Free Music Friday (Hip-Hop Edition)

Yeeeeeeeaaah bwoooooy. It's Friday, get high day, wave work goodbye day!!!

And that means free pod-fodder for the massive in a globe-trotting hip-hop style.

New Big Dada signing Damaged Good$ lay down some slick synthetic funk and lazy, drawling verses on their new free single "Dopest Flyest".

The single is a very tasty taster of a forthcoming free album - "Spread Love Not Germ$". Keep and eye on their Myspace and the Big Dada site for more news and probably more gratuitous dollar signs.

In the meantime, download "Dopest Flyest" here.





As this blog proves with alarming regularity, the best things in life are free.

This is a philosophy shared by German netlabel iD.EOLOGY, who have put together an alarmingly good compilation of fresh instrumental and vocal hip-hop.

There's a load of good stuff on here, but standout tracks for me include the progressive deep funk of 'Time Machine' by Soulkrates and Fleur Earth & Gringo Starr's 'Geiz ist eine Plage', which drops somewhere between jazz and dancehall.

Grab the album here.

Gritty, grimey, crackly and creaky offerings from the UK now, from the vaults of the mighty Blah Records.

First up, a collaboration between Lee Scott and Monster Under The Bed, recording under their Mcabre Brothers moniker. Featuring production from Reklews, Lee Scott and Sly Moon, these are 10 tracks of raw, lowdown attitude with tight production, rambling, raucous verses and more than a whiff of early Redman sound.

Secondly from Blah, more dirt, more verbal swagger and a whole heap of crunchy beats on Flash 4Dem's aptly-named 'Mega Dumb Free Shit'. A member of the Children of the Damned crew, Flash drops rhymes that are simultaneously tight and loose, sprawling and precise over dark, sample-laden beats that sound like bad trips on wax.
Grab both albums here.

Finally for this week's free spread, a remix project from the talented folks over at Crate Kings that's gonna go back, waaaaay back, if you know what I'm saying.

Crate Kings 4 sees the deep vein of production talent that inhabits the CK forums taking on remixes from 1990s hip-hop. Ultramagnetic MCs, EPMD, Pharoahe Monch, De La Soul and Nas are among the artists getting the remix treatment on this mixtape.

From the razor-sharp cuts and swiftly-switched breaks of Downstroke's intro to the chilled funk of C1's take on Big L's 'Put It On', this is a pretty sweet project. Some may say that the classics should be left alone, but if everyone thought like that hip-hop would never have happened.

Grab the album, and have a listen to the previous Crate Kings releases, here.

Now, until next time, we're ghost like Casper.