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Diego Heat of the Kinfolks crew out of Orlando, Fl by way of Joliet, IL.  New hot video Buried Alive, check the video and the music and video pages for more updates.  Diego Heat, one of a dying bread of  pure Hip Hop artists left out there.  MTV and the Clear Channel need to start looking more towards the streets and find some pure artists!

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Kool G Rap is now teaching rapping, he released a book entitled, How To Rap: The Art And Science Of The Hip Hop MC.  Sounds like a great idea and no better person to teach than him.  Back from the early 80’s through the 90’s

Kool G Rap blazed the mic and was listened from West Coast, Down South and East Coast back when the coast wars were going on. Check the video for his song On The Run was considered a classic in the art of story telling.  HipHopDx.com has an extensive interview with him on their website.  It’s informative and long, you may have to come back to read the whole thing.  So this could set a trend and get Hip Hop taught in school since it’s part of our culture more than anything.  Listen to the lyrics in this track, it’s wonderful MCing (wow, I just made a new Hip Hop phrase, Wonderful MCing!)  I love it in this video when he says, “Wake up stupid we gotta go!”  Check it, let me know what you think….

Check for Amerie, hot to death!

I just wanted to put short post on Amerie.  Her beats are hot, she’s hot and she has a great voice.  I don’t get it, just check out some of her songs.  Listen to her voice as she hits the notes strong and she’s not out of tune.  Let me know what you think, listen to Pretty Brown.  Her songs are original and has all formats….

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Trina’s album Amazin finally dropped today, May 4th 2010.  Coming from Fla, she’s been the self proclaimed Baddest B**** in the rap game.  Until recently the weak rhyming, no style of her own, Lil Wayne female clone Nicki Minaj came out this year.  Trina’s been rocking since 1998 and came out with her first album in 2000.  Now there’s a big question today of who’s the better rapper, Nicki Minaj or Trina.  Seems like once you pass the age of like 29, you’re old in the game.  But now we’re going to find out about Trina’s album first since her album is out now and Nicki’s album isn’t out until later this year.  Listening to Amazin I got a feel of here’s more vintage Trina (I love her southern accent).  Then I listened to the song Dang A Lang featuring Lady Saw and Nicki Minaj.  This song is no doubt hot and the best verse that I ever heard from Minaj.  She sounds like Trina on this song and not Lil Wayne this time.  Hey that might work for her.  Other guest appearances on this album from Diddy, Keri Hilson, Flo-Rida, Git Fresh, Monica, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Lyfe Jennings and Shonie. The song Million Dollar Girl feat Diddy and Keri Hilson is straight terrible.  Sounds like a Nickelodeon version of Last Night, Diddy has been terrible lately.  Other stand out tracks on this album besides Dang A Lang are, I Want It All featuring Monica, Currency featuring Lil Wayne and Rick Ross and That’s My Attitude.  The rest of the album is like some mellow R&B music.  All in all a pretty good album, no doubt show’s the different musical styles she has.  We’ll give her a 82% out a 100.  Check out some of the tracks from the album on her Myspace music player below.

Check out the video for Trina’s That’s My Attitude song from her new album Amazin after you read the review and previewed the album’s music.

Devin the Dude has a new album out, came out on April 20th, 2010.  We all know what kind of music it’s gonna a be.  Some straight up sit back-relax-as you blaze one with your girl type music.  And as usually he delivers with some funky beats and smoothed out rhymes with his Chicago accent.  Devin the Dude is one of the best rappers to come out of Chicago in a while.  Not your normal gangsta rapper that seems to be in abundance from that area, but a chill and having fun while smoking type music.  Most of you haven’t heard of him since he’s not your pop-rapper that gets played on the radio 20 times a day.  Room 420 is almost a perfect album with almost every track a stand out track.  But most of all the stand out tracks are We Get High, Pick My Brain, I Gotta Ho and All You Need.  This album is a must have for all the smokers and playas out there in the Hip Hop world.  We’ll give this album a 88% out of 100.  Check a preview of a few of the songs off the album below from his Myspace page.

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Common is coming back after a very well put together album in 2007, Universal Mind Control.  Not the best album of the year but still a decent album.  But Common isn’t supposed to be known for putting out decent material.  Now in 2010 he’s working with Kanye West and No ID.  Talk about keeping it real, Common’s been working with No ID since before he was signed or even famous.  Working with two producers from his hometown Chicago, sounds like it’s going to be a banger.  Chicago artists have been putting out some good music lately by signed and unsigned artists.  The album is currently being worked on the album is entitled The Believer.  Although there’s no official release date Common said he is hoping to have the release by fall of 2010.  Common describes the album as “soulful Hip Hop.”  Well thanks for that bit of information, Common’s been making soulful Hip Hop for years now.  “It’s ‘good’ music,” he said. “The themes are street music and elevation, things that I feel like I always embody when I rap. But here there’s new situations, new solutions.”  I hear that we are looking forward to hearing some new Common music with some No ID beats behind it.  Check back for the album review a few weeks before the album comes out.

