Charles Hamilton - reIntervention
Tracklisting:
1. Track 01
2. Track 02
3. Track 03
4. Track 04
5. Track 05
6. Track 06
... and do the John Wall.
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Showing posts with label QuESt. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Linkin Parkilton
Charles Hamilton - reIntervention
Tracklisting:
1. Track 01
2. Track 02
3. Track 03
4. Track 04
5. Track 05
6. Track 06
... and do the John Wall.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Hold On Remix
Chris Campbell - Hold On (feat. Steven Gilpin)
Chris Campbell - Hold On (Remix feat. brandUn DeShay, LaVish, Mike Dreams, Chris Barz, & Aaronn Ralph)
[alt. BandCamp link]
With Charlie Hilton providing the soundscape (who has produced tracks for such artists as QuESt, SHow TuFli, XV, Marky, and Frank Ramz) and verses from brandUn DeShay (who has worked with Charles Hamilton, Curren$y, Von Pea, Dom Kennedy, and TiRon), LaVish (frequent DeShay and Casey Veggies collaborator and featured Re-Up Spot artist), Mike Dreams (featured 2dopeboyz and DJ Booth artist, and writer for Refined Hype), and Chris Barz (who has worked extensively with Best Kept Secret as well as Jesse Boykins III and Tabi Bonney), the "Hold On" remix spans from Kentucky to Chicago to Los Angeles to Minnesota to Maryland to London. I'm personally happy at the fact that my III: Laptopical project that was released a grip ago is now complete. Ha.
Chris Campbell - III: Laptopical
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Chris Campbell
Charlie Hilton
brandUn DeShay
LaVish
Mike Dreams
Chris Barz
... and do the John Wall.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
V3 to Get Ready
brandUn DeShay - Volume: Three! to Get Ready
Tracklist
1. Good Morning (Ceven AM)
2. Veterens Day (feat. Charles Hamilton)
3. Livin' Life (feat. Ev4n Holt)
4. Why You Gotta Zodiac Like That
5. Right Back (feat. Dom Kennedy)
6. Awe Stars (feat. Casey Veggies)
7. Hate to Say I Told You So (feat. Von Pea)
8. ODd Party (feat. Casey Veggies & Overdoz)
9. Congrats
10. Orjazzmic
11. Wish Me Luck! (feat. Dom Kennedy)
12. LAXtasy
13. They Know (feat. QuESt)
14. Zeroes
... and do the John Wall.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
How Thoughtful
Great surprise today with this release. I guess I haven't been paying attention as of late, but you should know that any QuESt release is all quality. This one is a warm-up mixtape in the same vein of There's Only One Month Left. That means the focus is more on adding his vibe to industry beats with a few all original joints sprinkled in. And I ain't mad as he takes on such recent tracks as "Angels", "I'm So Appalled", and "Exhibit C" plus past bangers like "I Know" and "Boss' Life".
And by the way, how dope is that cover art? I sweat QuESt's flow regardless and the fact that he isn't afraid to go dark on some of his subject matter. He sounds like nobody else out there and I'll be straight with any project dropping from dude. Even though his manager dude wouldn't get me back about a feature on "Hold On". Haha. He'd kill it too since he's already destroyed some Charlie Hilton production and would sound perfect following up brandUn DeShay on the track. Oh well. I ain't bitter.
QuESt -
How Thoughtful
Tracklist
1. How Thoughtful
2. Exhibit Q
3. Still Calling on Them Angels
4. Trouble
5. Lyrics to Go
6. Elevator Status
7. Life of the Responsible
8. Love Until We Bleed (feat. Lykke Li)
9. QuESt is Active
10. No Future
11. Neato
12. The Anecdote
13. Haiku
14. Swear I'm Putting On
15. Just a Little Closer
16. How Thoughtful (Outro)
17. Letter to a Man's Broken Heart
... but do take my word for it.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Hold On: Mike Dreams
I've had this song that's been "under construction" for a good while now. It's my "Hold On (Remix)" joint, revamped from my debut album lead single by the masterful London producer Charlie Hilton. The seeds of this song go all the way back to the very beginning of the summer and is still nowhere close to being done, but I wanted to start a short series highlighting all the contributors to what will become of this epic song. And here is me doing that.
The newest emcee to come into the fold is Mike Dreams, formerly Young Son a.k.a. Sean Kingston's twin brother a.k.a. Gravy's second cousin, removed.
My man right here is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. That alone holds him in good company with beast MN emcees like Slug, P.O.S, and Brother Ali. You can catch all over the 2dopeboyz c-section and thankfully that, along with his dope music, has got him some features on one of hip hop's premier blog sites. As a frequent c-section arguer myself, I first caught ear of his sound from his promptly released "Run This Town" freestyle.
