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If you’ve visited Potholes over the past month or so, you likely know that Trek Life’s highly anticipated album, Everything Changed Nothing, is available today on iTunes. Well, the promotion for the ever-optimistic Cali emcee is far from over. We’ve got here another single from Trek Life, and it’s mighty fine. On “As The World Turns” Trek delivers some personal bars over a fantastic Oddisee beat. Give it a stream and let us know what you think! Hit the skip for the download.

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Trek Life and Oddisee certainly appear to be in the giving mood as of late. To celebrate the forthcoming release of Trek’s Everything Changed Nothing, which is solely produced by Oddisee, they have been doling out the freebies. First, Trek dropped catch-up mixtape Before Everything Changed that, for any newcomers, is the perfect way to get introduced to this talented California spitter. Then, yesterday, Oddisee decided to give away this free mixtape of Left Coast-inspired instrumentals called West Coast Beats. The diehards will recognize a few of the tracks from his Traveling Man project but there are also snippets of beats from Trek’s upcoming album along with several brand new cuts. In short, if you have been following Oddisee already, I’m sure you skipped all this text and immediately hit the download button.

You can grab the mixtape after the jump and stream the track “Don Cornelius” below.

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As the prelude to his upcoming collaborative album with Oddisee, Trek Life has put together the Before Everything Changed mixtape. But rather than offer a bunch of random freestyles over industry beats as so many MCs do these days, Trek’s gone a different route. This mixtape offers tracks from throughout his career leading up to his upcoming Every Changed Nothing album. And while it doesn’t provide me with any new tracks as I’ve been a fan of Trek’s work, this is a fantastic means of getting acquainted with one hell of an artist.

Hit the skip to download Before Everything Changed.

Oh hell goddamn yeah. This was one of those tracks I (and Zach) have been looking forward to ever since this project was announced. “So Supreme”, a banger filled with loads of bravado and killer production, represents the first leak from Trek Life’s upcoming Everything Changed Nothing album. As if new Trek wasn’t enough, the entire album is produced by none other than Oddisee. Yeah, that’s one killer combo that we only heard before in remix form when Oddisee reworked Price I’ve Paid to create the killer New Money. Now I just need that Oddisee and Finale record!

Hit the skip to download “So Supreme” or stream it below. And if you want to support these two great artists, go to iTunes to purchase the single.

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It comes with great pleasure that I announce the return of one of my personal favorite emcees, Trek Life. For those not familiar, the Cali-based rapper dropped a remarkable, lyrically enlightening album a little over a year ago, Price I’ve Paid, which was then remixed by Oddisee into the stunning New Money full-length. This time around Trek linked up with producer-extraordinaire J.Bizness to give us a fresh, new EP, Rhymes Within Reason. Check it out, and be on the lookout for Trek’s new full-length with Oddisee dropping later in 2010.

Download: Trek Life & J.Bizness – Rhymes Within Reason