Scarface is coming out with a new album on May 11th, MP3 release May 4th called Dopeman Music.  A promotion through Amazon.com he’s giving away a free sample of this album in a 3:30 minute megamix.  The joint is mad blaze and it gives the album a good preview, there’s some dope beats and good Scarface-flowing rhymes on here.  Make sure that you download it because I’m sure it’s not going to still be here after the album is released.  In an interview on MTV, ‘Face stated that he is not only a musician but a pioneer and needed to change the way he delivered his music.  Here’s a link to download the song, it’s blaze.  DOWNLOAD

Emimen announced he wasn’t going to drop the album Relapse 2 this year.  Instead he’s changing the name of the album to Recovery.  Eminem explains what brought the change on.

“I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year.”  But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel  to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album.  The music  on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”

Yeah that makes sense, the album is supposed to drop on June 22nd.  Confirmed producers so far, Just Blaze, Boi-1da, Jim Jonsin and DJ Khalil.  Hope this album is better than Relapse from last year, I didn’t think that was very good and it didn’t make a lot of noise in the industry.  Is Em’s hype dead for good, I guess we’ll see in June.

We talked about Styles P’s new album coming in may entitled Ghost Dub Dime, now check out the new video That Street life featuring Tyler Woods.  To read about the Styles P Ghost Dub Dime on HipHope.com click here.

Another back in the day crew making a comeback.  Well actually don’t call it a comeback because they’ve been making new music non-stop since the early 90’s.  Cypress Hill, blazed the scene with How I Can Just Kill A Man and Hand On The Pump back in ‘91.  Those were Hip Hop anthems and now they are classics.  Here we are 2010 and their 9th studio albums not to mention other projects and solo releases by the members, most notable are Soul Assassins albums.

Rise up has many producers along with main Cypress Hill producer DJ Muggs and rapper B Real we also have Mike Shinoda, Jim Jonsin, Pete Rock, DJ Khalil and others.  Guest appearances by Pitbull, Everlast, Young De, Tom Morello,  Audioslave, Marc Anthony and others.  Cypress always had a rock overtone in their music as well as a dark Hip Hop feel, such a hard combination.  Rhyme styles have been hardcore and this album is no different.  The production on this album is extraordinary no doubt!  Stand out tracks like  It Ain’t Nothing and Pass The Dutch (you know they had to put a weed song in there), this album is a banger.  A nice alternative to the norm of what’s going on in Hip Hop lately.  With Rock tracks, Hip Hop tracks and Hispanic tracks, this album is no doubt worth it.  Let’s give in a good 80% out of 100.

Preview some songs from Rise Up as well as some of their classics…..

As I’m surfing through youtube I came across this song.  I had to share because this song is so Hip Hop and many songs sampled this. Let me know if you remember any of them….

Selectah EJah usually makes the mixes for this site, but has been a bit busy and hasn’t updated the mixes since last year. Wow, what a busy man! But we’re going to do something different, we’re featuring guest DJ’s mixes for the site. First up is DJ Kid Capri with one of his old skool mixtapes, and this is really a tape, you get the break from flipping the tape over and everything. Check this out though, as you realize how creative the producers were back in the day, 90% of the songs were created with a Roland 808. Wow those were the days. So enjoy and here’s the track listing…..

01.Dancing All Night
02.Rockin It
03.Spoonie G Rap
04.Go See the Doctor
05.Latoya
06.Turn it Up
07.Together Forever
08.One Love
09.Cracked Out
10.I Met a Girl
11.Roxxane
12.Problems
13.Fearless 4 Freestyle
14.The Message

Styles P has a lot going on these days.  He has announced he will release a mixtape entitled Ghost Dub Dime with E1 music next month (May 2010).  He also signed to do a fictional novel with Random House called ‘Invincible.’  Not only that but he’s releasing a soundtrack for the book, busy man there!  They’re both due out on June 1st.  Styles P says about the Ghost Dub Dime mixtape, “I am staying in tune with the streets and providing bars that most rappers won’t.”  SP the Ghost is also working on a new solo album as well as an album with the group the Lox.