Hip-Hop
R.A. The Rugged Man – “Wondering” (How To Believe) feat. David Myles [Prod. By Classified] (Video)
March 25, 2020
Dammit. Feel the pain Mr. Rugged is serving in the bars here! And the imagery… How sad is that gravestone inscribed with time coding (e.g. spanning hours of the day, instead of years of a long life lived)? Very.
Pre-Order “All My Heroes Are Dead”: https://ratheruggedman.net/
Buy / Stream “Wondering (How To Believe)â€: https://naturesoundsmusic.com/wondering
R.A. The Rugged Man presents the official music video for “Wondering (How To Believe),” the latest single from his upcoming album “All My Heroes Are Dead.” Featuring singer David Myles, the song is a heartfelt display of vivid, powerful storytelling, addressing abuse, addiction, and loss. “All My Heroes Are Dead” will be available worldwide on April 17th 2020.
– RAtheRuggedManTV
R.A. THE RUGGED MAN – WONDERING (HOW TO BELIEVE) | ALL MY HEROES ARE DEAD (PRE-ORDER)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | 
Tags: All My Heroes Are Dead, Classified, David Myles, R.A. the Rugged Man, Wondering, Wondering How To Believe | 
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RJ Payne – “Ski’d Up” feat. Freeway (Prod. By Ski Beatz)
March 25, 2020
Let’s f**king GO!
Damn right! When RJ and Freeway get it in with the lyrical wordplay, quite frankly, it is not a game! Neither of these dudes play when it comes to the BARZ! Good collab for both of them on this “Ski’d Up” track. Ski Beatz is responsible for the Ski‘ing (HA)!
RJ PAYNE – IF COCAINE COULD TALK VOL. 6 (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: Freeway, IF COCAINE COULD TALK, IF COCAINE COULD TALK VOL. 6, RJ Payne, Ski Beatz, Ski'd Up, VOL. 6 | No Comments »
Jadakiss – “Angels Getting Pedicured” feat. 2 Chainz
March 25, 2020
Such and such for looking for you… for what?? You never gone see me… I don’t wanna conversate.
Jason and 2 CHAAAAAINZ!!! The line-up ought to let you know. The emcees on this jawn “Angels Getting Pedicured” and, of course, “Ignatius  Yeah, you already know!
And that butter-smooth piano beat too though! Wooooosaaah!
“Ignatiusâ€Â is out now!
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: 2 Chainz, Angels Getting Pedicured, Ignatius, JADAKISS | No Comments »
Run The Jewels – “Yankee And The Brave” (Ep. 4)
March 25, 2020
I’mma have your whole block hot as a sauna all summer!
And I put that on Osama and my motherf**king momma!
CRAZY!
Hard BARZ on a driving beat, with no let-up! Unmitigated gall and summer melon-sized balls right to the end; where Mike slid out on ’em to fight another day, taking out a kid-killing cop on the way out!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: El-P, EP. 4, Killer Mike, Run The Jewels, Yankee And The Brave, Yankee And The Brave Ep. 4 | No Comments »
Pounds & Flee Lord Speak On Griselda, Weight Loss, Jay-Z And New Music (Video)
March 24, 2020
Went from Pounds to half Pounds.
Pounds’ new project ‘Trafficante’ is out now for the getting! Here is Pounds and Flee Lord talking about their life journeys, the music their cooking up, getting in with Griselda, losing weight lots of weight, then tapping a connect for cash inflow… from a deal with Beyond Meat! Talk about a grind! And they talk about it all, and more, with Rosenberg on Real Late.
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Interview, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Hot 97, PETER ROSENBERG, Pounds, Real Late with Peter Rosenberg, Trafficante | No Comments »
Cassidy – “Coronavirus” (Freestyle) [Video]
March 24, 2020
Just remember that COVID only 19. It ain’t grown yet #BARZ
So. We know what Cass Larsiny is doing to make it through the Coronaviral Era we are in. Shiiiid… what he has ALWAYS done: Bless us with his blessed fire BARZ!! Fire spit is the holy water! Man, these artists are out here put that good work out there #Salute #NoBeerRuns #NoWorries #CassidysBarzStillOpen
Cassidy aka Da Hustla steps up to the plate to rap about the number one topic in the world … the Coronavirus/Covid-19.
Peep game as Cass lines this sh!t up.
