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You already know 24KMilkCrate is going to down for any damn song called “Black & Yellow” add the fact that it’s Wiz Khalifa’s first Rostrum/Atlantic pushed single and you’ve got a recipe for MAGIC! GET UP ON IT!

24KMilkCrate: Big Sean

Words: De3p

Shots: Emmanuel Blackwell

Big Sean, It’s your first time performing at Rock The Bells, at the same venue with a lot of old hip-hop legends and a lot of bright young stars as well. Tell us something about that. How do you like the Bay Area and the scene out here?

-Yeah, it’s my first time performing here. Can you hear me on it? Man, first time performing at rock the bells. That shit was live! Man, it’s an honor to be in the same breath as Lauryn Hill, 9^th Wonder, motherfucking Snoop Dogg, Slick Rick, just everybody, you know what I’m saying? It’s just an honor man. It’s a great show, great atmosphere, nothing but weed, girls, and beer and shit like that. Grey Goose on deck, it’s just all love man, it’s a good vibe, great energy. That’s what I’m all about.

Good shit. So what’re your plans after today?

-Oh we got more shows next week. Me and Wiz got shows, we got our own shows going on next Thursday and Friday. And then Rock the Bells that weekend. Between that, I’m working on this G.O.O.D Music album with Kanye and the others, doing a collaboration album. I’m working on that. I’m also working on my album, dropping this mixtape next week.

What’s the mixtape called?

-It’s called B.I.G Finally Famous Volume 3. It’s hosted by Don Canon and the Billionaire Boys Club. It’s going to be good.

So are you performing on Kanye’s G.O.O.D album?

Can’t say, man, sorry.

Ah, alright, I thought I could get you on that. So it’s been two years now?

-Oh yeah man, I’ve definitely built up a buzz and a name for myself. The music is definitely something I’m embracing. I’ve grown as an artist myself. I feel like now is the right time to put out an album because I’ve really come into my own as an artist. Now is the perfect time man, and I’m just excited.

Looks like Drake bit a lot off your rhyme scheme.

-He said that flow that everybody thought that he originated, he admitted that like nah, I got that from Big Sean on a hip-hop website. So Drake wins the real nigga award for that. Me and Drake got music together. You hear that song on my new mixtape.

Are you catching onto the house music trip? Hella artists are doing that right now.

-Nah, my shit is straight rap. It’s still popular music, it’s just not house. I do house music with my homie Mike Posner though. Me and him grew up together so we do a lotta music together.

No way, you guys came up in the same neighborhood?

-Yeah, we grew up in the same neighborhood before I was signed and before he was signed. I was in the hood, in the ghetto on the west side and he was in the suburbs in a Jewish community. It’s a weird relationship and how we both got signed. That’s my homie, I just talked to him yesterday. He’s going to be on my album too.

Oh very nice. When’s your mixtape drop?

-Wednesday.

Hollywood Holt is an entertainer and emcee through and through. If hip hop is pre-school then crowds are his play dough and other emcees are the hypothetical glue that he eats. Before even throwing this mixtape up here I had to make sure that this shit was really as hot as his bold ass title suggested and flat out if you dig rah-rah style hip hop then this is THE SHIT. Joined by his cuzzo Dj $ Mano on the beats and Dj Benzi hosting on the turn tables Hollywood Holt is someone you must not ignore. GET UP ON MAGIC!!

Prefix & Potholes clicked up to deliver you a 24 track sampler in 2 discs in the tradition of burning CD’s to jam to in the heat of summer time. Whether sipping lemonade and puffing the insides out of Zig Zag’s on your stoop, porch or backyard this should be a nice addendum to your ambient sound track. Riddled with exclusives from the brightest emcees across the country you got to  GET UP ON MAGIC!

Von Pea of Tanya Morgan fame is dropping his solo joint “Peas Gotta Have It” October 12th based off and inspired by his High School years. It’s no secret that 24KMilkCrate is a stalwart supporter of these suave cats. D.L this shit and Get Up On Magic!

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GONE (KEYS N KRATES RMX) by Keys N Krates

Keyes N Krates are the ILLEST record spinning, keys pounding, knob turning live remix artists in Hip Hop. From Snoop to Justice to Drake and now Donnis they flip emcees beats like no body’s business and this is just a taster. If you’re trying to see them live here’s they’re tour schedule
Keys N Krates Upcoming Performance Schedule

8.24.2010 Ottawa, ON Central Canada Exhibition w/ Classified
8.27.2010 Toronto, ON CNE w/ Classified
9.09.2010 Montreal, QC Concordia University
9.11.2010 Lethbridge, AB Fresh U Jamboree
But if you’re not Canadian or in the Boyscouts like me you’ll just have to fall back and wait while you GET UP ON MAGIC!

You know an artist’s a buzz is great when you hear dope things about them by word of mouth, and when you go listen to them you’re happy one out of two times a year that someone foisted their music tastes on you. That’s Mac Miller. HAVE A GREAT FRIDAY AND GET UP ON MAGIC!

The Hundreds and Alexander Spit’s “Until Next Summer” is the type of music you play in the heat to cool out and relax. Which is something I really wish I could do, but I stay in SF and the thermostat hasn’t broken 65 degrees and there’s been a constant wet mist hovering 24 hours a day. So I’m going to change the weather and pop in this tape. You should too & GET UP ON MAGIC!

Photo: Jonathan Mannion

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Here’s a little snippet of new Andre 3000 to start your Monday morning off correctly. I’m sure that the full recording of this song will be leaking shortly…if there is one.

Via: KarenCivil

Brand new visuals from Moe Green. If you haven’t downloaded that Rocky Maivia “Non Title Match” album yet from Vallejo’s Moe Green go download yours for the F!
HERE.