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Employee wrote:Damn, that font is dope. I've never seen it used on a free album before.

zachg wrote:I just dropped this album, which may or may not be considered good depending on your taste:

www.zachg.bandcamp.com/album/rara-aves


and here's a video from one of the songs:

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Brand new video!!!! Anotha Kinda Southern is still on schedule to release next month, and Rare Birds is the follow up record dropping later this year. This is the title track. I kept it super simple with this beat and really let the raps do their thang. It was fun making it, and I hope that this reminds people how much vitality hip hop is capable of. Plus, it showcases my killer dance moves. Watch it in full resolution.

EichTurner wrote:other hipsters probably don't think zach g's a faggot at all.

EichTurner wrote:that setting fun on fire happyland line is a jay'z bite..

vinylpops wrote:Feeling the fuck out of that Zach G song.

MAGOG wrote:is this the same aasim that did the song fly shit?

that song was dope.

badboy4life wrote:

MAGOG wrote:is this the same aasim that did the song fly shit?

that song was dope.

yes and hes back to that old style on this mixtape

Ekundayo is a New York transplant that has lived and cultivated his craft in the catacombs of Atlanta, Georgia. Alongside fellow members of his Freeport, Long Island bred Liuns Den crew, Ekundayo has continued creating culture rich hip hop that was harvested in their early years in New York while playing numerous events around Hofstra University, NYU, Baby Jupiter, Planet 28, Lyricist Lounge, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Chameleon Lounge, and more.

In 2010, Ekundayo began to get sprinkles of coverage within the blogosphere, but I just recently came across his music after randomly listening to a song he did over a jacked Oddisee beat. The self titled track immediately perked my ears not only due to the crisp production, but Ekundayo's cloudless cadence as he twists vintage vaunts around Oddisee's vaporous horns and drums. This solid first impression led me to Ekundayo's latest collection of loosies featuring 20 tracks of some original music as well as production from "up and coming" producers around the world (Oddisee (D.C.), Onra (Paris, France), Full Crate and FS Green (Amsterdam), Brenk (Austria), Tokimonsta (Bay Area), Jansport J (LA), Illastrate (Atlanta), and Ekundayo himself).

Throughout this collection, Ekundayo proves he is a veteran worth listening to. In an over saturated blogosphere where youth, inexperience, and raw potential is manifested as top tier material, 'Dayo stands as a skyscraper next to bodegas and, to me, is way more interesting and polished than most of the up and coming east coast conscious lyricists I've lauded in the past.

I post a lot of artists on the rise and a lot of artists that other sites don't cover (for whatever reason) and if I had to choose one group from my years of hip hop blogging that deserves a look from the rest of the blogosphere, it would be Cleveland, Ohio's Poetic Republic.

Almost a year ago to date, I posted their 2008 LP, The Natural Progression of Things, and a mixtape of live recordings and unreleased studio cuts called The Blackest Man Alive. After their move to Brooklyn, Poetic Republic have been hard at work on a new album set for a March 2012 release date entitled Future World.

Here are three tracks from their forthcoming album, as well as a re-up of all the stuff I've posted in the past. Wake up.

With an inbox full of free albums, mix tapes, EPs, beat tapes, single song downloads, press releases, and bandcamp URLs, it's easy to feel suffocated with new music. When those submissions contain clich