Weekly Hip-Hop Recap: Mar 7th - 13th

Well there wasn’t much in the way of projects being released this week but there was still plenty of individual tracks and even a bit of a ‘beef’ to spice things up.

Playlist:

Hopsin v Novi Novak Beef:

For a rundown of how it all got started head over here

Hopsin Diss 1 | Review

Novi Novak – Marcus Who | Review

Hopsin – Don’t Tell Smokey Doe | Review

Novi Novak – Marcus Who? (Part 2) | Review

Single Tracks:

Khaled M. & Lowkey – Can’t Take Our Freedom | Review

Lupe Fiasco - Stereo Sun | Review

Grieves – Lightspeed | Review

Asher Roth – More Cowbell | Review

Atmosphere – She’s Enough | Review

Travis Barker Pack:

This album was such a mixed bag I decided to single out the tracks I felt were worth listening to.

Lupe Fiasco – If You Want To

Slaughterhouse – Devil’s Got A Hold of Me

Clipse – City of Dreams

The Cool Kids – Jump Down

Reviews and download links to the individual Travis Barker tracks can be found here

Download Entire Playlist

All the review links contain download links for individual tracks

Miscellaneous:

New Mos Def - World Premiere (Prod. Madlib)

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MORE MUSIC VIDEO'S:

Atmosphere - Just For Show

Pharoahe Monch Clap (Extended 10 min. Version)

Grieves - Lightspeed

Unrelated Bonus:

Previously:

Weekly Hip-Hop Summary: Feb 28^{th -}.Mar 6^th              

Summary For the Month of February

Weekly Hip-Hop Recap Feb 28th - Mar 6th

For most people this week probably failed to live up to the high expectations they had, but for all that there was still a lot of good Hip-Hop released.

PLAYLIST:

Tracks are in order of quality

Shad - Time ft. Promise | Review

Side Effekt - The Essence (Instrumental) | Review

Reks - This Is Me

Intution - BSTU (remix) | Review

Treble and Blues - The First Time (Instrumental) | Review

CunninLinguists - Hard As They Come | Review

Big K.R.I.T - Dreamin'| Review

Download Playlist

If you're looking to download an individual track just click the review link next to each song, there’s a link on that page

PROJECTS:

Lupe Fiasco - LASERS

 While pretty much everyone was disappointed by this release it’s hard to deny that it’s still at the very least a good album and its standout tracks hold up well against the high points of Food & Liquor and The Cool. It’s the low points the album experiences that ensure it’ll never be seen on the same level as his previous two releases.

Raekwon - Shaolin v Wu-Tang

 I tend to judge Raekwon releases by the production and the guest verses as raekwon himself doesn’t hold that much interest for me. I thought the production was a mixed bag and ditto for the guest verses.

Reks - R.E.K.S

 Really enjoying this. A little inconsistent (like every Reks release) but I’d say this is his strongest album yet.

Treble and Blues - The Blue Note

 Not much to say about this except that if you enjoy jazz influenced Hip-Hop you’ll love it.

Download: Treble and Blues - The Blue Note

MISCELLANEOUS:

Pharoahe Monch 'W.A.R' Final Artwork & Tracklist

Details On Pusha-T's 'Fear Of God' Mixtape, Dropping March  21st

Scientists Identify The Correlation Between Jay-Z's Face and Album Sales

PREVIOUSLY:

Monthly Hip-Hop Recap: February

Weekly Hip-Hop Recap: Feb. 21st - 27th

This week is the quiet before the storm with new albums from Lupe Fiasco, Raekwon and Reks’ all dropping next week.

Playlist:

Apathy – Most Murderous Music (freestyle) | Review 

Lupe Fiasco – Joaquin Phoneix ft. Travis Barker | Review 

Atmosphere – Just For Show | Review 

Saigon – Down The Road | Review 

Tonedeff – Bang | Review 

Download 

If you want an individual track just click the review link next to each song, there’s a d/l link on that page

Projects / Unrelated Bonus:

Both categories are combined in one this week. While there were no releases worth mentioning that actually came out this week, I only just discovered this EP a few days ago released in December of last year by a duo composed of Blue Scholars producer, Sabzi, and vocalist Kelsey. I love it. Highly recommend for any Blue Scholars/Sabzi fan or to anyone who likes music in general really.

Review

 Miscellaneous:

Blu talks on his upcoming No York album and mentions a second Blu & Exile album.

Kanye West - Blame Game (Unofficial Video)

Previously: Weekly Hip-Hop Recap: Feb. 14th - 20th | Weekly Hip-Hop Recap: Feb. 7th - 13th

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Weekly Hip-Hop Recap: Feb 14th - 20th

Every Monday I’ll continue throw up a Re-cap of the past week music wise. I won’t be posting everything that comes out, only what I recommend listening to.

Pretty quiet week. There’s a couple of tracks on the playlist from artists most people wouldn’t have heard of before but it’s still quality stuff. I don’t throw anything on there that isn’t at least a 7/10.

Playlist:

They’re in order of quality.

CunningLinguists – Stars Shine Bright | Review 

Saigon - Bring It Down Pt. 3 ft. Joe Budden | Review  

Iron Giants – Never Ever | Review 

Blu – Since | Review 

360 – I Hate You | Review 

Fashawn – Down That Road | Review

Flight Distance – All Crushed Under The Same Terrible Wheel | Review 

 

Download 

If you want an individual track just click the review link next to each song, there’s a d/l link on that page

Albums/EP's/Mixtapes:

Blu – Amnesia

This was decent on first listen and the more I heard it the more it grew on me. Fantastic, grab this if you’re a Blu fan. Full review here. 

Fashawn – Higher Learning 2

Not bad. If you’re a Fashawn fan you’ll enjoy it, if not this won’t change your mind.

Download

Miscellaneous:

Odd Futures Performance on Jimmy Fallon:

First performance ever on live television and these guys went crazy. Not necessarily a fan of their music but this was brilliant.

The Story Behind 38 of DJ Premier’s Classic Records

Kanye West’s All of the Lights Video:

Unrelated Bonus: 

Love what they did with the vocals on this.

Previously: Weekly Hip-Hop Recap Feb. 7^th – 13th

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Weekly Hip-Hop Recap Part 1: Feb 7th - 13th

So I’m thinking that every Monday I’ll throw up a Re-cap of the past week music wise. I won’t be posting everything that comes out, only what I recommend listening to.

For any interesting news, videos, tracklists, artwork etc. from the past week, check out Part 2 of the re-cap over here

Playlist:

They’re in a general order of quality.

Saigon – Too Long ft. Black Thought | Review

Pusha T – My God | Review 

Intuition – Sanctuary | Review 

Blu, Freddie Gibbs & Homeboy Sandman – In | Review 

MDMA – Cupcakin’ ft. Lupe Fiasco | Review

Chuwee - JJ Evans (Prod. DJ Premier) | Review 

Fashawn - Closer (Rmx of J.Dilla’s ‘So Far To Go) | Review 

Phonte – Blessings | Review 

Download 

If you want to download an individual track just click the review link next to each song, there’s a d/l link on that page.

Full Projects:

Haven’t had the chance to give this a listen yet but I’ve heard good things about it and the first in the series was dope.

Download: Consequence – Movies On Demand 2

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Good album. Production’s great and Saigon’s pretty nice. Head on over to Itunes or Amazon if you wanna check this out.

Dope. Make sure you check it out.

Download: M.I.C. – Variable

Check out Part 2 here

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