DON’T SLEEP: XLOVE “Love Xe Jones” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s a new beat tape from XLOVE where he shows off his musical side. Don’t sleep on “Love Xe Jones”…
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DON’T SLEEP: FRSH SLCTS x Othello x 14KT “Bang!” (prod. by 14KT) [SINGLE]
FRSH SLCTS dropped the first in a series of singles from the upcoming Othello x 14KT LP “Taking L’s”, “Bang!”/”Top Spillin'”. This jawn is called “Bang!” and you shouldn’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: TZariZM x cRITICAL “Quarantine” [NEW PROJECT]
TZariZM of Doxside Music Group teamed with cRITICAL of Creative Juices Music to make “Quarantine”, a 6 song collaborative EP where TZariZM makes two appearances on the bars side of things and Madness of Critical Madness shows up as well. Don’t sleep on this…
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DON’T SLEEP: Bluesteady Triptik “Journeying” [BEAT TAPE]
Bluesteady Triptik consists of 3 beatmakers named Bonbooze, Gsq & Irhu. They formed like Voltron and made the beat tape “Journeying” for HHabitat Records. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: Moontown Tapes x Octo x Leagues “Octo/Leagues Beat Tape” [BEAT TAPE]
Melbourne, Australia is home to two young beatmakers named Octo and Leagues. They are both featured on this 19 slap split beat cassette tape on Moontown Tapes. Only 30 of these tapes will be made and the “Octo/Leagues Beat Tape” just dropped yesterday so get ta coppin’. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Turtlenecjk “Loop de Loop” [BEAT TAPE]
Australian beatmaker Turtlenecjk made a beat tape culled from Music he made himself called “Loop de Loop” and released it via Moontown Tapes. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: 3rd Floor “Back To The Basics” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s another beat tape that was supposedly dropped on January 1st, 2012 and was posted tonight on Strictly Beats but had ZERO likes on Facebook so I suspect it’s actually new. 3rd Floor “Back To The Basics”. No SoundCloud. No Facebook. No Tumblr. No info whatsoever. Don’t sleep, I guess…
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DON’T SLEEP: Grimeshine “rip.mpc” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s Grimeshine’s beat tape “rip.mpc”. It first dropped back in February and it has 30 slaps on it but I never heard it until I saw it on Strictly Beats tonight and gave it a listen. Don’t sleep, kids…
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DON’T SLEEP: HAZ SOLO “Crumblin’ Herb” [BEAT TAPE]
HAZ SOLO dropped a beat tape consisting of nothing but Herb Alpert material as it’s sample sources and no one told me. I feel as if I’ve failed myself for not knowing about this beat tape sooner. Well better late than never will be the theme of my following two posts before it turns midnight. Don’t sleep on “Crumblin’ Herb”…
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DON’T SLEEP: The Find Mag x 100 Akres x Kaligraph E “DONE GOOD EP Preview Mix” [MIX]
On June 26th, Australian producer/beatmaker Kaligraph E will drop a 9 slap beat tape on Bandcamp (via The Find Mag) and alsorelease it as a limited cassette tape (via 100 Akres). Here’s a 3 minute mix highlighting all 9 tracks (the last being a remix from Vanilla). Be on the lookout for the “DONE GOOD EP” in only 12 (or 11) more days. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: HAZ | NO (HAZ SOLO x Noah Deeakil) “HAZ | NO” [NEW PROJECT]
HAZ SOLO & Noah Deeakil teamed together to make a collaborative EP as HAZ | NO with assistance from ILLingsworth and Rockwell Knuckles. It’s called HAZ | NO. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: 9th Wonder x Kenneth Price “The Wonder Year Preview” [MINI DOCUMENTARY]
Back in Spring 2011, 9th Wonder & LRG first showed the trailer for the upcoming documentary detailing a year in the life of producer/professor/Hip Hop cultural advocate 9th Wonder. I missed when 9th Wonder came to Harvard & screened it and I’ve been slapping myself about it ever since. Now Kenneth Price & 9th Wonder want to shoot a follow up film called “The Harvard Fellow” about 9th Wonder’s year long fellowship where he’ll spend a year living in the Cambridge/Metro Boston area. If you support/donate to the Kickstarter you will receive a copy of “The Wonder Year”. So get to donatin‘. Here are the first 8 (why not 9?) minutes of said documentary so don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Computer Jay f/Shafiq Husayn & Jimetta Rose “Savage Planet Discotheque” (prod. by Computer Jay) [SINGLE]
