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A recent(ish) jams 4 u compilation part 2

June 23, 2015, 2:45 am
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A follow up to this compilation, here's a RAR file of some more songs from the past 6 months (+ late december) that I've been feelin'. You know your friend who loves the YG album and Trap Queen but still posts Childish Gambino songs on his Facebook? Share this one with him innit.

V/A - Them Damn Buck Roger' Years Songs Volume Two

1. Nebu Kiniza - Myself (2014)
2. Lil' Chris ft. Sasha Go Hard - Ohh Na Na (2015)
3. 22nd Letter - Blunt On Me (2015)
4. Corn ft. Nef The Pharaoh - Old School Hyphy (2015)
5. Ty Money ft. Twista - Come Again (2015)
6. Audio Push - Normally (2015)
7. French Montana ft. Chinx & NORE - Off The Rip (2015)
8. Mr.2-17 ft. The Ratchets - Why? (2015)
9. Honey Cocaine - Honeydick (2015)
10. Slim 400 ft. Hunyae, YG & Big Quis - On My Set (remix) (2015)
11. J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon (2015)

~~~> DOWNLOAD THE COMPILATION HERE <~~~

Since Honey Cocaine originally hails from Canada I had to restore the equilibrium by including a song by a U.K rapper. Like RGF Island by Fetty Wap, Dem Boy Paigon by J Hus belongs to a new sub-genre of Dancehall-inspired rap, and if it's good enough for Westwood to play then it's good enough for you.
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R.I.P Young Ready (AKA Racked Up Ready)

June 24, 2015, 2:41 am
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"The day they claim they all loved ya is the day ya died"


Enough rapper deaths this year already. If God really exists then why is he not taking some of these indie rawk and techno wastemen back to the essence instead? What purpose do Pete Doherty or Richie Hawtin serve in 2015?

Truth be told, I wasn't a big Young Ready fan, but he was involved in a handful of songs that I do love and I'll definitely miss his opportunistic beefing with practically every other Baton Rouge rapper bar his boy Mista Cain, his mentors C-Loc & Max Minelli, and Boosie, with whom he shared a baby momma. Here's 3 songs to remember him by:

Young Ready - Put Yo Money Down
(From Junkie Medicine compilation; 2006)


Young Ready from when he was young foreal. "I'm the snake eyes that gets rolled right out the gate, so your old lady gets passed like collection plates."

Young Ready, C-Loc & Max Minelli - 1 Rubber
(From Tha Camp's Break It Off! album; 2007)



Ready's best song and for that we should thank Mouse On Tha Track's bassline + Tha Camp 2.0's ability to present such a convincing case for wearing johnny hats. Very apt that a handwritten letter from Young Ready is one of Frankie Tha Lucky Dog's treasured possessions because it was via Frankie's old MySpace page that I found out about Ready's Break It Off! album with C-Loc & Max Minelli back in 2008.

Mista Cain ft. Young Ready & DJ B-Real - Mind Right
(From Mista Cain - Louisicain 2.5 mixtape; 2012)



A Mista song that Ready claimed as his own when Mista got sent down for murder. One of the hardest songs of 2012, which was no mean feat considering that was the year which gave us Gunplay's Jump Out and Fam-Lay's Clap Clap.
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Just sayin', bruv # 10.5

June 26, 2015, 11:29 am
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A trifecta of actual facts about Bay Area rap on this humid friday evening:

Numero uno reason why Mac Dre & Khayree were one of the greatest rapper/producer partnerships ever: they made a genuine classic 5/5 rap song where Dre rapped over the phone from jail for nearly 6 minutes in I'm N Motion.

Be nice if some of the folks pontificating about Lil B being the most influential rapper of the last 5 years would acknowledge just how much a product of Oakland he is: Mac Dre was stylin' in Vans Eras a couple of years before The Pack dropped THAT song; B was the member of The Pack with the deepest voice until he switched his whole tone up and started rapping through his nose after DB Tha General dropped Welcome To The Navy in 2007; B's whole penchant for referring to himself as pretty and Jesus was liberally nicked from Husalah.

If Brian Coleman doesn't dedicate a chapter to Mac Dre's What's Really Going On EP in his next Check The Technique book then he's probably workin' for the FEDS. Top 5 EP of the early '90s no competition.
