You Need This: Money Making Jam Boys

   Money Making Jam Boys - The Prestige: Jam Boy Magic by FauxFur&SoccerShirts
This mixtape is ridiculous and isn't getting the attention it deserves.
I know alot of you are just as lazy as I am and don't want to download shit unless you know it's dope, so screw it, I uploaded it for you to hear.  You know me...I don't extra work for anything, so you know this is dope.  A thousand albums will drop in 2011 that can't touch this mixtape.

So jam it some right here...then go over to 10 Deep to download it.

Money Making Jam Boys - The Prestige: Jam Boy Magic

 

After a long, long, long, wait...here it is.
Black Thought.  STS.  Dice Raw.  Truck North.  P.O.R.N.
This isn't even an album, but it's damn sure on my Most Anticipated list for 2011.
I don't think I can over-state how high my expectations are for this.

DOWNLOAD IT!!!!

Money Making Jam Boys - We Ain't Playing

 

   MMJB - We Ain't Playing by cashandcaviar

Dope.  Minus the hook, it sounds like one of those old freestyle sessions back when NY still had Hip-Hop radio...ahem.

Can't friggin' wait for this to drop.

Money Making Jam Boys - Tear It Down

And here it is, the first "single" from the upcoming MMJB mixtape.
Zero disappointments!  On this one, we get STS, Truck North, P.O.R.N. and Black Thought (everyone but Dice Raw)

Ghostface Killah 2-for-1 Sale

Item 1: "Troublemakers" ft. Raekwon, Redman & Method Man
   Ghostface Killah ft Raekwon, Method Man, Redman - Troublemakers-hiphoplife.nl by MrJDK

Item 2: "In Tha Park" ft. Black Thought
   in tha park feat black thought by user8074475

Apollo Kids, December 21.
I know I say this on damn near every Ghost post (haha..."Ghost post"), but y'all slept on Ghostdini.  Go get that too.

Money Making Jam Boys (Black Thought, Truck North & Dice Raw) - Judgement Day

"Judgment Day" Money Making Jam Boys Music Video from Visually Inklined on Vimeo.

Impatiently waiting for this mixtape to drop.  I want 40 tracks. 
Feels like years since the idea of these dudes dropping something together first came up.

J. Period x Black Thought: Live Mixtape (Illadelph Edition)

J Period & Black Thought Present "The Live Mixtape" illadelph edition @ the 2010 MANIFESTO Festival (OFFICIAL) from themanifesto.ca on Vimeo.

Evidence of 2 things:
1.  Black Thought just might be the GOAT
2.  Philadelphia is only 99% useless

What we have here is a mixtape that, as its name suggests, was recorded live during the performance you see above.  Really simple, yet incredibly dope:  J.Period plays a random beat . . .Black Thought goes off.  Have some.

Money Making Jam Boys (STS ft. Truck North, Black Thought & Dice Raw) - Ill Street Blues

Take notice to how much better Truck North is when Black Thought is hanging around.
He's at a completely different level than when he's alone.  Very interesting.
This appears on STS' new mixtape, Demand More 2.  Out tomorrow.
Have some.

HUGE Surprise News From Black Thought

Black Thought from Strictly Fitteds on Vimeo.

To clarify:  This is a promo for some hat or something Black Thought is doing with somebody...I don't care about that part, I've owned maybe 4 hats in my entire 27 years, and haven't worn a single "baseball cap" or "fitted" post-Fobolous after the they became ridiculous looking with the big, flat brims.  Sorry.

ANYWAY . . .the reason for me posting this is the run down Black Thought gives on upcoming projects.  I knew about all of them, except one really big, earth-shatteringly monumental one.  Pay very close attention at the 35sec mark.

Black Thought - Respond/React (Live)

2 things that don't happen often:
 - A Rootless Black Thought
 - Live video with post-worthy quality

More than any other rapper, I get the feeling that Black Thought really does black out when he rhymes.  It's like he goes on auto-pilot after 32 bars, and consciously has no clue that he's even still going.  Like he's allergic to hooks...or breathing.

Money Making Jam Boys - Contract on the World

That's REALLY funny.  About an hour ago I was wondering outloud what the deal was with MMJB, then on my usually scheduled trip to Okayplayer, I see this:

Philly's own Money Making Jam Boys (Black Thought, Dice Raw,  Truck North, & P.O.R.N.) have been getting busy in the studio making fresh cuts on the regular.  Stock piling them, so we hear.  Word is we will be leaking new joints every week or so, right here on OKP.

 What are the odds??  They're in my favor, at least.

Black Thought - Mona Lisa

OK...whoever is sitting on all these unreleased Black Thought jams need to stop playin' and just let them shits go.  Why delay?  Have some.

Black Thought - The Professional

Please adjust your Greatest Of All Time lists accordingly.

According to Okayplayer (and if they don't know, who would?), this was recorded for a mixtape in '04 that never really got around.

Mos Def Knows His Jams

I love to see when rappers can put the bravado aside for a minute and recognize that they are true fans of artists besides themselves.  In this clip (behind the scenes at the BET Hip-Hop Awards), Mos shows his appreciation for the way Black Thought absolutely DEMOLISHED ?uesto's drum track on "75 Bars".

Peep the origi after the jump...

Mos Def x Black Thought x Eminem: 2009 BET "Hip-Hop" Awards Cipher

Do I even need to say anything??

Semi-FLASHBACK: Big Pun ft. Black Thought - Super Lyrical

Big Pun - Super Lyrical f. Black Thought (Official) from 2dopeboyz.com on Vimeo.

If you don't know this song very well...then I don't think we can be friends any more.
Seriously.

You may have heard about the Pun documentary coming out. In conjunction with that, "Super Lyrical" is being re-released as a single. This has always been a special song for me. Its not too often that 2 of my Top 10 get together on a song. Black Thought doesn't exactly work with alot of folks.

New Wale

2 new jams from the (still) upcoming Wale x 9th Wonder mixtape, Back To The Feature

"Gotta Be Magic"


I KNOW I'm not the only one that's been dying to hear Wale back on a Best Kept Secret Beat again. These two need to stop the nonsense, do the Gang Starr thing, make it an official group and give us a decade of classics. They're so much better together than apart. And NahRight says the song isn't finished...but there you go.



"Hot Shyt" ft. Peedi Crakk, Black Thought, 2Face & Young Chris


No lie, the beat/hook are kind of annoying, but the verses are cool.
Have some.

Cradle Orchestra ft. Black Thought - Live Forever

Okayplayer with the goods.

I'm really feelin' this . . .

"CRADLE is a groundbreaking Japanese unit specializing and leading a beautiful revolution in mellow and jazzy Hip Hop track making."

Super thumbs up for their sound. Their latest album, Velvet Ballads, also features Talib Kweli, CL Smooth and some other fine folk.

Black Thought on Rap City