It’s Friday, and Big Sean just dropped a pretty trill video last night for his freestyle over Gucci’s “Lemonade”. Nobody has the song up, they just got the YouTube. So I decided to do you guys a favor and get you the mp3 before everybody else. Download at the bottom, but check the video directly below.

This is the kinda song that makes you say, “oh, ok. He’s actually kinda nice.” All punch lines and swag rap, but you know what? I’m all the way with it. Say what you will, but Sean is kinda nice. Some of the lines he says will make you scratch your head thinking about how he even thought about that metaphor. It’s some chill stuff, so don’t expect Wu Tang bars, but don’t think he isn’t rappin’, either.

That’s how I felt after he killed that Chip Tha Ripper joint “Fat Raps” alongside Curren$y. Speaking of Hot $pitta, he did his own version of the same beat. I’ll drop that below. Download both tracks below, and tell me who had the better version.

DOWNLOAD: Big Sean – Supa Dupa Lemonade Freestyle

ALSO: Curren$y – Lemon Kush

An article in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing informed me that the three ATLiens that make up the alternative rap group Supreeme have disbanded and gone their separate ways. These guys were always interesting to me, as they all had completely unique flows but could come together on a track and it worked.

Word on the streets is that Sam (the white dude in the group) is going to cooking school, Negashi (middle with the tank top) moved to Oakland and is coming out with a solo album. Shaka? Well, this interview explains how things went down from his point of view, and it looks like he was all for staying together. Probably one of the saddest music industry things I’ve heard in a while.

With the announcement of the group’s end came their final album, God Bless The Child, which has some cool joints on it. Very dark album though! Just look at that album artwork. My goodness. Jam the sample below (featuring my man Fat Tony), and then download the tape by clicking the link or the artwork. Enjoy.

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DOWNLOAD: Supreeme – God Bless The Child [Album]

Just when you thought the newest soulful white boy on the block couldn’t bring us anymore heat…he does. Actually, to be fair, Mayer Hawthorne probably had nothing to do with this, as it’s a remix by the Los Angeles-based deejaying duo, Classixx. These guys seem to be related to King Midas, because everything they flip turns to gold.

Don’t expect anything too intense, either. This remix is as smooth as your skin was when you were a youngin, before the breakouts and shaving and stuff. Shout out to my godbrother Kareem for putting me on this over the holiday break.

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DOWNLOAD: Mayer Hawthorne – Green-Eyed Love [Classixx Remix]

Oh, and here’s the original for your collection as well. Tell me which one you enjoy more in the comment section.

DOWNLOAD: Mayer Hawthorne – Green-Eyed Love

Sidenote: Did you know that Mayer Hawthorne was originally a DJ, and all this singing stuff was pretty much a joke to him until he realized people liked it?

Sidenote #2: I’m in this airport lounge in London, and I just saw the slickest Asian guy ever. He was only like 15 with a broken arm, but his swag was something out of the Harajuku District in downtown Tokyo. Looks like I just figured out where I’m going for my next international power move.

The blog comment frequenters and obnoxious tweeters of the music world often chastised the DC hip hop pioneer Wale for allowing Gucci La Flare to bless the second verse of his (in my opinion) most radio-friendly hit yet, “Pretty Girls”. That song should do damage around the nation if things go as planned.

I personally loved Gucci’s verse, and adding him included a whole new demographic that Wale probably owuldn’t have reached if Gucci Gucci didn’t bless the track. But that’s besides the point. For those who couldn’t feel that version, DMV crooner Raheem DeVaughn heard your cries for help and has come to the rescue. He and 21-year-old Phil Ade, his solo signee (also from our area. And he’s Nigerian. Let’s go.) to his newly formed imprint, 368 Music Group, decided to put their own spin on the ode to bad ass females. I appreciate both versions, and it’s cool to have an unofficial DMV Remix to the song that goes harder than most joints in the clubs these days. No new verse from Mr. Folarin, but that verse didn’t need to be upgraded.