Mike Dreams - Run This Town
Mike's just a straight positive emcee. His flow is completely effortless as he takes on all kinds of beats and makes them easy, head-nodding jams. With his relentless storytelling, relatable subject matter, and genuine delivery, any song he jumps on is set to improve. I personally think he's at his best when he goes in slow-flowed and heavy on a thoughtful instrumental that lets him wax poetic on something crazy inspirational. Not too many rappers can pull that off without coming off corny. I can't front on his hyped joints either, though. And while we'll all forgive him for being a Drake fan (just joking, man), Mike Dreams definitely is a force to be reckoned with. Dude's got an extensive live show resumé and is fit to be recognized on a bigger stage real soon. And on another refreshing note, Mike doesn't curse in his rhymes. I've been tryinna tell people I'm not the only one. Ha. And if all that along with his QuESt and XV cosigns aren't enough to convince you of how dope this emcee is, then you take your time scouring over these links and get yourself familiar. And hold on.
Mike Dreams -
Soul Inspired: Hip Hop's Revival
Forever Words
Counting Sheep: Countdown To Dreamer's Poetry
Blog - MySpace - Facebook - Twitter
... but do take my word for it.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Genre
As it stands right now since I sent all my intros, interludes, outros, and production kits to the recycle bin, I got 18,518 songs sitting in the iTunes. And since I'm one of those OCD organizers who gotta have everything straight and accessible, I got each song labeled perfectly appropriately according to my mental categorization. As you can imagine, the rap/hip-hop tag was just simply not gonna work for me to tag as the genre for darn near every joint. So initially I split it up like any reasonable hip hop head would and got my compass on. East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South, Midwest, and Foreign. But that even got too cluttered. For real, Bay Area joints should not be mixed in with So Cal joints. That kinda stuff don't quite mix right. Or at all. And while I could have microcosm-ed the genre's down to boroughs in all honesty, I finally settled for a mixture of state, city, and general region dichotomy. It works. As long as you know where everybody's from of the top or got Wikipedia on your favorites bar. So just because I wanna, here's a list of my top five emcees (where applicable if I care about five whole people) from each of my hip hop genres on my personal overloaded iTunes.
Alabama: Rich Boy
Atlanta: Andre 3000, Cee-Lo, Big Boi, Bobby Ray, Killer Mike
Boston: Termanology, Guru
Canada: Shad, k-os, Drake
Carolina: Phonte, J. Cole, Joe Scudda, Median, Big Pooh
Chicago: Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Common, brandUn DeShay, GemStones
Detroit: Royce da 5'9", Eminem, Obie Trice, Elzhi, Big Sean
European:
Houston: Scarface, D.O.C., Chamillionaire, Devin the Dude, Bun B
Kansas: XV
Kentucky: CunninLynguists (group), Nappy Roots (group), Chris Campbell
Los Angeles: 2Pac, The Game, Crooked I, Blu, The KnuX (group)
Maryland: Wale, Sage Francis, Marky, Oddisee
Miami: QuESt, Smitty
Minnesota: P.O.S, Brother Ali, Slug, Young Son
Mississippi: David Banner
New Jersey: Lauryn Hill, Joe Budden, Wyclef Jean, Redman, Serius Jones
New Orleans: Jay Electronica, Lil' Wayne, Curren$y
New York: Rakim, Jay-Z, Charles Hamilton, MF Doom, Pharoahe Monch
Oakland: Lyrics Born, Gift of Gab, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Boots Riley, Lateef
Ohio: KiD CuDi, Ilyas, Donwill, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (group)
Pennsylvania: Wiz Khalifa
Philadelphia: Black Thought, Jedi Mind Tricks (group), Asher Roth, Beanie Sigel, Freeway
Rhode Island:
Seattle: RA Scion
St. Louis: Wafeek
Tennessee: GRITS (group), Three 6 Mafia, Young Buck
Virginia: Praverb, Tonedeff, Clipse (group), Trey Songz, Skillz
... but do take my word for it.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Everybody's Not Been Killed
Now I gotta start this off by saying I was pretty hyped for this tape in the same way I was about QuESt's a couple days back. It's been advertised for a good while and I've been pretty keen on most of dude's new music through leaks, that contest that brandUn won, his perfect Charlie Hilton features, and general promotion. I'm talking about XV's Everybody's Nobody. And here it is.
XV -
So yeah, I was geeked for it. And I definitely recommend it for download easily, it's pretty hit and miss with me. But that's just me. I'm more partial to when dude slows it down and has a distinctive concept like when he bodied the aforementioned Hilton tracks, plus the standouts like "Mirror's Edge", "Fall Out the Sky", and the freestyle over OutKast's "In Due Time" on this tape. But then he's got a ton of schitzo, techno-influenced, unfocused, and overloaded joints like "Vizzy, Vizzy, Vizzy", "A.D.D.", and the Wiz Khalifa-assisted "Gobstopper" that can't listen to over and over again. Maybe it's just that some of his songs are very futuristic, overly processed, or maybe a little too far-reaching for my tastes, but that may be what stands out to you and makes this tapes a favorite in your iTunes. I highly suggest you formulate your own opinion cuz the comment sections on sites I've been to have very favorable views on the entire project. Not that they are in the same lane or need to be compared to each other, but I'm more partial to Broken Headphones for my repeat playlist at the beginning of August '09. But don't let me deter you from your free download. Still looking forward to dude's music in the future. If Charles Hamilton made up with XV after a minor spat a while back, then I can for sure keep up with my personal support. Kansas hip hop is now in the building for the first time.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
One Month Ago ...
