Articles Posted August 2011
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Odd Future, The Roots, Chase & Status And Many More Live at Lowlands 2011
A Camping Flight To Lowlands Paradise 2011 has wrapped once again. The greatest music festival on Dutch soil once again lived up to it’s name. What’s left now is going back to regular life while…
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Weeknd Music
As Thursday ushered in Friday and summer sang its last hurrah, The Weeknd released a new EP titled Thursday to soundtrack it all.
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Download: Big K.R.I.T. – Last King 2: God’s Machine Mixtape
New Krit, because having one hot mixtape a year is so 2006. Features Dom Kennedy, C. Breezy, Wiz Khalifa, Bun B & Pimp Muthafuckin’ C, Yelawolf, Killer Mike, Self Scientific, and more. List and linkage…
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New Music Rap-Up: Jay-Z, Pusha T, Styles P, Jeezy, Soulbrotha, Hollywood Floss, and More
Lenny Kravitz (feat. Jay-Z & DJ Millitary) – “Boongie Drop” Sleek and spring-loaded. Jay kicks patois and shouts out Dorothy Muthafuckin’ Smith. Remember her? Cool points assigned, bruh. Young Jeezy (ft. Freddie Gibbs) – “Gotta…
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Beats Per Minute with with DJ Nu Mark
This series is just getting better and better. Next up is DJ Nu Mark who’s got some surprising tricks up his sleeves: Here DJ Nu Mark ties a fucking string to a 1200 and guitar…
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J.Cole – Work Out (Video)
Whether Cole is a student of the Pac approach to album releases (I’m paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of “make a single for the ladies and the fellas will follow”) or…
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Game Ft. Tyler, The Creator & Lil Wayne – Martians Vs. Goblins
Game Ft. Tyler, The Creator & Lil Wayne – Martians Vs. Goblins Oh boy. This’ll ruffle some feathers for sure…
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Danny Brown – XXX
Of all the new-school ‘next-big-thing’ internet hypes that the bloggerati churn out on a regular basis Danny Brown is the one consistently dope emcee that I, despite my jaded state of mind, actually have high…
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PRo/Reach Records’ Video Game Promo Shows Benefit Of Signing To A Label
Last week Reach Records launched “Altered PRo” – an online remix of the similarly named 1989 Sega Genesis video game. Its storyline picks up where the artist PRo’s YouTube mini-series left off and challenges players…
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J.Period & Flüd Know Dope Packaging
We’re suckers for creative packaging here at TRU, which, if done right, can be an integral part to the overall experience of an album. So it’s a shame that in this digital age major labels…
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Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix – Black Gold
Tom Caruana is at it again! After the success of his Wu-Tang Vs. The Beatles mashup he has now mashed the Shaolin swordsmen with one of the greatest axe-wielders to have ever graced the planet;…
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A Salute To Kase2
Case aka Kase2 passed away yesterday. He was known to many as the one-armed wonder from Style Wars (of which you can watch a scene above) and was a pioneer in hip-hop culture. He battled…
