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The good folks over at The Best Of Both Offices hooked up a fantastic conference call with the legend that is Nas.

Esco’s new album ‘Untitled’ is out July 15th. From the tracks we have heard so far, its a monster of an album, so make sure you go cop it. Before you do, head over to The Best Of Both Offices for Real Hip Hop 

It was a great Q&A with Nas talking about his album, Fox News and Jesse Jackson’s recently comment about Obama. Trust me, you got to hear the audio, click the link below!

FULL CONFERENCE CALL AUDIO

THE HIP HOP CHRONICLE’S INTERVIEW QUESTION AUDIO

Freddie Foxx aka Bumpy Knuckles goes in on Kanye over 50’s ‘How To Rob’ beat.

Freddie Foxx - How To Rob 2008

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New mixtape from Green Lantern & Cassidy.

DJ Green Lantern & Cassidy - Its Your B’Day Mixtape (Download)

Tracklisting

01) Intro
02) Amnesia
03) Money Come Fast
04) Pistol (Feat. T.I.)
05) Lookin’ Boy
06) Let’s Get It
07) Wus Up Wit U
0 In One Ear And Out The Other
09) Enemies Closer

Bonus 

Cassidy, A.R. & AB Freestyle On Green’s Sirus Show (Video)

Shouts to the Best of Both Offices

Joe Budden - Who Part 1

Shouts to Mr. X

Bonus

Joe Budden - Addicition Freestyle

Shouts to Steve-O & The Best Of Both Offices

Memphis Bleek - Aint No

Donny Goines - Wordplay (Produced By DJ. Static)

Busta Rhymes - Throw It Up ft Lil Wayne & Ludacris (Prod. By Cool & Dre)

Bonus

Busta Rhymes - I Got Bass

Shouts to Mr. X

Raekwon - Trenchman

Shouts To B.O.B.O

Legendary hip-hop MCs return to quench the thirst of hip-hop fans. The album, freshly titled “Oasis” is executive produced by Show (of Showbiz & AG fame) and features stellar production by Lord Finesse, E. Blaze, and Statik Selektah.  

OC & AG - Put It In The Box

Oasis is set to hit the streets worldwide this Fall, for now, please enjoy their lead single!!! OC & AG’s The Oasis will be released by Nature Sounds Records!!

 Stealth - No Tommorow

Tame One - Ha Ha Da Rah Rah ft Sean Price

New exclusive remake of The Game’s track “Pain” by Hip Hop heavyweights Naughty By Nature (Treach, Vin Rock and Kay Gee) entitled “Hip Hop’s Pain” featuring vocals from Rene Neufville

 Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop’s Pain

Sean Garrett - Come On In ft Akon & Piles

Official single from Team Blackout off their debut album ‘Lights Low’

Team Blackout - Billion Dollar Boyfriend

“Raps in my heart Feel it beep out of order”

We’re on Week 28 and I wanted to speed things up a bit as well smooth it out. Sounds far fetched right? Well imagine a fast tempo jazz record with crazy wordplay. That’s what this leak is about. I got my man Fresh Daily on it who will be performing with me at the Bk HipHop Festival on July 12th.

Mickey Factz - Keep Moving ft Fresh Daily

Mickey’s Interview/In-Studio Performance of Overdose On Life

The Cool Kids - That’s Stupid (Mixtape Download)

Tracklisting

1) Oscar The Grouch
2) That’ll Work
3) Dinner Time
4) Full & Paid
5) Box of Rocks
6) Don’t Trip (Bake Sale - UK Bonus)

Crooked I drops a freestyle over Nas’ new single ‘Hero’.

This freestyle is for XXL magazine on success on the internet.

Crooked I - Hero (Freestyle)

Kidz In The Hall - Driving Down The Block (West Coast Remix) ft Masta Ace, Bun B, Mista FAB, Tyga, Pac Division & Glasses Malone

“THE IN CROWD” Album In Stores Now on Major League/Duck Down Records

Shouts out to Matt

Off the mixtape album ‘N*ggaz 4 Life’ out August 5th

AZ - The Secret ft Charlie Rock & Raekwon

This is a track that was featured at the beginning of the ‘Be A N*gger Too Video’

Nas - N*gger Hatred

Untitled is in stores July 15th

Support Real Hip Hop

Fantasia - Broke (Produced By Midi Mafia)

Shouts to Best of Both Offices

 Always nice to get some Bleek in The HHC inbox.

Memphis Bleek - We Are

Shouts to Steve-O & Best Of Both Offices

Ace Hood - Who Hotter Than Me (Freestyle) 

Shouts to Young Sav

 - Best Of Both Offices Are Doing Real Things

Nino Bless - Times Are Hard

UPDATE - JAY-Z GLASTONBURY PERFORMANCE IN FULL CLICK HERE TO WATCH

For those of you who didnt get the memo, my name is Jay-Z and Im pretty f*cking awesome

- Jay-Z

Jay-Z opening his set with ‘Wonderwall’, a hit track by the band Oasis (Noel Gallagher’s band).

Overall it was a great set by Jay-Z. As we said in the previous post, the choice to play Wonderwall was genius. Everyone in the UK knows that track and its a great way to get a rock crowd on your side.

After weeks of speculation. Jay didnt bring out any guests. I guess he wanted to show he could do it on his own and thats exactly what he did. Bleek came out for 99 Problems but Jay went solo for the rest of the set.

Beyonce was there but only to support and she seemed to have a great time.

His energy was right. He was professional and dignified.

The crowd were into Jay’s set. They really seemed to enjoy it. Its cool to see Rock fans putting their diamonds in the air!

Jay-Z proved his doubters wrong, those who felt he didnt belong there, ultimately lost because he rocked it.

Its a great night for Hip Hop and we have to tip our hats to Jay.

Lets hope Hip Hop gets the credit it deserves from other genres

Oh btw, his band was on point

Set List

Wonderwall

- Fantasic opening

99 problems

- Great to see Bleek grace the stage with Jay

Is That Your Chick

 - At first wasnt sure how well this track would go down but when he mixed it with Prodigy’s ‘Smack My Bitch Up’, it was the right choice.

Rehab

- Amy is well supported in the UK and it was a good move to do this track. We knew he was going to do this track, just wasnt sure if he was going to bring Amy out.

I Know

- With the band playing this live, its an awesome track. Jay - ‘Baby You Like’, Crowd - ‘Hov’

A Billie (A Millie Freestyle)

- His lyrical performance was on point. His accapella of this freestyle went down well.

Blue Magic

- A great lead in to show his support for Obama and ‘F*uck Bush’, which the crowd loved.

Minority Report

- The crowd were really digging his accapella’s. I think this was a great move by Jay because that way, they can understand exactly what he is saying without the band playing.

PSA

- Always a crowd pleaser. ‘Whenever there’s a drought, get your umbrella’s out, cause thats when I brainstorm’

Dirt Off Your Shoulders

- Played the Collision Course remix but he certainly had the crowd brushing off their shoulders

Jigga What, Jigga Who

- Was slightly hard to hear whether all the crowd were screaming ‘Jigga What’, ‘Jigga Who’

Izzo (H.O.V.A)

- Went with the Jackson 5, ABC rhythm. Always a crowd pleaser.

Can I Get A

- hmm, not sure if this worked. Didnt get people dancing as I think he anticipated but it wasnt that out of place.

Beware Of The Boys

- ‘P.I.M.P. I am simply’. The remix of Punjabi Mc’s track will always get the crowd moving.

Give It To Me (I Just Wanna Love You)

- Up beat track and was keeping in tune with the last 6 tracks

Show Me What You Got

- ‘Now Wave, Wave’ and the people were. I was really impressed with the band on this one.

Excuse Me Miss

- The start of the smooth tracks of his set. Considering its 11.30pm at night, the crowd wont be able to keep the high energy throughout. He had the crowd moving side to side.

Song Cry

- Fantastic track. He wanted to sing the song to a girl in the crowd but I think they were slightly embarressed.

Girls, Girls, Girls

- The last of the smooth tracks before the home-stretch of his set

American Boy Remix

- The last line of Jay’s freestyle is ‘not that … our jewellary is being guarded by the Queen. A picture of the queen comes up on the screen, Jay screams ‘Not That One’. He probably means Beyonce which is a nice touch

Umbrella

- Such a huge record, it had to crowd singing along

Big Pimpin

- The rock crowd were really into this one. ‘Bounce, Bounce’

Hard Knock Life

- The Annie sample and the beat had everyone drooling. The hook is so simple, everyone was singing along.

Heart Of The City

- Not the original, it was remixed with a U2 track. Sonically its not the best cover but had a rock sound. Hova let the stage after this track. There were sections of the crowd shouting ‘Jay-Z, Jay-Z, Jay-Z’. Usually at Hip Hop gigs, we chant ‘Hova Hova Hova’.

Encore

- Finally Jay went with Encore, the Linkin Park remix. He put his heart and soul into this one. You could hear it in his voice. It was almost like he was bowing out.

This track is always a great way to end a set

The only song I would have love to have seen would have been ‘Roc Boys’.

Beastie Boys were at Glastonbury in 1992 (we think) and that went down well. Jay represented Hip Hop well yesterday.

We were at Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Bash on Friday. We saw Queen perform and they ROCKED! ‘We Will Rock You’ is a sight to see but watching them made me think about Jay’s performance game and Hip Hop’s in general. Queen can rock a stage anywhere in the world, Jay-Z can too (and any doubters, just watch the performance) but we see what Jay is saying when he talks about other artist’s performance game. Eminem is great, Kanye is fantastic and Hip Hop needs more of these types of performances. 

Shouts to Young Sav.

