1/30/2022

P-Ro & I.N.F. - Short Stories & Tall Tales (2022)


SHORT STORIES & TALL TALES is a dark comedy based on the daily misadventures of 2 dads/friends/husbands/sometimes rivals, and overall vertically challenged jerkoffs who struggle with all the daily things that are so familiar to us all, while telling these stories through superior lyrics over a beautiful boom bap soundscape.

It is Rated R for Immaturity, Graphic Honesty, Alcoholism and Self-Deprication.

Mixed/Mastered by Tali Rodriguez
Artwork by P-Ro

Method Maticz - The Eyes Imperfect (2022)

Aesop Rock - The Recycling Bin (2022)


In honor of their new collaborative album, Garbology, producer Blockhead resurrects three songs from Aesop Rock’s catalog that he didn't produce, and gives them each a unique spin with exclusive new remixes!

Leo CaSeeNo & Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha - Enso It Goes (2022)


'Enso It Goes' is the first EP by MC Leo CaSeeNo and producer Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha. The two artists worked together a couple of times with mutual friend G FAM BLACK. The MC from Brockton, Massachusetts and the Dutch producer decided that it was time for an EP, in the form of a spiritual experience... Enso It Goes!

Lyrics written, recorded and performed by Leo CaSeeNo
All beats produced by Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha
Mixing and mastering by Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha
Artwork by Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha

HRS Presents - DJ Chucky's Best of 2021 (#Freetape) (2022)


2021 was full of ups and downs.. despite that, the underground kept producing dope music and artists kept growing with each release - which is always amazing to watch.

Once again I have the honor of showcasing some of that dope music in my yearly Mixtape through HRSUnderground - My one ask is that you show these artists some love and support.

Also keep your eyes peeled, I'm sure this year will produce the same amount, if not more amazing music. Until next year... stay #HiddenUnderground.

RJ Payne - Beautiful Payne 4 (2022)


Homeboy Sandman - There In Spirit (2022)


Homeboy Sandman has announced his new album There In Spirit on Mello Music Group. The Illingsworth-produced EP is scheduled for release on February 25th. Along with the announcement, Homeboy Sandman unveils the project’s first single, “Keep That Same Energy,” a gritty track about incessant fakery. Illingsworth’s production is bright and theatrical, setting a scene for Homeboy Sandman’s charismatic delivery as he encourages everyone to be themselves.

Since 2007, Homeboy Sandman has delivered timeless projects exhibiting his imaginative flows and thought-provoking lyrics. Over his long-standing career he has received critical praise from Rolling Stone, The FADER, XXL Magazine, Complex, & more. Pitchfork hailed him as “a prolific, technically gifted MC.” With his vast catalog, the Queens native continues to find new inspirations that make each project stand out from the rest. Homeboy Sandman’s new album There In Spirit carries a powerful message of individuality and self-actualization. For Sand, making this project was about breaking away from the mold, letting go of mediocrity and fear, and holding himself to a higher standard.

Following his acclaimed projects Don’t Feed The Monster, produced by Quelle Chris, & the Aesop Rock-produced Anjelitu, There In Spirit finds the Homeboy Sandman joining forces with Detroit beatmaker Illingsworth. Homeboy Sandman describes working with Illingsworth, “Illingworth beats are a particular, one of a kind, sonic energy, that my molecular structure responds to in a way it could never respond to anything else.” He continues, “Illingsworth is one of the greatest producers to ever live. Anyone who denies that is completely in denial.”

Homeboy Sandman’s new single “Keep That Same Energy” is out now. His new album There In Spirit will be available February 25th on Mello Music Group. Catch Homeboy Sandman on tour as he brings the irreplicable energy of There In Spirit to the live stage.

Rov the Rebel - Fire Bomb (2022)

Jam Baxter - Fetch The Poison (2022)


Alt-rap dissident Jam Baxter's newest solo venture, Fetch the Poison. Conceived during a state-wide alcohol ban in Mexico, the album is Baxter’s first to be composed in complete sobriety — though his hallucinatory style of storytelling and cast of monstrous characters make a welcome return.

