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Today in Hip Hop History:

Definitive Jux released the album Def Jux Presents… March 20, 2001

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Hail Mary Mallon - D-Up

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Company Flow - Simian D aka Feeling Ignorant ft. Ill Bill

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Philip K. Dick’s Ubik & Def Jux Presents...

🖌️: Bob Pepper + Dan Ezra Lang

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Philip K. Dick’s Ubik & Def Jux Presents…

🖌️: Bob Pepper + Dan Ezra Lang

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Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte) by Mello Music Group from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10. prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce. For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest. Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell. If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards. But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.

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IT WAS ON THIS DATE MARCH 20, 2001 DEFINITIVE JUX RELEASED THEIR COMPILATION ALBUM DEF JUX PRESENTS...

IT WAS ON THIS DATE MARCH 20, 2001 DEFINITIVE JUX RELEASED THEIR COMPILATION ALBUM DEF JUX PRESENTS…

Def Jux Presents is a 2001 compilation album released by American hip hop record label Definitive Jux. DPA (As Seen on TV)” peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart Victor W. Valdivia of AllMusic called Def Jux Presents “a way to introduce newcomers to the formidable talent at the label” and “a collection of great underground hip-hop”.In 2015, Fact placed the album at number 37…

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Run The Jewels 3, Three Years Later: The Intangible Chemistry Of Killer Mike and El-P

Hip-Hop knows no geographical bounds. Since flying the nest of its birthplace to connect artists and fans around the world, imaginary lines in the sand or coastal divides have became obsolete, allowing for a creative free-for-all that links up MCs with varying backgrounds to compliment one another’s styles.

After crowning themselves the “top tag team for two summers” on their second album, Run The Jewels have become the benchmark for what can happen when two former solo artists from entirely different heritages and traditions consolidate their efforts for a common goal. And on Christmas Eve, 2016, hip-hop fans were rewarded for their patience with the neo-futuristic masterpiece that is RTJ3. Once again distributed to the world free of charge, the album expanded on the mix of bombastic production, mentally stimulating bar-work and healthy dose of satirical cockiness that we’d grown to love from Mike and El. But above all, it stands as a totem to their uncontainable chemistry that leaps off of every track and makes you feel the kinship that’s placed front and center of everything they do.

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Although Killer Mike may have his cut his teeth in the creative hotbed of Dungeon Family era Atlanta while EL-P set the stage for countless hip-hop subversives to come as one half of Company Flow, the pairing radiate an ideological and musical synergy that you never quite got from a Watch The Throne or What A Time To Be Alive. As evident in their playful Tiny Desk Concert, it’s almost hard to believe that one of the greatest duos of a generation is the by-product of El getting the call to produce just “3 jams” for the southern MC & activist. RTJ came about after the two converged for Killer Mike’s fifth and presently final solo project R.A.P Music, introduced to one another by Adult Swim’s Jason Demarco. Their moniker, of course, is cribbed from LL Cool J’s “Cheesy Rat Blues.” Initially hesitant about dedicating so much time to another artist’s vision, all of that dissipated when the two found inspiration in another unlikely crossover. "We were looking at records like AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and thinking about how Ice Cube left N.W.A. and went to the East Coast," El told Pitchfork. "He hooked up with the Bomb Squad, and that yielded this amazing combination of sounds. That's what we were going for."

El’s description of the record’s conception to Red Bull Music Academy sounds as organic as it comes and would set the precedent from there on out. "I wasn’t just making beats for him and sending them. We sat in a room for three months. There were no managers and there was no one else. There were no other voices, and there was no idea except two fully grown, aging children, just trying to make themselves smile." Even though they were trying to entertain themselves, the ensuing album garnered some of the best reviews of Killer Mike’s entire career and led both men to consider whether their natural rapport equated to lightning in a bottle. Irreconcilable with the success that they’re privy to now, let’s not forget that the straight talking, hard-hitting work on R.A.P Music was crafted by two men that had been struck with the scornful disinterest of the hip-hop world at different times in their careers. And for a tandem that exudes self-assurance from every syllable, the multitalented producer/rapper EL-P— real name Jaime Meline— isn’t afraid to admit that it came during a period of great uncertainty.

