AUDIO: Flip’s “Reflections”

Taking hip-hop back to the essence is what Flip has done on his new album Reflections, which is out today courtesy of Ill Adrenaline. Some of the people on this includes Pseudo Slang, EDO. G, 14KT, LMNO, Killah Priest, Elzhi, Kev Brown, and many more, so hear these rappers lay gems over the work of an Australian studio wiz. Stream the album in full.

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FREE MP3 DL: The Four Horsemen featuring Tragedy Khadafi’s “Historic (Remix)”

Killah priest, Ras Kass, Kurupt and Canibus have arrived as The Four Horsement and together they’ve come out with a song that is “Historic”. In this remix of the song, it features Tragedy Khadafi and they all go in for the scorch.

VIDEO: Aspects featuring Raekwon, Killah Priest & Armageddon’s “Wulocks”

Snowgoons have produced a fantastic morsel for Aspects, who brings in Raekwon, Killah Priest, and Armageddon to create the finely made “Wulocks”, visually created by Street Hearted. It will find its way on the forthcoming Aspects’ album Grind Over Matter, due at the end of the month.

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FREE MP3 DL: Thoughtsarizen featuring Killah Priest, Akil, Akrobatik, DL Incognito, Castor Pollux & LDonthecut’s “Scionic”

If you feel you haven’t heard an all-star hip-hop track in quite some time, you have to download this new one by Thoughtsarizen, for he brings in Killah Priest, Akil, LDonthecut, Castor Pollux Akrobatik, and DL Incognito into the mix and immediately sets the boys apart from the men and shows you how it should and could be done, but says “this is how it is”. Produced by Finland’s Three Legs Luigim this appears on Thoughtsarizen’s Traveling Dragon Man street album.

VIDEO: Prie’s “The Life & A Day Of A Madd N***a”

With an album around the corner, it seems Prie is not taking any time to stop and if he is, it’s only for a brief moment. He did take time to put together a video for one of his new songs called “The Life & A Day Of A Madd N***a”. This is one of the songs that will appear on 1991, so prepare yourselves.

REVIEW: U-God’s “Dopium”

When the cameos on your own album outshine you, it’s best that you move to a new field. So is the case of U-God, who could’ve been one of the unpolished jewels of the Wu-Tang Clan if it wasn’t for the fact that his lyrics aren’t that impressive. His debut solo album was a waste of energy and electricity, and did he really think this would be a good idea? Pfftt.

Dopium (Babygrande) is an album that features a lot of special guests, including Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Method Man, The Genius, Cappadonna, Killah Priest, Large Professor, Mike Ladd, and Jim Jones among others, and these guys totally rip U-God a number of anuses to the point where he looks like a block of cheddar cheese. If this album was released as… well, if U-God‘s vocal tracks were removed and released as Wu Shtyles, Bufo Frog Logs, or even Douchebag Rebels, it would have been considered an incredible project. U-God was known as the 4-bar killer so when he goes past four lines, he’s boring. Remove him, and this album would have jaded heads going “this shit is nice”. If U-God was a factor with the Wu-Tang behind the scenes, then I hope he continues working behind the scenes. But as a front man in charge, he doesn’t have the power to impress. Hell, if this was released as an instrumental, people would mistake this as something by The Alchemist.

In truth, the tone of his voice as always been nice and mellow in that Chali 2na-sort of way, but if he still writes his own lyrics, he needs to improve on them. If others are doing the writing, U-God needs to select better lyrics. Imagine if U-God did some tracks with Pharrell Williams? Now that might be good (keyword: might).