Tory Lanez is nice. That’s about all there is to it. I got to hear this track when my homie Sascha came through and kicked it for the Paper Diamond show. He’s got quite a bit of range and is only 19. He will be having a solid year, that’s something to bank on. This track shows the range I speak of with him exercising a few different flows accompanied with a hell of a hook that he sings and sings well. Check out the jam below.
The good folks over at 3 Little Digs put together the visual treatment for Oklahoma’s and G.O.O.D. Music’s own Tony Williams. This is the title track off of his most recent project. You will recognize some cameos such as Mickey Factz, GLC, Donnis, Sean Faylon, Kyle Lucas and more.
Kendrick Lamar caught up with Karen Civil at the video shoot for his track off of The Game’s album. He touches on who he’s been working with (6 tracks with Pharrell!), the death of TDE’s Alori Joh, the MTV’s Hottest MC List, and where he’s at musically. Hands down my favorite right now; I just don’t think it’s even close. Enjoy the vid.
My good friend and talented MC from OKC’s Puzzle People, Ronnie Harris, asked me to put this project up for him. It’s very special to him and really holds a lot of value and ties to someone that was near and dear to his heart and was a beautiful musician herself, Ashlee Madison. You’ll see his description below, then a link to get it. Support my man on such a well crafted and moving project of instrumentals. Ronnie had this to say:
Ashlee T Madison the Great Jr. She passed away Saturday morning, April 17, 2010 as the result of an automobile accident in Oklahoma City. Ashlee was reared in Norman, attended Norman Public Schools, graduated Norman North High School in 2004. She enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in African American Studies in Fall 2009. At the time of her death she was enrolled in the Graduate Program at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond,
OK pursuing a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies. Ashlee was a dynamic individual, who commanded an audience at an early age. From the time she was a child, she was always looking for an audience, often finding one and entertaining them for hours. Her kindred spirit continued throughout her life, allowing her to perform in front of large crowds. She appeared in a major motion picture, enjoyed modeling, song writing, painting, and photography. When she wasn’t performing, Ashlee enjoyed helping and giving to others. She was an environmentalist, often raising concern for the well being of planet earth. Ashlee was particularly fond of rivers, streams and enjoyed taking long walks experiencing mother nature.
You may recognize Chase Compton’s name from opening up for our homie Josh Sallee’s birthday rager last month. The young dude is from Lawrence and recently dropped his project, Midnight Music. I have been jamming the intro, “Young King” (which you’ll find below. Gray Luh da kids). The production on this is solid and I’m genuinely impressed with the kid’s flow. You can check out the intro below and also get the whole project. Word to my dude Colonial Foot Soldier for the linkage. Enjoy.
After letting his last single, “Ride Out” marinate while he hit the road to Chicago and Missouri after recently opening up for MC Hammer here, OKC’s Josh Sallee decided to drop this track in celebration of reaching 5000 followers on Twitter. This track is produced by the ever so talented Blev and samples James Blake’s “Limit To Your Love”. The haunting piano accompanies Josh’s bars that articulate that they clearly mean something to him. He touches on settling into life post graduation, religion, and other beliefs that are the basis for Sallee’s life-coping mechanism. We’ve all been in circumstances that we wish we could have handled differently at some point, but we can’t. This is about moving past those and realizing life is much more and what you make of it; striving to learn from those experiences and continuing to progress is essential to development. It’s one of my favorite songs from him, and I could tell immediately during the recording process that this was a deeper record to him. If you want to know Josh as a person and artist, pay attention to this one. I know you will. You can get the new new below.
Yo… Don Trip is nice. That’s all there is to it. This is the second release off his upcoming project, Guerilla. He’s got an aggressive flow that fits perfectly over this Drumma Boy produced joint. He dropped one of the best songs of the year last year with “Letter To My Son” and one of my personal favorite videos, “Lawyer”. Make sure to get familiar with him.
“I pay my bills, I ain’t pay no ho. I ain’t buy no shoes, I ain’t buy no clothes. I stepped my grind up, tryna climb up and get us out that hole… and I did damn good”
Will Ferrell graced NO with his presence and delivered the starting lineups for the Bulls and Hornets last night. It’s pretty hilarious and worth checking out.
My personal favorites are the intros for Joakim Noah and Emeka Okafor.
One of the coolest experiences of mylife was seeing Jack White play guitar alongside Jay-Z’s set at Bonnaroo in 2010. Dude is just too phenomenal of a musician, and I’m extremely psyched about his upcoming solo effort, Blunderbuss, dropping on 4.24. This track sounds like it was from a different time period altogether. I love the piano in it and am looking forward to hearing more from this project soon. Check it out below.
Here are two cuts from Sir Michael Rocks that are just audible butter. He has been so on point with his solo game. The first track “Imagine” is produced by Cardo and the other features production and vocals from The other Cool Kid, Chuck Inglish. Highly recommend checking out both and just vibing out wherever you happen to be at the moment.