The Audacity of Dope

This guy has made my favorite music of the past two years and can pretty much do no wrong right now. Wow.

“I thought you left!”

Shout to Che and David. Dopeness from NZ.

I don’t know if it’s the video of the year, but it’s certainly my song of the year. I only wish they had visuals for the entire 10 minute piece.

Honestly, the verse was ill, but Mack rocking that jacket on BET is all you need in life.  And for all my label homies that hit me up about Mack pretty much every week, check the rhyme starting at 1:42.  That should answer your questions…

The homies Eighty4 Fly and Jon Jon Augustavo have linked up for another great video from the town, this time for “Cool Kid” off Eighty4’s Colors project. Download the entire tape right here.

My favorite part of this whole Seattle movement is that everyone is legitimately down for each other. Every time someone in the scene drops a video, you see countless homies making cameos and showing support. We’re all going to look back on these days as special moments in Seattle’s music history. I hope this never stops.

My guy Dones is one of the more underrated cats around, but hopefully that all changes with the release of his upcoming debut album, California Dreaming, dropping later this year.  Feeling this record.  White people: don’t rap along with the hook though, please.

Been too busy lately to do much blogging, so I’ll be catching up on some content that I missed over the last few weeks. First up, the official video for Miguel’s “Adorn,” which has skyrocketed into a smash record recently. We played this on SNSS when it first leaked and we’ve been running a couple other records that Migs has dropped too (my current jam is “Do You…“).  They’re all leading up to the release of Kaleidoscope Dream, dropping in October.

On this week’s SNSS, our friend, the illustrious Saul Williams, joined us to co-host and discuss his new book, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, which you can cop here.  It’s an amazing piece of work where Saul combined hundreds of poetry submissions from his social media channels and then “mixed” them together through the underlying themes in the text.  He even highlighted specific words from the other authors throughout the book to create his own poems, woven inside the other pieces.  Everything that good DJ’s do with music, he did with poetry.  Trill.

Musically, we ran tracks from artists like Fabolous, Scoe, Main Attrakionz, Junia-T, Miguel, Mansions on the Moon, The Weeknd, Nas, Kanye, and more.  Enjoy!

 Show #379 (9-16-12)
**Co-hosted by Saul Williams**

1. Fabolous – “So NY”
2. Kanye West ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z – “Clique”
3. Scoe ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Thank You”
4. Rapsody ft. Rocki Evans – “Come Home”
5. John Crown ft. Luck-One, The Good Sin, & Mario Sweet – “Singin’ and Rappin’” (Local Music)
6. Main Attrakionz ft. DaVinci – “Do It For The Bay”
7. Leezy Soprano – “Greater Love” (Local Music)
8. Nas ft. Amy Winehouse – “Cherry Wine”
9. Junia-T ft. Slakah The Beatchild – “You & I”
10. Frank Ocean – “Crack Rock”
11. Miguel – “Do You…”
12. J. Cole – “I’m A Fool”
13. Jean Grae – “Kill Screen (aka Steve Wiebe)”
14. Lupe Fiasco – “American Terrorist, Pt. 2 (Superheroes)”
15. 2Pac – “So Many Tears” (Throwback of the Week)
16. Dee-1 ft. Mannie Fresh & Mos Def – “The Very Best”
17. Sam Lachow ft. Razpy & Molly Swenson – “The Best Part” (Local Music)
18. Mansions on the Moon – “Radio”
19. The Weeknd – “Wicked Games (Single Version)”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?st93nrqtyongu9l
(back up / streaming link – http://www.sharebeast.com/8poeopcn660y)
(2nd back up – http://linkmixes.com/ndhmnshrimik)

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Sorry for the delay on this week’s SNSS archive, but better late than never.  Check this show #378 for new music from Wax Tailor, Elzhi, Dee-1, Lil Fame, Termanology, Apathy, Celph Titled, Styles of Beyond, Steven A. Clark, Rochelle Jordan, Jean Grae, and more.  Enjoy!

Show #378 (9-9-12)

1. ASAP Rocky – “Purple Kisses”
2. Nas – “The Black Bond”
3. Wax Tailor ft. Elzhi & Akua Naru – “My Window”
4. Dee-1 ft. Mannie Fresh & Mos Def – “The Very Best”
5. Brother Ali – “4th King”
6. Thurz – “L.N.S.”
7. Leezy Soprano – “Greater Love” (Local Music)
8. Kanye West ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z – “Clique”
9. Lil Fame & Termanology – “Fizzyology”
10. Apathy & Celph Titled – “School For Scoundrels”
11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz – “Thrift Shop” (Local Music)
12. Styles of Beyond ft. Michael Buble – “Damn”
13. Rapsody ft. Rocki Evans – “Come Home”
14. The Roots ft. Eve & Jill Scott – “You Got Me (Alternate Mix)” (Throwback of the Week)
15. Carl Roe – “The Feather” (Local Music)
16. Frank Ocean – “Forrest Gump”
17. Steven A. Clark – “Not Ready”
18. Jesse Boykins III – “Restless Dreamer (King ReFix)”
19. Rochelle Jordan – “Losing”
20. Aaliyah ft. Drake – “Enough Said”
21. Jean Grae – “Kill Screen (aka Steve Wiebe)”
22. Slaughterhouse ft. Fat Joe – “Goodbye (Remix)”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?sw8hdpjrsxuwxrz
(back up / streaming link – http://www.sharebeast.com/6ljuvn0w32nf)
(2nd back up – http://linkmixes.com/hfhzx7ux9e7g)

If there are any problems with the links or if you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.