[Fiend]

Skinny white teenager doing a lot of short semi-gangsta tracks with some nice deep beats:

[Milford Cubicle]

https://soundcloud.com/stray/sets/since-youve-been-gone

[JamieG]

Run the Jewels 2 has been getting quite a lot of love.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19968-run-the-jewels-run-the-jewels-2/

[LB]

Run the Jewels 2 has been getting quite a lot of love.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19968-run-the-jewels-run-the-jewels-2/

Aye.  I enjoyed there first album too but I definitely think this is better. Maybe start with the title track on the first album though.

[pyrosis]

[Krank]

i saw b.Dolan last week and he was supported by Jister, then i found this, Hip Hop and gritstone, lovely

[tommytwotone]

Just got hold of the new Kendrick Lemar album...very, very good. Could definitely see this being featured heavily in the end of year "best of" lists.

[slackline]

Just downloaded a copy of this, its rather funky...

EPMD's DJ Scratch Live at Sleeping Bag Records: Go Bang

[Gallant]

Just stumbled upon Serengeti via Milo, thought I'd drop it in here:

Just clear, chilled verses.

Milo is in much the same vein, going under several rap names (most of his stuff is on bandcamp for pay what you feel is right)

[slackline]

Aim - Bonafide Beats #52 (actually a mix by Aim from 1993 originally called "Blunted Volume 2")



Blurb...

The late 1990s and early noughties were a rich period for hip-hop in the North West, with Grand Central Records, Friends and Family and Fat City Records forming a Holy Trinity of new-school cool. One of the leading lights from this era was Aim. Record shop owner, music enthusiast and Hacienda goer turned poacher with an MPC, Aim’s debut Cold Water Music served notice of a musician capable of sampling esoteric and forgotten sounds and crafting them into an atmospheric soundscape that stretched the listeners emotions.

His follow up Hinterland built on this blueprint. With a bigger budget and a burgeoning reputation that allowed him to collaborate with the likes of Diamond D, Souls of Mischief and Stephen Jones, the album’s ambitions are best summed up by the tracks Fall Break and Vipco; grand cinematic pieces that to this day remain crisp and distinctive. His third release, Flight 602, was released on his own label ATIC Records, and was his final act as a solo artist before he vanished into the musical gloaming, contending himself with the challenges of label management and producing artists on his roster.

After this period in his very own hinterland, Aim is back and to coincide with the release of his Best of LP, Drum Machines and VHS Dreams, we got together to discuss his Northern roots, VHS memories and his beloved MPC.  Aim was also kind enough to contribute his 1993 mixtape Blunted Volume 2 to our Bonafide Beats series. A mixtape in the truest sense, Bonafide Beats #52 is a primer for a musician with impeccable taste when it comes to what goes on the boombox.

I recorded this mix in 1993 and it has pretty much all my favourite hip-hop tracks up to that point. So Nas, Casual, Kool G Rap, I’d love to work with any of them

Its a good mix. 

More to be had at Bonafide Mag - Exclusive Mixes or directly from Bonafide on Soundcloud.

[fatneck]

Cracker this Slackers... Nice one!

[tomtom]

http://toyland.gizmodo.com/guess-wu-is-a-custom-version-of-guess-who-featuring-the-1723847148

[tommytwotone]

Seems Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie have been putting together some mixtapes you can stream / download:


http://summertime.fm/


Not forgetting of course:

[slackline]

Life After Death Star...

Notorious B.I.G. and Star Wars aren’t exactly two things that you’d think would work well together, but Solar Slim and Richie Branson have proven that wrong with Life After Death Star.

Solar Slim and Richie Branson mashed up music from the Notorious B.I.G. and the music of Star Wars, using the soundtrack to underscore the lyrics.

[Mike Tyson]

https://soundcloud.com/maddocx/oldskool-reunion

[cheque]

Played this for the first time in nearly 15 years the other day.

[Footwork]

Came across some solid tracks recently 

[fatneck]

Sandy Minto has a new record out...

Is he still Tommy 2Tone's barber?

[Durbs]

I've been enjoying the STS and RJD2 collaboration a lot recently:

Soul tunes, with some not-too-gangsta lyrics



The whole album is great - there's also an instrumental version if you enjoy the music

[dave]

Realise I'm about ten years too late on this, but only just discovered it and it's really good. Collab between various Wu Tang members and affiliates. Much better than it should be. A few standout tracks:

[slackline]

[shurt]

Loving this at the moment.

[Falling Down]

This is great.  An oral history of Rawkus Records well worth a read if you were into all that scene at the time.

https://myspace.com/article/2014/04/16/the-oral-history-of-rawkus-records

[cheque]

An oral history of Rawkus Records well worth a read if you were into all that scene at the time.

That's awesome- I loved Rawkus- I got into Soundbombing when that first came out and bought two of all the records on it (apart from Co Flow who I never rated and Universal Magnetic which I couldn't find a good copy of) when I started DJing. Like every record I ever bought, I still have them.

It's fascinating how the label changed in such a short period- it changed with hip-hop I guess. I sorted my CDs out the other week and was amazed to see the difference between the sleeves (and content) of Lyricist Lounge Vol 1 & 2!

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

http://dihh.io/