Here it is, MaG’s debut mixtape ‘I Ain’t Goin Back To Retail’ presented by HYPE LG.COM and Dope Couture. ‘I Ain’t Goin’ Back To Retail’ features production from J-Rell, Remot, Small Professor, and ADS. The album also includes special guest features from 6th Sense, Kil Ripken, CP, and Zack Berkman.
In 2009, independent artists rarely get enough recognition in an ever growing world of commercially geared Hip-Hop. Talent and creativity often goes disregarded, leaving once promising careers as unrecognized potential. This time, Choze & JustNice have decided to team up, and take what is theirs in "Respect Earned."
Choze is the leader of Portland based crew Neu Beginin, an Engineer and rapper, who stumbled out of the myspace music world and into the blogosphere earlier this year. Since, he’s done songs with Quest and has already been on sites like HipHopUpdate & XclusivesZone.Net. Meanwhile, Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s own, JustNice has been a ghostwriting for several artist over the past few 2 years as well as performing all around Pennsylvania.
For the past 6 months, Choze & JustNice have been hard at work creating the perfect project that will net them the respect they deserve. Along the way, they’ve found a crew of supporters in Sound Society, Hailmegatron & The Eargasm, who will be the official presenters of Respect Earned. Choze & JustNice’s Respect Earned also includes a host of familiar faces including TreaZon, ThreatZ, QuESt, Hannibal King, Brey Quick, Starr Spazzin, Ricky Jewelz, SugoiSounds and many more.
Here it is the official artwork (designed by yours truly) and tracklisting for the much anticipated Respect Earned project dropping Christmas day!
"Punchlyne hit us up with a new leak from eMC called “Another Day in the Life.” The track is produced by Swiss duo Ruck N Wiz and will be on their upcoming compilation. If a new track from the supergroup isn’t enough for you, we have good news - Masta Ace, Punch, Wordsworth & Stricklin will be back in 2010 with a brand new album!" - Shouts To Kevin NottinghamDOWNLOAD/STREAM
"RESPECT EARNED" is almost here!! Heres day 7 & 8 of the campaign
Day 7 - "Misguided" feat. Le GemDoir
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Day 8 - "90's" feat. Ms. Tiff
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My bad for missing yesterday as i wasn't able to get to a computer. So here we go with Days 5 and 6 of the campaign.
Day 5 - "Dis Shit Right Here" (feat. C'Murph x Da Boy)
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Day 6 - "Makes Moves"
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"Heart of the City" is obviously done over the classic Jay-Z beat of the same name. In this version I decided to recruit some EMS help & got M-Dot on the track. He kicks off the track reflecting on Boston and the fact that there "Ain't No Love" in the city at times but he embraces love or hate because it comes with the territory. I continue on the second verse speaking about New Bedford, MA aka Secret City and I go into detail about lack of love and support as well within the city for it's own artists and compare it to the likes of a basketball game with haters sitting on the sideline jealous while I'm starting. Hope you enjoy our spin on the classic!!DOWNLOAD/STREAM: ZSHARE || LIMELINX
Choze and JustNice are back again with the 4th installment. Respect Earned Drops Christmas Day!
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“If you’ve ever been chasing a dream, had a goal and was focused but had negative setbacks and/or negative figures/people signaling that your mission was impossible, then you’ll feel this song wholeheartedly”.DOWNLOAD/STREAM
Day 3 of the "Respect Earned" campaign is here. For this installment JustNice hits us off with the smooth Tru Dat produced track.
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Beats: XL
Lyrics: XL
Originality: L
Obie Trice’s new album, Special Reserve, his first official release since leaving Eminem’s Shady Records in 2008, isn’t actually new. Rather, it’s a collection of songs recorded between 1997 and 2000 by the Detroit MC and Canadian producer and DJ Premier protégé, MoSS. Although that makes most of Special Reserve more than a decade old, it’s aged remarkably well.
From the scratched-up samples on “Welcome,” to the appropriately-titled “Got Hungry,” where Obie angrily spits, “I should have 20-inch rims on a V-12 Benz/Hangin’ with brand-new friends, all-flavored Timbs, hittin’ nothin’ but skins,” Special Reserve is short on gimmicks. Instead, it features Obie rapping his ass off about everything from death on the gloomy “You’ve Been Slaine” to survival on the hopeless “Dope Jobs Homeless.” Coupled with MoSS’s Primo-esque production style, the album is a tall shot of bare-bones boom-bap.
Of course, Obie’s pre-Shady recording isn’t without its rookie mistakes. The laughable “Jack My Dick” provides, as you might guess, way too much information about Em’s former running mate. Yet, O. Trice mixes just enough of his patented tongue-in-cheek playfulness on the self-defining “I Am” to make it easy to see why Eminem was so impressed by him at the turn of the century. Cheers to this Special Reserve. —Chris Yuscavage
The boys Choze & JustNice have teamed up to bring us "Respect Earned" this Christmas presented in part by Sound Society. To start it all off they present us the 12 Days Of Christmas in which they will drop an exclusive track each day leading up to the 25th!
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Mos Def hit the UK recently, and he passed through my 1xtra radio show on the eve of copping his Grammy Nominations.
Mos talks on:
*His approach to making albums.
*That Mos/J Cole/Jay Electronica/Talib Kweli collabo.
*The genius of Slick Rick.
*Mos Def vs. Hollywood
*Turning down a role in 'Tropic Of Thunder'.
and more.
New music for ya. Fresh off his guest verse on HPM's "That Spliff", the homie Poetik Force is releasing his first single from his upcoming album "The Mary Jane LP" which will be dropping first quarter 2010. This track features Blakface and Sean Wyze, and is produced by yours truly. All based out of West Covina, CA. Pow!