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I'm in a field in Somerset talkin' like it's just you & me

June 27, 2015, 10:06 am
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Have a load of some dickhead from The Guardian calling the 2 worst KanYe West singles since that clusterfuck he recorded for Mission Impossible 3"nearly perfect Kanye songs" lol:



If KanYe brings out Jay-Z at Glastonbury tonight but not Twista and T-Pain then he's workin' for the FEDs. Oi A-Wax - dig up man's paperwork innit.
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Rap music? More like crap music amirite!

June 28, 2015, 4:35 am
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Did you know Sweaty Ken, Wee Stanky and Wankey Set are anagrams of KanYe West? The peanut gallery under The Guardian's review of KanYe at Glastonbury last night certainly do, and the comment section is the absolute treasure trove you'd hope it would be. Top 3 favourite exchanges:







Personal hot take on the KanYe set: no one man should have all that power to cut All Falls Down off before the "I can't even pronounce nothin', pass that Ver-Say-See" line.
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Watch for the hook

June 29, 2015, 1:56 am
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Some of Nef The Pharaoh's lil' homies gettin' in the Swag-Rap renaissance is an interesting idea but there's two main problems with I Look Fly by Trill Youngins. Firstly, how y'all gonna hop on the Trill bandwagon when y'all hail from northern California? Y'all should be called Mainey Youngins innit. Secondly, that hook is so good I end up twiddling my thumbs through the rapping just waiting for it to reappear.

I can't do nuttin' for ya, man, with regards to their choice of moniker, but I can get DJ Step One to edit the song down to its bare essentials on some Cool Breeze type shit. And that's exactly what we did:

Trill Youngins - I Look Fly (Martorialist edit)
(From the internet; 2015)


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Generic list post: june 2015

June 30, 2015, 2:05 am
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Obligatory roundup post of those songs I've listened to most during the month when Puffy should have paid Shyne to shoot up his son's football coach's office.

SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My (2000)
Baby Bash ft. SPM - Short Skirts (2002)
J Stalin - Pop My Collar (2005)
Nebu Kiniza - Myself (2014)
Dr. Yen Lo - Day 13 (2015)
French Montana ft. Chinx & NORE - Off The Rip (2015)
Lil' Chris ft. Sasha Go Hard - Ohh Na Na (2015)
Future - News Or Somthn' (2015)
Tyga ft. Boosie Badazz - Pleazer (2015)
Vince Staples - Norf Norf (2015)
Trill Younginz - I Look Fly (Martorialist Edit) (2015)
Willie P Keys - I Ain't Thinkin' Bout U (Martorialist Edit) (2015)
Trey Songz ft. Ty Dolla $ign - Loving You (2015)
Janet Jackson - No Sleeep (2015)
Deorro ft. Chris Brown - Five More Hours (2015)
Charly Black - Gal You A Party Animal (2015)

Other notables: would have preferred WTF was a Nef The Pharaoh solo track TBH; really didn't expect the new TREE & Vic Spencer song to sound like a Pharrell production but it does and it works; Glory To The Lord by King Los & Kellz is the song B-Boy should have been; Kendrick Lamar had one job to do on the Classic Man remix and he made a complete pig's ear of it.

(PS - you can find some of the MP3s from this month's list in the most recent Martorialist compilation.)
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And I know u ain't shy like Lil' Chris or Vic & TREE

July 1, 2015, 2:16 am
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TREE & Vic Spencer - Weed And Clothes
(From the internet; 2015)



I ain't down with TREE bustin' Migos flows over ersatz-Trap beats, but some of his besttracks over the past couple of years have seen him diversify his Soul-Trap palette. That said, I still never would have expected the follow-up to Profound with Vic Spencer to sound like the sort of Pharrell production there should have been more of on his recent LP with Snoop (think: R U A Freak), but it does and it works. Low-key, TREE been had some some of the best hooks in rap since Nino.

Lil' Chris - Life So Crazy
(From the internet; 2015)


