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Royce Da 5′9″ – “Part Of Me”

February 20, 2009

Produced by Carlos Broady… This is for all the guys out there …scratch that! For all the Players & Ballers who have a “talent” for picking up girls in the club. I believe one-night-stands and affairs of a similar nature results in sharing a part of one another that shouldn’t be abused, but this just takes [...]

New Music: Q-Tip – Renaissance Rap

February 12, 2009

(Source: BBC) It’s hard to imagine what people made of Q-Tip when he first broke through. What late 80’s America thought about a rapper named after a cotton bud is anyone’s guess. Because nowadays, with the legacy of A Tribe Called Quest following him, Q-Tip commands legendary status. The Renaissance suggests Q-Tip feels he still has something [...]

New Music: Novel feat. Ben Folds, Talib Kweli and Spree – I Am

February 2, 2009

Ben Folds has the pop-friendly, hook-driven piano ballads that I’ve always felt would fit well on a hip-hop track (imagine “Brick” on loop with a deep bass line? Damn!). Props to Novel for producing this sample of the Folds song, “The Luckiest.”