New track from Childish Gambino’s upcoming mixtape.

Off Meyhem Lauren’s upcoming Respect the Fly Shit project, which is due out later this month via LRG/Greedhead.

If you’ve been jamming out toKool A.D.‘s51 mixtapethese past few weeks, then you’ve no doubt noticed the ill beat for track “Arrested Development” fromkechPhrase. kechPhrase is a 21-year old hip-hop artist and music producer from Chicago, Illinois. He’s produced songs for and collaborated with Kool AD,BBU,Big Baby Gandhi,Fat Tony, and more. Recently, he produced a 16-track instrumental album while visiting his home in south Nigeria, and you can check it out below!

kechPhrases The Kechstrumentals: Live From Nigeria, Tape 1 is out now on Kool A.D.s Veehead imprint, and it’s full to the brim with his sample-heavy brand of hard hitting boom bap. He plans to release a follow-up instrumental tape alongside a full length album in the Fall of 2012. In the meantime, treat yourself to his new release The Kechstrumentals below.

Source: Mishka

The Greedhead/Мишка Records/Veehead world takeover continues, this time with another salvo from the bodaciously bearded baron of brainy braggadocio and one half of Das Racist, Victor Vazquez AKA Kool A.D. The Kool one is back with a new mixtape called 51, and it’s here for your eager consumption fresh on the heels of January’s The Palm Wine Drinkard. 

For a change of pace, Victor recorded all of these tracks in Oakland - way on the other side of the country from DR’s NYC home base. Landing on the left coast after visiting family in Cuba, Kool A.D. was inspired to make a set of tracks featuring production from almost exclusively California artists, and numerous guest spots from some of the Bay’s best up and comers. 

The main producer is Amaze 88, who played with Victor in a hardcore punk band in high school, and also happened to take his sister to prom. They’ve obviously buried the hatchet on that one though, as Amaze is behind eight tracks on 51, and is joined by other producers like Young L, Trackademicks and Kechphrase. 

There’s also frequent guest spots from some of our favorites, like MondreM.A.N. and Squadda B from Main Attrakionz. They link up on four of 51’s tracks. And if that wasn’t enough, Himasnhu, Meyhem Lauren, Trackademicks and even Boots Riley of the legendary Coup all lend guest verses. But, as expected, the star of the whole thing is Kool A.D., whose gloriously laid back flows consistently impress with their humor and wit, languishing in greenery depicted on the cover.

Source: Mishka

Download the album

Download: Big Baby Gandhi - NO1 2 LOOK UP 2

Off NO1 2 LOOK UP 2

(Source: Pitchfork Reviews Reviews)

Das Racist is in the last issue of Tepsic Magazine. You can buy it here

Check also the mix made by Kool A.D.

Tepsic Spring 2012 - Mixed by Kool A.D.

Big Baby Gandhi - No1 2 Look Up 2 - 03/30/12 - Greedhead

If you are into Das Racist’s music (and I assume you are), you certainly know Wesleyan alum Khalif Diouf aka Le1f. This New York rapper, producer and dancer is the beatmaker behind Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and “Jungle Fever”, a song in which he also dropped a memorable verse.

Le1f’s long-awaited debut album “Dark York” is finally coming out on April 15 via Greedhead. Here is the first single “Mind Body”.