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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Cover one of the Greatest Songs ever created by man
“…Me? Well..I’ve never been there…well, perhaps once…”
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble covers “SpottieOttieDopaliscious”, one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard (peep how they flip Sleepy Brown’s verse)
PS – I can’t wait to cover this song live again (coming soon).
Schoolboy Q “Habits & Contradictions”
I usually don’t have the time and energy to find new music on the internet. Specifically hip-hop. After a while the blogs all start running together. Every couple of months, a new rapper comes along that everyone buzzes about and over-hypes to be the most amazing dude on the planet since the last most amazing dude on the planet three months ago.
So I had heard about the Black Hippy group for a while. And I thought Kendrick Lamar was dope and everything just like everyone told me I was supposed to. But last week I was intrigued by this new Schoolboy Q record “Habits & Contradictions”. I don’t know why. Then I listened to it and watched the “Hands on the Wheel” video. Now I like it. And him. And his record. And his videos. This dude is really creative and I like that he could give two shits about anything except what he’s on. I miss this energy in hip-hop right now. This vibe is sorely lacking. These dudes have picked it up and put a nice twist on it. I fuck with it. I love discovering artists at this moment in their careers. It’s like a small layover of time where they’re discovering their potential, style and sound in front of the world before the industry folks try to market it. It’s still raw as shit, but not unpolished.
Hit the jump for a couple videos:
DJ COREY GRAND “NON-FICTION HEART(BREAKS)”
LxE just hipped me to this dude a couple days ago, as sometimes they he backs LxE up on the decks when he performs.
Then I came across a post on this record by my friends at TheHigherPlane.
Which is cool and all. But then I looked at the tracklist.
I feel like outside of my circle, no one in Ohio really messes with half the artists I mess with, so when I see FlyLo, J*Davey, and The Weeknd (amongst many others) on here, I get relieved that I’m not going crazy.
Here’s the trackslist & link
Ill Poetic “Instrumentals” Vol. 2
I make beats.
Then I flesh the beats out into productions. Then I bring in musicians to play my ideas, and vocalists to accentuate the song-writing. Then I begin the process of mixing, post-producing and anal-retentive analysis that leads to months in a basement working on a single song.
I can’t use them all. Some of them have to just stay beats and semi-fleshed out ideas. These ideas need homes. They’re orphans with empty bowls of porridge, looking for a singer, emcee, or musician to nourish them and put a blanket over their sad, cold bodies.
Oh, and here are some more from before.
Ps – Shouts the homie David Perez for the always amazing pictures of pretty ladies. And shouts to this coffee shop I’ve been in ALL DAY designing the cover.
FREDDIE GIBBS x MADLIB x GUNS..LOTS OF GUNS “THUGGIN”
A couple nights ago, I had a nightmare that Freddie Gibbs robbed and killed me.
The next day, I saw this video, and realized why.
Funny story:
Illogic and I had a show with Gibbs last Spring, afterI interviewed him for Citybeat a month earlier. Gibbs and I were sitting right next to each other at the Merch Table. Illogic told me I should introduce myself and tell him that I had just interviewed him a few weeks back. Since we just rocked a pretty big show with him, I though “Ok, cool, I can do that.”
So I introduced myself to him. And then he looked at me the same way he looks at the camera in this video. Then I went back to my seat. So that was that.
The End.
Enjoy the video. This song is amazing.
Black Spade “Nobody’s Fool” Converse Track of the Week
Anyone who comes to this site knows I’m a big Black Spade fan. I’ve been waiting on a new record from since 2010′s “Build & Destroy”, which i still play very regularly to this day.
Came across this video on his FB Page. Hoping this means a new record is on the way. Joint sounds serious.
New Ill Po Song “Numb”
LxE for the Uncool “Monsters Are Due…” Free Download + “OG Champion Hoodie” Video
LxE For The Uncool ft. Nemo Achida- OG Champion Hoodie (Raekwon Tribute) from Walter Nini on Vimeo.
The homie LxE for the Uncool has re-released his super-slept on EP “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” (with a bonus song “Dragon Sea”, that I actually recorded and mixed a couple days ago).
He rocked a few of these songs religiously on tour this past Spring. My favorite song from our group set was actually the joint “Monster”, which you find on the download here.
To help celebrate, he also drops a video for the jump-off “OG Champion Hoodie”.
His Full-Length follow-up will be out this Winter.
CJ The Cynic “VerbNoun (Vox Test)”
If you’re an Ohio hip-hop head, you may know CJ the Cynic from his work with Weightless Recordings in the early and mid 2000s (his group Drown with Plead the 5th was what drew me to Weightless from the get). If you mess with my music, you may remember him from “City of God” on “The World is Ours” album I dropped a while back. CJ is actually an INCREDIBLY talented producer, emcee, and singer (yup, singer). He’ll be prominently featured on my upcoming EP “Synesthesia: The Yellow Movement”, as well as some upcoming records down the pipeline.
CJ dropped this on my FB page just to get a quick opinion, but I couldn’t stop listening, so I wanted to share it with folks. CJ doesn’t fuck with the blog game heavy at all, as he really doesn’t care much about that shit (lol). I love it.
So Enjoy.
Ill Poetic “Instrumentals Vol. 1″
This is not really an album.
This is a collection of instrumentals available for purchase, primarily for musicians, singers, emcees, and other artists.
This collection will keep evolving; I’ll be adding new instrumentals here and there. Some will get snatched off as I randomly decide to write to them
…or if someone purchases one. Either way really.
If you like listening to instrumental hip-hop, enjoy.
If you sing, play, emcee, etc. and one of these instrumentals hits you, you can reach me at illpoetic@illpoetic.com
Enjoy.
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