One For The Weekend: Madlib with Your Old Droog & Black Thought

Madlib follows up his "DBZ" collaboration with Brooklyn's Your Old Droog with "Reekyod" featuring a cameo by Black Thought.

Midweek Mixdown: Breakin' Bread's New Music Show

Here's Skeg & Steve The Sleeve's fab 2 hour guided tour of recent 45 releases including two joints from MF Doom (RIP). 

Breakin' Bread's Skeg and Steve The Sleeve present the best new music and reissues from recent weeks. From soul to funk to disco to hip hop and back again via breaks and beats. Check it out on Mixcloud right here. Tracklist below. 

TRACKLIST 

Sapria - Strain 

Mitzi - I’ll Do More 

Delores Fuller - One More Chance Lord 

The Soulmates - People We Got To Do Better 

Jackie Stoudemire - Flying High 

Hiatus Kaiyote ft. Arthur Verocai - Get Sun 

Lito Barrientos Y Su Orquestra - Cumbia En Do Menor 

Jo Ann Hamilton & The Fingier Collective - I Love Without A Love 

PM Warson - Don’t Hold Me Down 

The Bamboos - Power Without Greed

Black Market Brass - Sagat Theme 

The Winston Brothers - Boiling Pot 

Smokin Shades Of Black - Grease Wheels 

Galt McDermott - Coffee Cold 

The Alchemist - Loose Change (Instrumental) 

Evidence - Sharks Smell Blood 

CZARFACE & MF DOOM - Break In The Action 

Your Old Droog ft. MF DOOM - Dropout Boogie 

The Avalanches - Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Edan Remix) 

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Raise It Up 

Altered Tapes - The Breakdown (Easy goes to Memphis) 

Chaka Khan - It Aint All Good (Daytoner Remix) 

Steve Miller Band - Westchester Eagle (Jim Sharp Mix) 

Paul Older - Bye Sun

Palace - Rude Movements (Kenny Dope O’Gutta Remix) 

Patchouli Brothers - Lead Astray 

The Fantastics - Hey Mister (Art Of Tones Mix) 

Love Drop - We’ve Got To Get Our Shit Together 

Jahari Massamba Unit - Merde (Basse-cour) 

Soul Supreme - Raid 

Emma-Jean Thackray - Our People 

The Allergies - Move On Baby 

Jimi Tenor - Mysterion 

Vanessa Kendricks - 90% Of Me 

Jeb Loy Nichols with Cold Diamond & Mink – Can't Cheat The Dance

Mato - Summer Madness

Your Old Droog vs. Sigurd Cochius

Your Old Droog liked the Cochius joint "Indianenmars" so much, he rhymed over it with Heems and called it "Bangladesh"

One For The Weekend: Your Old Droog w/ Edan & Wiki

"Help" appears on Your Old Droog's new PACKS album. Check Matt Lubansky's dope video following the press release. 

Your Old Droog - "PACKS" out March 10

After seemingly coming out of nowhere, Your Old Droog lit up the interweb in 2014 with his self-titled debut EP, catching the attention of bloggers all over the web from New York Magazine’s Vulture to NahRight. Before long, conspiracy theories started and people began to posit that Droog was another older, legendary New York rapper in disguise.

Profiled in The New Yorker, Droog (meaning “friend” in Russian) set the record straight about who he was: a twenty-something Ukrainian immigrant who fell in love with hip-hop when he arrived in South Brooklyn as a small child. The timbre of his voice resembled that of a hip-hop legend but Droog’s content had more to it than street dreams or observations from a project window. His music reflected his own unique life experience as he referenced everything from sports, to crime, to Seinfeld and C-Span in his rhymes. He was an intelligent hoodlum with a stand-up comedian’s sense of humor—unafraid to be as self-deprecating as he was self-aggrandizing.

On his much hyped debut, Your Old Droog, he vowed to “bring back storytelling” and now on his sophomore album, PACKS, Droog delivers on that promise. In addition to the raw rhyme displays on songs like the Alchemist-produced “Winston Red,” Droog flexes his narrative muscles both comically (“My Girl Is A Boy”) and dramatically (“G.K.A.C”). The single “You Can Do It (Give Up)” is an ode to practicality over fantasy told in three vignettes. Co-produced by Edan, and Y.O.D. himself “You Can Do It (Give Up)” is almost the bizarro version of Biz Markie’s “Vapors.” The reclusive Edan also produces and appears on the raucous posse cut “Help” (watch the inventive video clip below) with Ratking frontman Wiki. The three MC’s trade bars over an explosive beat for those who don't mind a little psychedelic (Help, I'm a) rock with their hip hop.

Droog also shares mic duties with fellow rap iconoclasts Danny Brown (“Grandma Hips”) and Heems (“Bangladesh”) and, for good measure, comedian Anthony Jeselnik lends his dark humor to skits between songs. Besides the return of Droog’s go-to production partner El RTNC, PACKS also features production from platinum producers ID Labs (Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller) and 88 Keys (Watch The Throne, Action Bronson, Mos Def). The sum of it all is an album that stands out from the predictable offerings of mainstream rappers today. PACKS is a project for fans of hip hop’s fundamentals and those who are interested in the progress of the artform.