Best of 2021. For the annual report with the ranting and raving about my favorite albums, check it out on Medium. Safety as Illusion - ELUCID x Von Pea / I Got Soul Freestyle - Ghostface Killah / Merv Griffin Enterprises - Zilla Rocca (feat. Alaska & Curly Castro) / QGTM - DJ JS-1 / The Glitch - Your Old Droog x Edan / DOOM Unto Others - Czarface x DOOM / Hell On Earth Pt. 2 - Westside Gunn (feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway) / Vexed - The Bug (feat. Moor Mother) / Wishing Bad - Armand Hammer x The Alchemist (featuring Curly Castro & Amani) / Raynathan and Romello - Curly Castro / B ..read more

Last best-of 2013 mix. On some cold wind shit for the long winter of our dis contents. Side A (Old) - Danny Brown / Rikki Tikki Godly - Live Percenters / Piggy Bank - Troy Ave / Juggaknots Control - Breeze Brewin / Who's Really In Control? - Jasiri X / The Pacs - YC The Cynic / Nothing Is - Ka / Owl - The Child Of Lov (feat. DOOM) / Bend But Don't Break - Greenhouse (Blueprint & Illogic) / Mourn - Tame One / The Cauldron - Mr. Muthafucki ..read more

This here is the first half of your best of underground hip-hop selection for 2013. So it seems like more than ever, underground hip-hop's connecting and collaborating beyond local scenes and crews. Real rap nerds can connect every artist on this mix in less than six degrees. Real heads can feel the lacerations on their earholes. Jackson & Travolta - Action Bronson & Party Supplies (feat. Meyhem Lauren) / It's Nuthin - Guilty Simpson & Small Professor (feat. AG) / Journey Into The Mind - Al'Tarba & Lord Lhus / Splendid  ..read more

Remember about ten years ago everybody was bugging off sampling Bollywood for their beats?  That came and went around the time Madlib killed it with 85,000 loops. But across hip-hop history, cats been sampling Far East music in interesting ways. Look peoples, you know how I do: I curated the dub-hop, the jazz-hop, the Spaghetti-Western-hop. This is another one.  But not just on some OCD digging tip. Sometimes peoples are all, 'why do you only listen to hip-hop? You need a varied musical diet to stay healthy god.' Son. SON. Hip-hop contains all other musics. T ..read more

Deep Cover (Main Title) - Michel Colombier / Jump Fence, Run, Live - El-P / The Things They Carried - Billy Woods / Poetry - Boogie Down Productions / 2 Wrongs - Onyx / All Along the Watchtower - The Psycho Realm / Dead Serious (Instrumental) - Verbal Kent & Kaz 1 / Trigganomics - Vordul Mega / Skrilla - Ol' Dirty Bastard (feat. RZA) / Krazy Kings Part III (3:33 Mix) - Company Flow / Scarface N***a - Roc Marciano / 4 28 1967 pt 1 - Skipp Coon & Mr. Nick ..read more

Just some beats. Some nice beats. You can pump 'em while you're driving around in your Buick naked with a bag of frozen peas in your lap, or when you're doing your Aztec Workout Regime, or when you're cooking up some recipe you got off an Action Bronson verse. When you're chilling on the L train looking hard wearing Timberland boots. At your next artisanal microbrewery malt liquor tasting party. When you're out picking beans with your Zune clipped to your straw hat. Or whenever. It's on you, b.  The Funky Cypress Hill Shit (Instrumental) - Cypress Hill / Recognize - DJ Ques ..read more

photo via Frank151 Here's your year-so-far roundup of bangers.  On some bomb pop shit for the long hot summer. Also shouting out that we living in Non-Sequitur Village right now.  Everything's a bunch of strung-together nonsense words, like cats been filling in too many Captchas or something.  I mean, Camouflage Unicorns? Salisbury Steak Sweater?  Needlepoint Shaft In Africa? FUCK Y'ALL TALKING ABOUT GODDAMN.  (OK, actually it was a random tweet from MattRaz that gave me the title, but still. Word fucking salad out there with the titles and the lyricals ..read more

PSY/OPSogist  The name, meaning, an expert at psychological operations--in all senses. Psy-ops is a Vietnam War term, freak the enemy out, ghost riding the Valkyries, Capt. Harry Potter and the orders of the Phoenix Program: terminate the Colonel. Exterminate all rational thought.  Carried on after--blast rabbit screams at Waco, pump Slayer at Gitmo detainees.  Also known as psywar.  Lord Ha Ha. Inflatable tanks.  Rename your cities, take your language, destroy your gods.  Psyops are categorized white, black, grey.  Like magic. The musician, an instrumen ..read more

Like it or not, pimpin' is a leopard-skin swatch of hip-hop's patchwork tapestry. Mostly you gotta try and laugh at it. So I come to bury the pimp not to praise 'em. Prostitution is an ugly fucking business. But those old Cadillacs were mighty fly. 42nd St. (A.M. Breakups Remix) - Super Chron Flight Brothers (feat. Lord Superb, Pastense & HiCoup) / Pimpin' Chipp - Ghostface Killah / Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy) - Ice-T / Pimp of the Year - Dru Down / Pimpin' Ain't Easy - Slick Rick & Dana Dane / Who Are the Pimps? - Boogie Down Productions / Bitch I'm a Pimp - Too $hort ..read more

It's The Old Testament Mixtape.  That's right. Hosted by Charlton Heston. Genesis - El-P, Nas & Charlton Heston / The Garden - Cut Chemist / Adam & Eve - Qwel & Kip Killagain / The Garden - Son of a Bricklayer / Paradise Lost - Redshield (Of Oldominion) / Wrath of Kane - Big Daddy Kane / Noah - A.M. Breakups / Pitch Black Ark (Instrumental) - Micranots / Pain Language (Instrumental) - DJ Muggs / Lot's Wife - Red Ants / In The Middle Of Infinity (6) - 3:33 / I Am What I Am - Chubb Rock / Moses - Slick Rick / The Ten Plagues (feat. Malcolm X) / The Ten Plagues - S ..read more