Jake One - Home Music Video

Jake One "Home" a track from “White Van Music.”. The song features MC's Vitamin D, Note, Maneak B and Ish, who have all been big influences in my music. Sir Mix a Lot brought out his orange Lambo and Nate Burleson repped the town and the Seahawks as well. Super Director Zia did a phemomenal job creating the perfect visual for the music and now its time for the world to see it.

Cage - I Never Knew You Music Video

Cage - I Never Knew You Music Video

Eyedea and Abilities - By The Throat ( In Stores 7.21.09 )

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RHYMESAYERS ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE BY THE THROAT ON JULY 21

A duo thoroughly steeped in hip-hop accolades, the Minnesota-based duo Eyedea and Abilities have returned with their brand new album By The Throat, out July 21st on Rhymesayers Entertainment. Their first album since the breakout 2004 release E&A, By The Throat’s songs range from intensely personal topics to the more esoteric (quantum mechanics). The end result is leaps and bounds beyond what MC Eyedea is perhaps best known for, his prowess as a battle rapper (winner of HBO’s Blaze Battle, Scribble Jam and several others). DJ Abilities, also a well-known battle vet and contributor to El-P’s now-classic Fantastic Damage, adds heavily to the sonic soundscape of this album, which advances beyond boom-bap hip-hop into rock-fueled guitar riffs, gritty production and melodic songwriting.

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Eyedea and Abilities were instrumental in the wave of independent hip-hop that includes Atmosphere, El-P, Aesop Rock, Living Legends and several other seminal acts. By The Throat is their most progressive and refined effort to date.

E & A will be performing at Rhymesayers’ Soundset ’09 on May 24th and will be headlining a tour in the fall of 2009. They have also been confirmed for the following Rock the Bells dates this summer.

Tour Dates:

06.27 - Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
06.28 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
07.05 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheater
07.12 - Washington DC @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

07.18 - Boston, MA @ Comcast Center
07.19 - New York, NY @ Jones Beach Amphitheater
08.01 - Vancouver, BC @ Deer Lake Park
08.06 - Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater
08.08 - Los Angeles, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
08.09 - San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater

After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, Eyedea & Abilities return with the follow up to their 2004 critically acclaimed sophomore album "E&A". With biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date, "By The Throat" cuts right to the vein and advances far beyond the duo's battle tested history (winners of HBO Blaze Battle, Rocksteady, Scribble Jam and the DMC's). Confirmed for the 2009 Rock The Bells Tour, and a headlining tour this September.

Eyedea And Abilities - By The Throat
Track Listings:
1. Hay Fever
2. Spin Cycle
3. Time Flies When You Have A Gun
4. Burn Fetish
5. Sky Diver
6. Junk
7. Forgive Me For My Synapses
8. This Story
9. Factory
10. Smile
11. By The Throat

Oddisee - Mental Liberation

Release Date: May 5th 2009

Oddisee Mental Liberation:
Tracklist

1. Hip Hop is Cool Again (Produced By: Oddisee)
2. Let the Music feat. LMNO (Produced By: Oddisee)
3. The Jungle feat. Hassaan Mackey & Bilal Salaam (Produced By: Oddisee)
4. Get Up feat. Declaime, Prince Po, YU & DJ Clear (Produced By: Oddisee)
5. Q & A feat. Kenn Starr (Produced By: Oddisee)
6. Rhymes Get Written feat. Silent Knight & XO (Produced By: Oddisee)
7. What’s Crazy feat. J-Live, Stik Figa (Produced By: Oddisee)
8. Cold for that One feat. Trek Life (Produced By: Oddisee)
9. Endure feat. Rapper Pooh, MED, Georgia Anne Muldrow (Produced By: Oddisee)
10. Don’t Sleep feat. Invincible & Finale (Produced By: Oddisee)
11. Drugs Ourside feat. Rapper Pooh & Black Milk (Produced By: Oddisee)
12. When Everything Changed (Produced By: Oddisee)

Bicasso - Reble Musiq

Tuesday, May 5th 2009 the REBELution begins! Bicasso is dropping his latest album Rebel Musiq. The album is produced entirely by DJ Fresh and features guest spots from Murs, Zion I, Saafir, The Grouch, and more.

