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[MP3] Dan-e-o – League Of Legends Feat. Thrust, Maestro Fresh Wes, Moka Only, Big Kish & Eternia
Out today! Dan-e-o’s new album featuring this aptly named loaded line-up of Canadian legends of a track. Here’s the PT blurb on the album:
On November 5, 1996, Toronto-based label, Beat Factory released the seminal Canadian hip-hop compilation, Rap Essentials Volume One. Helping to further energize the already-established careers of such north-of-the-border lyrical heavyweights as Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, Ghetto Concept and Rascalz, the album is also credited for launching the career of Scarborough lyricist, Dan-e-o.
With his featured single, “Dear Hip Hop”, Dan-e-o immediately cemented himself as one of Canada’s premier MCs. A quasi-love letter to the music and culture he adores, the Scam-produced single has stood the test of time and has garnered itself “classic” status in the annals of Canadian hip-hop history.
With his fourth album, Dear Hip Hop: 20 Years Later, Dan-e-o both commemorates the two decade milestone of the release of his legendary debut and pays tribute to a long list of inspirations. “The artists I pay tribute to on this album by including them as guests helped pave the way for me to become the artist I am,” says Dan-e-o, “But they themselves have also enjoyed the last 20 years or so of invigorating hip-hop culture. So this new album is as much about celebrating Canadian hip-hop as a whole as it is about my first single. Really, I’m just a chapter in a much bigger story.”
Among the honoured guests on the album are URBNET label mate, Moka Only, “Northern Touch” legend, Thrust and the Godfather of Canadian hip-hop himself, Maestro Fresh Wes. They all appear on the posse cut and lead single, “League Of Legends”, which is produced by Scam – reuniting Dan-e-o with the producer of “Dear Hip Hop” 20 years after its release.
Dear Hip Hop: 20 Years Later is a unique combination of re-mastered gems recorded during the mid-90’s and brand new golden era-esque bangers, which include “Rap Essentials”, an ode to the compilation that started it all with alumni, Mathematik and Deuce Deuce of Concrete Mob and a symbolic tribute to J Dilla entitled “Spit” featuring the late legend’s brother, Illa J.
Track Listing
01. Dear Hip Hop
02. Constipated
03. Mental Mirage
04. Son Daze
05. Mic Surgery
06. Dear Hip Hop (The 2nd Letter) (feat. Choclair, Frankenstein & Grimace Love)
07. Incarceration
08. So Deep
09. Danish (feat. Nish Raawks)
10. Dear Hip Hop (Remix)
11. League Of Legends (feat. Thrust, Maestro Fresh Wes, Moka Only, Big Kish & Eternia)
12. Rap Essentials (feat. Mathematik & Deuce Deuce)
13. Spit (feat. Illa J)
14. 20 Years Later (feat. Fraction & Cable)
BUY / Download Dear Hip Hop: 20 Years Later – Dowload Urbnet | Tidal | Spotify | iTunes/Apple
[MP3] Listen to Two Tracks from Snotty Nose Rez Kids – The Average Savage
These indigenous hip-hop practitioners are crazy. Think an indigenous dead prez but really it’s completely it’s own thing. Freshest sh-t we’ve heard in a while, fire! Listen to the full mixtape via The Kitchen Twitter HERE or on Soundcloud HERE.
[MP3] Tara Slone & Tom McKay – Wildflowers (Tom Petty Cover)
My peoples from the late 90s into the early 2000s Canadian alt. rock group, Joydrop just dropped a previously recorded cover of the Tom Petty song, “Wildflowers” as a tribute to the rocker’s untimely passing yesterday. I’ve got history with these guys. Joydrop singer, Tara Slone is now better known as a TV personality on the lifestyle sports show, Hometown Hockey and Tom McKay is now an accomplished music producer and studio owner. R.I.P. Tom Petty.
[MP3 + Music Video] MC Eiht & DJ Premier – Heart Cold Feat. Lady of Rage
If you haven’t peeped it yet, go check out that MC Eiht Which Way Iz West album like, right now!
Featuring production by DJ Premier and appearances by B-Real, WC, The Outlawz, Kurupt, Xzibit, Bumpy Knuckles and this heater with another Death Row records alum, The Lady of Rage, the album is an absolute stone cold classic! Rock solid beats, MC-ing, this is classic hip-hop!
Buy/stream the MC Eiht – Which Way Iz West album now: Soundcloud (FREE!) | Spotify | Tidal | iTunes | Google
[MP3] Joe Fox – What’s The Word Feat. Nas
I was gonna go, “Why on earth is Nas on this dude’s record??” but apparently he had a fair amount to do with A$AP Rocky‘s AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP album which only goes part of the way to explaining the riddle, frankly….
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Official press announcement: Long-running, acclaimed Toronto music site, DIFFERENT KITCHEN officially announces the release of its new compilation album project, QUINCEAÑERA: MARVELOUS ISH to celebrate its 15th anniversary today (SEPTEMBER 7) . QUINCEAÑERA, a 15-track multi-genre collection of all new and unreleased music (some on an exclusive basis), will be released as a promo-only album […]
Here it is: the third pre-release single from the Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish 15th anniversary compilation album (yes, that’s the art above, figured we could let it out now that the album is finally coming out TODAY!) Nate Husser, one third of the acclaimed Montreal hip-hop group, The Posterz, is one of our absolute faves here […]
Well here it is, you may have seen varations of this in the lead-up campaign to the release this Friday but here, for the very first time, is the official front cover of Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, the compilation album to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this here Different Kitchen blog. I won’t reiterate the concept […]
Well here it is: one of the first two opening salvos from the next big project from the Kitchen: Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, a 15 track compilation album of brand new or previouly unreleased music to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the blog set for release this Friday (September 7, mark your calendars). We won’t get […]
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We posted the single back in May but here goes an EXCLUSIVE World Premiere of the video for “Desert Rose”, the single previous to the current online viral hit (currently #7 on the HypeMachine chart), “magic on my pillow” from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Philly artist and new Kitchen fave, Yellow Shoots. Both tracks come from the forthcoming album, […]
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