LNS Crew has never been a collective afraid to grow, whether it be style-wise or personally. This time around, we find Tank Washington getting deeply person on his music video for R.I.P. POP, a lament to his deceased father. The song and video honestly speak for themselves. Take a moment and take it all in.
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An intimate performance of Tall As Trees by The Digital Wild from Austin‘s Dimension Gallery. Powerful, beautiful, excellent.
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Tagged (ras) riders against the storm, chaka, chief, e4, the doomsday device
Ghost Palace are a dope combination that somehow manages to be severely dope while still showing infinite promise with each step they take. Pushing Through Darkness is a brief but powerful journey through the mind of MC Evolve that exists in the sonic landscape provided by beatsmith Progeny. Beats and bars… that’s hip hop. These guys do it damn well.
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Retr0spect kills on the beats. Rudi Devino handles the mic duties. The final result, Retr0gRaDe, is a breath of fresh air coming out of the Austin hip hop scene. The group’s self-titled debut album is DOPE. These two make one hell of a collaboration.. definitely looking forward to seeing them live, hoping they have room for guest bars on a future release.
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So much social media out there in the world.. it’s a wonder one can keep all of their digital expressions straight these days. In an effort to showcase some of my lesser-known expressive outlets, this post is an introduction to the DoomsdayNOW Tumblr page showcasing the digital art of Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice.
This visual journey stars (from left to right) : The Complimonster, Da’Shade Moonbeam, me, and MARS9T8D4. I couldn’t pick a more creative group of guys to rewrite history with if I tried.
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Multi-talented producer and instrumentalist Multi-Tracker has dropped one of the dopest albums to come out of the (in)Sect Records camp. Not that the rest of the company’s catalog is subpar, but Code Switching is speaking to me. Dig it and dig it good.
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Last Wednesday night, the Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice Facebook page hit 1000 likes. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to hit that like button on what is clearly the most important social invention of our lifetime next to learning how to speak. Here’s to that number reaching 2000, and 5000, and 10000, and higher than any of us can ever imagine. If you haven’t yet, take the time to like the Facebook Page, and encourage others to do the same. We’re in this together.
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Here’s another one from Jamar Equality and Ruler Why Recordings. DOOMWAR was Jamar Equality dropping dope lyrics over dope MF DOOM beats.. and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Consider DOOMWAR 2 the sequel in all of the best ways possible. Loving these small doses of dopeness, and looking forward to Ruler and Jamar possibly collaborating on a project of original rhymes and production.. we can hope, right?
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Every year about this time, the homies at Exploded Drawing decide to show the masses how a super talented collective holds it down. I always look forward to SXSW time for a small handful of reasons (most having very little to do with the actual event), and this annual compilation is always at the top of that list. Also, for the fourth time, I got a Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice track included. Free download.. why don’t you already have it?
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