This is interesting. Houston rapper/blogger Oh G! has put together a mixtape made up of Biggie rhymes and MF DOOM beats. You might remember a while back we told you about DJ Finesse’s B.I.G. Over Premier mixtape with Biggie rapping over Premo beats. Well, Oh G! has tried his hand at a similar conquest but with MF DOOM beats, particular from his Special Herb series…
Joey Bada$$ has released his free Summer Knights mixtape. We featured the DOOM-produced Amethyst Rockstar a few days ago in hot anticipation of Summer Knights. Well, it’s now free for you all to download. Joined on the tape with Joey are Kirk Knight, Pro Era, Smoke Dza and others as well as some phenomenal beats from Oddisee(!!), Alchemist(!!), DJ Premier(!!) and Statik Selektah(!!). But its…
Joey Bada$$ throws some gruff rhymes over DOOM-produced track Amethyst Rockstar, with help from Kirk Knight. You’ve gotta come correct when you borrow a title from Saul Williams but I think Joey Bada$$ has done so with Amethyst Rockstar. Featuring the vocals of Kirk Knight, Joey is a little more aggressive and forthcoming with his delivery than you’d usually expect from the Brooklyn emcee and this slight…
Brainfeeder’s Gaslamp Killer loves the Heliocentrics so he remixed some of tracks from their new album into a mixtape of his own. Gaslamp Killer’s debut album was a sample wonderland and certainly gained fans in Potholes when it reached #1 on their top 25 instrumental albums of last year. A few weeks ago, he selected some of the best joints from the Heliocentrics’ new album…
UK group Hawk House finally release their mixtape, A Little More Elbow Room. So far, we’ve had a few tracks, a name change and a few videos but at long last, Hawk House has dropped a full release. A Little More Elbow Room full to the brim with soulful synthy hip hop wonders and production credits from the likes of Evil Needle and Ta-ku. I…
Kendrick Lamar’s debut mixtape, “The Hub City Threat, Minor of The Year”, is now available for streaming and download. There is no mistaking Kendrick Lamar is one of the hottest rappers right now. His first two albums received critical acclaim and he’s getting spots on everyone else’s songs, left, right and centre. But now you can journey back to his teenage years and hear him…
Crillmatic drops the third instalment of his NSFW: Set The Mood mixes. Oh, and we’re also featuring Vol. II if you missed it in March. Somehow, we missed Vol. II of Crillmatic’s NSFW: Set The Mood mixes. For the sake of chronology, we’re giving you both Bandcamp links right here. Vol. II is different to Vol. I in that Crillmatic built it from scratch but…
DJ Finesse presents a mixtape of Biggie acapellas over Premo beats. The age old question “would Biggie have been as popular were he alive today” will continue to rage on until we’re all worm food but one thing’s for sure, he sounds incredibly dope over DJ Premier beats. DJ Finesse put the whole collection together and while you may have heard those raps a million…
Scott Xylo is back with his second instrumental mixtape dedicated to the late great Ray Charles. We’ve enjoyed Scott Xylo’s work since we heard his debut instrumental tape Comic Book Genius vol 1 and we’re pleased to announce that the 18 year old producer has dropped his sophomore release called Genius + Soul = Hip Hop. As Xylo told us, this mixtape pushed him to…
Don’t sleep on FreshVibez collaborative mixtape with SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille. Being busy with other Sampleface posts and developments of late, we kinda slept on this mixtape from our partners over in France. We can only apologise profusely for the oversight as the mixtape is fire! FreshVibez got together with fellow French blogs/zines SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille to present a selection of experimental hip-hop beats. The mixtape…
