Sugar Tongue Slim is going to do big things in the rap game. His flow navigates around the drums as a mouse does in a maze searching for cheese. Sporadically, yet confined; focused, yet adventitious. His high toned vocal inflection is unique enough to separate himself from the pack, but conventional enough to draw interest from a wide audience. The kid from the A has a bright future ahead of him, and judging by the pioneer KRS-One’s reaction in the video below, he won’t be regionally bound. Read the rest of this entry »

Splash got a hold on a batch of tracks which will be making appearances on a few upcoming Tapemasters Inc. mixtapes.  So consider this your inside track on these, so by the time the full/tagless versions surface you’ll have the leg up on what to grab & what to pass on. Read the rest of this entry »

Coming off the new Tapemasters Inc. mixtape, Rakim & Jada team up for “Euphoria.” Even though it’s tagged up, it’s still good to hear even a audio glimpse of the God MC while the wait for Seventh Seal gets closer to its release date. Read the rest of this entry »

I didn’t even take the time to clean this tracklisting up so…yeah. I’ll hide it & the link after the break. But after being out all day long barbecuing, amidst all the same bullshit videos everywhere, I like the cover & knowing that Tapemasters Inc. still does mixtapes better than most. Read the rest of this entry »

For the past two days, this is pretty much what we’ve all been waiting for – Seeing how AC was going to create 20 individual freestyles for each blog. Or some of you have been waiting on the chance to compete for the prizing. Read the rest of this entry »

“Fight and you’ll never survive/Run and you’ll never escape/So just fall from grace…”

NY producer Hasan Insane is well known for his remixes. This time, he’s back alongside with TapeMaster Inc. releasing his version of American Gangster titled Black Ceasar. Hasan has had quite the buzz over the net after the release of his first two mixtapes – Perfect Strangers and The Pink Album. Around Janurary, he became hesitant to release his after hearing all the AG remixes but was 70% finished and proceeded to say “good music is never time sensitive” so he decided to finish the tape. I have come to love the last track “Fallen” and asked Hasan to break the production down for me.

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“Fallen” was one of the more difficult tracks to remix because Bilal’s vocals fit the original to a tee, so for starters I knew I had to create a new hook that didn’t take away from the original vibe of the song. After days of sample searching, I came across this one artist I’ve never heard before and as soon as the needle hit the record all I heard to myself was ‘Said that I would stop, before I even started, when I get to one brick then the game I would depart with…’ I chopped the sample up and the drums came to me just as quick. They were Rza-inspired if you couldnt tell already (Laughs). I started to fool around with cutting a few Jay lines up for the hook but felt it needed more than that. Ten minutes later, it was in Jesse Boykins inbox. He’s sick with the pen and I knew he would add that final touch that made the song complete. I usually add intros and outros after I’m done. I was watching “Carlito’s Way” on HBO two nights before I started the song and heard that line and it fell into place immediately.

Originally, I had a different Biggie quote from that interview Read the rest of this entry »