Your Weekly Grind Time Update

Starting things off, we check in on Killer who checks in with MTV’s Mixtape Daily, telling them why hardcore rap is still alive.

50 Cent says he wants to bring hardcore rap back to the forefront, and we know the sentiments Jay-Z expressed in “D.O.A.” Killer Mike says he’s not impressed. He’s been keeping it street.

“I don’t wanna hear none of that bullshit from none of the niggas,” Mike said. “I dropped I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II last year. If you wanna hear hardcore hip-hop, go to the store, go get I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II. You can listen from the first Biggie sample to the last song on the album, ‘Good-Bye,’ it’s hardcore hip-hop. I don’t wanna hear that bullshit, these niggas who got millions of dollars talking about bringing shit back. They ain’t bringing shit back. It’s here — you looking at it.

“Buy me,” he continued. “When that Killer Mike drops, hardcore hip-hop will be back for the second, third time. You know, the same guy that said ‘rap is dead’ three years before Nas said it. I’m here. Fuck with me. Jay dropped ‘D.O.A.’ and everybody went crazy. And I love Jay. A week before that, I dropped ‘Man Up.’ Go listen to that song and go listen to ‘D.O.A.’ “

But we already knew all of that around these parts. It’s still good to see the gospel being spread to a wider audience.

Then we come to the S.L. Jones & Pill section of the show with a “featuring Pill” selection and a biographical joint from S.L., featuring his slick-tongued wordplay.

Download — KD Feat. Pill – “Back On Me”

Download — S.L. Jones - “I Wonder”