Hi guys...Lupe Here...
There seems to be a lot...A LOT...of misconception and misguided info floating around the net...so for the sake of clarity and so that everyone (HOPEFULLY) will be on the same page let me reaffirm and debunk some things and just turn down the general noise that is surrounding Lupe Fiasco...thats me...
My Third Album is Titled "LASERS" not "WE ARE LASERS" or "LUPE.N.D."...
MY NEXT ALBUM IS NOT TITLED "LUPE.N.D."...
"LASERS" is NOT my last and final album...
"LASERS" does NOT drop in 2009...
"LASERS" does NOT HAVE A RELEASE DATE YET...
"SOLAR MIDNITE" is NOT a single off of "LASERS"...Nor was it intended to be apart of "LASERS" project...
"SOLAR MIDNITE" was exclusively done at the request of the Twilight: New Moon Team to be apart of their film, motion picture soundtrack and as a vehicle to promote the film...NOT TO PROMOTE "LASERS"...
I produced "SOLAR MIDNITE"
I'm not SELLING OUT by doing a song for NEW MOON...
People thought I "SOLD OUT" when I did "Kick, Push"...
I LOVE "SOLAR MIDNITE"...
"SOLAR MIDNITE" is NOT a HIP-HOP RECORD...
I've done ROCK or ROCK-like records on all of my previous albums...i.e. "The Instrumental" "Hello/Goodbye"...
I HAVE A PUNK BAND CALLED JAPANESE CARTOON WHICH I SING IN AND PRODUCE FOR...I DO NOT GO BY "LUPE FIASCO" WHEN I DO SONGS WITH JAPANESE CARTOON...NOR PERCIVAL FATS!!!...I USE MY REAL NAME...
Enemy Of The State was NOT, NOT, NOT meant to be an album...so stop (to the ungrateful among you) TREATING it like one...
Enemy Of The State was short for a reason...I DONT LIKE TO WASTE SONGS...AND IT SHOULDN'T TAKE YOU THAT LONG TO PROVE YOUR NICE IF YOUR "REALLY" NICE...
ENEMY OF THE STATE WAS WATERED DOWN ON PURPOSE...BECAUSE ITS NOT AN ALBUM...
MOST OF ENEMY OF THE STATE WAS DONE IN ONE DAY...
IF YOU DONT HEAR IT FROM ME OR DJ BUSY IT MAY NOT BE THE COMPLETE TRUTH!!!
Its more noise out there and stupid rumor but I really don't have the stamina...
FNF UP...
Here's an unreleased track from Rickie Jacobs and XV that was supposed to be featured on XV's Planet Squaria mixtape but apparently Rickie Jacobs didn't make the final cut. 2 years later Rickie found the original session. This joint is nice and layed back though, still sounds fresh to today.DOWNLOAD/STREAM
Youngs, one half of "Kick Game Proper" hit me with this today. First impressions..Dude can straight out spit it. Ill be on the lookout for more from him.
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Joell Ortiz and Novel have teamed up for their upcoming mixtape titled "Defying The Predictable" Heres the first leak in which the duo goes in over Drake's "Successful" assisted by Cri$tyle vocals.
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In the next two weeks, MaG will be dropping an album that has been in the works for over a year and a half now. The LP is titled "I Ain't Goin' Back to Retail!" and will be released on December 22nd for free download via HypeLG.com and DopeCouture.com.
The #SkyedUP mixtape will not drop this year... BUT, all of the music that was supposed to be on it WILL! Starting TODAY!
Oklahoma native, Jabee and Dallas' finest, Info-Red have teamed up with the help from Dj Chips to create "Meditation [remix]" - with the smooth flow from Jabee & the sharp lyrical genius from Info-Red, it only made sense that they team up and create this remix track. This is the beginning of Jabee & Info-Red's team up, as they will create a mixtape (sponsored by Fur Face Boy : www.furfaceboy.com) this coming January 2010! Stay tuned but til then enjoy, this track!
"Ok so Pharrell started this website called Artst.com where artist can showcase their art. painting modeling photography music, you name it its here. well heres the the first official mixtape from the site. Pharrell was not involved with making the music but he did pick the songs on the mixtape. check it out. Im one of the producers on there. its called "Make Moves" [by] Choze & JustNice. Shouts out to Artst.com for the whole thing coming together. Look forward to working with them again."
About the Mixtape: I'm leaking a new joint in hopes that you can help me out to promote my upcoming mixtape "The Revalation Will Be Televised: Commercial Interruption" Coming Dec. 31st!!! This will be the first in my "The Revalation Will Be Televised" series. Originally I was only gonna do one with that title but came up with an idea to connect the tapes and give them that old school series feel where all the tapes have a connection & show a different sides of me as an artist. Commercial Interruption will be more of my commercial side (meaning the tracks will have commercial appeal or be on industry beats)DOWNLOAD/STREAM
About the song "Net" Worth: This song is a representation of the New Era in Hip-Hop where the Internet has made it possible for indie artists, like myself, to compete for noteriety in an overly saturated "commercial market." The internet evens the game out just enough for this new generation of up and coming MC's to have a voice. With that said, I give you "Net" Worth, a play on words of course but also a reflection of my personal thoughts of the game and the people who don't support me, yet want something from me at the end of the day. So here's to them motherfuckers!! Time to get RAW!! 2:30 of STRAIGHT SPITTIN'!!
TreaZon hits us with another one. Breathe Life 2 Coming very soon!
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TreaZon hits us off with some new heat to prepare us for Breathe Life 2 Coming Soon
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We're back. But this time, we bring you our Electronic Press Kit that comes courtesy of DRG Films! In the EPK, we discuss at length the goals and thought-process behind creating our duo and the album "High Power Moves".
