"Just some thoughts that cross my mind from time to time. Thought I'd turn them in to a song. Feel free to add your opinion. Produced by Nick Rio" @TheKayMartay @RIORETTI
America doesn’t do anything in moderation. When we’re thirsty we grab a 64-ounce Double Big Gulp, when we watch TV we flip on a 72-inch HD, and when it comes to locking people up, we’re not just number one, we crush the competition. There are currently more than 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. - China’s a distant second with a meager 1 million - and yet most Americans don’t think of their homeland as the world’s biggest prison state. Here to help change that is AWKWORD and his new world premiere Throw Away The Key (No More Prisons). With Toronto producer L. Ment laying down a pacing and bluesy beat AWK gets right to work with bars aimed at tearing the bars off America’s myriad of prisons: "Born into prisons, most ghetto buildings got bars / when you live without sh*t, go head and worship them cars.” Sometimes it really is bigger than hip-hop. For more music that’s not afraid to take a stand, keep an ear out for AWKWORD’s upcoming World View album, dropping via The DJBooth later this year.
The Native Duo continue to bring stellar Hip Hop to the table. Here they combine to set it off on the Bazooka Joe/Marc Lawrence produced Hot Damn .. borrowing from a couple of anthems from their respective groups. Video Directed/Edited by Omar Akil
DOOM raps the track GUV'NOR from his new album KEY TO THE KUFFS for a new mind-bending, split-screen video experiment directed by Ninian Doff as part of RizLab project #4...
1. The Black Keys / RZA "The Baddest Man Alive” 2. Ghostface Killah / M.O.P / Pharoahe Monch "Black Out” 3. Kanye West "White Dress” 4. The Revelations feat. Tre Williams "I Forgot To Be Your Lover” 5. Talib Kweli / RES "Get Your Way (Sex as a Weapon)” 6. Raekwon / Ghostface Killah / Kool G. Rap "Rivers of Blood” 7. Method Man / Freddie Gibbs / StreetLife "Built for This” 8. 24 Carat Black "Poverty’s Paradise” 9. Killa Sin "The Archer” 10. RZA / Flatbush Zombies "Just Blowin’ In The Wind” 12. Corrine Bailey Rae "Chains” 13. Pusha T / Raekwon "Tick Tock” 14. Frances Yip "Green is the Mountain” 15. The Wu-Tang Clan "Six Directions of Boxing” 16. Mabel John "Your Good Thing Is About To End”
"The kid AWKWORD dropped ‘Bars & Hooks’ a few months back which brought Hip-Hop back to its essence... The exclusive Chopped & Screwed version courtesy of AWKWORD and Slim K of OG Ron C's Chopstars... keeps verses from Sean Price and The Kid Daytona and is produced by Harry Fraud."
p>“Slash Gordan” is the lead single off Murs & Fashawn’s upcoming album ’This Generation,’ out 9/25. Directed by Todd Angkasuwan | Song Produced by K-Salaam & Beatnick
Catch Murs & Fash at the final Rock the Bells stop in NYC this Sunday from 3:40 to 4:25PM on the Paid Dues Stage.
Casual's new J Rawls-produced album "Respect Game Or Expect Game" is now in stores everywhere. On the title track, Casual joins forces with Del The Funky Homosapien for a 2012 Hieroglyphics anthem. Order "Respect Game Or Expect Game" below.