Album
Dillon x Diamond D – “Feast” (Video)
October 11, 2017
Dillon with the rhymes and the scratches on this plate. Full plate. Oh wait, don’t forget the veggies… These BEATS (courtesy of the DITC Super-Producer Diamond D)! Daaaaayum this sh!t is DOPE! Click play and get ready to “Feast.” “Black Tie Affair” out now.
Jazz/Soul: The Baylor Project – “Laugh And Move On” (Video)
October 11, 2017
You remember Zhané (pronounced Jah-Nay) from back in the day. Well, everybody… can get some more ‘groove your body’ music. But this is some super-warm, super-slow, squeeze-a-sweety and chill music. Jean Baylor got it done with her hubby Marcus. Awesome song and vid. Album out now (linked below).
Married musicians, vocalist Jean Baylor (formerly of the platinum-selling R&B duo Zhané) and Marcus Baylor, former drummer of the Grammy Award-winning Yellowjackets have created a captivating “project†that meets at the 3-way intersection of Jazz, Gospel and Legacy. Reminiscent of classic soul, “Laugh and Move On†speaks to the strength of the human spirit. No doubt, a very unique album that soothes the soul.
– The Baylor Project
THE BAYLOR PROJECT – THE JOURNEY (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
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Tags: Jean Baylor, Laugh and Move On, Marcus Baylor, pronounced Jah-Nay, The Baylor Project, The Journey, Zhané | 
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Rock (Of Heltah Skeltah) – “Poof†feat. Buckshot (Prod. By Ford Tuff x Pascal Zumaque) [Video]
October 9, 2017
Turning that grindstone to rubble! Rock staying on the grustle (grind + hustle), pushing the LP he has out “Rockness A.P.” (After Price). Respect to Pascal Zumaque, Ford Tuff & Buck!
ROCK – ROCKNESS A.P. (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: After Price, Blood Before Pride, Buckshot, Ford Tuff, Heltah Skeltah, Pascal Zumaque, Phil Anastasia, Poof, Rock, Rockness A.P., Rockness Monsta | No Comments »
Oddisee – “You Grew Up” (Video)
October 5, 2017
Oddisee’s with another one, animated, crazy, but on point. These are the visuals for “You Grew Up.†Off “The Iceberg” LP (out now).
Torii Wolf – “Flow Riiot” (Album Stream)
October 2, 2017
The Wolf! Torii is LOOSE! The “Flow Riiot” is off the damned chain. Searching for something new, different and dope? Have you NOT been following the Torii Wolf x DJ Premier posts on here? Okay, you get a pass. But… er… your search is over. Shut it down! Turn off the vehicle. Press play below for the “Flow.” Full stream of the full LP for the FREE.99? Yes, and you’re welcome!
Posted in Album, Alternative, Hip-Hop, Soul | Tags: DJ Premier, Flow Riiot, Torii Wolf | No Comments »
L’Orange – “The Everyday Illusion” (Instrumental)
October 2, 2017
Another nice-nice from “The Ordinary Man” LP (due out next month). Gotta love how dude does the old, old school sound bit samples in his music… like in this “Everyday Illusion” instrumental.
L’ORANGE – THE EVERYDAY ILLUSION | THE ORDINARY MAN (PRE-ORDER)
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Raven Felix – “Job Done” feat. Wiz Khalifa
September 29, 2017
Well, well, Wiz. She’s cute. You should introduce us. Oh… that’s what this music is about? Thanks.
So, okay folks. Like always for Khalifa’s camp, it’s Taylor Gang or Die! And with Raven Felix on this (and that cover – whew!), let’s just say that there won’t be a need for much arm-twisting to check for Khalifa and his artist Felix on this “Job Done” work (off that Valifornication, by Raven Felix, out now)!
But we’re gonna listen for them bars though. This is Hip-Hop!