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DOWNLOAD: Wale – Pretty Girls [368 Remix] [feat. Raheem DeVaughn & Phil Ade]

If you need more Phil Ade in your life, you can grab his critically acclaimed mixtape that I posted here a while back. HERE you go. New mixtape, The Letterman, dropping soon. I was fortunate enough to be in the stu’ with him and various producers and I’m gonna say this now…he’s about to turn a lot of heads. The only reason you probably haven’t heard about him is because he’s too humble to talk a lot of sh!t.

He can perform well, too. Don’t believe me? Check out this footage taken by 1st Impression Studios.

Found some Wi-Fi over in England, and got to download some new music that I missed over the last month. Let’s get it.

So everybody’s been saying Usher can never top Confessions. I won’t count him out, but that was an incredible album. It probably sparked a second baby boom to be all the way real. So far, this new project of his sounds like it’ll be a lot more playful and freaky than any of his past work. I’m sure after that heavily-publicized breakup, he’s very much single and ready to mingle. Whatever. I could care less about that stuff. If the joint rocks, it rocks. Jam it and be the judge.

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DOWNLOAD: Usher – Lil Freak [feat. Nicki Minaj]

This track is pretty smooth, and Nicki crushes her verse, but the real reason it stands out to me is because of Polow Da Don’s production work.

I’m almost certain nobody else caught this clever flip of a sample. The self-proclaimed “King of the White Girls” took a classic cut from Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions (1973. A certified classic album in my book. I used to run around my house blasting this so loud in the living room that one time, a glass broke. I put that on everything.) and flipped it. If you go to 1:11 in the song, you’ll hear the same melody they use in the chorus, except chopped up a little bit. It repeats and repeats throughout the song during the bridge/hook. It’s incredible, and I’m surprised I even caught the sample use.

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DOWNLOAD: Stevie Wonder – Living For The City

If this man isn’t grinding, then I don’t know what is.

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DOWNLOAD: Wiz Khalifa – Studio Lovin’

I’m posting this and only this from the album. Nothing else. Wiz Khalifa’s debut album, Deal Or No Deal, drops today. I’m buying my hard copy in the AM and then heading up to the Big Apple with my squad to post up until his concert at Highline Ballroom. Doors open at 8, concert starts at 9. I’m rolling 20 deep, no joke. 20 of me and my people will be at the concert. Tickets selling quickly, grab yours HERE. Let’s get it. Proud to see the man make the moves he’s made.

Good gracious. Lupe is back. This is like his “I just feel like getting in the studio and flowing” stuff right here, and it’s better than everybody else’s music. That’s precisely why he’s one of the best rappers alive. Easy.

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DOWNLOAD: Lupe Fiasco – Say Something

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DOWNLOAD: Lupe Fiasco – All The Way Turnt Up

I’m over at my man Aris‘ crib, and he puts me onto the newest artist he’s working with, Desert Storm Ent’s Young Dose. I guess this joint came out a little while ago, but it goes pretty hard. Doesn’t hurt that Fab and Ricky Ross lend verses to the joint, either. I can see this joint being a trunk rattling anthem in muscle cars and Range Rovers in states below the Mason Dixon line. Oh, and can we bring Fab’s intro line back real quick? “I get that Rihanna money / f**k it up like Chris Brown / No Disrespect to RiRi / Not putting Chris down…”

Lord. @BoutDatMoney thinks he looks like a light-skinned version of Chamillionaire. LOL. Enjoy.

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DOWNLOAD: Dose – Where They Do That At [Remix] [feat. Rick Ross & Fabolous]

You know I’m an N*E*R*D fanatic, so you know I’d have this new joint that they performed this summer with Santigold at MTV’s Spring Break. Off their new album,  I like both versions, so in addition to the CD quality version, I’ve got the live joint they did this spring. Interested in which one you dig more, so feel free to throw your opinion in the comments section. Enjoy.

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DOWNLOAD: N*E*R*D – Soldier [feat. Santigold] | Live @ Spring Break [from 3.09]

Oh my word. No words, except put this on any “Night Time Maneuvers” mix you have. So different than the Robin Thicke that came out back in the day. With the long hippy hair and the bicycle with the basket in the front.

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DOWNLOAD: Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy