HAVOC (of MOBB DEEP) & THE ALCHEMIST feat. METHOD MAN: Buck 50s & Bullet Wounds (2016)

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MOBB DEEP & NOSTALGIA 77: Survival Of The Thing (Steely Chan’s Blender Mash) (2013) Free download

Here we go – Steely Chan deliver another beast of a mashed-up classic hip-hop acapella and dirty funk instro. Survival Of The Thing is a mutant splice of Mobb Deep‘s ’95 track Survival Of The Fittest with Nostalgia 77‘s ’04 instro Thing. As it happens the name of the resulting hybrid perfectly describes what happens at the end of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 movie The Thing which also featured a bit of a beast. I think the key difference to remember is …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RECORDKINGZ: Heavyweight – 2009 – Album review

RECORDKINGZ: Heavyweight – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Take A Walk With Me (feat. Joell Ortiz) – Rock Ya Shoulders (feat. The Beatnuts) – Keep It Coming (feat. Phil Da Agony, Montage & Mo Money) – Keep On (Chalice & Ruk)
SOUNDBITE: “I wrote this one on the porcelain throne/ Contemplating how I shit on fake niggers who ain’t holding they own”
RATING: 4.5/5
Heavyweight piles into the hip-hop fray in a very similar way to Jake One’s White Van Music last year. By this I mean that it finds a talented producer hooking up with a host of talented MCs and dropping dope phatness. It’s even possible that Juliano (formerly one half of 90s duo The Creators), arguably has the edge on Jake One and that this has the potential to give a kick up the arse to a few flagging careers, proving once again that the music industry (and to some extent the public’s) obsession with rapper-cult-of-personality is forgetting one vital thing. It doesn’t matter how good the lyrics, nobody ever danced to poetry. When was the last time you heard a proper jump-up hip hop track anyway? The underground has been plagued by masturbatory production for too long - even if there has been some lyrical insanity. On the other hand, the mainstream shits out club beats like its got diarrhoea – but is plagued by lyrical inanity. This isn’t to say that everything on here will light fires under people’s feet – simply that…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

RECORDKINGZ (feat. Mobb Deep): Heat – 2009 – Single review

RECORDKINGZ (feat. Mobb Deep): Heat – 2009 – Single review
Recordkingz (a.k.a. Juliano of nineties hip-hop production duo) has released not one but two debut singles off forthcoming LP Heavyweight. One of these is a gigantic banger featuring The Beatnuts. The other one is this – which…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM