For those in the area or those up for a road trip, come to this dope hip-hop show featuring myself and some other hip-hop acts on May 16th in Halethorpe, MD. Peep the flyer for details.

The new mixtape is now available, mixed by my man DJ Nominal. Download it below! Spread the word! Many thanks to all who were apart of its creation!

Most of the hip-hop community got the news yesterday about the passing of legendary emcee G.U.R.U, which stood for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal. Sources say he died of cancer. My prayers go out to his family and friends. Part of the reason why I do hip-hop is because of the music he and DJ Premier created together in the group Gang Starr. I can admit that when they split I really didnt follow his other efforts with the exception of the first few Jazzmatazz albums. I guess I was in a rebellious state as I felt that Gang Starr, like some other groups should have stayed together. At any rate, I have always respected their craft and what they brought to hip-hop. I paid homage to them both a couple years ago on The Pull Forward EP Vol. 2 by giving my listeners Everyday Real, my own version of their classic Moment of Truth track. Rest in peace to the homie, long live his music.

Guru (Keith Elam) July 17, 1962?–April 19, 2010

Gang Starr “Moment of Truth”

Back in November of ’09 the homie DJ Nominal said “If you ever do a mixtape, I’ll mix it.” Thats all it took for me to get one done. Here is the cover art for it, we set to give it to folks in a couple weeks.

The mixtape features the lyrical talents of K-Mynez, TrueBless, Kats, SoloCypher, Lolo Life’, Chima Anya and BEveready. It also features guest producers Lagbara out of NC, Jonesy out of the UK, X3M out of Serbia, Labmatik out of PA, Ardel Limbo out of Spain and Overlor and Reign from the Baltimore area. I spit over some other industry beats I found as well. Look out for a blast regarding this in your inbox soon! Graph work by Sean Graphics.

The good folks over at The Mad Bloggers included my “Hopes & Dreams” track on their latest podcast. Head over to their site and check it out. Many thanks to Q.

A little bit of history… I met Kats about a year ago. He and his camp were wrapping up there Almost Fameless Vol. 2 project and needed another emcee for there track The Truth. He reached out via Nat at Hip-Hop Linguistics and from there we pretty much have been throwing each other tracks regularly. Its safe to say that we have a friendly competition going on to see who can put out the most free music.. lol. 

Here is his crew’s latest work, Bohemian Rap CD, a 6 track EP with songs created entirely from the Queen’s hit Bohemian Rhapsody (check the play on words, dope). Domer did his thing on the beats and the EP also features a wide range of lyrical talents. I personally think Leave It All Behind and Mama Mia bang the hardest, both beat-wise and lyrically. Download it and check it out for yourself.

Other news, Kats will be on my new mixtape coming soon!

Im proud to say that the latest vid is here.. I presented my vision to Marques of QueFilms and we made it happen. Again, thanks to everyone who helped with this project. We threw in a little surprise at the end as well.. Enjoy!

View video at Divshare as well: http://www.divshare.com/download/10971043-bbf