Buff1 (Feat. Black Milk) “Never Fall”
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off Buff1’s “There’s Only One,” which is set to drop this August 12, 2008

Buff1 “Classic Rap”
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off Buff1’s “There’s Only One,” which is set to drop this August 12, 2008

Royce Da 5’9″ “I’m Me” (off “The Bar Exam Vol. 2”)
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Last week, Michigan Hip Hop staple (and performer at our launch party/fundraiser Saturday) Tasherre D’Enajetic started the writing process for “Project 52: D’Enajetic Challenge.” The venture will see him release a 52 new songs—one per week—through through his web site, http://tasherredenajetic.com. Monday, he released the first song: “Failure,” produced by Michigan heavyweight Mr. Porter. Follow the jump for the audio, and to see Tasherre justify his madness. Continue reading →

Invincible “Sledgehammer!”
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Invincible “ShapeShifters”
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Invincible “In The Mourning”
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Invincible’s album “Shape Shifters” is in stores now and available for purchase online at www.EMERGENCEmusic.net

Young RJ & Rapper Big Pooh “Smile”
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Young RJ & Rapper Big Pooh “Money”
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Fat Ray & Black Milk “Flawless”
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Fat Ray & Black Milk “Take Control (Feat. AB)”
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Fat Ray & Black Milk “Bad Man (Feat. Guilty Simpson & Scorpian)”
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MichiganHipHop.com is proud to present the world premiere of Buff1’s “Beat The Speakers Up,” the first single for his sophomore album “There’s Only One,” which is set to drop on August 5, 2008. You’ll find the music video and a stream for the song below, or you can download the track by clicking here.

For more Buff1, checkout his MySpace www.myspace.com/buff1der

Frank Nitty on “Automatic,” the first single from “The Concert Hall EP,” a project with Young RJ and Craig Lane:
I just felt it was a strong record. I ain’t necessarily looking for “singles;” if it’s got a good hook, it’s a single. I’m looking for strong music that’s well put together … and this record felt friendly enough, and still musical enough at the same time.

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Recently, I’ve seen you have a lot of really random cameos—the joint with the Heliocentrics, joint with D3Concept, joint with 88-Keys. Do you make it a point to do cameos that throw people for a curve, or is that just how those songs turned out?

I don’t have a preconceived type of bill that I go through and feel like I’ve got to do anything extra. The beat is my friend, so the main thing want to do is compliment the track and play my part. When I do these features, my aim isn’t to outshine. I listen to the music, and let the music take me where it needs to be, because I feel like I’m the last instrument on an instrumental. Even though the vocals make it not an instrumental, I want to be a part of the music. I know some people want to be like, “I’m going to kill this beat!” Nah, that’s not me. I want to compliment the beat, the beat is my friend.

With the Heliocentrics, I give them props on “Before I Die,” because of its more of a concept. People are used to hearing me open mic style, so to actually see me big with a concept or certain type of subject matter to a song shows more well-roundedness in me. The Detroit Concept dudes, I met them in Paris. The beat (to that song) is crazy, it reminded me of “Game Over,” with Phat Kat and J Dilla on the Dabrye album. So I just did my thing on that, and you can even hear on the last line, “Peace to Phat Kat and Dilla, game over.” With 88-Keys’ “Like A Man,” I give him credit because he had the concept and everything formatted already. Death of Adam, the album he’s coming out with, people know I’m pretty good at rapping about relationships and stuff like that. The beat and everything catered to where I was mentally anyway, so that made it real easy to do that feature. Peace to him too, 88-Keys got that heat.

Guilty Simpson “Man’s World” (Prod. J Dilla)
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Guilty Simpson “ChiefPatPockets” (Prod. DJ Haircut)
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Phat Kat Feat. Guilty Simpson “Nightmare” (Prod. Nick Speed)
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