P.O.S. - Bush League Psyche-Out Stuff

In my opinion this is one of the best songs ever fucking written.

Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (hip hop politics)

So, I'm posting this song for a few reasons. The first one being, that I was listening to my headphones while cleaning and this song shuffled through. I haven't heard it in a while and it took me back to awesome, younger memories of when this song was all over the place...however my current/older/more experienced self, started thinking about how my musical journey has lead me to a point where I don't fully agree with Nas' entire message here. I do agree with his point that the music that's constantly on the radio and on every DJ's playlist, is played out and usually lacks any real talent or unique quality. However, I don't agree that hip-hop is "dead"... (Bare with me here because this whole train of thought will start to turn into a giant run-on sentence, but if I stop to worry about punctuation and all of that shit...my point will lose its intended value.)

In this song, Nas is referring to hip-hop as being the type of music that you hear on a constant loop on the radio, in department stores, and every stereotypical "bar."(Ya know, that type of bar you never plan on going to but somehow end up there late night/early morning...those gathering holes that try to portray a "club vibe" but in reality it's just an overpriced bar with an awkward strobe light, that's always too crowded and severely lacking of any type of seating...the places you have to throw bows like a claustrophobic Moses parting the drunk sea in hopes of finding a slightly less occupied space just to have it Christopher Columbused by a space cadet in search of their cellphone or a conversation about their feelings.) Holy shit, I digress..those types of places are literally my nightmare.

Back to my point, what Nas is referring to as hip-hop here...I like to refer to it as Rap. Hip-hop is good music...it has an intelligent message and a captivating beat. Rap music is played out pop-hop (I don't know if that makes sense but I'm saying that it's "pop-ish" in the sense that it lacks substance. There aren't any meaningful lyrics, and the beat is probably chopped from the same sample as the four songs played before it on the radio loop.

At the time this song was made, hip-hop wasn't dead but it was close to being buried and forgotten. I think that Nas could have used this track as an opportunity to talk about something better...not to shine more light on the radio pop rap community. When you talk about something it gains more popularity..in this case, it just helped to further burry real hip-hop's image. Nas should have just ignored all of that annoying shit and stuck to his old school hip-hop roots. With this track, I feel like Nas was fxcking with rap-pop himself. A wise man, Murs once said, "I coulda done a Nas and scream hip-hop is dead, but I got up off my ass and did something instead" (Song: Can It Be). Just something to think about...highdeas are the realist.

Dead Prez - Mind Sex

Woodkid - Iron

I still think that this is the greatest/most creative music video ever created....I don't know how anyone could even attempt to step to this...

Atmosphere - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 2

Currently, I am obsessed with this beat.

Kno - They Told Me

Throwing one of my older favorites into the recent mix of thangs.

Kendrick Lamar - Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe

Loveeee it.

Brother Ali - The Puzzle

One of my favorite songs...real shit for your life shit

Guante & Big Cats - Dragons

"I ain't slaying no dragons because maybe I'm in love with one..."

OnCue - Selfish

Throwing this song into the normal mix of things is kind of awkward however, it dropped into my spotify mix and I currently sort of dig it.

Grieves - I Ate Your Soul

This has been and will probably always be one of my favorite songs.

Atmosphere - Millennium Dodo

Musical goodness. You're welcome...

Marijuana Deathsquads - Paper Cuts

Currently, this song is one of my favorites. I love the fresh, eclectic sound of this album....and it's free! You can download it here!

Ground Up - Hold Me Down ft. Action Bronson

"I'm nothing less than nice, nothing more than real..." Here's some solid bass for your face.

Sol - Not The One

Throwing it semi back..I was jamming out in my headphones earlier when shuffle dropped this gem on me. This song puts some of my current thoughts into words and I couldn't say it any better myself. Love this dude and all of his music! If you want to check out more of his stuff click here!

First Listen: P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here

First Listen: P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio


I can't even contain how excited I am for this album to drop on the 22nd...shit's going to be ridiculous and I am going to be one happy mother fucker!

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Ten Thousand Hours

I would highly recommend that you buy Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' new album The Heist. 

"The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they paint a lot."

Brother Ali - My Beloved

This is one of my favorite tracks on Brother Ali's recent album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. In my opinion, this album is like four steps ahead of the whole hip hop game.

Sunburn - Sweatshop Union

Tune in, drop in

Fuck Your Stuff - POS

I fucking love everything about this song...haven't stopped listening to it since it was released. You should probably do yourself the favor and pre-order the album.

