Erule – Listen Up Download audio file (01.-Listen-Up-LP-Version.mp3)
Oh how I love that song. Anyways… if you in LA you know what to do! & if you aint you know what you NEED to do. Peep the official statement after the jump. & once again major Jedi Respecognition to the entire Fat Beats staff!

Fat Beats is excited to present yet another send-off worthy of their hip-hop legacy. Following the recent close of their New York location and a successful string of in-store performances from such artists as Just Blaze, DJ A-Trak, Pete Rock, and DJ Premier, Fat Beats is planning a week long series of in-store performances and music industry panels for to close out the Los Angeles location. These in-stores will provide an opportunity for fans to celebrate the legacy of one of the strongest music brands in the company of their favorite artists, while learning about the history of Fat Beats and what the future holds for the music industry. Everyone is welcome to come and all events are free.

Today marks the official start of the week and a half long in-store series for the Los Angeles location. This location will host artist performances every day starting this weekend until it closes its doors for the final time on Saturday, September 18th, 2010. Additionally, the Los Angeles Fat Beats location will be selling limited edition commemorative t-shirts, as well as discounted music and merchandise. Says owner, Joseph Abajian aka DJ Jab, “California has supported us since day one and we’re looking forward to putting on great shows for our final week.”

The schedule for the Los Angeles location is as follows:

Tuesday, September 14th: Trek Life, Percee P & Mellow Man Ace & others
Wednesday, September 15th: Tiron, Ayomari, Bambu, Tunji, & others
Thursday, September 16th: Producer Showcase – Exile, Rhettmatic, HouseShoes, Shafiyq, & others
Friday, September 17th: Kurupt, Bishop Lamont, Dilated Peoples, EM Eiht, Ras Kass, Planet Asia, Affion Crockett, Funkdoobiest, Strong Arm Steady, & others
Saturday, September 18th: Special guest DJ’s and performers all day
*FINAL DAY* Sunday, September 19th: DJ’s Showcase – DJ Revolution, Rhettmatic, J Rocc,& others

Despite these farewells, Fat Beats will continue doing what it does best – bringing hip-hop to the people. Fat Beats Distribution has been renamed FB Distribution and continues to work with both independent and major labels. Likewise, Fat Beats Records is pllaning rleases from a number of artists from their impressive roster, including ILL BILL, TruMaster/KRS-One, Black Milk, Trinity, Sha Stimuli, Q-Unique and more. The company’s online store, FatBeats.com, which carries everything available in their retail locations and more, will remain the number one destination for hip-hop fans for all their music needs. Though these two landmarks may be closing, Fat Beats’ persistence during tough times for the record industry proves it is still very much alive and well.

Okay so, thus far we have had NKD’s on some str8 up heat to kick start it all, then Dilla, then Beats, then Love , then Stereolab, then Portishead, then we had last months double NKD for Stevie & for this month I had to go with my man Busa Busss!! So many people sleep on Busta Rhymes! I never see him any ANNNNNNNNNNNYBODYS top 10 or top 20 for that matter. I had to dead that by doing a No Knows Busta. 60 pinche tracks! & even THAT was narrowed down. These are just my all time favorite Busta songs of all time. The others will be saved for a sequel somewhere down the road, but for now I think these will suffice. If you’ve always thought like me… then this is FOR YOU! If you sittin’ there reading this like… “really No? Busta?” then stick yo’self Pretty Tony & hit the jump to DL like yesterday!! (my bad for the 1 day delay)

NKD PRESENTS… NO KNOWS BUSTA(1 OF 2)  [DOWNLOAD]

NKD PRESENTS… NO KNOWS BUSTA(2 OF 2)  [DOWNLOAD]

(Trust. You need both links for complete freshness)

Naw it ain’t a tribute like that! Chillax… this is for the big homie Hex Murda who defied death when he was hit with a Pontine stroke. It partially paralyzed his right side where he can’t walk or talk like he does, but that don’t stop the man from getting his voice heard via his Twitter or any other outlet through the fam bam holding him down. Ras & Royce are the true spitters choice & they come correct as always on this one!

GET WELL SOON HEX!

