Say Uncle

Tough to keep up with the quality new hip-hop out there, but Coalmine Records dropped a thoro mixtape for the SXSW music festival in Austin a couple months back with a lineup of new rappers that can spit without using the word swag in every 16. Artists from Torae, Emilio Rojas and our boy Lex One jump on the credits.

Download here , tracklist below.

New video out of the Tres Records camp straight out the record store from New Jack Hustle (Shawn Jackson on the rhymes, Newman of Giant Panda on the boards) ft Ohmegga Watts titled “Lionel”. Some good west coast vibes off their proper SoundCheck LP.

Throwback from 1994, one of the illest footy ads of all time…Brazil need to get back to this sort of form.

Basic Vocab “The Better Way” Sampler

The ambassador of ‘modern funk’ breaks down some of his influences and flying saucers in this month’s XLR8R magazine. Preview some tracks off his upcoming LP, Toeachizown on this mix for BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs’s Experimental show. There’s talk Dam could be touching down in the Miami galaxy this summer.

The homie, super-cook Bullfrog formerly of Bullfrog Eatz, skews up some jumbo shrimp for the mayor, Rick Ross. Check the Bullfrog rockin’ this Wednesday at the Electric Pickle.

Jimmy Buffet’s branded beer has leased the name for Dolphin Stadium thru the year. Presidente or Steel Reserve could have been a better look.

Sources told The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson that the Dolphins received no money in the LandShark naming deal — an unheard of concession for a league where companies will pay $20 million a year to attach their brands to stadiums. Anheuser-Busch produces and sells LandShark under a marketing arrangement with Buffett.

Full story with background on Buffet’s business savvy and bad music career via the Miami Herald

Exile’s new album, Radio, is made up of samples all off the AM/FM dial. Here Ex keeps it fonky and breaks down the methods behind the madness.