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Promo Mix: Loud - BPA.Style: House, Minimal, Tech House, Techno.

Me & Roe in the lab doing a 30 minute challenge. 30 minutes for me to create a beat from scratch using limited materials & 30 minutes for Roe to come up with a verse from scratch using nothing but an ipod touch to "pen" his rhymes. An hour n a half later (recording & mixing considered)... here it is! - J. Slikk

This is some ill shit. Cyrano linking up with his SteadyFlow bredren Sharp and the mighty Rapper Big Pooh over this def Centric beat? Major. Love the content, and love hearing that Cyrano's dropping his debut (?!?!) album, Back 2 Lyfe , sometime in 2011. Keep it locked. DOWNLOAD Cyrano ft. Rapper Big Pooh & Sharp "Full Circle" (prod. by Centric ) [ clean | dirty ]

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Before dropping Escapism in 2Q 2012, J.Slikk flips a dope compilation of 13 tracks, featuring some unreleased cuts, mixtape jawns, new tracks, instrumentals and other cuts from guys like Cyrano , Junclassic , R.O.E. , Rashid Hadee , SteadyFlow and plenty more. I've heard a number of these tracks before, so to hear a lot of these with vocals atop? Major. Awesome work. Don't even think about sleeping. DOWNLOAD J.Slikk - The Plan 2 Escape &a mp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp ;amp;amp;lt;a href=" http://backpackersanonymous.ba ndcamp.com/album/the-plan-2-es cape"& amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;am p;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Plan 2 Escape by [...]

You guys might remember Madicinal Libationz , the Cy Yung & Dub MD project that found Cyrano going in over a number of Madlib instrumentals. The powers-that-be shut that one down, so Cy and Dub decided to reimagine this one; I'll let them tell it... Cyrano Sinatra (f.k.a. Cyrano aka Cy Yung) has reconnected with Dub MD to help remove a blemish from their immaculate first collaboration, 2009's 'Madicinal Libationz'. After assembling one of the most diverse casts of Hip-Hop underground at the [...]

The first episode in the series chronicling the making of Chicago producer J. Slikk 's compilation "Escapism". In this episode (filmed August 2011), fellow Backpackers Anonymous artist & fellow Chicagoan R.O.E (@risingoverenvy) comes through to Slikk's crib to pick up beats for his latest project (the Radiant Child Lp) as well as stop by for a brainstorming/recording session. After about an hour, the two come up with a song that will end up on Escapism entitled "Church" (of which a rough snippet is included at the end). **Note. the group planned to feature on the song with Roe will [...]

If you fucked with the recently-released KhemLab project, you'd heard heat from both Cyrano and Sharp . I actually didn't know that these two did a lot of work together, but I'm thoroughly fucking with their SteadyFlow project, Carlin & Pryor . Great cover, great music, loads of dope beats (mostly produced by Sharp, although Centric & J. Slikk do make appearances), and a load of raw Rap for your bitch ass. [...]

Not sure if R.O.E. knows, but my birthday is tomorrow, so he actually hit me with an early birthday gift a few hours ago. Grabbing Common 's latest No I.D. -produced excellence, ROE really kicks some random thoughts atop the finest track. Straight heat, too. More like a book of rhymes, with ROE just thumbing through the pages, picking his inner-most thoughts and bleeding them onto the beat. Be on the lookout for his TheRadiantChildLP , which he's trying to drop this December. Coast to this one for the time being, though. [...]

Feels like I can't sleep during this Irene shit. Fuck that bitch. I'll keep drinking and figure out what's good when the power dies. Until then, ride the bass that Centric threw into this track. BPA affiliate/RTD favorite Cy Yung is featured, as well as Jersey's own Trife and motherfucking Sean Price . I feel bad, because no matter whatever the fuck happens, once P! is on a track? That shit is his. I'm glad I live in an era where he is affordable enough that he can merk tracks from bigger niggas [...]

Taken from R.O.E. and the Soulvillains ' Audiotree set, which you can watch in full HERE .

Here's the complete 45 minute set that we dropped a track from last week .

R.O.E. " Revive (Live) ": ROE recently flipped one of my favorite tracks from A Backpacker Named R.O.E. (which RTD presented back in March ) in-studio and recorded this session, and I think the J. Slikk beat got a dope live reinterpretation. Sounds like homey really knows how to present his shit in a live setting - you trying to book him? Let the BPA affiliate touch down on your city and revive that Hip-Hop spirit - it won't die as long as he's breathing. And [...]

Big up to Laura (@ LTrouble22 ) for throwing this video up on YouTube. I saw this on Facebook, and had to have this one posted. MCs that appear in this cypher: Rome Jeterr , J Capps , Cyrano Sinatra , S.Gold and St. Nickel . Just a number of hungry cats going for those. Shit like this is why I love the Garden Variety shows in Jersey - you will see mad cats going for theirs for like 20, 30 minutes. That real Hip-Hop shit.

Buy These Tracks Download "The rest of 2011 is set to be a huge year for Yousef, arguably his strongest yet in the production field. After spending much of 2010 recording remixes and productions for other leading labels Yousef has come back super-strong on his own seminal Circus recordings, dropping the Circus Reworks EP as [...]

junclassic " What It Is " (prod. by J Slikk ): Two of my favorite BPA niggas collaborate on this one. I'd go on about how I wish jun and Slikk would work together more, but I mean, I just deal with the few gems of their collabs that I possess. jun says that he was inspired by a piece he saw at 174 Street and Park Ave in the South Bronx, so I guess I need to accumulate a load of Slikk beats and take that nigga on a trip to varying graf murals. I could get [...]

Drastic " What I Do " (prod. by Cynergy Soundz ): Lovin' the vibe of this one from BPA affiliate Cynergy. The work on that vocal in the sample, and the overall brightness of that beat blends well with Dras' rhymes. Something to sip something strong to in a packed basement, reppin' with your peoples. Something to blow trees with that fly chick to... before you put your mack down, of course. Just a different sound from the cookie cutter norm out there. Rock to it.

FINALLY! I don't even know how long I've been waiting to provide this to you guys, but with life going on for everyone involved, this EP, a proper introduction to the one like R.O.E. is here. A Backpacker Named R.O.E. is a mixture of true school beats, captivating, heartfelt lyrics and a load of life experience from one of the underground's immensely talented writers. R.O.E. blends the same above and below ground tendencies, giving us tracks about the struggle of the everyman as well as his aspirations for more. Tracks like "Starship", [...]