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Rocky Rivera is back with a new remix track entitled “Swag’r Jak’n (Bay Grl Rmx)”. It’s her spin on a track by Balance of the same name (basically). She got another femcee to jump on board, Talia Taylor who I’m not really familiar with. This is one of those tracks where I can appreciate what they are doing but not so much the music. It’s just one of those styles that you don’t hear too often round these parts so it takes some getting used to. Im sure you Bay heads will disagree and think I’m an idiot though haha.

It’s so a free DL so get the track here.

Here is my version of Balance’s song “Swagger Jackin’ “. Balance sent me the instrumental after I heard the Bay Area All Star RMX and told him I HAD to do a Bay GRL RMX and invited fellow Lady MC and newcomer, Talia Taylor to hop on it.

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Rocky Rivera aka EyeASage has officially released her self titled album today. It’s available for download via CD Baby and we’re looking into where you can get a physical copy as well.

My album has been nearly two years in the making, and yesterday I was finally able to see it materialized. I’ve been poring over every detail of it sonically, aesthetically, financially, and emotionally and I hope that you feel it when you buy the cd. There’s something different about downloading it off the internet and holding an actual copy in your hand – you can learn all about the people who were involved, get a sense of who I am and feel closer to me as an artist (aww warm squishy feeling).

Here’s the tracklisting:

1. Rocky Rivera
2. MRSHMLO
3. Girl Like Me (feat. Dun Dun of Los Rakas)
4. The Rundown
5. Trick Habit
6. Heart
7. Grimy
8. Turn It Up (feat. Liezel)
9. Complex
10. I Am Gone
11. Go There
12. Me to You
13. Ride Out

EyeASage aka Rocky Rivera has released a new song entitled “Feelin’ My Shhh…”. The song is exactly as the title suggests and allows RR to represent and let everyone know why she’s on top of her game right now. It’s a straight forward track but it’s definitely some raw hip-hop. Be on the look out for her album when it drops in early February.

You can get the track along with a remix to MRSHMLO over at The Smoking Section.

The new single for West Coast artist Bambu has just dropped from his upcoming EP. The track is titled ‘The Queen Is Dead’. I’m loving the production on this track. I’m digging how Bambu chose to spit some social commentary on how society views women. The track also features some guest background vocals from his fiance EyeASage aka Rocky Rivera.

The Queen Is Dead, is the first song leaked from the new EP, …paper cuts… from Los Angeles’ own Bambu. The EP features Chace Infinite (Self Scientific), Geologic (Blue Scholars), Malcolm & Martin, Thurzday (U-N-I) and Diz Gibran, with production by Digital Martyrs, Fatgums, 6Fingers, MTK, Anon and Nick James. …paper cuts… is set for a February 23rd release on the Homegrown Blendz label.

Be  sure to peep the track here.

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EyeASage aka Rocky Rivery broke it down with C’est La Vie and gave her insight on her various aliases, motherhood, her different grinds and what the future holds in store. It’s a great interview and I definitely recommend you check it out.

What should we expect from the upcoming 2010 New Year from Ms. Krish and/or Rocky Rivera?
The self-titled album drops February 2, 2010, so be on the lookout for a Rocky Rivera tour on the West Coast and Hawaii! Also, I got two more videos in the works, aside from my first, “MRSHMLO”, so you might be able to see “Dr. Rocky” in all her glory . 2010 is year of The Rock!

If you’re too lazy to head on over to C’est La Vie you can catch the interview after the jump!

Meet our ‘illest’ Femme Fatale — Rocky Rivera. This slick talking writer not only talks a good game, she’s one of the few MC’s to merge out from the Bay Area with versatility on the mic. Having famed her thoughts in highly respected magazines and being a woman of empowerment, she’s taking the industry by storm, one city at a time.Femme Fatale: Rocky Rivera

