Two Links, 50 Free Songs! 1134 MIX SHOW Ep 63 x Ep 72 (underground & mainstream Hip Hop music, masterfully mixed by E.R.O.C.)

Episode 72

29-track mix from E.R.O.C., featuring Ghostface Killah, ILL BILL, J-Live, Homeboy Sandman, Joell Ortiz, Kool G Rap, Reks, R.A. The Rugged Man, AZ, AWKWORD and many more, with production from The White Shadow, Snowgoons, Kev Brown, Tiye Phoenix, Large Professor, Statik Selektah, Apollo Brown, Black Milk, Buckwild and FNTM!

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Episode 63

21-track mix from E.R.O.C., featuring Sheek Louch, Termanology, Skyzoo, Rah Digga, Redman, AWKWORD, KRS-One, Cappadonna, Kanye West, Raekwon and many more, with production from Endemic, Scram Jones, 7L & Esoteric, !llmind, Nottz, Quincey Tones, J. Glaze, Doc Ish, Bink! and DJ Muggs!

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1. Ghostface Killah – Together Baby
2. Nametag ft. Kopelli – Beast Mode
3. IDE & DJ Connect ft. ILL BILL – Re-arrange the State (War of the world Remix)
4. EQ, Reef The Lost Cauze, Planet Asia & Block McCloud – Check The Perspective (prod. The White Shadow)
5. Sean Strange ft. Exlib, Meth Mouth & Nems – Diabolical Decibles (prod. Snowgoons)
6. Awon & Tif The Gift – Just Do It
7. MindsOne ft. John Robinson & Johnbeez – Shark Week (prod. Kev Brown)
8. John regan – Sorry I’m Late (prod. YZ)
9. Tiye Phoenix – Waking Up (prod. Tiye Phoenix)
10. J-Live – Poetry In Motion
11. Large Professor – Forever
12. Diezel P – Police Piece
13. Kil Ripkin – Everything’s Changed
14. Homeboy Sandman – Maestro Madness (prod. Jinesis)
15. Gangrene (Alchemist & Oh No) – Overdose
16. Revolution of the Mind ft. Outerspace – Home Invasion (Prod By Sicknature)
17. Joell Ortiz – Ooh (prod. Large Professor)
18. Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime ft. Kool G Rap, LMNO & Black Milk – Heaven Or Hell (prod. Black Milk)
19. Reks – Pray For You (The Homicide Note) (prod. Statik Selektah)
20. Block McCloud ft. Celph Titled & R.A. The Rugged Man - Crazy Man (Strait Jacket Remix)
21. Cap D ft. Tragedy Khadafi – Life Is A Hustle
22. The Left ft. Invincible – Statistics (prod. Apollo Brown)
23. Celph Titled ft. Vinnie Paz (Jedi Mind Tricks) – Eraserheads (prod. Buckwild)
24. Artifacts – Big Deal
25. MURDOC, AMiAM, Shinobi Stalin, JBiz, MyGrane McNastee & Clarity (Vets Of Kin) – 360
26. AZ – Your World Dont Stop 2010 (prod. Statik Selektah)
27. Lux DeVille (PVD & 8th W1) – No Excuses (prod. PVD)
28. Agallah – Rap Bobby Fisher (prod. Agallah)
29. AWKWORD ft. Werdplay (BLESTeNATION) – Colors (prod. FNTM)

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1. DJ K.O. ft. East – Enemies (Madwreck Remix)
2. Ruste Juxx ft. ILL BILL, Sav Killz, Cyrus Malachi – Rap Assassins (prod. Endemic)
3. Black Milk – Warning (Keep Bouncing) (prod. Black Milk)
4. Sheek Louch ft. Joell Ortiz & Termanology – This Is Hip-Hop (prod. Scram Jones)
5. Skyzoo – Speakers On Blast (prod. !llmind)
6. 7L & Esoteric – No Shots (prod. 7L & Esoteric)
7. Reks – This Or That (prod. Statik Selektah)
8. Rah Digga ft. Redman – Lil’ Kid Rap (prod. Nottz)
9. Q-Unique ft. DStroy & Freestyle - Questions (prod. Quincey Tones)
10. Sonic ft. Termanology & Reks – Money & Power (prod. Statik Selektah)
11. AWKWORD – The People’s Champ (prod. J. Glaze)
12. Buckshot, Rock and Colloso – Make Moves (prod. Doc Ish)
13. AZ ft. June Summers – Nothing Move
14. L.I. – Be Like Me
15. P.SO the Earth Tone King & 8thW1 – Glad 2 Be Unhappy (Billie Holliday/DJ Logic Remix)
16. Punchline – Dead Poet Society
17. KRS-One ft. Cappadonna – Street Rhymer
18. Kanye West – Devil In A New Dress (prod. Bink!)
19. Hell Razah ft. R.A. The Rugged Man – Return Of The Renaissance
20. Quake ft. Royce da 5’9 & Kayo – I Stand Alone
21. ILL BILL ft. Raekwon – Chase Manhattan (prod. DJ Muggs)

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GYMR CO-SIGN: The Incomparable Shakespeare

How you market a rapper with a 4.00000000h!?



