[MP3] Big Sean – Blessings Feat. Drake & Kanye West

Latest banger from Big Sean with Drizzy and Yeezy, big tune!

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Big Sean Gives Complex TV A Tour of Detriot.

[MP3] Listen to Two Recent Tracks by Kaytranada – Drive Me Crazy feat. Vic Mensa / Mick Jenkins – Rain

The “Rain” track by Mick Jenkins is produced by Kaytranada. Both joints are super-solid though, no??

[MP3] Joey Bada$$ – No. 99 (prod. by Statik Selektah)

As I was saying on twitter the other day, for all my old curmudgeon friends who lamented how the sound of mainstream hip-hop veered away from the dusty crate diggin’ boom-bap sound of sampled breaks and loops, I would always tell them that everything goes in cycles and that their beloved 90’s hip-hop sound would come back into vogue, not when young kids discovered Tribe, Pete Rock and De La et al., but when one of those kids discovered those sounds and, inspired by them, made it their own.

I’m not sure it’s happened quite yet but Joey Bada$$ might be that kid I was talking about. Exhibit 1: his flip of A Tribe Called Quest‘s iconic “Scenario” beat for the “No. 99” track from his recently released official major label debut album, B4.Da.$$, produced by 90s hip-hop flag waver, Statik Selektah.

Will this album kick all the trap, drill and club electro sounds currently dominating clubs and radio to the curb? Not sure I really believe that but for those of you holding a candle up for that eventuality, maybe there’s a little bit more hope now?

[CONTEST] Enter to Win FREE Tickets to See Pete Rock & DJ Maseo of De La Soul Live in Toronto (Jan. 29)

ATTN: This Contest is now CLOSED. Congrats to winner @Gerhovah on winning the tickets for tonight’s show.

Hip Hop Legends for the Legends Hip Hop event series! Pete Rock and DJ Maseo of De La Soul spinning live at The Phoenix here in Toronto TOMORROW (Jan. 29). Kind of essential, people!

Want a chance to get a pair of tickets for the show FREE? Just do the following:

1. Follow @Stellaskid on twitter (so I can DM you in the event that you win)

2. Tweet the following message exactly: “Hey @Stellaskid: I wanna win tickets to see @PeteRock & @DeLaSoulsDugout live at #ThePhoenix in Toronto on Jan. 29” (note: no quotation marks needed, just the message inside the quotation marks is fine)

The contest will close at 12noon EST tomorrow (Jan. 29). Winner will be notified via twitter DM. Winner will be responsible for their own transportation to the show.

For more details on this show, click the Facebook event page HERE and if you’re exceptionally young and/or uninformed on your hip-hop history, check out a little taste of what you might hear tomorrow at the show.

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[MP3] Audego – Feral

Kitchen favorites and #DK11 album alum, Audego have let loose another track from their still untitled forthcoming third album called “Feral.” Of course, it’s brilliant, as usual. Here’s the scoop on the track which premiered on the Earmilk blog:

Australian singer/producer duo, Audego present their new song, “Feral.” Pasobionic creates a bed of undulating percussion scattered with claps and bells, fleshed out with loping synth and rhodes chords, over which Carolyn Tariq’s honeyed vocals lament the exhaustion of carrying someone who keeps letting you down.

“Feral” is available for “name your price” via bandcamp and will (soon) be available on iTunes.

Missed the track, “Gone” which we were honored to premiere as part of the This One Goes To Eleven… compilation album for the 11th anniversary of Different Kitchen last Fall? Listen to it HERE.