Bones

"Think early Three 6 Mafia and No Limit crossed with the score of John Carpenter's Halloween." - LA Weekly.

Young Perm AKA Colorado Jesus showed me Bones the other day.

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Bones' Bandcamp

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TeamSESH Bandcamp

Butch Dawson - "Yada Yada"

My boy Butch Dawson just dropped a new single entitled "Yada Yada". This shit is too dope. For real. He has been playing this song live for a mean minute and its become one of my favorite songs of his, aside from Irongrip of course. A few months back he filmed for a music video, and I hope it comes out so I can take credit for the bottle of Evan Williams he is waving around. Anyways, go check this shit out, because it is one of the best songs you are gonna hear for a mean minute. Word.

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Yada Yada

Black Zheep DZ

DZ is fucking blowing up. Or has blown up. Either / or. Regardless, he is seemingly getting more and more popular every time I see him, and recently he did some legit video for one of the songs off of his newest album. I am beyond impressed.



If you never got down with Black Zheep, who is also part of 7th Floor Villains, then you are fucking up. His new album is on point. I think all of his stuff is available for free online, so go check that out. Word.

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All His Stuff

BuffaLo

BuffaLo is part of the rap crew 7th Floor Villains and is one of my really close friends. I haven't seen him in a minute, but at the beginning of the year he released his first solo tape entitled "Genesis". Buff is one of the more talented guys out there right now, and I think that anyone who is down with chill rap with really like his release. He is gonna blow up real soon, so make sure you are one of the people who are like "I heard of him before he was hot shit". Check it out below. Word.

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Genesis

DJ Screw

About 240 mix tapes, 31 albums, 20 album appearances. Screw reigned as The King Of The South from the early 90's until his untimly death in 2000. He perfected Chopped and Screwed music and put the Houston rap scene on the map. There are a fuckload of videos about him on the internet, a few documentaries and stuff and a decent amount of interviews. The Orginator was the head of Screwed Up Click, which featured an all-star lineup of Houston based rappers. The second generation of SUC has some members who you might have heard of. Michael "5000" Watts did a similair thing to what Screw was doing and made Swisha House, you might know some of the dudes on their roster.



DJ Screw was famous for Syrup, Chopped & Screwed and mixtapes. He legit produced records and stuff, but the vast majority of his catalog are these Screw Tapes. Started out as a little thing for his friends, they blew up real fucking fast and he turned it into a full fledged business. Most the early tapes were made for his friends. People would come by and give him a list of songs they wanted on a tape, and he would screw it up and sell it to them. June 27th is arguably the most famous tape, thats the one with the 30 some minute freestyle (fun fact: Paul Wall got his Sittin Sidewayz chorus from this track).



Screw had two different things that he would do on his tapes. He would either record his friends freestyling and then chop it up, or he would take popular songs and chop those. He normally talked (mumbled) over the tracks in the elongated intros and outros.



After he started to get real popular he decided to start a label and record store, Screwed Up Records and Tapes. I hope his girlfriend at the time of his passing is in charge of the store. They have a few stores around Texas that you can pick up Screw gear at. I really want an air-brushed shirt.



So yeah, below are links to torrents I found that has DJ Screw's mixtape Discography. Way too big for mediafire. You can find his albums floating around the internet as well, but these albums are where its at. Its a fuckload of music, like 40GB or something, but I always got room for Screw. I don't really expect alot of people to jump on this, but I know a few people who will be down (big nails, lookin at you). Visit the website, buy some tapes and stuff. Next time you are in Texas go check out one of his stores. All you kids going to SXSW should mob the store in Austin. If I went down there I'd post the fuck up.



Oh yeah, Screw was named a Texas Music Innovator by the Govorner. And I heard The University of Texas bought a fuckload of his records from his personal collection to put on display. R.I.P Robert Earl Davis, J.R forever.



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Chapters 1 - 20


Chapters 21 - 40


Chapters 41 - 60


Chapters 61 - 80


Chapters 81 - 100


Chapteres 101 - 120


Chapters 121 - 140


Chapters 141 - 160


Chapters 161 - 180


Chapters 181 - 200


Chapters 201 - 220


Chapters 221 - 231

Diligence - The Neglected Mixtape

So our boy Dylan just dropped his first ever Hip-hop mixtape. Dylan used to play with a band called The Lost Tourists but he has been working on his solo hip-hop project for a long time. He's on tour with LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) right now after touring around the country and basically living the Dude's life.

This is good stuff, definitely check it out! For fans of Aesop Rock, Busdriver, all that good kind of stuff. And if you like it, please pay a visit to Dyl's bandcamp and throw a few bucks his way for the download.

Diligence's Bandcamp

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The Neglected Mixtape (2011)