[MP3 + Music Video] Sietta – Carry

This Melbourne Australia duo, Sietta are friends with new Kitchen favorites, Audego who sent this my way. This track comes from their forthcoming Carry EP which is dropping, for some odd reason, this Friday (May 30). The song is actually from the album, Invisible River, and the video opens with the first single from that album, “Let it Go.”

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[MP3] Mac Miller – Insomniak feat. Rick Ross / New Faces v2 feat. Earl Sweatshirt

No joke, the Faces mixtape album these two tracks are from is great! I for one dismissed Mac Miller early on but he’s made a believer out of me and for that he gets respect. He’s one of the few MCs, actually one of the few artists, who gotten better with each new record he puts out (cf. his last official album release, Watching Movies with the Sound Off which is great too). The material on this album is super drug-centric but not in the half-baked/slacker-stoner way fellow Pitt MC, Wiz Khalifa‘s also just-released (but just OK) 28 Grams mixtape is. Faces is like the confessions and diaries of a reluctant addict, one who’s a less weird, suburban Lil Wayne. Color me (pun not intended) impressed.

[MP3] Wiz Khalifa – Word On The Town feat. Pimp C of UGK / On A Plane

Still kind of taking it in unlike many who have probably rendered snap judgements and moved on in this social media/blog/internet era we live in but on first blush, I thought the new 28 Grams mixtape by Wiz Khalifa was just OK. Fellow Pitt MC, Mac Miller‘s kind of getting the nod for his new Faces mixtape album over this tbh. Here’s a couple of the most notable cuts from the project though the first of which, “Word on the Town” features the absolutely legendary Pimp C of UGK. Hip-Hop really needs that dude about now, seriously. What you think of what you hear though??

[MP3] Lil Wayne – Believe Me feat. Drake

You know, I always thought Drake sounded better when he was going in over harder hip-hop beats instead of the warmed over 808s-esque/electronic soul gruel he tends to fill his albums with (and has admittedly made the de facto, non-trap/South hip-hop sound on radio for the past five years) and this Lil Wayne joint that he’s featured on (supposedly the first single from Tha Carter V) proves my point yet again.

Previously on The Kitchen:

– Lil Wayne – Moment

[MP3] Travi$ Scott feat. Big Sean + The 1975 – Don’t Play

Don’t have much to say about this one except I really dig it and despite being underrated (by myself included) Big Sean does manage to stay on hot records.