James Blake - Voyeur [Bear//Face Bootleg Edit]

Jay-Z - Open Letter

Ok this is clean.

Jay is stirrin up waters today in Washington.  So Jay got clearance to go to Cuba from the treasury department of the U.S. government, but he embellishes in this new joint... explaining how Obama hadda tell him to be cool.  I know it's just a song, but it's clean when you have enough cultural clout to get your lyrics read at a White House press conference hours after dropping a track.  Jay, after a vicious verse on Kendrick's "Bitch don't kill my vibe" really is showing no signs of slowing down at the ripe age of 43.

Jacques Greene + Tinashe - Painted Faces

Jacques Greene & Tinashe - Songs from Scratch from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

SZA - S (EP)

We ride around to this SZA.  She first blew us away with Aftermath.  Then ICE.MOON fucked us up for a minute. This is her new EP S.  The dreamy eight song EP is the first of three she'll release over the next few months, following up with Z and A.  The outro on this one was made by Zodiac, the legendary producer who was kicked off the Weeknd's House of Balloons and never received credit for his production... but it's a pretty simple track.  Push play.

Kid Cudi - Indicud (Album)

Most of the new cudder (Indicud) leaked.  I don't like it that much I don't think.  Not as a whole project But certain tracks are... crazy. A lot of the beats on this project go.  That intro track is clean. this Kendrick one.  New York City Rage Fest. is wet...

 Beez (feat RZA)-- RZA's verses is droppin hammaz.  Brothers (feat. King Chip & A$AP Rocky)-- has that same bounce from Cupid by 112... it's ryder music kind of. Then track 17 is 9 minutes and called 'Afterwards' (Bring Yo Friends) (feat. Michael Bolton & King Chip) LOL:


Listen to everything I've heard here after the jizza

Active Child - Evening Ceremony

Hardest name in the game right now? It's definitely some fuckin yoga music tho.  But dog, how dummy is the art?!

The Range - PS 3

This is the first track off The Range's new EP, seneca.  They're on Donkey Pitch (UK label).

Preview of the full EP (Out April 22)

Hucci x GameFace - The Leaves Are Brown

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I dono... is trap even tight? I guess I'm feelin it. But am I jus weak? Kid is a 17 year old Brit.

Ifan Dafydd - Llonydd (feat. Alys Williams)

Nicolas Jaar - Noise

Nicolas Jaar - Noise from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.
Produced by Callie Barlow & Bennett Barbakow / Directed by Richard Parks

Chimurenga Renaissance - Pungwe

So it turns out that Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces quietly released a solo album called Pungwe last October, under the name Chimurenga Renaissance. I’m not sure if the name change and the vaguely clandestine nature of this release were meant to purposefully eschew attention from the white indie media that heartily embraced Black Up; it seems possible considering what I’ve heard from the album so far carries a very strong Afrocentric theme. Regardless of intentions and politics, Pungwe is sounding very good and merits a separate post in its entirety.

Track 1 features Palaceer Lazaro = new Shabazz Palaces track.  

Charles Bradley - Strictly Reserved for You

2m31s how them young gods be being born. Stream the album below. 

Klaves - Will You

From Poland, Klaves debuts 'Will You.'

Kastle - Make You Stay featuring JMSN

Certainly not groundbreaking, but a solid piece.  

Miguel - Surething (Iamnobodi remix)