As those with enough good sense to listen to our last Hypemen podcast already know, Freddie Gibbs has a crew in the works featuring The Cool Kids, Bun B and Chip Tha Ripper, collectively knows as Pulled Over by the Cops, and today we got hit with the crew's first offering, the appropriately titled "Authority". Listen and download...
The fifth installment in the #illRaps Series, "Means the World" finds F.A.B.L.E. x Neak x Rashid Hadee x Slot-A x Sincerely Yours x Mike Schpitz x NidaNasheeda all going in over a subtly soulful beat from Rashid Hadee. Between this and yesterday's 9th Wonder & Phonte joint, we're getting closer to a true lyrical rennaisance everyday. Listen and download....
I just realized that in many ways I launched RefinedHype because of DJ Kay Slay. I'd prefer not to be screamed at by Slay the next time I'm in NYC, but I have to be honest - 90% of what the man does is forgettable at best. But every so often, like on "60 Second Assassins", he comes through with a pretty ill cut. That's what I'm here for, to wade through the hype and only give you the good shit. Listen and download...
I know, I know, not another weekly series. While I'm as tired of WhatEverTheFuckYourNameIs Thursdays as anyone, The Kidz in the Hall have made too much dope music not to be given the benefit of the doubt, and weekly series or not, their new joint 'I Pledge Allegiance to the Dope". Listen and download...
Anyway, former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker - aka the dude who married that Playboy mode, aka the dude who was in the plane crash with DJ AM - is getting ready to finally release his "Give the Drummer Some" album, and to build some momentum he's dropped quasi-title track, "Can the Drummer Get Some". Listen and download...
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