The Audacity of Dope

New music on this week’s SNSS from artists like Pusha T, 14KT, J. Pinder, Miguel, Jesse Boykins III, Kanye West, Rapper Big Pooh, Kendrick Lamar, and more.  Speaking of Kendrick, this happened the other day.  Be on the lookout for our interview soon.

Shout to Choklate for coming through the studio and for Sol letting us world premiere his new record, “Old Him,” as well.  Enjoy!

Show #383 (10-14-12)

1. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre – “Compton”
2. 50 Cent ft. Too Short – “First Date”
3. Pusha T ft. Future – “Pain”
4. Fearce & BeanOne – “G-Life”
5. Mayer Hawthorne – “Henny & Gingerale (Bakaboyz B-Mix)”
6. Big Boi ft. Kelly Rowland – “Mama Told Me”
7. Lupe Fiasco ft. Poo Bear – “Heart Donor”
8. 14KT – “AsWe (Continue)”
9. J. Pinder ft. Musiq Soulchild – “Lenore” (Local Music)
10. Sol – “Old Him” (Local Music)
11. Talib Kweli ft. Greg Nice & Styles P – “NY Shining”
12. **INTERVIEW WITH CHOKLATE, PT. 1**
13. Miguel – “Use Me”
14. **INTERVIEW WITH CHOKLATE, PT. 2**
15. Choklate – “Wide Open” (Local Music)
16. DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. Erro – “Rock Wit U” (Throwback of the Week)
17. **INTERVIEW WITH CHOKLATE, PT. 3**
18. Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X – “The Perfect Blues”
19. Kanye West – “White Dress”
20. David Dallas – “Don’t Want The World”
21. Rapper Big Pooh – “Friends”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/67539449/file.html
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Check out new music on this week’s SNSS from artists like Common, Kendrick Lamar, Stalley, Miguel, Big Boi, Spree Wilson, 50 Cent, Saigon, STS, J. Cole, and more.  Shout to the Pac Div homies for calling in as well.

In other news, if you missed our interview with Yuna, you can watch it right here.  Many thanks to her for coming through and performing a few amazing acoustic tracks for us live in the studio.  Enjoy!

Show #382 (10-7-12)

1. Kanye West ft. Raekwon, Pusha T, Common, 2 Chainz, CyHi The Prynce, Kid Cudi, & D’Banj – “The Morning”
2. DJ Drama ft. Common, Kendrick Lamar, & Lloyd – “My Way”
3. Stalley – “Loud Motors”
4. Cassow ft. Epp – “Where U At” (Local Music)
5. Miguel – “Kaleidoscope Dream”
6. Frank Ocean – “Lost”
7. Mayer Hawthorne ft. Snoop Dogg – “Can’t Stop (Dam-Funk G-Mix)”
8. Big Boi ft. Kelly Rowland – “Mama Told Me”
9. Spree Wilson – “Right One, Wrong Time”
10. 50 Cent ft. Too Short – “First Date”
11. **INTERVIEW WITH PAC DIV**
12. Pac Div – “Automatic”
13. Eighty4 Fly – “Cool Kid” (Local Music)
14. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre – “Compton”
15. Saigon – “Relafriendship”
16. Lupe Fiasco ft. Bilal – “How Dare You”
17. Sam Lachow & Raz ft. Ariana DeBoo – “Coyotes” (Local Music)
18. J. Cole – “Get Free Coleworld”
19. Big Daddy Kane – “Young, Gifted, and Black” (Throwback of the Week)
20. Toussaint Morrison – “Can’t Relive The Party”
21. STS ft. J. Nics – “Schoolie’s Jawn”
22. Steven A. Clark – “F.*.C.K., Pt. 2”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.sharebeast.com/c4p83frxnki6
(back up / streaming link – http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/89025052/file.html)
(2nd back up – http://linkmixes.com/c0w9870kwxny)

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While in Seattle for the 2012 Capitol Hill Block Party, Malaysian-born singer Yuna visited SNSS for an interview and live performance.  We discussed her transition from Asia, the role MySpace, Indie Pop, and FADER played in her success, meeting and working with Pharrell, her creative process, her growing collection of cover records, life on tour, her self-titled US debut album, her next project, and more. Additionally, she performed two acoustic songs live in studio: “Live Your Life” (5:40) and “Decorate” (16:08).

Yuna is a true talent.  Catch up if you’ve been sleeping and keep an eye out for her to make some big waves in the near future.

Shout out to the Cornerstone, Detooz Films, and Le Fresh Perspective homies for helping make this happen.

