Hip Hop 2014

Oleg Luzhny

"Arrows" video's pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6fmk27grc

HighClass

Off the new Statik Selektah album.

Boom_Bap

Something that might interest a few, Carnage The Executioner has made his new mixtape available free to download:

https://soundcloud.com/carnage-the-executioner/carnology-volume-ii-sinner-takes-all

It's dope as bejaysus. If you havn't heard Carnage before, you are in for an incredibe display of vocal dexterity.

Boom_Bap

stop what yer doing and download this album for free by Mick Jenkins.

http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/mick-jenkins-the-water

I posted his Jazz track here the other day. The album is fu*king incredible.

DermoMIO

for any Def Jam fans out there & who fancy a trip to NYC they are throwing a 30th aniversary concert in the Barclay's Center October 16th I'll be in Toronto then so will head down myself.

Confirmed performers so far Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Jhene Aiko, DMX, Ja Rule, Method Man, Redman, Foxy Brown, EPMD, Warren G, ONYX & Fabolous

http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/def-jam-30-anniversary-concert/

edit: wrong thread meant for gigs thread

HighClass

New Captain Murphy track by way of the Adult Swim single series.

https://www.soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/cosplay

Boom_Bap

I got around to listening to the new Common album, definitely one of the highlights of the year so far.

mufcboy1999

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I got around to listening to the new Common album, definitely one of the highlights of the year so far.

must give it a spin myself, i enjoyed bits of his last album dreamer.

Boom_Bap

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

must give it a spin myself, i enjoyed bits of his last album dreamer.

It's defintely much better than the last one

Doris300

New Vince Staples

Travis Scott dropped a new mixtape

https://soundcloud.com/travisscott-2/sets/days-before-rodeo

Muirshin Durkin

mufcboy1999

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It's defintely much better than the last one

Enjoyed bits from it, this is my standout track anyway love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gA-kz5EWx8

mufcboy1999

not the official video but a good one none the less on whats happening with the mike brown situation, g unit released a song about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodCjWgeUrg

MattHelders

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2014/08/tde-world-tour-announcement/

TDE is said to be gearing up for a massive tour next year and this makes perfect sense as all of the artists on the label plan to release projects over the course of this year. Specifics have yet to be revealed but XXL recently spoke with the camp acquiring that the label is in the midst of planning a world tour.

“Be on the look-out for us to come to a city near you,” Jay Rock told XXL. “I think we got a big tour being planned for next year. I don’t really want to talk too much because I’m not sure of the specifics but be on the look out. TDE is coming to a town near you soon, world tour.”

In 2013, TDE set out on their first world tour headlined by Kendrick Lamar sans SZA and 2014 XXL Freshman Isaiah Rashad. No word on who exactly will embark on this year’s edition but due to the label’s recent releases, it’s likely to include the entire TDE roster.

With fans anxiously awaiting the last two releases of the year from the camp, sophomore LPs from both Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar, XXL also obtained a brief update on Jay Rock’s approaching LP. “I’ve been working with my in-house producers, Sounwave, Tae Beast, Willy B. and a lot of other producers. There’s this producer from New Zealand I’ve been working with.”

He later added, ”It’s coming along real nice” and that the LP will arrive “real soon.”-Miranda Johnson

Please oh please

Oleg Luzhny

New OnCue. "Angry Young Man", executively produced by Just Blaze, is out September 3rd.

https://soundcloud.com/oncue/so-much-love-prod-by-hudson-mohawke-just-blaze

Brendan Filone

Action Bronson just dropped the video of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RSC7HO9aU

HighClass

New Clipping track, inspired by what's been going on in Ferguson over the past few weeks.



"Our new track “Knees On The Ground” might benefit from an explanation. This is the most unguarded I ever intend to be when writing about Clipping.

What had happened was this: our very brief UK/Europe trip got called-off the day before we were supposed to get on a plane to London. Since we didn’t have any other plans, we met up in the studio with an idea to crank out a new track. On our list of songs to finish was one particular piece aimed directly at the club (or, at least, our twisted idea of what clubs should play). But none of us were in the mood for it. Each of us had spent the previous several days following the news of protests in Ferguson, MO. It was the only thing on our minds. We couldn’t bring ourselves to think about anything else, so we decided to direct our fear, our revulsion, our heartbreak into a new track.

