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Brooklyn-bred hip-hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser. Their music, inspired by their gritty and pre-gentrified Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville neighborhoods, offers the vocabulary of veterans who survived the grimy streets. These original members of the Duck Down …
Talib Kweli, Elzhi, and Phonte hook up over a Khrysis beat for this track off 9th Wonder’s upcoming compilation Jamla Is The Squad dropping tomorrow.
9th Wonder releases a new beat tape named after his grandmother Bladey Mae. You can listen to it below and cop it on DJ Booth. Listen: 9th Wonder-Bladey Mae
New track from GQ produced by 9th Wonder. Check out “Last Breath”. Listen: GQ-Last Breath
As GQ preps for this busy year, he releases the first part of his two part effort Death Threats and Love Notes: The Prelude. Death Threats and Love Notes: The Prelude serves as a prequel to GQ’s upcoming album aptly titled Death Threats and Love Notes which will have features from Nipsey Hussle, Kurupt, Rapsody, …
They say it’s different across the bridge, and there is something definitely different about GQ. In the words of 9th Wonder, simply put, “he’s a star”. GQ, who Grammy Award winning producer, 9th Wonder, coins his “secret weapon” is not only a former NCAA basketball champion, but in fact Oakland’s next Hip Hop hero. Born …