Bicasso - Reble Musiq TRACKLIST

1. ONE! BlastOFF
2. It’s On (feat. Murs)
3.. Get Free
4. Think Big
5. Rebel Musiq (get up, wake up)
6. the Town (feat. The Grouch)
7. My Life
8. People Get Ready (feat. Maya Azucena)
9. Party Metroid (feat. Zion I)
10. 4 The Record
11. Amerikan Dreamz
12. What we gonna do?...Brotha’
13. WarzOver (feat. Saafir)
14. Holdin On (ur Love)
15. Do It Movin’

Bike For Three! Aka " Buck 65 " & " Greetings From Tuskan " - Bike For Three " New Album "

Release date: May 26th, 2009

Bike For Three!’s More Heart Than Brains is an impressive debut of smart pop, roiling downtempo and introspective rap that finds its two architects embracing the romance inherent in their unique circumstances: Separated by an ocean and having never met in person, Buck 65 and producer Greetings From Tuskan share startlingly powerful connection that unfolds through their music.

The album’s intro sounds more like a continuation than a beginning, and we find our two travelers mid conversation with “All There is to Say About Love,” a stream of fragmentary epiphanies about romance that spell out a coherent whole. Buck 65’s sober voice catches complex cadences, sings bluesy understatement, and is morphed by our conductor, Greetings From Tuskan. Like the lyrics, Tuskan’s production is all about details—bells, glitchy bits, arpeggios of crystalline synth—that together form a lush composition. The next two songs play off of one another: “Lazarus Phenomenon” tells a tight-knit tale of two lovers with hopes for a shared eternity, the music a spare brand of break-beat electro that grows with the story; “Nightdriving” is first person and fast-paced, with a persistent groove that devolves into dissected electronics. On “There is Only One of Us,” the twirping, ratcheted production chews up Buck’s words, fittingly as they detail a relationship interrupted.

The lyrics of More Heart Than Brains were written as the raw music arrived (usually within hours of Buck’s first listen), and its songs resonate with connectivity. “No Idea How” traverses three distinct aural moods—from light and pretty, to menacing, to gloriously heavy—and Buck allows each to color its respective verse. For “Always I Will Love You. Always You” the MC is lyrically nude, awash in Tuskan’s glassy synth, cello, and ethereal voice, while “The Departure” is thicker stuff: stylistically aggressive and glacially cool. Heftier still is “First Embrace,” a track that recalls the dark, heaving sounds of Buck’s Vertex album even as it forges a new path amongst Boom Bip-py atmosphere and rattling MF DOOM-worthy rhyme schemes. Just in time,“Can Feel Love (Anymore)” pushes the gathering storm aside, and the similarly bright “One More Time Forever” carries its rather grim subject matter (and its author) to safer ground.

Bike For Three!’s debut is clearly steeped in matters of the heart, with one notable exception: “MC Space,” an electrified cover of MC Shan’s ’87 old school rap. It’s a moment of levity before the album’s heady climax, which begins with “Let’s Never Meet.” Here, Buck writes directly to Tuskan, detailing intimate fantasies of what could be—“Maybe there’s a place we can go that’s behind doors / A place where you can shelter my body with yours”—over cut-up guitar, dense tonal barrages, skittering beats and heavy bass. The title track follows, with Tuskan’s voice leading the many-layered ascent to madness that eats up everything from Aphex Twin to Fischerspooner before swallowing even Buck in a hail of synthesized bliss. Appropriately, with the outro, Tuskan leaves us on an unresolved minor chord, presumably to be answered by More Heart Than Brains’ successor.



Buck 65 - Bike For Three Track List

1. Beginning
2. All There Is To Say About Love
3. Lazarus Phenomenon
4. Nightdriving
5. There Is Only One Of Us
6. No Idea How
7. Always I Will Miss You. Always You.
8. The Departure
9. First Embrace
10. Can Feel Love (Anymore)
11. One More Time Forever
12. MC Space
13. Let's Never Meet
14. More Heart Than Brains
15. Ending

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