Today we’re celebrating the birthday of the Notorious B.I.G, and the other Big. The Boss Don Biggaveli also known as Max B, even though he’s incarcerated he’s still working and spittin’ it through the wire somehow. Mishka presents “Toothy Wavy” a joint collaboration between Max.B and the Tuscon, AZ native Isaiah Toothtaker with production by the Hood Internet. This mixtape is a great blend of two different styles, Toothtakers alternative raps flows with Max.B’s soulful melodies bring out the best of worlds. If you wanna discover who Max B is or get a taste Toothtaker, click the Doze Green designed cover to download “Toothy Wavy” below.

Dj SoSuperSam took sometime during her nation wide tour with Childish Gambino and Danny Brown to drop a mixtape for our listening pleasure. Earlier this afternoon Sam posted her new work, We Found Ourselves Lost, on her twitter account. Many may know SoSuperSam for her dance tracks and upbeat vibe from the previous mixtape titled This Way Up but she heads in a different direction on her newest effort. Even Sam admits on her twitter account “WARNING: it’s emo.” Despite its supposed emo qualities this tape is definitely wavy and anyone with a pulse will be able to vibe with it. So pour a cup of tea and put on We Found Ourselves Lost, you won’t regret it. Oh, and she even blesses us with her voice on this one.

Words by Brian

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I’ve had my eye on the Queens emcee Meyhem Lauren for quite sometime, first seen him rockin’ out with the original Lo Life crew on G4 TV, there’s always one that sticks out from the bunch. Meyhem Lauren is a true lyricist and wordplay is his specialty, if slang was something you could study in school he’d most likely be the one teaching it.

Meyhem is good pals with Action Bronson, the two share a lot in common when it comes to style and rapping. Action ranted on twitter a month back about recording Meyhem Lauren’s mixtape in a hotel room in Texas during SXSW with producers, Harry Fraud and Tommy Mas. While everyone was out partying after their shows these guys were working, the crazy story unfolds below.

San Fransisco’s Jealous Guy’s recently dropped a new video for the song “Love and Other Drugs” featured below. The video portrays a gorgeous women losing focus and feeling the effects of drug abuse while also showing some pretty cool etch and sketch visuals in the background. This song is definitely a different approach for the Bay Area duo whose previous tracks such as “Bus Stop Jazz” and “The Ballad“  sound much more like east coast hip-hop in the early 90′s. It’s hard to ignore “Love and Other Drugs” striking resemblance to the A$AP MOB sound. However we do have love for Jealous Guys and are excited for the album no matter which direction they go in.

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After several mixtape’s this year Presice presents his debut album “Sound Therapy”, for him it’s all been “hard grind/no co-sign” as he would say. He’s reached out and worked with many people on here like Wordspit, Telli of Ninja Sonik, David E. Beats, Belize Da Hype, and more. You get every. Side of him on here, songs for the ladies, for the fellas, party music, it’s all here, this is his finest catalog. Stream and download below.

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I knew this track was hiding somewhere, I just had a strong feeling that Kayne and Stack Bundles did a track together. Only a few people know that Stack Bundles lived in Chicago for sometime and he was signed to Lupe Fiasco’s “1st and 15th” label. He spoke about meeting  Kanye on his latest album and also spoke about almost signing with him in this song, there’s also a song Kanye produced for him and Joe Budden that made me think that there has to be more Stack and Ye’ material out there.

Stack’s skills we’re undeniable, Lupe and Kanye knew that. At one point everyone wanted to sign Stack, he had to get in where he fitted in and that was with Jim Jones’ label Byrd Gang. God rest his soul Rayquon Elliot AKA Stack Bundles. This song will be popping up on another Stack mixtape full of unreleased and classic material called “Rap & Retrospect” hosted by FarRockStar.

Stack Bundles – “Did It My Way” ft. Kanye West (unreleased)

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Young producer/emcee Khris P has just released his first full length project with him rapping, the mixtape is called “YES”, and yes every song on there is produced by himself. The tape takes you on a a ride through nostalgic samples, trap beats, spacey sounds and Khris’ life experiences. Featured on here are artists that are on the same imprint as him , Sandlots Dugout, they all have their own unique sound that is a very new age form of hip hop. Khris displays much raw talent on here that shows his rapping can match up to his great production, stream and download “YES” below.

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Recently we were invited to a private studio session in Midtown, Manhattan by our newest feature Perrion. We were on a mission to take some flicks of him but then we decided to stay when we realized what was going on. Perry was recording a song with the 19 year old emcee Bryant Dope from Queens, he then told us that 17 year old Joey Bada$$ was on his way through from Brooklyn. All three of these young emcee’s from NYC together to collab on one track for the first time. These dudes are so young but they have the skills of rappers who’s been in the game for 10 years+.

With all the new kids hopping on the trill wave, these 3 here stuck to their roots and kept it raw on the mic. The video below shows them working and vibing together, gettin’ straight to the music. The song is untitled and will be premiering next week from Bryant Dope, stay tuned, enjoy.

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We have already told you that 21 year-old Perrion is one of the dopest emcees coming out of the city right now. With his smooth flow and his authentic Harlem bravado there is no doubt this cat will be all over the place in a year or so. I was able to kick it with him and his manager Andrew “Roo” Rivera to speak about the past, present, and future for the up and coming rapper.

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JGM: Tell me a little bit about your upbringing?

P: I was born in Washington Heights Presbyterian Hospital and I was raised in Harlem.

Roo: Rest in peace Malcolm X.

P: Yeah that’s where Malcolm X died, right across the street.

JGM: Where in Harlem did you stay at?

P: West side 151st street. It’s kinda up the block from Rucker Park. Right where they shot the “Bout It Bout It Pt.3’” video.

JGM: Shit felt like forever ago. I know your brother Preview kind of got you into hip-hop. Did he just push Ready to Die and the Wu on you? How did your love for music come about?

 P: Actually it was my uncle. My uncle lived with us when we we were in jersey for a little bit. We slept in the same room and he would always play mad Wu-Tang, Redman, Jay-Z, all the classic 90′s shit. He used to rap too. He did a show at his high school back in the day. It was pretty cool – he had box braids and shit. So my brother started rapping and I would beatbox. Eventually I started writing. I was like 8.

JGM: Damn that’s pretty early to start writing. I know you got signed to Universal…

P: Haha,  I got signed to Universal at like 13 or 14.

JGM: How did that happen?

P: Well it actually happened because my brother had a name for battling people around Harlem.

Roo: Tell him the Cory Gunz story.

P: Oh shit yeah. My brother battled Cory Gunz once.

Roo: His line was “if I see your grandma I’ma punch the ol’ bitch in the face” or something like that.

JGM: That’s crazy. So Universal what’s going on?

P: My brother made a name for himself battling and shit and our barber had a couple of connects because he cut hair for Diddy, Noreaga, and mad other people in the music industry. He put us on with this dude named Ron Migichin who actually passed away God bless his soul. He took us to the Universal office and we made a little demo tape. They heard it and they fucked with it.

JGM: It was just that simple? Kind of seems fast.

P: It was overwhelming for me at a young age. We went on tour. We went to L.A to do an O’ryan video shoot. We we’re in his first video “Take it Slow.” Remember that dude?

JGM: Yeah of course Omarion’s little brother. Did you like fucking with Universal or are you happy that didn’t pan out?

P: I mean I’m glad it didn’t stick. I would have grown up to be a little shithead.

JGM: What do you mean?

P: I probably just would been mad cocky. I wouldn’t have finished school. I probably would have ended up like Bow Wow – washed up.

JGM:  How did you start writing though?

P: The first time I started writing again I couldn’t sleep and I was just like I’m gonna write a verse. It came out tight and I was like I gotta start writing again. I worked at this little chicken spot, saved up mad bread, and just built a studio in my room.

JGM: What’s going on with school and your parents through all of this?

P:  Haha I was fucking up. I was smoking mad weed just not giving a fuck. I would skate with my homies all day come home and just blast music real loud in my room. Wake up in the morning do it again. When I graduated High School I didn’t have a job so I was just making mad beats. Then I started working at the chicken spot and got some cash.

My mom always knew I wanted to do music and shit so she supported it. Whether its rapping or playing drums I’ve always been into music its my thing ya’know. She had that feeling that it was gonna work out so she didn’t really trip that much. My pops used to shit on me sometimes. He would tell me straight up you need to find a back-up plan.

JGM: I know Roo got you back up to NYC to start working. How did y’all get to working together?

P: Well I wanted to come back. I’m the one who asked him to be my manager. Me and Roo didn’t like each other before. We were youngns’. It was like sophomore year in high school and we dated the same girl. It was stupid.

Roo: It’s not like it gets us tight. It’s just when you think about it in the grand scheme of things we could have just both did what we had to do and been out. I ended up dating the bitch for two and half years and it ended terribly. I could have been Perry’s friend and I would have been Tyler, the Creator by now. We could have been making moves much sooner.

JGM: Tell me a little bit about your next bum CIRCUIT BREAKER. That’s when you started adding electro to your music.

P: My boy Dookie put me on to chill wave. We’d go skate, smoke buds, and just chill blasting it in the car. I was like what the fuck is this shit it’s tight as fuck. I told him I was like yo I’m gonna make a mixtape to this. When I came out to NYC he hit me up on Facebook and it sparked in me right there. I knew I had to do this mixtape. I was already up on a couple of the artist like Bibio and Neon Indian so I was like I’m gonna rap to all the shit that I’m listening to.

JGM:  So then you do your most recent album “FROM PARIS WITH LOVE” with Myth Syzer.

P: Yeah the first track he sent me was “Gettin It.” I recorded it and sent it back in the same day. After that he was like I love this shit and sent me 30 beats. I was up until 4 A.M. writing that night.

JGM: You got BLACK DAVE  on there too. That’s one of my favorites.

P: That’s the fucking homie.

Roo: He’s like the east coast Based God. Black Dave’s the biggest personality. You can’t take him too seriously he just raps because he likes it. He’ll be skating first, but he just raps because it’s funny to him.

JGM: He really is the east coast Based God – very interesting character. Now that you’re getting more attention as far as blogs, videos, shows, all that type of shit how are you handling thirsty niggas?

P: I don’t. I just chill. I just smoke, skate, and really try not to pay any mind to it. Haters on twitter though.

JGM: People are coming at you on twitter?

P: Yes! All the fucking time yo.

Roo: Na its one kid. I’m not going to say his name because I don’t want to give him attention. Now his man started to do it because I think they realized that Perry is getting attention so they think that if they fuck with him get retweeted or whatever they’re gonna get more followers. I’m like yo my nigga you a bird.

P: It’s crazy though people that we used to chill with six months ago who stopped hitting us up are coming out now. Now you wanna hit me up cus’ we’re chilllin with A$AP Rocky – then you wanna hit a nigga up.

Roo: It’s dudes too. Niggas are worse than bitches. “Oh can i get a song with Perrion?” “Yo can you send this shit to Perry?”

JGM: So you just gotta brush dudes off basically. I assume you’re not working with anyone right now then.

P: I did a track with Bryant Dope. We’re about to do some more shit in the future cus’ he’s the homie – cool as fuck. About to do a track with Joey Bada$$ too. Probably gonna fuck with Wiki. Actually Wiki’s producer is the reason I have everything. He hooked me up with Professor Logic who did all the beats.

Roo: So shout out to Rat King for hooking it up!

 P: He was sort of like a mentor as far as setting everything up. Told me what to get for a studio and what not. He’s cool as fuck.

JGM: So you’re making beats for rocky?

P: Yeah. Hopefully I’ll get on his next album LongLiveA$ap.

JGM: I hope you do too man that would be tight. What’s it been like since the SPIN top 5 Best Artist back in February?

P: That was nuts. I was so hyped when that happened. My twitter followers shot up a shit load after that. I actually have a really really really dope interview coming up. It’s a surprise.

JGM: Haha okay I will be sure to keep an eye out for that. Where are you at a year from now?

P: A year from now? I want to have enough money to live in my own place, a nice little hooptie ride, be in Cali maybe.

Roo: Fuck that I’m trying to have a hooptie for my cousin.

P: Haha. I’ll be straight with that.

Roo: I mean a year ago we made a plan and we surpassed it so a year from now I want to be making bread. We want to be at the point that any artist wants to be. It’s not going to be a Jay-Z or Kanye level but I want it to be big for Perry. He deserves it. He’s nicer then a lot of these niggas. That’s not a diss- they just rap for different people.

JGM: Y’all are going to make it soon and I’m real excited.

Roo: A year from now we can do the follow up interview in Vegas.

JGM: I’m in.

The Lumberjack connoisseur, hailing from Connecticut is the young rhymeslinger known as “Jitta On The Track“. With a name like that you’d think he was a producer, no sir. This kid lays down the track with ease, an acoustic guitar sample mixed with an actual B.I.G “Lumberjack” sample, mixed with some nice drums makes this song the best of both worlds. Too catchy not to go on with your day singing it.