"Run the Jewels and me and Mike and our connection and everything came out of a time, a period of time I lost," he informed underground radio legends Stretch & Bobbito. "I had personally lost everything, everything that I had been working on, including any personal money that I had or any, you know, the record label [Def Jux] that I'd been working on for 10 years and all and friends that had passed away. A lot of stuff kind of fell out from underneath my feet completely…. I had a period of time where I was - a couple years where I was really - I had been humbled by the world. And I'd been humbled by the universe." Paired with Killer Mike revealing that he was "a strip club promoter for a year or so when I fell off," both men had nothing to lose. The sense of reckless abandon, described by Mike as "that bad guy shit," billows out of their first project under the banner of Run The Jewels.

Dropped just over a year after R.A.P Music, their eponymous debut is all clattering beats and scintillating punchlines that held hip-hop to ransom. Featuring seminal offerings such as “Sea Legs,” “DDFH” and the Big Boi-flanked “Banana Clipper,” the project set the tone for their take-no-prisoners approach to both production and songcraft and contains some of the finest tracks of their entire careers. 

"Musically, I feel like I’ve found my soulmate," Killer Mike said to C-Ville in 2014. "I’ve tried to explain it a thousand different times and given a thousand different answers. But I think it just comes straight down to— it was just meant, you know?" Backed up by El’s claims that it is simply their "relationship extended into the creative endeavour" and that "you can hear the difference," their dynamic is one that’s been eked out to the world in snippets and makes listeners yearn to be a fly on the wall for their studio sessions. On a rare occasion that they allowed a camera crew to get a glimpse of the process, the recording of Run The Jewels 2 in Garrison, NY saw Mike give a little insight into the unorthodox delegation of labour that governs them.

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"You’ve got one player who shows up to practice every day and you’ve got another guy who’s like ‘practice? PRACTICE?’ but yet somehow we win championships and I’m happy about it." As this 6 minute Fader mini-doc proves, the end product is not born of some unspoken telekinesis and healthy debate is more than welcome. Soundtracked by the strains of Mike’s incendiary verse on album opener “Jeopardy,” the duo bicker over whether El needs to hop on it as Killer Mike lobbies to “just put down that long dope ass verse to let motherfuckers know that this shit is real for the next 40 minutes or so.” When the record emerged, the foreboding track arrived complete with standout verses from both Mike and El, while the latter signing off and setting up the fizzling chaos of “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” with a line that’s not only became an epithet for the group, but puts their shared power into perspective: "I been here making raw shit and never asked to be lauded, Run the Jewels is the answer, your question is what's poppin'?"

Incapable of delivering a carbon copy of what had went before, RTJ pushed the formula of the original record to unforeseen heights and bombarded the listener with a heady mix of slick talk (“Blockbuster Night Pt 2”, “Love Again”), social commentary (“Early”, “Crown”) and thrilling sonic experiments ("Angel Duster", "All My Life"). As to why evolution is so deep rooted into their shared psyche, El explained to DIY that it comes from nurturing their relationship from infancy to something self-sustainable and brimming with its own identity. "It’s like raising a kid," El told the publication. "Every year that kid is alive, it has more to say, that kid has more ideas, and more experience. For us as artists, the reason we have managed to stay sharp is because there was never a moment in our minds where we got comfortable with what we’ve done. We were always dead-set on doing the next thing."

