[MP3] Diddy feat. Rick Ross & French Montana – Big Homie

Diddy (when he was still going by Puffy) went from re-imagining, with Dr. Dre and Suge of Deathrow Records, 90s mainstream, hardcore hip-hop (see above) to this….

As Brooklyn’s Finest, Biggie put it, #thingsdonechanged…

[MP3] Mark the 45 King – Hard Knock Horns 2014

This trailer for the new version of Annie starring Quvenzhane Wallis, Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx that got the ‘not racist’ quarters of the internet going NUTS was either an excuse to post Golden Era hip-hop production legend, Mark the 45 King‘s (Flavor Unit, Eminem‘s “Stan” and… ) 2014 refix of his classic “Hard Knock Life” beat (aka the track that broke Jay-Z mainstream) or vice versa. You be the judge….

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to See REDMAN Live in Toronto on March 28!!!!

Yes, TOMORROW! I didn’t even know about this show but thanks to the homie, Mike from KOP’s records, we have a pair of tickets to give one lucky reader to see the Def Squad, Brick City MC legend, Redman who tweets the following:

“Hey @Stellaskid: I want to win the tickets to see @therealredman at the Rockpile East in Toronto TOMORROW (March 28) https://www.facebook.com/events/1424719281106448/” [note: you do not need to include the quotation marks when you tweet but you do need to include ‘@Stellaskid’]

Make sure you are folllowing me on twitter so I can DM you in the event you are the winner. This contest will end at 1PM EST tomorrow (March 28) Good luck.

For more details on the show, CLICK HERE then hit the jump to hear some classics from the Funk Doc, Reggie Noble….

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[MP3 + Video Trailer PREMIERE] Listen to Three Tracks from The Names Are Known Album

If you’re a regular visitor here at the Kitchen you might have already checked out the DJ mixed version of the excellent J(N)AMES, the J. Dilla/Detroit hip-hop-inspired full length collab project by local hip-hop producers/DJ/MCs, Deejay Nana and I.James.Jones on our tumblr page. Now the non-mixed version of the album is available so you can check out the songs individually as discrete tracks.

To celebrate this and turn the focus back on J(N)AMES, Nana and James have produced a special short film style video incorporating three tracks from the album, “Another 1ne of Those Nights”, produced by Junia-T; “Close2u”, produced by Royce Birth and; “Get Up”, produced by Blaz. Above is the first ever look at the video anywhere. Check back in April 9 to see the full version of it. In the meantime, here goes the other two tracks from that forthcoming video that have not been featured here on the site before:

And if you haven’t checked out the J(N)AMES album, which features Detroit native, Dank (also known as Dankery Harv of Frank N Dank), D.O. (Guinness Book Of Records/Stay Driven), Juno nominated producer/rapper Rich Kidd and production from Lord Quest (Dom Kennedy, Schoolboy Q, Talib Kweli), Junia T (Smash Brovaz), Dennis Passley (The Pocket Dwellers), Blaz, Eso Tahreek and Royce Birth, you can do so here: Soundcloud (clean version) | Bandcamp

Really dig it and need it on your MP3 player or phone? Download zip files of J(N)AMES for FREE here: Mediafire (main) | Mediafire (clean)

Follow The Names Are Known: twitter | facebook

[MP3] Zavey – Get The Money

Fly track I found on my soundcloud stream. Don’t know much about this other than he’s from Houston, it’s ‘produced by The Prodeuser‘ (!) and it’s dope as f-ck!