Finally got around to giving BREEZE BREWIN’S latest album some spins today….Truth be told, BREEZE is a top notch story teller, and to me that was plainly obvious from his Juggaknot day’s (Clear Blue Skies still gives me the chills when I hear it), and his descriptive bars on “Prince Among Thieves” still stand the test of time…
Give this joint “Road Rage” a listen front to back for further analysis of his pen game…Produced by SEBB.
“Shit is crazy real in the field / I watched a nigga’s blood get spilled over five dollar bills…Major drug deals on the real / I watched a nigga get mills and his bitch get em killed….In this American dream to get some cream / your facing a beam or chasing magazines…It aint all about the fame, silly ass dames / see a gold record and you changed…And for all you niggas selling cocaine, your to blame / black peoples laws aint the same…Thats the tale in my hood, niggas is up to no good / you better watch it in them hoods”….
Back when the Wu could do absolutely no wrong, ODB & 12 OCKLOCK ASSASSIN cliqued up for one of the most rawest non-album (Came out on the Tales From The Hood Soundtrack initially), cuts in the history of hardcore rap…
“Old Dirty’s Back” captures an era that I still find myself submerged in – Ugly off beat drums, random death threats, high powered dusted bars, and that certain frequency that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the song is over…
When I heard of 12 o’clocks & Murdocks’s murder recently- I had a instant flashback to this song and the vibes it gave me / gives me…From all the details that I read, it’s a damn tragedy that most likely could have been avoided…It’s also a tragedy that it’s very difficult to find much info on either one of these talented brothers, that were not only direct cousins of ODB, but also connected to one of the illest crews in Hip Hop…
Do yourself a favor, turn this shit up and catch a zone..RIP
Some of the HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD massive might actually be surprised that I dig some of DARK LO’s shit….Granted I do not bang everything he puts out (If the beats don’t rock I avoid it like the black plague) – but when he links with VDON the duo definitely have their moments….
Give their latest offering “CHARLIE POPE” some decent burn – if your in the grimy lane like myself…
“They say the good die young, I’m going to live to a hundred / You name it, I done it, these shells make you empty your stomach”…….
BLAM,BLAM…
Recently peeped some new shit by a cat named SNOTTY….”Other Side Of The Wall” definitely had it’s moments- fully produced by Don Carrera….
Give it some decent burn if you know what’s best for you..
HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD TOP PICKS – “KILL EM ALL”, “89 ACURA LEGEND”, “IMAGINE”, “PTP”, & “WALLS OF JERICHO”
Glad to see more unreleased YUSEF AFLOAT / NONCE material hit the world….I wonder what type of creative musical output YUSEF would be dealing with in 2021 if it wasn’t for his untimely demise (It’s still somewhat of a mystery what exactly happened to him)…RIP
Hearing joints from the era transport me directly back to the 90’s …
“Next up on “90’s Tapes” are the demo 4-track recordings of Yusef Afloat’s “Foreign Objects” and “Hard Times”.
Known as one half of legendary Westcoast group The Nonce (along with Nouka Basstype aka Sach), MC/producer/musician Yusef Afloat produced tracks for Aceyalone, Supherb, and Figures Of Speech. He also appeared on the original 1994 release of Project Blowed. On May 21, 2000, Yusef “Afloat” Muhammad was found dying on the side of Freeway 110 in Los Angeles, he was 28 years old. The cause of his death is still unknown.
“When I listen to Yusef now, I’m reminded of what I felt then and that is he knew his time on Earth was limited. The tone was new, stern authoritative on his views and expressions of Hip Hop. I knew he was talking to me and each one of our peers. The tapes have been safe for 20 years thanks to Dee Skee for maintaining archives at Weightless Audio. The implications that I knew someone who may have said things because their span was going to be cut. I’m thinking he saw clearer than we could.”
Do yourself a favor and peep the latest mix by SKAMROK- and while your at it scoop up a copy of the 45 jack !! Make sure you tell him that the grimey dude from HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD sent you..
“Joint Of The Day”
This cut by BODY BAG BEN & RICK HYDE is definitely worthy of some mixtape burn….” Voodoo” rocks all types of greasy talk over spaced out ruggedness, with a splash of some well timed scratches always helps the momentum…
Be on the lookout for the “Hyde The Body Bag” album this Summer..
