Seattle beatmaker Jake One ,known for his work with backpackers and ballers releases the first track from his Rhymesayers debut White Van Music . White Van Music brings together indie/backpackers Slug,Bro. Ali,Posonus,MF Doom Causal,Little Brother with mainstream big cats like Young Buck, Prodigy & Freeway,in stores Oct 7th (RSE) Jake One ft.Freeway & Bro.Ali- "The Truth" -mp3- via 2DB
This beat is basically on that "late 90's/early 2000's" dopeness. Produced by Jake-one, this track is pretty good, try it out...let us know what you think. "The Truth"-Freeway and Brother Ali. Prod: Jake-one Both Free and Ali drop some relatively ill rhymes, except I'm not feeling Brother Ali's sing-song spitting...
Download: Brother Ali - "Truth Is" Download: Big Quarters - "Everyday" Taken directly from the Brother Ali MySpace Blog : Explode The Vote is about getting the youth voice out to the polls in record numbers this November so we can make this year's victories ring loud and clear throughout the district: WE WANT CHANGE! The show is featuring performances by: Brother Ali Big Quarters Usual Suspects [...]
(i like bands who have dads playing in them) My gf just called we with some bad news. The Falls Festival 2008 Lineup got announced, and MYSTERY JETS are gonna be here and TRIZZY! NNNNOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! Here is the rest of the lineup Franz Ferdinand The Hives Eli Paperboy Reed The Cat Empire The Kooks The Grates Gomez Faker Tegan and Sara SoKo Donavon Frankenreiter [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted whenever the mood strikes us. Today, three found over on the good ship Brooklyn Vegan . Click on the band name to visit their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Brother Ali - "Truth Is" Women - "Black Rice" The Ruby Suns - "Tane Mahuta"
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Brother Ali - Truth Is (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Brother Ali - Original King (MP3) "People think I'm in the independent category by choice." Brother Ali is a minority, but not in the ways you might expect. First, he's a white rapper in a genre filled with mostly black artists. Second, Brother Ali is an albino. Ali, who was born Jason Newman, converted to [...]
DOWNLOAD Muja Messiah - At All Cost (MP3) Off of Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy and noticably produced by an Aftermath guy, Che Vicious . (Black Corners). "Don't front . Don't wait for the critics to jump on this dude before you start giving it up to dude. Muja is the shit. I'd put him right there with Saigon and Tech in terms of talent on that intelligent hood dude shit. I'd ask him to come on tour with us but I'm scared of his crew. [...]
On day four of the Rothbury Festival, I can finally say that the weather has been absolutely perfect. Same goes for virtually every organizational aspect of the festival. I have been staying offsite at night, but the only complaint I've heard is that some people had to set up their tents far from the festival entrance, which is inevitable when approx. 40,000 people are staying in one place. Today's lineup is somewhat scaled down compared to the last two days, but still solid and diverse. Phil Lesh & Friends are the only game in town after [...]
"Money is cool, I'm only human But they use it as a tool to make the workers feel excluded Like the shinier the jewel the more exclusive the troop is Bullets don't take bribes stupid, they shoot shit" -Aesop Rock It's really too bad popular hip hop is filled with people like Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, Flo Rida, and G-Unit. If only people would wake up and see how much more talented and interesting some of this underground hip hop is, the world might be just that much [...]
Roughly two months ago, Nicole Davis from Brooklyn Based (an essential newsletter focusing on Brooklyn's best food, art, services, shops and people - subscribe HERE ) got in touch and asked me to help create a mix of Brooklyn-based bands. It was a ton of fun and the resulting mix ( HERE ) turned out to be a great listen. Well, guess what..... we're back! Our second EAR FARM/Brooklyn Based collaboration is all about bands playing some of New York City's free outdoor concerts — SummerStage , Prospect [...]
