Arcee, Kae Wonder & that dude that has been smashing all the Red Bull beat battles, “Frank Dukes” combined forces for this hour long journey into sound…

Peep what they had to say about this particular session..

” We went 3-for-3 with a wide array of joints from psych to soul, west-Indian funk to Bollywood brainmelters.

You’ll notice that there’s no tracklisting for this Cratery. The information is classified. However, we did give you an eBay-esque description that may help you decode the secrets contained within our crates. Just kidding, the descriptions won’t help you at all “.

Regardless of all of that, we present to you:

1. Fantastic Soul *Horn Stabs* SAMPLES-*cue burn,surface noise. Plays fine*
2. MONSTER FUZZ SOUL!! 45 RARITY
3. “Ain’t no sunshine” HIP HOP BREAKZ
4. Shady Brook LP Hard-to-Find Soul!
5. Barbados 1977 WIRL Disco Funk
6. Funky 45 Plays Great!
7. Great Grits and Gravy Soul
8. 45 RPM Mid-tempo Soulful Rock – SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY
9. Groovy Funk – Great for Teenagers!
10. DOO WOP Surprisingly Hard Drums (No Break-sorry)
11. Detroit Soul 45 *surface noise*
12. Hot Wax LABEL Great Soul!
13. HIP HOP DRUM BRAEKZ! 45 RPM
14. Indian Psych –FUNKY— SAMPLES
15. Disco/Rock MONTREAL LP
16. Rare Tropical Funk COVER Gwen McCrae
17. Cuban RARE RARE RARE
18. Library INSTRUMENTAL FUNK –BREAKZ-

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Via- Barbecue or Boogaloo

Last weekend I headed up to Oakland hills for a little fiesta at legendary “Cray-One’s” crib….Here is little info on Cray if you are not knowing….

1…Dude has been smashing the graff world for over 20 years now (Talk about putting in work)…

2.. Filmed and published several times, such as in the book “Spray Can Art”, “Graffito”, “Piece By Piece”, and “Freight Train Graffiti”…..

3..One of the first graffiti artist to have a one-man gallery show on the west coast…

I think by now you get the motherfucking point, dude is no JOKE !!!!!

We had a real good time…Food was poppin, sun was out, and I had an opportunity to have a real heated discussion with my dude, “Bas-One” (Style Elements Crew/ N.S. / WASET)….Talk about heated, the conversation got so out of control that we both ended up shouting the lyrics to the demo version of “Rock The Bells” at each other…

” Jack The Ripper, King Hercules, / Professor of death on the seven seas ” …….(OH SHIT)…..

Thank you “Bas” for that conversation…We are not playing when it comes to this Hip Hop !!!!!!!!!

B-Boys & B-Girls In the photo: Kufu 1, BASone, Young Prize (Northstar Wahset Oakland CA. Chapter), Planet Rock & Drasar Monumental (Northstar Family/N.S. Warparty Chapter), Riff-Raff (Northstar Sacramento Chapter) Man-E (Northstar War Party), Zulu Roach ( Northstar Pillers San Jose CA.) Brotha State Of Mind, ChearsHTK, InkOTC, Verb, Cloud9, Torch, Angel, Chris-O, Koo C. & Orukusaki (UZN All Tribes SF Chap) SundanceAS, PicassoTWS, Sno, John, Lowell, K2-O.G. Lords, Sno , Jim Prigoff and his wife Arlene, , Fats, KodeHTK, RaevynTWS and his wife Fannie, Kasper, DareWCF, PicaAS, NateMPC, PhreshMDH/AS, Pete Allen, Ray Stevens, ShoeAS/KM, Bleek, Joseph Wright, Osare the Nigerian.

CRAYONE’S WEBSITE..

Are you tired of listening to cornball neo-soul type beats ?

Are you sick of hearing whiny, sap suckers complain about how their girlfriend left them high and dry ?

Me too trooper…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Back in 1996 Trife & D-Mob (Who happen to be blood brothers) put out the Gun Town’s Finest L.P. on “High Wire Records”….Here are a couple joints from that album that will force you to break something up….

Produced by Tony Sturdivant….

” Gun Town’s Finest “

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” Running From The Mob ”

“When you live the hood life,shit is trife / running from the mob,backing niggas down- word to god”….

