[Hip-Hop] Wale & A-Trak – Festivus EP

Less than a week after announcing his new collaborative EP with A-Trak, Wale‘s new Festivus EP has finally arrived just in time for the holiday (for those of you unfamiliar with Seinfeld lore, I refer you to this.) Despite how you may feel about the quality of his studio albums, there’s no question Wale has always had a firm grasp on the mixtape game. That trend continues here, as Wale’s latest project falls right in line with previous Seinfeld-inspired works like The Mixtape About Nothing and More About Nothing. With a wide array of features including Pusha T, Chance The Rapper & The Social Experiment, Ab-Soul, A$AP Ferg and more, serves as a promising appetizer as a the seasoned emcee prepares to release The Album About Nothing sometime in 2015. Stream a few of our favorite selections from the project, and follow the download link below.

DOWNLOAD: Wale x A-Trak – Festivus

’Wale – The Deep End Featuring Pusha T (Prod. by Tone P)’
’Wale – Friendship Heights Featuring Chance the Rapper & The Social Experiment (Prod. by Omega & Raak)’
’Wale
Keep it Moving (Freestyle) Featuring Ab Soul & Magazeen (Prod. by THC)’
’Wale
Blood Money 3.5 Featuring A$AP Ferg (Prod. by Marce Reazon)’
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[NEW] Hudson Mohawke – Chimes (Remix) (Feat. Future, Pusha T, French Montana & Travi$ Scott)

Hudson Mohawke
CHIMES RMX ft Pusha T, Future, Travi$ Scott, French Montana

When Hudson Mohawke first signed to G.O.O.D. Music, we hoped that lineups for his productions and remixes would feature the A-listers. His newest EP release “Chimes” was even featured on an Ad for Apple so it’s safe to say, he is finally blowing up. Now, we get the “Chimes (Remix)” with Future on the hook, as well as support from Pusha-T, French Montana and Travi$ Scott. Look out for more massive collabs from the Hud Mo/TNGHT camp, it has only just begun. Cheers.

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[NEW] Pusha T – Lunch Money (prod. Kanye West)

Pusha T
Lunch Money (Prod. Kanye West)

Pusha T has had one of the most interesting career trajectories in hip-hop–from legitimate dope dealer to half of one of the greatest hip-hop duos ever to a potent solo artist and Kanye West‘s go-to feature emcee. His debut solo album, My Name is My Name, cemented his relevancy in the current rap landscape with its ferocious lyricism, versatile storytelling and general crazy-eyed energy. Naturally, his work with his G.O.O.D. Music label-boss, Kanye West, has marked some of his most groundbreaking recent work (see: “Numbers on the Board”) and today we get another collaboration with the first single from his upcoming 2015 sophomore album, King Push, which is due out early next year.

“Lunch Money” sees West once again crafting an unorthodox, minimalistic instrumental for Push with a bubbling, looped pad and a stuttering sample reminiscent of some of the Neptunes productions from the Clipse days. As always, King Push brings the heat with lines like, “Shout out my Mac-11 mobsta/Grew up on Nintendo playing contra/and though that n***a only 5’9″/100 bodies on his timeline.” Eghk

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Sunday Night Soul [Vol. 23]

This is a special day folks, and I’m sure plenty of you already know why. While we won’t explicitly spell it out for you, we hope many of you celebrated the occasion in your own special ways. However, there is one matter of business left to take care of, and that’s making sure you end your night on the right note, with some Sunday Night Soul.

While we expected to have plenty more holiday “anthems” to provide you with tonight, we still believe we have the perfect lineup to zone out to, and help lull you into dreamland. We can’t help but feel a special connection to this week’s crop of tracks, but maybe that’s because a few of these already helped carry us through our day as well.

