Category Archives: Spotlight

Artists of all varieties that I know and work with.

Esoteric Clerics :: ‘Barbaric Rhetoric’ Video Drops

Posted on July 22, 2016 | Leave a comment

When Butcher Bear reached out to me for a guest verse spot on This Is How The Game Gets You Played, I was honored.  When I heard the final version of Barbaric Rhetoric, with BoomBaptist added on, I was blown away.  Then, when Butcher Bear reached out to us for a Karan Kapoor directed video, I was very much excited.  We shot it, shopped it, and I’m glad to say that it has now hit the digital airwaves.  I could not be happier to share this video with everyone, and I’m looking forward to future collaborations with all of these guys.

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Night Terrors :: ‘3am’ Video From Robot And MLMG

Posted on July 21, 2016 | Leave a comment

Mona Lisa Music Group affiliate (and original member) Robot has just unleashed a beast of a music video on us.  Music video may be selling it a bit short… director CiaraBoniface actually refers to it as a film right out the gate.  3am is definitely a super solid track, and the visuals are engrossing as hell.  This one definitely deserves your attention and your shares.

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Sound Alchemy :: Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice Drops A New ‘Mixtape’

Posted on July 19, 2016 | Leave a comment

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There’s a new ‘mixtape’ out from Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice, and clearly, someone has been watching too much Game Of Thrones.  This 3rd installment has been dubbed The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors, and it is a slight departure from the normal ‘mixtapes’ Chief Doomsday has dropped.  This one is presented like a radio broadcast, and it’s comprised totally of blends and remixes, minus the rap remakes of songs (I did not find them necessary this go-round).  Enjoy the listen, and thanks for the support!

-chief

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Labor Days :: ‘Never Seen Me’ By Krypol Haze Gets Visualized

Posted on July 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

Confidence… if you don’t have that in this hip-hop game, you’re lost before you even start.  Based on Krypol Haze‘s Never Seen Me video, it’s clear there is no lack of confidence in this Austin MC.  Spitting bars at the job (a scenario I am all too familiar with) is just spitting bars to this cat.  This is the type of track to put naysayers on notice… lets folks know that just because we’re not living the glamorous life doesn’t mean we aren’t spitting life changing lyrics.  Do yourself a favor, and get hip now.

-chief

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Main Course :: ‘Chips & Salsa’ From Sertified and Haris The Terrorist

Posted on July 14, 2016 | Leave a comment

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In this noisy digital world, sometimes you miss out on things when they make their first appearance.  Chips & Salsa, a collaboration between Texas MC Sertified and beatmaker supreme Haris The Terrorist, is a prime example of this.  The fellas hit the ground running in January of 2016 with this release, and via the homies at OVRLD, I’ve been hipped.  This is good old-fashioned boom-bap hip-hop with a taste of Texas throughout.  Definitely worth your time and money.

-chief

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Stand Up :: Da’Shade Moonbeam’s ‘Power’ Visualized

Posted on July 12, 2016 | Leave a comment

Da’Shade Moonbeam has never been one to shy away from the important issues at the time they mean the most.  Power finds Da’Shade speaking about those that serve and protect us, how we must learn to trust without being victims, and how they must learn to do a job that may be against their nature.  The police are definitely here to protect us, but the ultimate responsibility for protection of you and yours lies on the individual.  Anytime Da’Shade speaks on topics that matter, I will most certainly listen.

-chief

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Heavy Soul :: StereoFiend Drops ‘Urge & Grit’

Posted on July 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

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It’s always nice to hear styles collide.  StereoFiend is part rock band, part funk outfit, part hip hop act, part soul.  The live show has always been money, and after lots of studio time, Urge & Grit allows you to get your StereoFiend fix wherever you see fit to.  Can’t lie, I’m pretty hype about getting a shoutout in the liner notes as well.  Looking forward to a full length in the (hopefully near) future.

-chief

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Cultural Imprints :: @MIRAGE512 Brings Quite Trill Worldwide Vision To Life

Posted on July 8, 2016 | Leave a comment

Quite Trill Worldwide (Official Website)

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Quite Trill Radio

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The homie Mirage has always been on point with awareness, culture and expression when it comes to hip-hop and it’s bigger relationship with the world.  Over the past year or so, he has gained momentum online with his burgeoning empire known as Quite Trill Worldwide.  Both a news/political/cultural website and a radio podcast, Mirage is helping to shape a new generation of thinkers by equipping them with the right tools.  Check in, subscribe, and support real people doing real things.

-chief

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Powerful Beautiful :: Wild Child’s ‘Break Bones’ Comes Alive

Posted on July 5, 2016 | Leave a comment

Austin based duo Wild Child recently snuck onto my radar with their video for Rillo Talk, an immaculately beautiful and trippy experience in its own right.  I definitely dug what these kids were throwing down, so it’s nice to see their upward journey continue with Break Bones.  Equally beautiful, this one is set up to be a charting single with the right push and exposure.  Bonus, the Austin Music Video Festival helped put together a making-of doc…

-chief

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Diplomatic Dopeness :: Tee-Double’s ‘Ambassador Status’ EP

Posted on July 2, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Nobody should ever doubt the work that Austin hip-hop legend Tee-Double puts in to represent hip-hop culture in general, and the hometown specifically.  A string of albums both on labels and independently released, a marketing group and several outreach groups/conferences have all originated in the brain of Tee-Double… dude has his own day, for Christ-sake.  The Ambassador Status EP is both a continuation in his progression and a giant leap forward.  Period point-blank, this is a dope project on all fronts.  This is collectively some of the best production I’ve heard from Tee, and as always, the lyrics are on point, but there is a unified focus on this entire project that I either have not recognized on prior projects, or was not present.  There is literally no reason why you should not support this project.

-chief

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