Want to win a pair of tickets to the Fabolous & Pusha-T concert tomorrow night at Old National Centre? All you have to do is live in the Indianapolis area and like Bringing Down The Band on facebook and share the post. You can also follow BDTB on twitter and retweet the post. We will choose the winner who will get a pair of tickets to the show tomorrow. If you dont win you can purchase tickets discount tickets here. Good Luck!
Fabolous and Pusha-T are stoping through Indianapolis for The Life is So Exciting Tour May 8th. BDTB along with The Alliance have some discount tickets available for the event for $25 that you can grab here. Jump on it because they wont last long. We will also be giving away a few before the show so stay tuned.
Troy‘s Bricks In My Backpack 3: The Harry Powder Trilogy drops in mid June.
We decided a few weeks ago to put together a list of our favorite projects this year. Locally, globally, hip hop, eclectic, and instrumental wise. We also want to state that this is by no means a “best of” list, just the projects that Jay Diff and myself were bumping and/or feeling the most. We each chose 25 hip hop releases, 10 eclectic and/or instrumental releases, and came together and chose a few local projects. We suggest you check out anything we post, but being said, we REALLY suggest checking out these projects:
‡ = we both selected it
g = seangevity chose it
d = jay diff chose it
Favorite Hip Hop Releases:
Action Bronson – Well Done (‡) [Buy]
Big K.R.I.T. – Return of Forever (‡) [Free]
Common – The Dreamer, The Believer (‡) [Buy]
Danny Brown – XXX (‡) [Free]
Grumpy Old Men – Sunday Skool (‡) [Free]
Kendrick Lamar – Section 80 (‡) [Buy]
Mighty High Coup – Boom Rap (‡) [Buy]
Pac Div – The Div (‡) [Buy]
Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. (‡) [Buy]
Phonte – Charity Starts at Home (‡) [Buy]
Random Axe – Random Axe (‡) [Buy]
Skyzoo – The Great Debater (‡) [Free]
The Roots – undun (‡) [Buy]
Torae – For The Record (‡) [Buy]
9th Wonder – The Wonder Years (d) [Buy]
Astronote – Weapon of the Future (g) [Free]
Charlie Smarts – LowBottomMe (g) [Free]
Co$$ – Before I Awoke (g) [Buy]
DTMD – Makin Dollas (g) [Buy]
Elzhi – Elmatic (d) [Buy]
Evidence – Cats & Dogs (g) [Buy]
Exile – 4trk Mind (g) [Buy]
Fabolous – The S.O.U.L. Tape (d) [Free]
Game – The R.E.D. Album (d) [Buy]
J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story (d) [Buy]
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (d) [Buy]
Laws – Yesterday’s Future (g) [Free]
Local Nobodies (Sulaiman & Mathien) – One (g) [Free]
Luckyiam – I Love Haters (g) [Buy]
Meek Mill – Dreamchasers (d) [Free]
Rapsody – For Everything (d) [Free]
Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told (d) [Buy]
Statik Selektah – Population Control (g) [Buy]
TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps (d) [Buy]
Thurz – LA Riots (g) [Buy]
Wale – Eleven One Eleven Theory (d) [Free]
Favorite Eclectic/Instrumental/Other Releases (Not Hip Hop):
Iman Omari – Energy (‡) [Free]
Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (‡) [Buy]
14KT – 14 Killa Tape (g) [Free]
Apollo Brown – Clouds (g) [Stream/Buy]
Eric Lau – Quadrivium (g) [Stream/Buy]
Eric Roberson – Mister Nice Guy (d) [Buy]
flaKo – Carving Away The Clay (d) [Stream/Buy]
Frank Ocean – Ultra Nostalgia (d) [Free]
Hawthorne Headhunters – Myriad of Now (g) [Stream/Buy]
J*DaVeY – New Designer Drug (g) [Buy]
Jhene Aiko – Sailing Sounds (d) [Free]
Nicolay & The Hot at Nights – Shibuya Sessions EP (d) [Stream/Buy]
Nikkiya – Speakher (d) [Free]
Mecca:83 – Life Scetches (Volume 1 & 2) (g) [Stream/Buy]
Radio Galaxy – We Come In Peace (d) [Stream/Buy]
Sunclef – The Tesseract (g) [Free]
The Weeknd – House of Balloons (d) [Free]
Vlooper – COPYCAT (a Dilla Tribute) (g) [Free]
Favorite Local Hip Hop Releases:
alpha.live – Soul Cinema [Free]
Blake Allee – My Best Friends Are Machines [Free]
Future5ive – Somewhere in August [Free]
J.Brookinz & Grey Granite – Gateway 2 [Free]
Hinx Jones – Frozen Liquor [Stream/Buy/Free]
Mr. Kinetik – Sounds of Soul [Stream/Buy]
Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher – The Professor & The Hustler [Free]
Roskoh Deyvis – Welcome to the Wiz [Stream]
Scoot Dubbs – The Time Has Come EP [Free]
Skittz – Rhymestrong [Stream/Buy]
The Proforms – Atavism [Buy]
Tony Styxx – It’s Bigger Than Me [Stream/Buy/Free]
He’s not someone I check for (not that it matters), but this is dope. I forget who used that beat, and/or sampled it very similar-like.