On the real, I feel like Prodigy's look straight at me on that cover, and he's saying "Yo dun, I thought this was a hip-hop site. And you're posting about Rihanna and Chris Brown and B.o.B. and shit? Give me one good reason why I shouldn't smack the bi**h out of your right now."
Unfortunately we missed out on two worthy but love-centric new projects yesterday: Tony Williams' "The King or the Fool" and Brother Ali's "The Bite Marked Heart". And since (most of) you have the attention span of a 4th grader whose Riddlin prescription ran out, I'm folding both into one post.
It's ok to be wary. When I first heard that Yelawolf was going to be doing a collaborative project with some British singer (Ed Sheeran) I was worried to. I don't know what I pictured - probably something like Craig David doing remixes of "Pop the Trunk". Listen and download...
I know it may seem like it, but bearded men with giant man boobs aren't responsibly for all of the hip-hop coming our of South Florida. Behind the Miami Heat courtside seats is a booming community of dope hip-hop, and producer Numonics and emcee Knowledge Medina are essential parts of it. Listen and download...
While the rest of us were watching the Super Bowl last night Curren$y was hard at work releasing his brand new FreEP "Here", a five-track quick hitter that's everything the #JetLife loyalists love and everything the "weed rap" detractors like to detract about. Listen and download....
I know there are a lot of RefinedHype Nation citizens, and frequenters of the mothership, that are rappers in their own right (some of them pretty damn good), and I know rappers are always starving for dope/non-shitty beats, and I know they're too poor to pay for dope/non-shitty beats, so.....
For the past few months whevenever I heard about Emilio Rojas' upcoming album "Breaking Point" I got dyslexically excited that the project would reference "Point Break". But thankfully for the rest of the world Emilio's far more interested in producing dope hip-hop albums than making '90s movie references
I can keep it real with RefinedHype Nation, right? Good. In that case, I shot up some bad Malayisan heroin ate some bad sushi last night and I'm moving slower than Rick Ross on sand. I just don't have it in me to write about some of the dope shit that dropped today, so I thought I should at least give you the abbreviated version. From Chip tha Ripper to Jam Master Jay, here ya go.
No, of course I'm not posting J The S' new album because we're both from Boston and us Celtics fans have to stick together. I would never do something so blatantly biased in the name of hometown pride. Ok, so actually I would, but thankfully "The Last Days" sounds so dope I can freely hype it without feeling like a homer. Listen and download...
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