#NowPlaying Evidence -"WEATHER OR NOT" (full album)

If you like Dilated Peoples, you pro'lly need to check out this the label's youTube stream Weather or Not by veteran Los Angeles emcee Evidence. 

New LIMITED Stoney Jackson teeshirt dropping soon

Stones Throw is linkin' up with JSLV and Spoiled Paradise to to drop this tee that Stoney Jackson record by Strong Arm Steady did with your boy Madlib. This limited edition (less than 100) shirt drops February 28th  exclusively at SpoiledParadise.com.  The record itself drops on the 23rd. 

govern yourselves accordingly.

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Madlib + Strong Arm Steady = In stores NOW!

Best of Times by Strong Arm Steady f/Phonte off of In Search of Stoney Jackson, the new SAS/Madlib collabo album in stores NOW... Freaking EPIC, son! If you have doubts just peep the youTube heat! just the first of twelve new albums by madlib in the dime! it's gonna be a great year...

holla!

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Start the Day Off RIGHT------------->

Best of Times by Strong Arm Steady f/Phonte off of In Search of Stoney Jackson, their new album that's dropping later on this month, produced by Madlib. this record is gonna be freaking EPIC! do yourself a favor and preorder that joint on Amazon (or wherever you get your music...). If I didn't know Madlib planned on dropping 12 albums this year (no, I'm not joking), I would go ahead and give this joint album of the year for 2010 right now, but the year is gonna sound reeeeal good...

that Foul-mouth/Romantic isht from Strong Arm Steady

who ever came up with the idea to put Madlib and Strong Arm Steady together to do a record (under the name Stoney Jackson) deserves 70 virgins or something... (it was probably Kweli's idea). anyways, the album's in the works, but here's a free track that won't be on it called Jordache Look f/ Bad Lucc. jeauh! the artwork here is by gMA Artist/Illustrator of the Year Nominee Billy Nunez (aka Biz20) from Boston. Enjoy. 
Holla! 
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gM Awards: Hip Hop Group Nominees

the nominees for Hip Hop/Rap group of the Year are:


Greenhouse (aka Blueprint and Illogic) of Weightless Records.

She The Hard Way (Female emcee supergroup StaHHr, Sa-Roc, Rita J,Boog Brown & Khalilah Ali)

Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Crooked I, Royce Da 5-9, and Joell Ortiz)

Strong Arm Steady (aka Stoney Jackson w/Madlib on beats!)
voting open until the ball drops on New Year's Eve!
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Rapper and Album of the Year

ghettoManga's 2008 Rapper of the Year, Talib Kweli speaks with Hardknock TV.
veteran brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli had a reality check. as much as he would like to do records with his buddies Mos Def and deejay Hi-Tek, he hasn't been able to make it happen for a long time, and a brotha got bills. so, the non-Mos half of BlackStar decided to get his mogul on. in addition to droppin' a couple nice records, Kweli has started Blacksmith, his indie rap label (with such noteworthy overgrounders as Jean Grae and StrongArmSteady), continued to litter the digital countryside with mixtapes and generate hit singles. Kweli is a fixture in the true-school hipHop community, doing guest shots for rappers and neo-soul artists.

Kweli's Eardrum
is the ghettoManga Album of the Year for 2008...
it's a nice record. a few joints ("Hostile Gospel [deliver us]", "Give 'Em Hell", "In The Mood", "Eat To Live", and "Country Cousins") stand out at the moment. in what his press release called a "career defining album" with "hard hitting beats and inventive rhymes that serve to not only entertain, but also to educate" Kweli held up his end of it, dropping a nice, classic record. while Mos is conspicuously absent, Hi-Tek and a slew of other guests keep the balance, well BALANCED!

i like Kweli, and this record is what i've come to expect from him. step in the right direction for an artist who constantly insists he is not a solo artist. instead, Kweli insists he is "a frontman for a group of artists, lovers, poets and regular everyday folk" that make up his body of work... As a person who believes that most of today's solo hip hop artists belong in groups not on their own, i applaud Kweli's attitude... and as long as Kweli is unable to get together with co-conspirators like Mos and Tek, records like this one will do in a pinch.
holla!
samax.
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Gangster Consciousness

One Step by Strong Arm Steady, f/Talib Kweli.

Cop this FREE Kweli Mixtape...

01) Mick Boogie and Talib Kweli: Intro
02) Talib Kweli f/ Busta Rhymes "Follow The Leader"
03) Talib Kweli "Independent (Amadeus Remix)"
04) Jean Grae "Think About It"
05) Talib Kweli "Hard Faces"
06) Interlude: Origins Of Blacksmith
07) Jean Grae "Mean"
08) Strong Arm Steady f/ Planet Asia "A Problem"
09) Talib Kweli "D'Evils 2008"
10) Talib Kweli f/ Fly Union "Say That Again"
11) Talib Kweli and Buckshot "Hold It Down"
12) Interlude: MCEO Breakdown
13) Talib Kweli f/ Krondon and Phil Da Agony "Hunters"
14) Jean Grae "Love Thirst"
15) Talib Kweli and Phil Da Agony "Dat Piff"
16) Interlude: Kweli Speaks on Strong Arm Steady part 1
17) Strong Arm Steady "Stack It"
18) Krondon "Big Homie"
19) Interlude: KRS-One Speaks
20) Talib Kweli and KRS-One "The Perfect Beat"
21) Talib Kweli, Nina Sky, Blu & Joell Ortiz "Hostile Gospel Remix"
22) Interlude: Kweli Speaks on Idle Warship
23) Idle Warship f/ MC Chris "Screamin'"
24) Talib Kweli and Jean Grae "Thas Wassup Now"
25) Interlude: Kweli speaks on Jean Grae
26) Jean Grae "Number Eight"
27) Talib Kweli, Jean Grae and Ne-Yo "Hot Thing Remix"
28) Talib Kweli and Dr. Cornel West "Bushonomics"
29) Talib Kweli & Novel "I Am"
30) Idle Warship "Industry Diary"
31) Talib Kweli f/ UGK "Real Women"
32) Talib Kweli "Outro
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holla!
-gM