Keyel – CLVLND.CTY.CNQRS
This is another one that I’ve been rocking and needed to write about a while back. Sometimes I get way into it. Keyel was another J-1 connect that I’m blessed to have. Keyel cats are bringing that head nodding hip hop with CLVLND.CTY.CNQRS. I’m not going to cram Keyel into a box by trying to classify the [...]
B+C Radio: First Class
Episode 007: First Class
All right we have another episode of Beats+Crates Radio for your ears. Like my man Abraham would say, just like records we have come full circle. Back to the creator of Beats+Crates Radio J1 aka THE DEER with First Class. Yes this is a ticket into his record collection, and there’s no [...]
One Truth – Soundtrack To Life: New Beginnings
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One Truth – Man vs. Woman
The first thing that pops into my mind when people mention “spoken word artists” is political (or whatever topic that’s currently socially conscious) rhythmical rants. One night J1 invited me to Transmissions at Grand Star to check out this cat One Truth. Man, was [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Cosmic Slop mixed by J1
The professor of Funk J1 aka THE DEER schools us on Parliament Funkadelic with Cosmic Slop. Take A Trip made me think about every album I owned that sampled those tracks, and that was a dope trip. Cosmic Slop will make you want to dig for more funk, and at the very least will get [...]
Exclusive: Take A Trip
Take A Trip will definitely take you on a trip. I rocked it the first time, and mentally went through my albums figuring out who sampled what. The second time I played it I was enjoying the original tracks, so I played it a 3rd time straight. J1 is throwing out the knowledge on [...]
Muamin Collective – World B. Free
“Can I get some real HIP HOP?!” That’s what I hear folks say from time to time, but I think I found it. Well, it found me. I got an email from these cats letting me know J1 turned them on to the site. They enjoyed it, and got some stuff for me to check [...]
J1 – YouTube
J1 is puttin in work! I mean this brotha’s crankin it out like crazy. James Brown (R.I.P.) ain’t got nothing on this cat. Just to give you an idea of what I’m talking about; J1 DJ’s at a few spots around LA, is in 2 bands, took time to crank out a podcast for Beats+Crates, [...]
EXCLUSIVE: THE STASHBOX mixed by J1
Beats+Crates has been blessed with this exclusive podcast by J1. I met him at the JAY $TAY PAID release party in L.A. and we threw out some ideas. J1 did one better and cranked out this mix of what he’s rockin in only a few days! BIG thanks to J1 for the podcast, and the HVW8 [...]
Attack of THE DEER
I Don’t Sleep…I was cruisin around the HVW8′s site to see what’s new with them. I was doing some mad reading and scoping out some paintings they had posted. Then I ran across this crazy cover with a deer on it and a title that read, “Attack of THE DEER.” I was like “this [...]
TreaZon – Elevator Music
I was doing my regular blog reading, mixtape hunting, video watching and ran across this. It was a kick video, so i downloaded the track. TreaZon is coming with a mixtape soon according to IllRoots. I’ll keep you posted if it’s as good as this track. BIG thanks to IllRoots for the low down.
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