Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Union feat. R.A. the Rugged Man & Doom “Coco Mango” (Maticulous Remix)
The closing of Fat Beats NY has left a gaping hole in hip-hop. The
void is so wide you could… enough about cavities. Things are still
rotten in NY, except in the case of R.A. the Rugged Man
and DOOM on the same track, that’s a great thing. They didn’t just lay
their signature grit on some hot shit that would’ve made the backpack
set pitch a tent on the corner of 406 6th Ave. R.A. and producer maticulous picked up where DOOM and Parisan beatsmiths Union
left off on the original. The DOOM version sans R.A., is distributed by
the Fat Beats Distribution label carrying the torch of independent
hip-hop at its finest, especially overseas where FB (not Facebook) was a
magnet for international rap acts by way of its Amsterdam retail store.
Euros hold weight! Currency, word is bond.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Kool Keith – “New York (Remix)” (Feat. Agallah Don Bishop & NYM)
Kool Keith is excited to announce that his forthcoming album, Love & Danger, will be released June 5th via Junkadelic Music, with worldwide distribution via Fat Beats. To celebrate the announcement, the Bronx native and founding member of Ultramagnetic MCs, is releasing a remix of the album’s lead single “New York,” now featuring Agallah Don Bishop and NYM.
Kool Keith’s new album, Love & Danger, which is produced entirely by DJ Junkaz Lou, allowed Keith to experiment with his talents even further, and also to display a wide range of emotions. “The Love & Danger album was a chance for me to be myself and do different things,” explains Keith. “It was me going through all kinds of temperatures – my highest of coldness to my highest of hotness, which is a lot like love and danger.”
That excellence appears throughout Love & Danger’s 15 tracks. “New York,” finds Keith paying homage to the city that made him. Elsewhere, “The Game Is Free,” features a guest verse from Megabone, and examines the idea of privacy in a society driven by ever-present media. Other songs on the album include features from Keith Murray, and more, while album’s closing track, “Goodbye Rap,” is Kool Keith’s sign-off to the game he has been a major part of for a very long time. “This is probably my last project,” announces Keith, “You just got the last of the vocals of me. I’m quitting the game. Goodbye, rap.”
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