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All That She Knows :: ‘The Bleeder’ By Jonas Wilson

Posted on November 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

Every knows that I’m a fan of the textured sounds, and many of the people I’m cool with are the same way.  It’s through these circles that I met Jonas Wilson many years ago.  An immaculate songwriter, with a production patience and sense of exploration that matches his songwriting skill, it’s always a pleasure to hear what Jonas chooses to bless us with.  His latest mass undertaking will be an album created throughout the course of 2016, with the first track being The Bleeder.  Dig this track, and stay tuned for the complete magnum opus, dropping this time next year!

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Songs About Change :: Norman Ba$e and DDotElles Explore ‘Babylon 2’

Posted on October 16, 2015 | Leave a comment

#BlackLivesMatter.  We all know that, regardless of the rhetoric that is tossed around out there in today’s world of information overload.  Still, it’s important that each of us, as individuals, come to a personal understanding of this supposedly simple concept.  If not, things will never change on a grand scale.  But you don’t have to take my word on that… let Norman Ba$e and DDotElles break it down for you so that it may forever remain broken.

-chief

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Forever Changes :: Lench Asks ‘What Happened To Austin? (My Beautiful City)’

Posted on October 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

One of my favorite spaces to comb for content is the I Support ATX Hip Hop, Do You? group on Facebook.  It’s a nice way for me to step out of my circle of friends/peers, and a chance to get out of my sonic comfort zone.  On occasion, you come across a diamond in the rough, and today was one of those days.  Enter the track What Happened To Austin? (My Beautiful City) from Lench of Brown South Entertainment.  This song is one of the most poignant and eloquent takes on the gentrification of Austin that began in the late 1990s, picked up steam in the mid-2000s, and is still rampant to this day.  This song is like the musical equivalent of the film Slacker… it’s definitely a true trip down memory lane for us born and raised in the ATX.

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MOODHOUSE! :: Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice Makes The ‘Moodhouse’ Podcast

Posted on October 12, 2015 | Leave a comment

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Dynamite Soul :: Fresh Kils Flips Otis

Posted on October 8, 2015 | Leave a comment

Fresh Kils is one of the most solid beatmakers doing it on the American continent.  Hailing from Toronto, and always holding it down for hip-hop, Kils has the gift of taking material that may have been heavily sampled previously, and finding a way to make it uniquely his own.  Dig the video for further proof.

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Gentlemen’s Welcome :: Crew54 Release ‘Wyld Gentlemen’

Posted on October 8, 2015 | Leave a comment

GChrist and M.O.S. both fired warning shots at you.  Now, the Crew54 has reconnected like Voltron to release the highly anticipated Wyld Gentlemen.  These cats come with it in all aspects of their creative expression, so I am very much looking forward to taking this album in, and seeing what kind of visuals they release to accompany these potential bangers.  Drop them a few bucks, and get your people to do the same.

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Preemptive Strikes :: More ‘Wyld Gentlemen’ Promo From M.O.S.

Posted on October 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

About a month ago, GChrist of Crew54 dropped some darts in preparation of the release of Wyld Gentlemen, the much anticipated full-length on the way.  M.O.S. has thrown his hat into the ring, and of course, the bars are solid, and this LP is looking even better than it already was… drop this bad boy already!

-chief

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Spirit Lyrical :: HADES Decides To ‘Raise The Dead’

Posted on September 29, 2015 | Leave a comment

Every once in a while, you’ve gotta get some things off of your chest.  HADES of Black Market Pluto decided to step it up one, and spit for both a social media and an ‘underground’ captive audience.  Take a minute and get wrapped up in  it.

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Internationally Known :: ‘World Renown’ Released From The Undergrind / @TheUndergrind

Posted on September 23, 2015 | Leave a comment

After a couple of years of hustling and making the physical distance between them a non-factor, Side Effect and Mirage512, collectively known as The Undergrind, have finally unleashed their debut album.  World Renown is 12 tracks of collaboration and celebration of culture, grinding for positive change and self-fulfillment.  Support these cats, because hip-hop definitely needs more voices along these lines.

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Family Matters :: ‘We Used To Play’ By oz. + Black DaVinci + Muggzy Flowz

Posted on September 17, 2015 | Leave a comment

Nothing is more important than family.  Whether it be blood, or those who have been through the thick of it with you, family holds you down when nobody else will.  oz., Black DaVinci and Muggzy Flowz pay tribute to that importance with this moving video for We Used To Play, featuring a bunch of family.  I’m loving it, so I’m sharing… do the same if you feel the same way.

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