Sunni Colón was certainly a popular man this week, as his track “Temple” was remixed by three of our favorite producers, staRo, Esta and Hasta. It’s tough to pick a favorite from that group, but right now we’d have to give the crown to Esta. Impressive performances were also turned in from the likes Namuun AriunRachel Foxx, The Internet, Acropolis Sound, Teyana Taylor, Nina Sky, Kidepo, Sophia Black, Echo, Vanessa Elishakutthrowt, kenji, RVDICAL THE KID, MisterMack, Anushka, Tourist and Reva DeVito & Kaytranada. Of course the fun doesn’t stop there, so as an added bonus, we’ve also included the full album stream of Blackbear‘s The Afterglow, to ensure the maximum amount of feels. You already know the drill folks, and if you’re not high for this right now, we’re sure you’ll be feeling something once you reach the end of this one (and we don’t mean the munchies).

’Namuun Ariun – Painter (ft. TEME)’
’RACHEL FOXX – BEFORE YOU’
’Chiara Noriko – Feels So Right’
’mathien – You’ve Made A Stone Outta Me’
’Matthewdavid – In My World’
’Versis – Deep Seated Feat. Kid A (prod. by B.Lewis)’
’Collarbones – Burnout’
’Raleigh Ritchie – Stay Inside (The Internet Remix)’
’Sunni Colón – Temple (starRo Remix) – Free DL’
’Men Among Boys – Presence of Man’
’The Harpoons – Unforgettable’
’LO Feat Adrian Daniel
Fool (Acropolis Sound Remix)’
’Teyana Taylor – Sorry’
’Above and Beyond – Sun And Moon (Rnb Cover By Christian Joseph)’
’Lyrica – Freakin’ (feat. Wiz Khalifa)’
’Future – I Be U’
’August Alsina – Backseat’
’Mike Jay – Real Strippers’
’Jennifer Hudson – Walk It Out featuring Timbaland’
’JAZMIN Sisters – You ft. IAMSU’
’Ballad – You’
’Teedra Moses – Be Your Girl (B.Cause Draft Day Blend)’
’August Alsina – FML (Feat. Pusha T)’
’Nina Sky – STONERS Ft. Smoke Dza (Prod. by SKY NDGO)’
’Xander Ghost – Subliminal’
’Alex Jordahl – Lie To You’
’Kidepo – Reds’
’sophia black – OVR AGN (Prod. by BASECAMP)’
’Echo – Constellation (Prod. by Persian Empire) (‘Midnight Chronicles out May 12)’
’Vanessa Elisha – Midnight Swim (Prod. By GXNXVS)’
’Plue Starfox – M A Z I E’
’Trey Songz – Nana (XONA Remix)’
’Movement – Us (kutthrowt edit)’
’kuma & Telescope Thieves – Control’
’from the roof top – Sniper’s theme (Da P edition)’
’Kxngs – The Undesirable One’
’kenji – Lucy’
’Losco. – Bae Bae’
’SKVTR – Cyprus’

’kenji – What You’ve Done’

’Sunni Colón – Temple (Hasta Edit)’
’TLC – No Scrubs (Benji Boko Remix)’
’Aaliyah x TRC – Rock The Boat Skinny Jeans Mix’
’Ashanti x elkco – rock with you’
’D’Angelo – Spanish Joint (Kero One Remix) *NEW*’
’Harrison x Maddee – What I Said’
’SevnthWonder – Fantasy’
’Sunni Colón – Temple (esta. remix)’
’RVDICAL THE KID – Rain Down On Me’
’Demon – You Are My High (Picard Brothers Edit)’
’Duncan Gerow – Teedra Moses + IAMNOBODI = Be Your Girl’
’Disclosure – Latch (MisterMack Version)’
’Alina Baraz – Art Of Persuasion(esta. remix)(“So On” Tape Available NOW!)’
’elkco – SHE GOT DAT VIBE’
’kuma •ᴥ• – sumimasen’
’Lindsay Lowend – Body Party Instrumental (SNES version)’
’Anushka – Atom Bombs’
’Tourist – Patterns (feat. Lianne La Havas)’
’Reva DeVito – Friday Night (Prod. By KAYTRANADA)’
’Snakehips – Forever’
’Hermitude – Ukiyo’
’Mariah Carey – You’re Mine (Hunt for the Breeze x Manila Killa Edit)’
’R ASH – I Own You’

