As citizens of RefinedHype Nation know only too well, Las Vegas representer Marion Write is not only dope, he's been getting dope. It's great to see an artist you genuinely want to win get bigger, and Write's new release "Slow Down", featuring the immaculate lyricist Skyzoo, might just be his biggest record to date. Listen and download....
First off I'd like to applaud Skyzoo for his consistently amazing art work. From the "Cosby Show" themed releases from "The Great Debater" to the classic Penny Hardaway shots from his "Penny Freestyle Series" the man's giving us '80s babies everything we could ask for. Oh, and the fact that he's one of the best lyricists alive. Listen and download...
Ever since Kim Kardashian's much hyped sex tape turned out to be little more than Ray J looking at the camera I've been carefull not to have high expectations, but after some absolutely stellar leaks, and some motherloving fantastic "Cosby Show" artwork, against my better judgement I came to believe that Skyzoo's "The Great Debater" mixtape would actually meet my expectations. Listen and download...
Over the last few weeks Skyzoo and I have fallen into a quite enjoyable routine. He drops a new ridiculously dope track, I write about how ridiculously dope it is, and as an added bonus I get to talk about the "Cosby Show" inspired art work (look for #CosbySweaterSwag to start trending any minute now). The latest edition to the Brooklyn emcees growing catalog is "Atypical". Listen and download...
As anyone who heard their collab album "Live From the Tape Deck" already knows (seriously, go listen to that album), when Skyzoo and producer !llmind get on a record together the results are always dope, and new leak "Test Drive" is no different. !ll never gets too showy with his beats, we'll save that for "Racks", preferring instead to make every note absolutely fucking perfect
I post things on RefinedHype for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it's just so major that I can't ignore it, even if it's not that good. Very rarely it's because the art work is a fucking fantastic "Cosby Show" reference and then, hopefully more than sometimes the music's just straight up dope. Skyzoo's new release, "Written in the Drums", is more of the last two. Listen and download...
That "most underrated" terms gets throw around so much it's ceased to mean anything, so I'll just say that Skyzoo's talents are not proportional to the amount of people who are on record promoting his talents. In other words, there aren't many emcees who could just crush a beat, but Sky's one of them. Listen and download...
RefinedHype Nation was digging the last offering from Thee Tom Hardy so much I thought it was only right that I play a little catch up and post Hardy's latest joint "A Different League" for those who may have missed its initial release a couple days ago. (Which, in internet time, is approximately 472 years.) Listen and download...
I know this one's been out for a couple days, which in hip-hop blog time might as well be 57 years, but I somehow managed to miss Skyzoo's dope new collab banger with Torae "Barrel Brothers" the first time around, so just in case there were some other folks out there who were also caught napping through the blast, here we go...
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