When the "next thing" arrived on that fateful Christmas eve, they’d once again re-emerged with another new vantage point from which to launch a gripping assault on the world. Informed by the seemingly inconsequential activities of "smoking weed, eating shrooms and watching Big Trouble In Little China everyday," their third release took their pre-established sound from the previous two outings up to a colourful and purposefully maximal highpoint. Sporting some of the most potent lyricism Killer Mike has ever conjured-- see his emotionally raw verse on “Report To The Shareholders”-- while El-P cavorts around the musical world like a true titan and bends the essence of electronica, boom-bap and other disparate sounds (“Call Ticketron”, “Panther Like A Panther”, “Down”) to his will. Killer Mike stated their post-2016 election record was devised as a “a call to organize, and a way to remain hopeful if you are out on the streets protesting – and I think we did that.”

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Now, as the world continues to spiral even deeper into a state of disrepair, the return of that insatiable chemistry is approaching and couldn’t come at a better time. Although El-P has explicitly stated that there’ll be no Christmas miracle this time around, his freshly tweeted description of the album as a “screaming, careening fireball of a record” is enough to keep the excitement at a boiling point.

Proving themselves to be “the crew you can trust, warranty-plus for fucking shit up,” a recently published sit-down that Killer Mike had for Patreon not only encapsulated their journey and how mutually beneficial their partnership is but reiterated that they’ve not lost sight of the ethos that’s stood them in such good stead to this point. "The overnight success came after ten years of attempting to find the sound that he already had. You stay true to your ideas, but if an idea is not working, don’t be afraid to adjust. Run The Jewels is Run The Jewels because we are our own masters."

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18 Years Today. 🎉🎉🎉 Def Jux Presents is a 2001 compilation album (released on March 20, 2001) by American hip hop record label Definitive Jux. "DPA (As Seen on TV)" peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. Company Flow was an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Bigg Jus, El-P and Mr. Len. Rapper/producer El-P and DJ/producer Mr. Len founded the group in 1993 in Queens, New York where rapper/producer Bigg Jus later joined. Their full-length debut album Funcrusher Plus was released in 1997 on Rawkus, and is widely recognized as one of the more important hip hop albums of the 1990s. By 2000, the relationship with Rawkus had disintegrated. Company Flow announced their departure from Rawkus shortly thereafter. Separately, El-P and Mr. Len ended their own deals with Rawkus, effectively severing the relationship between the three and Rawkus. El-P has started his own record label (Definitive Jux) and pursued a solo career. Mr. Len has done the same with his (Dummy Smacks Records). Bigg Jus has released work on Big Dada and Mush Records. Bigg Jus stated in 2006 that he was working on material for a new Company Flow album, suggesting the possibility of the group re-forming. Company Flow reunited for a show on October 19, 2007 in Brooklyn, New York City as well as a show on July 16, 2011, and supported Portishead at the inaugural British 'I'll Be Your Mirror' festival on July 23, 2011. Company Flow performed their final show as a group at Coachella in 2012. @thereallyrealelp @lookatlen @aesoprockwins @cannibaloxigc #hiphop #classichiphop #hiphopculture #vinyl #vinylcollection #goldenera #dope #realhiphop #lyricist #dj #djs #deejay #hiphopshirts #shirts #diggininthecrates #bgirl #rap #music #beats #beatmakers #producers #stacksrundeep #stacksunltd #DefinitiveJux #ElP #MrLen #BiggJus #AesopRock #CannibalOx #RJD2 https://www.instagram.com/p/BvOmx2xgFtv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pkgqvuipi2qv

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Definitive Jux released the album Def Jux Presents… March 20, 2001

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Dart Adams presents The Top 50 Hip Hop Albums, EP’s & Mixtapes Of 2009 (The Final Top 200)

This is a list of what I consider to be the Top 200 Hip Hop LP’s, EP’s & mixtapes from this year so far. Please keep in mind that in order for me to even narrow this list to 200 I had to exclude all instrumental albums with the exception of Exile’s “Radio” (as it could’ve easily been Album Of The Year) otherwise it would’ve just been ridiculous and impossible to narrow to just 200 Hip Hop albums. This is the final time I do this, after three years I’m sure you all get the point I’m trying to make by now.

