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“Top of the World” – Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun [Video]

Some new stuff coming to us from our friends at Duck Down: Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun, “Top of the World.”

Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun’s Monumental album is out now.

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Beat Bashers Competition: A3C Edition- One fan wins a FREE Microphone from “Blue Microphones”!

Beat Bashers Competition: A3C Edition

Listen. Download. Vote & Win.

When you are checking out the Beatz & Lyrics 2 Go Vol. 2: A3C Mixtape this year, pay close attention to which verse, beat, and album artwork you like the best. Your vote in our Beat Bashers competition could win you a Spark Microphone courtesy of Blue Microphones and our prize pack filled with gear and albums.

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Aleon Craft – Cosmic Valentine EP

Happy V Day from Aleon Craft, SMKA and your friends at the A3C. To celebrate, download Aleon Craft’s Cosmic Valentine EP.

“Cosmic Valentine includes 7 stories of pain, joy, happiness and love,” says Craft. The EP is a collabartive effort with SMKA and features Dreamer & C#Sharp. Aleon Craft has already begun working on extending Cosmic Valentine and plans on releasing a deluxe edition the first week of March.

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Big Sean – Only Two Can Win

For your listening pleasure this weekend. This was a late breaking Jay Dee tribute cut form yesterday by Big Sean.

The track is worth a listen, but, quite frankly it’s not really much of a “tribute” to Jay Dee, but more of a freestyle of a Jay Dee track. I think there’s one shout out to Dilla, but then it’s mostly about Big Sean’s rise to success.

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Lyric Jones – “Jones St.” Out NOW!

Long time A3C affiliate, Lyric Jones, released her long awaited, highly anticipated, first full-length album, Jones St.

The album features a ton of great music and collaborations with the likes of Grammy Award winning Esperanza Spalding and other established artists such as Phife Dawg (A Tribe Called Quest), J-Live, Playboy Tre, and Young Scolla.

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A3C X Beatz & Lyrics to Go Mixtape [Free Download]

Salem Psalms teams up with The Beatz & Lyrics show with Jayforce to release the 3rd in their A3C mixtape series, Beatz & Lyrics 2 Go Vol 2. The mixtape was recorded entirely during the A3C Hip Hop Festival in Atlanta, GA on site at the venue in the Unique Squared Mobile Studio and also at Salem Psalms Library, an earshot away from the festival grounds.

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J. Dilla & J Sands – Mrs. Sands (A Love Story)

Here’s the first Dilla email that hit my inbox this morning (which is Dilla’s Birthday). Dilla and J Sands. Great for some laid back work listening.

Happy birthday Jay Dee.

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Skyzoo – ‘Could’ve Struck The Lotto’ Remix Contest

Enter now for a chance to win a feature on Skyzoo’s “Couldve Struck the Lotto” remix due to be released on The Great Debater Revisited.

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J Dilla – Clap Your Hands – Freestyle from 1997

It’s that type of year again, with the anniversary of J Dilla’s birth and passing coming up next week, there’s a lot of Dilla tributes and previously unreleased gems hitting the world wide web. I caught this over at bling47.com, it’s a freestyle from a tape circa 1997.

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God’s Child – Stalley [Download]

Here’s a new track from A3C 2010 vet, Stalley, which is produced by Block Beattaz. Stalley’s dropped a few tracks recently as part of a series called Songs by Me, Stalley. Stalley

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