Track Of The Day! - Drake

Drake - Forever (feat. Kanye West, Lil' Wayne, Eminem)

Dates, release dates!

A quickie today yes?

Here's some important release dates for this autumn, so flip up that calender of yours, click your little pen and write this shit down!

October 20
Fashawn - Boy Meets World
Stat Quo - Great Depression

October 27
Tech N9ne - K.O.D.
Triple C - Custom Cars & Cycles

November 3
Shwayze - Let It Beat

November 10
Wale - Attention: Deficit
The Clipse - Till The Casket Drops
DJ Kay Slay - More Than Just A DJ

November 17
50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct

November 24
Glasses Malone - Beach Cruiser
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The World's Enemy
Birdman - Pricele$$
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin'
Various Artists - The Ultimate Death Row Collection
Timbaland - Shock Value 2
Wiz Khalifa - Deal Or No Deal
Jay-Z - Greatest Hits

So, basically there's gonna be a busy couple of week in November. I'm especially looking forward to Wale, Clipse andfa Wiz Khalifa.

E-40's new album should be interesting too, his My Ghetto Report Card from 2006 was impressive to say the least.

50 Cent? Naaw, unless it's in the same spirit as his early G-Unit work, it wont be a hit.

Timbaland has got a lot to live up to. We all remember Shock Value with tracks like Apologize and The Way I Are right?

Also, I expect nothing but one of the best lyrics since the borth of the CD on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony new record. So please prove me right!

Here we go!

So, time to get down to business.

It has been a busy summer, but I don't really see the point in just telling you about it word for word. Where's the fun in that?

Basically, it has all been about Jay-Z. The Jiggaman has released his latest album, Blueprint 3, and all over the world people have been queuing up to praise the record which, according to the main person himself is three times as good as edition one and two.

Just watch this interview and you'll know what I'm talking about:



And I can't really argue, Blueprint 3 is the best album of the year so far, no doubt. The tracks just keep growing the more you listen to them. For example, here's Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)



...and Already Home (feat. Kid Cudi).



What else? We've got a new album from Fabolous called Loso's Way, and as mentioned in the previous post, Clipse is coming out with Til The Casket Drops in a near future and have been spitting out hits to promote the release.

Fabolous - Everything, everyday, everywhere (feat. Keri Hilson)



Clipse - Kinda like a big deal (feat. Kanye West)



Sweden? Don't know where to start there. The scene of electro/drum n' base influenced Hip hop has truly exploded, mostly thanks to My Best Friend Is My Grind. You've got new names such as Cake Boy, Pato Pooh and the list goes on, which are trying to make it big and are on their way to getting there.

Pato Pooh - Follow Me (feat. Adam Tensta)



Cake Boy - How I Roll



Well, that'll be all for now.

Catch you in a bit.

Whoop, whoop!

Track Of The Day! - Clipse

Alright people! We're back in the game again after a well deserved, as well as needed, break over the summer. There's been going on a lot which needs to be reported on, and I will get down to that when the time is right, which will be tomorrow.

But for now, let's just start of nice and easy with a track of the day. From their upcoming, and according to me, highly anticipated album 'Til the casket drops', here's Clipse with I'm Good:

Track Of The Day! - Lupe Fiasco

Lupe Fiasco - Hi-Definition (feat. Snoop Dogg & Pooh Bear)

Track Of The Day! - J-Son

It's not really new, but with his debut album coming out soon, I thought it wouldn't be more than right to open up the eyes on as many as possible to one of Sweden's upcoming superstars, J-Son.

He has been working with some of the rap game's finest, such as Chamillionaire, Lil' Wayne and 50 Cent, before even having an official record of his own yet.

This is his first official single:

J-Son - Lookie Lookie

Track Of The Day! - Petter

It's Swedish, but I don't care 'cause I just can't stop listening to it.

Petter - Min Click (feat. Kihlen)

Track Of The Day! - Bustha Rhymes + KiD CuDi

From Bustha Rhymes's upcoming album B.O.M.B.S (Back On My BullShit) comes this track with Lil' Wayne and Jadakiss.

Respect My Conglomerate



The beat is outstanding on this track. So here's a little bonus TOTD; a freestyle on the same beat from KiD CuDi.

Mixtape! - DJ Silence

First of all I would like to apologies (again) for my abscense. This time it's due to personal problems and shitloads of school work.

But it's time to do it again, so here we go!

There's been a lot of mixtapes released lately so I'm gonna keep up with the pattern of a few of my latest posts. About a week ago DJ Silence latest edition of the Global Takeover (pt.2 Electro Invasion) was released on My Best Friend Is My Grind.

