Kato recently posted up this performance from the Atlanta New Year Festival featuring the Akademikz, Eric Cha, and Kyoung as well. I think Kato had one of the stronger performances but it was cool to see one of the MC’s keep it international and spit a verse in Korean. ‘Swagga Like Us’ is a hard song to live up but I ain’t mad at this one. The studio version is a bit more crisp so if you’re interested you can grab that here.
Kato’s got a new production credit for The Beat Gods on their latest single ‘Ham!’ featuring 4-Ize. The songs a banger and Kato killed it on the production tip. It’s catchy good old fashioned hip-hop. Don’t take my word for it, check it out over at Kato’s site.
Check out this quick performance of Kato & Senor Kaos at the 16th Bars of Gold event that went down in Atlanta earlier this month. Usually Kato spends his time behind the boards but it’s always good to see the guy step up to the mic and lay down some lines. As for Senor Kaos who went 2nd… I wasn’t really feeling his style, but that’s just me.
If you all were feeling the cypher from the AHHS event in Charlotte then you’re gonna love this one. Down in the ATL, the Asian Hip-Hop Summit crew shows their hunger on the mic as they grab the opportunity to spit a few bars.
In order of appearance: Maserati, Dumbfoundead, Lyraflip, L. Scatterbrain, Manifest & Al.P after the Asian Hip-Hop Summit ATL.
Footage provided courtesy of Kato & KatoDaily.com.
Here’s the video message from Kato, Passda, and Dante Fawkes.
Quick promo video for the Asian Hip-Hop Summit ATL show on Nov. 14 at The Pointe. Shot with the homies and performers this year, Dante Fawkes and Passda with a special guest phone appearance from Dumbfoundead… where’s Al.P?!
They’ll join Lyricks, Manifest, Dumbfoundead, Lyraflip, DJ Zo, & L. Scatterbrain among others in the can’t miss event of good ol’ Georgia.
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!
ATLien Producer/MC Kato never lets up off his grind as he’s decided to step out from behind the boards and into the vocal booth for his new track ‘One Night Only’.
I’ve heard a lot of Kato tracks over the past few years and he’s definitely in top lyrical form on this one. You can hear the track over at his site or at myspace. It’s short but very sweet.
Returning with a new mixtape release entitled T.I.M.E. (This Is My Everything), Kato is out to prove himself as an up and comin producer. This time around he refrains from the microphone, contributing only one verse on the entire tape. Instead he relegates the vocals to various artists around the country, leaving him to focus solely on the production tip. In similar fashion to illmind’s Blaps, Rhymes & Life series, T.I.M.E. has been released as a free download to maximize word of mouth marketing and exposure. For this review, we’re going to do things a little differently and focus more heavily on the production, this being a producer’s mixtape and all.
So is this release worth your bandwidth? You know the deal. Find out after the jump.
Producer Kato has released his new mixtape today, as promised.
It’s a completely free DL so make sure you check it out! We’ll have a review up for you in the near future.
Kato has announced his latest collab with akim and his group, the Vox Merger. It’s a laid back track called ‘More Reasons’. Make sure you check it out, cause Kato’s only getting nicer with the production.
Download the FREE a-Tunes Mix Vol. 1: Summer Break!
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