The problem was that we’d defined our band — in interviews and to each other — as decidedly-not-an-activist-project. Diggs’s lyrics have been criticized for seeming apolitical, at least in comparison to what many listeners (perhaps rightly) expect to hear from an ‘experimental’ rap group. I have many times said (perhaps naïvely) that our politics lie in our structures, in our formal engagement with the rap genre. We love its conventions, its clichés, and we’re not above them. We see our participation in rap as something resembling an old punk flyer — an out-of-context collage of charged images with an fractured, contradictory, multiple point-of-view. I hope that our more dedicated listeners hear this and understand that we’re not interested in spoon-feeding them a position. At the same time, I’ve always assumed that they pretty much agree with us on most issues anyway. (We have yet to meet the misogynist, homophobic, white supremacist Clipping fan with an MBA and an NRA mebership).

So what do we do when all we can think about, all we can feel, is a profound injustice — yet another young unarmed person of color is murdered by a police officer? How does a band, which overtly rejects affect and the emotions, address something that is, for its authors, a deeply felt, deeply affecting topic? Well, we don’t entirely know. But the fact is: there’s more truth in Diggs’s lyrics than we generally let on. “Inside Out” describes a drive-by shooting in Oakland, “Chain” is about three stick-ups. They are presented with a lot of detail and specificity (perhaps the result of personal experience). But at the same time, they represent archetypal scenarios within rap music. One trope we had yet to explore as Clipping was the anti-police rap — the lineage of Public Enemy, NWA and Paris, straight through The Coup, and all the way into the ‘stop snitching’ panic of the early 2000s. “Knees On The Ground” is a paradigmatic white-cop-kills-an-unarmed-black-kid-and-gets-away-with-it tale — a story that happens all the ****ing time in the US. What we have learned — from our first hand experience in Oakland in 2009, and from the media coverage of Ferguson in 2014 — is that the second part of this story involves a police response better suited to a war zone than to an American city. Cops think they’re playing Call Of Duty when they’re supposed to be part of a community. If Ferguson were in Iraq, Obama would have sent in an airstrike already.

This is the least obtuse Diggs’s lyrics will ever get. We’re embarrassed by the timeliness of this track. We do not intend to capitalize on what is, undoubtedly, a terrible tragedy. But journalists make think-pieces and we make songs. Writers write what they know, and this is what we know right ****ing now.

— William Hutson, Clipping."

https://www.soundcloud.com/clppng/knees-on-the-ground

mufcboy1999

i know theres not many g unit fans here but there releasing song after song and their pretty good.

A new EP was released last night called the beauty of independence with some nice beats and songs. The usual gun and drug but none the less if your a fan its worth a listen.

Changes is interesting, 50 talking about what happened with dre and jimmy appears to be all over 50 starting his own headphones company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKVDXJU1D0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzu5y_3sJE

Oleg Luzhny

New Jon Hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VekvbAgMAc

Talib Fiasco

Bit late on this, might have been posted but anyone here that Your Old Droog EP? Lots of rumours went/going around that it's actually Nas and I can hear it to an extent but apparently the real dude came out and it's not Nas. Anyway the EP is incredible, probably the best thing I've heard all year...

HighClass

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Bit late on this, might have been posted but anyone here that Your Old Droog EP? Lots of rumours went/going around that it's actually Nas and I can hear it to an extent but apparently the real dude came out and it's not Nas. Anyway the EP is incredible, probably the best thing I've heard all year...

One of my favourite tapes of the year! New Yorker did a good piece on him. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/nas-your-old-droog

Video of him here.

Boom_Bap

Your Old Droog is excellent, he's dropped a few more tracks since the mixtape as well.

