Articles Posted July 2011
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Black Rob Analyzes His New Album.
Black Rob’s new album and debut on Duck Down Game Tested, Streets Approved drops next week, but in all honesty, it’s been bumping pretty hard already around the TRU offices. Here’s a track by track…
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Damon Albarn Recording An Album In Congo In 7 Days
[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/DRCMusic/status/93744973341663232"] Damon Albarn is an incredibly busy and admirably eclectic dude. When he’s not creating complete albums on his iPad while touring he’s flying across to globe to Congo to dive nosedeep into the…
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Video: Pusha T Ft. Tyler, The Creator – Trouble On My Mind
Jason Goldwatch directed a great video to accompany Pusha & Tyler’s trouble. If there’s one thing these two don’t have trouble with it’s unexpected chemistry. The duo visit each other’s worlds where they rock skimasks…
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TRU Brain Trust Reviews Jay-Z & Kanye West’s “Otis”
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Aaron Sometimes you just know a classic track when you hear one.Kanye and Jay’s first official cut off Watch the Throne has been released, no HAM. Fortunately, they…
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Cuban Linx – Shakiyla
♣ Top 10 New Rap Albums – July 2011 [About.com] ♣ Top 14 Live Television Hip-Hop Performances [Street Census] ♣ Rap Round Table, Week Ending 7/15/2011 [Hip Hop Is Read] ♣ Hip-Hop History In Adhesives:…
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Kanye West & Jay-Z (ft. Otis Redding) – Otis
I don’t know about “inventing swag“, but Hov and Kanye definitely know how to shut down any other hip-hop conversations. Funkmaster Flex premiered this much-anticipated Watch The Throne banger on Hot 97 earlier this evening,…
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BET Lifts Ban On Killer Mike’s ‘Burn’
[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/Mike_Bigga/status/93452082681610240"] Why on God’s green earth you would even want to ban a video about a heated issue that actually starts with “Let’s keep it non-violent y’all” in the first place is beyond me.…
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Greneberg Is Here
How did this move by me so swiftly? Oh No & Alchmist’s ‘Gutter Water’ was one of the greatest underrated gems of 2010 and Roc Marciano’s ‘Marcberg’ was, well, one of the greatest underrated gems…
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Black Rob – Sand To The Beach
Pretty sure the promo image the fellas at Duck Down whipped up to accompany this new leak of Black Rob’s new album will do a good job ik getting people to check out this post.…
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Beastie Boys – “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win”
At long last, the action-packed video for Beastie Boys’ “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” is here. Or as they’re calling it, “The Continuingly Ill Adventures of the Beastie Boys.” It features Santigold,…
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UNDRCRWN & Mixstream Present Mick Boogie – Excursions
If you fox with mixtapes, you know Mick Boogie goes in with the special compilations. With the Beats, Rhymes and Life movie recently dropping, A Tribe Called Quest talk has been heavy, with a number…
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People’s Champion: Behind the Battle
Not too many Internet memes have exploded like Eli Porter’s Iron Mic Battle did. The actual YouTube clip has circulated all over the Internets, and it just made sense for a documentary to be made,…
