EL-P “The Full Retard”

I love the shit out of El-P’s music. Finally, a follow up to ISWYD (which was his masterpiece to me). Dude has been sorely missed in hip-hop these past few years. I posted about his insane joint “Drones over Brooklyn” a few months ago. Now, “Full Retard”.

New Album “Cancer for Cure” on deck.
Download the song HERE. Peep the change up at 2:42. This dude is so on some other shit.

Peep the Camu Tao/PRZM  “Lil Bitch/Count These Bars/On the Floor” Reference. Boom.

Tags: Camu Tao, Cancer for Cure, DJ PRZM, el-p, Full Retard, Hold the Floor, ISWYD

Definition EP 10 Year Anniversary

Ten years ago, me and my dude Zone released an EP under the group name Definition. At the time, we were super-young and didn’t know anything about how to release a record. But we did. The EP was successful enough to parlay us a path in music and was the beginning of a sound we’re still attempting to build to this day.

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(Strength) Video

For those who don’t know, I’ve been diving into Sound Design and Scoring.

It’s been an amazing ride, as it’s really helped me develop the direction I want to go with my own upcoming releases.

Above is a project I did with David Damen at Arris Productions. It will be entering into the Arnold Sports Film Festival this March, so wish us luck.

For now, enjoy the video.

PS – If you dig the music, you can also find the instrumental HERE.

Reggie B “The Celeste” Video

Reggie B is a really talented singer out of Kansas City. He works with lots of musicians and artists that I really respect and dig. But even if he didn’t, I still jam this shit. Case in point, he’ll be handling hook duties on the official single to my upcoming EP, entitled “Silhouette”.  I met Reggie B a few years ago by way of the homie Approach. 3 years later, all these dude’s have influenced me musically and feel like extended family.

But it’s not really enough just to watch this video, it makes much more sense to hit Reggie’s Bandcamp Page as well.

Tags: Funk, innate sounds, kansas, Kansas City, lawrence, midwest hip-hop, reggie b, Soul, The Celeste, video

“Gone” Video Shoot 7/1 @ Divebar in Cincinnati

A few months back, I dropped a song entitled “Gone”.

I got a lot of incredible and touching responses on it, so I figured it could turn into a really great and memorable video.

So, we’re shooting a video.

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Citybeat Column: The Hip-Hop (Un)Scene #14 “Respect My Mind”

New Citybeat Column. In Arizona having a freakin’ ball by-the-way. Enjoy:
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Tags: cincinnati, Citybeat, ill poetic

Ill Poetic Performance This Saturday @ Clifton Heights Music Festival – Cincinnati, OH

This Friday and Saturday marks the second Clifton Heights Music Festival in Cincinnati.
There will be lots of venues with every type of genre of music you can imagine.
Really fun event.

I’ll be doing a Set on Saturday at 10:30p at the Rohs Street Cafe.
Lots of new stuff and new ideas with old stuff.
Some announcments as well.

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Swing through.

Tags: cincinnati, clifton heights music festival, ill poetic, show

2 Free Songs “Convenient Amnesia” x “Ballpoint” and “Fresh Air Tour” Interview

Download Here

Also, here’s an interview I did with HigherplaneTV

Enjoy.

Follow-Up Dayton Show This Friday @ North River Coffee House w/ HuntorPrey

Click Here for a Nice Article on the Event

Now, Here’s the info:
This Friday, February 26th
Doors @ 5pm (Early Show – Keep your late night open)
North River Coffee House
323 Salem Avenue
Dayton, OH, 45402

FREE EVENT!!!
All Ages!!

PS – Check my homie HuntorPrey out over at www.myspace.com/huntorprey
We’ll be doing a kind of back and forth set, which we’ve never done.
Again, lots of new ideas, just like last Friday.

Illogic “Fresh Air Tour” Interview, new song, and a “Diabolical Fun” Special

Check out this Illogic interview, courtesy Thehigherplane.net taken from his recent performance at Brother Ali’s “Fresh Air Tour”

In celebration of Illogic’s recent feature on the amazing new RJD2 album “The Colossus”, we’d like to send out another invite to anyone who isn’t familiar with Illogic’s catalogue completely.

We’ll make it really easy for you:

Here is the RJ song “A Son’s Cycle” featuring Illogic.

Here are snippets to Illogic’s 2009 return LP “Diabolical Fun” released on Weightless Recordings.

Now here are some free gifts for anyone who hasn’t dug into the music yet:

Free MP3 – Ill Poetic x Illogic “Pressure”

And the “Diabolical Fun” instrumentals, all for Free Download:

If you dig it, cop the official album at the Weightless Store

To top it off, Illogic will be on tour starting next month in promotion of the recent Greenhouse (Blueprint & Illogic) EP “Electric Purgatory”, alongside Blueprint. If you’re in the Midwest, check them out at

Thursday February 25 – Champaign, IL – venue tba
Friday February 26th – Minneapolis, MN @ The Triple Rock
Saturday February 27th – Madison, WI @ The Annex

West coast dates coming soon for the spring.

Enjoy. More coming soon from Weightless Recordings, Voice of Reazon Mngmnt, and Definition Music.

Tags: diabolical fun, free mp3, ill poetic, illogic, tour dates, video