Jean drops one of her contributions to the upcoming “Year Of The Blacksmith: Community” mixtape; an interesting collaboration with producer RJD2.

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After a number of single drops in the past few months, Re-Up Gang affiliates, Ab-Liva and iCan drop their first collaborative EP, including featured verses from The Clipse (separately,) Res and Gilbere Forte.

01 Cross Me f. Gilbere Forte (prod. Dilemma & Suburban Hustlers)
02 Big Bank (prod. Vybe)
03 Where Do We Go? f. Malice (prod. Carvin & Ivan)
04 Politicin’ (prod. JNatBeats)
05 RockStarz f. Res (prod. Raak & Forte)
06 Who’s Better f. Pusha T (prod. Vybe)
07 The Wire (prod. Beat Bully)
08 I Made It (prod. Bill Collecterz)
09 Job Well Done (prod. !llmind)

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Last year I filmed a small video with a local Grime artist named Crawler. The video was set around him discussing himself to start with and ended with a freestyle. Following this video, members of Crawlers’ Grime crew, named Killer Grimey (KG), got in touch with me about creating more videos, in which they too could express themselves in this way. The word started to spread on my abilities to film and the YouTube channel that I had created- RealTalk0113. Other Leeds MC’s began to contact me on social networking sites such as Facebook and Youtube, asking me to film them. Before I knew it, I was promoting the Leeds-based Grime Scene attempting to get it heard again. I felt passionate about this, as I used to struggling in finding good MC’s that were from Leeds. In the first video with Crawler he asks “How deep can we speak about it, is it real talk yeah?” That was exactly what I wanted it to be. A channel where the MC wasn’t censored, and could say what they liked, as long as it was real to them. So when I uploaded the videos to YouTube I called the channel Real Talk 0113, the 0113 being the area code for Leeds. I also include links to the featured artists websites, to gain extra promotion for them.

Someone who inspires me is Cameraman Sketch. He documents the up and coming Grime MC’s, through interviews and freestyles. He has over 500 videos on Youtube and 3 DVDs featuring artists such as Jammer, Ghetts, Big H, P.Money, Asher D and many more. His new DVD entitled ’2010′ drops at the end of this month. This is what he had to say when I interviewed him recently…
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New music from Dip Set, still not sounding as good as they used to in my opinion, but it would be good to hear a new album/mixtape sometime soon…

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New music from Joell Ortiz, most likely from his album, “Free Agent,” which is due to be released on the 30th of this month (however rumour has it that it has been pushed back until February 22nd.)

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Nicki’s “Pink Friday” release is just around the corner; check out the bonus tracks below, and purchase the full project tomorrow…

“Super Bass” DOWNLOAD HERE

“Muny” DOWNLOAD HERE

Yet another Eminem leak, and the second collaboration with Royce this week. Apparently the final version will also feature T.I., however I am happy with just Em and Royce working together again!

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I’m currently reading Jay-Z’s book, “Decoded,” which I would highly recommend, and was pleased to find this mixtape courtesy of ElmoSince87 which is essentially just a playlist of all the songs mentioned in the book (and not actually a mixtape at all). Although it is likely most readers will already have most of the tracks this is pretty handy to put on the IPod for quick reference whilst reading.

The book itself is a well presented insight into the career and mind of Jay, and also includes some interesting theories and technical aspects of rap as an art-form, which is as much a collectors item for fans as it is a piece of literature.

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Signing with G.O.O.D Music was definitely good for the amount of verses we get to hear from Push these days. Here he contributes to singer/songwriter/pianist Erin Christine’s soulful pop song “Say.”

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This track is a bonus cut from Nicki’s new “Pink Friday” album which comes out on Monday. Despite having never really been a fan of Nicki’s mixtapes I listened to the album earlier this week and found it pretty entertaining; despite the lyrical content being fairly poor, it is the variety of flows, voices and personas Nicki employs that really drive the album and make it worth listening to. However if you want serious hip-hop music, look elsewhere.

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