New Shing Shing politics to help close out your 2015.

This composition is the latest release, a holiday gift from the Almighty Shing Shing Regime entitled “Jerusalem” or ‘Jah Rules Salem’. It is identifying the fact that there’s a war going on, not only has it been going on in Jerusalem for such a long time, but it’s a war that is affecting the entire world. A psychological war for the minds of man. The question is, will you be in control of yours or will you be controlled?

Catching up on the latest project from eQ.

Gawd damn! Producer-extraordinaire Nineteen85 has been cookin’ up some real goodies alongside new artist / project / entity dvsn. Whole. City. Lit.

Mannnn…I don’t know much about Salsa music except for that I love it. Even know a couple moves! I also don’t speak Spanish but the Los Poetas brothas do their thing to bridge hip-hop, Spanish and Salsa in such a natural way that it’s super easy to take it in even if you don’t understand all the words. More info and the full EP is below:

After an incredible year with our self titled debut album we would like to thank all of you for your support by sharing The Remix EP with you! Inspired by the music of salsa giants Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe we have given our debut album a place where Salsa and Cumbia meets Latino Boom Bap! In the spirit of giving we have chosen to give this 10 song collection to all our fans via download. Check out the artwork and download link below.

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Directed by G-Dot.

Latest from DevonTracy.

NYC’s Mariami connects with producer McCallaman for some cross border holiday cheer.

I produced and wrote “Greetings of Peace” for “The Strombo Show” with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC Radio 2 . Check out his full Holiday special here:music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2015/12/A…-Strombo-Christmas

New-school Christmas carol courtesy of Maurice Moore.

produced by: stxrytellers (@JeffSanon , @AuracleXIII , @MauriceXIII , Rae Smith)

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Been following B Magic for a few years now (solo + his time with Zoo Babies) and I can say that I’m not really a fan. Even though he was the weakest link in the group (imho) I do think Zoo Babies had potential to do something cool though so it’s a shame that they’ve broken up (to my knowledge). I’m definitely a fan of Noyz though (also a member of Zoo Babies) so am always down to check what he’s up to (3rd verse here). Hook and beat is dope on this one too.

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New name, new member, new sounds.

Notes to Self BBRC
Live from the Peach Pit (After Dark)

01 White Roses (Prelude)
02 Terry Cloth (w. Rob GF)
03 Caviar & Magic
04 Coconut Water (w. Hus Kingpin)
05 White Roses

https://soundcloud.com/ntsbbrc/live-from-the-peach-pit-after-dark-1

This concert tape just surfaced mysteriously and it’s awesome.

This recently surfaced concert tape seems to be an alternate assembly of Notes to Self, playing a live gig in LA with some special guests. When the group came up on the bootleg recording, they decided to press a limited run of 150 cassettes themselves. Here is a stream of the audio rip and the tape’s amazing fan art, which captures one of the live set’s recurring motifs—the universally traumatic experience of your blue jeans staining your white Air Force 1s.