[re-up] The Very Best Mixtape

I stayed up for a couple dozen hours two days ago doing a lot of work and I decided to listen to a mixtape I hadn’t gone through since the first time it dropped in November. I’m currently listening to it for the 16th time and still have no f***ing clue what he’s saying, but dammit if it isn’t amazing. Esau Mwamwaya is a dude from Malawi, immigrated to London and hooked up with Radioclit to put out “The Very Best” mixtape, one of THEE dopest download of 2008, bar none (I’m looking at you illegally downloaded Dark Knight). Following that last post, I figure now would be as good a time as any to re-up the mixtape you need in your library.

Download: Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit are The Very Best

Just tryin to make a livin Got in to writing words of wisdom Flipped the urban rhythm Poetry mixed with Journalism.

Download: Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit are The Very Best

Tags: Esau Mwamwaya, Malawi, Radioclit, The Very Best

Featured Opinion

(about K'Naan, the Internet, and the international music scene).

I often feel like the next major movement in music will probably happen (or is happening/already happened) in some part of the world Americans don't think about much. Think about how hip hop is right now and how we live in a post-modern, futuristic world where so many trends are driven by social media/cell phones/etc. USA music is relatively stale, and people are restless because so much of this music that hits the web is disposable bs. You pick it up off a blog and build up your iTunes. Then you realize you got a ton of wack demos from bands that suck and a bunch of wack 1-freestyle-per-day rappers. So you delete most of it, start over, and never think to support an artist you really like that has talent by buying there songs or going to their shows. Sounds true and really lame right?

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time to waste

Dobbs Lambasts Loose Immigration Legislation in Hip-Hop

Dobbs: .....Damarcus, you mentioned an interesting fact in a conversation we had earlier that about 40% of last quarters profits from the Hip-Hop industry being re-invested across Lake Ontario. This means that more and more hip-hop artists have less and less money to feed their numerous families and re-invest in their communities, and all the while you, Mr. Harrow, and your ilk are taking jobs away from hardworking, honest American hip-hop artists; you rappers send money back to your "crib" and 'hood so your brothers and sisters can buy rim's, big chains, and whatever else it is you Torontians buy.

Kardi: The youts and gyal dems buy the creps, ya dun know, and de man dem, the breddren, the shottas backin a 2-4 of Guinness and BACARDI!!

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