[MP3] HTTP – Pay Me feat. Mickie Ryan

Get your weekend kicked off right with this trap banger….

[MP3] Rockie Fresh feat. Lunice – HEADQUARTERS Freestyle

Lunice on the beat??

Rockie Fresh – twitter | website

[MP3] Ryan Hemsworth & Starlito – Can’t Get Over You

More Hypemachine blog bait. I’m semi on Tdot indie-hiphop beatsmith, Ryan Hemsworth (just started checking out his Guilt Trips album last week tbh) and Nashville blog darling MC, Starlito but this seemed noteworthy, no?? Hit the jump also for Hemsworth & Starlito‘s “Marley Lion (Mistakes To Make)” as spotted on Yourstru.ly.

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[MP3] Drake – Come Thru (James Blake Remix)

Drake, OVO and James Blake??! I know this is total HypeMachine blog bait but I really actually like this!

[MP3] Throwback Thursday: Smith & Mighty – Walk On

I have long been a fan of Smith & Mighty, a Bristol, UK-based production duo that were progenitors of the breakbeat, bass-heavy sound that presaged everything from Massive Attack and Portishead to the UK street soul of Soul II Soul, drum n bass, Shut Up And Dance, broken beat and even, at a stretch, the breakbeat R&B template that uptown DJ, Ron G created on his mixtapes and that Diddy took to the masses with Mary J. Blige and his Bad Boy label.

When I DJ’d for a living back in the mid-2000’s, I played this Burt Bacharach & Hal David cover regularly back then as well as their cover of another Bacharach & David classic, “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (titled “Anyone”). This is music I will love until I die and the reason why I do this blog still. Y’all dig?