RAVEN FELIX – JOB DONE FEAT. WIZ KHALIFA | VALIFORNICATION (LP)
L’Orange – “The Difference” feat. Blu x Elzhi
September 29, 2017
Producer L’Orange is coming straight out of Tennessee with the new flavor. Just add Blu & eLZhi and stir! Listen, they got the recipe. The beat, with the bars, poured in, scratched the f**k up by DJ Noumenon… It makes “The Difference.”
Fresh off “The Ordinary Man” LP due out next month (pre-order link below).
L’ORANGE – THE DIFFERENCE FEAT. BLU X ELZHI | THE ORDINARY MAN (PRE-ORDER)
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Snoop Dogg – “Toss It” feat. Too $hort (Video)
September 28, 2017
Jump in the Brougham…beeyotch!
Hmmm… Several dogs, but looks like there are no actual bitches in this visual. Lots and lots of Honeyz in this for the Doggy Dogg’s dog. Literally brought sand to the beach in this visual. See what happens when you turn your son (Cordell Broadus) loose on a video, Snoop? Hahaaa! Guesting on the track: None other than Oaktown’s Too Short pimpin’!
“Neva Left” is out now.
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Rock (Of Heltah Skeltah) – “Shine Down” feat. Kofi Black (Prod. By Pascal Zumaque) [Video]
September 26, 2017
RIP Uncle Sean Price! One more ‘gin for the Duck Down fam. Rock telling his Heltah Skeltah hermano to “Shine Down” on him and his daughter (with an assist from Kofi Black). Pascal on production. Dope! Touching tribute.
#RIPSEANPRICE
ROCK – ROCKNESS A.P. (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Heltah Skeltah, KOFI BLACK, Pascal Zumaque, Rock, Rockness A.P., Rockness After Price, Rockness AP, Rockness Monsta, Shine Down, The Rockness Monstah | No Comments »
Apollo Brown x Planet Asia – “Get Back” (Video)
September 26, 2017
Yeah. Another banger! Gritty, like this visual. Hope you like “Anchovies.” Eff that, you are LOVING the LP if you are a Hip-Hop head. As for the bug-looking, fishy, salty pizza topping… well, some like it, some don’t.
The new album “Anchovies.” from Detroit’s Apollo Brown and Fresno’s Planet Asia isn’t for everybody. It’s lo-fi, nasty, and minimalist to the extreme. But for some, it’s absolutely perfect. Stripped down to accentuate Asia’s bars, Apollo Brown lays a gorgeous backdrop for gutter tales.
– Mellow Music Group
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Apathy x O.C. – “The Broadcast”
September 26, 2017
Apathy and O.C. from DITC on “The Broadcast” though… we HAVE to interrupt your regular programming for this. Plus, maybe your favorite deejay will rotate this into their ‘regular programming’ (for the win)! This single is another one off the duo’s collab LP entitled “Perestroika.”
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: APATHY, O.C., OC, Perestroika, The Broadcast | No Comments »
MC Eiht – “Heart Cold” feat. Lady Of Rage (Video)
September 25, 2017
Holyyyy shyyyytt, this is banging! From the MC Eiht “Which Way Iz West” album (produced entirely by Brenk Sinatra), this is “Heart Cold” featuring Lady Of Rage and DJ Premier, each doing the honors to Hip-Hop as dope as ever over their double-digit decades of career excellence!
(DJ Premier is also exec producer for the Eiht album.)
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Wyclef Jean – “Carnival III: The Fall And Rise Of A Refugee” (Album)
September 21, 2017
Wyclef Jean! Still doing it after 20 years. Tranzlator Crew, Refugee through-and-through through all the shady music industry and politics… and a political run, too. Only one thing left to do: Go back to the root. Started with a solo jump-off with the “Carnival” name, so back to that same name game again. Check out Wyclef’s latest album “Carnival III: The Fall And Rise Of A Refugee”. Stream and maybe even cop a copy below.
WYCLEF JEAN – CARNIVAL III: THE FALL AND RISE OF A REFUGEE (ALBUM)
Don’t Walk! Run The Jewels… NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (Video)
September 21, 2017
Let the E&J and lyrics and booming beats FLOW! RTJ on NPR for an intimate, but no-less-energized [Tiny Desk] Concert with rhyme buddies El-P and Killer Mike. Okay, in case you don’t follow Run The Jewels… have any kids leave the F**KING room NOW! Liquor and lyrics laced with profanity and adult dopeness. Party time! Let’s GO!