It's hosted by Adam Tensta and it has got some great tracks. My personal favourites are J-Son - Pretty Boy (Beat them up club edition), J-Son - Pretty Boy feat. Adam Tensta & Lazee, and Adam Tensta feat. Eboi & DJ Rooftop - RMH Remix.

So download it here and download it now! If you don't, you will miss out on something good. And yes, It is legal.

To give you a little taste, here's the original track of J-Son - Pretty Boy.

Track of the day! - Mos Def

Mos Def - Travellin' Man

It's true!

Have I got news for you! There an inflation going on in the world!

Thoughts like 'No shit' probably goes through your mind right now. But I'm not here to talk about economy am I? No sir, I'm talking about the world of Hip hop music off course. And the inflation in question is the one regarding Autotune, voice- sound-effects and all that crap. It's been going on for a while so for you involved, this isn't news either.

So. Do you, just as me, go crazy when you hear some guys, fresh off the streets, who brings their lyrics on a classic beat with a simple, classic and outstanding video? Well, fear no more. Becuase that's what you get here.

Straight outta Seattle comes Dyme Def with the song Pick Up Ya Flow, including my personal favourite Saigon.

Mixtape! - Lloyd Banks

It's been pretty quiet from the Gorillas from Queens, NY, lately. The most we've heard about G-Unit has been about 50 Cent's upcoming album, set to make its way to the stores towards the end of the year.

But there's more to G-Unit than 50 Cent. The, in my opinion, most talented rapper of the crew, Lloyd Banks, released his last album in 2006. Since then fans around the world have been able to download a couple of mixtapes, and today, on his 27th birthday, he celebrates with a new one in the series.

Finally Lloyd Banks is back in the game for real. Now we're gonna have something to enjoy while waiting for his next official album.

Dowload the mixtape hear:
CD1
CD2

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!

Track of the day! - Nelly

Nelly - Heart of a Champion

Track of the day! - G-Unit

G-Unit - Stunt 101

Now that's funny!

Let's just have some fun today and watch a little stand-up comedy. But stand-up isn't just about one-liners and making fun of politicians. It can be so much more than that. Just watch these clips of Aries Spears impersonating LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, DMX, Jay-Z and Michael Jackson.

New from the old!

I don't think that Mr Slim Shady himself, Eminem, needs a presentation. We all know who he is and what he can do.

After a four-year-long break from the rap game, his new album Relapse is set to be released on May 19 this year. And as usual his work is getting criticism from people outside of the Hip hop world. American Bill O'Reilly thrashed his new video to the first single of the album, We Made You, on his TV show. But I can hardly see that anyone really cares.

Here is the new video:

Eminem - We Made You




It follows the clear pattern we by now can call the "Eminem synrome". On every album he has released since his major label debut, The Slim Shady LP, the first single has been a sort of parody. Have a look at this list and you will understand what I mean. (the greatest hits album Curtain Call [2005] is not included)

The Slim Shady LP [1999] - My Name Is
The Marshall Mathers LP [2000] - The Real Slim Shady
The Eminem Show [2002] - Without Me
Encore [2004] - Just Loose It
Relapse [2009] - We Made You

...plus the two D12 albums

Devil's Night [2001] - Purple Pills (even if Shit On You came out before but was pretty much unnoticed)
D12 World [2004] - My Band

Following these non serious first singles has been the complete oposit, purely serious tracks, such as: Guilty Conscience [1999], The Way I am [2000], Cleaning Out My Closet [2002], Mosh [2004] and Fight Music [2001].

So now we just have to wait and see what the second single of Relapse is going to be, but it is definitely going to be a serious one.

Track of the day! - Busta Rhymes

I can't even count how many songs have been released from Busta Rhymes' new album B.O.M.B.S., which has not even hit the streets yet. But here is the latest one, and I must say I like the sound of it.

Busta Rhymes - World Go Round (feat. Estelle)

Mixtape! - U-N-I

Californian rap duo U-N-I has released a new mixtape, which is up for grabs online absolutely free.
The record is a cool mix of laid back tracks and clever rhymes over a beats with a bit of an old school sound. It's all well produced and well performed.

Download the mixtape A Love Supreme here, and let me know what you think.

If you want more of U-N-I, you can download their previous mixtape 'Mick Boogie presents: U-N-I - Before There Was Love', here.

Welcome back!

First of all I apologies for the absence of updates lately. I've had my reasons, but no excuses. It's time to kick-start this blog into action again.

Kingsize magazine published a clip of one of my favourites, Saigon, where he visits DJ Green Lantern and freestyles over an Eminem beat, which is absolutely amazing.

F*** paintings, this is art!