“Top 5” is off Kub’s The Basics 2, which you can nab for your own price here.
VIDEO: “Lookey Lookey” – Props (dir. by Harry Clean of Detooz Films)
Props stays on the hyper-creative tip for his latest visual treatment. “Lookey Lookey” is like an iPhone photo editing app on steroids. The mundane is turned fantastical by Harry Clean of Detooz Films. I ride for this, definitely.
(Click here if you missed Props’ last video, the surreal and oddly beautiful “The Taste of Heaven.”)
VIDEO: “Sermon” – Bambu
Bam’s not an official SEA rapper, but if you follow the scene you know he might as well be. Peep the new clip for “Sermon,” the lead single off his next and (according to him) final LP, One Rifle Per Family (due September 18).
#OutOfTownMovement
NEW MUSIC: “Get Out” – JusMoni (prod. by WD4D)
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WD4D creates an experimental/divergent electro beat which the lovely JusMoni blesses with lovelorn vocals.
VIDEO: “LAOS! LAOS! LAOS! LAOS!” – Don’t Talk To The Cops
New clip from DTTTC! (exclamation point theirs). For all you short attention span having motherfuckas.
NEW MUSIC: “Same Love” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with their official entree into the equal marriage rights for all people discussion. Hip-hop would behoove itself by featuring more supportive expression like this.
REVIEW: Life Is Good – Nas
Nas
Life Is Good
Def Jam; 2012
Score (Potholes In My Blog scale): 4.0 / 5.0
NEW MUSIC: “Good2Go” – Hi-Life Soundsystem
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From the internet ether comes a new drop by Hi-Life Soundsystem. “Good2Go” arrives just in time for tonight’s Members Only 3-Year Anniversary party at Neumos. Shit’s free son so get thee to Capitol Hill.
NEW MUSIC: “Family Means Everything” – Second Family (prod. by DJ Phinisey)
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Two of Tacoma’s most well-regarded hip-hop players link for this collab. “Family Means Everything” is the first drop from DJ Phinisey’s upcoming compilation album. Second Family gives the beat blessing.
“Family Means Everything” – Second Family (prod. by DJ Phinisey)
NEWS: The Physics’ Tomorrow People Kickstarter Campaign
Click album cover to visit The Physics’ “Tomorrow People” Kickstarter Campaign
The Physics have kicked off a (ahem) Kickstarter campaign in an effort to fund the production and distribution of their upcoming album, Tomorrow People (set to drop August 25). Click above or here to view the super creative campaign video and consider donating today. A bit from the press:
Tomorrow People is pretty much about dope raps, dope beats, and dope hooks. After putting out our last LP, Love is a Business, and touring with the Blue Scholars last fall, we went straight back to the lab to produce a rap record that is more lyrical than our last, featuring some of Seattle’s best like Jake One, Sol, Grynch, Vitamin D, J. Pinder, and more. With this release, we are on the cusp of attaining our goals as musicians, knowing that tomorrow is unknown, but hoping that tomorrow will be amazing.
Download “Days,” the first leak from Tomorrow People below.
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