Ludacris - Big Ass House

Best Of Both Offices

Another exclusive brought to you with the kind help of The Best Of Both Offices

Nas - Sly Fox (Produced By Stic Man)

Bonus

Nas - Untitled (Tracklisting)

1) Queens Get The Money (Produced by Jay Electronica)
2) You Can’t Stop Us Now (feat. Eban Thomas of The Stylistics & The Last Poets) (Produced by Salaam Remi)
3) Breathe (Produced by J. Myers & Dustin Moore)
4) Make The World Go Round (feat. Chris Brown & The Game) (Co-produced by Cool & Dre & The Game)
5) Hero (feat. Keri Hilson) (Produced by Polow Da Don)
6) America (Produced by Stargate)
7) Sly Fox (Produced by stic.man of Dead Prez)
Testify (Produced by Mark Batson)
9) N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master) (Produced by DJ Toomp)
10) Untitled (Produced by stic.man of Dead Prez)
11) Fried Chicken (feat. Busta Rhymes) (Produced by Mark Ronson)
12) Project Roach (feat. The Last Poets) (Produced by Eric Hudson)
13) Ya’ll My Niggas (Produced by J. Myers)
14) We’re Not Alone (feat. Mykel) (Produced by stic.man of Dead Prez)
15) Black President (feat. Johnny Polygon) (Produced by DJ Green Lantern)

Shouts to Steve-O

New Nas off his new album, which is being released on July 15th

Nas - Fried Chicken ft Busta Rhymes (Produced By Mark Ronson)

Best Of Both Offices have been on their grind. They have been bringing you some fantastic exclusives.

Props to This Is RnB for the link, make sure you head over to their site.

T-Pain - Cant Believe It ft Lil Wayne

Stealth is a up and coming artist with family influences in NYC and being raised in the south.

Below are three tracks where the Stealth shows his range as an artist.

Stealth - Im Drifting

Bonus

Stealth - Love Theme (Barry White Flow)

Stealth - Troubled Child

Chris has been on point. Looking forward to the album

Young Chris - You Dont Even Know

Common - Announcement ft Pharrell

David Banner - Greatest Mixtape Ever Sold (Download)

Tracklisting

01. David Banner - Intro
02. David Banner - Get Money
03. David Banner - Who U Fuckin Wit Ft Rick Ross Trick Daddy
04. David Banner - B A N
05. David Banner - Us And The Gunz
06. David Banner - Suicide Doors
07. David Banner - Ball With Me
08. David Banner - 9MM Spinatik Blend Ft Akon Lil Wayne
09. David Banner - Aint Gon Let Up Ft D G Yola
10. David Banner - Candy Man
11. David Banner - Bout Our Money
12. David Banner - So Throwed
13. David Banner - Get Like Me Ft Chris Brown
14. David Banner - I Want You
15. David Banner - Shout Outs
16. David Banner - I Dont Give A Fuck Ft Busta Rhymes
17. David Banner - Beat It
18. David Banner - One Nation
19. David Banner - Go
20. David Banner - Outro

Banner’s new album ‘Greatest Story Eve Told’ in stores July 15th

Fakts produced the track and Phonte and Big Pooh also added some additional arrangement as well.

The track is off the upcoming album ” Long Range ” which has guest spots from Little Brother, Planet Asia, Boot Camp Clik as well as his brothers in The Perceptionists; Mr. Lif and Akrobatik.

Fakts One - Grown Folks ft Little Brother

1.) Ridin’ Dirty
2.) Grown Folks f/ Little Brother
3.) Life Music f/ Rocklyn & Maya Azucena
4.) OK f/ Kingsize & Outerspace
5.) Born For This f/Chan
6.) Don’t Stop f/Boot Camp Clik
7.) The Showstarter f/ The Perceptionists (Mr. Lif & Akrobatik)
8.) Audiovisual f/ J Live
9) U From The Q f/ Universal
10.) Set The Mood f/ Grayskul
11.) Moments Matter f/ Tajai (of Souls Of Mischief)
12.) Selfish f/ Akrobatik & Iyadonna
13.) Longevity f/ Rasco, Planet Asia & Shakes Da Mayor
14.) The Showstarter (Walkman Remix) f/ The Perceptionists (Mr. Lif & Akrobatik)

The time has come, this is history right here…

AC Presents; The Attack Of The Blogs

AC - The Real (The Hip Hop Chronicle Freestyle)

‘They make the faders flick, each take they play my hits, like Jay, kept the child, is Dame,I had to make the switch’

‘Yep its the man from Stat, I seen their plan was wack, so I thought Id lend a hand to rap’

Watch the video below by AC and the homey will explain how to enter the competition and win exclusive Orisue gear (Orisue.com) - Hip Hop does give back

Collect Them All!!!

AC - Attack Of The Blogs (Video PSA)

Shouts to Tapemasters and the homey AC.

Love the choice of track!!!!

SUPPORT REAL HIP HOP

New material from Memphis Bleek.

Always good to hear new Bleek tracks

Shouts to Steve-O

Memphis Bleek - No Drought

Shouts to 6th Sense for the heads up

Jelani - Wait, You Can Rap? (Album Download)

Bonus

Jelani sat down with his father who happens to be Dapper Dan (legendary stylist to Hip Hop legends). Heres the video of the conversation they had

NTV: Like Father, Like Som (Video)

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Tanya Morgan - Hip Hop Is Dead II

Bonus

Tanya Morgan - Be You ft Czelena

Tanya Morgan on Crack Distributors Radio (Video)

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