MURS x Ski Beatz are going to release an album on DD172/BluRoc Records called “Love & Rockets” on October 11th, 2011. The Hip Hop & Love Tour will kick off September 27th and end November 26th. When we get closer to the album’s release I’ll do a follow up post with pre-order information attached. I still haven’t even heard “24 Hour Karate School 2” yet. Don’t sleep…
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Here’s a new free release from the homie 0hbliv titled “Ohblique” which is a precursor to his LP “Mindgarden”. Get in my iPod Touch! Don’t sleep on this jawn…
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Here’s a new jawn called “The Most Efficient” from Venomous2000 featuring CyMarshall Law, John Robinson, El Da Sensei with DJ Priority on the cuts and a beat by Sci Fi Stu. DON’T SLEEP!
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Once again, Jillzworth of Them Fighting Words had her newest edition of one of my favorite series’ on the net “Scrambled Crates”. This time around she picked me to judge it so I sat around listening to the selections she sent me via Gmail last night until I finally decided upon my Top 10 a few hours ago. I’d like to thank Jillzworth for the opportunity and picking such a great piece of source material. I’d like to thank everyone who submitted slaps. I’d like to thank iNanz for the logo. I’d like to thank Scarlett Johansson for being born and looking so damb good.
If you’re interested in being a part of Scrambled Crates 12 then hit up Jillzworth with” SC12″ as the subject @ ScrambledCrates@gmail.com. Please don’t waste Jillz time by asking for the damb sample and failing to send it in by the deadline or by making some wack earbleed shit with weak ass baby arm drums. Salute to whomever will judge the next contest. This was hella fun!
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Here’s the promo video for the upcoming Roc C “Stoned Genius” LP dropping 12.6.2011 with a “Fantastic Planet” theme done by graphic artist & designer iNanz herself. DON’T SLEEP!
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Here’s the new Japan only Onra single “Change Of Heart” via XLR8R for his new 7″ “Change Of Heart”/”Keep On Loving Me” to promote his upcoming Japanese tour. You can cop it from All City, Rush Hour, Phonica & HHV right now. You can also listen to “Change Of Heart” via Onra’s own Soundcloud. DON’T SLEEP!
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The Japanese beatmaker/producer Ichiro_ dropped a $14 album on heads via Bandcamp yesterday. You can actually cop his Oilworks LP “Unconsidered_” from iTunes for $11.99. What you wanna do? Either way, don’t sleep!
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Here’s a brand new Thaione Davis instrumental collection called “Emanuelle’s Theme Music” that just dropped yesterday. Don’t sleep on this jawn!
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Here’s the newest Rap Ohne Lizenz beat tape from Geraet of the crew Cutcannibalz titled “Sanpo”. It’s kinda off the wall. Don’t sleep!
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Here’s the long awaited beat tape from J57 “The Analog Tape”. I’ve been rocking it for a while now but now y’all get to hear it as well. Here are some words from J57 himself regarding the project:
FLüD Presents: Beats Per Minute with Exile from FLuD Watches on Vimeo.
The homie Exile discusses his origins then abuses an MPC 2000 XL. All in a days work. Then he has an album dropping in a while where he even rhymes over his own beats (just like the old days) called “4TRK MIND”. Don’t sleep!
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Calvin Valentine, Tope & Epp form like Voltron under the name TxE. You can enjoy this EPK/documentary and look forward to their project “We Get It In True” that will hit FRSH SLCTS soon. DON’T SLEEP!
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Here’s Dutchmassive’s Stussy x Low End Theory x Teenage Engineering submission “F!REWORX”. Don’t sleep!
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khaderbai’s “krüml no.01 – d’schildchrodd” is an instrumental project that comes straight outta Zurich in Switzerland. You can apparently cop the physical copy as well but when I went to the site I couldn’t see anything. DON’T SLEEP!
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Behind The Boards: Evidence from WeveGotTheJazz on Vimeo.
Here’s Evidence discussing working with Kanye West on “This Way” and “Last Call” during his “The College Dropout” era. Interesting shit. Can’t wait to hear “Cats & Dogs”. DON’T SLEEP!
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Here’s the Zilla Rocca remix for the Emcee Unless track “Ashes” which just dropped today. Don’t sleep!
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Here’s some footage of Mayer Hawthorne & The County rehearsing new songs off of their new project “How Do You Do” which drops on October 1st, 2011 for their upcoming tour with Chromeo. I’ve seen them live on two separate occasions and they are amazing. DON’T SLEEP!
