New Mixtape: Maverick Sabre – Travelling Man

This one is heavily co-signed by the homie, Semtex:

“This is the highly anticipated mixtape from Maverick Sabre The Travelling Man. The London-born, Irish-raised singer songwriter is breaking the mold. With his soulful voice and skillful guitar playing, he draws audiences in a leaves them in wonder.

Silencing crowds with his lamenting social-political content, this young rising star is generating a lot of interest from press and booking agents alike. Recently tipped by Hot Press as being the Irish newcomer who will give the established artists some serious competition, Maverick was also nominated ‘Best Homegrown Act’ in the 2008 Urban Takeover Awards.”

Hit the jump for a couple videos of Maverick with Scorzayzee and Marvell doing an acoustic freestyle on a college campus tour in England and a video for the track, “They Found Him a Gun.” (more…)

CNN Video: President Obama Says He’s Not Caving on Tax Cuts

Really??! So he claims in a speech made while on a trade mission in Seoul, Korea which apparently didn’t go so well either!

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Video: Art of Fresh Live at Arlene’s Grocery for CMJ 2010

Via Arcade 44 TV:

“We caught Art of Fresh at Arlene’s Grocery, during their CMJ showcase in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Hailing from Canada, this crew from the north was anything but cold! The crowd was dancing, the jams were live, and their energy was completely infectious. Art of Fresh’s latest album, Back to the Earth* is in stores now.”

Seriously, Art of Fresh’s When The Night Comes In album (* note: Back to the Earth is not their latest album!) is one of my favorites of this year. They brought hip-house back but kept it funky and soulful, not some corny electro, hipster sh-t. Please believe it! Here’s one track from it:

And hit the jump for some tracks from their previous album, Back to Earth. (more…)

Video: BET Rising Icons with Melanie Fiona

This is old but how can I miss an opportunity to post an acoustic performance of my future wife on BET?! (I only half kid….)

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New Mixtape: Sinotra – Tip Of The Iceberg

Here’s the plug on this from Ro’shine:

“Sinotra is well known for his freestyle prowess, but on his new mixtape Tip Of The Iceberg he proves that he can make dope music. With features from all your favourite Toronto rappers, and production by Rich Kidd, Noah “40″ Shebib, and Boi-1da.”

I’ma have ti co-sign the freestyle prowess thing. I saw him and Blake Carrington make up songs with arrangement and hooks on the spot at the finals of the Sound Battle Royale. Amazing stuff. But more seriously son, get a f-cking bandcamp page! Do you know how long it’s gonna take before I actually, download this, unzip it, upload to my itunes and sync it to my ipod when i could be listening to a stream of this like, right now??! *Smdh….*

Check the back cover for the tracklist and the download link after the jump. (more…)