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Why dont you close your tuesday evening with a Hip-Hop banger? Two of the Beautiful Cycle crew, JL & Mani linking up with frequent collaborator Smaals for a new track they called “Bloodsport”. I need to watch that movie again. Anyway, for the hooks, intros, outros.. it’s just three straight raw verses. Only thing I have to ask is, can we get the mp3 to DL?

It’s another cross country collab with LA’s Surrilla and VA’s Manifest joining forces to drop a new track entitled “Blinded by the Light”. It’s a pretty dope track and I’m liking the beat selection. The two make for a pretty cohesive duo with a verse a piece. I can already tell this is gonna be a sleeper hit for me. I’m liking it just a little more with each listen. Don’t believe me? See for yourself and download it for free here.

To my knowledge, this is the first interview released of The Beautiful Cycle crew in it’s entirety – featuring Manifest, Lyricks, JL, and DJ Zo. You get to hear a little from each artist and the explanation behind “The Beautiful Cycle” concept. It’s a dope interview and a recommended watch for anyone who has been wondering what these guys represent and what drives them.

You’ve seen the MV for this mega posse cut, but now you get to see L. Scatterbrain x Lyraflip x Lyricks x Manifest x JL x Dumbfoundead & DJ Zo all perform “LAVA” live. It’s crazy to see so many of our talented MC’s on stage at one time on the same track. Watch it through till the end where DFD forgets his verse but freestyles the whole thing without missing a beat. That’s raw.

Inspire Events continue to trickle out performance clips from some of their recent events, including Mani’s west coast album release party for Open Bars. In the following two clips, Mani, Lyricks, and JL all spit with a passion on some deep content. It’s always good to know songs can still have some meaningful content these days. Lyricks and Mani deliver the remix to “Scarred” and in the next clip JL joins them for a mash up of “I Pray” and “Light the Dark”. Personally I was really feeling the latter. Check out Inspire’s youtube channel for more!

Lyricks, Manifest, Sickboi, JL and a bunch of other MC’s (mostly) from the 703 (Northern Virginia) area have dropped a mixtape entitled The Supernova Collective Volume One. You can hear one of the singles (“Guillotine Music”) in the promo video below. “LAVA“, “Cube Runners“, “Myndgames 2.0” and the “Lemonade remix” are also included. Other artists include Petey-O, Dak, Josh Shepard, C-Note, K-Prime, Smaals, Koreone, along with west coast stables L. Scatterbrain, Lyraflip and Dumbfoundead. It’s a pretty packed line up and at 26 tracks, a lot of music. Enjoy!

The Supernova Collective Volume One is avaiable here
http://www.zshare.net/download/773764…

Various artists from the 703 area come together to create this compilation. Supernova is Lyricks’ recording studio in Fairfax VA and serves as an HQ for the Beautiful Cycle and their affiliates. Hope you enjoy the music and spread the word…

Back in February, Virginian MC Manifest dropped his 3rd mixtape entitled Open Bars. The title is less an allusion to alcohol but rather more towards his lyrical content and at 20 tracks deep it’s clear that Mani has a lot to say. His last release was about two years ago but he’s stayed active performing, touring, interviewing, and dropping singles here and there, often with his partner in rhyme Lyricks. Whenever an artist drops a mixtape of this length, it’s often a question of whether we are getting the quality to match the quantity. If you want to find out if Open Bars is worth it, read on!

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Back in the Spring, DJ Zo dropped a track entitled “Vacation Song”, featuring Dumb & Esna Yoon. At Manifest’s West Coast Mixtape Release Part last month, Dumb performed the song and gave a little explanation that the lyrics were actually written when he was a youth. He kills it in the live performance and of course DJ Zo makes it all look too easy. This is a  great performance to watch on this lazy Friday night.

We posted up ‘Cube Runners’ a couple weeks back, but more footage has surfaced from Manifest’s recent West Coast mini-tour. Once again Mani and his frequent partner in rhyme did a set at GMI and by mid song go full swing into some double-time fun. And as you can expect of TBC crew,  DJ Zo’s holding everything down in the back. That crowd is so energetic, gotta love it!

You’ve read about it here for months but the time has finally arrived. Guaranteed Raw, the debut mixtape for Virginia MC JL is now available. To mark the release real proper he’s also dropped an MV for one of the posse tracks entitled LAVA. You clever folk probably picked up that it stands for LA to VA… Los Angeles to Virginia. The video was directed by Lyricks and features a TON of footage. It’s straight hip-hop, no sugar coating… and it’s refreshing.

You can find the full tracklist after the break but make sure to pick up a copy and support some raw hip-hop. Besides those mentioned in LAVA, the mixtape features other talented artists such as Sickboi, Decipher and J-Smaals.

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