This track has been on heavy rotation ever since we heard it. While we have been playing it on MCMI RADIO, I realized we didn’t have the song up on the site, so here it is.
Statik Selektah brings together Wu-Tang, Pro Era and The Roots for the first track off his upcoming ‘Extended Play’ album out June 18th on Showoff Records/Duck Down Music.
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This new collection of bangers produced by Canadian Brooklyn transplant producer Marco Polo is basically material that couldn’t be cleared for Port Authority 2: The Directors Cut. So its really an album more than a mixtape. We’ve already been playing some of these on MCMI RADIO, but here is the full mixtape download. The project features today’s generation of heat-makers alongside some of the legendary veterans that ushered in the Golden Era of Hip Hop, including Torae, Ruste Juxx, Lil Fame (of M.O.P), The Artifacts, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Das EFX, just to name a few.
And now …
What we’re gonna do is go back … back into time: GMS interview of Marco Polo outside Sputnik in Brooklyn. (2009)
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, MCMI Records flagship group HYDRA has pulled the gem “Love Is…” out of the vault to share with the world. The subject matter of “Love Is…” is not new, but is the group’s spin on what love of their craft means to them. Sampling the 1973 hit by MFSB “Love is the Message”, Wild Child, the producer of the group, crafts an energetic track that the trio flow effortlessly on.
To further the message, the other two members of HYDRA, GMS and LR Blitzkrieg, have put together The “LOVE IS…Mixtapeâ€, compiling various songs on the love of music, that will be available for free download soon, including many Hip Hop classics as well as a few surprises.
The song “Love Is …” can be found on MCMI.Bandcamp.com. Download for free if you want, or pay any amount and show us what love is! (see what I did there?)
Happy Valentine’s Day and thanks for the love!
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Sean P isn’t trying to get biblical with this one, it’s just a fancy title to a song that actually invites you to “embrace your Satan”. But it’s not horrocore either. It’s “hardcore rap at it’s worse”, such as @MandelaSean always gives his listeners. Hard Beats, hard rhymes, tongue in cheek axe murderer video (no homo).
“The Genesis of the Omega sounded better than the start of the ending. I was just trying to be slick with the words. The Genesis, you know that’s the beginning of The Bible. The Omega, that’s the end. On some punk shit, read too many comic books. lol†– Sean P!
Directed by Todd Angkasuwan | Song Produced by The Alchemist | Mic Tyson Out Now
Fresh from touring overseas, ONYX is back with their first single “CUZO” off of the new album, “BELLY OF THE BEAST“. ONYX quietly dropped a few joints between 2010 and 2012 and to tell you the truth, I wasn’t that enthused. To use a  MrMecc catchphrase, the songs were “aight to death”. It wasn’t wack, just decent – nothing to get too excited over. See, ONYX is actually their own worst enemy (lyrically), because they set the bar so high with their music when they first came out, anything less than top 10 hits from them seems like a let down.
That being said, this was the first one that made me do a double take. First, because the beat is crazy! It feels like a Wu style production, with soulful vocal bites thrown in, not just on the chorus but during the verses, which gives it a Dilla-esque quality to it. But it’s definitely not RZA or J. Dilla. Look at the production credits and it’s your boy Audible Doctor, who we interviewed not too long ago on MCMI RADIO (click to listen to that episode).
Second thing that excites me about the track is that Fredro and Sticky are spittin’ a different kind of style. Fredro is droppin’ some street gems and I hate to say it, but he actually outshined Sticky on this one, which never happened before. Even the chorus “One for the struggle, two for the pain” lets us know the new ONYX is gonna be really saying some shit, not just braggadocios wordplay, guns and violence. One question I have is … where’s Sonsee (-pka- Sonee Seez)?
Video by Kevin “KJ” Johnson.
