May 02

Here is a day captured in time. One morning I had to take my brother to set and for the first time I ended up at the beach since i’ve been living in LA. Needless to say it was gorgeous and I had some new “low end theory” style beats from this very talented producer A. Goldstein. I realized i had left my headphones and the story begins….

Been bumping this new Fonzworth Bentley jawn since yesterday. Just had to post this one, cuz I’m lovin’ it like Mickey D. Head over to C.O.L.O.U.R.S. By Derek Watkins - Fonzworth Bentley to get some tasy new music of the “C.O.L.O.U.R.S” album.

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Apr 25

A-Town Derrick aka Fonzworth Bentley aka Mr. Bentley finally dropped his debut mixtape. I bet everybody was waiting for this since he introduced “C.O.L.O.U.R.S” in the video for his first single “Everybody“. The full project should be available on Mr Bentley’s website soon and features Kanye West, Andre 3000, Faith Evans, Anthony Hamilton and others. He’s also giving away some free songs in exchange for your email address here.

Mr Bentley – Don’t Speak Feat. The Crow

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Mr Bentley – Runaway Feat. Blush

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Feb 22

Sonny Coates sent us some this crazy psychedelic take on Shafiq Husayn‘s “Major Heavy”. Together with Shafiq (percussion/background vocals), Om’Mas Keith (drums/background vocals), Thundercat (bass/whistle/background vocals) and Wow Jones (fender rhodes, synthesizers), Sonny (guitar/lead vocal) recorded this live one-take version called “mjrhe∆vy !!!!!!!!!!!!_! (*)”.

Sonny Coates Ft. Shafiq Husayn & Om’Mas Keith – Mjrhe∆vy !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jan 12

“Uh Oh It’s Love” is the highly anticipated debut 12″ maxi-single from SA-RA founding member Om’Mas Keith. Out on Wonderfull Noise/ Plug Research. Comes on 192g colour vinyl with special metallic-colored jacket and liner notes! – 100 copies for europe only!

Om’Mas Keith – Sugar Lady Feat Rozzi Daime

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Jul 13

Brand new video of FlyLo‘s “Cosmogramma” album featuring Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner. The video was directed by team ‘Special Problems’ and is cosmicly soothing if you ask me. ”Mmmhmm” happens to be my fav and so I’m happy they picked this song for the video. Big ups to HipHopDX for yet another one. Album still available through Rush Hour on CD or vinyl or go for digital at iTunes

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Apr 07

Peep the brand new video for Shafiq Husayn‘s “Cheeba” featuring Bilal, off of the critically acclaimed album “Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka” released via Plug Research and available on Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka Directed by Kahlil Joseph and produced by What Matters Most.

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Feb 15

ayomari_PBJ

I just happened to be messing around on Twitter and came across this... Ayomari‘s debut project “The Peanut Butter & Jelly Solution”. The album features Tiron and Tunji, and got Just Blaze, Les Nubians,  Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Exile, & James Poyser on production. Don’t know if those beats are cleared officialy, but either way I like the project. You can download the album for free at Thecafeterialine.

Ayomari – I Wanna (Journey) (Prod. Les Nubians)

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Ayomari – Day By Day (Prod. Sa-Ra Creative Partners)

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Jan 26

skymark

Skymark “The Sound Of Silence”  is a neo soul, hip hop, deep house and jazz project including collaborations with Ovasoul 7, Blackspade, Aaron J. Washington, Joseph Junior…all instrumentals are composed with vintage keyboards, deep chords and beautiful arrangements that spread a new soulfull vibe while keeping influences of the afro american music from the 70’s and 80’s. Skymark has admired producers like The Mizell Brothers, Norman Connors, James Mason, during his whole life.

During the last 3 years Skymark (Soul Sociedad) had the opportunity to work with people like Ghostface Killah (on his last album released on Def Jam), Black Spade, Ommas Keith from SA-RA Creative Partners, Deva Mahal, Steve Spacek, The Mizell Brothers and more… Since 2007, he released severals songs on Label’s compilations from Sonar Kollectiv, Unique Uncut (and more), his first LP “The Deep Soul Revisited vol 1” and mixtapes of rare vintage soul through his crew webpage www.soulsociedad.com… Now stop wasting your time and buy the album on RUSHHOUR. modernsun

Skymark – Bad Memories

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Skymark – Space & Time Feat Black Spade

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Jan 18

stalley-autobiography

First of all I’d like to give due props to Osman for gettin’ is hip to Stalley. He sent us a video a few months back and we liked it a lot, but I personally never digged deeper than that. Now my man Deluge recently did and in light of his On-Point interview, I thought it would be only right to get ya’ll hip to Madstalley as well.

This Ohio native hailing from New York dropped his mixtape “MadStalley: The Autobiography” last year, done over re-workings of Madlib beats showcasing his potential. Now 2010 is definitely Stalley’s year to blow. Stalley’s heavily featured on Ski Beatz upcoming “24 Hour Karate School” mixtape (on Dame DashCreative Control label) and is also set to release a project in collaboration with Sa-Ra Creative Partners.

Stalley – Babblin’

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Stalley – Stay Feat. Jesse Boykins III

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Jan 12

This shit is just hilarious! Check out this commercial and be amazed how Shafiq Husayn is a true Swedish hero…

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