"Turnip The Beet" by Asher Roth

"It's all polluted, yea screw it you fuckin' ruined it goonie/

I should be suing it, toot it and fuckin booted it/

Really we need some nudity, batteries not included b/

Coochie, cumas and boobies are prudent as all the food we eat/" 

So I posted some Asher just the other day but I have been hearing very little new shit I like these last few weeks. However, this song was crazy. The last few songs I shared by Asher were more just chilling and had a good message but he didn't crazily kill it lyrically. This ones the complete opposite though as he rocks it like a seasoned hip hop veteran. Just listen and see for yourself, mad rhymes, check it out!

"Now a Daze" by Shad

"Yo this world's so sick/

Like Neyo's hit, Old folks with no OHIP, don't slip/

Know who the staff you roll with is/

Your staff could turn to snakes like Moses'/"

I've known for a while now that Shad was one of my country's more influential and lyrical emcees. But I never really took the time to listen to much of his music, aside from a couple of YouTube music videos. A couple of weeks ago I picked up an older album of his, "The Old Prince", and I'm really diggin' a lot of the tracks on there. The London, Ontario spitter has many insightful ideas for his music and manages to form great rhymes to express them. One of my favourites from this album is called Now a Daze. It has a really cool, mellow beat and Shad created a lot of sick lines within the verse. This is far from new, but it's far from wack as well. Check out this live performance!

"Good Morning View" by Asher Roth

"Let's barbecue and maybe hop in the pool, truth is we got nothing to lose/

Except listen to tunes, stay cool and just take in the view, horshoes, maybe open a brew/

hope you know that you'll lose, that's the move, yeah let's go to the roof, roll a doob, take a moment or two/

Soak it in from the wind to the summit, sing from the stomach, sonny, keep your tongue in, don't let it run from ya/

And say somethin you know nothing about, right out loud all in front in the crowd, settle down and enjoy what is coming/"

So I've really been diggin anything I heard from Asher Roth in the last while. He's not as intricate with his lyrics as he used to be but he has a vibe and outlook on life I can't help but love. His most recent songs all make mefeel like he's in a real good place with his music, not livin lavish, but not wanting to, just content with havin what he needs to get by. I thought the beat in this song was great, I started melting into my couch on my deck and felt the heat of the sun on my eyelids making me feel all cripsy and calm. Besides the mood there is some great band instruments that particularly pop out at the chorus which separates it from the chilling guitar during the verses. I like the little part where he's talking bout some simple stuff you should do like "...kiss your mom, and highfive your dad and be like wassup."

"Cheesesteaks" by Vinnie Paz

"Hardbody rap, God of the Serengeti/

I'm a sinner, I'm the God of the seven deadly/

Everything I do hard, and it's legendary/

I spit 16 bars and you dead and buried/"

This morning Vinnie Paz dropped a new video from an upcoming solo album that I wasn't aware of, "The God of the Serengeti". This song is raw as hell, I really like it. But I'm unsure why it was given the title "Cheesesteaks". I'm not really surprised at all because a lot of the time Jedi Mind Tricks and Vinnie himself have weird, random titles for their songs. This one just seemed a bit more corny than usual. It has a sick beat and Vinnie destroys it with his lyrics. I think his Lloyd Christmas hairstyle looks jokes while he's chillin at the barbershop. Kinda looks like his bangs coulda been cut with a... boxcutter. BOXCUTTER PAZIE! Haha, this album should be released sometime this fall. It's gonna be hard to live up to the content from "Season of the Assassin". That album was nuts. But hopefully this one will be just as good, if not better. Anyways, check this shit out son!

"My Life" (Video) by Slaughterhouse

So Brenton already posted this song on the blog ages ago when it first came out so I won't post lyrics again or nothing but I saw the video today and I thought it was pretty sick so I decided to share it. The beginning is pretty funny and reminds me of how random and goofy Eminem used to be back when making a music video for "Without Me." There's some really cool scenes in this just putting a comparison between what these guys used to be doing and what they're doing now. Normally I don't like rappers flashing their success but these guys deserve it and I been waiting for them to get to this point. It's so sick seeing how much they have become buds and can be goofy with eachother, havin fun with their success but still keep it real. I do have to say Cee Lo Green's outfit looks kinda gay in my opinion lmao but all in all this was a sick video.

"Straight, No Chaser" by Reks ft. Slaine

"Take you away from the days of flavourless flows from fuckin' fakers/

Faggot foes, face the fact, Reks and Stat, It's a wrap/

I swe-ar, I sta-re, At the mirror, May it remain ra-re/

Daniel's son, in the lion's lair/"

Never really heard of Reks until now, but this song is pretty dope. I'm a fan of Slaine and I found it while searching for tracks by him. But this Statik Selektah beat is fuckin cool and they both killed it. They both got some sick rhymes and I really like Reks' flow. This song is from Reks' album with the same title, which came out this past April. Anyways, check this shit out!

"For Granted" by Grewsum

"I can take you on a ride without a wild gimmick/

My life's interesting enough itself, that's why I live it/

The crazy thoughts in my head, there is really no explaining/

It's just like there's a horror movie in there constantly playing/"

This is what I love about hip-hop. You think you know about all of the best emcees, and continuously get surprised by other new artists that you discover. I've heard of GrewSum before through the Funk Volume DFUOB contest, and Jokerr's diss track to him, but I never really took the time to listen to his shit. So the other day I found this video, and I really liked what I heard. He explains the struggles he faces as an artist and the lack of results he receives for the work he puts in. Kills the lyrics, spits a dope chorus and has a mellow, yet bold feel to the beat. Open ya Earz!