Too Short ft. Snoop Dog, Will IAM, Fergie-Keep Bouncing

Will IAM kills this beat on the production tip. The little sample of A Tribe Called Quest's "Keep Bouncing" sample fom Midnight Marauders album interlplays with this "Hyphy" type style beat, which is the craze of the moment, very smoothly. Then there's Fergie's "it makes wanna bounce" hook, which makes me wanna bounce on her... well you know what. Snoop adds to this track with his usual swagger. Too Short still kicks his old pimperish style rhymes that has made him a real "OG' in this rap game. Like the chorus says, you'll be boucning to this song a lot, especially the ladies behinds.

Rating: 8.5 Beats2Rhymes!

Daz-Thang on My Hip

One new track for today is from the West Coast veteran Daz. This track is off his upcoming release on so So So Def Records titled “So So Gangsta”. Yeah that’s seems strange to me also, but I guess that’s where the money is and J.D. is a hit maker you gotta give him that. Well the title of this track explains itself about what this song is about. The beat is on some shoot’em up type of feel, which works for this song. I will say I’am looking forward to this album because of the 2 other songs I’ve heard so far. I‘ve liked them both even though one is just a remake of EPMD’s “It’s My Thang” that track features Kurupt and the other song is with Rick Ross “On Some Real Shit”, which no question is the best of the 3 songs.

Rating: 7.5 Beats2Rhymes!

Little Brother-Life of the Party

What this Little Brother not rapping over a 9^th Wonder beat? Uh-oh does that the spell trouble for the LB’s... Not quite this track produced by Nottz is much in the 9^th Wonder style. Any person knowing 9^th’s beats knows what I mean. Honestly if I didn’t know, I would of thought he did produce this song. Never the less if you’re a Little Brother fan this song is right up your alley. Phonte and Pooh once again deliver lyrically as the always seem to do. Damn their underrated, another shame of the rap game!

Rating: 7.5 Beats2Rhymes!

Game-One Blood

So this is supposedly the 1^st track off Game’s upcoming album. Doesn’t sound like it, I think it’s more of a mixtape teaser. Even though he mentions Dre on the track, this is not a Dr. Dre beat. The reggae sample of Junior Reed's "One Blood" is once again used, this track was produced by one of Game's boys Reefa. Game as usual spits some nice bars. Proving again he is one of the better MC’s in the game, no pun intended. There is one line that he says he “has no beef with 50”. Hmm…I’m not too sure about that.

Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Beats2Rhymes!

New Songs 7/24/06

So today well talk about a 2 new tracks, 1st one is from Lupe Fiasco. The track is "I Gotcha". It's a Neptunes produced beat. Part of it sounds like the NORE drum part of "I'm a G" just a little speedup. The piano loop is not bad and makes the song catchy. I gotta say Lupe's flow makes this song bettter, even if your not loving this beat.
Rating: 7 out of 10 Beats2Rhymes!

The next track is also a Neptunes produced song. It's Ludacris featuring Pharell entitled "Money Maker". Now this is definitely catchy especially the hook, it will have you singing it all day long. The beat it self is kind of Caribbean sounding which is little bit different sounding then the tyical Neptunes beat. Lyrically Luda like alwys spits some good one liners that have some humor in them. Thats why I love Luda, he brings the fun back into hip-hop music!
Rating: 8 out of 10 Beats2Rhymes!

So what is new out there for this week? Well lets see theres Rhymefest's "Blue Collar" album. Rhymefest once again is another rapper, who is better lyrical and has more to say then 90 percent of the rappers out there. So why doesn't he get any radioplay/love? Well it's simple, the labels don't promote their artists properly. I always wonder what exactly do the record labels do? If I was a runnning a label and had artist, who I believed is better then most of the artists out there, I would be promoting the crap out of them. I would be making phone calls to MTV, radio staions, and the magazines out there. I would have a street team with flyers, and now that were in the year 2006. I would promte using the internet as spreading the word via blogs such as this one. It must not be as simple as I think. Cause if you were the label woundn't you be following this plan. Well maybe the tradtionals ways of promting i.e. MTV involves what the kids say "payola". Now I don't doubt for a minute that this tactic is a big part of the music business. Never the less this can be changed and this website is out to do that! So how you ask? My goal is to promote artists that I feel in my humble opinion that are puting out quality music. So from this point on I will set out to keep my ears to the "streets" to what is out there. I will tell you what you shoud be checking for and hopefully get you to go out buy the album!