New Music: Estelle & John Legend – Sing And Flow: The Duets (FreEP)

Estelle & John Legend – Sing And Flow: The Duets by Some Kind of Awesome

Nice! This ‘FreEp’ is better than a lot of music people want you to pay for!

Tracklist:
1: Shiny Suit Part 2 (Estelle & John Legend)*
2: You Are
3: Freedom
4: Hey Girl
5: No Other Love
6: Come over
7: Fall in Love

Download: Estelle & John Legend – Sing And Flow: The Duets [usershare mp3 zip file link]

[download link via the homie, Lo / Soundcloud via Some Kind of Awesome]

New Mixtapes from Nick Catchdubs and Fool’s Gold Records

Why are these two things lumped together? Because the homie, Nick Catchdubs is not only an O.G, blogger extraordinaire but also the co-owner, along with Kanye tour DJ and fellow Canadian, DJ A-Trak, of Fool’s Gold Records, the label that first introduced the world to Kid Cudi! Here’s their latest compilation project, Fool’s Gold Vol. 1 for sale at fine digital outlets everywhere but streaming for you right here:


Tracklisting:
01. Treasure Fingers f. Haley Small – Keep Up
02. Vega – No Reasons (Tensnake Remix)
03. Sammy Bananas – Move Your Body
04. Trackademicks – The Best Stroke
05. A-Trak f. CyHi Da Prynce – Ray Ban Vision
06. Kid Sister – Don’t Stop Movin
07. Lil B – Freeze
08. The Suzan – Animal
09. Flosstradamus – Cape Town Get Down
10. LA Riots – Control Your Tuba
11. Congorock – Babylon (Riton Remix)
12. Kingdom f. Tiombe Lockhart – Remember
13. Jokers Of The Scene f. vitaminsforyou – Power Slave
14. Nacho Lovers – Zero Time *

* I think this might be my favorite record on the comp’ mostly ‘cos it sounds like some old school deep house sh-t. So glad that sound seems to be coming back into vogue.

Now hit the jump one of Nick’s DJ mixes from earlier this year but just posted to his new Soundcloud, Pink Lemonade. (more…)

New Mixtape: Maverick Sabre – Travelling Man

This one is heavily co-signed by the homie, Semtex:

“This is the highly anticipated mixtape from Maverick Sabre The Travelling Man. The London-born, Irish-raised singer songwriter is breaking the mold. With his soulful voice and skillful guitar playing, he draws audiences in a leaves them in wonder.

Silencing crowds with his lamenting social-political content, this young rising star is generating a lot of interest from press and booking agents alike. Recently tipped by Hot Press as being the Irish newcomer who will give the established artists some serious competition, Maverick was also nominated ‘Best Homegrown Act’ in the 2008 Urban Takeover Awards.”

Hit the jump for a couple videos of Maverick with Scorzayzee and Marvell doing an acoustic freestyle on a college campus tour in England and a video for the track, “They Found Him a Gun.” (more…)

New Mixtape: Sinotra – Tip Of The Iceberg

Here’s the plug on this from Ro’shine:

“Sinotra is well known for his freestyle prowess, but on his new mixtape Tip Of The Iceberg he proves that he can make dope music. With features from all your favourite Toronto rappers, and production by Rich Kidd, Noah “40″ Shebib, and Boi-1da.”

I’ma have ti co-sign the freestyle prowess thing. I saw him and Blake Carrington make up songs with arrangement and hooks on the spot at the finals of the Sound Battle Royale. Amazing stuff. But more seriously son, get a f-cking bandcamp page! Do you know how long it’s gonna take before I actually, download this, unzip it, upload to my itunes and sync it to my ipod when i could be listening to a stream of this like, right now??! *Smdh….*

Check the back cover for the tracklist and the download link after the jump. (more…)

Video: Raz Fresco – Hello Good Morning (Freestyle)

I featured this kid’s “Super Smash Bros” track with BrandUn DeShay previously on The Kitchen. Now here’s a video for his “Hello Good morning” freestyle from his Laced Up mixtape (below). 15 and spitting like this and making crazy beats??! The future of Toronto hip hop is safe!

And here’s that Laced Up mixtape:

Hit the jump for the back art. (more…)