Also keep in mind that I’ve heard slightly less than 700 different projects this calendar year (my gmail account was bananas). I’m sure that my Bloggerhouse brethren Eric & Travis have quite a few projects in mind that I missed. That should give you all an idea as to just how deep 2009 was with quality material that you probably never even heard of.

In the comments section feel free to gripe, bitch and/or moan about Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Wale, Fabolous, Busta Rhymes or “insert wack rapper’s name here” lackluster ass album not being in my top 200. Also feel free to add albums, EP’s & mixtapes I missed (like Pill’s). I head mad albums that are still in my rotation that missed this cut (Moka Only made so many albums I stopped him at one so “Summer Notations”, “Carrots & Eggs” & Ron Contour’s”Hot Dog” aren’t on this list).

I’m sure listened to WAY more Hip Hop than you this year (and I probably suffered irreparable damage because of it). All you gotta do to check every Friday of 2009 (both the reviews & Late Passes (For Doz Dat Slept) sections) on this blog for proof. Enjoy (or don’t) my final Poisonous Paragraphs list:

5 O’ Clock Shadowboxers- The Slow Twilight Aarophat & Illastrate-Black Noise Apathy-Wanna Snuggle? Big Tone-The Art Of Ink Blame One-Days Chasing Days

Braille & Symbolyc One-Cloudnineteen

Brother Ali-Us/The Truth Is Here EP

Che Grand-Everything’s Good Ugly Chief-Collabo Collection

D.Black-Ali’yah Danny!-Where Is Danny?

Diamond District-In The Ruff

Diz Gibran-Soon You’ll Understand DJ Spinna-Sonic Smash DOOM-Born Like This

Drake-So Far Gone Elzhi-The Leftovers: The Unmixedtape

Exile-Radio Fashawn-Boy Meets World

Finale-A Pipe Dream And A Promise Freddie Gibbs-Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik Illogic & Ill Poetic-Diabolical Fun J Dilla- Jay Stay Paid

JR & Ph7 present The Standard Keelay And Zaire-Ridin’ High Kev Brown presents Random Joints MAGr-No News Is Good News Marco Polo & Torae-Double Barrel

Moka Only-Lowdown Suite 2: The Box

M.O.P.-Foundation Mos Def-The Ecstatic Obie Trice & MoSS-Special Reserve Oddisee-Mental Liberation Pac Div-Church League Champs Paten Locke-Super Ramen Rocketship Raekwon-Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2

Rapper Big Pooh-The Delightful Bars (North American Pie & Candy Apple Version) Reks-More Grey Hairs

Royce Da 5’9″-Street Hop

Sene & Blu Are…A Day Late & A Dollar Short Slum Village-Villa Manifesto EP Skyzoo-The Salvation Slaughterhouse-S/T Strong Arm Steady & Madlib-In Search Of Stoney Jackson Tanya Morgan-Brooklynati

Thaione Davis-Still Hear

TiRon & DJ LowKey-Ketchup Tiye Phoenix-Half Woman Half Amazin’ yU-Before Taxes

Next 150 (Honorable Mentions):

45-The Revenge Of Soul 50 Cent-Before I Self Destruct 6 Fingers-Who Has Lots Of Fingers? Abstract Rude-Rejuvenation Ace & Edo (Masta Ace & Ed O.G)-Arts & Entertainment/Extra Entertainment A Disturbing New Trend-Year Of The Carnivore Alchemist-Chemical Warfare Ancient Tongue-Time Tells Tales ARES-A Red Eye Smokin’ Atmosphere-Leak At Will AZ-Legendary Big Quarters-From The Home Of Brown Babies With White Mothers Blackroc-S/T Black Sunn-Godsound Blaq Poet- The Blaqprint Blue Scholars-OOF! EP Blu-HerFavoriteColo(u)r Boycott Blues-Irony BP & Odds-The Medium Brokn. English-The Drawing Board Brown Bag All Stars-The Brown Tape Buff1-It’s A 1derful Life BK-One with Benzilla-Radio Do Canibal

