Jake One isn’t only Seattle’s most visible producer, he’s also the scene’s biggest advocate. On this new tape he runs through a couple decades of underground Sea-Town bangers. It’s a nice cross-section of the city’s sounds and a great supplement to the Local Product feature that Jake and Mike Clark dropped here a few months back. (via).
Pill & DJ Skee – 4075: The Refill [NODJ] (Mixtape, 2009)
Freeway & Don Cannon – The Beat Made Me Do It [NODJ] (Mixtape, 2009)
Kingpen Slim & DJ J. Buttah – The Capital City Kingpen (Mixtape, 2009)
Forgive the silence, my internet is touch and go. Here are three recent tapes from Philadelphia Freezer, Atlanta’s Pill and DC’s own Kingpen Slim. I’ve yet to see the NODJ of the Free tape in the bogs but Jake One posted it to Soulstrut.
Foul Play – “Nightfall Around The Way”
Jake One sent over a big folder of Seattle hip hop for the Local Product posts and a couple of tracks didn’t really fit into the narrative. I have no information on these artists, but they are very dope. Maybe some of my 206 heads can fill in the blanks?
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Back again with round two in this series on localized hip hop scenes. This time we’re off to Seattle with producer Jake One, who possesses one of the dopest and most eclectic discographies in hip hop right now (50 Cent, MF Doom, E-40) and Mike Clark, former radio co-host of KCMU’s Rap Attack and writer for The Flavor, the city’s preeminent hip hop publication in the 90s. After the jump the two break down their city’s history to the very last compound. It’s bigger than just Mix-A-Lot. (more…)