Lil' Chrisisn't feelin' like Bad Boy's street team - he can work the Kain: "I'm just gettin' money so I don't let that hatin' shit faze me, I'm sellin' white like mashed potatoes so I'm gravy" On the real, though, Life So Crazy is practically Keep Your Head Up in Sick And Tired's clothing: "Man, life so crazy, life so crazy, life so crazy - she 15 years old, that's a baby havin' that baby/man, life so crazy, life so crazy, life so crazy - you was 'post to be the baby daddy but you runnin' round talkin' about that ain't your baby/man, life so crazy, life so crazy, life so crazy - these n*ggas out here shootin' old ladies and babies/man, life so crazy, life so crazy, life so crazy - these police treat us young black men like we got rabies.."
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Damn... look what the wind blew in

July 2, 2015, 9:27 am
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I got your favourite bloggers on my dick, some fruitflies from Austria talkin' shit, but ain't no need for me to call my clique because DJ Step One& ya boy Marty be too busy editing the 8 minute extended G-Funk remix Lady Of Rage's Afro Puffs with the Dr Dre intro & the Snoop freestyle down to a more digestible length. We've kept Rage's hook as a bridge between Snoop's verse and his outro monologue, but we've junked her verses so you can now spend those extra 4 minutes they took up listening to the vastly superior O.G Afro Puffs instead. Dr. Dre told us the remix was gonna hit 9.2 on the richter scale back in 1994 so this edit is a 9.9 by today's standards:

Death Row All Stars - Afro Puffs Freestyle G-Funk Remix (Step/Mart edit)
(From the internet; 2015)


When Dr. Dre rated the remix as a 9.2, did he anticipate Anthony Fantano's entire career by 18 years?
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Snow Tha Product >>>>> Donald Trump

July 3, 2015, 12:02 pm
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(Snow Tha Product & Kevin Gates at the 2014 BET awards. Precisely 10 seconds after this picture was taken security tasered Gates because he asked Snow if he could suck on one of her used tampons.)

If you keep tabs on A-Wax's Instagram then you've probably noticed he has a decent following of Latina honeys extolling his virtues as a rapper and a heartthrob. I've never noticed Snow Tha Product pop up like Lil' Kim in his comments, but listening I'm Saying from her new mixtape it seems plausible that she may have listened to 'Wax's Pullin' Strings album once or thrice these past twelve months. Need a sing-songy barbiturate-ballad that sounds like Trainwreck in the key of Be Alone? Snow Tha Product has the 1 4 u:

Snow Tha Product - I'm Saying
(From The Rest Comes Later mixtape; 2015)

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Candy Land

July 4, 2015, 4:19 am
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(No Shiest Bubz.)

Justina Valentine ft. Fetty Wap - Candy Land
(From the internet; 2015)


Let the record show ya boy Arthur Krept & Konan Doyle right chea was the first person to note that Fetty Wap is really a Dancehall artiste masquerading as a rapper. Candy Land here makes that all the more explicit, but is a Yank CAC like Justina Valentine allowed to refer to her arsecheeks as "Punjab mounds" tho?

Let the record also show even a Derek C & Derek D like Krept & Konan sound better over DJ Mustard production than any of the New York rappers who've attempted to tackle his beats. IDK, you wait years for somebody in the Rap trade to do something with the Playground riddim as famously used by Beenie Man and then along come Freak Of The Week by Krept & Konan and I'm That by Rock City & 2 Chainz within 6 months of each other.
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Generic list post: what's a little problematicness between friends?

July 6, 2015, 4:32 am
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Moreover, what's a little problematicness between rapper and listener when the raison d'etre of zee rappeur is to make us mere civilians say "holy shit, I can't believe he/she just said THAT!"? Dr. Phil always claims that it's unhealthy to bottle your feelings up inside, and there is nobody better at purging their innermost feelings than rappers, no matter how offensive those innermost feelings might be. I have my limits, but I'm not gonna sit here and front like I don't lurve a whole caboodle of rap songs which contain some very sketchy lyrics indeed; here 25 problematic favourites:

Akinyele - I Luh Huh (1993)
Tay F. 3rd - Chris Brown (2010)
Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down (1992)
The Convicts - Illegal Aliens (1991)
Too $hort - Invasion Of The Flat Booty Bitches (1986)
Suga Free - Allergic To Bullshit (2008)
Poison Clan - Bad Influence (1990)
Slick Rick - Sleazy Gynechologist (199?)
Master P ft. C-Murder & Silkk Tha Shocker - Ghetto D (1997)
Lil B - Look Like Jesus (2010)
N.W.A - One Less Bitch (1991)
Ice Cube - Horny Lil' Devil (1991)
Cam'Ron ft. Chinky Brown Eyes - Harlem (2004)
UGK - Cocaine In The Back Of The Ride (1992)
Dhat Fam ft. Mista - Expose 1 (2011)
Busta Rhymes - Arab Money (2009)
Notorious B.I.G - Me And My Bitch (1994)
Goodie Mob - Fly Away (1998)
A-Wax - Is It Cuz I'm Black (2008)
Rocko ft. Future & Rick Ross - U.E.O.N.O (2013)
Smif-N-Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill (1995)
Tweedy Bird Loc - My Dicc Is Still Prejudiced (1994)
Waka Flocka Flame & Slim Dunkin - Twin Towers 2 (Intro) (2011)
Gangsta Pat ft. Psycho - Tha O.J. Murder Story (1995)
Glasses Malone - #Rihanna (2012)

Honestly couldn't think of any good problematic rap songs by Female Rappers™, although Tairrie Bar-B's "runaway slave master" track is notable for becoming a meme. Who's gonna step up and suggest a legitimate jam by V-Nasty where she drops n-bombs like the 95% white Glastonbury audience during KanYe West's performance of All Day?
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T-Bayn

July 8, 2015, 11:17 am
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Here to remind y'all that the only people in the rap trade who should ever be allowed to remake T-Pain songs all hail from Oakland. Neither of these remixes of T-Pain singles were official but J. Valentine & Bailey's Go Dumb was the definitive alternate-version of I'm Sprung, while Ezale's Too High made the official remix of Up Down unnecessary:

J. Valentine & Bailey - Go Dumb
(From Bailey & J. Valentine's Hide Ya Breezy mixtape; 2006)



Ezale - Too High
(From Drug Funnie mixtape; 2013)


PS: Bailey's Fuck Yo' Couch is still the best Dave Chappelle-inspired rap song ever. Rumour has it Dave bailed on the 3rd season of The Chappelle Show because he was shook in case Bailey bodied him with his own concept again. True story, swear down etc.
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Wanted dead or alive: the no-DJ MP3 of N*gga Rican by N.O.R.E & Peedi Crakk

July 9, 2015, 8:26 am
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A Latino rap compilation 4 u

July 10, 2015, 7:49 am
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In the first official Martorialist X SoManyShrimp collaboration, David Drake & I formed like Orson Welles voicing Unicron to drop a compilation of songs by Latino rappers which shit on Donald Trump's whole life. We plumped for a mix of deep cuts and singles, and we took it back to Cypress Hill and Kid Frost in the early '90s right up to recent cuts from Kap G and Snow Tha Product because we're really out here ridin' for Boriqua-rap and Cholo-core like that.

Oi Donald - your hairplugs look like that Joy Division artwork, Ivana fleeced you even after you pre-nupped her, Vince McMahon says "you're fired!" with more swag than you, the U.K version of The Apprentice bodies the Yank original, and Baby Bash is a better representation of the American Dream than you. Suck a dick with piss in it.


The Martorialist & SoManyShrimp presents - Fuck U Donald!

Cypress Hill - Shoot 'Em Up (1991)
Kid Frost - Mi Vida Loca (1993)
Frankie Cutlass - Puerto Rico (O.G mix) (1993)
Potna Deuce - Funky Behavior (1994)
Latino Velvet - Raza Park (O.G version) (1997)
N2Deep - Situations (1997)
Black Attack ft. Problemz & Al Tariq - Verbal Attack (1997)
Lay-Lo - Take It Like A G (1999)
Terror Squad - Watcha Gonna Do? (1999)
Lord Tariq - This Cold World (2000)
SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My (2000)
Boo Da Boss Playa ft. Young Bleed & King Goldi - I Like 2 (2001)
The Beatnuts - We Got The Funk (2002)
Baby Beesh - On Tha Cool (2002)
Tony Touch & Doo Wop - G'z Up (2002)
Kurious a/k/a Biolante - Fast Lane (2003)
Pitbull ft. Lil' Jon - Culo (2004)
N.O.R.E & Peedi Crakk - N*gga Rican (2004)
Lil' Rob - Summer Nights (2005)
Psycho Les - Show Me Thoze! (2007)
Sen Dog - Capo (2008)
Kap G - Fuck La Policia (2014)
Mr Criminal ft. Carolyn Rodriguez - Never Gonna Let You Go (2014)
Chingo Bling - I Don't Sell Tamales No More (2015)
Snow Tha Product - Suavemente (2015)