Camp Lo-Stone And Rob: Caught On Tape/Another Heist

Cesar Comanche-Die In Your Lap Classified-Self Explanatory The Clipse-Til The Casket Drops

Common Market-The Winter’s End EP Cook Classics-The New Classics The Cool Kids & Don Cannon-Gone Fishing Cormega-Born & Raised Cradle Orchestra-Velvet Ballads Crooked I-Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist Crown Nation-Slut Bag Edition

CunninLynguists-Strange Journey Volume Two

Currensy-This Is Not A Mixtape/The Jet Files Deep Rooted-D.E.E.P.R.O.O.T.E.D. De La Soul-Are You In?+ Nike Original Run Def Jux All Stars-Def Jux Presents 4 Del Tha Funke Homosapien & Tame One-Parallel Uni-Verse Dillon & Paten Locke-Studies In Hunger DJ JS-1-Ground Original 2: No Sell Out DJ MK presents Skandal-Hunger Pains DJ Quik & Kurupt-BlaQkout Donny Goines-The Breakfast Club DOOM presents Unexpected Guests Dumhi-Indian Summer EP Dylan Thomas & Haz Solo-All Jokes Aside Dynas-The Apartment E-Flash (NBS)-Know The Ledge Earatik Statik-The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Earth Crew-Grassroots: From The Ground Up Educated Consumers-Hello Big Mama Elucid-The Sub Bass Diet Emilio Rojas-Recession Proof/The Natural Eminem-Relapse Eternia-Get Caught Up Fabio Musta-Passport Fatgums x Bambu-A Peaceful Riot Felt (Slug & Murs)-Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez Film Skool Rejekts-Midnight Movies Fresh Daily-The Gorgeous Killer In: Crimes Of Passion Georgia Anne Muldrow presents Ms. One & The Gang Ghostface Killah-Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry In Emerald City Grand Puba-RetroActive The Grouch & Eligh-Say G&E! Horseshoe G.A.N.G.-Gangsta MC Ilyas-I-El: The Prelude J. Cole-The Warm Up J. Nolan-Resilience J. Period & Q-Tip-The Abstract Best J-Scrilla-Culture Of Honor JC Poppe-Sleep Therapy Jazz Liberatorz-Fruit Of The Past/Clin D’ Oeil Jern Eye-Vision J.J. Brown-Connect The Dots

Joe Budden-Padded Room/Escape Route K-Os-Yes! Kam Moye-Splitting Image Kenn Starr-It’s Still Real Kid Cudi-Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day

Kid Hum & Rock The Dub-Offshore Drilling Kidz In The Hall-The Professional Leisure Tour Krumbsnatcha-Hidden Scriptures KRS One & Buckshot-Survival Skills La Coka Nostra-A Brand You Can Trust L.E.G.A.C.Y-Suicide Music LMNO & Yann Kesz-Devilish Dandruff With Holy Shampoo Marv Won-The Way Of The Won MarQ Spekt X Lex Boogie-Guilty Party Method Man & Redman-Blackout! 2 Mr. J. Medeiros & Boonie Mayfield-The Art Of Broken Glass EP/Friends Enemies Apples Apples Mr. SOS-How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Myka 9-1969 Naledge-Chicago Picasso Nametag-Classic Cadence Vol. 2 Nico The Beast-Dinner Is Served Mixtape Notes To Self-A Shot In The Dark OC & AG-Oasis Outasight-Further People Under The Stairs-Carried Away Poorly Drawn People-Motion, Not Emotion Psuedo Slang-We’ll Keep Looking

Print-Comic Books: Unlimited Quelle-Blue Mondays Qwel & Maker-So Be It Rashid Hadee & Pugz Atomz-Stormy Raydar Eliis & Quite Nyce-Champs Vs. The League

Red Giants-Chain Reaction EP Reservoir Dogs-Reservoir Dogs Mixtape Rhymefest & Scram Jones-The Manual Ro Spit-The Oh Shit! Project Rob Viktum f/Donwill & Friends-A’ight New Drink Roc C & IMAKEMADBEATS-The Transcontinental

