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UGLYFRANK - LEFTOVA

entertainment.

LORD OF THE FLY - NOT SAFE FOR WORK

My homie Lord just dropped his new album via Mishka. Been waiting on this for over a year now. Dude really came thru with the come thru.

turn this shit all the way up.

FOANS - HORIZON 9

if you dont know, now you know.

Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy Morning Show (feat. Toy Light)

Mike's new album is going to be the Cold Vein of this decade. This is the best rap song I've heard in five years.

CON SOLO - DWYA

This is the latest release from our good friend Con Solo. Everything he touches is gold. You'll fuck with this. Trust me.

PEPPERBOY - 3 VOLLEYS

This is my first introduction to Pepperboy who reps Green Ova South. I'm a huge fan of Main Attrakionz and the rest of Green Ova so I figured I'd check this out. It's some of the most unique rap music I've ever heard. I can't compare Pepperboy's voice or flow to anyone. His voice is like a constant sigh. Very relaxed and almost lazy. This shit bangs, tho.

Castle's album, "Return of the Gasface" is excellent. Castle's style has less to do with spitting bars than with conversationally (but still fairly technically) relaying day-to-day events and observations in stealthily-clever verses. The opening track/skit, Chateau, features Has-lo introducing Castle to a circle of friends and prodding him to show off his skills. This mood carries on throughout the album; most of the beats carry the feeling of a friend-made beat playing out of a car stereo, as opposed to the bombast currently running many sectors of the hip-hop marketplace, and most of the verses feel natural; Castle could be sitting in your living room showing off some writtens for a circle of inebriated friends and strangers. This casual feel doesn't correspond to a sloppiness, though. Castle's writing and flow are more than on point, both pleasing and distinctively his. He manages to rap impressively without sounding robotic, and manages to write intelligently without sounding pretentious. It's good. You should listen to it. Special mention to "Casual Fridays." That track is too real. Peep game here. 

Kool AD releases so much music (four hours of it just last year and an hour and a quarter already this year) that it's very, very easy to stop paying attention. However, he still releases a great deal of quality material despite his pace. His latest release, Word OK, feels like the stylistic culmination of all of his work over the past eighteen months. It's more consistent than his mixtapes, not as long, and not nearly so feature-dense. It's his most well-executed solo effort yet, but it doesn't really represent forward stylistic movement on Kool AD's part. It's good. You should put it in your aural orifices. Peep game here.