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Knile — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:00:58 +0000

Wanna Take You Higher – summer playlist on Songza from Miles Fisher via Party Magazine
Goldie Lookin Chain – At the Drive-Thru
Who Is Your Daddy

This Post Nearly Didn’t Happen

Knile — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:00:57 +0000

Nice Peter – Vader Vs Hitler
The Filthy Holes – World of Strangers
Jess & Jessica
Lonely chairs at CERN
Rob MacInnis photography – also check out older work
Build a self-sufficient homestead
Check out this sick Grave Digger freestyle from St. Louis Monster Jam
Dudebro Magazine

Jazz, Hockey and Letters

DCDan — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:17:58 +0000

A list jazz records for people who don’t know shit about jazz. Bonus: for hip-hop

The Blackhawks have some class.

A letter that that is also probably relevant today

This street really exists.

R.I.P. Biggie

DCDan — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:48:34 +0000

You cannot make a list of the greatest rappers of all time without mentioning The Notorious B.I.G. As we all know Biggie was murdered in L.A. and the case has not been closed. Today the autopsy was released. What is more frustrating is that officers close to the case have said that the case has long been solved but the perpetrators have not been brought to justice.

BaoHaus X Sophia Chang Art Collabo

thos — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:41:46 +0000

Atmosphere and an appeal to the senses are everything next to taste when it comes to a restaurant and BaoHaus has got it on lock (yes this also applies to dingy hole in the walls, you know that adds to the experience). Not only does their in house playlist consist of classic hip hop from the 80′s to the naughts (classic doesn’t gotta mean old) which they post online but they also take care of your sense of sight while taking care of your sense of taste.

Enter their art collabo with Sophia Chang. She tackles the Bun Bao experience with a perfect combination of cute and hardcore, taking the bun and spittin out a hip hop pun. I’ll let her work speak for itself…with assistance by the lyrics of Action Bronson, Tribe Called Quest, Camron, Juelz Santana, and more.

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“Our families came on boats, but now we on a space ship, fuck with us.”

-BaoHaus

Tuesday Forecast (It’s A Big One)

thos — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Damn. Big one this week. Scroll through and check ‘em out. Besides the obvious, Nas and Frank Ocean, I’m really digging Motel Mari and Murs did a collabo with a graphic novel! Then there’s the Alchemist, Piano Overlord (Prefuse 73), Com Truise, and on and on…

Murs and Josh Braylock- Yumiko. Available from AccessHipHop

DJ Neil Armstrong- All Out King #6

thos — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:25:41 +0000

DJ Neil Armstrong (5th Platoon/Jay-Z’s DJ) brings out the last in his AOK series, slinging his pot of gumbo filled with the right mix of the samples and the sampled. This is just a taste (the first half)…

Pick up this mix and others on [warning Google Chrome gave a me a warning about this link] his site. The whole track list after the jump…