Saigon & Statik Selektah-All In A Day’s Work

Sandpeople-Long Story Short EP Sareem Poems-Black And Read All Over Sean Price-Kimbo Price Sene-Maltas & Music Sha Stimuli-My Soul To Keep Slakah The Beatchild-Soul Movement Vol. 1 Sleep-Hesitation Wounds Sojourn-Sojournalism Souls Of Mischief-Montezuma’s Revenge St. Mic-Honest Music Statik Selektah-The Pre-Game EP Stoupe The Enemy Of Mankind-Decalouge Strange Fruit Project-Making Art Sound Kool Substantial/Burns- Sacrifice Superstar Quamallah-The Invisible Man Tame One & Parallel Thought-Acid Tab Vocab Termanology-Heaven Was A Mile Away/Hood Politics VI: Time Machine Tha Connection-Love Royale Toki Wright-A Different Mirror U-N-I & Ro Blvd-A Love Supreme Wale-Back To The Feature William Cooper-Beware Of The Pale Horse Wu Tang Clan-Wu Tang Chamber Music X.O.-Monumental/Realmatic yU presents The Charlie Ross Project

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Listen to DJ Philly Phil & Eclypse (Spitball) - Southern Vangard Radio Interview Sessions by Southern Vangard BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the DJ Philly Phil & Eclypse of Spitball interview session! If you’re not familiar with the late great DJ PRZM, it’s time to be. Phil and Eclypse, along with fellow Spitball member Bru Lei, have been working overtime on preserving his legacy since his untimely passing in 2007. The latest release in their endeavor is LLABTIPS 3, a collection of unreleased & underground classics from DJ PRZM and his fellow Spitball crew. We got the low down on the release, their history with the quadruple threat DJ/producer/MC/beatboxer, paying dues in the Detroit & Columbus, OH underground hip-hop scene and PRZM’s ultimate arrival to an international hip-hop stage as producer on Camu Tao’s Def Jux classic “Hold The Floor”. We also dig into Meeks collaboration with PRZM on “Sasquatch Feet”, a cut on Meeks 2005 solo album “After This…I”ll Holla”, his unorthodox production style and how PRZM always put his art first. So buckle up, go cop LLABTIPS 3 now and tune in for what is ALWAYS that #smithsonian #grade #twiceaweek // @southernvangard on #itunes #podcast #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud // #hiphop #rap #dj #mix #interview #podcast #ATL #DETROIT #COLUMBUS #WORLDWIDE

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Bix Picks 2018

20. Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (Fat Possum)

French psych-rock/dream-pop Sung mostly in English, backed By Swedish players

19. Stuart A. Staples - Arrhythmia (City Slang)

Hypnotic mood piece Understated to a fault A quiet disco

18. Thee Oh Sees - Smote Reverser (Castle Face)

Two drums, axe, bass, keys Amps turned up to eleven Prog rockin' POWER!

17. The Green Child - The Green Child (Upset the Rhythm)

Dystopian pop That could soundtrack a scene in Tron: The High School Years

16. Armand Hammer - Paraffin (Backwoodz Studioz)

Gritty beats and tight, Street-level rhymes invoke the Classic Def Jux sound

15. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (Sub Pop)

Efficient jam band? Or meandering pop rock? Kinda works both ways 🤔

14. Vince Staples - FM! (Def Jam)

Back to his old tricks Less electro than Big Fish... And better for it

13. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)

A funky winner From anxious New York rockers And fuck Tom Brady!

12. Beak> - >>> (Temporary Residence)

Clean tones subverted By an off-kilter wooze and Vocals from a well

11. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg (Rough Trade)

Widescreen arrangements On par with pop's golden age And songcraft to match

10. Gwenno - Le Kov (Heavenly)

Lush, sonic dreamscapes Sung in her native Cornish... Not that you'll notice

9. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land (Studio 13)

A haunted fairground Of England's past, present...and Possible future?

8. Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man (Caroline)

Ex-Supergrass head's Wry take on midlife concerns And functional angst

7. Jeff Tweedy - WARM (dBpm)

A raw, unflinching Look within, without and at A life lost and found

6. DRINKS - Hippo Lite (Drag City)

Post-punk kooks wield a Strange idioglossia To wondrous results

5. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains (Young Mary's)

The new old Country Just not the country you'd think "Country" would come from

4. Pusha T - Daytona (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)

With Ye back choppin' King Push spits his fiercest rhymes In a decade. YECHHHH!!!!

3. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (Fat Possum)

In which the Spaceman Bequeaths upon us once more A space rock opus

2. Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin (Drag City)

A sprawling double Top notch quality control And horns never hurt

1. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (Tan Cressida/Columbia)

Earl works through some shit Maybe not for everyone Maybe that's the point

HONORABLE MENTION (in alphabetical order)

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Domino) Daniel Blumberg - Minus (Mute) Jonathan Bree - Sleepwalking (Lil' Chief) Foxwarren - Foxwarren (Anti-) Hermit & the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens (Obol For Charon) Scott Hirsch - Lost Time Behind the Sun (Scissor Tail) Mark Lanegan/Duke Garwood - With Animals (Heavenly) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sparkle Hard (Matador) MGMT - Little Dark Age (Columbia) milo - budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies (Ruby Yacht) milo/Elucid - Nostrum Grocers (Ruby Yacht) Palberta - Roach Goin' Down (Wharf Cat) Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness - What News? (Drag City) Shopping - The Official Body (Fat Cat) Richard Swift - The Hex (Secretly Canadian) Szun Waves - New Hymns to Freedom (The Leaf Label) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar) Kurt Vile - Bottle It In (Matador) Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On (Matador) Thom Yorke - Suspiria: Music For the Luca Guadagnino Film (XL)

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Shabazz Palaces tienen su propio dialecto artístico.

En un presente donde el rap domina la cultura urbana y las listas de éxitos, ellos han conseguido crear una identidad libre de asociaciones, donde todos los elementos comparten la misma narrativa: el sonido, sus herramientas, la mitología y sus historias.

Ya desde sus primeros álbumes en Sub Pop, el dúo de Seattle (USA) propuso una forma de contar historias cruda y metafórica, autoproclamándose con razón como el último acto afrofuturista que ha dado la música contemporánea. Su linaje es el de Sun Ra, Drexciya o RAMMELLZEE. Su sonido es un resultante de un ejercicio de perfección basado en antecedentes como Kool Keith, Def Jux, Antipop Consortium o Company Flow.

Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler (líder de Digable Planets) se convierte en Palaceer Lazaro junto a Tendai Maraire formando Shabazz Palaces, un proyecto musical que funciona como una "entidad". Sus diferentes discos son las metáforas que utilizan para representar la forma en la que ven el presente: usan incógnitas, transmutaciones de vocabulario, reasignan términos medievales y las referencias cosmológicas musulmanas son muy comunes (la más importante en su propio nombre, directamente a la Nación del Islam y la “tribu Shabazz”).

Hip Hop que es ciencia ficción. En su último álbum doble presentado en 2017 esquivan la accesibilidad a la que se acercaron en “Black Up”, su álbum de confirmación. Siguen la línea menos confortable de “Lese Majesty” llevando un poco más allá el uso de la mitología: ellos lo llamaron “los dos gemelos espaciales” que cuentan la historia de Quazarz (“Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star” y “Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines”).

Aíslan las problemáticas tecnológicas y sociales de nuestra actual humanidad situándolas en el “universo Quazarz” utilizando al viajero interestelar como línea argumental. Todo en ShabazzPalaces es fábula y fantasía. La música, los tambores, los samples, los vibráfonos, la psicodelia, los sintetizadores son meros instrumentos para articular una historia que presenta a Quazarz como “el médium para comprendernos a nosotros mismos”.

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