Keeping in line with this last week’s theme, I’ve got even more DMV area hip-hop for you guys today – and this time its an exclusive first look into an emerging talent from the region. Charlie Ross is a producer/MC that holds true to hip-hop’s more raw and bare-boned boom bap days, while still [...]
Here is the FRESHclusive premiere of the brand new mixtape from one of my new favorite MC’s, ADaD (pronounced uh-dod). Coming out of Chicago, ADaD has been making a name for himself as part of the All Natural, Inc. crew for years now, releasing both an EP and full-length release as one half of [...]
Bringing the Weekend Beats back from a brief hiatus with the latest project from a rising Portland talent, Hi-Res. This batch, entitled 1080 Beats, picks up where last year’s Sittin’ Up In My Room left off with more laidback but still headnoddin & bump-worthy beats. I selected a few tracks from [...]
Now this is a post I’ve been meaning to make since before I even started this site – and I finally think that the timing is right. Truthfully, Dolphin is still somewhat of a mystery to me. But I don’t think he’d have it any other way. I do know that he [...]
Today brings us the first ever FRESHclusive album, courtesy of DC veteran MC/producer (and currently best known as one third of the Diamond District), yU. The album, Before Taxes was first released as a 7 track promo EP a few months back, but available here for the first time anywhere is the full 16 [...]
New video from Toronto-based singer/producer, Slakah The Beatchild, for the “Enjoy Ya Self.” The song is the self-directed, second video from his debut album, Soul Movement Vol. 1, which is out now both online and overseas through BBE, but will finally be seeing a proper North American CD release on May 26th.
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With the recent boom in bedroom producers and “next generation” beatmakers – it has become somewhat overwhelming to wade through all the over-designed MySpace pages and endless bleeps, blurps & unquantized drums in hopes to find some real worthwhile artists these days.
And without turning this into yet another rant, there’s also been an oversaturation of [...]
New video from rising Toronto talent, Ayah, for the track, “Believe.” This song has been a favorite of mine for over a year now – I believe I first heard it on her MySpace page, then Waajeed selected it on the first Bling47 Radio episode, and then Ayah later released it on her [...]
For the second installment of my new Weekend Beats series, I’ve got the latest from the homie (and possibly the #1 FS commenter), devonwho. This latest offering, the WaVES EP, mainly consists of some recent highlights from his ever-changing MySpace player, but he also threw in some all new exclusives as well. Included [...]
I’ve got some huge exclusives from West Coast funkateer, Quazedelic for you guys today. For those who don’t already know, Quaze is a producer/singer/rapper whose best known as one half of the multi-platinum production duo, The SoundScannerz (with Josef Leimberg) and is currently a member of Georgia & Dudley’s Epistrophik Peach Sound crew. [...]
Alright, so first things first – lets get some FAQ’s out of the way about the Queen Of Doom, Ms. Tiombe Lockhart.
“Where the *#$^ is Tiombe?!” Brooklyn.
“Why wasn’t she on the new PPP??” The whole cast changed, dummy.
“What’s she working on??” Cubic Zirconia.
CZ is a new group consisting Tiombe and her new partners in [...]
For the latest installment in the Fresh Kept Secrets series, I present to for your consideration, another figure I seeing doing big things in the near future: Suzi Analogue. Suzi is a Philadelphia-based singer, writer & producer who is making moves worldwide, through not only being signed to the Amsterdam-based label, Dopeness Galore, but [...]