Rocky, you’re from the Bay but you also travel down south to LA a lot. Am I correct? Where do you prefer home and why?
I was raised all my life in San Francisco but recently moved down to Los Angeles. The culture and terrain are so drastically different that it’s been 3 years and I’m still transitioning! SF will always have my heart (and my lungs), but LA is the place to be, I can’t even front. At this point, I’m just happy being West Coast
When did you decide to transition from being a journalist to now becoming a female lyricist?
I’ve always been doing both, simultaneously, but I usually take turns with one or the other. From 2005-2007 I was writing for all sorts of mags, Mass Appeal, XXL, The Source, Rolling Stone, and in 2008, print journalism began its descent, so the industry I knew and enjoyed (getting paychecks from) so well is pretty much non-existent! That’s when I decided to take cues and shift my writing abilities around. Also, Hip-Hop itself became pretty disappointing to me and I was tired of pitching ignorant 17-year olds with no concept of what Hip-Hop used to sound like, and how powerful it really was. I decided that it was time for me to put the pen down and get in the studio, which was a really liberating experience: no elitist editors, no “institutional voice”, no one telling me that my ideas were okay, but not suited for our readership. And plus, I knew I was better than most of the artists I was pitching and I wanted to prove that to myself.
I’ve read your write up on your recent moniker changes — can you give us a brief rundown on the difference between, Ms. Krish and Rocky Rivera as a person?
Well it’s kinda like Clark Kent and Superman: Ms. Krish is my pen name, somewhere I can really break shit down and articulate, and Rocky Rivera is the persona, the person that I become in the booth and onstage. Also “Ms. Krish” is a journalist, Rocky is an MC. It’s not often that you find a writer that isn’t socially awkward, or an MC who is impeccable with their grammar, so instead of being a walking anomaly, I’m able to compartmentalize and apply each respective person to a different situation! I’ve gotten gangster on wack nerdy bloggers/scholars as Ms. Krish and have developed a reputation (lol) for being a firecracker, but I’ve learned how fragile writers really are and saved my gangsterism for my raps. Writers will always be too nerdy for me to get gully on them.
How has motherhood changed your perspective on life, love, and your future plans/endeavors?
I used to think that motherhood was the end of the road. I was never the maternal type or the Suzy Homemaker of my crew, and when you grow up in the circumstances I did, seeing your friends have babies at 15 and be in these abusive baby daddy situations, I thought that was the ultimate lockdown for women. So after I graduated college and followed my dreams to become a journalist, I met my fiance, Bambu, and thought, “Hey, our babies would be freaking awesome”. But when I actually got pregnant (like 5 minutes later), it shook me to the core. Then I thought of all the things I accomplished thus far and saw how great my homegirls were with their kids and their career, I realized that could wear as many hats as I damn well chose, motherhood being the most important one! So I recorded my entire mixtape, Married to the Hustle, while I was pregnant, and after Kahlil Bayani was born, immediately started writing for my album, Rocky Rivera. I’m hoping to take the whole family on a tour bus one day
Are you still doing print columns for the widely known Rolling Stone magazine? (had to ask)
Nah, Rolling Stone was an amazing experience, but I love Hip Hop so much more, and we all know how much love RS gives HH…zero! But on the real, I’m grateful to have become a Contributing Editor, but Rolling Stone, today, is not the same Rolling Stone from the 70s that was all about counterculture and “fuck the establishment”. I wish I could have been around during that time, I probably would have been better suited!
If there was a superhero name you would give yourself, what would it be and why?
Well, I’d rather be a villain because it’s so much more fun. Superheroes have sucky love lives because they always have to go and save someone the minute they start a makeout session! I’d be “Dr. Rocky” an crazy mad-scientist-lady-slash-hitwoman that can fix an elixir to cure all your ailments, and use brute force when necessary! But on the surface, I just look like a sexy doctor (with a pHd in bioterrorism).
Finish the sentence: Men get it twisted when, _________________________________.
Men get it twisted when they think I like the whistlin’
Thinkin’ all I’m made of is sugar, spice and cinnamon

(I think in bars)
What should we expect from the upcoming 2010 New Year from Ms. Krish and/or Rocky Rivera?
The self-titled album drops February 2, 2010, so be on the lookout for a Rocky Rivera tour on the West Coast and Hawaii! Also, I got two more videos in the works, aside from my first, “MRSHMLO”, so you might be able to see “Dr. Rocky” in all her glory . 2010 is year of The Rock!

The upcoming album, Rocky Rivera, by EyeASage is slated to drop February 2nd, 2010. If you haven’t already, peep the single ‘MRSHMLO’. Hip-Hop needs more females like EyeASage representin.

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Everyone loves free music. Whether or not it helps or hurts an artist is an entirely different discussion entirely. But when the artist offers the music up for free, who can argue with that!? For This Week’s Thursday Freebie I’ve gone through our archives and have posted up many of the songs, albums & mixtapes that artists have posted up throughout 2009. Some links take you to file hosting sites, some can be downloaded straight from the link, since I didn’t originally post up the links I have no control over the delivery medium =P.

These were officially released for free by the artists themselves, so if you’re a fan BP & Odds, Decipher, Dumbfoundead, EyeAsage, Jimmy Boi, Johnnyphlo, J. Reyez, Kato, Lyrics Born, Magnetic North, Taiyo Na, Conchita Campos, Paul Dateh, Roscoe Umali, Sci, Shogunna, or Triangle Offense and missed any of these releases than by all means help yourself!

Note, some of these tracks can also be found on the a-Tunes Mix Vol: 1, which is not an official release.

Links after the jump. Enjoy!

BP & Odds – Ultra Magnetics; Ultra Magnetics Instrumental; The Premium Mixtape (Mix, The Medium, The Gift)

Decipher – There She Goes

Dumbfoundead – Peter Pan Complex (Lilly Allen Remix)

EyeAsage – Married to the Hustle Mixtape; MRSHMLO

Jimmy Boi - I Do It For the Hustlaz Mixtape

Johnnyphlo – Just a Friend; The Notebook

J. Reyez – One Step Closer Mixtape

Kato - T.I.M.E. Vol. 1 Mixtape

Lyrics Born ft Lateef the Truthspeaker - Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart

Magnetic North & Taiyo Na ft Conchita Campos – Summertime

Paul Dateh – Blame Drew’s Cancer; Self Titled Album 

Roscoe Umali feat. One Block Radius & 1st Place - Never Fallin’; Never Fallin’ Instrumental

Sci – Sci: Year One [The Collection]

Shogunna – Yo Rida; Signed 2 the Streets; Free Hip-Hop; Last Man Standing 2

Triangle Offense – TGIF

According to a tweet from EyeASage (Bambu’s wifey), The MV for Bambu’s ‘Crooks & Rooks‘ recently won best music video at Chicago’s Hip Hop Film Festival. Big ups & congrats to Bambu, Kid Heroes Productions & Xylophone Films for the win!

Below you’ll find the uncensored director’s cut that isnt shown on mTVu.