Click image to download.
The artist formerly known as “D. Black” is reborn as Nissim. His new team, OEMCo, is out to spread positivity and patience with a spiritual bent. Their first effort is “Ricochet.” Peep Black’s new game below.
Tag: sportn’ life records
NEW MUSIC: “The Flyest” – Spac3man (prod. by DJ Phinisey)
Click image to download.
Sportn’ Life Records continues its run of drops in celebration of their 10-year anniversary. Here, Spac3man hops on a DJ Phinisey beat for “The Flyest.” Brag rap shit (ho-hum). Listen / download below. While you’re at it, make sure to check out Phinisey’s solo LP too.
NEW MUSIC: “Tell Me” – Nissim, Fatal Lucciauno, Spac3man, & Larry Hawkins (prod. by Vitamin D)
Click image to download.
A couple of big things are happening in the Sportn’ Life camp in the coming months. First off, the label celebrates its first decade in business with a blowout party at Barboza on November 21 (check for more details here). Secondly, you knew D. Black couldn’t stay away for long didn’t you? Real MCs gotta spit, it’s the laws of physics, and the man formerly known as Black has an eight-song EP in the works for a February 2013 release. Catch him as Nissim on this new joint, “Tell Me”, and the upcoming album, My Life My Love.
DOWNLOAD: Sportn’ Life Records Rare & Unreleased Tracks
Click image to download.
The venerable Sportn’ Life Records will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary on October 18 at Barboza. In commemoration of the milestone, Devon Manier and Co. are dropping two unreleased tracks per week as a lead-up to the event. This week’s offerings:
“What the Bizness is” (2005) –Â Fearce Villan, D.Black and Mo Betta feat. S.E.V. and Marissa
“The Streets is Back” (2006) – Fatal Lucciauno feat. Toxic and Spac3man
VIDEO: “Big Bro” – Fatal Lucciauno
I love the slow crawling menace of this track (those heavy keys and stabbing synth are courtesy of producer Kuddie Fresh). Is Respect the best Seattle hip-hop album of the year thus far? The answer’s “Yes” for my money.
DOWNLOAD: Dimensions – Fly Moon Royalty
Click album art to download.
Funk, hip-hop, soul and do-everything duo Fly Moon Royalty released this free EP yesterday. Dimensions is five tracks long and spins you through the, well, dimensions of everything stellar about the Sportn’ Life duo. Grab it above and below.
VIDEO: “Lemonade” – Fly Moon Royalty (dir. by The Note)
Sportn’ Life Records’ hip-hop/R&B/soul/electro/funk duo Fly Moon Royalty with their latest video, “Lemonade.” You can buy their self-titled album below and download the single for free.
DOWNLOAD: The Only Forgotten Son – Fatal Lucciauno
Click album cover to download.
Goods news for fans of Sportn’ Life lead dog Fatal Lucciauno: his 2007 SnL debut, The Only Forgotten Son, is available free of monetary encumbrances for a short five days only. Click here, above or below to grab it now. And go here to read what 206UP.COM had to say about his recent album, Respect.
REVIEW: Respect – Fatal Lucciauno
Fatal Lucciauno
Respect
Sportn’ Life Records; 2012
Score (Potholes In My Blog scale): 4/5
Click here to read my album review over at Potholes In My Blog.
NEW MUSIC: Respect – Fatal Lucciauno
Click album cover to purchase at Bandcamp.
Fatal Lucciauno dropped his sophomore full-length, Respect, yesterday via Sportn’ Life Records. I won’t say much here since a full album review by me is coming soon (via Potholes In My Blog), except that this record is vastly different than what most fans of Seattle rap are used to. It’s underground as hell, but not in the skater/backpacker aesthetic that most hip-hop in the city trends toward.
Fatal’s is a perspective that Seattle likes to pretend doesn’t exist, the pathos of a man familiar to most through fictionalized accounts on HBO and sensationalized blather on the local news. Respect is realer, rawer and more vital than the status quo this city tries so hard to maintain. There’s dirt in your own backyard, Seattle. Shit that no amount of new food co-ops or neighborhood clean-up days can wipe clean.
A SEATTLE HIP-HOP BLOG 