If you’re not familiar with Computer Jay then you should probably slam your hand in a car door. Either that or drop down & get your Google on. “Savage Planet Discotheque” features Shafiyq Husayn of Sa-Ra Creative Partners and Jimetta Rose. I’m glad to see Computer Jay will be releasing some new material soon. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: House Shoes f/Quelle Chris & Guilty Simpson “Nails” (prod. by House Shoes) [SINGLE]
Here’s another jawn from House Shoes debut project on Tres Records dropping this Tuesday (June 19th, 2012). Quelle Chris of Crown Nation teams with Guilty Simpson over another Shoes banger and the end result is “Nails”. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Sango “Da Rocinha” [BEAT TAPE]
Sango’s “Da Rochina” is an instrumental project where he uses classic Baile Funk tracks as source material. Don’t sleep on this. I remember those Baile Funk mixes Diplo & Switch used to drop back in 2004-07. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: devonwho “makinglists” (prod. by devonwho) [SINGLE]
devonwho will drop his new beat tape/instrumental project “perfect strangers vol. 1” on June 16th. Until then here’s his lead single off of it called “makinglists”. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: evitaN f/Sadat X “3 Kings” (prod. by Will Tell) [VIDEO]
Hip Hop’s own Randolph & Mortimer Duke (Google the reference youngins) Dres and Jarobi are back in business and they enlisted the homies Sadat X and Will Tell on the beats for the new song & video “3 Kings”. Look out for the evitaN LP dropping later this Summer on BumRush Music and don’t sleep!
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DON’T SLEEP: 14KT “Blessed” (prod. by 14KT) [VIDEO]
The homie 14KT made a video for the track “Blessed” off of his latest instrumental release “A Friendly Game Of KT”. If you don’t have it yet then what you waitin’ on? Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Tall Black Guy “Sparkling Adventure” (prod. by Tall Black Guy) [INSTRUMENTAL]
The homie Tall Black Guy drops his highly anticipated new project “Tempo Dreams Vol. 1” on June 18th, 2012 via Bastard Jazz Recordings. This is a ridiculoid ass single from it called “Sparkling Adventure”. Pre-order it right damb now on iTunes. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: STB. (stan the beatsmith.) “They Shootin'” [BEAT TAPE]
Local product STB. AKA stan the beatsmith made a beat tape titled “They Shootin'” inspired by the popular anime series “Slam Dunk”. This shit bangs so don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: CARDIO RHYTHM x UAP x DELIME “SPRING BEATS PART VAN” [BEAT TAPE]
Three beatmakers from a small city in the Russian Federation called Chelyabinsk got together and spilt up a 12 beat tape evenly. There are Cardio Rhythm, UAP & Delime and this is their collaborative beat tape that they dropped back in March, “SPRING BEATS PART VAN”. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: Quali “Movement” & “Sunshine Jazz” [BEAT TAPES]
Ukrainian beatmaker Quali dropped the beat tapes “Movement” & “Sunshine Jazz” in the past few months. They seem to be perfect for warm weather listening and hopefully the Summer gets here soon as Boston won’t even get up to 75 degrees until next Monday. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Blu x Exile “Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them Promo” [PROMO VIDEO]
So…back in December Blu & Exile dropped their follow up to “Below The Heavens” direct to Bandcamp. Well, guess what? Blu x Exile “Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them” will be released on September 9th, 2012 fully remastered with bonus tracks and instrumentals via New World Color/Dirty Science/Fat Beats. Expect a single/vinyl EP to drop this July. I knew that would happen sooner or later. Feel like a dick for having spent $15 on it now, don’t cha?
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DON’T SLEEP: Shash’U “GORILADOGZ Lv.1” [BEAT TAPE]
This is a beat tape Montreal’s Shash’U dropped first thing in 2012. Just posted it today. Clap for me. Don’t sleep…
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