Ivan Ives - Icons Last: The Remix Album

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The free remix album released by Ivan Ives on the 1 year anniversary of "Iconoclast." Includes 3 bonus tracks and has original remixes for each song off "Iconoclast."

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Ivan Ives & Fresh The Hitman - Juice To Get Loose To

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01. Without Fail
02. Rock Precise
03. Time for Juice
04. Came Into My Life
05. 1st Glass
06. August in L.A.
07. The Juice Joint
08. Didn't Even Care
09. 2nd Glass
10. The Trial
11. Haterade
12. More Juice
13. Truth Be Told
14. 3rd Glass
15. 18 Million Gallons of Juice

FILI-
Ivan Ives dropped a dope album last year called Iconoclast, featuring all but 2 tracks produced by Fresh the Hitman. This new album features both of them spittin back and forth over Fresh's beats and boy do they sound fresh. One of the most slept on producers on the game, Fresh is a gem of a beatmaker and needs to be heard by more people, his old school style of chopping up soul samples and lacing them with scratches gets me hype all the time. The problem is that lyrically Ivan Ives is just not that great, not bad but not very good. He has it his head, when you listen to the lyrics, that he is one dope emcees and always makes references to being one of the best around. Even though Fresh is the man behind the beats, he comes on the mic often to spit back and forth with Ivan, the results are not that bad. Lyrically, it'll go over ya head but the beats are the real star of the show, trust me! I just wish that Fresh could reach out to more established underground artists and do something with them, it'd definitely raise his profile no doubt.

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Ivan Ives - Newspeak (Pre-Order Now! // Release: May 19th)

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Ivan Ives is back with his first full-length solo album since Iconoclast! With Fresh behind the boards and a fresh outlook on the state of affairs, Ives delivers NEWSPEAK, a 14-track no-holds-barred rap free-for-all. With features from The Cool Kids, Black Milk, Percee P, Oh No, Tre Hardson/Pharcyde, 2Mex, Stacy Clark, Crash Boom Bang, and more; this is the most anticipated album of Ivan's career. Included is a 16-page full color lyric booklet, so definitely pick up a hard copy of the album if you're a fan and want one before they are out of print. SURE, you can buy one digitally... but wouldn't you rather have that sweet booklet and the collectors item-ness of the whole thing? We thought so. You can read the press release for NEWSPEAK on the front page of nothresholdrecords.com; we think that's description enough about the project and what you should look forward to.

01. Villain
02. That Man
03. What’s Your Excuse? feat. Mikey Rocks of The Cool Kids
04. All The Love That I Wasted
05. I Can't Wait feat. Stacy Clark & Omar Ruiz of Crash Boom Bang
06. Goodbye Hello
07. Kill Em' feat. Percee P
08. Aeonian Anthem feat. Black Milk
09. Stand Up feat. 2mex & Tre Hardson aka Slimkid3
10. Ride Off feat. Oh No
11. Red Scare
12. This Is Ives
13. <3 Size
14. 1984

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First Single & Video "Villain"

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Ivan Ives - Iconoclast

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Ivan Ives imports a flowing dose of his Russian roots to the LA hip-hop scene. With Iconoclast, Ives’ second full-length, released under the wings of his own No Threshold imprint, the street-savvy emcee brings an outsider’s view to the Capitalist migraine that dominates so many of hip-hop’s affairs.

The album features a star-studded cast of: Cappadonna (Wu-Tang), the legendary O.C. (D.I.T.C.), 2MEX (Visionaries), Vast Aire (Cannibal Ox) and of course backed by producer, Fresh (The Hitman), who does all the beats on the album.

01. Got It
02. Victory feat. Vast Aire
03. Mad Game
04. Carpe Diem feat. 2mex
05. Olivia Josephs
06. Soul feat. O.C.
07. How It Is
08. The Recipe
09. Honor feat. Cappadonna
10. Worldwide Hits feat. Fresh aka Hitman
11. Lay Low
12. Rap Ethics
13. Revenge
14. Zzyzx Road
15. Life Is A Bitch

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*a-FILI-ated*
I know this one slipped past many of you, this is as indie as they come, small label, no promotion etc... but when I gave this a listen, the first thing that struck me were the beats! Fresh is a relatively unknown producer but cats should take notice, this dude chops up nice samples, mixing up soul, funk and other sounds to create some head nodding goodness! Ivan is a decent MC, dope guests help to... but check the beats man, I'll post up some more stuff by Fresh soon, for now, check out this banger!!

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