Jared Evan is one of the most talented guys in the entire music game, he can produce, he can rap and he can sing like no other. This song is one of Jared's best, you can listen to his new album below and judge yourself. The new album is amazing and everyone should buy it on iTunes when you have the chance, artists like Hoodie Allen and Joey Bada$$ featured as well. Jared's voice is one that needs to be on the radio. I literally get chills from hearing it every time, never gets old.
GRANATA is an artist I stumbled upon on the world wide web yesterday. He's from CT and currently living it up in Tampa, Florida. I listened to this song and video and followed it up by listening to his music on his BandCamp as well. GRANATA has some dope potential with a unique style, and from the looks of it, a supportive group of friends/fans and a good team. This video is pretty dope for a unknown artist to the public eye.
The Good Husbands from the great state of Washington reppin' the Northwest music. This is a terrific song for summer and the video makes you feel as if it's already summer (I have 9 more days left of high school thankfully). A dope song and video from one of the more underrated groups in the hip-hop game with their own original style. Excited to see what else one of COM's favorites puts out in the future, stay tuned.
One mixtape you can definitely look forward to this summer comes from Tyler Thomas, the man in the picture above. Not only did Tyler get the Def Jam artist Logic to jump on a track with him, but he also picked up the one and only 6ix to produce the beat for iGot This. This track is just the first of many to be on his mixtape titled Higher Learning. Both Tyler and Logic go hard in this song, I think they had smooth transitions between verses and its lyrically potent. I hope there's more songs like this one on Tyler's upcoming summer mixtape.
Side note: Tyler Thomas looks oddly similar to James Franco....Is it just me that sees this? Check out this video for his song Whiskey On The Rocks and you'll now what I mean.
Puck is back with a brand new track. I don't care how you judge but Puck has a flow and style that can't be denied. Not only is he able to keep a good consistent flow but, the music video is dope and he's rhyming about some real/clever things. If you're in the Ohio area I consider you try to come out to one of Puck's shows this summer. They look super hyped, expect him and some other Cinncy boys to be coming to shows at Michigan State/East Lansing next year.
D-WHY has been quiet for a minute but we know that wouldn't last long. D just dropped this new video and song today with some of the best punchlines today, "rap game Ryan Gosling, she wanna have my offspring," just to give you a taste of it. Also, the hair is perfect and this video is a dope one that makes you want to keep watching. Shouts to the homie JGlick who will dig this and have it memorized by tomorrow at 10am.
Hoodie today released the official mp3 of this song via iTunes where his fans ate it up. He gave us the live version from FUSE TV a few weeks back and all day Hoodie was blowing up my Twitter feed with the play-by-play of this song going into the Top 10 of iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap category. It is currently, sitting at number 9. Many people called it but it looks as if this song might be the one to get Hoodie the attention he needs and maybe some radio play as well. One of my favorite songs from Hoodie with the amazing vocals of Kina Grannis.
After having major success hits with Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us as singles going platinum months after their release. Macklemore x Ryan Lewis' debut LP is now officially gold, meaning... the album has sold over 500,000 copies in the United States. Remember the duo is doing this all INDEPENDENTLY. They are currently touring this summer in festivals and riding the success of their music into their World Tour this fall, dates and tickets can be found on their website.
These two are single handily changing the way we not only listen to music but how music is made. Independent looks as if it will be the way to go in the future. Remember, this album took over 3 years to make along with it being recorded in a very small studio found on Craigslist over 5 years ago.
In honor of the duo going gold with this album, we thought this song was fitting, along with a sick picture below. Congrats to the entire team from Ben & Ryan, to Zach, to Tricia, to Ray, to O, to Katie, and everyone on the team that you see day in and day out, along with those behind the scenes.
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