American Poets 2099 Present: Pro The Leader & Nova Kane - Know The Names

MySpace: American Poets 2099
MySpace: Semantix Tha Sorcera

Nova Kane and Pro The Leader have been on their grind for a few years now, having release a slew of internet albums and mixtapes in the last five years. In 2009, they're about to unleash the American Poets 2099 movement. But first, they want people to Know The Names. The album is produced by Semantix Tha Sorcera and features American Poets 2099 member The Holocaust, plus Timbo King, C-Rayz Walz, Solomon Childs, NLZ, Makeba Mooncycle & more. This album has been pushed to the side for the last two years and it’s now finally available.

01. Intro
02. The Names
03. Destruction Overload feat. Holocaust
04. Hitting The Stage
05. Back 2 Back
06. Gots To Love It feat. C-Rayz Walz
07. Rap Throwbacks
08. New Day feat. Semantix Tha Sorcera
09. Reincarnation feat. Rasul Allah
10. Must Maintain feat. NLZ & Makeba Mooncycle
11. Distress Call
12. One Hand Wash The Other feat. C-Rayz Walz
13. Swift Illusion feat. Holocaust & Semantix Tha Sorcera
14. Swift Illusion 2 feat. Timbo King, Holocaust & Solomon Childs
15. Outro

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Here's another gem I found not to long ago. What really stood out more than anything else were the beats (done by a UK producer called Semantix Tha Sorcera) which were damn sick to tell you the truth, the track "Swift Illusion 2" is on some next level shit! The MC's themselves ain't too bad either, they compliment each other well, even if the lyrical skill is not always on point. Pro & Nova aside, the guests (especially C-Rayz & Timbo) add another layer of quality of the smoked out, soulful, wu-tang inspired beats. Not to be slept on!!!

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C-Rayz Walz - Who The F%@k Are You?

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C-Rayz Walz is back and wondering, "Who The F%@k Are You?" The blunt title is fitting for an MC who brings it hard start to finish. But don't let the hard image fool you, C-Rayz brings dedication, creativity and originality to his craft to stand out in a Hip Hop world filled with cookie cutter beats and rhymes. This veteran mic gripper mixes conceptual imagery and street credibility across 16 brand new cuts including "The Family Crest", a special dedication track to one of Hip Hop's greatest acts ever, Gang Starr. Guests include Slug from Atmosphere and one of the QB's most respected residents Lakey The Kid.

Who is crazy enough to call their record "Who The F%@k Are You?". C-Rayz of course.

01. Original Intro (Prod. by Kentron Da Mastodon)
02. The Art Of Energy (Prod. by Billy Bathgate)
03. Spread News (Prod. by Dub Sonata)
04. Love New York feat. Karniege, Vast Aire, Access Immortal & Poison Pen (Prod. by DJ Ruckspin)
05. In Your Soul feat. Slug, Samuel & Sum In 16 (Prod. by T.W.I.N.E.)
06. Needle In Ya Arm feat. Couture Ink & Lakey The Kid (Prod. by Platinum Beat Service)
07. Infected (Prod. by Judah)
08. Oxy Killa feat. Major League (Prod. by Mike Beatz)
09. Hot Sauce feat. Klu Shiesty & Lady Pseudo (Prod. by Verse All)
10. Deeper Feelings feat. Echo1 (of House Of Repz) (Prod. by SensWalingh)
11. Crazy King feat. Bateria (of House Of Repz) (Prod. by Beatfirm)
12. Whiskey Mechanics feat. Roman E Gripp (Prod. by Enock Root)
13. Red, White & Blue feat. Sonni Shine & Lee G (Prod. by Delon)
14. OverSitChu (Prod. by Ill Legit)
15. The Twins (Prod. by Rhythmatik)
16. The Family Crest (Dedication To Gang Starr) feat. Swave Sevah (Prod. by Kenny Diaz)

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C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz - Freestyle vs. Written

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It's not quite an indie hip-hop Postal Service, nor is it necessarily "Ebony And Ivory," but the new collaborative LP from Jewish MC Kosha Dillz and beloved backpack favorite C-Rayz Wallz is both a statement of cultural solidarity and creative open-mindedness. Freestyle Vs. Written will appear on Modular Moods this fall (with a pre-release via iTunes in late summer) and finds Dillz, the Yeshiva-trained wordsmith, trading well-crafted versus about his faith and homeland of Israel with freestyle responses from Walz that were inspired by Dillz' lines. And the whole thing was laid down in less than 24 hours, which was, by Dillz' own admission, as much a matter of necessity as studio synergy.

"Personally, I just knew it would be impossible to get C-Rayz in a place for more than three hours, six hours at a time," he laughs, adding that it was spread out over three sessions. "My part was well though out. His part, he just came into the studio and did it every time, right off the top [and] worked off some keywords... That was the way I wanted him to do it."

And while it may seem like a strange combination and an even stranger thematic focus for two people of disparate backgrounds, partial impetus was to remind people of the connection between black and Jewish journeys.

"That was a big point of the record," says C-Rayz. "Black Jews/children of Israel/descendants of Moses are the same. [There's] some different views here and there like with everything. The skin tones changed cuz of climate and migration."

Historical connections or not, who would turn down the chance to swap lyrical spit with someone who whips out one-line wonders like Dillz' "4/20's Hitler's birthday, so why does everybody smoke weed?"

"Kosha flexed numerous [styles] on this album with a lot of content like an Aesop Rock," says Walz, "but heavy on the boom-bap hip-hop rhythm that makes it real street... The LP is bad. Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good. Huh!"

01. Unheib
02. Freestyle vs. Written
03. Calouses of a Hustler
04. Holiday
05. Bong Bong
06. I Love Jews
07. The Foolish Path
08. Babywipes
09. Ariel Sharon
10. The Evolution of Fan
11. March to the Death
12. Sof

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