Mixtape: Luck-One & Dekk: Beautiful Music Pt. 2
We must have slept on Pt. 1, as Luck-One and Dekk are new names on us. Great things were clearly brewing while we snoozed, as this, on first impressions, sounds to be truly special. Luck-One has a truly original flow, Dekk provides some deep, beautiful beats. The originality is framed by true traditional hip hop, the result is highly addictive, from-the-soul, excellence.
Take a cost-free chance and download by click either picture above.
Download: Pavy - Middle Class Ignorance
It’s been a long time coming, as Pavy explains:
“This project was crafted over a period of two years… I was 18 when I started and when I finished I was what I am now, 20. So the idea of Middle Class Ignorance has changed as my mindframe has also changed. I feel ignorance – or the sense of obliviousness – is very important in life, because if I logically looked at the odds I would never attempt to succeed in music. I feel like this is the beginning of life for me and hopefully you guys like the music enough to tag along for the ride.”
Stream and download on the player above.
Mixtape: Def Sound - oooooH!thee.bitchtape
You all heard and loved this earlier this year, didn’t you?
Mr Sound is back with a so-cheap-it’s-almost-free mixtape. Equal measures imaginative and fun, you can stream and buy here:
Bodes well for a first release proper from Def. I’m ready and waiting.
Audio: Oddisee - For Certain (Feat. Diamond District)
Mello Music Group can do no wrong. No wrong at all.
This free-to-download track is from Oddisee’s brilliant Rock Creek Park album, the latest in an increasingly long line of beautifully crafted soul-infused hip hop from MMG.
Download & Stream: Phonte - The Life Of Kings (Feat. Evidence & Big K.R.I.T.)
From Phonte’s Charity Starts At Home, due September 27th. This bodes very well.
Audio: Amenta - Sacred Places EP
New signing to the brilliant UK based First Word Records, Amenta is one of those artists that commands your attention. She’s a Red Bull Music Academy graduate, the daughter of Jamaican Jehovah’s Witness parents who settled in Canada, and her music and beautiful voice speaks for itself. So listen above. And buy the EP, it’s only 3 quid.
Audio: Kurt Vile - The Creature
From his forthcoming So Outta Reach EP which features “5 original songs initially recorded during the sessions for Smoke Ring For My Halo but not used for the album” AND a Bruce Springsteen cover.
Stream and download above.
Audio & Download: Oddisee - Mattered Much (Feat. Oliver Daysoul)
To celebrate the release of the brilliant (truss) Rock Creek Park, super-producer and all-round-hip-hop-soul-guru Oddisee has given us a gift in the form of a free download of one of the many stand-out tracks from the record.
Stream and download Mattered Much above, and buy the album, here.
Download: The-Dream - 1977
I half expected The-Dream to be big(ger) news by now. He’s penned songs for anyone who’s anyone in R&B and had a very successful record in Love King.
After an alleged row with Def Jam, he’s putting this out for free. Jolly good of him, although I doubt the label will feel the same way.
Tracklist:
1. Wake Me When It’s Over
2. Used to Be
3. Long Gone
4. Ghetto Feat. Big Sean
5. Wedding Crasher
6. Rolex Feat. Casha
7. Silly (Introducing Casha)
8. 1977 (Miss You Still)
9. Wish You Were Mine
10. Real Feat. Pharrell
11. Form of Flattery
Click the picture above to download (or here, an alternate link).
Audio: Toro Y Moi - New Beat (Star Slinger Dancehall Mix)
From Star Slinger himself: “Didn’t wanna make a typical soulbeat when i was asked to do this, so made a riddim instead.”.
Yeah you did.
Download: J. Cole - Any Given Sunday #2
Click the image above to download.
Yet more Hype-building for the forthcoming Cole World: The Sideline Story, due September 27th.
From J:
“For the record, these are not mixtapes, not EP’s either. I wake up on Sunday’s and I decide what songs I want to let out or rerelease for yall. You’ve been so patient for 2 YEARS! I think you deserve some insight and unreleased music. 1. Bring Em’ In- Made this in ATL during the “single hunt” phase. Even though it wasn’t a single and won’t make the album, I love this shit! 2. Roll Call- Just some real shit. Venting 3. Be Freestyle- “Put on for my city like my favorite jacket… “man, you gon’ where that every got damn night??”.. “know what I paid for this shit?? bitch, you got damn right!!”” Part one still available here.
Download: Thundercat - Shenanigans Pt. 1 (Mixed by Flying Lotus)
Fly Lo says:
“Here’s some things, a prelude to the LP. Some new, some you might know, some we may never release. His debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse drops Aug. 30th, which I have had my hand in putting together.”
Click the picture above, or here, to download. Spoiler - It’s dope.
Download: J. Cole - Any Given Sunday #1 EP
Ahead of the massively anticipated first official full length from J. Cole (Cole World: The Sideline Story, due September 27th) come this Free EP.
A little description of the tracks from his site:
“1. Like A Star- Was saving this for the 2nd album. Due to some other shit beyond my control, I’ma let this out now.
2. Knock On Wood- One of my fav. freestyles. OG Dreamvillains gotta be reminded, new fans gotta get put on.
3. Pity- Brand new J. Cole, Omen, Voli. Produced by Voli @volitheentity
4. How High- at one point this was guaranteed to go on The Sideline Story.
5. Unabomber- Just heard this today for the first time in a longgg time. Love these raps.”
And a promise of more:
“Every Sunday til the album drops I’ll be back with something. Maybe just 1 song, maybe a video, depending on how I’m feeling.
September 27! We almost there. Until then…”
Click the photo above, or here, to download.
Download: Drake - Headlines
The first single from Drake’s forthcoming Take Care album. Finally feels like the good stuff usually reserved for his mixtapes is making the leap to commercial releases.
Click the image above to download for free.
