DON’T SLEEP: minipimp “My Hard Drive Weighs A Ton” [BEAT TAPE]
minipimp of Collective Resonance shot me his beat tape “My Hard Drive Weighs A Ton” on the night of November 17th. I spent the next two weeks busting out tens of thousands of words about the progression of Hip-Hop culture so that jawn never made it to PIK. Three weeks later, here it is. Finally…
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DON’T SLEEP: Duzz Down San “DuzzUp Vol. 5” [COMPILATION/BEAT TAPE]
Duzz Down San released the 5th edition of their “DuzzUp” series a couple of weeks ago while I was recounting how mainstream Rap music went from great to the new millennium version of minstrel music. In any event, don’t sleep on this…
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DON’T SLEEP: Nopromo “Nopromo Beat Tape” [COMPILATION/BEAT TAPE]
The Nopromo Beat Tape features contributions from Elaquent, Kaytranada, Ta-Ku, Inphy, FTNM, GRVZO, DJ Fatte & Noyce. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: Amin PaYnE “Cosmic Disfunktions” [BEAT TAPE]
Amin PaYnE’s funky ass new project “Cosmic Disfunktions” dropped on Cascade Records back on November 30th and I’m going to let this one rock on the site for 20 minutes as opposed to 10 before I post up the next jawn. If you haven’t caught on yet I’m still extremely backed up here. By Monday I should be able to process submissions normally again. Hopefully…
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DON’T SLEEP: Juniper Blaze “leftovers…” [BEAT TAPE]
Juniper Blaze dropped a beat tape called “leftovers…” back on November 23rd. It’s December 9th, now. I have a lot of work to do today…
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DON’T SLEEP: Nimajir “ELEVATION Vol. 1”, “90 RAP FR”, “ELEVATION Vol. 2” & “SUPERSAUCE” [BEAT TAPES/REMIXTAPE]
Straight outta Paris, France comes beatmaker/remixer Nimajir and here’s his entire output from 2012. Three beat tapes and a remix tape featuring classic French Rap from the 90’s. Don’t sleep on “ELEVATION Vol. 1”, “90 RAP FR”, “ELEVATION Vol. 2” & “SUPERSAUCE”…
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DON’T SLEEP: Crack Moses “Dumb” [BEAT TAPE]
This beat tape is from September, it’s called “Dumb” and it’s by Crack Moses. I’ve had this jawn on the back burner since the night of November 17th to give you an idea of how far back I’m reaching here. I’m surprised my MacBook hasn’t given out yet. I just need it to survive until the end of the night so maybe I can barely make it through the saved back catalog.
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DON’T SLEEP: aaronmaxwell “64”, “dianetics” & “emma watson” [BEAT TAPES]
SP-404 master aaronmaxwell dropped three beat tapes named “64”, “dianetics” & “emma watson” recently. Don’t sleep on ’em…
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DON’T SLEEP: ElyonBeats “Beat Session Vol. 1” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s ElyonBeats “Beat Session Vol. 1”. I did about 40 posts yesterday and I wasn’t anywhere near done. I’ll try to get through today since the Patriots don’t play until Monday night. This will be interesting to say the least…
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DON’T SLEEP: Hannibal King “Singing Miracles” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s Hannibal King’s beat tape “Singing Miracles” from November 30th. I need to check my emails to make sure I post everything from November as I had so many submissions that I just didn’t open some of my emails so I knew what to listen to later. I’m taking a break. I’m FAR from done, though. I may go until 5 AM with this one so i can just enjoy my Sunday worry free. I’m gonna go eat something and watch some MMA & boxing. be back later, y’all…
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DON’T SLEEP: Nightly Beat “November 2012” [BEAT TAPE]
Nightly Beat continues it’s run of monthly beat tapes containing a beat a day with “November 2012”. I haven’t seen any beats from the first week of December, though. What gives?
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DON’T SLEEP: TUAMIE “Fears” & “Control” [BEAT TAPE & REMIX PROJECT]
TUAMIE dropped these two beat tapes last week called “Fears” and “Control”. It looks like I’m getting somewhere. I’ll post the SoundCloud stuff on Sunday so I’ll actually make some headway today moving through my saved back catalog after all…
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DON’T SLEEP: Tarik Sabar “LOVE fractions” [BEAT TAPE]
Tarik Sabar comes back with some hot ass classic Soul/R&B inspired beats packaged in a monster beat tape titled “LOVE fractions”. Don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: Astroboter “Beat Sutras Vol. 1” [BEAT TAPE]
Astroboter’s “Beat Sutras Vol. 1” is one of the rawest, hardest beat tapes I’ve heard thus far in 2012 and 2012 is damb near over so don’t sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: Hassaan Mackey x Moses Rockwell “MackRocks” [NEW PROJECT]
Hassaan Mackey surprised me with this one. I had no idea he was this nice with the beats. None whatsoever. Moses Rockwell on the bars. Hassaan Mackey on the boards. MackRocks. That’s what’s up. Don’t sleep…
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DON’T SLEEP: Waldo x Sango “Pick Your Own Poison” [NEW PROJECT]
Waldo teams with Soulection producer Sango to deliver “Pick Your Own Poison”. Where the beat culture meets trap music & club Rap. Do what you will…
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DON’T SLEEP: Jaekim “Buildin’ Blox Volume 3” [BEAT TAPE]
Here’s Jaekim’s latest beat tape “Buildin’ Blox Volume 3”. If you sleep on this then God have mercy on your eternal soul forever and ever amen…
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DON’T SLEEP: J-Zen “Padwork” [BEAT TAPE]
J-Zen’s “Padwork” beat tape is a necessity for those to claim to love beat tapes and slaps. If you sleep on this you just suck as a person in general…
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DON’T SLEEP: MΔMBVHH “Tranquil Haze” [BEAT TAPE]
This one’s called “Tranquil Haze”. Based on how it looks outside this is the perfect beat tape…
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DON’T SLEEP: wun two “wait for silence EP” [REMIX PROJECT]
wun two did a remix project called “wait for silence EP” and you best not sleep on it…
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DON’T SLEEP: The Boomjacks “Beats Of Ice And Fire” [BEAT TAPE]
Finland’s The Boomjacks just released a beat tape called “Beats Of Ice And Fire”. This is it….
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DON’T SLEEP: MoGiLLaH “Ear Candy” [BEAT TAPE]
MoGiLLaH is back with a new(ish) beat tape titled “Ear Candy”. I’m running through the Bandcap beat tapes right now but I have a gang of SoundCloud jawns waiting in the wings once I cut into this list some more…
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DON’T SLEEP: KNGTT (LAKIM x KVZE) “GawdsKonnect.” [BEAT TAPE]
This is a split beat tape featuring the combined talents of PIK regulars LAKIM & KVZE. Don’t sleep on “GawdsKonnect.”…
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DON’T SLEEP: BKBROWN “17AFFAIR” & “Futures” [BEAT TAPES]
San Diego’s BKBROWN dropped two beat tapes folks have been sleeping on, “17AFFAIR” & “Futures”. Wake yo’ asses on up!
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