Boom_Bap

DIAMOND DISTRICT - MARCH ON WASHINGTON

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 14, 2014

First track:
https://soundcloud.com/mellomusicgroup/diamond-district-first-step

HighClass

Lil Bibby dropped his new mixtape 'Free Crack 2'. He's probably the best rapper coming out of the Chiraq scene that's been blowing up. Quality struggle raps. http://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Bibby-Free-Crack-2-mixtape.615403.html

HighClass

New Flying Lotus track featuring Kendrick.

https://www.soundcloud.com/atlaspeak/flying-lotus-feat-kendrick-lamar-never-catch-me

Apparently Flylo has production credits all over Kendrick's new album as well!

HighClass

Freddie Gibbs destroying Drakes 0-100 beat on Westwood. Tomorrow night the Twisted Pepper will be rocking!

Muirshin Durkin

Sickness

HighClass

Some more new Kendrick, on the remix for Jeezy's track Holy Ghost.

https://www.soundcloud.com/ctethaworld/jeezy-holy-ghost-ft-kendrick-lamar

Boom_Bap

Sims - Field Notes got a release yesterday, listen to it on Bcamp

http://doomtree.bandcamp.com/album/field-notes

It's great

Andy_rse

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Sims - Field Notes got a release yesterday, listen to it on Bcamp

http://doomtree.bandcamp.com/album/field-notes

It's great

Yep, really like it after a once through!

Boom_Bap

Everything I've heard from this guy Wara from the NBHD has been real good

https://soundcloud.com/warafromthenbhd/wara-from-the-nbhd-case-closed/s-bsVue

This was done on an 8 track apparently.

Boom_Bap

Came accross this list if 20 albums worth getting this year, pretty decent list

http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2014/09/20-amazing-hip-hop-projects-from-2014-so-far/

Boom_Bap

First song from the upcoming Hail Mary Mallon album "Bestiary"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRGz1b9M9u0

HighClass

New Sam Smith track featuring Asap Rocky. He sounds surprisingly great over this type of production, it's probably just the beat but Rocky is reminding me a lot of Slug on the second verse :pac:

https://soundcloud.com/samsmithworld/samsmithasaprocky

Andy_rse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjbP5snPHY

Boom_Bap

L'Orange is up there as the best album of the year

cert2009

Joell ortiz - house slippers is very good, just came out today

Andy_rse

New AOTP from their second album this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FpsmuCVVZg

RollieFingers

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kanye-west-reportedly-stops-sydney-concert-and-asks-fan-in-wheelchair-to-stand-up-9731845.html

Good oul Kanye

Boom_Bap

Something from RTJ2, f*ck yea

https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/oh-my-darling-dont-cry

Zero-Cool

cert2009 wrote: »

Joell ortiz - house slippers is very good, just came out today

Rockstar games has him on a special livestream tonight on gta v and will be playing his new songs, must give it a listen.

Boom_Bap

New Mike Mictlan from Doomtree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tPEAjU_Zw

New album called Hella FRReal announced with a release date of 27th Oct.

Boom_Bap

New Big K.R.I.T. mixtape surfaced last night

http://www.audiomack.com/album/2dbz/see-me-on-top-4

HighClass

Flatbush Zombies & The Underachievers have formed a supergroup named Clockwork Indigo. First track they've put out is great!

http://www.soundcloud.com/clockwork-indigo-fbz-ua/butterfly-effect

Doris300

New Lupe

https://soundcloud.com/lupesoundcloud/puy-feat-billy-blue-prod-by-moezart

Boom_Bap

HighClass wrote: »

Flatbush Zombies & The Underachievers have formed a supergroup named Clockwork Indigo. First track they've put out is great!

That is real refreshing and real good.

Boom_Bap

This is incredible, Your Old Droog with J-Zone on beats

https://soundcloud.com/your-old-droog/secondhand-gunsmoke

Oleg Luzhny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IW5XlTwB6I

jigglypuffstuff

Absolute sickness from Rittz

Dude is seriously slept on and such a solid rapper. IMO the best to come in a long time. it annoys me how rappers like kendrick who are seriously overrated can go platinum with a mediocre album like GKMC and this guy can barely break 20k first week with a solid effort

Says so much about the state of hip hop today....

Zero-Cool

Yupp Rittz is class. New album isn't as good as his old one yet but need to listen to it more.