Follow Cassidy @cassidy_larsiny
– PaperChaserDotCom
Dear other rappers: Feed us more information bars ASAP! All we picked up from the grocer is bread and milk. And we are tired of French toast. We need that nourishment… information, insight… Come on y’all. Dig deep and serve your people. The Nation is hungry for KNOWLEDGE, delivered with SKILL. Like the man said: Now that the clubs are closed down, it’s time to bar it up!! #RealHipHopPlease
– @ojones1
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Rockness Monsta – “Winners Circle”
March 24, 2020
I’m Michael J with a Fox and she’s so Bad!
How do you think Rock got to where he got? He got out there to find it, grind it, and shine it. Rinse and repeat. And as you hear, dude’s sword is still sharp. He is still out there, getting it out the mud. The path to the “Winners Circle” is NOT pretty. At all!
(Mud? Maybe more like ‘out the bog.’ That sword grind – like, forging a sword from bog ore – has been around for a long time. See how got out there to get it – meaning ore out of the bog – back, back, BACK in the day here.) #BecauseImGettingItOutTheBog #BecauseImANerd #ImAGrimyGeek
– @ojones1
Performance: Freddie Gibbs – “Cataracts†(Video)
March 24, 2020
Whatever Gibbs has got going on while trying to make it through this Coronaviral Era now thrust upon us, I think he will be okay. And we will be okay. His ‘lock in’ at the house is probably not as much a lock down as a chill out (because smoking on that good ‘script’). But before going in, Crtl let the man in to bless their mic and spit on his Rx for them “Cataracts” (HA)!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: Cataracts, Freddie Gibbs, Live, Live Session, VEVO, Vevo Ctrl | No Comments »
Curren$y x Fendi P – “Swang” (Video)
March 24, 2020
Lookit. Any hate you got for Jet Life will not fly over here. It will not even get to board on standby. And no hate in the overheads; can’t even check it (as I might have otherwise suggested). Because hatred is just too caustic to allow around while the rest of us are catching flights. So just keep it to yourself if you got any, because I am giving all Jet Life music out there a long look, esp. if Curren$y is involved #RespectDue #RespectEarn
Okay, thank you for letting me rant that on out. Just wanted to head off haters at the gore. Here is more reason to check for Jet Life like I do. This “Swang” is off that “Smokin’ Potnas” album (out now).
CURREN$Y – SMOKIN’ POTNAS (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Curren$y, Currensy, Fendi P, Smokin Potnas, Smokin' Potnaz, Swang | No Comments »
JR Writer – “Pedigree†(Prod. By Boger) [Video]
March 24, 2020
I’d ask who wants the smoke from JR Writer, but the only ones that’d say “yes” would (1) have no idea of the “Pedigree” this guy has or (2) would already be too busy heating up a mic with more fire rhyming that a li’l bit… too busy to answer a rhetorical question like that.
JR WRITER – PEDIGREE (PROD. BY BOGER)
– @ojones1
DJ Kay Slay – “Growing Up In These Streets” feat. AZ x Raekwon x Ghostface Killah (Video)
March 23, 2020
DJ Kay Slay really pulled something special together here. And the effort in pushing his new EP titled “Living Legend” is readily apparent; the way the hits keep coming like this.
Check out the second official visual off of [the new EP] called “Growing Up In These Streets” featuring Ghostface Killah, AZ and Raekwon.
– PaperChaserDotCom
DJ KAYSLAY – LIVING LEGEND (EP)
– @ojones1
Posted in EP, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: AZ, DJ Kay Slay, DJ Kayslay, Ghostface Killah, Growing Up In These Streets, Living Legend, Raekwon | No Comments »
Bishop Nehru – “Too Lost” (Prod. By DJ Premier) [Video]
March 23, 2020
Sick! And not because dude’s visuals takes rhyming off the top a wee bit, waaaay bit, too too far (severed head much? yeezus)… But because he’s got bars AND he’s got the one and only DJ Premier on the track! Yeah, that part. This Bishop Nehru jawn, “Too Lost,” is too ill #NoCorona
BISHOP NEHRU – TOO LOST (PROD. BY DJ PREMIER) [ITUNES]
– @ojones1
Drag-On – “Part 33” (Freestyle) [Video]
March 23, 2020
See y’all niggas hope y’all can. I know I can!
Look. I know good and well I am a Drag-On fan. But I also know what he means when he draws his hand back from folks who try to shake it now that he’s got things moving and shaking… Sir/madam, Drag ain’t gone give you no kinds of handshake. After all, what chance did you take to get him to this point? Were you in the fight with him, or were you just rooting for him (if that) outside the ring… like a fan?
