And we're off!

Now we're done with deadlines, done with course work for a while and done with staying quiet.

This will be the start towards new heights and the start of, at least, personal success. So I thought that what would be better than to ease you in with a little bit of music from a man who is destined to find success as well?

Last year, the best mixtape released came from North Carolina born rapper J. Cole, who followed up his 2007 success The Come Up, that got him signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation, with The Warm Up, dropped on June 15 -09.

Since releasing The Warm Up, which was in close battle with Wale's mixtape Back To The Feature for the position as year no. 1, J.Cole has guest starred on Jay-Z's album Blueprint 3 where he joined the Brooklyn-legend on the track A Star Is Born. Recently he also featured on Talib Kweli's track Just Begun with Mos Def and Jay Electronica

Download the best mixtape of -09... HERE!

J. Cole - Show Me Something



J. Cole - Losing My Balance



J. Cole - Last Call

Mixtape! - KiD CuDi

I think I've been writing about this KiD more than any other artist on this blog. But at the moment, it's almost as if the business revolves around him.

With all the retiring talk out of the way, KiD CuDi keeps pumping out new material almost more frequent than we can handle. Following up the massively successful mixtape A KiD named CuDi, comes now the next teaser before the expected debut album this summer. Mixtape no. 2, Dat KiD from Cleveland, contains songs like I Poke Her Face, and features artists like Wale, Kanye West, Common and 88-Keys.

Make your own opinion, is the quality the same as on his first mixtape?

Download Dat KiD from Cleveland here!