Video - KiD CuDi "Day 'n' Nite"

I've been hella busy the past couple days and will be for the weekend, but this is worth sharing.

KiD CuDi Feat. Wale "Look Up in Da Stars"

"real words, elegant a piece of art"

Off some mixtape coming up.

Listen/Download "Look Up in Da Stars"

Via NahRight

Mixtape - Charles Hamilton "Every Charles Hamilton Ex-Girlfriend's Worst Nightmare"

Yes, that is three tapes in one week. I can't keep up. Feeling the cover art on this.

Download Every Charles Hamilton Ex-Girlfriend's Worst Nightmare

Via Charles

Naledge "I'm In Chicago, Bitch"

"you love the maino beats, you likehow scholar spin
you heard of brainiac, well, you should meet my friends"

Here's a remake of LMFAO's song that I didn't feel too highly about, until now. Naledge does it right. Well, better.

Listen/Download "I'm In Chicago, Bitch"

From RubyHornet

Video - B.o.B. "Generation Lost"

How 'bout these last two videos because I got shit to do tomorrow. That's all you savages get today.

Video - Kanye West Feat. KiD CuDi "Welcome to Heartbeak"

This is not the next single, “Amazing” is the next single. This is the video we’ve been working on for the last month. We know there is another video out there using the same technique so we were forced to drop it now. - via Kanye

Video - Wale Debuts New Single "Chillin'" Feat. Lady Gaga

I didn't throw the original of this a while back, but I did cop it. I couldn't hear the Lady GaGa, I don't know if it isn't on there or I just can't hear it because I'm blasting that new Drake too loud.

Saw it on elitaste

Kooley High "Everywhere"

"we dropped the summer sessions, the question people wondered
kooley is you high, when you going to drop another?"

Now illroots has got me all kinds of excited about this upcoming tape, Kooley is High. I talked to my editors today in hopes of getting a feature with Kooley High. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime, a joint that didn't make the cut for the new mixtape.

Listen/Download "Everywhere"

Asher Roth "Silly Boy" [Prod. by Don Cannon]

"...may be the reason why i'm tweaking on this verse"

This, more than anything by Asher thus far, sounds like Eminem, especially the synthy-piano background. Not sure how I feel about the chorus, but still straight. Just don't hope the entire album doesn't sound like this.

Listen/Download "Silly Boy"

From TheStudioRats, via 2DB

Kardinal Offishall & Wale "Heads, Shoulder, Knees & Toes"

"hot like folgers, fold your, make your toes touch your shoulders"

Remember Wale's version of the UK smash a while ago? DJ Semtex adds Kardinal's new verse. I likes it.

Listen/Download "Heads, Shoulder, Knees & Toes"

Link via 2DB

Mixtape - Charles Hamilton "My Brain is Alive"

I have been so inundated with mixtapes these past couple of days I can't even begin to digest these things. Especially Charles. Not that I don't like it, but if he continues to do this I'm just going to have to quit listening to them all. Word is he did this in the time after Well, Isn't This Awkward was finished. That's like less than 72 hours. I'll probably be writing a review for this for my real journalism commitment. Until then, you can read the Mic Terror review I had promised a while back. Don't hate the doings of my editor who rewrote a segment and made me use the word "familiar" three times in two sentances. That wasn't me.

Download My Brain is Alive

Courtesy of Charles

B.o.B. "Don't Break My Heart"

"cause you yellin' cussin' fussin' now you hangin' up the phone"

Said to be off that full-length release, The Great Adventures of B.o.B. Get excited.

Who did more justice to the original "Build Me Up Buttercup" though, Bob or Rhymefest? ODB on the hook for 'Fest is hard to compete with, but I'm just not going to compare the two like I just did and like them both equally.

Listen/Download "Don't Break My Heart"

Via OnSmash

Video - The Real: The Food Fighters

ItsTheReal Presents The Food Fighters from jeff on Vimeo.

This beef is cooked.

Kooley High Post - "The Bomb" Feat. Halo & Charlie Smarts, "One Day" Documentary

One Day - Introducing Kooley High from BECAUSEUS on Vimeo.

