LISTEN: Guilt By Association Vol. 2

Side step away from Hip Hop. Find below a player we built to stream Guilt By Association Vol. 2, an indie rock compilation I produced. All dope indie rock acts covering their favorite mainstream pop songs.

LISTEN: JD Era - 9 to 5 ft. Donny Goines

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Donny Goines guests on this C4 Entertainment produced track.

LISTEN: Blame One & Exile - Disturbed ft. Sean Price

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Sean P featured on the lead single off of Blame One & Exile's debut album Days Chasing Days (Nov 11). The album features Blu, Sean Price, Aloe Blacc, lack Milk, and others.

LISTEN: 88 Keys On The Record On 'The Death Of Adam'

LISTEN: Jay Electronica - Exhibit A (Transformations) (Prod. by Just Blaze)

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Just Blaze produced this new Jay Electronica track off of the hilariously titled Fresh Cuts Vol. 3 (Music By Guitar Center Employees).

LISTEN: Abstract Rude - The Government (Nov 4th RMX)

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Abstract Rude releases a special Nov 4th remix to 'The Government'. Off of his upcoming album Dear Abbey dropping Spring '09.

LISTEN: Ali Vegas - Excuse Me ft Shire

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Ali Vegas comes out of the dark with a new track produced by Rico & Pres. Dopest Vegas track I've heard in a while.

LISTEN: Praverb - A Blogger's Dream (Prod. by Jake One)

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"This track was conceived due to my disapproval with the XXL Freshmen 10 article (Mickey, Blu, Wale, B.o.B, and Cory Gunz are definitely dope), I believe that XXL could have highlighted more deserving emcees (Skyzoo, Donny Goines, Drake, Shad K., Elzhi, Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Fashawn, Sha Stimuli, Wiz Khalifa, Torae, AC, Reks, Termanology, Nametag, Joe Budden, Pacific Division, and many more). I was fumbling with the idea for about a month and the article is all I needed to pen the lyrics. In the second verse I make a statment NOT a diss towards Asher Roth. The statment suggests if Asher Roth is better than Stimuli and my response is heck no. Asher is a talented emcee who has a lot of potential (he is also not afraid to reveal his background) but Stimuli is a better emcee than Asher and should have been featured over Mr. Roth (in my eyes). Sometimes marketability is the thing that saves or makes an artist more visible than the next. When I wrote the song I did not focus on winning the contest per say but instead I focused on crafting a nice song. Hopefully you will like it as much as I do" - Praverb

LISTEN: Coldplay + Jay-Z = Viva La Hova

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Mick Boogie and Terry Urban got together for a project that mashes up friends and sometimes collaborators Jay-Z and Coldplay: Viva La Hova. Check the tracklist over at Eskay's and download above.

LISTEN: Eminem - I’m Having A Relapse

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Eminem performed at a small book launch event yesterday and here's a new rhyme he just released on Shade 45. Oh yea, he's definitely back, but for how long. It's interesting to see the opposite of the flood-the-market-with-music work very well also. I've always been a fan of Em as an MC, but not so much of his albums, yet I'm thrilled to just even hear this dope rhyme over an alright beat. The flow goes on forever.

Update: Apparently this promotional Eminem track that was liberally spread on radio and online led to my post being deleted by blogger. It's not even a track that's for sale or ever will be for sale, just a promo to promote his book. This is ridiculous and I'm pretty sure Em's team had nothing to do with it. Google it, you can still find the track, as it was intended to be found. Blogger, you've dissappointed me, not even a warning or info request, just deleting a post?! And again, for a non-commercial track?

LISTEN: Lil' Wayne & The Roots - A Millie (live)

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Live in Miami last night. Questlove is doing all those "amillie" parts vocally while drumming. From his Twitter: many things i can do on my day job and 90% of you seen em: talk and jokes while drumming, pick my hair and bandlead, penalize frank or the guilty party and not lose the beat, even blogged and posted on okayplayer.com while drumming
girlfriend once made me a sandwich and i dropped nary a crumb while i played 16th notes
but ladies and gents...a first in my 20 years as a Root....i got stumped, i cannot drum and sing "AMILLIEAMILLEAMMILLIEAMILAMILAMILAMILAMILLIEAMILLIEAMILLEAMMILLIE" at the same time, never in my life have i ever prayed for a moment to pass. i can do 200 crunches w/o bitching even deal w/ moms crying i dont call her enough, but i really thought i couldn't make it through this song without turning purple. much thanks to Weeze for holding us down.

LISTEN: Praverb - Blessed With The Gift

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Praverb is back with this Teddy Roxpin produced track that combines battle lyrics and spiritual aspects. Lots of sports references, including a Kimbo one about him going down after a jab the other night. Just another really dope track from an underrated MC.

LISTEN: LL Cool J - New York, New York

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LL Cool J was one of my favorite rappers back in the day, before he made a sharp turn for the wack. Recently he finally released one or two tracks that again had some life to them, ones that weren't terribly misguided pop efforts. (Check out the dope 'Rockin' With The G.O.A.T.' here.) But this bonus track off of Exit 13 shows he hasn't lost his ability yet to release badly conceived and poorly executed tracks. Lets summarize, a tired Frank Sinatra sample (you can guess which one), lame claims of 'taking New York back', that overly fake and annoying laugh opening the track, a Nas bite, a played out flow, and synthy strings that make it sound like an even lamer A+ 'Enjoy Yourself' knock off (and that's hard to do). Try harder Uncle L. You're better than this.

LISTEN: Jadakiss - Who Run This ft. Jay-Z

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Allegedly off of J.A.D.A.K.I.S.S.. This is actually one of the better tracks Jada has released in a minute. Unfortunately the Jigga feature is merely some adlibs, and they're probably old. The Roc! We want our spot back.

LISTEN: KO - Shiny

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Off of Clinton Sparks's upcoming mixtape.

LISTEN: Young Jeezy - Put On (Remix) ft. Jay-Z, kanYe West, Ludacris, Chamillionaire, David Banner, Wale & Z-Ro

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Wow, big weekend for Kanye West produced posse cut. This one weights in at 12 minutes Game style. The vocal production on this is horrendous and I don't even know what's going on with the beat during Wale's verse. Ludacris destroys most, but I'm still feeling Kanye West's verse more because of the heart.


Props tp SmokeYYY.

LISTEN: T.I. - Swagger Like Us ft. Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil' Wayne

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An M.I.A. vocal sample cradles four verses by four of the biggest rappers out there. Kanye West put a little, well...a lot of T-Pain on his vocals and surprisingly delivers the strongest verse of the whole track. Lil' Wayne put even more T-Pain on himself. T.I. finally gets a little lyrical again. And I just had to use this picture. Jigga does Jigga but doesn't really deliver any memorable lines IMHO. But I'm always extra hard on the GOAT. If Weezy would've delivered this verse I would've called it his first great verse probably.

LISTEN: Black ELement - Confirmation

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Produced by 6th Sense and dopely so.

LISTEN: John Legend - Green Light (MSTRKFT Remix) ft. Andre 3000

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Electro artists MSTRKFT remix John Legend's 'Green Light'. 3 Stacks appearance kind of gets lost in the shuffle, but check out the original mp3 for your Andre fix.

LISTEN: Ice Cube - I Got My Locs On Ft Young Jeezy

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One of my top 3 favorite rappers from childhood, Ice Cube, joins forces with a rapper I didn't start appreciating until recently, Young Jeezy. Cube's first verse sounds like it was ghost written by Rick Ross, but we know Cube doesn't like cops so that's definitely not the case.

Props to Eskay for the MP3.