From 12/7/2025


What up hip hop,
Peace to you and your loved ones. Been feeling grateful lately, as the season calls for. Had a great thanksgiving (US) with family. We don’t celebrate the genocidal aspect of the occasion, it’s more of a family event with plenty of food, drink, games and music. 

Speaking of family and food, this is the time of year when many are struggling and it’s worse this year due to… all the shit. People in every community in the US are going without enough food (in the “richest country in the world”). If you have the resources any donation, no matter how small, goes a long way. Below is a link to Feeding America, where you can find info on your local food banks and how to donate your time and/or money to help them help those in need.
https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america

Also want to be sure to mention how thankful I am to be able to put out music and have it recognized, listened to and shared. Was helping Al-J move apartments last Sunday and we talked about how incredible it is to have people around the world checking for our stuff. 
Blak Madeen dropped Medina to Beantown feat. J-Live and cheese a little less than a month ago and the response has been crazy. Thanks go out to everyone that ran it up.

We hit the studio Weds nite and did some file organizing and preliminary mixing of a few tracks and we laid the foundation for the next bunch of joints to be released. I've done a few beats for Madeen and I’ll have to coordinate between them on release dates but hopefully we’ll have more to say on that in a few weeks.
Wish I could be more prolific with the tracks, but i’ve never been the type to have hundreds of beats just sitting around. My goal is to be one of those dudes you can trust to drop some dope shit even though you may have to wait a little longer than you’d like. I promise we’ll never put out any half-assed shit and we're always working.

Lotta incredible new music dropped recently- how about that new De La joint?!
As a fan since ’89 it makes me incredibly proud to see them still making dope art and still kicking ass in ’25. They really did Dave right with this too. I’ve been sitting with it since release and I really feel like it’s one of their best, I absolutely love it. Joint with Nas is incredible, joint with Black Thought is DOPE, but my absolute favorite so far is the one with Slick Rick and Common beat is crazy. Mass Appeal been killing it and I really can’t wait for this Nas and Preem joint.

Oh yeah - its Bandcamp Friday. go find some dope hip hop to support. 
Here is a great start: 
https://spitslam.bandcamp.com/
https://blakmadeen.bandcamp.com/
https://weaponizerecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-human - Jaz Kahina's new album
https://dell-p.bandcamp.com/album/transition-of-power-2 - New Dell-P album is dope
https://sankofa.bandcamp.com/ - 'Kofa been dropping dopeness after dopeness. 

That’s about all for now, hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season. 
peace,
kane