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The Frank Ocean Covers Round-Up – 2/3/12
Frank Ocean has been a rather popular artist to cover recently, so we threw together a quick round-up of covers by Jeremy Passion, Maribelle Anes, Erin Kim, Verseatile, New Heights, Andy Ha, and Jae Jin. There are two songs here, “Thinking About You” and “We All Try”, and some chose to switch things up while others played it by the book – singing over the official instrumental. Enjoy your Friday!
Jeremy Passion Covers “Thinking About You” & “J.O.B.”
Maribelle Anes Remixes “Thinking About You”
The Hip-Hop Youtube Round-Up 1/15/2012
Wow, we are 15 days into the new year already. Well, as I promised last time, this round-up is all things strictly rap. I don’t believe any of the featured videos in this collection are newcomers but there’s a surprise or two in the bunch, just make sure to check em all out. There’s enough Hip-Hop bars here for everyone to enjoy.
Misfit Remixes “All Doggs Go to Heaven” by Game
D-Pryde Remixes “Rack City” by Tyga
Verseatile Releases the “Dreamchaser” MV
At the very end of December, Verseatile unveiled a little teaser for his song “Dreamchaser”, that he dropped during the summer. The trailer gave the impression that this could be Verse’s most serious release yet… and that turned out to be true in more ways than one. It would appear that Mike Chun may be stronger with the topical raps than your run-of-the-mill braggadocio tracks. The moody B/W visuals features the Jennifer Field as the attractive leading lady. If ya like the track, you can pick it up from his Bandcamp page.
Jason Chen Releases the ‘Gravity’ Album
With the end of the year approaching, Jason Chen has managed to sneak in his debut album, Gravity, in before 2011 comes to a close. The LP includes his collaboration with J. Reyez, Crazed, and Verseatile – “Reintroduction” along with his more recent “Best Friend”, among others. If you’re ready to jump straight into the ‘Music Never Sleeps’ artist, you can stream in full via Spotify or pick up the mp3s for yourself via Amazon & iTunes.
Stream: Spotify
1. Reintroduction (feat. J Reyez, Lil Crazed & Verseatile)
2. Gravity
3. Just For A Moment
4. No Distance
5. Best Friend
6. Curious
7. Violin
8. Solo (Game For Two)
9. Here Am I
10. Music Never Sleeps
11. Best Friend (Chinese)
Verseatile Teases with “Dreamchaser”
It looks like Verse has some new music in the works, a tune and visual called “Dreamchaser”. This one looks to be a little more serious/mature than his other releases – at least as far as I can tell from the short B/W teaser clip. The current release date is simply ‘January 2012′, so let’s see what happens in the next week to a month’s time.
Verseatile x Traphik Present “The Rebound” MV
Happy Tuesday folks. Verseatile and Traphik have released their new music video for their collaborative single, “The Rebound”. As the trailer suggested, there are a number of guest appearances, including Grace Su as the leading lady, Rick Carter as the antagonist (or maybe Grace is the antagonist – you decide), and a cameo by Danny Cho along with others. It’s a chill listen, a fairly entertaining MV that could have benefited from some better lighting here and there but an otherwise enjoyable visual.
The Holiday Cover Round-Up Part 5
Less than a week left til Christmas… bring on the covers! It’s our 5th Holiday round-up with appearances by Lily Bee, Jayesslee, Kat Badar, TNB, Erin Kim, Megan Lee, and Verseatile. Get your egg nog ready and munch on some candy canes cause there’s a good amount of music here. Enjoy!
Lily Bee Covers “A Snow Globe Christmas” by Pink Martini
Jayesslee Covers “The Christmas Song”
Trailer Released for “The Rebound” by Verseatile x Traphik
Verse first shared “The Rebound” back in June, but the Traphik assisted song has been given the official MV treatment. Timothy de la Ghetto’s main partner in crime, Ricky, has a role along with Grace Su as the leading lady. The video is scheduled to drop “soon” so be on the lookout. We’ll be sure to share it with you all once it’s up.
Verseatile Drops “Hard”
Verseatile decided to drop a new joint called “Hard”, where he takes some verses both old and new and throws them on a J-Phonics produced beat. He decided to experiment a little bit with some high energy dub-steb mixed in with the electronica laced instrumental, combining it with some rapid-fire raps. Can’t say it’s a home run but it’s an interesting listen at the very least, def something different from the majority of rap songs as of late. It’s available as a free DL (until allotment runs out) via Bandcamp. If you only want to stream, you can catch it via Youtube after the break along with the lyrics.
The Youtube Rap Remix Round-Up – 10/26/11
Mid-week hump… why don’t we have another Youtube round-up! Today’s theme is “rap remix”, so all of the following are beats that our rappers decided to flip and use for their own purposes. Nothing wrong with that, just as long as you recognize it’s not a completely organic offering. The first two in our collection are placed as such because they have, by far, the best production values among the group. Thai’s in particular, is up to 454′s usual impeccable visual standards. But don’t sleep on Miss TLu of On Fire, the girl shows promise. The rest of the gang include a collab by Toestah & Jen Chung, LA’s 3Strykes representing too, Lil Crazed with a little spin-off of MGK, DUKE keeping things fun with a LMFAO joint and Verse rounding out the pack. Lot’s of Jay-Z x Kanye beats in here, I guess they are a crowd favorite.
Thai Remixes “Dreams Money Can Buy” by Drake
Miss TLu of OnFire Ent Remixes “No Church in the Wild” by Jay-Z & Kanye West
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