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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Images | New | Approx. start time |
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Quelle Chris | Obamacare | Guns | Mello Music Group | 2019 | Quelle Chris said of this song, “Obamacare came together just as organically as everything else on Guns. I’d been sitting on a few arrangements of two samples for a couple months. While in Oakland I was working with Chris Keys and Sean 5ill. Keys was doing an unintentional bit as an angry drum instructor that led to some amazing breaks. Once the drums existed the homeless samples basically feel into place. Keys then added his amazing piano.” MUSIC VIDEO LINK = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-F19d5PcJY | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Blu & Exile | Power to the People | True & Livin' EP | Dirty Science / Fat Beats | 2019 | cool ass LA duo reunited in 2019 for this EP - in addition to each doing tons of other stuff - esp. the hella prolific Blu | 0:03:02 (Pop-up) | ||
WestSide Gunn | Finn Balor (Remix) (EDIT) | 2019 | Buffalo NY represent - | 0:07:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
Rob Cave & The Other Guys | Lets Gets Moneys | WORD | HiPPNOTT Records | 2019 | WORD lp outta BK on HippNott Records - truly slept on hip-hop talent | 0:08:54 (Pop-up) | ||
Cedar Hill | Baby Ruth | 2019 | Cedar Hill (Nish & Landscape) with their next level hip-hop were popular on this show Here is video link to this song = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4lD77XkYAQ | * | 0:11:24 (Pop-up) | |||
Dr. LaFlow | Lobster Cakes (feat. Unorthodocks) | 2019 | this song's YT audio only posting has like 117 views in 9 months - another example of how slept on some of the best hip-hop gets overlooked | 0:13:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
ILLA x DIATRIBE | Very Clear | Very Clear EP | 2019 | #IrishHipHop from first half of 2019 Derry born Manchester based DANNY DIATRIBE and Dublin born Amsterdam based KYNZ ILLA of Grim Pickinz drop their EPs self titled track. Produced by KYNZ ILLA. VIDEO ahot at Hill Street Blues, Amsterdam. = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQ5hGoaW7w | 0:15:56 (Pop-up) | |||
Roughneck Jihad & Solomon Strange | Quarter of Silence | THE ADVENTURES OF DR VOODUN | 2019 | accompanying animated video (extended) project = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oay7SPfFnGI | 0:19:19 (Pop-up) | |||
Bullies | Slicer Dicer EDIT | 2019 | Bullies is Denmark Vessey, DrxQuinnx and Azarias | 0:20:50 (Pop-up) | ||||
Khadaf x Napoleon Da Legend | Kwassa Kwassa (feat. Rockness Monsta) | MULHOUSE 2 BROOKLYN EP | 2019 | Napoleon Da Legend was born in Paris, France of East African (Comoros) descent & raised in DC, MA area. Feat Rockness Monsta of Boot Camp Clik, Khadaf of the Comoros Islands, production from DJ Scribe, Flotech, DJ Killa and pioneer DJ Dee Nasty. - this track came out earlier this year when first played here - but the video version was just published this past week seen here = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8y18uQs78 | 0:22:16 (Pop-up) | |||
Bru Lei | Yesterday | feBRUary | Public School Records | 2019 | Sacramento hip-hop talent known to most for his BRUTANG project in February 2019 dropped his follow up to the album Selfie with producer Noshess, the eight song album feBRUary (again with the Ohio producer) that his label (Public School Records) accurately described as “jazzy, rumbling head nod stream of consciousness hip hop flow in a loosely conceptual album about being stuck in the month of February like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day”. | 0:26:53 (Pop-up) | ||
A-God & Brutal Caesar | Mirror Studies | 2019 | off 7 song EP released April 20th 2019 and found here = https://brutalcaesar.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-god | 0:29:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
Chris Orrick | Liquor Store Hustle | Out To Sea | 2019 | This song - when played here upon its release - got the award of the week for the best, most unpretentious, self-effacing, drinking alone anthem = just an incredible song - listen to autobiographical lyrics. Bio = "Chris Orrick is the patron saint of a poisoned world. The blue-collar Michigan MC writes spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs." | 0:33:01 (Pop-up) | |||
DJ Pnutz | Alone EDIT | Work Flow | 2019 | one of two amazing albums released by San Diego female hip-hop talent DJ Pnutz that each got their world premiere on this WFMU show | 0:36:09 (Pop-up) | |||
The Good People | headpones | 2019 | The Good People's "Headphones" was released way back on the second day of 2019 is this upbeat sweet slice of boom-bap from New York City’s The Good People, the head-noddiing hip-hop track “Headphones,” that was the lead single of their mid-January released album "Good For Nuthin" (Fresh Pressings Records) whose many features included Sadat X, Cella Dwellas, Large Professor, DJ Red Alert and Napoleon Da Legend. Peep the music video version = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaTGqGJ9pPg | 0:39:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
C Keys & Kazi | To Whom It May Concern | Keys 2 Kazi | 2019 | “Keys 2 Kazi, a collaboration between Sacramento MC C Keys and producer Kazi, opens with bravado. “Flexing every lyric flow / Speaking of a miracle,” Keys raps over Kazi’s ominous, hypnotic beats. The track ends with similar gusto: “I’m not even rapping,” Keys says, “Really just voice commanding.” It’s a punchy, ear-catching gambit; but from there, the album shifts focus, developing into a broader collection of smart and nuanced concept tracks.” PEEP VIDEO VERSION = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31umfRN5lEQ | 0:43:33 (Pop-up) | |||
Lyric Jones & Nameless | Boston (Still Lovin It) | GA$ MONEY | 2019 | Femcee/singer/songwriter/drummer Lyric Jones teamed up with producer Nameless for the wonderful (albeit slept on) concept album ”GA$ MONEY.” As noted by the duo on the creation of GA$ MONEY, they found “common ground as they both were creating this project long distance while she drove Lyft & Uber majority of the time” and Nameless was a truck driver. "Gas money" was their inside joke in reference to it “being the bare minimum required for their presence or services in the music business” - and how each artist drives all day to make ends meet and be able to make music. See the music video to this song here = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mqV4cDuR8 | 0:45:54 (Pop-up) | |||
Preach Jacobs & Tall Black Guy | Gifted People | 2019 | Sounds Familar Records/Mo' Betta Soul - produced by Detroit’s super talented Tall Black Guy - this track - fueled by Nina Simone samples - positive uplifting pro-black themed track from Preach Jacobs see video here = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=702mudoja-w | 0:50:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
DJ Quest | Biotronic | Biotronic | 2019 | long time San Francisco turntablist / producer - born in El Salvador - frequent guest on this show (inc. on the 2019 WFMU Marathon DVD for this show) who is IMO among the Top 5 DJs of all time - albeit largely slept on and underappreciated - member of Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters/Space Travelers/ Liive Human and more - a true dedicated super talented artists | 0:54:04 (Pop-up) | |||
Blockhead | Weeping Willow | Free Sweatpants | Backwoodz Studioz | 2019 | NYC producer / previous show guest is just amazingly talented - as proven by this sample of his killer 2019 (mostly all instrumental) album | 0:57:01 (Pop-up) |
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