Bring Dat Beat Back

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:34:15 -0500

Last week was hectic toward the end starting with the Leaders of the New Cool Showcase downtown at the 92nd street Y in tribeca. I went to peep a band from Philly called Rich Hill but came away more impressed with an emcee from Chi-town named Mikkey halsted. God is a monster on the mic when it comes to hard Rhymin.

it’d be cliche to say his steez is SIMILAR TO Common since his style is much more IN YOUR FACE AND TO THE CHEST. But yeh, he’s conscious to the core AND AS PERCEPTIVE AS a bird on a wire WITH the poeticism of an urban griot. Pure fire. DJ absolut tried to shit all over him by dropping some of the songs to his set but Haltead didn’t get too stressed. He rocked a capella and broke a lotta necks. Even the haters in the front frontin like they’d heard it all before. Honestly, in my mind, it’s immature non-participatory cross-armed standoff ish as such that kills the scene in New York and takes it down a notch as far as the culture goes. (SMFH) At least if you’re gonna front do it in the back and let the others who wanna uplift it to the front.

In the end, it was all love. Halsted laced em with benevolence in the end when he praised NYC as the mecca of his cultural pilgrimmage. He’s definitely on a mission and his music (produced by No ID) speaks for itself.

Click here if you wanna listen to the Best (mixtape) You Never Heard.

--dex

tracklisting:

Intro
Celebration feat. Miss Criss
You Ain’t Know feat. Ken Rock
I’m A Ryder feat. Uncrowned City
Grind Mode (Dark Room Preview)
Israelite Gangsta
Frozen (Dark Room Preview)
U Luv My Style
Whoa feat. Bump J & Skooda Chose
The Funeral
Collapse feat. Phil G
Words of Wisdom feat. YP
Revenge 2 [snippet] (w/ Jay iLLa, Rhymefest, Juice & Twone Gabz)
Got It Made
I’m The Man feat. Sly Polaroid & Cloak Hancock
Chi-Town Streets feat. Khari Lemuel
Papers Line
1st Class
Corners
Tired
Bang On Em
Just 2 Get By
Runnin My City (Dark Room Preview)
On My Own
Chi-Town Shit feat. Mic Terror
Dead Wrong
Till I Die
Can’t Stop feat. Da G & Da Rock
Competition Is None feat. Uncrowned City
So Mean
KRS-One Freestyle
Ten Things (Prod. by Kanye West)
Ghetto Life (Prod. by Kanye West)
Piss Poor
Mattress Money feat. KT & Famous
HHG Freestyle
Mikkey Outro
Bonus

recdep

Bring Dat Beat Back