Download audio file (03-Release-Yourself-Rhettmatic-Version.mp3)

DOWNLOAD RAS KASS & RHETTMATIC – RELEASE YOURSELF [BANDCAMP]

So nice we had to hit em twice! Watts up, Watts up faithfuls! Trusting you all had a great New Year & a day after to not do anything but recoup back to G status! I felt it necessary to come with the sequel to the compilation my cuzzo Killa Cam & I dropped back in July of last year, where we highlight the artists & music coming out of our lovely city. We went further in on this one & you can judge for yourself on the Track list & DL which is after the jump…

…so for the first drop of 20X we finna fitz to sag in our pants cuz we don’t know better, cuz nothing could be better than, rollin in a drop top on the 10 West relaxing our minds to some Cali soul in honor of our lady L.A.!!

DOWNLOAD ELDOTAYEDOT 2 [SHAREBEE]

Track listing after leap
devour it!

[download: mediafire]

Download audio file (04-Organized-Konfusion-Bring-It-On.mp3)

What’s good Blind I Faithful? It’s your girl Maiya and your boy NO coming to you with our first joint compilation…GRIMEY! We’ve talked about doing one for ages and finally made it happen. You’d think between our typical comps, it might be pretty eclectic or soulful. THINK AGAIN! Most men assume the ladies have to act/look rough to appreciate some old La the Darkman or N.W.A. (a stereotype I proudly defy).   So, NO and I got our hands dirty in the crates to deliver a gritty, grimy, hardcore mix unlike anything you’ll see on the other blogs.

We literally birthed the idea yesterday morning and completed it in an hour last night. Beginning with my Raekwon “Penitentiary” (The new Rae is ill BTW) we tag teamed track for track throughout the entire thing. Between Gravediggaz, Organized Konfusion and O.C., we got something in store for rap fans that frequent Blind I.

Special thanks to $uli for delivering the artwork via NO’s idea.

Tracks/links after the drop.

1. Raekwon f. Ghostface-Penitentiary-Maiya

2. Percee P f. Guilty Simpson and Vinnie Paz-Watch Your Step-NO

3. Onyx-Shifftee-M

4. Organized Konfusion-Bring It On-N

5. Madvillain-Figaro-M

6. Pash A Trunk Specialist f/ Noahdeeakili- Sight See-N

7. Erik B. & Rakim-Let The Rhythm Hit Em’-M

8.O.C.-Constables-N

9. Camp Lo-Krystal Karrington-M

10.  Ol’ Dirty Bastard-The Stomp-N

11. Big Pun-The Dream Shatterer-M

12. Biggie- Long Kiss Goodnight (OG Version)-N

13. Jay-Z- Where I’m From-M

14. Redman- Case Closed-N

15. Gravediggaz f. Kelis- Fairytalez-M

16. Ras Kass-Remain Anonymous-N

17. Mobb Deep-Hell on Earth-M

18. Black Milk f. Fat Ray-Hell Yeah-N

19. Goodie Mob f. Big Boi and Coolbreeze-Dirty South-M

20. Black Sheep-U Mean I’m Not-N

Download GRIMEY [Mediafire]

Download audio file (14-Baby-Huey-The-Babysitters-Hard-Times.mp3)

DOWNLOAD NO KNOWS DOPE – AUGUST 2009 [MEDIAFIRE]

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TRACKLIST & DL AFTER THE J…

“Some of y’all hate… but I know u GOT to love L.A.”

DOWNLOAD ELDOTAYEDOT [MEDIAFIRE]

Now the following is nothing new. The material has been out for some time now, but do You know the history?

So check it… Our contestants on this episode are producer extrodinaire The Alchemist, Ras Kass & The Lox.

So the story goes like this…

The Alchemist here

made this beat Download audio file (03-we-gonna-make-itinstrumental.mp3)

Then he gave it to Ras Kass

& He made this song entitled “Home Sweet Home” Download audio file (home-sweet-home-prod-by-the-alchemist.mp3)

THEN He sold it to The Lox

& they made “We Gon’ Make It” Download audio file (01-we-gonna-make-itdirty.mp3)

So… Ras Kass, being the pissed off (& for good reason) lyricist He is after hearing the song for the first time on the radio, made this song entitleD “Kiss You” to get the schitt off His chest.

Download audio file (04-kiss-u.mp3)

yea I love that track too! hahahaha

If u want all these songs I zipped em all up for ya! I included the instro just in case You feel that YOU can make a better song with the beat, then I challenge You to do so! We’d LOVE to hear it!

So Who did it better?