Bonus

’Blackbear – The Afterglow (FULL ALBUM STREAM)’
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The Hip-Hop Dojo [Vol. 16]

It’s no secret now that The Hip-Hop Dojo hasn’t been the most consistent playlist here at TMN, and that’s due to a multitude of different factors. I’m not here to make excuses however, and the lack of hip-hop goodness lately is totally on me. It’s a new year though folks, and my resolution from here on out is to continue providing you with the dopest hip-hop content from across the net on a regular basis.

Let’s get the ball rolling quickly with this first edition of 2014, because it’s definitely one of our strongest playlists to date. Right off the bat you may notice that we’re starting things off with a Christmas anthem. We know the Holidays are over, but that Peanuts sample by producer J1K was way too good to pass up. Since we didn’t have a December edition anyway, just think of BIZ’s “Christmas Time Is Here” as a late present from all of us to you. Speaking of Christmas, we follow our first entry up with a laidback  single from Michael Christmas named after the Quentin Tarantino classic, “Jackie Brown.” Our next few items carry on the chill vibes, with many of them utilizing a throwback sound similar to the one employed by Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era. Of course Joey and his collective are featured here as well, spreading the love on the eclectic “Sol Luna.” While those dudes from Brooklyn keep with the sweet talking, Nemo Achida prefers to take a more “Hands On” approach, teaming up with 88-Keys and BJ The Chicago Kid for a smooth new cut.

Our next selection would’ve been a perfect one to start your day off with, as rapper Chris Morris opens with “Yo it’s like Sunday morning waking up,” over some supremely ill production from Nabeyin. Moving on, we’ve got the return of Dojo veteran and TDE signee, Isaiah Rashad, who brings us a sly tribute to “Brad Jordan,” better known to the rap community as Scarface. You should be familiar with two of our next collaborators, as Waldo and Sango have both been featured on this page multiple times before. This time around, they’re accompanying British femcee Little Simz on the juicy cut, “Mandarin Oranges.” Speaking of familiarity, hip-hop heads should definitely recognize the instrumental on GoldLink‘s “The Heart,” which is the same one used by Kendrick Lamar for “The Heart Pt. 2.” It’s always tough to beat an original from K Dot, but the West Virginia brings his A-game here, with a spastic delivery definitely that gives the track an edge of its own. Meanwhile, Azizi Gibson hops on some bluesy Flying Lotus production to ring in the New Year properly with “Libras Don’t Die.”

Things take a darker turn in our next suite of entries, with the always slick Rapsody leading this group off over some dope, downtempo 9th Wonder drums. Hefna Gwap is certainly not in a celebratory mode on “Happy Birthday (Fuck That)”, while Dillan Ponder brings us another ominous track with his latest single, “Hive.” While Alexander Spit‘s “Bitter Suite Symphony” sounds nothing like The Verve classic, it’s certainly a formidable number all its own. Sa-Roc shows us her “True Mastery”  of the English language on this fierce new cut, while Verbal Kent teams up with Khrysis to give us all a gritty lesson in “Raponomics.” If there ever were an expert in that subject though, it would be Raekwon, who brings along T.I. and the late Doe B to help him out on “I Wanna Know.”  Like most rappers, Truck North is out to prove he’s the number one “Chief Rocka,” hopping on a revamped version of the Lords of the Underground classic. Find out if he does that one any justice.