Anywhere But Here - K.Flay

Me Boi - Prof

Prof dropped Kaiser Von Powderhorn 3 earlier today...and by earlier today I mean yesterday because its 2:00 am...anyway, I digress but download it...it's free and fuck grammar because good music doesn't need it...chicka chicka yeah, you can download it right here, right meow

Team The Best Team - Doomtree

I've been on a serious Doomtree binge...you're welcome

Like You Mean It - SiMs

Some real shit for your life shit

Atmosphere - It Goes

I would never trade the way I am for the way I'm not

Dessa - Kites

Such a beautiful song

Blue Scholars - Marion Sunshine

This song makes me happy as fuck.

Dj Abilities - NOW! That's What I Call Fuck Off.

Dj Abilities - NOW! That's What I Call Fuck Off.

If you have 51 minutes to burn or burn to, I recommend you use this

Blah Blah Blah - Brother Ali

Jameson + my headphones = a motha fuckin party

Love On Display - Brother Ali

People are fine until they peep a weakness of mine, then they fuck me over so I need to leave them behind

Exhausted Love - Eyedea and Abilities

One for the record book. R.Eye.P

She Sonnet - Felt

ummm...I just fell in love with this song all over again while I was doing the dishes/recycling the small town of beer cans in my kitchen. There's just something spectacular about the way Slug and Murs spit back and forth.

Hail Mary Mallon - Grubsteak

This whole album puts me in a fantastic mood.

Blueprint - Go Hard Or Go Home

Only the good die young, like Dilla did.

Letterhead- Macklemore

That little ball in the paint can was the metronome to my heartbeat... 

Tragic - Grieves ft. Brother Ali

One of music's amazing aspects is that fantastic moment when you fall in love with a song all over again. [Major run on sentence/paragraph coming next, but it's describing an epic feeling, so punctiation only slows down my fleeting thoughts about this current situation] ...I'm referring to that musical phenomenon that happens when your headphones are on and you're listening to your shit on shuffle and then a frequently familiar song from any point of time in your past starts playing, and it mind fucks you in the sense that it grabs your attention and you are really hearing it for the first time. The lyrics never resonated so deep and the beat never grabbed your subconcious so hard. (that's what she said though...HA!) This also gets me to thinking how our daily and collective perspective and attitude subconsciously determine what we want to jam out to...shit, I digress...The only thing I was really trying to point out was the fact that Brother Ali's verse is fanfuckingtastic and I'm really enjoying rocking out to this song in my headphones right meow

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Dash Speaks - Flood Music

Currently, I am obsessed with Dash Speaks new album Night On Earth. This is the only video I could find of a song from the album, but my favorite track would have to be The Sentamentalist. I also really like the track grudges, which features one of my favorite rappers, K.Flay. But I haven't even told you the best part yet.... this album is available for FREEEEE!! Good music, fooo free, doesn't get any better than that. You can download the album here! Chicka chicka yeyahh, you're welcome!

Unknown Prophets ft. Slug - Never

One of my favorite songs. All day errdayy!

Evidence - I Don't Need Love

Life shit status

Yonas- The Transition Mixtape

Yes yes yes! I've been going through some serious M.A.D.D (music attention deficient disorder) and this is just what I needed. It's fanfuckingtastic and it's free which makes me about as excited as that double rainbow guy! Click here to download the mixtape!

Atmosphere - My Notes

Weaving through the concrete cracks that we cling to...

Prof- On My Way

Turn it up and shut up.

Your Eyes

Sol 2020

Irish Celebration!

Alive Inside

This is an excerpt from a recently released documentary, "Alive Inside." This film beautiful captures the awakening of Alzheimer's patients through music. The neuroscience of music and the therapeutic aspects of sound are incredible human experiences. Music can break through the walls of disease and disability to reach people who have been considered unreachable. Familiar music triggers autobiographical memories in Alzheimer's patients and enhances their identity. When we listen to music, we form an emotional connection to it. The strength of our emotional connection determines how well we remember a specific song. Emotions, music, and memories are linked together in the music-memory and music-emotion hub of the brain. (Also known as the medial prefrontal cortex for all you technical people) This area of the brain is one of the last regions to deteriorate over the course of Alzheimer's disease. This explains why patients who suffer from rapidly increasing memory loss, can still recall familiar songs from their distant past. In other words, familiar music actually triggers a mental movie of memories and plays them over in your mind's eye. Music can mentally transport people to a different time and place and improve their quality of life.

K.Flay Eyes Shut

I know I have been slacking lately with posting music, and by slacking I mean I completely dropped the ball for about two months. My bad, my bad. I recently started grad school and I have the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth. (I'm assuming a ferret on crystal meth would have a very difficult time paying attention to anything) Anyways, I digress. Change topics. Do yourself a favor and listen to K.Flay's Eyes Shut EP because it is fantastically amazing. All I have to say is holy shit, I think this might be one of my favorite things to rock out to. Channeling my unspoken brain waves and shiittt. You can also download the Eyes Shut Ep here. Get on it people, it's a breath of fresh air for your ears!