“While You Were Sleeping” showcases quality indie and underground Hip-Hop/Rap releases that are regularly overlooked, under promoted or downright ignored by most supposed “Rap” or “Hip-Hop” sites.
This is mostly attributed to a lack of significant marketing and promotions monies at the disposal of these individual artists or their independent labels. I typically pick 10 indie/underground projects from the first half of a month and at the end of the month we post another 10 selections for a total of 20 albums a month. This particular month is an exception to the previous rule due to the fact that an overwhelming amount of quality music dropped this month, thus leading me to showcase 30 albums instead; 15 last week and 15 more this week. For that reason, I unfortunately had to bypass write ups for each due to time constraints but the original format will hopefully return again in November (unless it’s as loaded as October).
In this edition of “While You Were Sleeping”, we feature releases from a pool of diverse artists such as Blu & Nottz, Jean Grae, Yancey Boys, underground veteran Cage, Armand Hammer, Shad, Crown Nation members Quelle Chris and Denmark Vessey, Vinnie Paz, Jonwayne, Rocky Rivera, Lyriciss, Jermiside & Danny Diggs, MC/producer Boonie Mayfield and New Zealand’s own David Dallas. If you missed the previous ten months (including this post) of “While You Were Sleeping” you can just click here and feel free to revisit the previous WYWS installments at your own leisure. Now that we’ve gotten all of that out of the way? Let’s finally get down to business:
Here’s what you all may have missed, while you were sleeping…
Boonie Mayfield presents Solomon Vaughn (Solomon Vaughn/Indiegogo) 10.15.2013
DOWNLOAD LINKS: Indiegogo PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes
Denmark Vessey – Don’t Drink The Kool Aid (Dirty Science) 10.15.2013
DOWNLOAD LINKS: Nah Right STREAMING LINKS: SoundCloud
Shad – Flying Colours (Decon) 10.15.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon & Google Play STREAMING LINKS: DJ Booth
Armand Hammer (Billy Woods x Elucid)- Race Music (Backwoodz Studioz) 10.22.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, UGHH, Sandbox Automatic & Backwoodz Studioz STREAMING LINKS: SoundCloud
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Photo: Mello Music Group
David Dallas – Falling Into Place (Duck Down) 10.22.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon & Google Play STREAMING LINKS: DJ Booth
Jermiside x Danny Diggs – Quiet As Kept (HiPNOTT) 10.22.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, Fat Beats, UGHH, Sandbox Automatic & Google Play STREAMING LINKS: Bandcamp
Blu x Nottz – Gods In The Spirit EP (Coalmine) 10.22.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon & Google Play STREAMING LINKS: DJBooth
Cage- Kill The Architect (Eastern Conference) 10.22.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, Fat Beats, UGHH, Sandbox Automatic & Google Play
Jean Grae – GOTHAM DOWN: cycle II: LEVIATHAN (Bandcamp) 10.26.2013
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Vinnie Paz – Carry On Tradition (Pazmanian Devil/Enemy Soil) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon & UGHH
Rocky Rivera – Gangster Of Love (Beatrock Music) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play & Beatrock Music STREAMING LINKS: Bandcamp
Lyriciss – The Balance (Inner Loop Records) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon & Google Play STREAMING LINKS: Bandcamp
Quelle Chris – Ghost At The Finish Line (Mello Music Group) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, Fat Beats, UGHH & Mello Music Group STREAMING LINKS: Bandcamp
Yancey Boys (Illa J + Frank Nitt) – Sunset Blvd (Delicious Vinyl) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Amazon, Fat Beats, UGHH & Sandbox Automatic
Jonwayne – Rap Album One (Stones Throw) 10.29.2013
PURCHASE LINKS: iTunes, Fat Beats, UGHH & Stones Throw
BONUS PICKS: Live Percenters – The Corners Involved (HipNOTT) 10.1.2013, Grey Sky Appeal (Defcon + Outwrite) x Qwel – Occam’s Razor (UGHH) 10.8.2013), Sicknature –Nature Of The Contaminated (Goon Musick) 10.8.2013, Riff Raff McGriff (Epsilon Project) – It’s Ugly (Bandcamp) 10.8.2013 & Zilla Rocca – Neo Noir (Three Dollar Pistol) 10.29.2013
While You Were Sleeping will return in a couple of weeks to showcase even more of the best underground & independent Hip-Hop releases November has to offer those who aren’t cowards who sell out the very genre they claim to cover and Rap fans with discerning ears and taste that doesn’t suck (B.Dot, I’m talking about you!). Until then, this is Dart Adams saying “Don’t sleep”.
One.
