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The mixtape game has put a strain on hip hop artists trying to sell albums. With so much free music available in an already saturated market oft times great music gets left on the shelf. Springfield, IL recording artist Vinal decided to take the road less traveled and deliver his solo debut album “My Gift, My Curse”. The album features …

Chicago emcee J-Merk gets a Wu-Tang inspired beat from producer Grime Lab to swing lyrical samurai swords all over on this cut titled “Armageddon”. Listening to the track, one could say the Wu could be proud of this one.

Gritty Lyf Music’s Nobi is back with an all new free mixtape project titled “InteGRITTY 1.5”. Featuring 16 songs with production from the likes of !llmind, Danger, DJ Pain 1 & Jahlil Beats, this mixtape plays more like a full length LP than a mixtape. Nobi dropped this to build anticipation for his upcoming album “InteGRITTY 2” dropping sometime later …

Back in 1993 if you were at a house party and “12 Play” came on everyone knew what that meant, everything got dark, quiet, and everyone went in there own corner with there significant other. So we decided to bring back those memories on Valentines Day by letting you jam to the full “12 Play’ album by R. Kelly. http://youtu.be/QMeroj9oVVE …

(Q.) Whats up? Tell the people a little about yourself. (A.) I’m an independent (recording) artist from Springfield, IL. Before that I’m a business man and before that I’m a father. (Q.) Springfield, IL isn’t exactly known for its hip hop. What can you tell us about the local scene? (A.) Springfield is very over looked when it comes to …

  “The “Folk Tape: The Ascension” has just about everything a good mixtape should. Verses from household names like Drake, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj  and Jeezy; new school hit makers like Future, Big Krit, Curren$y and Big Sean; rap vets like Lil Boosie, Plies and Rocko, and some names you should get used to like B $tack$, Dusty Mcfly, Young …

Once again, the sick syllable spitta Words is back with new music and for this rip, the Chicagoan goes ham over A$ap Mob’s “Trillmatic”. There are so many hip hop quotables on this track right here you’d swear it belonged in The Source back in the nineties. Words is definitely an artist to watch for in 2014.

Chicago, Illinois’ Bizzy G is well known throughout the Chicagoland area for his street credibility but it’s his bars that are garnering him all the attention these days. After putting up nearly 40,000 organic views to his J. Zamudio Films video for “Block Party”, the slick spitta drops his recent video to his ode to Al Pacino with “Scarface”. Directed …

Ave’s new track “Just A Dream” refers to the idea that MLK’s dream was nothing more than that. With the gap between the rich and poor growing, prison is sometimes the end result for people. Taking these things into account, Ave uses this Jersey Life Beats canvas to create a track that calls attention to the fact that this county …

Adam Reverie is a recording artist by way of Detroit, Michigan. In honor of Black History Month, he wanted to present the black community and Hip-Hop community alike an empowering allocation in the form of a song titled “Black Is Beautiful”. With all the negativity that is highlighted when concerning the African American race in today’s media, we can sometimes …