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” I’m thinking of taking my own life, might as well / except that they don’t sell weed in hell….And that’s where I’m going because the devil is inside of me / they make me rob from my own nationality “………

(Sticky Fingers-Last Days)

BLAM, BLAM, BLAMZZZZZ……

I’m back with some more remix action for the HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD posse……

When I sat at my sampler yesterday making this beat, I knew deep down that I was dealing with some explosive frequencies…I was getting so hype, that I had to find a hype acapella to match the intensity of the sounds blasting out of my MPC..

Ahhhh, the “Evil Streets” by those crazy baldhead dudes Onyx……..This has to be in the top three of the best songs that the trio has ever made….And the crazy thing about this song is that, “Fredro Star” made the original beat….

For some reason after 1995 I stopped hearing what he was capable of doing behind the boards (It’s a shame because it sounded like he was headed in the right direction)….

Anyway, you know how I do…….All samples, all ugly, all Hip Hop Battlefield certified…..

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If your in search for dusty breaks, my man Kid Dyno (London) has got you covered homeboy…On his latest “Breaks For Days” radio broadcast- he blesses us with over an hour of sureshot head nodders….

The first half consist of all sorts of breaks that will keep your ears on alert mode, the second half is packed with under the radar Hip Hop treats…TWO THUMBS UP…

So do the right thing and get your day started properly…

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In the nineties, the “Beat Nuts” could do no wrong…..

A few rowdy albums, a gang of heavy duty remixes, and a couple world tours solidified their stamp on the Hip Hop nation……

Here is a cut by “BN” that you probably haven’t heard before (Unofficial release)….”You Suckers Ain’t” is vintage Nuts, wild-out, party crasher type shit….

Big up to Vinyl Addicts…

LISTEN UP !!!!

The Opus is comprised of “Isle Of Weight” and “Echoes”, who have managed to create their own original sound….From their days with Chicago outfit “Rubberoom”, to their newest offering “Preying Mantis”, the duo showcase an ever expanding musical palate….

I personally lean more towards the Rubberoom-era material, but I have to admit that the newer stuff deserves your undivided attention as well….

Check out this mixtape that D.J. Risky Business put together…….Peace to my whole Chicago crate digging fam..

TRACKLIST…

1.Intro 00:56

2.Smoke – Rubberoom 02:20

3.Angels Holdin’ Heat 02:00

4.Memories – Thawfor 02:59

5.He Who Is Him – Nacrobats 04:29

6.The Ocean (Remix) – Slug 04:33

7.Natural Disaster – Earatik Statik 04:04

8.Evil Arch Angels – Rubberoom 04:04

9.Street Theme – Rubberoom 04:04

10.Alien Rock – Verbal Kent 03:38

11.Spiral Of Silence – Slaughterhouse 04:16

12.Evil Is Timeless – Earatik Statik 05:02

13.Where They At – Rubberoom 02:54

14.Elipsis Of Nonsense – Syllabus Illabus (Crypto, Tao, Tue & The Immortal Griffen) 03:47

15.The Pit – Rubberoom Feat. Gravity 04:56

16.Stacks Of 45s – Rubberoom 04:38

17.I Got The Fear (Opus Remix) – Meat Beat Manifesto 04:05

18.Films – Sonic Sum 02:40

19.Lazerface (the OPUS Remix) 04:27

20.Sector Rush – Rubberoom 04:26

21.Black Box – Rubberoom 03:18

22.Eons – the OPUS 01:40

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Fresh off of a stint from prison, “Tragedy Khadafi” gives us a glimpse into his beat selection process….It’s a shame that only one or two of these beats caught my attention…..

All you producers out there better step your CHOPS UP !!!!!!

Tragedy deserves more heat than this fam…….

Welcome home…

Prince Paul easily makes my top ten producers list…..While most fools were still in the process of raping James Brown’s entire catalogue, Paul took things a step further and sampled from a wide spectrum of different genres before it became commonplace in the Hip Hop world…….

Of course he gets plenty of credit for introducing the skit, but he deserves more credit for being an all around hilarious character…..When I saw him spin a couple years back in Seattle, he had me laughing for the entire performance.

Maybe he should enter the realm of stand up comedy (I’m dead serious)……

Chris Faraone (Boston Phoenix) sat down with Paul recently for a quick interview……He discusses his feelings on Drake, Long Island, his son, etc….

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What up Hip Hop Battlefield posse ?……..

You came over here because you need some new flavors to bump in the whip huh ?

Well here you go family, I got you covered …….

Peep the tracklist…..