1 Diamond D / SSO I went for Mine
2 Gang Starr / Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers Dwyck
3 Nice and Smooth / Parliament Funky for You
4 Gang Starr Jean-Jacques Perrey Just to get a rep
5 Gang Starr / Manhattans Work
6 Gang Starr / Monk Higgins Code of the Streets
7 Kool G Rap / The Fatback Band Streets of NY
8 Big Daddy Kane / Albert King Young Gifted and Black
9 Kanye West / Mandrill Two Words
10 Kanye West / Mike Oldfield Dark Fantasy
11 Kanye West / Elton John Good Morning
12 Kanye West / Marvin Gaye Space Ship
13 Kanye West / Labi Siffri I Wonder
14 Kanye West / Natalie Cole Heard em Say
15 Jay-z / The Originals Guess Who’s Back
16 Jay-z / The 4 Levels of Existence Run This Town
17 Kanye West / Continent number 6 / King Crimson Power
18 Kanye West / Curtis Mayfield Flashing Lights
19 Talib Kweli / Nina Simone Get By
20 Reflection Eternal Move Somethin’
21 Smif N Wessun / Jack Bruce Bucktown
22 East Flatbush Project / Odetta Tried By 12
23 Jeru / Shelly Mann Come Clean
24 Jeru / Modern Jazz Quartet Can’t Stop the Prophet (remix)
25 Blackmoon / Ronnie Laws Who Got The Props
26 Crooklyn Dodgers Crooklyn
27 Crooklyn Dodgers / Young-Holt Unlimited Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
28 Group Home / Ramsey Lewis Livin’ Proof
29 Group Home / Cameo Supa Star
30 Royce da 5’9 / Marc Hannibal Boom
31 Notorious BIG / Les McCann 10 Crack Commandments
32 Notorious BIG / Bobby Caldwell Sky’s the limit
33 AZ / Lou Donaldson Your World Don’t Stop (original version)
34 NAS / The Dells If I Ruled the World
35 Nas / Chic Just a Moment
36 Big L / James Gilstrap Flamboyant
37 Big Pun / Brenda Russell Still Not a Player
38 2pac / Zapp Get Around
39 Ice Cube / Evelyn Champagne King You Know How We Do It
40 Dr. Dre / Soul Mann & the Brothers XXplosive
41 Dr. Dre / David McCallum Next Episode
42 2Pac / Joe Cocker / Ronnie Hudson & The Street People/ Zapp / California Love
43 Snoop Dogg / The Counts / P. Funk What’s My Name
44 Snoop Dogg / Laid Back Drop it like it’s Hot
45 Raekwon / Earl Klugh Ice Cream
46 Raekwon/ Koko Taylor Incarcerated Scarfaces
47 Method Man / Jerry Butler Bring the Pain
48 The Diplomats / Sanchez Dipset Anthem
49 The Diplomats / Major Harris I Really Mean It
50 A$AP Rocky / S.O.S. Band Peso
51 Rick Ross ft Jay-z / The Friends of Distinction Maybach Music
52 Drake / Bill Conti Forever
53 Lil Wayne / Diana Ross and the Supremes Lollipop
54 Chris Brown / Sparks Look at me Now
55 OutKast / Joe Simon So Fresh and So Clean
56 T.I. / Roberta Flack What You Know
57 Jay-z/ MIA / The Clash Swagger Like Us / MIA Paper Planes
58 O’Jays For the Love of Money
59 Prodigy / Jack Mayborn Keep It Thoro
60 Mobb Deep / Esther Phillips Give Up The Goods
61 Mobb Deep / Quincy Jones / Herbie Hancock Shook Ones part II
62 Alchemist / Al Cooper Hold You Down
63 Dialated Peoples / William Bell Worst Comes to Worst
64 A Tribe Called Quest / Kool and the Gang Oh My God
65 A Tribe Called Quest / Gary Bartz Butter
66 A Tribe Called Quest / Rotary Connection Bonita Applebum
67 Q-Tip / Joe Pass Let’s Ride
68 Jaylib / Gap Mangione The Official
69 Slum Village / The Singers Unlimited Players
70 J Dilla / Stylistics Baby
71 Jaylib / Cris Williamson The Red
72 Slum Village / Gap Mangione Fall In Love
73 Hi-Tek / Camel Music For Life

Song of the Week- Diverse “Escape Earth”

thos — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:59:48 +0000

The man hasn’t put out a full album since 2003′s One A.M. and then comes and drops this and kills it. Where’s the new album?!?! “Escape Earth” is an ethereal jam and a super dope video to go with it.

NinjaSonik- New EP

thos — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:31:11 +0000

Common Folk brethren NinjaSonik just recently dropped a new EP, No Swords or Masks, on Decon records-

“Reverend McFly and Telli Gramz turn a keen ear to this record, incorporating production from David Sisko, Soundwaave, and Plain Pat among others. Lyrically, the duo has never been sharper- though subject matter primarily touches on women, partying, and partying with women- proficient wordplay and cadence align them with the best hip-hop spitters. Verses from Mr. Starcity, Ifsonive, Daniel Merriweather, Shyvonne & Johnny on The Rocks (of Rocky Business) seal the deal.”

It’s always good to see friends progress and have good things happen. Oh, and if you don’t know, GO SEE THESE CAVE MAN SAVS LIVE.

Song of the Week

DCDan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:03:28 +0000

Doomtree is the shit, I saw them at the Rock and Roll Hotel and they crushed the show.

Warning this song contains the lyrics:
“Rap won’t save you.”