Band Rehearsal from MayerHawthorne on Vimeo.
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The newest Beat Train Recordings compilation “Urban Sampler Session #4” features production from Bugseed, RADAx39, KYU, Jazim and several others in another 72 hour sampling beat convention which resulted in this very 27 slap project I’m posting up right now. DON’T SLEEP!
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Yungclassix of the BLAT! Pack just dropped his latest instrumental project “Life On The Grid” today consisting of 16 ridiculous blaps. If this beat battle veteran is a new artist to you then you should sit down & listen to “Life On The Grid” and stop sleeping immediately…
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Here’s the instrumental for Elzhi’s Will Sessions produced version of “Memory Lane”. You can now pre-order Will Sessions’ instrumental collection “The Elmatic Instrumentals” from eLZhi’s recent “Elmatic” release. The project will drop on September 27th, 2011 but you can pre-order it from Fat Beats (CD or Vinyl) or UGHH (CD or Vinyl). DON’T SLEEP!
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Torae’s “For The Record” drops on November 1st, 2011 via his new imprint label Internal Affairs Entertainment. “For The Record” features production from DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Diamond D, Nottz, 9th Wonder, !llmind, Marco Polo, Khyrsis!, Eric G, Fatin & E. Jones. Features come via Pav Bundy & MeLa Machinko. You can currently pre-order “For The Record” from Fat Beats & UGHH. When it gets closer to the release date and more pre-order links become available, I’ll update this post. DON’T SLEEP!
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The long awaited “Virginia Tec-9” Sketch album from Inner Loop Records that was produced almost exclusively by J-$crilla (except for one song) has finally dropped today. The album also features guest bars from Roc Marciano, Reef The Lost Cauze, Uptown XO, K-Beta, Nipsey Hussle, Bloodsport, Akshan, Midian & Nickelus F. You can cop “Virginia Tec-9” from iTunes and hopefully soon from the Inner Loop Records Bandcamp. DON’T SLEEP!
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Otayo Dubb’s new Beatrock Music release “Cold Piece Of Work” just dropped today and it bangs from beginning to end. I know that most cats are gonna sleep on this but not over here! This project showcases production from Fatgums, 6Fingers, Keelay, Digital Martyrs, CAV3, MTK, Defizit & Otayo Dubb himself. “Cold Piece Of Work” also boasts features from Bambu, Zumbi of Zion I, Prometheus Brown of Blue Scholars, San Quinn, Rocky Rivera, Balance, Juels Jones, Heddy Fur, Tahaj The 1st & Sakima. Don’t sleep on this. I pre-warned you NOT to…
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Dutch emcee/producer made these 16 beats collected on “Minnellium Grizzle” for his production company God’z Wrath between 2002-07. You can hear these instrumentals and search for the finished product afterwards if you’re unfamiliar with them. DON’T SLEEP!
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The homie Lakim‘s latest beat tape consists of nothing but sample sources from 90’s R&B which I’m an expert at (ask around). In any event, there’s no reason to sleep on Lakim’s “Stuck In The 90’s”. None whatsoever…
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This Sid Roams produced banger “Late For The Sky” is on the September 27th Rhymesayers Entertainment release “Cats & Dogs”. DON’T SLEEP!
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Dunc & Toine Makin’ Dollars (DTMD)’s upcoming Mello Music Group debut LP “Makin’ Dollars” looks to become yet another crown jewel in the prestigious catalog of Mello Music Group releases when it drops on either September 20th or September 27th. You can pre-order it on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp or UGHH. DON’T SLEEP!
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Story goes that back in 1994, K-Def laid down this beat with some scratches over it in the immortal House Of Hits for LL Cool J but the song ended up never getting used. 17 years later K-Def unearths the DAT and now it’s about to become a limited vinyl release on Slice Of Spice, a Redefinition Records affiliated label coming straight outta Brooklyn come October 31st, 2011. DON’T SLEEP!
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Here’s the new self produced Rashid Hadee jawn “The Dreamer” from his upcoming album and the video is embedded below. DON’T SLEEP!
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The latest Roy Ayers Project submission comes from Raez and is called “Come Here”. You can hear this jawn and if you’d like to submit your own composition to the Roy Ayers Project first carefully read their beat submission guidelines and submit your beat to RoyAyersProject@gmail[dot]com. DON’T SLEEP!
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The last time the Icelandic wunderkind Beat Machine Aron was featured on Producers I Know was back in May. It seems like it takes us all two months to catch up to Aron’s latest offerings. That really needs to stop. Don’t sleep on “Thoughts”…
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