2Lp gatefold U.s.a press TRACKLIST 1. The Sure Shot’ (Intro) 2. Lights Out Feat. M.O.P. 3. Bad Name 4. Hit Man Feat. Q-Tip 5. What’s Real Feat. Group Home & Royce Da 5’9 6. Keith Casim Elam (Interlude) 7. From A Distance Feat. Jeru The Damaja 8. Family and Loyalty Feat. J. Cole 9. Get Together feat. Ne-Yo & Nitty Scott 10. NYGz 11. GS 183rd (Interlude) 12. So Many Rappers 13. Business Or Art Feat. Talib Kweli 14. Bring It Back Here 15. One Of The Best Yet (Big Shug Interlude) 16. Take Flight (Militia Pt. 4) feat. Big Shug & Freddie Foxxx 17. Bless The Mic

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With Retropolitan, Skyzoo’s most recent collaborative project with Pete Rock, he got to live out a dream, as two generations of legendary native New Yorkers aligned to create an album that was both a love letter and a wakeup call to the city they love. Now, with The Bluest Note, Skyzoo is checking another box on his bucket list. “Since my debut album, I’ve never released a project that didn’t include a moment of jazz influence; with some sort of live instrumentation, something that connected my lyricism with the truest definition of musical lyricism; jazz” Skyzoo commented. “As much as I’ve incorporated my favorite genre of music with my other favorite genre of music, this is the first time I’ve been able to craft an entire project based on jazz production from top to bottom” Skyzoo quipped. “The Bluest Note is a testament to something I’d been longing to do for as far back as I can remember.” In 2017, Sky was touring in Italy and while there attended a show from a local nu-jazz band, Dumbo Station, and was immediately impressed. Shortly thereafter, those seeds blossomed into conversations and in June 2019 Skyzoo was in Rome writing, composing and recording music with the talented musicians. “Collaborating with Italy’s renowned jazz band Dumbo Station was an absolute honor. From writing musical arrangements with them and having them bring them to life in the studio in Rome, Italy; it was a perfect union and execution of what I foresaw when I began to sketch out the project. Six songs, as an homage to the classic jazz albums of the genre’s heyday (when LPs were around six tracks total). The Bluest Note is the storytelling and inner-city expressions you’ve come to know and love from me, attached to the jazz orchestration I’m dying to introduce to some and re-introduce to others. Ladies and gentlemen, this is, The Bluest Note...”

The Slayers Club” is one of the highlights of R.A. The Rugged Man‘s new album All My Heroes Are Dead. The epic posse cut is an all-out lyrical onslaught, as R.A. joins forces with microphone gods Brand Nubian, Ice-T, M.O.P., Chino XL, Onyx, Vinnie Paz, and Chris Rivers. Now, this historic track is available on a limited-edition sawblade shaped 10″ vinyl single with the instrumental on the B-side. This 10″ features silver colored vinyl with red “blood” splatter, and comes packaged in a plastic sleeve with a 10″ mini-poster insert.

DESCRIPTION Knowledge The Pirate is back! Roc Marci’s righthand man has been quietly building another masterpiece and as usual he’s kept his circle small. The album is fully produced by Pirate’s regular collaborator E.L.E.M.N.T. and noted Italian producer Cuns. There is no features on this project because KTP felt the need to keep the spotlight firmly focused on himself this time around. The new LP is titled Family Jewels and is based on the Black Madonna and Jesus’ bloodline. Of course, the record is still that hardcore Street Hop fans have come to expect from Pirate, but it’s also a little deeper than that. The first leak from the album, “Oni Experience,” finds Knowledge utilizing a conversational flow to drop mad jewels about street life, while the second leak, “Red Beam,” is some genuine weight-moving music. 125 copie vinile nero

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3Lp BBE Music announces the first repress of the classic Roy Ayers albums ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ 1 and 2 since 2006, on luxurious 180g vinyl with brand new sleeve notes written by Sean P. The music on 'Virgin Ubiquity' was selected and mixed down from previously unreleased multi-tracks recorded between 1976 & 1981, which Roy had in storage. It's all unmistakably Ayers, but is diverse and fresh enough to be more than a mere adjunct to one of his most productive and popular periods - testament to his and his musicians' creative abilities, as much of most revered Ayers output stems from this time. These discoveries take their place beside some illustrious company in a timeline bookended by 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' and 'Africa, Center Of The World', several solo and Ubiquity albums, collaborations with Wayne Henderson & Fela Kuti, as well as guesting on LPs by Buster Williams and Herbie Mann. Out of print on vinyl and CD for over a decade now, BBE is delighted to re- present these groundbreaking Roy Ayers titles, neatly coinciding with the 45th anniversary of his classic album ‘Mystic Voyage’ and a UK tour to commemorate it during April 2020