Break Plissken - The World's A Graveyard and Every Day Is Halloween

Suffolk County DA Charged With Obstructing

Now, now, now, let's not let a few bad eggs soil the reputation of one of the nation's most handsomely paid and distinguished police forces. It's not as if the department chief beat up a heroin addict who was in police custody after being arrested for stealing a bag of the chief's sex toys ... oh, wait.

OK, OK, OK, but it's not like said police chief was a linchpin in a government-wide network of corrupt lawmakers, enforcers and other public officials, stretching all the way up to the district attorney, who aided in a cover-up of the aforementioned dildo-shame beating ... oh wait.

"Suffolk Prosecutor Charged With Obstructing Police Assault Investigation."

Prince Paul - The Redux

On the strength of his work with De La Soul, Gravediggaz, Breeze Brewin and Horror City, I rank Prince Paul as the greatest producer of all time ... yes, even above DJ Premier. That's just how I feel. So you can understand why, when I saw there was a new Prince Paul project out featuring unreleased songs with Breeze Brewin, RZA, and De La Soul — not to mention Long Island Rap favorites Truth Enola and Bumpy Knuckles — I shit on myself. A couple days have passed, I've tossed my doo-doo pants, and now I'm prepared to share this brown-note magic with you (it's a thing; look it up). Stream the single-track mix below. Download it in four parts via Bandcamp. Click thru to Soundcloud for the tracklist.

Eric Boci - "Black Swan" ft. Kurt Hazard & Faro

Hus Kingpin - "Mind Sex God"

Grandmilly & Shozae - "Powder Cocaine"

Burnkas & Ozone 8000 - "Funked Out" (C&S)

Public Enemy - "Toxic" (Original Threepeeoh Mix)

Atlanta producer Threepeeoh is a good friend of Public Enemy's DJ Lord and a longtime Public Enemy fan who had collaborated on several songs with Chuck D but never on an official Public Enemy album cut, that is, until "Toxic" from 2017's Nothing Is Quick In The Desert. As it turns out, a confidant of Threepeeoh informs us that the version of "Toxic" included on the album is actually a remix, a Threepeeoh-produced remix which was preferred by Chuck D, but a remix nevertheless. The original version, streaming exclusively below, was also produced by Threepeeoh, but features a slightly different chorus and scratches, as well as a much harder beat. Follow the link above to compare this version with the album cut, and check out more Threepeeoh collabos with Chuck D and DJ Lord here. A long-winded description, I realize, but trust me, this is one of this site's best posts.

AMDAMEISTER - This Is Too Much

This Is Too Much is something of a pivot for AM da Meister. Like fellow Eight Immortal Akari, AM has grown from skilled boom-bap homage payer to a versatile songwriter unconfined by a single style or subgenre. Instead, there's a range of emotions and aesthetic flourishes on display here.

Mastery of one's craft unearths a breadth of possibility if not also a world of opportunity. Clocking in at just over 15 minutes between five songs, This Is Too Much is just enough to begin peeling back the layers of AM's tremendous potential.

Trpl Blk + DJ Prince - National Debt

Jay-Z recently spit a couple bars about flipping Basquiats and real estate, and everybody went nuts. To paraphrase Charli Baltimore's ex, he may have made it a hot song, but Trpl Blk & DJ Prince made it a hot album.

Finding America in a state of moral bankruptcy and financial fuckery, National Debt can be heard as an affront to neocapitalist wage slavery, a true free-market rallying cry in the tradition of Black Wall Street, and most pressingly, a profitable partnership pairing Bruiser Brigade MC Trpl Blk with Mobile Kitchen maestro DJ Prince. Yes, sound investment advice abounds, but so do innovative sounds and rhyme styles that expose everyday hustle raps for ponzi schemes. Do the math.