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August 16th

Funkdoobiest

Lost in Thought Brothas Doobie

Highest 2 Lowest

A Spike Lee Joint Starring: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky

AJ Snow, Kool Kid Kalvo & Jansport J

Lose My Mind Tomorrow, We Eating Steaks

Pre Save Tomorrow, We Eating Steaks

American Sweatshop

Director: Uta Briesewitz Starring: Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Lili Reinhart

CiCi Zhu

In Between Escape

A dig through Los Angeles Negros samples led to this Funkdoobiest cut. Spike Lee remakes Kurosawa’s High & Low for the early 21st century. AJ Snow, Kool Kid Kalvo & Jansport J have Taco Tuesday canceled until further notice. Uta Briesewitz’s American Sweatshop trailer leaves you questioning all online interaction. Shanghai native CiCi Zhu’ and her guzheng infused beats pair well with the photos of Greg Girard.

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August 9th

The Pharcyde

Pandemonium Street Fighter II Official Soundtrack

6BLOCC

“HIP HOP” JNGL RMX

Orlando Coolridge & emperor bohe

WALLS! Heavy is the Crown

Kingpen Slim

10 PM in Hyattsville Freestyle

AJ Snow feat. Jay Worthy

1988 I Want the World Chico

Deep cut from The Pharcyde off the Street Fighter II soundtrack. 6Blocc’s big soundsystem jungle remix of Dead Prez’s Hip Hop. Chicago’s Orlando Coolridge and emperor bohe team up for the excellent WALLS! off of Heavy is the Crown. Kingpen Slim recently popped up on my timeline whippin’ through the DMV. AJ Snow and Jansport J have some new music on the way – here’s a recent hitter from AJ feat Jay Worthy.

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August 2nd

Staz

Big Ol’ Not Your Ordinary

Raekwon the Chef

Bear Hill The Emperor’s New Clothes

Säge The 64th Wonder

Sagewav: Red Version

Limited Release of 100 Copies

Es-k

From Es-k Long Live Dilla

Salute to Beat Tape Co-op on 16 years

Vince Staples

LA Leakers Freestyle #114

“If Senzo Tanaka is his Shidoshi, then show us the Dim Mak”

New music on Bandcamp from Staz. Lex Diamonds is back outside. A small batch Gameboy cart inspired press of Sagewav: Red Version from Chicago’s Säge The 64th Wonder. Press play on Es-k’s tribute to James DeWitt Yancey off the Long Live Dilla comp. Vince Staples added his own X on Xxplosive with his 2021 LA Leakers freestyle.