Daaaaaaaam Funk

Now.. this is some ILL shit right here. Cutter and Doubler Upper's Paradise. After copping a feel of this P Funk New Skool Monster last night on the The Funhouse, I had to share the wealth..

Sleazy BBall Swervin Grind Diggy Beats..

Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact
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Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch

Brand new video for the 1st Single taken from Richy Pitch's forthcoming LP on BBE Records, this one featuring M.anifest on the vocals.

This album features a whole host of rappers from Ghana, and if this track is anything to go by, it should be incredible.

Richy truly switches up the Pitch on this one. Dope Dope Video too.

'Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch' is due out on June 7th, while the

single 'Blackstar' is dropping on April 27th.

Window Seat

The Tunnel

Trailer for the upcoming documentary about the years of the legendary New York Hip Hop spot, The Tunnel, directed by

Choke No Joke. There's some mad classic footage up in here.

Big up Danny Byrd for the heads up on this one.

Aquarius

More fresh UK heat from the mighty Mystro

c/o DJ Gone TV and Ragggs.Com.

Production by the Sundragon aka Supa T.

This is sick.

K-Lash

2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Hip Hop from these shores.

While Dizzee, Tinie, Tinchy, Skepta, Wiley, Chip & the Grime mans effortlessly take over the "Hit Parade" (as my Nan calls it), the REAL Hip Hoppers are coming back HARD for the underground, with some very sick new material.

There's new albums dropping soon from Ty, Skitz &

Mr K-Lash-Nek-Off, and that's just for starters.

As a taster, Klash is dropping a new mixtape, 'Back To The Sagas', on April 12th, but meanwhile here's a brand new track featuring K9 & Ric, unleashed on his Twitter page yesterday. BIG.

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BONUS: Skitz ft Buggsy - Born Inna System MP3

(check Nice Up! for more info about this one)

First Things First

Supa Dope MC J-Live is one of those rare Rapper cats that also happens to be quite nice on the Turntables (as is Lord Finesse, Q Tip, Edan &.. um.. probably some others..)

Last few weeks he's been dropping these mixes, comprised of the 1st Track from Classic Hip Hop Albums.

First mix requires a donation (free to stream), while the second is FREE to download.

Check HERE (Vol 1) & HERE (Vol 2) for tracklists & info & such.

La Schmoove

Another bump for this one - this Thursday sees two more legends stomp their way onto the stage of the Jazz Cafe in Camden.

Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest, and Chip Fu from

Fu Schnickens (both featured in the track below).

DJ Rasta Roots and our boy DJ Shepdog (Nice Up!) will be on hand to make sure e'rryting is irie pon the 1s & 2s.

Something Big

To celebrate the official release of Ty's new single 'Emotions' (available on iTunes HERE), Ty got together with DJ Bounce to produce this heavyweight mixtape of Ty's collaborations & material, old & new.

Tracklist & Download links for this FREE mix are below.

Ty's Fourth Album 'Special Kind Of Fool' soon come on BBE.

01 Skit – Intro

02 Break The Lock – TY

03 Dont Watch That – TY

04 Worldwide – Funky DL (ft TY) Hot Mix

05 Down For The Count – Reflection Eternal (ft TY & Blak Twang) UK

06 Skit (Ghetto Yout)

07 Hey There – 2000 Black aka Dego & Kaidi Tatham (ft TY)

08 Skit (Space Monkey)

09 Phantom Of The Opera – TY (ft Anthony Mills)

10 Me – TY (ft Erik Rico)

11 Pick It Up – Nathan Haines (ft TY) Submariner remix

12 Dont Push Me – Tettory Bad (ft TY)

13 Groovement – TY
14 Emotions – TY (ft Sarina Leah & Shaun Escoffery) Album version
15 Heart Full Of You – Robert Mitchell (ft TY & Deborah Jordan)
16 Keep On – Bone Idols (ft TY & Aphletik)

17 Woman To Man – Tony Allen (ft TY)

18 Can’t Help Myself – The Bamboo’s (ft TY)

19 Legacy – Zion I (ft TY & Jennifer Johns)

20 When Robots Go To War – TY (ft Motet) Daz I Kue remix

21 Wait A Minute – TY (Dwele remix)

22 Emotions – TY (Waajeed remix)

23 Style & Pattern – John Arnold (ft TY)

24 The Way We Like It – Natalie Williams (ft TY & Eska)

25 The Idea – TY (ft De La Soul’s Pos & Dave)

26 Outro

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All Eyes On The South Vol 3

Sons Of South consists of MCs Blaze MC, Naturekid, Mr Prophecy & Verbal Remedy, producer Terror and DJoe The Architect on the cuts. They come together (as the name suggests) from all over the South of England, East to West.

Rocking stages for a minute now, they've played with the likes of Jehst, Ghost, Kashmere, Phi Life Cypher, Blade, Tommy Evans, Blak Twang & Killa Kela, and have recently dropped their Third mixtape / album (Available from iTunes HERE), which also includes collabs from MCs such as Bigga, Jack Flash & Joey Gutta.

Check the video above, put together by man like DJ Jeckal, for a taster.

Proper Boom Bap Beats, Ill Lyricists & Dope Kuts. This crew is heavy - Get to know!..

Super Fast Jelly Fish

2nd Single from Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach' Album, and the

2nd collaboration with De La Soul, this time with Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals on the hook.

What would we end up eating when the world is nothing but water & all the tasty fish have been eaten? Jellyfish. Obviously.

Diggy Simmons

Here's Rev Run's yout "freestyling" over the Nas classic 'Made U Look'.

To be fair, this kid HAD to be nice at spitting. The Reverend wouldn't have had it any other way.

Gonna be interesting to see which other rapper's kids suddenly start snatching the mic off of their folks.

Dub Pistols / Rodney P: Nice Up! Refix

This has already cropped up on the Nice Up! blog, but frankly, it's so nice we had to post it twice. Twice.

To help promote the brand new single from the Dub Pistols, DJ Shepdog knocked up this exclusive blend, utilising Rodney P's vocals atop RA The Rugged Man's classic "Chains" and drafted in a little help from rudeboy MC Honey Brown.

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Biggie Day

Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G.

May 21st 1972 - March 9th 1997

The Greatest Rapper Of All Time - R.I.P.

Here's a dope remix of 'One More Chance' put together by J Period :

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..and here's a wicked BIG Tribute Mix, courtesy of the mighty DJ MK :

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..and a cheeky lil' sum'n from our own DJ Shepdog on Musclecuts :

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Need You Tonight

Brand new single from Professor Green, released on April 12th, sampling the INXS classic 'Need You Tonight', featuring Ed Drewett on vocals and one DJ IQ getting his Michael Hutchence groove on in the video.

Malik the 5 foot freak

That's right, the original Mutty Ranks, the 5ft Assasin, one 3rd of one of the most popular Hip Hop groups of all time and the one who likes em brown, yellow, Peurto Rican or Haitian is passing through the Jazz Cafe in London on the 18th March for a show with long time collaborator Chip Fu from the Fu-Shnickens. We're obviously a little bit excited about this, especially if this clip from a recent show is anything to by (please excuse the poor sound).



Be sure to grab tickets quick as this is sure to sell out! BUY TICKETS HERE

MAIN SQUEEZE BREAK PACK - GURU

This weeks break pack comes from the Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal - Gang Starr's own GURU. I felt it was only right that we blog about the man as he is suffering from poor health and we wish him and his family nuttin' but positive vibes..

First up we have 'Feel The Music' from the Jazzmatazz 2 and then 'Revival' by Martine Girault.




Get Well Soon Guru.

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