:55
07. Ghetto 03:15
08. Of The Same Air (feat. Talib Kweli) 04:21
09. Relax Remix (feat. J Davey) 04:18
10. Stupid People (feat. Jean Grae) 03:42
11. Hands High (feat. Torae) 02:19
12. Hip Hop Dead (feat. Del The Funkee Homosapien) 03:14
13. Underground Massacre (feat. Sha Stimuli & Tools) 03:45
14. Welcome To Rosewood 03:36
15. Fiyakrakaz (prod. by Black Milk) 02:32
16. Lords Of War (feat. Archrival) 04:15

Support The Artists, Buy Their Music….

If you like the preview tracks cop this heater when it drops, the other tracks are just as good!

Requested by my boy Ant, here low on the official mixtape series for the critically acclaimed anime series, Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks. Anybody who’s seen a few episodes of the show has probably caught onto many of the social undertones and themes of the show (many which have carried over from McGruder’s comic strip by the same title), and his same anti-mainstream society motif shows up in the majority of the musical features on the tapes. Skyzoo, Talib Kweli, Tanya Morgan, Pacific Division, Jean Grae, Mos Def, Little Brother, Blu, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Tribe, Cunninlynguists, AZ, Rakim, Quasimoto, Bishop Lamonot and so many more. Do yourself a favor and at least peep one of these.

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New Premo mix, you know the deal. Buy the CD here.

Title [DJ Premier-Time 4 Change ]
Artist [VA ]
Label [Year Round ] Genre [Hip-Hop ]
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 83,9 MB] Ripped [10-25-2008 ]
Grabbed from [CDDA ] Enc [Lame 3.97 ]
Website [n/a ]

Track Time Title
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DJ Premier-Time 4 Change

01 DJ Premier & Biggest G - Time 4 Change
02 Nygz - Policy
03 Big Shug - When I Strike
04 House Of Reps - U Gotta Love Us
05 Termanology - Hold That
06 Blaq Poet - Ain’t Nuttin Changed
07 Prodigy - Veterans Memorial Pt. 2
08 Statik Selektah Ft. MOP, Jadakiss - For The City
09 Young Maylay - I Showed You
10 D-Flow (DITC) - Like Dat
11 Scarface - Emeritus
12 Jake One Ft. Little Brother - Bless The Child
13 Ludacris Ft. Floyd Mayweather - Undisputed
14 LL Cool J - Dear Hip Hop
15 DJ Revolution Ft. Planet Asia - School
16 Bumpy Knuckles - The OG Pt. 3
17 Royce Tha 5′9″ - I Gotta Shake This
18 DJ Revolution Ft. KRS-One, DJ Premier - The DJ
19 Black Milk Ft. Pharoahe Monch, DJ Premier, Sean Price - The Matrix

Totals
01 78:38 min

Hell yes, finally! I been waiting for this album ever since I heard it was being worked on. I urge you guys to go and buy this when it drops Oct. 28; Black Milk is the future nuff said. The hommies at strivin.com with an overview:

25-year old Black Milk, the accomplished producer, MC, and vanguard of Detroit’s rising hip-hop scene will be releasing his third solo album TRONIC on October 28, 2008 through Fat Beats Records.

Produced entirely by Black Milk and featuring only three guest verses on the entire album (from Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5′9″, and Sean Price), TRONIC shows Black Milk flexing his solo production and emcee skills through tracks that are more expressive and daring than his previous works. The album is a departure from the soul-sample driven sounds of 2007’s Popular Demand, as Black employs more live instrumentation, embraces the use of both vintage and modern synthesizers, and explores more orchestral song structure. Without abandoning his trademark Detroit hip-hop sound, he shows growth as an artist while clearly attempting to raise the bar as a pioneer of future hip-hop music. The album also features a short list of diverse players and vocalists including Dwele, rising YouTube star and new Universal Motown signee Colin Munroe, and the legendary DJ Premier who each add their signature creative nuances and textures to Black Milk’s sound.

In only a few short years, Black Milk quickly has become one of underground hip-hop’s foremost ambassadors. Realizing his vast reservoir of talent, both independent and mainstream artists looked to Black to give their albums a raw underground sound. Black has since produced and appeared on tracks for an impressive roster of hip hop artists including Genius/GZA, Busta Rhymes, Pharoahe Monch, Kidz in the Hall, Kardinal Offishall, Guilty Simpson, and Strange Fruit Project, among others. Most recently, Black released two albums, The Set Up with Fat Ray, Black Milk Presents Caltroit with Bishop Lamont. Black also handed nearly all the production on elZhi’s The Preface, an album that is making many critics’ Top 10 lists for 2008 and bringing serious attention to Detroit’s music scene. Black also produces and rhymes as a member of the ground Random Axe with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson and will release a full-length album in early 2009. TRONIC will be released on CD, vinyl, and digitally on October 28, 2008.

Tracklist after the jump. Do yourself a favour and buy this when it drops Tuesday!

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What a dirty sample! Make sure to go and support the kid when Tronic drops this Tuesday. Also, be on the lookout for a big Black Milk drop, dude is that nice.

Black Milk Feat. Royce Da 5′9″- Losing Out | MediaFire

Following Breez’s lead here, I dug up this mixtape released by Now On last fall. I love the bottom of the cover, real creative dudes. Smokingsection with a brief rundown:

Now On released this mixtape last fall as a Radiohead-esque “pay what you will” download. How more people haven’t heard it, I’ll never know. Emcees Jackson, IX Lives and DJ Haircut flew right under the radar with this Detroit-worthy gem.

This is not your ordinary hand-to-hand, backpacker mixtape; there are no unoriginal beats or verses.Don’t Call It A Mixtape was produced entirely by extended-fam production team the Lab Techs, with a couple guest beats by fellow Michigan native Black Milk.

Even if you’re not the biggest Detroit fan, I urge you to give this mixtape a listen. If for no other reason, then because DJ House Shoes hosts it and will have you rolling. If for no other reason, then because Jackson writes some catchy-ass hooks that you’ll have in your head all day. If for no other reason, then because IX Lives’ pops is Squirrel from Motown-era The Dramatics, and talent flows through that family. If for no other reason, then because Haircut is an intensely underrated producer who’s got mind-blowing beats for days.

But most importantly; if for no other reason, try this mixtape because it’s just an easy, entertaining listen from some real dudes who make the kind of music that instills the hope we can take this hip-hop thing back from the bullshit.

Free Download

Been waitin on this shit fo a while. Crazy beats and dope features.

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I read a review of this in XXL a few days ago and thought to myself “where have I been?”. If you’ve been living under a rock for a good minute here’s Detroit’s dopest MC putting it down to hold us over until his next full LP.

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Seems like a lot of people missed this one. Don’t sleep this time around if you’re a Black Milk or Bishop Lamont fan.

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