I've finally figured out how to post mp3s, so maybe this will become less of a teenageanst blog and more of a useful music outlet. i highly doubt it. Anyways, i managed to survive the SAT IIs, and figuring that i was finally done with all my standardized tests (until i take my LSATs, which has become inevitable now that my entire family has decided that i must be become a corporate lawyer. seriously guys, i'm not that huge of a bitch), i arrived home in a state of jubilation, itching to burn all my notebooks--until I saw this. [...]
You know what nobody likes? The Metrodome. I may be going out on a limb here, but even huge Minnesota Twins fans, the diehards who tell stories of the 1991 World Series, are, at most, ambivalent about it. The place is giant, dirty, and impersonal. So when something awesome happens at the Metrodome, it should be noted. This coming Sunday, something awesome will happen at the Metrodome. Okay, technically, it's the Metrodome parking lot - which is even better, because the best events (am I right, Red Sox fans?) take place outdoors. I'm talking about Soundset 08, a hip-hop extravaganza...
MP3: Eyedea & Abilities-Now (This song is amazing. I was just introduced to it this weekend; check out the part starting at 1:03) MP3: Brother Ali-Take Me Home MP
Myth : 7:00 door $38 Kraftwerk - Official Site Kraftwerk - Wikipedia Site Kraftwerk - MySpace Site The Fitzgerald Theater : 8:00 $22 The Current's Fakebook with Mary Lucia Feat. Chuck D., Brother Ali & Slug. Public Enemy - Official Site Public Enemy - Wikipedia [...]
Download: Atmosphere - "Watch Out" Download: Brother Ali - "Original King" Download: Mac Lethal - "Rotten Apple Pie" Download: Eyedea & Abilities - "Now" Download: Grayskul - "Scarecrow" Download : Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass" Download : Beat Junkies - "The Godfathers Talkin Handjive" Download : Blueprint - "Big Girls Need Love" [...]
Minneapolis emcee Brother Ali is one of those rare interviews that you wish never ends. Incredibly candid and emotionally available, Ali will talk your ear off on almost any topic and it's hard to walk away from a conversation with him and not feel inspired. Inspired by how real he is. Inspired by his commitment to his craft. And inspired by how much adversity he had to overcome to get where he is at. But what wasn't inspiring was cutting the majority of our interview due to space issues. [...]
Dear Patients: Our minds have been on the blink as of late, as we get closer to the big 08. The year is comin' to a close and now all we want is our very own rock 'n roll hippopotamus. This may not happen? But, we definitely have our asylum picks for the top ten albums of 2007. Unfortunately, we didn't get to listen to as much new music as we wanted this year because we were lookin' for some depth defying crisp sonic sounds and made the switch to vinyl (We haggled for a [...]
Thanks to all of you readers who participated by sending in your polls! You responded in exactly the way we hoped you would. In many cases, we were pleasantly surprised by the results. Especially noteworthy is the hometown love for acts such as alterna-rapper Brother Ali and Replacements disciples The Evening Rig . Furthermore, LCD Soundsystem being voted both one of the most innovative and overpraised albums is definitely worth pointing out (Ditto Arcade Fire). Unexpected entries from Ted Leo , Pissed Jeans , and MPLS-based Skoal Kodiak [...]
1. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver It's not that Sound of Silver is the best album of the year musically speaking, but lyrically it's what touched me most in 2007. Don't get me wrong, the churning, building piano on "All My Friends" and the progressive girth of "Get Innocuous" are just two examples of James Murphy's brilliance, but I look at the lyrics on the album as his true triumph. My initial attraction came from that of "All My Friends," a song that shouldn't necessarily speak to me given [...]
This list has very little to do with Back to the Future II. However, I am writing it from the inside of a Delorean. 19. Pete Rock ft. Styles P & Sheek Louch-"9143 Released by Nature Sounds in January as the single from Pete Rock' s still shelved New York's Finest record, "9143 has inevitably become a hit among rich kids in Westchester County, stoked that Yonkers and Scarsdale share an area code. Despite capable verses from Styles P and Sheek Louch (or as they're commonly known [...]
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