Articles Posted in the Music Category
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LISTEN: Iron Solomon Ft. Talib Kweli – The Empire
Seeing how he’s a veteran of the battle game, it shouldn’t leave any doubts that Iron Solomon can spit. But battles and songwriting are different ball games, and alongside Kweli, Solomon proves he knows how…
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Exact Date of Ice Cube’s “Good Day” Identified
We love rap nerds. Especially when someone like Donovan Strain posts the results of his scientific investigation to determine the exact date of Ice Cube’s “Good Day.” Sadly, we just missed an opportunity to celebrate…
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Jay-Z x Pharrell x Lana Del Rey – Allure (OTTR) [Urban Noize Remix]
Miami production team Urban Noize cooked up this remix for everybody’s favorite new indie singer/songwriter manufactured pop sensation. Can anybody please explain how a metric ton of online hipsters hailed ‘Video Games’ as a new…
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Freebie Friday: J57 – The J57 Collection
Brown Bag Allstars producer J57 teams up with DJ Concept to release a mix of various production work that he did. Besides the Brown Bag Allstars themselves the tape features new Stones Throw signee Homeboy…
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Lyrics Of Fury: Nas On ‘Triple Beam Dreams’
In today’s age of shout-along hooks and pop rap made for the common denominator, it’s reassuring to hear lyricism is still alive. Each month TRU picks a single verse out of the vast amount of…
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“King Kulture” compilation album raises funds for African school
Walking what they talk, a collective of Christian MCs and producers will be using profits from their upcoming compilation album to raise funds for an African school. The project, titled King Kulture, will contain never-before…
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De La Soul’s Plug One & Two Join French Production Duo ‘The First’ For Full Length Project
French production duo ‘First Serve’ already made heads bop with their unpretentious but fun party jams on The Goon Mixtape a while back. They’re returning with a new project on April 2nd and the company…
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Freebie Friday: Strong Arm Steady – Arms & Hammers
The SAS gang has a swanky new website and celebrates its launch with a gift to you; their last album “Arms & Hammers,” now free of charge. Quite a surprising but interesting and sympathetic move.…
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LISTEN: Brother Ali – Sweet (Potato Pie)
Brother Ali cranks out some words over No ID’s ‘Sweet’ beat as well. I’ll let the man verbalize his motivations himself: It’s well known that I’m top 5 dead or alive in the kitchen. Squash…
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“FBI Try And Want Word With This” 10 Wu Quotes On The Feds
Sure, ODB could sound slightly paranoid every now and then. Okay, he sounded paranoid a lot of the time, but is it all paranoia when the feds are really gunnin’ for ya? It’s not like…
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LISTEN: Glory – Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter
Well, that’s a nice way to shut up or at least drown out the jabbering of the tinfoil hat crowd. Jay just uploaded a song to soundcloud about his new perspective as a father featuring…
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The Curious Case Of Ricky Rozay
The head of the unflammable Maybach Music Empire, half of the Bugatti Boys and perpetual hustler Rick Ross has released his new mixtape yesterday. As to be expected it’s filled to the brim with dramatic,…
