ratatat!!

So in honor of kid cudi's letter man performance with Ratatat I'm posting a lil rap i composed a while bacc for a mxtape I was doin over all ratatat production. I got side tracced with this project called From Slaveships To Spaceships, but of folks like this joint OI'll see if i can't dig out the rest of them from where ever they are.

holr at me on twitter!!

sey yea over ratatat's shempi off they're LP3

MRSHMLO

Eye-a-Sage from the ill rap group rhapsodistas dropped this video from her upcoming album Rocky Rivera.

MRSHMLO from Mikhail Shapiro on Vimeo.

Long Verse Goodnite..

So.... a few people didn't get this song from me therefore I make it free for you now.


The long kiss goodnite

African Rebel Movement

Yooooooooooooo shout out to the homie Krukid!! We kicced it tuff a while bacc out in CT at the Temple U. INTL hip hop fest. Up in a pretty plush hotel wit gabe and Ill-Lit. That was good times!! Anyway my dude is droppin new shit with his boy M.anifest called African Rebel Movement or A.R.M. DOPE DOPE music. much love and respect you guys go hard!!! I swear all I bump these days is african rap music. thanx Africa for life, civilization and music that is timeless loving and still murderous!

A.R.M. - Interview from SIX-TON PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.

A.R.M. - Blame My Ego from SIX-TON PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.

Cloud Cover

Here's the Official cover for Cold Hearted in Cloud City

I have a love of work that is deep and abiding. especially when i can work on something i care about. Well since dropping FSTS I have been able to work on NOTHING but music and it is a blessing. So in keeping with both my gratitude for my blessing and my aforementioned work-a-holic tendencies I'm dropping something new on the Masses next month. I'm Calling it Cold Hearted In Cloud City. Sorta a reference to the white Han Solo's unfortunate mishap with a Sith lord and a carbonite freezer and more an homage to my city's dominant atmospheric condition. I will have the LivinYard and Godspeed on it reaffirming my blessings with they're much loved presence. All the Beats are being done by none other than Mr. crispenel (sure THAT'S spelled wrong) BKA Crispy of GodSpeed. Here's a quicc sneak peak of a shitty downloadable version of the intro (shitty so you buy the real one and cuz I'm not good at this yet).

Cloud City
enjoy!

Shout out to IdaMac!!

Gabe our friend Art of verse and myslef drove WAAAAAAY the fucc out to Nampa Idaho to do a performance for a bunch of youth!! It was dope lots of brown kids good food and new and old fam kiccin it tuff!! Shout to my man Sam Judah for gettin us out there and for holdin down the grizzly adams look sooo heavy!! Oh before i forget mega love to the Church Of Toys aka OG's BADmuch love ya'll!

Livin With Love

Thanx for the astounding positive responce to the Livin Yard project with Nam, Gabriel, and myself. download 1217 and counting!! if you don't know hat the fuss is about then checc us out on my listen page here!

2009 Seattle's Best MC

I was Honored this year by the people of Seattle with the title of Seattle's best MC in the pages of Seattle Weekly!!. This was a great moment and i think part of the hard work i put in over the last 2 years working with the homies at Devastator manegment and Fresh Chopped Beats/MADK records. Much love to everyone that voted for me i greatly appreciated it!! here's they're blurb!




Readers Reveal the City's Best
Best MC: One of Seattle's wittier wordsmiths, Khingz fits the role of the post-Rawkus-era backpacker-rapper to a T. His latest album, From Slaveships to Spaceships, is easily one of the best to come out of Seattle so far this year. Let's hope he changes his mind about leaving town. Khingz.com.

LivinYard!!!

So myself Nam and Gabe T created a summer time only rap group called the Livin Yard. Based on the days when it was so hot in the house we took the couch outside after sundown and kicced it. The music is really sublime reference material for lazy season extra curriculals. I'm very proud of the work we, as a collective sun loving third world transplants, have done here. People think of Seattle as a rain capital (and it is) but that just means we appreciate the sun more when it blesses us. Th tracc and mixing are by Soul Hops very own Crispy (GodSpeed) and fits the vibe perfectly. Our first Song Summer's Here is featured as a free download along with the rest of DJ Daps1's 206 Summer Heat mxtape. please cop and enjoy.

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