Portland based producer Stewart Villain and Team Backpack just released a new dope beat/remix tape titled Joints. This mixtape features a smoked out mix of beats and remixes that
New record from Portland’s Luck-One and PropaneLv. I mean HANif lets loose this visual to his track Chalk Em Out featuring Michael Zoah produced by
I’m a huge Iamsu! fan and recently seen him out at Neumos in Seattle. His show was hype AF and its 100% a product of
Central Washington based newcomer O.Z. drops his debut music video featuring frequent collaborator L.E.O. The video is directed by Visualeyes and the track is produced
Raz Simone continues the onslaught. He started the year off with Cognitive Dissonance Part II and Macklemore Privilege & Chief Keef On Violence, now he
A good friend from our humble beginnings at Central Washington University just released his group’s newest music video. Chase Van Halen is a dude that
Ludacris releases his newest video for Beast Mode featuring the man himself, Marshawn Lynch. Paying homage to the Seattle Seahawks running back’s stance to the paparazzi. Ludacris
Raz continues the visual onslaught with ‘Pulling.’ Baby Jesus out April 7 at RazSimone.com. Raz has been putting in work over the past few years,
HANiF drops new album with 5th Sequence for the 12 Inch Vinyls EP that was released about a month ago. I am super late on
My favorite rapper from Yakima T.A.Z. releases his newest visual to Anyway from the upcoming Daily Flow Deluxe project. The western side of Washington usually
Raz is arguably the freshest artist coming out of the Pacific North West. Today is no different, especially when he releases a new song like
Seattle rappers tend to show mad love towards unique hip-hop and this fits with that trend entirely. Spekulation spits some fire bars over a hot
Portland’ian and frequent Cassow collaborator, TYuS, drops a new track with ‘Silhouette.’ A very Weekend-PartyNextDoor type of artist, TYuS lets some smooth melodies go over some trippy production. I’ve been following dude a little over the past few months and everything I have heard has been pretty dope. High quality production and unlike anything else up here in the great Northwest.
XXL has adopted a fan vote for the 10th XXL Freshman spot the past few years. I believe Iggy Azalea, Dizzy Wright, and Jarren Benton have been the past honors. This year the list is long and filled with some note worthy artists (and a few that have me thinking I should check NahRight more!). On first glance I have four artists in mind that I would potentially vote for the 10th 2015 XXL Freshman spot.
**Update, To Pimp A Butterfly is back on iTunes!!
Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp A Butterfly yesterday, earlier than expected! There has been some beef between Top Dawg and Interscope about the early release but I am unsure if this is a media scheme or not. In a day where almost every album is being released as a ‘surprise’ (check Beyonce…Drake…and supposedly Kanye’s next album) it would not surprise me that they did this on purpose. The hype started when Kendricks album was uploaded to iTunes with an all black cover and unnamed tracks a few weeks ago with a March 23rd release date. Then a few weeks later Rolling Stones dropped an article with a little more information and the correct title/cover. So the ‘surprise’ element has been slowly building throughout this process, but is the week early release (and a day after Tupac’s Me Against The World 20th anniversary) planned or not?
Porter Ray releases a visual to one of my personal favorites from his Fundamentals mix tape. ‘Searching’ finds Porter chillin out in a blue and
New EP from Raz Simone “Macklemore Privilege & Chief on Keef Violence” Raz Simone releases his newest EP just a few months after his Cognitive
New music video from Moor Gang general Jarv Dee. Jarv recruits Kris Kasanova for ‘Rank.’ Catch Gifted Gab rocking that ‘Local Legend’ hoodie in there?
Jamil Suleman wanted to teach the world how to cook up Curry-NA-Hurry so he linked with Spekulation, the man behind viral Marshawn Lynch re-cut productions.
Louisiana to Yakima, WA transplant Jae Vans grabbed his fellow southern raised artist Haziz Tiriek for ‘All Good.’ All Good was shot by Yakima multi-media
Sol drops the visual to his ‘People’ record he let loose of last month alongside ‘Pages.’ The track is a continued step up in quality
Moor Gang’s Thaddeus David drops the new visual to his ‘Ouncez’ record from his Parallels project. Thaddeus has continued to elevate his work over the
Raz Simone brings possibly his best effort yet in his verse from the ‘Same Problems’ music video. Seattle’s next up will be heard! On the
What do you do when your a Northwest hip-hop artist and you want a slightly more commercial sound but want to remain hip-hop? You call up Jake One and Stewart Villain…and that is exactly what Dave B did for Loosies. The series of releases comes in at just 3 tracks (for now) but is dope enough to satisfy listeners who have been waiting on that Doughnuts LP.
