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Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind (ft. Alicia Keyes).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
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Drake – Forever (ft. Kanye Wes,t Lil Wayne, Eminem).mp3″ (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Drake is famous for his song “Best I Ever Had” from his mixtape So Far Gone (back cover featured right) which he is re-releasing and selling in store before his debut album Thank Me Later comes out this fall. Drake is becoming very famous very fast check out the link to his wikipedia be low for more info.
About Song: This song was made for sound track of the Lebron James documentary “More Than A Game” which will be in select theaters Oct 2nd.
Favorite Verse: I personally and surprisingly like Eminem’s verse best (its the last one) for the direction he takes it and the way it flows over the beat but Kanye’s verse has some awesome punchlines.
Favorite Line: “…Superbad chicks givin me McLovin, you’d a think I ran the world like Michelle’s husband…”(2:13) Kanye’s verse starting at 2:03 is awesome.
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Wale – World Tour (ft. Jazmine Sullivan).mp3″ (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Wale is my NUMBER ONE. Check out his wikipeida link below for more info. His debut album Attention Deficit it coming out October 20th.
About Song: This song is not Chillin (pictured right) but I’m putting it up because it just leaked this morning so its BRAND NEW. Wale said on twitter that the leak wasn’t intentional and that he was a frustrated about the leak, but hey its just more good music for us. BUY THE ALBUM ATTENTION DEFICIT OCT 20th
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Wale Wikipedia

B.o.B – Atlanta, GA (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: B.o.B aka Bobby Ray is GGGGRRRREEEAAAATTTTT. Pushes Hip Hop in a new direction by blurring the genre lines.
About Song: This song is more lyrical based straight rap than some of his other stuff.
Favorite Verse: 2nd (1:30)
Favorite Line: “…But y’all pushin my buttons like I’m bout to vend a soda…I’m burnin so much trees I’m endangerin the planet” (1:39)
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Bobby Ray Wiki

Rhymefest-CantMakeIt.mp3″ (right click and “save link as”)
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About Song:Produced by Best Kept Secret from the Michael Jackson Tribute Album “Man In The Mirror”.
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BigSean-GetchaSome.mp3″ (right click and “save link as”)
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Donnis – Underdog.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Donnis another XXL freshman class member (details). Hism mixtape “Diary of an Atlanta Brave” dropped a little over a week ago and it is TIGHT. There are a number of tracks ai could have put up but I chose this one just cause it had the beat and rhymes. The album is also sponsored by 10 Deep.
About Song: This song is about Donnis being and underdog. Its got a nice southern sound but it has hard northern lyricism with LOTS OF REFERENCES.
Favorite Verse: 2nd verse (1:25)
Favorite Line: “Cudi called back and they sent him through the roof, it was enough proof to show me I could do it too, so Cudi’s on the Moon and Drake’s So Far Gone, I’m finally famolus like my boy Big Sean…” (1:40) This line references Drake’s mixtape So Far Gone, Cudi’s Man ont the Moon, and Big Sean’s Finally Famous, ALL of which have been featured on this blog.
Other:Sponsored by 10 X Deep

Calle13 – Atrévete-te-te.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
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About Song:features Edgar Abraham
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PacDiv – Knuckleheadz.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Out of SoCal I saw PacDiv open for Bobby Ray and Kid Cudi. They are AWESOME LIVE. They have a throwback style of classic hip hop that is high energy and hard. Its not the sound of modern hip hop but its a reworking of Hip Hop’s golden days.
About Song: What is there to say. Its awesome but you have to play it in your car LOUD!
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Favorite Line: Opening line of both “songs” (0:03, 1:49)
Other:There is two songs here with the second starting at  1:49. At 2:05 you’ll either hear one quiet low sound or two super loud and awesome drops depending on what kind of speakers you have.

Wale – Nothing ToWorry About.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: I Love WALE. Wale is straight out of DC one of the 09 Freshman class of the new wave of hip hop artists. He took the funky go-go beat of the DMV (DC Maryland Virginia) and is bringing it national. He’s got library of awesome mixtapes the latest of which is this past summer’s “Back to the Feature” which has a featured artist on every track.
About Song: This song has been heard on XM satalitte radio and I’m optimistic that it will be pretty popular down the line. Also it plays in the background of a promo spot for the new season of Always Sunny in Philadelphia on Comedy Central features Peter, Bjorn & John

Favorite Verse: 1st Verse
Favorite Line: “…no challenge, and with this I have grown nonchalante, play the cards I was dealt meawhile in, simply invest in the fate know that I win, while I inspect the deck, shaolin, hi haters, try later, I do the hiesman on ya like I’m gator, Tim Tebow…”(1:50) I like this line for several reasons: 1) The way he says nonchalante 2) inspect the deck is a reference inspectah deck who is a rapper from the Wu-Tang Clan which is from Staten Island known as shaolin (wu-tang is all about shaolin) 3) The hiesman is the highest college football award which Florida Gator Tim Tebow won a few years ago
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Trife Diesel – 85 Hip Hop.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: I don’t know anything Trife Diesel so he can’t be That famous.
About Song: I Love the intro and the beat.
Favorite Line: I just like how he rides the beat.
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Saigon – Change Gon Come).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Saigon is Brooklyn rapper who spent seven years in prison as a young man earning him the nickname “The Yard Father”. With a mixtape by the same name and an appearance as himself on the tv show Entourage Saigon rose to fame and is awaiting the release of his first commercial album “The Greatest Story Never Told” in 2010.
About Song: This song is of the soundtrack of a underground movie called “Inside A Change” it’s a street story with a few actors from HBO’s “The Wire”. Directed by music video producer Rick Cordero the movie has been praised at film fesitivals and the soundtrack is an amazing mixtape project with contributions from The Kickdrums, Joell Ortiz, Wale, Saigon, Royce Da 5′9″, Consequence and others.
Favorite Verse:Its a story song so you gotta listen to all of it, but I really like the opening verse.
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Rhymefest – Dynomite (Going Postal).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Rhymefest is a Chicago artist who Co-Wrote Kanye’s famous “Jesus Walk”. He’s been making music since the late 90’s with his first album “Blue Collar” in 2006 and his next album is due sometime in 2009 but is rumored to have been pushed back to 2010.
About Song:This song was a 2006 single from his album.
Favorite Verse:3rd verse (4:06)
Favorite Line: “Open my palm bitch, I got the world in my hand
Got a gun and a plan, I got the Torah and the Qu’ran
I got your toddler in the back of a van
I got a hostage and a list of demands, I gotta gotta
’bout a thousand dollars say you couldn’t sit where I stand
All these niggaz that spit threats, hoes that get wet
My style’s runnin to the toilet, you ain’t seen shit yet
Yet, yet and still I keep it hot like, Mexican meals
I got a Cadillac stretch Deville
I can show you how to flip for real
Gangsters don’t hold the rock, but they know how to flip it and chill
Dime bag-ass niggaz ain’t large
When the Patriot Act come hit they ass with the terrorist charge
And we, is what they made it fo’
You think it’s all about Arabs? It’s a war on the po’, we gotta go” (4:07)
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Rhymefest Wiki

X.O. – Idle Hands (ft. Gordo Brega).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: X.O. is yet another DC Area artist who now works with studio 43.
About Song: I like the interest background on this song and how it tell a story so you have to listen to it all the way through.
Favorite Verse:3rd verse (2:40) It is the verse where the beat breaks down.
Favorite Line: “Kill rappers, make it look like suicide. If you cross my you’ll get crucified, lucifer” (1:50)
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