New tape available for pre-order from rapper/producer Kai Fortyfive. RIYL: Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Roc Marciano, Tha God Fahim, Griselda https://www.longislandrap.com/2021/05/kai-fortyfive-slugsmoke-mirrors-lirr03.html https://longislandrap.bandcamp.com/album/kai-fortyfive-slugsmoke-mirrors g_y4-VtAH0U ...

RIP :doom: I wrote some stuff and will be posting some more stuff this week probably: Tribute: https://www.longislandrap.com/2021/01/rip-mf-doom.html DOOM's Art: https://www.longislandrap.com/2021/01/the-art-of-doom-character-concepts.html Alternate Persona King Dumile: https://www.longislandrap.com...

Alaksa interviewed Theravada, and I got a shout out. The cosmological multiverse is everything, yall.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b ... 0498493493
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pBB8W ... OksuuARLOw

Following up on a topic of conversation from my interview with Kevroc and Web D, I wrote about the three Legion of D.U.M.E. members who didn't end up in Darc Mind -- Schott Free, Prime and B-Wyze -- and compiled a playlist of tracks by them: https://www.longislandrap.com/2020/08/what-happened-to-leg...

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I interviewed RA the Rugged Man: https://www.longislandrap.com/2020/06/r ... rview.html

We talk about a bunch of LI acts:
-Capital T
-Niles
-Too Nice
-Stimulation and Proficient
-Diamond J
-Prince Paul
-Poetic

Plus boxing, movies and his new album.

Thanks, guys. I had a great time doing this one, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. X-Ray was kind enough to bless me with an unreleased remix of "Noneotherthan" (off What Happened to the Art?) for the compilation I released last month. Here's that if you haven't heard it yet: https://longislandrap.bandcam...

Word, props for sharing these! I've pulled a few gems myself in the past. Looking forwad to checking these out.

If anyone's been thinking about copping this, holding off until Bandcamp waives its fees, etc., 50% of all proceeds from tmrw's sales will go to BLM. (The other 50% will continue to go to local food shares.)

Haaa, thanks for listening, Sleep. Yeah, I did think about cutting it back (specifically cutting it at "My feet hurt") but decided in the end that it led into Cryptic's tune and its opening sample nicely. Also after repeated listens, I started applying wild sociopolitical interpretations to that dia...

Yes big shouts to Cryptic, who came thru with one of the dopest tracks on here IMO. It's all LI (Cryptic came up in Westbury if ya don't know). Both of SmooVth's cuts came straight from him and are totally unreleased. He also gave the whole thing a listen when I was sweating the sequencing. The Roc ...

I dropped a benefit compilation. It's 23 new tracks, almost all of them otherwise unreleased, including exlcusives from SmooVth, Cryptic One, Darc Mind, Theravada and many more. VERY different from the last release. Also all proceeds go to a good cause. I hope you enjoy. https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1...

dope, thanks!

*update: 2 hours in, very very dope, going to share this on the site. love the guest anecdotes as well as the mix itself, some unexpected selections and slick references.

Yeah, this might be my favorite Geti album on first listen, for real. So hilarious, completely out there. Kenny Segal killed it on every track, and Geti stepped his flows up accordingly. Definitely makes me want to go back and catch up on the albums I've missed from him the past few years.

Busta Rhymes
Spaghetti Blacc
Zer0h
Darc Mind
Tragedy Khadafi
ShrapKnel
Rome Streetz
TheParadoxicalState

Yooo, checking in from the quarantine. I interviewed one of my all-time favorite rap duos, Darc Mind. Some topics that might be of interest to yall: -Days with MC Serch and Idlers/Warlock -Hanging out at 510 South Franklin -Early KMD member MC Prime -Ray's first group, the East Side 5 -More info on ...

Thanks, guys

The difference is that I'm promoting other people's music not my own. But yeah, feel free if I'm wrong.

Very very good, feels like Scorsese is critiquing his past work and career on screen through the lens of this movie, expanding on previous ideas and themes and occasionally maybe even correcting himself. A very complex and layered movie, leaves you with tons and tons of stuff to think about. The la...

Hi all, just wanted to drop a line that I turned my blog into a label. The first release is from my good friend, Andy Koufax, who some of you might have heard singing on Willie Green's Doc Savage album (the track was "Thousand Headed Man" ft. Armand Hammer). Here he's singing, rapping, producing, an...

Happy to see this forum survives. Thanks for keeping it going!

Looking for Basement Arrangements by Kemelions: https://www.discogs.com/Kem%C3%A9lions- ... se/1317463" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

it's so fucking good

the dead poet wrote:https://parallelthought1.bandcamp.com/a ... e-wild-end

Tree teaming up with ParallelThought. This is good news. Those dudes make heat. Album out may 31st

Digital is up.

admiral wrote: Was also disappointed they didn't mention anything about how RZA's flooded basement fucked over guys like Deck and their solo albums

I also thought it was odd they left that out. Dope doc overall though, lots of fun.

Philaflava wrote:I'm only 1 1/2 in, but looking forward to the Cilvaringz shit. You can tell he was just an opportunist who had no real affiliation other than giving RZA lots of money for the rights to bullshit.

Not quite that, at least according to RZA.

That's some wild meta, the cypher is now complete type shit. Awesome you got to witness that!

Yeah it's dope. Ev's track is nuts. Also the Mono en Stereo joint.

I thought I posted the new album, maybe it was a different thread. It's great, easily one of my favorites for the year so far Agreed. There are videos for a bunch of the tracks at https://www.youtube.com/user/3mctree/videos" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; My favs are There U R, Like ...