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Family: Masspike Miles

My brother and Concepts family, Masspike Miles has been holding down Boston forever. Miles is now down with Rick Ross’ Maybach Music and has been reppin Boston and Concepts all over the world. Literally. From Miami to Columbia and everywhere in between. Miles was down in Miami for Memorial Day weekend doing shows with his Maybach team and the boss himself, Ricky Rawss. Peep the video below with Miles rockin our brand new block letter fitted fresh out the box. Download his new mixtape “Pursuit Of Happiness” here.

Cage x Alex Pardee

26 May 2009, 01.51 | Posted in Music, The Butcher Block | No comments »

New York rapper Cage is dropping his second album, Depart From Me, on the independent power house Def Jux (Definitive Jux).

Cage is hands down one of the illest rappers out and is one of my current favorites. His early work on Fondle ‘em Records, Rawkus, and Eastern Conference, was a young Cage at his wildest with violence and drug use as the main inspiration for his music. When drugs turned Cage into someone he didn’t like, he quit and began the transition into a healthier life which created a more cohesive and laser focused artist. His Def Jux debut, Hells Winter, is his best work to date and was easily one of the best releases of 2005.

Cage’s past, as chronicled in his music, is as crazy as it is interesting. Born on a US / German Military base to a young mother and a drug selling / addict father who was an MP, his life was filled with abuse, drugs, and a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Actor Shia Labeouf has expressed interest in making a movie on Cage’s life with he himself playing Cage. Peep Cage’s bio here.

Cage partnered up with the incredibly talented Alex Pardee, best known for his cover artwork for the rock band The Used, for his new album art. Pardee showcased the process of creating the cover on his website. Peep below. Fucking sick.


Download Cage’s new EP, I Never Knew You, here. A little teaser in anticipation for the album.

His new album, Depart from Me, drops on July 7th.

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Put you on: Smoothe Da Hustler

24 May 2009, 05.08 | Posted in Music, The Butcher Block, Tribute | No comments »

The money stasher, gun blastin’ razor slasher-

Sometimes in Hip-Hop, something great flies by like Halley’s Comet but instead of just missing Earth, it makes an impact. It crashes, changes the delicate balance of our environment but eventually breaks down and disappears. In 1996, I heard something that I would never forget by the name of “Broken Language”. Smoothe Da Huster hailed from Brownsville Brooklyn and hit the ground running with a new style and a strong crew.

I have no doubt if he had continued with the momentum he had at the peak of his popularity, Smoothe would have continued to make some of the best music coming out of Brooklyn. Da Hustler with his younger brother Trigger The Gambler, DV Alias Christ and the rest of the “Next Level Click” embodied Brooklyn somewhere between the Boot Camp Click and Biggie, and were arguably neck and neck (and at each other’s throats at the time) with M.O.P.

Nothing is new under God’s sun but sometimes you can take just enough from the greats and combine the ingredients in a way that has never been heard before. He had the confidence of legendary BK king (Asiatic Nobodies Equal), Big Daddy Kane, the street narratives of G Rap but the balls to experiment lyrically like a Redman with the vocal clarity of KRS-One and the loyalty to his crew like the early Wu-Tang era.

Homage has been paid to the classic “Broken Language” by a few artists but none hold a candle to Ill Bill’s “Cult Leader” off the Non Phixion album “The Future is Now”. Peep the first few bars below:

“The cult leader, the war-monger, armed with four high-powered
firearm barometers; I visited Andromeda
The human cloner, the donate to my fam organ donor
The morbid odor of corpses lowered, the coroner
The cult leader, result needer, the skull and bones bleeder
The chrome heater, the soul eater, the tome reader
The cloak and dagger magnum packer;
convert star systems to active vacuum
The illest shit since Manson had goons…”

Smoothe Da Hustler made a tremendous impact on me as a fan and has earned a place an the Hip-Hop history books.

Go find Smoothe Da Hustler’s “Once Upon a Time in America” and Trigga’s The Gambler’s unreleased Def Jam debut “Life’s a 50/50 Gamble”.

Real recognize real. Download joints below and the Broken Language lyrics are posted for your reading pleasure… learn em, you’ll be quizzed.

Broken Language

Broken Language Pt 2

Bonus: Danger Pt 2 (street mix) – Blahzay Blahzay f. Smoothe Da Hustler, Trigger Da Gambler & Darkman

Your welcome.