Apologies again for the delay in posting this week’s episode of SNSS, but I spent the first half of the week doing day job work at ESPN’s HQ in Bristol, CT.  People based there are used to seeing all the random on-air hosts and celebrities come through, but it was a trip literally bumping into folks like Stephen A. Smith, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Tedy Bruschi, and even the legendary Jerry Rice (!!!) in the hallways.  Sitting in the control room during SportsCenter and First Take was an incredible experience too.  Almost as good as appearing on SportsCenter a few weeks ago.  Oh you ain’t know?  Take a peek.

Anyway, back to the music.  This past week’s show featured new music from folks like David Dallas, Curren$y, Miguel, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Sir Michael Rocks, Rockie Fresh, Pharoahe Monch, Quelle Chris, Toussaint Morrison, Wax Tailor, Aloe Blacc, Mayer Hawthorne, Rapsody, and more.  Good lineup.  Trust me.

Show #381 (9-30-12)

1. Brother Ali – “Need A Knot”
2. David Dallas – “Ever Get The Feeling”
3. DJ Drama ft. Rick Ross, Pusha T, Curren$y, & Miguel – “Clouds”
4. Wiz Khalifa ft. The Weeknd – “Remember You”
5. Steven A. Clark – “F.*.C.K., Pt. 2”
6. Kid Cudi ft. King Chip – “Just What I Am”
7. Rebel ft. Brothers From Another – “Outta Yo Mind” (Local Music)
8. Sir Michael Rocks ft. Rockie Fresh – “Can’t Hide It”
9. Pharoahe Monch – “Damage”
10. ILLFIGHTYOU – “92” (Local Music)
11. Quelle Chris – “Milky”
12. Binary Star – “Reality Check” (Throwback of the Week)
13. Kilo Kush – “Navy”
14. Lupe Fiasco ft. Bilal – “How Dare You”
15. Kanye West ft. Raekwon, Pusha T, Common, 2 Chainz, CyHi The Prynce, Kid Cudi, & D’Banj – “The Morning”
16. Frank Ocean – “Bad Religion”
17. Talib Kweli ft. Ryan Leslie – “Outstanding”
18. Toussaint Morrison – “Can’t Relive The Party”
19. Wax Tailor ft. Aloe Blacc – “Time To Go”
20. Mayer Hawthorne – “No Strings (RAC Remix)”
21. Sonny Bonoho ft. Xperience & Bizarre – “Oh, God!” (Local Music)
22. Miguel – “Do You…”
23. Rapsody ft. Heather Victoria – “The Drums”
24. Styles of Beyond ft. Michael Buble – “Damn”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?xuk8u2hqyr5c4im
(back up / streaming link – http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/99939525/file.html)
(2nd back up – http://linkmixes.com/mlgtplh5kgpz)

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Sorry for the delay on this week’s SNSS archive, but as always, better late than never!  New music from folks like Murs, Fashawn, Exile, Kilo Kish, Moka Only, Brother Ali, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Big Sean, Ghostface Killah, and more.  Enjoy…

Show #380 (9-23-12)

1. Kanye West ft. Pusha T & Ghostface Killah – “New God Flow (Remix)”
2. Scoe ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Thank You”
3. Murs & Fashawn ft. Adrian – “This Generation”
4. Action Bronson – “It’s Me”
5. Fabolous – “So NY”
6. ILLFIGHTYOU – “92” (Local Music)
7. Lupe Fiasco – “Form Follows Function”
8. Big Sean ft. J. Cole – “24K Of Gold”
9. Kilo Kish – “Navy”
10. Miguel – “Do You…”
11. Frank Ocean – “Monks”
12. Talib Kweli ft. Black Thought & Ab-Soul – “Congregation”
13. Brother Ali – “All You Need”
14. Rookie Snow ft. Nipsey Hussle & Emoe – “Successful” (Local Music)
15. Jay-Z – “Takeover” (Throwback of the Week)
16. PackFM – “Crazy”
17. Leezy Soprano – “Greater Love” (Local Music)
18. Dag Savage (Johaz & Exile) ft. Fashawn & Co$$ – “Cali Dreamin’”
19. Steven A. Clark – “Seashore”
20. Junia-T ft. Slakah The Beatchild – “You & I”
21. Moka Only ft. Plug 2 (of De La Soul) – “Mr. Megahustle” (Local Music)
22. Mansions On The Moon – “Radio”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?81a2eizjazaigm3
(back up / streaming link – http://www.sharebeast.com/eac5v50djkan)
(2nd back up – http://linkmixes.com/m8bvi7kmfpjg)

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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)
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No time for a wrap up, gotta run across the street and enjoy this last day of the Bumbershoot Festival (Best Coast, Passion Pit, M83, Skrillex, and more today…shout to Yelawolf, Mac Miller, and Big Sean yesterday).  Enjoy this week’s SNSS with music from The Physics, Macklemore, Frank Ocean, ASAP Rocky, Yuna, MeLo-X, Thurz, Stalley, Hit-Boy, The Black Opera, Pac Div, Mac Miller, and more.  Shout to the homey Fleeta Partee for coming through the studio and debuting his new “Apathy” record with Jake One on production.