~~~>DOWNLOAD IT HERE <~~~

We kept it Team Lightskin partially as a tribute to Yams and partially because we'd have ended up 50 tracks deep if we'd started including half-Hispanic rappers like AZ, Trina, Prodigy, Jim Jones, Diamond from Crime Mob etc etc. Obviously there wasn't enough room for every Latin rapper on here, but please believe it's all love to Dres, Max Minelli, Agallah, Johnny J, Kirko Bangz and pretty much everyone bar Immortal Technique and Termanlogy.
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Lots of people say they don't listen to Kid Ink. They do. (Part 2)

July 11, 2015, 11:40 am
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Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a remix of the remix of OMI's Cheerleader featuring Bhris Brown's stuntman who also doubles as one of the great singles rappers of the past year or two. Motives for posting this? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with the notion of how Kid Ink blew his hot streak with that Be Real stinker where it sounds like Dej Loaf says "we should be artists" and needed to do something to continue his run of annoying those frumpy rap critics who reside in an alternate dimension where Chance The Rapper or Chief Keef have ever recorded a song that slaps like Show Me, No Option or Body Language. This is that something.

"Ok, it's feelin' like I just won the lotto, baby
32-26-34 waisted"

OMI ft. Kid Ink - Cheerleader (Salaam Remi mix)
(From the internet; 2015)

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1 Life 1 Love to Donal & Ray Garraty, 1 Post for Concentration Camp stans

July 12, 2015, 2:34 pm
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Here's a less distorted/unedited MP3 of I Like It than the one included on friday's Latino-rap comilation. Needless to say, this song was a no-brainer for inclusion on my part: a Happy Perez-produced Concentration Camp deep cut that's equal parts 24 Hours To Live and I Really Like It. All Music.com tells me that there was a video for the song which got a smattering on play on BET and The Box back in 2000, and that it originally appeared on Boo's A Hustla's Prayer CD a year before it was included on the 1 Life 1 Love Hustle Hard compilation. Who knew?

Boo Da Boss Playa ft. Young Bleed & King Goldi - I Like 2
(From A Hustla's Prayer album; 2000)



There isn't a sniff of the I Like 2 video anywhere online, the A Hustla's Prayer CD goes for upwards of £40 on Amazon, and the only place you can find a rip of the album is on t'internet is on some sketchy site you've gotta pay $50 to join. Maybe the album is some lost regional classic that's worth every penny, though, because the only other track from it on YouTube is Rainbow, which ANU once claimed was the best song I've ever put him onto. What's preventing me from pulling the trigger on a copy of the CD is that it might be the clean version like that damned rip of Hustle Hard on the Land Of G-Funk website.
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The Soundcloud Zone

July 13, 2015, 7:04 am
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A-Wax - Never Saw It
(From Everlasting Money album; 2015)



Nervous man in a four hundred dollar recording booth: exit Mr. Aaron Doppie, formerly a reflection in a mirror, a fragment of the melancholy mob music diaspora, a wistful thinker made out of glass but now made out of flesh and on his way to join the company of Pellion's artist mate from PureBakingSoda. Mr. A-Wax, with one foot through the door and one foot out of the Underrated Northern California Rapper Zone.

Chinx ft. MeetSims - On Your Body
(From On Your Body single; 2015)


To serve Mon no more: the recollections of one Lionel Pickens with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy of waviness. Or more simply stated, the evolution of what Max B started reaching the Pacific State. The cycle of going from being That Other Guy to the untapped-potential of Tell 'Em to a posthumous top ten hit in waiting. The metamorphosis from being a side plate to a key ingredient in the soup. It's today's bill of fare as the late Young Abu Dhabi finally has a song Dan Large can play at his pool parties in Dubai.
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I got a girlfriend in Toronto, I got her legs horizontal

July 14, 2015, 8:01 am
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Kap G got a new song where he pulls off what Migos and Problem both failed at, Young Chop got some telenovela-soundin' acoustic guitar runnin' the track like them migrants who stay tryna bumrush the channel tunnel, and them migrants got no I.D like the migo make beats foreal foreal.

Kap G - Andelay
(From Real Migo Shit 3 mixtape; 2015)


Even though Jose Got Them Tacos was the song that first got me open to young Kap G Denira back in 2013, melodic sangy shit like this, F**k La Policia, and the Vato freestyle need to be where his future lies.
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British man posts west coast rap songs on Soundcloud

July 15, 2015, 3:26 am
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Warren G ft Nate Dogg - My House
(From Regulate... G Funk Era II EP; 2015)


Old man & dead legend rap & sang on Soundcloud. So, there's a new Warren G & Nate Dogg song which interpolates no less than Mr. Fingers and Madness. And, unlike any of Warren's stepbrother's singles from Detox, it knocks. Told you"you 38 and you still rappin'?"-core is now a low-key fruitful sub-genre of L.A rap as long as Dr. Dre isn't involved.

A-Wax - EverLasting Money
(From EverLasting Money album; 2015)


Off-white man yells on Soundcloud. It's not as immediate as Never Saw It, but this other new A-Wax track has grown on me like unsightly shoulder hair. Very much feelin' the return of that Bruce Hornsby & The Range type ambiance to melancholy mob music, and that "still remember bein' locked up lookin' at the calendar and crossin' off Christmas/someone killed the homie Chinx Drugz in the very same car he crossed off a wishlist" couplet is one of those of moment of precise detail which A-Wax is so good at.
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