I'll keep the back-to-back-to-back posting going here since I got the day off. Listening to this Freeway/Jake One album from a couple years back, Free's raps can get tiring after a while but Jake One keeps this one going all the way through with nice beats. I went to the album opener for this actually, either way, a relatively nice album from Freeway:

I'll be watching the BET hip hop awards tonight...hearing a lot of things I don't want to listen to..I"ll probably be posting in the vent thread as well,because you know like three fights broke out backstage..hip-hop is rife with idiocy I tell ya...off to go watch...wish me luck

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I'll be watching the BET hip hop awards tonight...hearing a lot of things I don't want to listen to..

Er...

LOL.

Hey hiphopchiq how was that? I didn't peep it or record it, I forgot about it. Was it any good?

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Manday night...

I got caught up (a little) on my 'new' Hip Hop records...

Pete Rock / Smif-N-Wessun ‎– Monumental LP (Duck Down) 2011



^Uptown was telling me to get this over a year ago when I was visiting his crib, now finally, I found the 2LP at the right price. Glad I copped it for sure, there are a lot of solid tracks on this especially later on in the album. These vets know wassup, they know how to drop a good formula.



Blu & Exile ‎– Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them LP (Dirty Science) 2012



^Such a dope album. Beats are really well laid out by Exile and Blu drops nice chill rhymes. I haven't given it a proper listen, it's one of those albums you don't fully understand on the first peep, but I can already tell it's gonna get multiple listens. A great followup to their stellar below the heavens.



Apollo Brown + OC* - Trophies LP (Mello Music Group) 2012



^Saved the best for last. I REALLY am feeling this. Tight production, plenty of modern boom bap, and OC hasn't lost a step. Interesting collab to say the least, definitely worth copping this on wax.

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...Overall I'm happy you reminded me of it and with the purchase, I'd cop again for whatever that's worth.

Thanks for the review BTW, I broke down and copped both of those 7"s

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