Congratulations to The Incomparable Shakespeare on receiving the third-ever GYMR CO-SIGN! (This is not a title we award lightly.) Like Homeboy Sandman or GYMR resident emcee AWKWORD, the homie Shake represents a new wave of emcees who are educated — and aint afraid to speak/write/rap like it.

According to Shake

The story behind it is an interesting one. A couple years ago, I was being courted by a bunch of major labels which culminated with a deal on Universal. Before landing the deal, I’d have meetings with A&R’s who would be like, “you’re dope, but we don’t know what to do with you”. All the while I’d be balancing schoolwork and hustling music. Although things didn’t pan out as I wished, I learned that the industry’s business model is built on competition, not innovation. So instead of chasing the status quo, I began to really embrace the things that made me different. Although I’m 2 years removed from it, graduating Summa Cum Laude is one such thing. So while we often hear about drug dealers, grandiose living or rappers dropping out, I’m the proud graduate! (For the record, although I maintained a 4.0 for several consecutive semesters, my final GPA was a 3.85).

** FREE DOWNLOAD ** The Incomparable Shakespeare - "4.0 (Four Point Oh)" (prod. Graphik)

** More from Shake ** Click here for the two songs that put the Brooklyn emcee on GYMR ON WATCH, from his collaborative project with singer/songwriter Jon Solo.

LIVE HIP HOP: Brown Bag Thursdays: Che Grand, AWKWORD, Brown Bag AllStars and More

Catch AWKWORD live for the first time since this benefit show with Asheru and South Africa's Hip Hop Pantsula. This time he will be joined by the Lessondary Crew's Che Grand as well as the homies (and GYMR Feature Artists) The Brown BagAllStars. Shout to J57. This show is gonna be bananas!

Past Brown Bag Thursdays events have featured:

• Percee P
• Natural Elements
• Pumpkinhead
• Poison Pen
• Homeboy Sandman
• P.SO
• Breez Evahflowin
• L.I.F.E. Long
• Scienze

FIRE: Homeboy Sandman x Nneka & Nas x Ron Artest (FREE AUDIO/VIDEO)

[If you think Nas's Illmatic is a classic, click the image above.]

Get Your Mind Right: FIRE

If you're at all familiar with GetYourMindRight, you know we are not like most hip hop blogs.

• We do not publish every day (hint: subscribing won't bite you in the ass).
• Not only do we NOT post trash and apologize for it (don't take it personal), we actually reject 99.9% of the music submitted to us for posting.

And that's NOT because we are elitist -- it's just that we (1) are very busy; (2) take this very personally; and (3) feature a lot more here than traditional 'hip hop' fare.

Take this, this or this, for example.

Every once in a while, however, we do hear a song that, for one reason or another, really sticks with at least one of us. And in those cases, we have featured here Sha Stimuli, Copywrite, dead prez, Crooked I, J the S, yU (Diamond District), Mistah F.A.B., General Steele, and REKS & Ron Artest.)

In continuing that tradition of spreading good music, today we offer new joints from Ivy League-educated emcee Homeboy Sandman, Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer Nneka (ft. the God Emcee Nas) and NBA basketball player, sometimes rapper and Queensbridge representative Ron Artest. All three songs were leaked in the last week.

Enjoy...

Homeboy Sandman



A tragic, beautiful ballad for an angel, from one of the few emcees you could bring home to dinner...

Song: Tyshae
Producer: Lotus
Album: The Lotus Effect
Download: HERE

Wanna hear more from Homeboy Sandman? Click here.

Nneka



Born in Nigeria, Nneka relocated some 10,000 miles to Hamburg, Germany, at 19, to pursue a career in singing alongside a degree in Anthropology. Today, she has a critically acclaimed album, a song on the official 2010 FIFA World Cup album and this powerful collaboration with Nas. We should all salute artists like beautiful Nneka, now 28, whose passion, strength and vocal range shine on this remix.

Song: Heartbreak (Remix)
Featuring: Nas
Download: HERE

Wanna hear more from Nneka? Click here.

(We here at GetYourMindRight have always held the highest regard for Nas, and this was only heightened after AWKWORD spent a couple hours kicking it with Nas's legendary bluesman father Olu Dara.)

Ron Artest



So, AWKWORD's uncle has known Ron Artest for more than a decade. Dude can play ball. No disputing that. Dude's nuts -- and often dangerous. Unfortunately, no disputing that either. But dude can also spit. I doubted it until I heard this... So I wasn't so surprised when I heard the new one, released June 19, 2010, two days after Artest scored 20 points in his team's NBA Championship game 7 win.

Song: Champions
Download: HERE

Wanna hear more from Ron Artest? Watch this!...