Lyrics on Fetch the Poison meld Baxter’s Latin American experience with visions of a grisly alternate dimension: sun, sea and glittering vistas are sullied by hollow-eyed addicts, shady bar tenders and duplicitous lovers. Amongst deft bars, the rapper includes a number of spoken word pieces that echo the prose in his now sold out book Off-Piste. The album also features Blah Records' Nah Eeto and Black Josh, as well as DJ Sammy B-Side and Jehst, alongside Brazil’s NOG, Black Alien and Xamã. Baxter reunites with frequent collaborator Chemo on production — now under the moniker Forest DLG — for much of the album with appearances from Jack Danz, Dr Zygote, Wundrop (CMPMD) and Midlands' electronic stalwart Lenkemz. Despite its diverse credits tracks are connected by icy, spaced-out electronics, with beats twisted through tape distortion and anchored by chest-rattling bass.

Baxter began writing the album in Mexico just before the pandemic began, and was holed up in the city of San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, as the world shut down. “All the streets were eerily empty and it was amazing. I had the city to myself,” he says. “Then suddenly there was a state-wide alcohol ban and I could no longer casually sip tequila as I went about my business. I didn’t really have a choice but to write”

Fetch the Poison is Baxter’s seventh solo album. 

Coast - Ride A Pig (Single) (2022)

1/17/2022

Fubar - Walking Dead Beats (Features & Collaborations) (2022)


Compilation of features and collaborations alongside many talented emcees, beatmakers and DJ's.

Coast - Lord Grant Me (Single) (2022)

Colossus (ft. Blaze Tha Meziah) (Single) (2022)


Producer: Katembas
Producer: TK Green
Composer: Katembas
Composer: TK Green
Lyricist: Nero The King
Lyricist: Blaze Tha Meziah

Gloom Rap - Psycho Babble (ft. ILLtemper & Donny G) (Single) (2022)

Jakprogresso - Winter Fuel (2021)

Homeboy Sandman & Aesop Rock - Anjelitu (2021)


"I wrote half of these songs when my energy was either headed in the wrong direction or already there. I wrote the other half while my energy was moving in a direction I'm more excited about, that I find to be more enriching. They're all still my songs though. My mother, and lots of my relatives, used to call me "Angelito." Little Angel. The taijitu is the symbol for yin and yang. Opposites that make a whole. Given the dualistic/duelistic nature of the songs on the record, put it all together and what do you get, Anjelitu." – Homeboy Sandman

All Songs Produced by AESOP ROCK

Mixed by Andrew Esposito, Mastered by Alejandro “Sosa” Tello, Cover Photography by Brandon English, Design by Mitch LaGrow

Executive Produced by Angel Del Villar II & Michael Tolle

Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth
Mello Music Group, 2021

Homeboy Sandman - Don't Feed The Monster (2020)


Homeboy Sandman’s new album Don’t Feed The Monster, is a collaboration with producer/MC Quelle Chris. It’s also his most vulnerable & poignant work to date. Having grown up in Queens, New York, hip-hop was part of everything in life. This deep-rooted connection to the culture is evident when listening to his style of rhyming- bold, classic & deeply respectful. On Don’t Feed The Monster, he pulls back any pretense to show his most honest truth - a process that he needed both artistically and spiritually. “I was having a hard time and this record saved me thank Quelle and thank God and shout to Gabor Maté,” he said about the new album.

Album producer (and guest vocalist) Quelle Chris has been one of the most talked about and celebrated hip-hop artists on the planet these last few years. Both producing & rapping, Quelle has released critically acclaimed albums like Guns, Innocent Country 2, and Everything’s Fine with his collaborator & wife Jean Grae. “There's a certain mystic/magical power in words, sounds, rhythms, etc. It's rare to come across a brother/artist like Sandman,” he says when asked about his new album with Homeboy Sandman.

The new album Don’t Feed The Monster is a marvel of how an artist can dig deeper still, even years into his craft. The chemistry between the producer & MC has unlocked something within Sandman, surfacing memories, textures & details in a more vivid way than ever before. “(We) wanted to project growth and not regression. Being careful not to feed the monster,” Quelle says about the mission of the album. One would be right to assume that bringing two elite talents together would yield an incredible album. But, when imagining what this album brings in its entirety, Quelle says it best: “raw, pure, organic magic."