– @ojones1
Tall Black Guy – “Dance Forever” / “The Return Of Here & Now” (EP)
March 23, 2020
Hope you are safely tucked away in your [Coronavirus-free] fortress full of good snacks and solitude… Hey, if you have kids or other folks staying with you, that solitude part is not a given. They may not allow you much solitude, being cooped up at home just the same as you. And it’s not like they can just go outside any old time. If the kids are in schools like these Atlanta kids over here, then schooling is now virtual; and the homework is still due!
Good news is that the artists and producers and deejays are realizing they shouldn’t leave us… without a dope beat to step to. Maybe driven by cabin fever or by a desire give us ease in troubled times. Either way, folks like TBG are getting out that work! Here in the form of re-released classics. This post features the two-track trip – “Dance Forever” and “The Return Of Here & Now.”
But take a twirl to another back-in-the-day EP from TBG: “8 Miles To Moenart” too (earlier post for that here).
TALL BLACK GUY – DANCE FOREVER / THE RETURN OF HERE & NOW (EP)
Posted in Album, EP, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: 8 Miles To Moenart, Dance Forever, TALL BLACK GUY, The Return Of Here & Now | No Comments »
Showly – “Money Power Respect” Freestyle (Video)
March 23, 2020
…You don’t wanna see my jawn drawn like a Philly whore!.
That’s how that Showly flow will do you. Hit you in the noggin with bar after bar until feel them. Then when the onslaught is over, you are compelled to hit replay and let the bars bop you in the head again just as hard. No wonder you got that headache! You’ll be a’ight though. It’s Hip-Hop!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Freestyle, Money Power Respect, Money Power Respect Freestyle, Showly, Showly Freestyle | No Comments »
Grafh – “Blow” feat. Benny The Butcher (Prod. By DJ Shay) [Video]
March 20, 2020
We both got money. Only difference is there’s blood on ours.
Daaayummm! So many barz it is hard to choose just one quotable. What a wonderful problem for a blogger to have. Right up there with having too much money. Check out Grafh and Benny as the “Blow” on this DJ Shay track!
“Oracle III” is out now!
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: BENNY The Butcher, BLOW, DJ Shay, Grafh, Oracle 3, ORACLE III | No Comments »
Flawless Real Talk – “Can’t Stop” feat. Vchenay (Video)
March 20, 2020
“Every Second Matters.” Nobody knows that more than Flawless Real Talk. And that is why he’ll make every song on that EP count. Like this one. “Can’t Stop” looping this video. It’s a good look. So is Vchenay (rowwrrrr)!
FLAWLESS REAL TALK – EVERY SECOND MATTERS (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in EP, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Can't Stop, Every Second Matters, Flawless Real Talk, Vchenay | No Comments »
Fabolous | The L.A. Leakers | Freestyle #102 (Video)
March 20, 2020
You can’t have a freestyle series without Fabolous stepping up and spitting some bars.
Absolute FACT!!! And The Leakers got Fab to fall through for #102 in the series. Short and sweet, but still HEAT. Hot sauce bars!
#Fabolous stops by the Liftoff show with the L.A Leakers Justin Credible and DJ Sourmilk. Fab Freestyles over Nas’ “Black Republican” for freestyle 102
– Power 106 Los Angeles
– @ojones1
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Method Man x DMX x Joey Bada$$ – “Cold Place” feat. Scarface (Video)
March 20, 2020
Straight.
Straight-forward beat, and lay straight-forward lyrics from some straight lions, and you get a nice FIRE going. Good look for Joey Bad holding it down with these Golden Era greats – DMX, Meth, and Facemob.
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Cold Place, DMX, Joey Bada$$, Joey Badass, Method Man, Scarface | No Comments »
4-IZE – “My Cousin Got Bars” feat. Planet Asia x Señor Kaos x MicxSic x Z Rich (Prod. By D.R.U.G.S Beats) [Video]
March 20, 2020
The push for promoting “Look Into My IZE” is definitely on! And as you’d expect, just looking at emcee line-up on “My Cousin Got Bars,” the D.R.U.G.S-produced track is on FIRE!
4-IZE – LOOK INTO MY IZE (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: 4-Ize, D.R.U.G.S. Beats, MicXSic, My Cousin Got Bars, Planet Asia, Senor Kaos, Z Rich | No Comments »
