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Dilated Peoples Sign To Rhymesayers
Just after paying tribute to our favorite Rhymesayers albums, the renowned hip-hop label announces the signing of underground heavyweights, Dilated Peoples. The label is set to support their forthcoming full-length, Directors Of Photography, which we don’t have too many details on…
The 12 Best Rhymesayers Albums
As the story goes, Minneapolis-based indie rap powerhouse Rhymesayers Entertainment started in 1995 when Atmosphere’s Slug and Ant teamed up with Musab and Siddiq to launch their own label. Since then, they have helped establish the careers of everyone from…
Brother Ali – Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color
Brother Ali - Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color Rhymesayers: 2012 During my morning commute the other day, some tool in a Baby Momma Benz cut me off. The license plate read: CPTLIST. After letting them know that I thought…
Grocery List: Duty And Death: Aesop Rock Live At Barrymore Theater
It’s 11:21 p.m., CST, on Friday, July 27, and I am in a crowd of about 300 at Madison, Wisc.’s Barrymore Theater, watching Aesop Rock do “Zero Dark Thirty”. It turns out shouting “Down from a huntable surplus to one”…
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Rhymesayers: 2012 There are two ways you can listen to Aesop Rock’s sixth studio album Skelethon. The first way, arguably the most common method of digesting music in 2012 is the less engaged, multi-tasking way. This entails…
Evidence – “Falling Down” [Video]
Evidence took off in 2011 with a phenomenal Rhymesayers debut in Cats & Dogs. While the album certainly received critical acclaim, it didn’t quite resonate as far as the Dilated Peoples MC might have hoped. To keep the momentum rolling, Ev drops…
Brother Ali – “Writer’s Block” p. Jake One [Video]
From the information provided, it isn’t clear what we can expect as far as a collaborative project goes from Brother Ali and Jake One. Whether it be a mixtape, EP or full-length, what we do know is that anything these…
Toki Wright – Speed of Life (Vol. 1) [EP]
Toki Wright, one of our favorite artists here at Potholes, has really outdone himself with his latest project. Speed of Life (Vol. 1) features the Rhymesayers spitter tackling the concept of writing and recording one track a day for a…
BK-One – “Tema DO Canibal” [Video]
Some DJs have light shows accompany them. Some do it the ole fashioned way with just a crate of records at their side. Rhymesayer’s BK-One has a whole damn brass band. “Tema DO Canibal” off of his album Rádio Do Canibal gets the…
Evidence – “Same Folks” F. Fashawn [Video]
Dilated Peoples was an awesome group, we can’t forget that. But Evidence, who remains a driving force as both an emcee and producer, is on the cusp of releasing his second solo LP. Cats & Dogs is the name, and…