1.INTRO FREESTYLE
2.BODEGA STORIES
3.ANIMAL KILL
4.ALL IN
5.1ST DEGREE MURDER
6.HOOD PRIDE
7.MY HOOD
8.ITS OVER
9.FREESTYLE
10.MOMENT OF TRUTH (RIP GURU
11.FREESTYLE( RIP GURU
12.THE RESERVES
13.LETS GET MONEY
14.HEAD SHOT
15.STREETS GOT A NEW FACE
16.MONEY
17.FEELINGS
18.MY ATTRIBUTES
19.IN THESE STREETS
20.DEAD BROKE
21.SLIME
22.FREESTYLE

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Black Diamonds, Black Mobb, Black Ice, Black President MOTHERFUCKER !!!!!!!

WOW…..

Flame Killer and G.O.D. Father 3 are back with another dose of that Q.B. boulevard bully rap…..Here are a couple selections from their newest mixtape (Black Diamonds) that should encourage you to do something grimy….

You know the drill…

“How You Want It” featuring Prodigy, Un Pachino, and Big Twinz…..

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“Change”

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It’s the Strong Arm Steady Gang…..

I wonder what S.A.S. would sound like if that dude Xzibit was still in the fold ?

Anyway, your boy Krondon A.K.A. Mr. Yellow Face has a blog that you should scope out while your floating around in cyber-space….

WEST COAST STAND THE FUCK UP !!!!!!!

TUNE IN..

” Dizzy Gillespie plays the sax / me, myself I love to max “…….

Wait, hold up a second…..Dizzy didn’t play the motherfuckin sax, he played the trumpet…..HAHAHAHAHAH…It’s o.k. Greg, we forgive you because “Funky For You” was a certified scorcher…

Greg Nice got his start beat boxing for T La Rock back in the early 80’s…..He went on to form Nice And Smooth and the rest is history as they say…..What people seem to forget is that Nice And Smooth were on Def Jam back then, and you couldn’t turn on MTV Raps without seeing one of their videos at the time…..

I’m talking major burn…..”Funky For You”,”Hip Hop Junkies”, “Rhyme Slow”, and “Dwyck” all recieved major airplay (I’m leaving out the song they did with New Kids On The Block because it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth)….Wow, MTV has sure changed for the worst…

Peep out this interview with Greg that was conducted by Jack Paine (Hip Hop Dx)…..He talks about his friendship with Tupac, Sleeping Bag Records, Hip Hop history, etc………Interesting read..

YOU BETTER CHECK IN…

Yeah, it’s only Tuesday, but I seriously doubt I will hear anything better for the remainder of the week…This project is packed with heavy-raw as fuck beats, violent undertones, and all types of other fly shit…

I’m not going to hit you with a bunch of adjectives- just trust me when I tell you, scoop up this hot piece of artillery..

NOT NOW, BUT RIGHT NOW !!!!!

TRACKLISTING-

01. Hevey (Intro)
02. Franco Feat. Roc Marciano & Rusty Grammar
03. Green River Feat. Jak Progresso
04. SmooVth – There’s Nothin Feat. SmooVth
05. Old Beginnings Feat. Shabaam Sahdeeq
06. Ladies Feat. J-Biz, Critical & Sean Price
07. Moments Feat. Hus
08. Street Narrative Feat. Tragic Allies
09. Remember Feat. Critical
10. Swallow Feat. Tha Connection
11. Robot Movement Feat. Jak Progresso
12. Ladies Feat. J-Biz, Critical & Sean Price
13. Love Laws Feat. Hus
14. Supadarts Feat. Supamankillaz
15. Franco Feat. Roc Marciano & Rusty Grammar
16. It Means Nothin’ Feat. Tha Connection

HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD’S TOP PICKS…. #2,#3,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10,#11,#12,15……….10 out of 16 ain’t bad at all…..

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Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer first began documenting the new breed of B-Girlz in a breaking competition in Germany in 2004. Following the dancers to the biggest battles—including Mighty4 in San Francisco, the Spinfactor Finals in Rhode Island, Breaklanta in Atlanta, IBE in the Netherlands, and the International Battle of the Year in Germany—they photographed and interviewed B-Girlz representing everywhere from South Africa to New Zealand, from New York to California, and from Japan to Germany. Culminating in the first annual We B*Girlz competition at veteran B-Boy Ken Swift’s studio in Brooklyn, Cooper and Kramer’s work will introduce a new generation to the art of B-Girling.

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