With so many releases dropping on the daily- it’s easy for fly shit to slip through the cracks unfortunately…It doesn’t help that many blogs / websites dick ride whatever certain “tastemakers” gravitate towards and hardly give projects a decent listen before re-posting…
Recently stumbled across some interesting shit from LA that made my antennae activate…
Producer JIG IN THE BASEMENT rocks a dusted out, atmospheric approach to crafting beats that is worthy of your attention, and MC LO -ESTATE constructs his bars on some ole stream of consciousness, esoteric, unpredictable other shit that is hard to pin down (Which is a good thing when many MC’s out there are boring and stale as a motherfucker)…
HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD TOP PICKS “FADE AWAY”, “LATE MESSAGE”, “MAX HEADROOM”, “POWERLESS”, “SHO NUFF”, AND “8 MEN” …
I’m going to catapult you back to 2017 for some GREEN LLAMA heat….The City Slick album by DECAY & FLUENT definitely had its moments….But one particular song really stuck out to me – “Black Composer” rocks a key sample that sounds like it was ran through a psychotic blender….
Always been a fan of unpredictable stretched out 4 bar chops….Fluent also rocks a heavy low pass filter that rumbles underneath the main sample in a way that will make your speakers quake…
PEEP-
VENDETTA VINYL BROADCAST #9 features the “BOX CUTTER BROTHERS”…
AYATOLLAH (QUEENS NYC) & DRASAR MONUMENTAL (VIETNAM, CALIFORNIA) linked up last month for some live radio action (K-BOO)…These two let off a nonstop barrage of unpredictable sample abuse at the highest level… 70 minutes of exclusives, remixes, instrumentals and all types of heavy explosives on deck…
DO NOT SLEEP…..FEEL FREE TO SPREAD AROUND!!!! BIG UP TO THE “ON ONE POSSE” IN THE PDX FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN.
Big up to that Jersey kid WISE INTELLIGENT for moving forward in this new era with some literary jewelry…If your in the mood to catch a heavy zone- you know the motherfucking drill..
I absolutely have to pay homage to cats like SHOWBIZ & MILANO for still putting out solid music without all the extra, modern day shenanigans…Both of them still sound hungry, determined and fresh even though they have been rocking for decades at this point….
Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs – please go out and show support to the cats that truly fucking deserve it…
Last night I peeped the duo’s latest project “Eating But Still Hungry” and I was impressed…SHOWBIZ is still bringing that BX heat to the table- and MILANO is still rocking unpredictable wordplay, and all types of other shit that deserves your full, undivided attention..
The most dangerous men in the world are ones that spit ILL bars over their own ILL production….
MINNESOTA happens to fall into that category…He is mostly known for his beats, but truth be told, the way he puts his words together is on some total “other” shit if you play close attention…Nonstop parables, and godfather jewelry is the mode he operates from…
On his latest offering – the MONEY BOSS PLAYER goes for broke with more of that true to the grain, hardcore block general type shit….For instance on ” The Jump” he goes into vivid detail about revenge killings, crime sagas gone sour, and all types of other explosive shit..
This is the first post of 2021-
I guess you can say I have been on a sabbatical from certain distractions…It takes an enormous amount of energy to be the person that I am, and for me to operate at 100 percent sometimes I have to focus and accurately measure my time management…
While the majority scramble on social media for validation – I honestly could a fuck less..Many seem pre- occupied with numbers and traffic..
But I hate to enlighten you – Numbers do lie…
Bots, politics, secret societies have pretty much taken over social media at this point…It’s basically a corny social engineering project that leads many down a portal of depression and desperately trying to keep up with the “Jones’s”…
The beauty of having my own space outside of social media, is that I’m not beating you over the head about anything…I’m not trying to constantly sell you something…I’m not on a quest to sway public opinion…I’m not operating some type of agenda to harness your attention…
I’m just hitting you off with flavors – no extras, no illusion , no high school pissing contest, no bullshit…
So keep your eyes peeled on this side because you are going to see more activity over here..Salute to all of those that still check in ( I SEE YOU ) –
Now that I got that out of the way- I recently rocked a little interview action with “Voices Behind Walls” out of Texas…
“Drasar describes his music as, “a wall of sound…bass, treble, and highs. HEAVY! My music is a sonic outlet of anger and frustration.” Instead of taking out what he describes as vitriol on others, he transfers aggressive energy into music. “It’s more productive to me in that fashion, many people don’t have a creative outlet, and I believe that pent up frustration manifest itself in a myriad of shortcomings and dysfunctionality…This [music] is my tool for expressing my deepest thoughts and opinions.”
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