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[Music Video] Purple HeArts – One Whole Breath/Intro Hearts
Purple HeArts is singer and sometime Kitchen contributor, Brendan Philip and producer, Lord Quest. Video directed and edited by Richenzo Faison (@RichCityENT). Check out more from Purple HeArts on their bandcamp page.
[MP3] Justin Bieber – Boyfriend (Grandtheft & Yung Skeeter Edit)
This is actually… not terrible?!
BTW: I had no idea Bieber had done a cover of Frank Ocean‘s “Thinkin’ About You” end of last year (hit the jump….)
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In case you missed it: D.O. – Heavy In The Game (FULL Album Stream)
The Heavy in the Game album dropped last week. You can check it out in full via the bandcamp player above. Know the kid personally and am a fan of his solo work and music with Slakah the Beatchild as part of the club-rap duo, The Art of Fresh so check it out and drop a comment with your feedback below.
You can see it the player above but hit the jump for the track list with credits and also the first video from the album, “She Likes You” produced by Classified.
[New Mixtape] DJ Mensa presents DECOMPRESSION
New mix by one of the best DJ’s in Toronto:
This is an exploration in gearing down.
Made for the remains of the day.
Après work. Après exams. Après bullshit.
Après. Après. Après.
Amen.
Playlist:
Washed Out – Feel It All Around
Summer Leather Vest feat. Joe Budden – Unison
Les Nubians – Tabou (Mensa Blend)
Miguel – Adorn (Jester Edit)
James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream (Arsenii Remix)
The Internet – Love Song
Compton – 7 Days
Mac Miller ft. Posdnuos & Raekwon – Of The Soul
Wiz Khalifa – California
Jean Grae – U, Me, Everyone We Know
Camp Lo – Coolie High (Mensa Blend)
Al Green – Simply Beautiful (King Most Redirection)
Anna Wise – Wonderful
Knxwledge x Notorious B.I.G. – WunMoarChance
Phonte – Sending My Love
Ayomari & Tiron – All My Love
Estelle – Cold Crush
King – More Love
Yuna – Live Your Life
Robert Glasper ft. Musiq & Chrisette Michelle – Ah Yeah
Goapele – Play
Sweater Beats – Remember
Chris Brown – Yo (Star Slinger Remix)
Star Slinger ft. Reggie B – Dumbin’
Gotye – Somebody I Used To Know (Bozack’s Remix)
MP3 Download: DJ Mensa Presents “DECOMPRESSION” | Alt. download link: direct MP3 [right click and save as]
[MP3] D-Sisive – Adam [MCA Tribute 1964 – 2012]
D-sisive drops a very cool tribute to the late Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Peep the science:
‘parents saw the devil when their children saw god’
The Beastie Boys were my Beatles. My father would preach the gospel of the Fab 5 while me, too young to give a shit, wanted to wear baggy clothing and be MCA. You’d think I wanted to be Mike D due to the ‘4th letter in the alphabet’ connection, but nope. Yauch was cooler to me.
MCA was no bullshit. The only one of the three that I would be afraid of. Yauch was my Lennon. Leave the bubblegum to McCartney. Here’s the real shit.
“I can blow you away or you could ride with me.” -MCA, Paul Revere
My world stopped when a friend of mine sent me a text, telling me MCA passed away. I’ve lost people. It’s always a different reaction based on the closeness of the relationship. I’ve never met Adam Yauch, but it felt like I lost a family member. We never shook hands, or greeted each other, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours, over the course of 20 plus years, with him and the Beastie Boys in my headphones.
No offense to, but I wasn’t one of those tweeting how they were going to spend their entire weekend listening to the Beastie Boys, in memory of MCA. I’ve been listening to them consistently since the late eighties. Not a week goes by that I don’t have one craving to listen to a Beastie Boys song.
I knew I had to create something for him. I didn’t want to record the typical tribute song. MCA wasn’t typical and deserves better. I wanted to take it back to my childhood. The childhood they had impacted so heavily. I wanted to take it back to me, rapping Pass The Mic in a comb in front of a mirror in my bedroom, hat backwards, in my father’s work jacket. These were the moments that drove me to become an artist. And MCA helped me steer.
Thank you, Adam.
Derek
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