 Alexander Dreamer employs his “Freedom of Speech” on this dope tune that samples the intro to Coldplay‘s “Charlie Brown.” Julian Malone keeps things rather abrupt on the hard hitting “Bitche$,” but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t pack a mean punch. Bodega Bamz brings us a real banger on the Electric Bodega remix of his single, “Don Francisco,” featuring French Montana. Next in our lineup, we’ve got a few well known commodities, as Audio Push strive to prove they’re better than all these other “Juveniles,” hooking up with Logic and Jill Scott over a spectacular beat provided by Hit-Boy. Miami emcee Eskeerdo is out to fight the “Devil’s Work,” hopping on a sample of Miike Snow‘s single of the same name. Meanwhile, Topaz Jones questions whether he’s “Living A Lie,” on his recent introspective single. K.B. Starr is ready to plead his case for why he thinks “New England Girls” are the best over some incredibly fresh production from SevnthWonder. Our final pair of tracks comes in the form of two upbeat remixes, first with Yonas putting his own stamp on Lorde‘s “Team,” and then Zak Downtown closing things out with the addicting “City’s Ours,” which flips another remix, the Flume revision of Hermitude‘s “HyperParadise.”

We hope you guys enjoyed our sixteenth edition of The Hip-Hop Dojo as much as we did! As always, you can send all submissions/suggestions to baseer@themusicninja.com and ash@themusicninja.com.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE FREE TRACKS (ALT. LINK)

’BIZ
Christmas Time Is Here (Produced by J1K)’
’Michael Christmas – Jackie Brown ft. Manu Manzo (prod. Jasper Sheff)’
’SK The Greatest – Ounces (featuring Mad One, D.O.S. & Poppadop)’
’Dessy Hinds – Mo’Wetter Blues (Prod. 6thBoro)’
’Mike Melinoe – Steady Vibe (Pro. By Stereo Symphony)’
’A$hton – Knighty Knight’
’Termanology – Set It Off (Feat. Ransom)’
’Chris Faust – Black Manta Featuring Donwill (prod. Hannibal King)’
’Chox Mak And Henny Tha Brain – 40 Ounces (Prod. By Bunty Beats)’
’PRO ERA – SOL LUNA (Feat. Joey Bada$$, Dyemond Lewis & A La $ole) (Prod. Navie D.)’
’Nemo Achida – Hands On ft. BJ The Chicago Kid (Prod. 88 Keys)’
’Chris Morris
Morning Dew (Prod. Nabeyin)’
’Yo Dot – Never Shines (Produced By Regular Joe Productions)’
’Isaiah Rashad – Brad Jordan feat. Michael Da Vinci’
’Little Simz & Waldo – Mandarin Oranges (Prod. Sango)’
’GoldLink – The Heart’
’Azizi Gibson – Libras Dont Die (prod. Flying Lotus)’
’Rapsody – Illuminaughty (Chinchilla) Prod. by 9th Wonder’
’Hefna Gwap – Happy Birthday (FUCK THAT)’
’Dillan Ponders – Hive (p. DMNDBK)’
’Alexander Spit – Bitter Suite Symphony’
’SA ROC – True Mastery’
’Verbal Kent  – Raponomics (prod. Khrysis)’
’Raekwon – I Wanna Know (Feat. Doe B & T.I.)’
’Dag Savage (Johaz & Exile) – God Body ft. CO$$, Gonja Sufi & Blu’
’Truck North – The Man’
’P.Genz – Grandslam!’
’Lashaun Ellis – Whatever You Want’
’Alexander Dreamer – Freedom Of Speech (Soundcloud Bonus)’
’Julian Malone – Bitche$’
’Jourdan Jackson – Triple Crowned Ft. Marion Write & TR@bb (prod. by Bliss)’
’Bodega Bamz – Don Francisco (Remix) Feat. French Montana’
’Raz Fresco – Slang Rap (Prod. By Raz Fresco)’
’Audio Push – Juveniles ft. Logic & Jill Scott (prod. Hit Boy & Rey Reel)’
’Eskeerdo – Devils Work (feat. Miike Snow)’
’Topaz Jones – Livin’ A Lie’
’K.B. Starr – New England Girls (Prod. By SevnthWonder X Rilla Force)’
’Jered Sanders – Boys On the Radio’
’YONAS – Team (Lorde Remix) prod. sean ross’
’Zak Downtown – City’s Ours’
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Sunday Night Soul [Vol. 5]

