Calle13 – Atrévete-te-te.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist:
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.
Favorite Line: “”
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Saigon Wikipedia

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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Cee Lo – I’ll Be Around.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Cee Lo is a very unique palyer in the game. His funky pop sound and Hip Hop cred make him unlike anyone else. Cee Lo is probably most famous in the mainstream as his role as one half of Gnarls Barkley which hit it big mainstream with their hits “Crazy” and “Smiley Face”. The other member of Gnarls Barkley DJ Danger Mouse is one responsible for the underground monster hit mashup album “The Grey Album”.
About Song:This song is originally off of Cee Lo’s 2004 album “Cee-Lo Green… Is the Soul Machine” but I first heard it on a mixtape of Go-Go beat songs (pictured right). Timbaland is the producer but it is not like most of his other stuff.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:20)
Favorite Line: The opening line.
Other:Cee Lo is a weird looking dude if you wanna go check pictures of him out.
Cee Lo Wiki

K’naan – T.I.A .mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist:K’naan is a artisti from Somalia who just excape the violent civil war. His first album was released in 2004 so he’s been around and had some commercial sucess.
About Song: T.I.A (This Is Africa) is a hip hop song with strong African influence and represents the worldwide Hip Hop movement.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:13)
Favorite Line: “I know all the tricky sticky ickey alleys ways” (1:31)
Other: The music video is GREAT check it out HERE
K’naan Wiki

Lyriciss – A Milli Freestyle.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist:Lyriciss is just another unsigned up-and-coming artist out of the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia)
About Song:This song is off Lyriciss’ “Hope” mixtape which was released late 2008. Of course this song is a remix of Lil Wayne’s A Milli which was produced by Bangladesh and was 2x Platinum with over thirty remixes listed on wikipedia. If you haven’t heard the original you must have been living under a rock in 2008.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:22)
Favorite Line: “You Motherfuckas don’t wanna renew, I put that nine to your chest like Freddie Adu…(the next part is tight but I’m not gonna type it out)” (3:04) and the part at 1:03 is tight
Other:The Original Lil Wayne song is posted in the comments
Lyriciss Website

B.o.B. – My Sweet Baby.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: B.o.B now known as Bobby Ray is preparing for his first Album with Grand Hustle this fall. I Love Bobby Ray. He’s not pure hip-hop and he leans a little on the pop side but he writes and produces a lot of his own music and his creative and style and unmatched.
About Song: This song is just a nice simple little song produced by Fury.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:41)
Favorite Line: “…and if drugs are bad through away every CD you carry,
because drugs have inspired every musical visionary,
and this ain’t even the album yet so the thought alone should be scary” (1:00)
Other: Just a nice little song.
BoB Wiki

Apathy – Doe Raker Check.mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist: Apathy is a rapper out of Connecticut who after one album with Connecticut left the label after being shelved for several years
About Song: This song is one off of his only album Eastern Philosophy and features Motive, Big Hoot, and Emilio Lopez.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:06) but the firs’t verse is really good
Favorite Line: “I’m a bastard that will master ways to massacre the masses,
like a massive meteor that smashes cities into ashes,
ya i bash this little faggots till you face is facin backwards
waitin for you I’m takin you to quiet places in the back woods
where a hoes already thug and slug is waiting very patiently
to travel through the chamber and will bang em very gracefully
and dance through your cranium, tangle with your brain stem, saw sir with you cerebellum , quickly re-arrange them
exit through your ear holes firing projectiles
my bullets are accumulating frequent flyer miles.” (0:06)
Other: WOW that first verse is the shiiiit.
Apathy Wiki

The Paxtons – Still Waiting (ft. Oscar Wao) (Juxtaposition).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)
About Artist:The Paxtons is a hip hop group originally from Chicago’s Paxton Avenue but now out of DC. RIght now they are trying to grow their reputation from DC to the rest of the country. Their recent mixtape WORK is great and can be found a number of hip hop blogs for download.
About Song:I wanted to come back today with something hard after yesterday’s slower song BUT I was just feeling this laid back beat today. The instrumentals on this track are really good but don’t forget to listen to the words because the rap is real. I really do like the male vocals on the hook.
Favorite Verse:2nd verse (1:44)
Favorite Line:The sweet male vocals on the hook
Other: The Paxtons are fresh, smart, lyrical, smooth, sophisticated, old school all in one.

The Paxtons Website

Drake – Replacement Girl(ft. Trey Songz).mp3 (right click and “save link as”)

About Artist: Drake is signed with Lil Wayne’s Young Money. His debut album “Thank me Later” is coming out this fall. There is an earlier Drake post if you want to know more about Drake but his upcoming album is supposed to be much more R&B than his wildly popular hip-hop mixtape “So Far Gone”
About Song: This song is a single from his 2007 mixtape “Comeback Season”. This is a nice slow song and is about as R&B as a I want to go on the blog.
Favorite Verse:1st verse (0:16) this verse is good all the way through and has a great transisition into the hook
Favorite Line:The part right at 0:10 where the Trey Songz sings in the middle of the verse.

Other: This something nice and slow to listen to with someone you care about.
Drake Wikipedia