Joell Ortiz bonanza

Joell Ortiz is my current favorite rapper in the universe. His album "The Brick - Bodega Chronicles" is in stores tomorrow. I'm going at midnight to cop it and you should too


The Brick (2007)


*Keep On Callin feat. Akon
*Night In My P's feat. Noyd
*125 pt. 4

Bonus: HipHopGame put up an album sampler so you could hear the whole album, I converted it from Dinosaur Real Audio to mp3 for those of us living in 2007
*Album sampler


Joell Ortiz @ Myspace


Oldies: zShare is being a prick so I'll add them later

4/16/07

*Grafh - Cold & Heartless
Autografh (7/24/2007)
So Grafh & Blackhand put up a preview of Grafh's long-delayed album. This is the first song and it's banananas. Click here to DL the whole thing
Grafh @ MySpace

*Royce Da 5'9 - Down Bottom
The Bar Exam (2007)
Royce hits up the old Ruff Ryders/Cashmoney beat. He has a new mixtape with Premier and Statik Selektah which you can buy here or steal here. I think it's kinda booty though.

*Affiliate feat. Jae Millz and G-Eyez - Hustle Just To Make Bucks
Mr. Piff, Dope & Blow (2007)
My peoples over at Flophouse Records sent this to me. J. Cardim on the beat.
I'm gonna start running polls as of right..now. So vote or die:


Affiliate @ MySpace



Oldies: Queens Day

Capone-N-Norega - Neva Die Alone
The War Report(1997)

Ali Vegas - Queens Anthem (99?)

Game, Termanology, Lou Armstrong

*Game - Gettin Dollaz
You Know What It Is, vol. 4 (2007)
Intro song off the new Game mixtape, which is for sale as a download on Game's myspace if you're the type of person who would pay for a download. For the rest of us there's this

*Termanology - I Did It (prod. Hi-Tek)
Hood Politics vol. 5 (2007)
Hi-Tek uses the Celebrities "I choose you" sample, which has been flipped in alot of rap songs, but of course his version has its own twist to it since he has his ill drum programming style.
Term @ Myspace

*Lou Armstrong - When's It All Gon End
Street Talk vol. 2 (2007)
Lou Armstrong is the main rapper in a group from Boston called Hitmakerz. This song is getting alot of burn around here
Lou Armstrong @ Myspace


Oldies: Bone Thugs double-dose
*Bone Thugs-N Harmony - Budsmokers Only
E. 1999 Eternal (1995)

*Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - No Surrender
Creepin On Ah Come Up EP (1994)

Back on my mack, pimp

Back from WrestleMania. Shawn Michaels, you broke my heart.



*Young Buck feat. TI, Young Jeezy & Pimp C - 4 Kings
Buck The World (2007)

Some shit off Buck's new album. Pimp C just does the hook. Buck refers to the song as "3 Kings" in his verse, which leads me to believe Pimp C did his shit way after



*50 Cent - Straight To The Bank
Curtis SSK (6/19/07)

Dirty version. 50 back to more rapping and less singing. Prod. by Ty Fyffe and Dre. SSK = Shoot, Stab, Kill bonus: *Instrumental




*Jazzy Jeff feat. Peedi Crack - Brand New Funk
This is like a couple weeks old but I kept forgetting to upload it. And here it is




moldy oldies:

Timbaland and Magoo
Welcome To Our World (1997)

*Writin Rhymes
*Up Jumps Da Boogie feat. Aaliyah & Missy Elliot

Awesome album that came out at the end of 97. I got this for Xmas when I was 11 and even as a young bul I knew this was the shit. Going back and listening to it again now only confirms what I always knew. The thing about Timbaland and Magoo that worked was you never wanted to hear either of them rap a full song. Timbaland was in love with the "telephone effect" at this time (cut the bass on your voice, raise the mids) and he was never that great of a rapper, and Magoo of course overdosed on helium in the 80's. But as a duo they balanced each other out, and the album's guest list of Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy, etc. helped to smooth it out.