FREE DOWNLOAD! Reks - "In Between The Lines Vol. 2" (Mixtape) <-- #WorldView MC

Boston-bred underground Hip Hop icon Reks, a #WorldView MC, has that indefinable quality that attracts the blogs and... well, Los Angeles Laker All Star Ron Artest. You never know what you're gonna get from dude — grimy street banger, drunk anthem or passionate social commentary — but you know the lyrics will be on point. And, with Statik Selektah at the helm and #WorldView producer ATG (@heroicvillain) doing some of the production duties, you beats-only types got nothing to worry about.

Click the album cover art to download the mixtape FREE via DJBooth.

See below for tracklist — and FREE BONUS TRACKS, collected, uploaded and shared EXCLUSIVELY for you HERE!





1. Once Again (prod. ATG)
2. Legacy (prod. J. Lee)
3. Represent 2010 Freestyle
4. This Or That (prod. Statik Selektah)
5. My Words f. Dynas & Jon Hope (prod. Rain)
6. What It Is f. Truck North, STS & Phonte (prod. Statik Selektah)
7. Successful Girl f. BK Cyph (prod. Statik Selektah)
8. Feel It Baby (prod. Soul Theory)
9. Different Breed (prod. Oh No)
10. Pray For U (Homicide Note) (prod. Statik Selektah)
11. Egos f. Strong Arm Steady (prod. Statik Selektah)
12. Money & Power f. Sonic & Termanology (prod. Statik Selektah)
13. Eff U (prod. Nottz)
14. Get Rowdy f. Sha Stimuli & Reef the Lost Cauze (prod. The Bassheadz)
15. No Hooks (Uppercuts) f. Lucky Dice & Chi Knox (prod. MoSS)
16. In My Lane f. Ras Kass & Ekko (prod. Hazardis Soundz)
17. Getting Ugly (prod. Frank Dukes)
18. Eat Or Starve (prod. Statik Selektah)
19. 6 AM f. Slaine, JFK & Steven King (prod. Statik Selektah)
20. Setting It Off f. Slaine, JFK, Jaysaun & Steven King (prod. Statik Selektah)
21. Window Pane (prod. Blaze P & Bing)
22. The Etc. f. Kali (prod. Statik Selektah)
23. Night Sky f. S.O.L (prod. Dom)
24. Hooked On Whateva f. Blaze P & J Tronius (prod. Blaze P)
25. Lighters f. Easy Money & Sonic (prod. Scotty B)
26. Hindu Kush (Ghost) (prod. The Lion)
27. Rapanomics f. Termanology & Sha Stimuli (prod. Rain)
28. Strays f. Saheed (prod. Hazardis Sound)
29. Brainstorm (prod. ATG)
30. My Dark Skin (Willie Lynch Theory) (prod. Soul Theory)

MORE from Hennessy R.E.K.S. (FREE DOWNLOADS)

Reks - Pray For You (The Homicide Note) by GYMRblog

AWKWORD - Imperialism ft. C-Rayz Walz & Reks by GYMRblog

Reks - Outta Control ft. Strong Arm Steady by GYMRblog

In My Lane (Remix) ft. Ras Kass & Ekko by GYMRblog

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• @TheRealReks
• Reks x #GYMR 1, 2, 3 & 4
• Reks x #WorldView

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!...

FIRE: Reks - "Henny at Halftime" ft. Ron Artest - FREE AUDIO

The Los Angeles Laker -- and friend of my uncle -- Ron Artest joins my guy Reks on a Statik Selektah-produced cut off Reks's "In Between the Lines" mixtape.

Click here to listen to -- and download -- this honest, melodic West Coast-style banger.

Props to 2DopeBoyz for giving the homies love and posting the track on the site.



REKS APPEARS ON THE AWKWORD "WORLD VIEW" ALBUM, OUT FIRST QUARTER 2010.