ALL SONGS PRODUCED BY QUELLE CHRIS

VOCALS BY HOMEBOY SANDMAN & QUELLE CHRIS
MIXED & MASTERED BY ALEJANDRO "SOSA" TELLO JR.

COVER PHOTO BY ROBERT P. COHEN
DESIGN BY MITCH LAGROW

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY ANGEL DEL VILLAR II, GAVIN TENNILLE, MICHAEL TOLLE

SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL LIKE THE TRUTH
MELLO MUSIC GROUP, 2020

Homeboy Sandman - Dusty (2019)


Picasso claimed that the purpose of art is to wash the “dust of daily life off our souls.” Homeboy Sandman asks on Dusty, “Why would I complain when I’m alive making art?” In the course of his Mello Music debut, the Queens virtuoso answers himself with 15 soul-assessing confessionals that sweep the entropy and daily static, the distortion and psychic silt of modern life onto wax. This is sacred dust, alchemical practice to convert anxiety into the highest form of creativity. It is rapping ass-rapping rapped better than your favorite rapper.

Let Sandman tell it: the sound is dusty. These bars are his id. He’s not trying to save the world on this record or even save himself. These are the unmasked impulses and desires locked away for a long time -- some of them from before he ditched the legal world for decapitating mediocre MCs. On Dusty, he says “ I unlocked myself and let them out -- dusted them off -- for better or for worse.”

Of course, it’s infinitely for the better. This is a therapy session without coming off remotely indulgent. Sandman remains both the master carpenter and architect, writing verses with lapidary precision, inventing new flows and cadences at brilliant angles that no one knew could be found.

This is the latest chapter for one of the most storied underground rappers of his generation. A versatile talent who has checked every last box: Unsigned Hype in The Source, Chairman’s Choice in the XXL. Rolling Stone hailed his songs as dense and word-drunk, spilling past the margins, demanding repeat listens as he re-works rap forms and functions into something truly personal.” Pitchfork said that in the all-star game of the new subterranean, “he is the guy with flawless fundamentals, wearing his socks high and his cleats sharp and polished.” His solo catalogue is sterling and over the last two years he’s mastered the group dynamic in tandem with fellow legends Aesop Rock and later, a brilliant psychedelic slab done in union with Edan.

It’s all on display on Dusty. Pick almost any track and you’ll hear the synthesized fusion of four elements hip-hop and Jamaican toasting, Nuyorican flavor and an experimental dead bent to expand the parameters of language. When you listen to Sandman, you hear the echoing boom of the South Bronx park jams of Kool Herc, the avant-garde wild style of Rammellzee, the technical perfection of Rakim and Big Daddy Kane, the infectious jazz hymnals of A Tribe Called Quest.

Produced entirely by Mono En Stereo (formerly known as El RTNC -- the moniker used when he produced Sandman’s Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent), the beats rumble and snap, the basslines are rubber-thick and funky, the drums rugged as a butcher knife haircut. Sandman boasts the kinetic gift to tailor his flow to each, his voice an instrument in his own right -- able to switch between conversational and wrathful, debauched lothario and philosophically righteous. There’s “Far Out,” where he kicks off the album wondering if he’s better off living in Siberia, then references breakdancing on cardboard, the Never Ending Story, and how the smell of boiled eggs reminds him of the Queens Halloweens of his childhood. “Noteworthy” finds him suffering from insomnia trying to figure out which rules to break and risks to take. He proposes toasts for the spirits and ghosts and flips old MC Lyte lyrics into modern koans. “Yes Iyah” finds Boy Sand boasting about clutching mountains by the peak over a tribal polyrhythmic breakbeat, kicking a pyroclastic flow that would even make Black Thought offer a bow in tribute. There are raunchy sex raps and existential midnight of the soul wanderings alike.


It amounts to a clarion statement of purpose, the arena stepped into and all challengers vanquished. Rap containing multitudes and cosmic dust. Exact as a science, loose as an improvised spiritual.