It’s the middle of December, which for many of us means our Holiday break is just an arm’s length away. Of course there’s some hurdles to get through along the way. Whether it’s a hellish finals week packed with little to no sleep, or having to endure office parties while donning your ugliest Holiday sweaters (admittedly, the second option sounds a bit less stressful), we’re here to give you a few moments of reprise as you sort through your hectic schedule.

The 90’s are alive and well in this week’s edition of Sunday Night Soul. From old school remixes of Aaliyah, Sade and Mary J. Blige, to throwback tinged offerings from Uness, Phony Ppl, and Jeff Bernat, it’ll be nearly impossible for you not to feel at least a slight tinge of nostalgia. Of course we can’t forget about the present, and with that in mind, we’ve also got plenty of relaxing tunes from the likes of XOV, Daniel Wilson, Niia, Alina Baraz, Blackbear and many more. Now I know your time is precious, so before I take up any more of it, I’ll let you get started with the playlist below. We promise you won’t be disappointed.

’Niia – Generation Blue’
’XOV – Lucifer // Naked Edition’
’Daniel Wilson
Will You’
’Jordan Bratton – Sinful World’
’Max Cooper – Adrift feat. Kathrin deBoer – FIELDS’
’Mélat – Stardate’
’Nina Sky – Overtime (prod. By Slimmy Neutron)’
’Chris James – Love Hates Me Ft. Pusha T’
’Jeff Bernat – Mind vs. Heart’
’Blackbear – Shower Music (prod. by ESTA)’
’Ellie Goulding – Burn (Ricky Cervantes Lounge Mix)’
’Jhene Aiko – Wrap Me Up ft. James Fauntleroy’
’Pieter T – Miss December (Produced by NΞHZVIL)’
’Uness – Used To Love You (Produced by K∪⌥ & NΞHZVIL)’
’Elijah Blake – Towers Of Tokyo (Produced By: Jack Splash)’
’Phony Ppl – Baby, Meet My Lover’
’Mary J. Blige – Be Without You (Noïthingness Remix)’
’Sade – Nothing Can Come Between Us (Pomo Edit)’
’Sampha – Happens (SevnthWonder Edit)’
’Sirens – Gallant (starRo 2am Mix)’
’Alina Baraz & Galimatias – Pretty Thoughts’
’Aaliyah – 4 Page Letter (NΞHZVIL Remix)’
’Rochelle Jordan – Follow Me’
’Phazz – Slow It Down (Feat. Bridge)’
’Tajan – Girlfriend’
’fwdslxsh & MD$ – Got Me Saying’
’UNO stereo – InnerVisions’
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[NEW] Justin Timberlake – TKO (Black Friday Remix) (Feat. J. Cole, A$AP Rocky & Pusha T)

Justin Timberlake
TKO (Black Friday Remix) (Feat. J. Cole, A$AP Rocky & Pusha T)

And the good music just keeps on coming. Just in time for Black Friday, hit-maker Justin Timberlake drops an unexpected new remix to his latest single, “TKO,” bringing in some heavyweight emcees to deliver some dope verses over the Timbaland production. J.Cole steps up to the plate first, with a vicious verse utilizing a similar flow to Drake‘s on “Versace.” The Roc Nation emcee even gives fans a response to the now infamous Kendrick Lamar diss on “Control.” A$AP follows by addressing the rumors swirling around about his highly talked about love life and Pusha T closes things about by making a case that he has the album of the year. This mix is definitely audio crack and should not go unheard. Take a listen and decide which emcee had the best verse over the addicting beat.

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