Never one to rest on his laurels, here we are with, wouldn’t you just know it, another brand new Lil B mixtape. Entitled Basedprint Vol. 2 (there was “no need for Vol. 1″ according to B) it features the inevitable mixed bag we have come to expect.
One for diehards only, then, but mine hard enough and you will find some gold in the shape of opening track ‘NYU’ (dedicated to the students of the university where he has lectured) and ‘I’m Focused Man and ‘Thug Love’. Download here and listen to a few tracks below. …Read More.
Following on from his recent contribution to the Bonafide Beats mix series we caught up with Matt Ford, aka DJ Format, for a chat about his new Edan and Mr Lif featuring albumStatement of Intent, his work on The Simonsound project and the current state of the music industry. …Read More.
Madlib’s Medicine Show: The Brick release the complete Medicine Show series, #1-13. The Brick can be held aloft as the perfect example of ‘multi-purpose’. Use it to be schooled in amazing music from distant times and lands, provide an insight into the mind of one of musics true innovators, buy it as a birthday gift for anyone who says they are interested in ‘all types of music’… or thrown through the air I’d imagine it would be a handy anti-theft device if your crib was being burgled. Weighing in at 2.5 LBS and containing 13 CDs and accompanying booklets, this release, like a cocaine brick, will transport you to another world.
Bonafide set out with the aim to celebrate hip-hop. Our aim was to explore ‘old-school, mid-school and new-school creativity’, five issues on we’re proud to present the old school x new school issue. In hip-hop chronological order we speak to the Godfather of it all, Grandmaster Flash, profile EPMD, the funky Long Island duo from the golden age of rap and get crazy with ‘the lazy hustler’ and fourth Beastie Boy, Ricky Powell. …Read More.
JJ DOOM is the artist name for the combined talents of vocalist, rapper and producer Jneiro Jarel, and masked hip-hop maverick DOOM (previously MF DOOM). In May the pair will unleash their collaborative debut album, KEY TO THE KUFFS. The album will feature artwork by Steve Powers (aka ESPO) and be released through Lex Records.
More information on this project will be revealed in the next print issue of Bonafide. Tune in to Boiler Room on Tuesday 21st February for a live mix courtesy of JJ DOOM.
Here’s the new video for Mikill Pane’s ‘Kings, featuring Yoshee, fresh from the The Morris Dancer EP. UK rapper Pane is so cool he probably farts ice cubes.
Earl Sweatshirt, the OFWGKTA member (or former member, maybe, who knows?) has returned to his home in LA following a spell in Coral Reef Academy in Samoa, a correctional facility for naughty adolescents, a finding courtesy of Complex magazine’s exhaustive stalking last year.
To celebrate his return Earl released this statement on YouTube last night with a promise to let out a new song once he has 50,000 followers on Twitter, barely 18 hours later he has almost 80,000 followers and we have ‘Home’, Earl spitting fire over James Pant’s Theme From Paris, check it in full over at Earl Sweatshirt’s website.
Christmas is a time for giving, and thankfully beatmaker Clams Casino has joined in the Yuletide spirit by offering up the critically acclaimed Instrumentals LP from his Facebook page for free. In what was originally released as a free online mixtape and then pressed onto vinyl by the label Type, this new gift heralds a “previously unavailable high quality 320kbps digitally remastered version of Instrumentals“. And what better way is there to celebrate the festive period than experiencing Clams’ heady beats in all of their high quality glory? …Read More.
All City Records, the Dublin based independent label specialising in electronic leaning hip-hop, continues to defy the odds in a David v Goliath type fashion with the type of releases that make other labels (with far bigger budgets, dare i speculate) green with envy. …Read More.