Portland based producer Stewart Villain and Team Backpack just released a new dope beat/remix tape titled Joints. This mixtape features a smoked out mix of beats and remixes that
New record from Portland’s Luck-One and PropaneLv. I mean HANif lets loose this visual to his track Chalk Em Out featuring Michael Zoah produced by
I’m a huge Iamsu! fan and recently seen him out at Neumos in Seattle. His show was hype AF and its 100% a product of
Central Washington based newcomer O.Z. drops his debut music video featuring frequent collaborator L.E.O. The video is directed by Visualeyes and the track is produced
Raz Simone continues the onslaught. He started the year off with Cognitive Dissonance Part II and Macklemore Privilege & Chief Keef On Violence, now he
A good friend from our humble beginnings at Central Washington University just released his group’s newest music video. Chase Van Halen is a dude that
Ludacris releases his newest video for Beast Mode featuring the man himself, Marshawn Lynch. Paying homage to the Seattle Seahawks running back’s stance to the paparazzi. Ludacris
Raz continues the visual onslaught with ‘Pulling.’ Baby Jesus out April 7 at RazSimone.com. Raz has been putting in work over the past few years,
HANiF drops new album with 5th Sequence for the 12 Inch Vinyls EP that was released about a month ago. I am super late on
My favorite rapper from Yakima T.A.Z. releases his newest visual to Anyway from the upcoming Daily Flow Deluxe project. The western side of Washington usually
Raz is arguably the freshest artist coming out of the Pacific North West. Today is no different, especially when he releases a new song like
Seattle rappers tend to show mad love towards unique hip-hop and this fits with that trend entirely. Spekulation spits some fire bars over a hot
Portland’ian and frequent Cassow collaborator, TYuS, drops a new track with ‘Silhouette.’ A very Weekend-PartyNextDoor type of artist, TYuS lets some smooth melodies go over some trippy production. I’ve been following dude a little over the past few months and everything I have heard has been pretty dope. High quality production and unlike anything else up here in the great Northwest.
XXL has adopted a fan vote for the 10th XXL Freshman spot the past few years. I believe Iggy Azalea, Dizzy Wright, and Jarren Benton have been the past honors. This year the list is long and filled with some note worthy artists (and a few that have me thinking I should check NahRight more!). On first glance I have four artists in mind that I would potentially vote for the 10th 2015 XXL Freshman spot.
**Update, To Pimp A Butterfly is back on iTunes!!
Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp A Butterfly yesterday, earlier than expected! There has been some beef between Top Dawg and Interscope about the early release but I am unsure if this is a media scheme or not. In a day where almost every album is being released as a ‘surprise’ (check Beyonce…Drake…and supposedly Kanye’s next album) it would not surprise me that they did this on purpose. The hype started when Kendricks album was uploaded to iTunes with an all black cover and unnamed tracks a few weeks ago with a March 23rd release date. Then a few weeks later Rolling Stones dropped an article with a little more information and the correct title/cover. So the ‘surprise’ element has been slowly building throughout this process, but is the week early release (and a day after Tupac’s Me Against The World 20th anniversary) planned or not?
Porter Ray releases a visual to one of my personal favorites from his Fundamentals mix tape. ‘Searching’ finds Porter chillin out in a blue and
New EP from Raz Simone “Macklemore Privilege & Chief on Keef Violence” Raz Simone releases his newest EP just a few months after his Cognitive
New music video from Moor Gang general Jarv Dee. Jarv recruits Kris Kasanova for ‘Rank.’ Catch Gifted Gab rocking that ‘Local Legend’ hoodie in there?
Jamil Suleman wanted to teach the world how to cook up Curry-NA-Hurry so he linked with Spekulation, the man behind viral Marshawn Lynch re-cut productions.
Louisiana to Yakima, WA transplant Jae Vans grabbed his fellow southern raised artist Haziz Tiriek for ‘All Good.’ All Good was shot by Yakima multi-media
Sol drops the visual to his ‘People’ record he let loose of last month alongside ‘Pages.’ The track is a continued step up in quality
Moor Gang’s Thaddeus David drops the new visual to his ‘Ouncez’ record from his Parallels project. Thaddeus has continued to elevate his work over the
Raz Simone brings possibly his best effort yet in his verse from the ‘Same Problems’ music video. Seattle’s next up will be heard! On the
What do you do when your a Northwest hip-hop artist and you want a slightly more commercial sound but want to remain hip-hop? You call up Jake One and Stewart Villain…and that is exactly what Dave B did for Loosies. The series of releases comes in at just 3 tracks (for now) but is dope enough to satisfy listeners who have been waiting on that Doughnuts LP.
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