Mina Tavakoli | February 6, 2017 — Like any good pair of twins, Run the Jewels have a freaky sort of unspoken fraternity. When El-P and Killer Mike strode in with their usual uniforms — Mike in a gold chain as thick as a garter snake, El in a fitted Yankees cap and pair of blue-mirrored sunglasses — the two didn’t have to do as much as nod to one another before upending three tracks from their latest LP, RTJ3, in strange and perfect symbiosis.
El-P (née El-Producto, née Jaime Meline) — rapper, producer, and all-around godfather of the backpacker scene of the late-90’s — and Killer Mike — known for guest features on tracks by Atlanta’s Dungeon Family in the early-aughts, solo work in the mid-to-late ’00s, and perhaps most widely for his very public support of Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign last year — have out-mused each other in a supergroup that somehow seems to get better, louder, and more pertinent since their start in 2013. They represent an ideal evolution of underground hip-hop to mainstream success, mixing a fundamentally activist animus with IMAX-level production without losing a speck of vital force.
On an unseasonably beautiful day in D.C., Run the Jewels was sweaty and sulfuric, ad-libbing with one another in an exchange so slick, easy, and conspiratorial, it felt like we were in on their shared language.
Run the Jewels 3 is available now!
– NPR Music
EL-P X KILLER MIKE – RUN THE JEWELS 3 (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
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Rapsody – “Pay Up” feat. Heather Victoria (Prod. By Khrysis x Kashif)
September 20, 2017
Oh, remember hearing the push for “Laila’s Wisdom” during the “In-Office Concert” that we posted on Rapsody on here earlier? Now we get this “Pay Up” joint, produced by Khrysis and Kashif, with vocals from Heather Victoria. See, September 22nd cannot get here soon enough for folks who want a whole album of music as dope as this!
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: Heather Victoria, Kashif, KHRYSIS, Laila's Wisdom, Pay Up, Rapsody | No Comments »
DJ Kay Slay – “Story of My Life” feat. Papoose x Mysonne x AZ (Video)
September 20, 2017
Days from the release of “The Big Brother,” DJ Kay Slay got some brothers together to work it out on a heartfelt tribute track. Papoose, Mysonne, and AZ not only hold the women in their lives down; but in this rhyme, they hold them up. Good stuff!
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: AZ, DJ Kay Slay, Kay Slay, Mysonne, Papoose, Story of My Life, The Big Brother, The DJ Kayslay Show | No Comments »
Rick Ross – “Santorini Greece” (Video)
September 19, 2017
Crrrazzzy visuals! Rozay is already in Atlanta winning. His mansion over here is ridiculous. Manicured grounds, off the chain parties with all kinds of Eye Candy spread around… Wherever he travels to, it being home-away-from-home, MUST be extra-extra crazy. Hence, Rick Ross HAD to do “Santorini Greece” like this.
Watch Rapsody’s In-Office Performance (Live) [Video]
September 18, 2017
“Laila’s Wisdom” drops this Friday, September 22nd. But good news for us, Rapsody & Okayplayer dropped off this footage of a free mini-concert of some old and new joints in advance of that. Bonus: I dropped that pre-order link for y’all below!
We’re live with Rapsody for an in-office performance ahead of the release of her album “Laila’s Wisdom” this Friday. Tune in!
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: In-Office Performance, Laila's Wisdom, OKAYPLAYER, Rapsody | 4 Comments »
Blu x Exile – “Constellations”
September 18, 2017
Leaked from the duo’s “In The Beginning: Before The Heavens” album (pre-order link below), Blu and Exile bless with this “Constellations” jawn. Reach for the stars people. Click play.
BLU X EXILE – CONSTELLATIONS | IN THE BEGINNING: BEFORE THE HEAVENS (PRE-ORDER)
