All Rap, all the time.

Everyones going nutters over the Big K.R.I.T mixtape, reason being it's fucking outstanding. Old school in both it's obvious debt to pre-Stankonia Outkast and in it's grotesque 22-track length, it never the less manages to be consistently great. His productions probably a lot better than his rapping at the moment, but his productions super nice so it's no bad thing. I would've paid serious cash for a proper copy of this, but it's up for free so no excuses.

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Also working out their inner Outkast are A.Dd+, who on 'When Pigs Fly' sporadically feel very special and the rest of the time fall short. The tracks where they work though are great (if a little TOO derivative of our ATLien friends), so hopefully they develop a bit of consistenty.






After two artists dropping throw-back southern futurism (how delightfully post-modern a concept..) we may as well stick in Action Bronson, who's doing all that New York ever does, Boom Bap and hard lyrics. Guy sounds near identical to Ghostface at times and this is no different to anything coming out of New York in the past 20 years, but if you like that you should like this. Easy.

Pusha t - Fear of God

One half of Clipse just released their first mixtape, under Kanyes G.O.O.D Music imprint. Pusha has always been the more engaging out of him and Malice, and certainly the one I'd prefer to listen to for a whole solo disk. Still, he's not entirely unsupported in his venture. 50 Cent, the baws Rick Rozzay and (the actual boss) Kanye show up to rap over typically synth heavy beats. Pusha pushes himself lyrically on some tracks, but mainly sticks to the standard rapping about selling coke. It works for him though, and the whole thing goes incredibly hard so no complaints.

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Oneirology

CunningLynguists just dropped a new album, titled as above. Producer Kno released a record last year that was big on beats but a bit light on decent rapping. That seems remedied on this release, which you can listen to for free over at their Bandcamp. The music is more about atmosphere than huge bangers, but it seems like a perfect sort of late night listen. The stream link is here and it should be available to buy physically next week.

Atmosphere

Slug was on 6music today, I think because Nemone liked the video with the dog. I'm not entirely sure if Nemone likes music (except the Smiths, any excuse to play the Smiths) but fair play for having Slug on. It is also nice to know that being a failed Greek athlete qualifys you for a lunch time 6music slot. I'm a failed British athlete, infact I fail at a whole bunch of shit, regularly ! Give me a job yo.

Interview is buried in here somewhere.

The Original Dom Kennedy

A really impressive amount of high quality mixtapes have dropped this year. This one by Dom Kennedy is my favourite at the moment. Really smooth update on the traditional West Coast sound. At some point I'll do a summary of all the best free hip-hop posted up since January, for now just feast on this.

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Greg Greasy

Two tracks off The Giving Tree EP, out (for free I think but I could be very wrong) April 20th. Not feeling the second MC on Wizards of the Coast but you know, it's about pirates and shit so its all fine by me.

Can also grab last years 'Tribute To The Lakes' EP by cliking me.


Wizards of the coast by Greg Grease