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Smoothe Da Hustla f/ Trigga Tha Gambler
Broken Language

[Trigga]
Uh, base your eyes on the guy
No kind of worries if I die
So pussy guy try
Dangerfield steppin my way
Bodies get cremated on a Friday the do or die way
Your death threater, sender, head spinner
Rap beginner, light dimmer
3-knockout count winner
Your gun reacher, bustin shot teacher
Your funeral service church preacher
Your black hearse coffin seeker
The body polluter, the gat shooter
The Brownsville wild Brooklyn trooper
The cock d mountain mover
The face basher, the mista brain smasher
The ax waxer, the drug money stasher…

[smoothe]
The money stasher, gun blastin razor slasher
The human asthma breathe taker
Body dump waster
The Glock cocker, block locker the rock chopper,
The shot popper, the jock cock blocker
The face splitter, human disgrace getter
The lady shitter, phone joneser
Sneak over fuck your babysitter
The chronic smokin, gun totin hearse initiator
The crack supplier, the human drug generator
The honey gamer, the chicken tricker
The slick the long dick pussy sticker
The ready to bust that ass kicker
The track maneuverer, the box barrier
The off of the dome rapper
The c-74 ox carrier….

[trigga]
The gun seller, the chest sweller
The stick up smack bank teller
The money-back dweller
The stitch provider, the guess rider
The clip inserter, bullet shooter experter
The man next to murder…

[smoothe]
The ho bitch disser, the cunt man, the I don’t want clan
The stunt hitter in 34 days in a month man
The front man, the Brooklyn representer
The beat down center, the two brothers
The hottest niggas out this fuckin winter

[trigga]
The girl cheaters, the beef ass beaters
The street sweep keeper, the body to concrete meeter
The blood skeeter
The weed smoker, the liver choker
The spot stop broker, the rugged picture poser
The card scrambler,
Royal flush same suit brouke the gambler
Nasty amateur damaged ya,
Snatch masta without the camera

[smoothe]
Camera, the beer guzzler
The slug to your mug tuzzeler
The drug juggeler, the crazy thug hustler
The Lexus wanter
The chain-ring and bracelet flaunterer
The chamber smoker
The mansion havin sauna soaker
The corner stander, the style crammer
Take over spot block commander
The Glock on cock handler
The razor spitter
The fast dough casper getter
The transmitter, North Carolina vagina hitter…

[trigga]
The ass kicker, internal heart dark sticker
The red scope body hitter
Here to hang wit digga and a buddha niggas
The trigga happy, father gun call it papi
My gun blow out waves patterns to keep your hair nappy
The to the death thinker, M.O.P. bell ringer
How about some hardcore fan singer
The jam swinger…

[smoothe]
The Nautica wearer, the Karl Kani man
The missed to get jigged, the fly man
Notorious ready to die man
The knower killer, the expert slinger
The white girl gang banger
The Virgin Mary fucker, the Jesus hanger
The vital kicker, the drug dealer and title stripper
The idol flipper
The cross breaker and bible ripper….

[trigga]
The black history driver
The racial thinker
The 9 to 9 to 5 offer the jaw sinker
The hell fighter, the revelation writer
The Egyptian spirit inviter
The black body bag tire
The money stasher, the ( ) crapper
The a-k-a club basher
My brother gotta record racker

(Back and forth)
The battle spinner
The grand prizewinner
The life and death beginner
The 95 interstate highway to heaven sender
The cocaine cooker, the hook up on your hooker hooker the 35 cents short on my 2 for 5’s over looker
The rap burner, the Ike the Tina Turner ass whippin learner, the hit man, the money earner
The tologist without the derma me and my little brother
The cock me back, bust me off nigga undercover
The glock to your head pursuer
The Big Daddy Kane, Little Daddy Shane over doers

Wale / Chester French @ Concepts

08 May 2009, 02.29 | Posted in Concepts, Music, The Butcher Block | No comments »

My man D.A. and his group Chester French performed at the Harvard Square May Fair festival this past Sunday with a surprise guest Wale. Wale was in town to film his new video “Chillin” featuring Lady Gaga.

Chris Robinson directed the joint and filmed scenes at Concepts. Big shout to my man Wale, Chris Robinson, Set Free and the Robot staff.

at May Fair Festival

at Concepts video shoot

on MTV News wearing Concepts Fitted




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