Thank you, WKYS! I appreciate it. Check the article here, and browse the site out too; they just started going IN on their content. Hopefully, it’ll be a whole new market for them since terrestrial radio is evolving.

Thanks again guys!!!

That’s right! Tomorrow Night at 201 Lounge in NE DC! Music By DJ Spicoli and the Section 8 Band! Happy Hour from 9-11pm! Semi-Formal attire required, like back in the days when people wore 3-piece suits to the club. Click the flyer for tickets.

Chip covers my favorite Bone Thugs song, “Days Of Our Livez”, and sounds just like his Ohio forefathers, almost to a T (Editor’s Note: NO idea what “to a T” means, but felt like I should throw it in here!). This is a smooth way to round out Friday. His harmony game is kinda tight; sounds a lot like CuDi in the beginning of the track.

DOWNLOAD: Chip Tha Ripper – Don’t Come Into My Hood (Bone Thugs Cover)

Welcome to the third edition of Singles Awareness Day. This year’s S.A.D. will be celebrated a couple days early, allowing you to ride into the weekend with 31 songs that say all the things that you’ve been thinking about love, lust, or anything in between. Most of these tracks you’ve never heard, and if you have, you won’t mind, because they just work so well on this compilation. Don’t think this just some sappy ass depressing music, either. Singles Awareness Day isn’t a day of mourning; it’s simply a time where you’re made aware of the single life, whether or not you’re living it. If you’re boo’d up, you can reflect on the lives of your friends who aren’t, or you can wonder what it’d be like if you didn’t have shortypop by your side this V-Day. If you aren’t, then you can play this and reminisce, living vicariously through the music.

If this is your first S.A.D. mix compilation you’re downloading, I should let you know that I do things a little differently: no tracklisting. Just get it, throw it in your iTunes, vehicle, iPod, and jam it. It’ll probably stay in rotation for a long while, so just be prepared to have some new favorite songs. As always, I dedicate this to all the maneaters, heartbreakers, and hopeless romantics out there. Click the artwork or the link below to download.

DOWNLOAD: Singles Awareness Day 3 [S.A.D. #3: The Mix Compilation]

Oh, and if you’re in DC, we’re doing it EXTRA BIG. Rock Creek Social Club has decided to throw a party around the concept, and that’ll be on the 15th. Sure, you may hear some of these tracks, but Jerome and Harry Hotter have their own playlists that’ll make partying on the day after Valentine’s Day super fun.

Thanks for your support. Any feedback, send my way in the comment section. If you’d rather e-mail, hit me: modi[at]DCtoBC.com. Thanks for all the artists who allowed me to throw their music on this. Everybody who submitted music and didn’t make the final mix, I apologize. It was a tough decision, but I think these 31 joints will satisfy everybody. Huge s/o to Odd Future‘s Matt for the album art.

I’m one of the guys on the east coast who stayed up and watched Tyler tweet the countdown until the debut of his new video for his track “Yonkers” dropped.

Odd Future. These guys are like…well, they’re like nothing else, really. My man Thiz wrote about Tyler and his cohorts for Madbury a while back, and the article was being discussed at great length in the cozy dorming quarters of Ope and my man Tobi somewhere on University of Maryland’s College Park campus. No joke, I was there and witnessed it. The power of the internet is undeniable. I say that to say this: these young abrasive Californians have talent mixed with a few other things that make them stand out like a fat guy at an eating disorder clinic. Watch below, and then do some research on Tyler and the rest of the Odd Future family. Their video are especially crazy. Like, crazy. But yeah, watch.

Oh yeah, and don’t think I forgot about their show in DC on Monday. I’ll be there, suckers. Let’s go.

Yep. The sketch of the artwork that will be Singles Awareness Day #3. It drops tomorrow. Final artwork drops soon. You may have seen me drop a color version on Twitter, but there’s a little bit more to come…Oh boy.

#singlesawarenessday. Start that hashtag now.

I had the pleasure of attending SXSW in Austin, TX last year, and one of my favorite bands I caught out there was Boston’s Bad Rabbits. Strangely enough, my man Johnathan from my BC days is good friends with Dua, the band’s singer. I was able to chop it up with him for a couple of minutes after their awesome performance at one of the showcases (they’re way too many brands involved with showcases, and because of that, I can’t seem to remember which ones I went to), and he told me they had some big things coming in the next year.

Looks like they’ve teamed up with Karmaloop for some kind of mutually beneficial situation (management maybe?) and Greg from the KL team tossed me this footage of them jamming out to Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature” their comfy ass studio. Everybody loves this MJ song, right? Right.

Smooth, right? Grab it below. Looks like they’ll be dropping a bunch of covers in the near future, so keep your eyes open for that. This band rocks, especially in live settings. I have one of their mixtapes and it was cool, but their live performance really did it for me.

DOWNLOAD: Bad Rabbits – Human Nature [Cover]

I tweeted the other day that Ab-Soul was my favorite right now of the TDE. He reminds me of an early Eminem; it’s rare that rappers can convey humor in their bars, and Ab does it so easily. He’s super crafty with it!  ScHoolboy Q, Kendrick, and Ab are the guys  guys I jam; Jay Rock I’m not really a fan of…at all…no offense, he just doesn’t have bars like these guys in my opinion. My man Dave just freed this leak from his new tape, Long Term Mentality, which drops soon.

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DOWNLOAD: Ab-Soul – Hell Yeah [feat. ScHoolboy Q]

I gotta throw in another joint he leaked recently.

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BONUS: Ab-Soul – Tits N’ Ass [Cool Like That Flow] [This joint rocks. A lot. Ooh wee.]

If you like Ab, hit the internet and get his old tapes. They both go really hard.

Okay, I’m talking like we’ve had previous surveys; we haven’t. But alas, 2011 is a new year, and I’m trying to go HAM. I’m trying to take the brand to another level, and this 15 minute survey will help with that. I know, I know…you hate surveys. So do I. But Survey Samuel, the lovely gopher you see above, helped me make it, and it’s actually straightforward and pretty fun. You’ll probably enjoy it!

Check it out here, and spread the word to any DC to BC supporters that you know. Much appreciated!

Sorry, but I love it so much. It’s just the perfect re-cap of the event.