Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 49: The Alkaholiks - Coast II Coast

Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G are back with episode 49 of Comprehensive Beatdown. This week, the guys revisit a classic album from Tha Alkaholiks. “Coast II Coast,” which dropped on Februry 28, 1995, was the group’s second release. Bloggy and G have been talking about the album for the past few episodes and have finally gotten around the celebrating it’s 21st anniversary.

If you want to keep up with an inordinate amount of new music, follow Silent G’s 2016 Albums/EPs playlist on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/user/garrad36/playlist/6nbyqZJoAA1JMrvzbDjjyP

Check out Bloggy Bonilla’s website to see what he is enjoying day-to-day.

http://keyb2lock.com/

As always, follow us on http://dopemedianetwork.com/ and find us on iTunes.  

Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 48: 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne - ColleGrove

Silent G and Bloggy Bonilla are back this week with episode 48, after taking a little Spring Break last week. This time around, the guys check out the new 2 Chainz album, Collegrove. Essentially a collaborative record with Lil Wayne, Collegrove is only credited to 2 Chainz, however, because of various label politics. The album features a heavy hitting list of producers including Mannie Fresh, Mike Will Made It, Lil C, Metro Boomin, London on da Track, and others.

The intro music is from Ethiopian electronic artist Mikael Seifu.

The outro is from Slangston Hughes, who will be performing with his band, Fo on the Flo, alongside Skipp Coon and PyInfamous Friday night, March 18, at the Workshop in downtown Jackson.  

https://mikaelseifu.bandcamp.com/album/zelalem

http://www.2chainz.com/

https://slangstonhughes.bandcamp.com/

If you want to keep up with an inordinate amount of new music, follow Silent G’s 2016 Albums/EPs playlist on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/user/garrad36/playlist/6nbyqZJoAA1JMrvzbDjjyP

Check out Bloggy Bonilla’s website to see what he is enjoying day-to-day.

http://keyb2lock.com/

As always, follow us on http://dopemedianetwork.com/.  

Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 47: Ron Jon Bovi - Neaux Mursi

Silent G and Bloggy Bonilla are back with Episode 47 of the Comprehensive Beatdown. This week, the guys bring you “Neaux Mursi,” the first album from Ron Bon Jovi, which is a duo made up of underground hip hop legends Casual and Phat Kat. This is certainly a dream collaboration for many hip hop fans.

The intro music is from the new Stratus album, “The Driver,” which was released last week through Loci Records.

The outro song is a special song from Robbi Robb, “In Time.” (Google it)

http://www.fatbeats.com/products/ron-jon-bovi-casual-phat-kat-neaux-mursi-lp

http://locirecords.com/

Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 46: Mavis Staples - Livin' On A High Note

Comprehensive Beatdown hits you this week with Episode 46. Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G take a spin with the new Mavis Staples record, “Livin’ on a High Note,” which was released on February 19 on Anti Records. In keeping with her recent string of working with Indie Rock artists (namely Jeff Tweedy from Wilco on the past two projects), Staples turned to M. Ward to produce the album and contribute songwriting along with other artists like Neko Case, Ben Harper, Aloe Blacc, Nick Cave, and others.

The intro music is off of “Basar,” from German electronic duo Africaine 808 (one of Silent G’s favorite releases so far this year).

http://livinonahighnote.com/

https://soundcloud.com/africaine-808

As always, you can follow Silent G’s 2016 Album/EPs playlist on Spotify to see what new music he is listening to this year (updated weekly).

https://open.spotify.com/user/garrad36/playlist/6nbyqZJoAA1JMrvzbDjjyP

Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 45: Silas - The Day I Died

Comprehensive Beatdown is back with episode 45. This week Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G bring you “The Day I Died” from Jackson-based artist Silas. One of the most anticipated independent hip hop releases out of Jackson in years, “The Day I Died” features the hit song and viral sensation “Gullah Gullah Island.” This is the debut album from Silas, who, in addition to rapping and producing, also plays the trumpet.

The intro music is from GoGo Penguin, the UK based jazz trio who just released their third album, “Man Made Object,” on Blue Note Records.

http://www.dear-silas.com/

http://gogopenguin.co.uk/

Comprehensive Beatdown Episode 44: PyInfamous - We Struggle too/The Struggle Has Just Begun 2

Comprehensive Beatdown is back with episode 44. This week, Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G check out the new PyInfamous album, “We Struggle Too: The Struggle Has Just Begun II,” released independently in December of 2015. This release, from one of Jackson’s very best, features apperances from Ahmad Rashad, and Saddi Sundiata, Chellese Hall and Vic Wilson.

The intro music is a track from Skee Mask’s most recent release, “Shred.”

https://pyinfamous.bandcamp.com/

http://www.iliantape.de/skee-mask/

Comprehensive Beatdown Podcast: Episode 42 - David Bowie - Black Star

Comprehensive Beatdown is back with episode 42. This week, Bloggy Bonilla check out “Blackstar,” the final album from David Bowie, released just weeks before his death on January 10, 2016. It is his 25th album.

 

The intro track is from “Catastrophic,” the newest album from Tortoise and the guys listen to new tracks from Black Milk and Nick Grant (featuring Big K.R.I.T. and Killer Mike).

 

(ed. note: Since we don’t know much about David Bowie, we spent most of the time talking about basketball, flat earth, Kanye West vs. Wiz Khalifa, the state of public education, social media, and more. You know, just some light conversation. Also, please excuse a couple of technical difficulties. We were shaking off the rust after not having recorded in a few weeks.)

Curated by TibbiT Music, Dope Since 1980, & The Comprehensive Beatdown.