While I was on my temporarily blogging hiatus last month, I completely whiffed on ever posting the insane promo mixtape leading up to the Broken Headphones album that I just posted milliseconds ago.
QuESt -
Like I've mentioned before, I warmed up to QuESt's crazy unique style initially through his features on two Charlie Hilton tracks off of Good Food. And they were definably two standout tracks. He's got that crossed inflection and flow between a Jay-Z circa '96 and a Fahrenheit-era Lupe. But he's one hundred percent wholly his own rapper, so don't get me wrong when I mention the comparisons. What's equally as impressive as the product he's pushing is how easily he's gotten the word out to the blogosphere. Dude legitimately had people anticipating and emotionally investing in the date of July 28th, whether through the mixtape that I'm retroactively linking up in this post, or scattered hype videos across the internet, or the strategically leaked singles that happen to be floating around. With his team, he efficiently got himself an indie following straight out the box. And once you get onto his music, his concepts and lyrics speak for themselves. So there ya go. Cop both freebies and get to know the man who has the potential to be a staying figure in hip hop if he can keep up the atmosphere he's built around himself on the internet in 2009.
Broken Headphones
The new it artist for me right now just dropped his first proper free album last night. Definitely gonna be on constant roll once I get up out of this hospital. Thought I was about to die last night, but maybe God kept me so I could get this Broken Headphones joint in my system. Who knows?
QuESt -
Support dope artists who do music for the love of doing music. Whether he's gracing my dude Charlie Hilton's instrumentals or lending Donny Goines some lyrical support or simply shutting down all "Death of Autotune" freestyles, dude is doing his thing. Download it and spread it like a plague. You will not be disappointed.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Finally the Good Food
So late on this mixtape, but best know I had it Dee-Elled and on repeat the day it came out. As presented on 2dopeboyz.
Charlie Hilton -
Good Food
Fact: Charlie Hilton's production is nothing if not epic. Through his patience with all the emcees lacing verses for his motion-picturesque soundtrack, he's created a blogosphere underground who's-who guide.
Whether it's brandUn DeShay, XV, Show TuFli, Frank Ramz, Marky, or QuESt, there's definitely connections made and showcased here from track to track. And somehow CH#2's production is still the main feature. Every time. Epic, I said. Download this and get your iTunes more blog cred. Charlie Hilton is next up if tapes like these keep getting made.
... but do take my word for it.
Fact: Charlie Hilton's production is nothing if not epic. Through his patience with all the emcees lacing verses for his motion-picturesque soundtrack, he's created a blogosphere underground who's-who guide.
Whether it's brandUn DeShay, XV, Show TuFli, Frank Ramz, Marky, or QuESt, there's definitely connections made and showcased here from track to track. And somehow CH#2's production is still the main feature. Every time. Epic, I said. Download this and get your iTunes more blog cred. Charlie Hilton is next up if tapes like these keep getting made.
... but do take my word for it.
Monday, April 13, 2009
More Hilton
QuESt - Losing My Mind (feat. Choze & Neija Jane)
Love this song. Brand new leak off of [Charlie Hilton's Good Food]/[QuESt's Broken Headphones]. The production laced on here is absolutely immaculate. The beat is so saturated with beautiful, coherent sounds balancing a wide-spread, busy soundscape with peaceful breeziness. You just gotta hear it. And QuESt's delivery and style is quick becoming a personal favorite of mine. I read in a comment someone comparing him vocally to Jay-Z circa Reasonable Doubt times. And while that may seem a hip hop equivalent of sacrilige, I can definitely hear it. Dude's song-making ability is already up there, too. Choruses, bridges, ad-libs, verse structure, melodies. Everything's on point. Consider me impressed.
2dopeboyz post.
... put 'em both together and you got yourself a super spork.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Good Food
Really enjoy this joint right here by the dude Charlie Hilton. First full product heard off of his Good Food mixtape.
Check out the leaked post of it here. Really nice sample of "Hometown Glory". Love new-ish contemporary sampling. If this is any indication of how the tape is, it's gonna be as stellar as its original intention. And once No Really, I'm a Rapper EP drops you'll be able to hear the original version of "Back Home" off I Get That a Lot which is called "Toto". It's produced by Hilton if you didn't already assume it.
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