Produced by Mono En Stereo

Additional Percussion/Production by Andrew Esposito
Recorded & Mixed by Andrew Esposito & Ryan Bress at Sung Moon Recordings, Buffalo, NY
Mastered by Alejandro "Sosa" Tello at Ampliphonic Studios, Queens, NY

Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth
Mello Music Group, 2019

BambuDeAsiatic - Reclamation (2022)


Supastition started these beat sessions reminiscent of the Correct Techniques beat sessions we used to do on the Collective Efforts web forum back in the day and I ended up rocking one of his beats just for fun. I can't really explain how the rest of the album came together...it was almost effortless...there was something about Supa's beats that just spoke to me. He would send over a beat... I would write to it that night...record it the next day and send him back an almost finished song. Before we knew it, we had a full length album. I spent more time mixing the album than I did writing (those who mix their own songs know what I mean) I owe a special thank you to Dj Mafioso, my original Murdah One partner in rhyme.. DJ Jon Doe from Southern Vangard Radio, who always comes with the niceness... Ben Hameen, my CE family who is undoubtedly one of ATL's finest... DJ Dug Boogie the OG of this ATL hip hop scene and Minister Server for blessing the album with an inspirational sermon that I feel is one everybody needs to hear. Big up to @wfjrfilms for the really dope video for Return of the Asiatic....and last but not least..Special shout out goes to JMiL for hookin up the album artwork. You always come thru for me and I appreciate you! This one is a CLASSIC. DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS ALBUM

Produced by Supastition
Mixed by BambuDeAsiatic

B1 The Architect - Apex (ft. Philly Regs) [Beat by Wyze Intellect & Devious Mike] (Official Music Video) (2022)


The last single off of B1's upcoming solo album "NO LOVE" is APEX.  The primal banger featuring LRP comrade Philly Regs on the hook

Video shot by North America Hip Hop
Produced by Wyze Intellect & Devious Mike
Mixed/Mastered By B1 The Architect
Video Edited By B1 The Architect

Words x DJ TMB - The Winterborns (2021)


All beats and scratches by DJ TMB
Mixed/Mastered by DJ TMB
All lyrics written by Words, except where features are noted

ILLtemper & Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha - Quick Buck 5 EP (2021)


Guest featuring Doughpey and Samuel Tafari
Mixed, mastered and produced by Skinny Bonez Tha Godfatha

Dr. Creep - Universal Ascension: V838 Mon (2021)


EP PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY ANALOGUE WUNDA

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Analogue Wunda
Mastered by Analogue Wunda & Dr Creep
Original Album Art by Stikky Artistiks

Warrior Type Wizards - Spiritual Pilgrimage (2022)

7X3=21 - Sum (of) Inspirations (2021)


These are some "writing" exercises I did over a 3-day weekend in July. It was my first time writing rhymes/songs since 2001. It was a test to see what making music would sound and feel like. It felt really good, and inspired a whole lot more music that followed.

I put writing in quotes above because this project, and most of my writing these days, is a mixture of improvisation, editing, and concentrated thought. Some of these in particularly leaned pretty heavy on improv.

Since these 7 writing exercises, I feel like I've already evolved in many ways, including delivery, presence, and song structure. But, these songs still represent the reigniting of this passion, so I wanted to share them.

Planning a lot of creative endeavors for 2022 and beyond...
credits
released December 25, 2021

All the lyrics conceived via improvisation, re-editing, writing, and life experiences by Kevin Beacham

Mixed & Mastered By Serious

Cover Photo by Mike "Bumpopera" Madison

All the beats are from previously released previously released projects spanning Odd Nosdam's career from 1998-2019. I wanted to show his diversity as a producer, as well as capture the evolution from using some of earliest work, up until his more recent offerings.

Words - Machine Mouth (2021)


All remixes to Conway The Machine/Griselda tracks that were debuted as part of Words' weekly segment, Machine Mondays, on DJ Hunter's Hip Hop Selection show, via Itch.FM
These are in the same order they were featured in on radio

Cover art by Da Ruster
Mixed/Mastered by Words

Words - The Bully's Back (2022)