Hot Out the Oven: Maino

Download: Survival Of The Fittest 

 

Boi-1da is doing it right now...Drake, Em, and working with The Jonas Brothers. He does a lot of work with Drake (Ransom, Forever) and produced this track (same beat as Eminem's latest track) and to be honest this is a tough call between Em and Maino. I'm not sure who had the beat first, both tracks are album intended and more distinctly both tracks are pretty different so I'm sure both artists worked completely unaware the beat wasn't exclusive. Its likely there will be a lil drama with this...Boi-1da's manager sent some beats to Em a couple weeks ago that included this track and Em picked 2-3 for his upcoming album Recovery. Conversely, there was no direct collaboration between Em and Boi-1da so it's possible Maino was in the same situation because he is working on his sophomore album The Day After Tomorrow. Both tracks are hot so... Spin the track!!

Hot Out the Oven: Eminem

Download: Eminem-Not Afraid 

 

Off the new album and I'm relatively speechless. For the record-Eminem is top 10 of all time. Spin the track.

Hot Out the Oven: Slim Shady

"Despicable (Freestyle)"

 

Eminem is set to drop a single off of his upcoming album sometime this week (Friday). This is a freestyle over Drake's "Over" which transitions to "Beemer, Benz, or Bentley." As usual, Marshal Mathers goes in and I'm sure this is a preview of whats to come. Spin the track.

Hot Out the Oven: Charles Hamilton

Download: Charles Hamilton-Tax Evasion 

Some of Charles Hamilton's beats are too electronically driven which tends to divert attention from his flow. Despite that, I see his swag. Spin the track.

The Lytics-Checkin' On My Pumas

Download: The Lytics-Checkin' On My Pumas 

The Lytics are a 5 man crew outta Canada who are steadily creeping up in the music scene. The earlier post "Last Bit (Lovely Words)" is an awesome song well worth the download. This song has a quick and funky rhythm thats been rattling in my head for the past couple weeks. I'm all about the "Swoosh Life", but the song bumps and will hopefully make up for The Game mixtape if you are disappointed. Shout out to Caroline G-J for having a dope library which I murder on Mojo. Spin the track.

Hot Out the Oven: The Game-The R.E.D. Room Mixtape

Download: The Game-The R.E.D. Room (mixtape) 

Tracks:

I've heard some great songs off this mixtape so I was expecting some heat. There are a couple dope tracks but collectively, I was expecting a lot more. It's got the composition of a studio album and had the hype of an album but....its a typical mixtape folks. Spin the track.

P.S. The download takes a little while, I'm guessing because so many people are trying to cop it and XXLmag is the only resource as of now.

Hot Out the Oven: Los-Zero Gravity

 Download: Los-Zero Gravity Mixtape

 Tracklisting:

Most of you probably have no idea who this guy is but he is a mixtape mastermind. Los has been around for quite a bit and is known for his ability to kill it on every track he is on with ridiculous freestyles and intricate versus. Just about all the songs on this mixtape are just as good if not better than the originals. If you wanna hear some serious flow over recent hits-Los is your dude. Spin the track.

Throwback Track: 50 Cent

 Download: G-Unit-We Gonna Hit Yo Ass Up ft. DJ Whoo Kid

The Kanye post brought me back to the lil face-off Kanye and 50 Cent had about who would sell more records (808s vs CURTIS) and although Kanye won many might say 50 had a better album despite both their records being the worst of all their albums. This is a throwback G-Unit track that has a dope beat and being from NY...50 is my dude. Spin the track.

Hot Out the Oven: The Game

 Download: The Game-Slangin Game

The Game has been droppin' tracks for the past couple weeks that are rumored to be off an album titled "The R.E.D. album" but since he proclaimed retirement after L.A.X. I'm not sure if there will be another studio album from The Game any time soon. He has confirmed a mixtape release for this monday for the R.E.D. room mixtape which I'm pretty hyped for. This beat is hot and the song is my jam right now. Spin the track.

Throwback Track: Kanye West

 Download: Living a Movie

I know a lot of people didn't spin 808's and Heartbreaks but to be honest with you the album was pretty good. It wasn't the Kanye people were used to so its understandable why it got a lot of flack but for the genre of music, Kanye killed it and showed his versatility as a musician. I'm a big fan of Kanye-his music and his swag alike. Fortunately he is back on his grind to "old" Kanye and should be dropping an album in the very near future. Based on the people who have produced on this album and some of the rumored collaborations...I'm calling it now; he's back. This is a classic Kanye song that wasn't on any albums but is hot. Spin the track.