Kooley High is some straight good NC shit. They've been working with 9th Wonder for a minute and just got done with this documentary. I didn't have a chance to hit the premiere in Raleigh when it opened, but it's online now. Also, how about a new track. And if you want to know more about Kooley High, I reviewed their Summer Sessions EP a while back, which I'll throw up at the end of the post. Oh yeah, there will be an upcoming Kooley High mixtape courtesy of illroots and K-Salaam. Be hyped.

Listen/Download "The Bomb" [Produced by Oddisee]

Link from illroots

Nothing good has ever emerged from the depths of mortar and bricks at N.C. State University. To keep it that way, we’ll only consider Kooley High from Raleigh because the Wolf Pack faithful should not be able to take credit for such talent.

Already released on iTunes, The Summer Sessions EP is the first offering by group Kooley High and quickly establishes them among the elite in North Carolina hip-hop. MCs Tab-One, Charlie Smarts and Rapsody use what seem like effortless rhyming techniques to make already stellar homegrown beats by the group’s producers Sinopsis and Foolery sound that much better.

For all nine songs on the EP, KH is as chill as their name suggests. After the 35 minute listen it’s tempting to not want to go out and befriend the quintet. It would seem just being in the same vicinity of the collective would make you cooler.

The crew keeps up this reputation with songs like “Kool With It” and “We Be That.” Boasting is done without coming off as cocky and the confidence is so assured that there is no question to whether or not it is deserved. How could it not be when Rapsody can rap so eloquently about her “vernacular?”

Maestro 9^th Wonder lends two cuts but only really stands apart from Foolery and Sinopsis on “Water.” This is a true testament to the quality of the in-house production because “Water” is only more prominent with verses by Lazarus and Edgar Allen Floe, the latter of the two also holds the crown for best MC name in the game.

The only thing holding the EP back is the often made mistake of adding useless skits in between some of the songs. Although the intro to “Water” is an obvious allusion to both the song and hip-hop club H₂O that several of the members formed while at N.C.S.U., it only serves to slow the otherwise fluid release.

Kooley High is definitely worth remembering because it will be a shame if they don’t make a name for themselves out of the Research Triangle. The Summer Sessions EP is great fun with lyrics reminiscent of the bygone A Tribe Called Quest and daisy-age De La Soul era with meticulously well-crafted beats that can make a grown man swoon.

Che Grand Feat. Colin Munroe "Too Much Too Soon"

"lipstick on my mirror saying 'kiss my ass'""

I don't know if I've professed my love for Colin on here before, but I love that goofy fuck. With Che on this, who's Breakfast @ Wimbledon was slept on.

Listen/Download "Too Much Too Soon"

Copped from illroots

Mos Def "Life Is Good"

"with all the blues in the news that's news that i need"

A full off the new DJ Deckstream album. Solid.

Listen/Download "Life is Good"

Via Che

Video - Big Sean in the Studio with Pharrell Williams & Charles Hamilton

Mixtape - Blu "HerFavoriteColo(u)r."

Blu is one of those guys who I always mean to post and never do. I say that for a lot of artists. Check the new mixtape and some extra cuts.

01_Love
02_Amnesia
03_Since
04_Morning
05_Melo
06_Wind(terludeOne)
07_When(terludeTwo)
08_Silent
09_Pardon
10_Vanity
11_Beggars’/BlackGold
12_Celln’Ls
13_Untitled(LovedU)2
14_Peace

Download HerFavoriteColo(u)r

Listen/Download "JBs Gone"

Listen/Download "Amnesia"

All this from 2DB

Mixtape - Charles Hamilton "Well, Isn't This Awkward"

Charles continues the mixtape domination, this time with a love themed endeavor.

Download Well, Isn't This Awkward

Bonus: Watch Charles discuss the tape with DJ Skee



All these goodies from Charles

Mixtape - Drake "So Far Gone"

There was some major buildup waiting for this one Thursday night/Friday morning. The anticipation was worthy.

Download So Far Gone

Via October'sVeryOwn