Enjoy!

Show #377 (9-2-12)

1. The Physics – “So Funky” (Local Music)
2. DJ Khaled ft. J. Cole, Big K.R.I.T., & Kendrick Lamar – “They Ready”
3. Beanie Sigel ft. State Property – “The Reunion”
4. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz – “Thrift Shop” (Local Music)
5. **INTERVIEW WITH FLEETA PARTEE, PT. 1**
6. Fleeta Partee – “Apathy” (Local Music)
7. Brother Ali – “Mourning In America”
8. **INTERVIEW WITH FLEETA PARTEE, PT. 2**
9. Frank Ocean – “Pilot Jones”
10. ASAP Rocky – “Purple Kisses”
11. TiRon & Ayomari – “Radio”
12. Yuna – “Live Your Life (MeLo-X Motherland God Mix)”
13. De La Soul ft. A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, & Monie Love – “Buddy (Native Tongues Remix)” (Throwback of the Week)
14. Nas – “The Black Bond”
15. The Kid Daytona – “Luxury Raps”
16. Thurz ft. Johnny Polygon – “Are You Not”
17. J. Bizness ft. The Black Opera – “Giraffes”
18. Stalley – “Petrin Hill Peonies (Harry Fraud Wavemix)”
19. Pac Div ft. Mac Miller & Raven Sorvino – “Black Acura”
20. Rochelle Jordan – “Pressure”
21. Nitty Scott, MC ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Flower Child”
22. Hit-Boy – “East vs. West”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?73f465i7a451sz2
(back up / streaming link – http://www.sharebeast.com/75e5mb61oxfu)
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With college and pro football about to kick off, things are getting pretty busy at the day job, so I’ll keep this quick.  I got that work.  Literally.

New music on this week’s SNSS from artists like Brother Ali, Lupe Fiasco, J. Bizness, The Black Opera, Rochelle Jordan, Beanie Sigel, State Property, GLC, Nitty Scott, MC, Roc Marciano, Torae, Khrysis, Method Man, Slaughterhouse, and more.

Plus, we were joined in studio by the filmmakers behind Husky Loyal, which is a great new documentary chronicling the final football game in the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium (before the massive renovation) and in a larger sense, what it means to be part of the Husky community.  Whether you’re directly affiliated with the University or not, and even if you aren’t a sports fan, everyone living in Seattle is greatly influenced by UW.  Check out the trailer here and then peep the soundtrack featuring Seattle producers Blue Sky Black Death, Justo (The Physics), Keyboard Kid, P-Smoov, Ryan Lewis, and OC Notes for a free download right here.

Enjoy the show!

Show #376 (8-26-12)

1. DJ Khaled ft. Scarface, Nas, & DJ Premier – “Hip-Hop”
2. Brother Ali – “Mourning In America”
3. Lupe Fiasco – “Lamborghini Angels”
4. J. Bizness ft. The Black Opera – “Giraffes”
5. Rochelle Jordan – “Pressure”
6. Eighty4 Fly – “Cool Kid” (Local Music)
7. Beanie Sigel ft. State Property – “The Reunion”
8. Kendrick Lamar ft. Young Jeezy – “Westside, Right On Time”
9. Nas ft. Mary J. Blige – “Reach Out”
10. GLC – “Nation Piece”
11. **INTERVIEW WITH “HUSKY LOYAL” FILM CREW, PT. 1**
12. The Physics ft. Porter Ray & Isabella Du Graf – “Zones In The Twilight” (Local Music)
13. Dion Primo – “Colors”
14. **INTERVIEW WITH “HUSKY LOYAL” FILM CREW, PT. 2**
15. Q-Dot ft. Galvin Malloy & Chiaki Noelle – “Electricity” (Local Music)
16. The Pharcyde – “Passin’ Me By” (Throwback of the Week)
17. Nitty Scott, MC ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Flower Child”
18. Roc Marciano – “76”
19. Charlie Red – “Radiant Child”
20. Torae ft. Khrysis – “Gettin’ Biz”
21. Method Man ft. Freddie Gibbs & Streetlife – “Built For This”
22. Slaughterhouse – “Coming Home”
23. Thurz ft. BJ The Chicago Kid – “Another Number”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?03cbfmnsm3727w7
(back up / streaming link – http://www.sharebeast.com/mp6x8zi1t0o2)
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