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DETROIT SUMMER / EMERGENCE – INVINCIBLE + WAAJEED

Tags: INVINCIBLE, WAAJEED

NO KNOWS DOPE – OCTOBER 2009

…& ya just don’t stop… back like a bad dream like I never left…Ya kNOw what time it cuz you iz da faithful… why I am typing “ghett-right”? I have no idea.  Anyways, this one goes out to all the purists of sound & the respecognition of listening to an album from beginning to end. If a track had to much damn dead space @ the end of a track I took that batch out. If a song was dope as fuck in a mix that I loved I got that schitt up in this piece! You don’t play when it comes to your NKD & therefore I vow to never play either.

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I send no apologies for this months edition of NKD. It is – what it is (male quote of the century) “of course my goons is astounding, niqqa I used the Auto-Tune™ because I’m clownin’!”

Track List & DL after the bounce, rock, roller-sk8…

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Tags: 88 Keys, 9th Wonder, ANDRE 3000, ATTICA BLUES, Bilal, Bullion, Cee-lo, Colin Munroe, COMMON, De La Soul, DERT, DEVONWHO, DIMLITE, DIVERSE, DR. WHO DAT?, ELZHI, Exile, FINALE, GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW, GUILTY SIMPSON, HI-TEK, INVINCIBLE, J DILLA, J MITCHELL, JAKE ONE, JAY DEE, JNEIRO JAREL, JOE SAMPLE, Karriem Riggins, LITTLE BROTHER, MADLIB, Mick Boogie, NO KNOWS DOPE, NOTTZ, OH NO, ROYAL FLUSH, ROYCE DA 5'9, ROZZI DAME, Sa Ra, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, SHAWN JACKSON, SOJOURN, SPANK POPS, STEREOLAB, THE AB'S, THE PROCUSSIONS, THES ONE, ty & kory

VIDEO: INVINCIBLE – ROPES (FEAT. TIOMBE LOCKHART)

It’s deeper than rap (no Rick Ross.) Invincible’s video confronting the issue of suicide. Good shit all around!

Tags: INVINCIBLE, Tiombe Lockhart

FINALE – A PIPE DREAM AND A PROMISE

Finale was an auto engineer who worked for the Big 3 in Detroit and decided to throw himself full-fledged into the rap scene after J Dilla co-signed him at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.  His official debut album entitled A Pipe Dream And A Promise features production from a handful of great producers including Dilla, Black Milk, Nottz, Oddisee, Flying Lotus, Waajeed, and only 1 guest emcee, Invincible.   A Pipe Dream And A Promise will be released on April 7th via Interdependent Media. Check out the first single produced by Black Milk: MOTOR MUSIC

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Tags: BLACK MILK, FINALE, FLYING LOTUS, INVINCIBLE, J DILLA, NOTTZ, ODDISEE, WAAJEED

SoCAL | THIS SHOW LOOKS GOOOOOD…..

Cali I swear you guys have the best shows. Well, Cali and NY. But that’s cool. I’ll bring Chicago up to speed if it kills me! The homies over at CDR have put together an ill show with a couple of Blind I favorites – Invincible, House Shoes, Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, along with Danny Brown and KNXWLDGE, THIS Friday (that means tomorrow), February 2oth at Porter’s Pub in UC San Diego. It’s free and all ages, and starts at 8PM. If you go let us know how it is!

Tags: Danny Brown, Gaslamp Killer, HOUSE SHOES, INVINCIBLE, KNXWLDGE, SAMIYAM

NEW GUILTY SIMPSON JAWNS

Props to SweeneyKovar for these gems in my inbox today.

For The D (Harmonic 313 Remix)
Ferocious (Off DJ Design’s Jetlag)
Michigan Nights (Produced by Block Barley, off WEAINTMUSIC’s Michigan Nights EP)

Kovar also sent over a very thorough interview with Blind I Artist Of The Month Alum Invincible…check it out.

Tags: Block Barley, DJ Design, GUILTY SIMPSON, INVINCIBLE