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J-son – Head In The Sky (Trailer)

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J-Son released a trailer for his yet unreleased single “Head In The Sky” last night. It’s the forth and last single and will be released the 14th of October before the record “Never Half Steppin” drops via Same Blood Entertainment and EMI Music Publishing.

J-Son had a busy summer after releasing his first single “Lookie Lookie” which lead to various performances at festivales around Sweden and heavy radio rotation. He also opened for artists such as Joe Budden, Musiq Soulchild and Lady Gaga.

Personally I am split about J-Son, but still curious about the album. I guess I got high expectations on it and crossing my fingers that he won’t go and do like Lazee did after his epic mixtape “It Is What It Is (host Dj Kayslay) – drop a boring record (Setting Standard) that is.

YES! In Concert – Swedish Night

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YES! In Concert 10th October

The YES! organisation has been active since the beginning of the nineties in Stockholms nightlife. They have had international artists such as Pharoahe Monch, KRS-One, Jeru The Damaja, and of course swedish artists as well, Petter, ADL, Ison & Fille, Fjärde Världen, Ken Ring to mention some of them. These days they still run the club as the platform to keep the hiphop scene alive in Stockholm. I must say that Klubb YES! is and will always be the club number one without doubt. Go and have a look yourself if you haven’t been there yet for some strange reason. Once you go YES! you won’t go No..

Anyways, this saturday (the 10th of October) YES! In Concert arranges a night full of upcoming swedish rappers along with the YES! Soundsystem. In other words an all nighter.

Lineup for the night:
Labyrint
Näääk, Nimo Cheebs, Mackish,
6ex5emman, RahBalder och DJ Kojak
The Safe House Staff
Zacke
Mohammed Ali
Yes! Soundsystem med Jayzon + Willrock

Info:
Mosebacke Etablissement
Age 20.
Pre-order 100 SEK | 130 SEK at the door.
Pre-order at Sneakersnstuff, Södermalm or at Mosebackes website

For more information about the event at Facebook
And for more info about YES, visit their website at www.iloveyes.se

Näääk – När Ska Han Växa Upp?

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Näääk is back with another track! Now it’s time for his second single from his upcoming debut albom “Näääk Vem?” which releases the 21th of October. “När Ska Han Växa Upp” is a story telling track about Näääks ordinary weekday produced by Mattias Caliste for Blast Off (who also produced the first single “Så Jag Lever Mitt Liv“). Kaliffa sings the hook, who you otherwise often see at Ken Rings and now Hoffmaestros shows.

The single is released via Slang Musik and the tattoo shop Salong Betong.

Download the single at SoundCloud here

Critical feat. Dj Akilles – En Varning

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The video for Criticals “En Varning” featuring Dj Akilles (cuts) has now hit youtube! It’s a dope song produced by X:144 (US) who won Scribble Jams Producer Battle 2008. It is directed by Oliver Martin Henriquez (ODMH) for Concrete Steppa Pictures + intro by Dennis Näversköld who often is behind Criticals well produced videos.

“En Varning” is taken from his CD / Vinyl album “Let’s Get It On” which was released earlier this year through Basementality.

Buy “Let’s Get It On” at CDON, iTunes or Coulisse Records!

Elsa – Girl In The Game

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Elsa is a 20 year old rapper from Stockholm and she has recently released “Girl In The Game” which is the first single from her coming album “Stickup”. The album consists of productions from RSL Beats, Kryptonite, Yas (Goldmine), Duggud, Bum Bill + guest spots by Critical and Bashie.

Elsa released the demo “Satisfaction (PrettyUgly)” 2,5 years ago which was well recieved by the audience as well as the press and radio. She played at numerous gigs all around Sweden the summer of 2007 til early 2008 and got airtime on both swedish and french radio.

Since then she has feature several mixtapes and compilations (Best Of Swedish Groove for example) and now she is, as we said, about to release her record “Stickup”.

“Girl In The Game” is produced by RSL Beats and recorded at Level 8 Studios where the whole record has been recorded as well.

Click here to download “Girl In The Game”

or stream the mp3 via Elsas MySpace

Embee – Desire To Be Free ft Nina Ramsby

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The video for Embee’s latest single “Desire To Be Free ft Nina Ramsby” has recently been released. It might not look that fancy for a start, but it is really a well directed video by Carl-Michael Herlöfsson who has captured the vibe for the single totally. A mellow video which takes the single to a new level.

Promoe – Generation Kill

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… but can we blame the children when they kill the children / and can we blame the young men when they become the gun men / when we create the monster but let’s expose the sponsor / cus i wanna know who’s responsible.

Finally the song of the month for June by Promoe has arrived from the Basecamp Studios. This time the song of the month is produced by Mr Sloap, a riddim/reggae producer based in Skåne, Sweden. Hanouneh, who is completely unknown for me, is backing up on the vocals and she pulls it off great. According to her MySpace profile she is a former jazz vocalist who has moved on to reggae and hip hop with a political message in her songs. She and Mr Sloap runs a label together called DonDada where they produces and distrubuting reggae and dancehall music.

Click here to download “Sunday morning” in mp3

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Näääk – Så Jag Lever Mitt Liv

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Finally the first single from Näääk’s debut album “Näääk Vem?” has been released! The single is called “Så Jag Lever Mitt Liv” and it’s produced by Marvin Caliste for Blast Off Productions and A.K.

I have been waiting for new material signed Näääk ever since I heard and saw the video “Mina Gangsters ft. Nimo Cheebs“. It’s definitely one of the best swedish hip hop videos in my humble opinion.

The single is a very laidback storytelling track about Näääk’s common life, “… brudar, weed och vitt vin“, and I really dig his unique flow. Of course his wingman Nimo Cheebs figures in the video, which is directed and edited by Ivan Spee and Niklas Lindberg. The album drops 21th October through Slang Musik and the tattoo shop Salong Betong.

Download the single at SoundCloud here

Embee – Desire To Be Free ft Nina Ramsby

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Embee, who use to call him self “Dj Embee” back in the days when he founded Looptroop Rockers in 1991 together with Promoe, recenlty released a single. “Desire to Bee” is featured by singer  Nina Ramsby and is of course produced by Embee in the notorious “Wax Cabinet”.

For me, Nina Ramsby has until now been an completely unknown artist, but she does have a great voice and the collaboration between them both in this track is really a great match. The track takes me back to his fantastic solo album “Tellings from Solitaria” when he released the single “Not Tonite” featuring another unknown artist (for me), Vanessa Liftig. Let’s hope there is a solo record in the making because I want another “Tellings from Solitaria” this summer.

If you haven’t paid any attention to Embee’s solo releases, be sure to check them out:

  • The Mash Hits Mixtape (2006) — 12 remixes mixtape
  • Tellings from Solitaria (2004) — Solo album
  • The Casual Brothers – Costumer’s Choice (Part Two) — EP, collab CosMIC (2003)
  • The Casual Brothers – S/T — EP, collab CosMIC (2001)
  • Embeetious Art (2000) — EP
  • The Way Beyond Mixtape (1998) — Tape

Click here to download “Desire To Be Free ft Nina Ramsby”

AFC – Inatt

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The video for AFC’s latest single “Inatt” which we wrote about a couple of weeks ago has now been released. “Inatt” is produced by Astma & Rocwell and the video is produced by Adam Gisselman for Dope Productions.

Even thou I’m not a big fan of the video for the single, Adam still has a pretty nice resume since he has produced videos for artists such as Planet Asia and Ken Ring for mention a few of them.