Samuelz D. Adlib x Jar Height - Dr. Travolta (Music Video)

The homeboy Samuelz D. Adlib sent me this amazing video a couple minutes ago! You gotta see it!

SoCal Street Team - Y.A.K (You Already Know) (Audio)

Inland Empire rap group SoCal Street Team, releases their new single, Y.A.K (You Already Know), giving listeners a sample of what to expect from their soon to be released project. Check it out after the break!

SoCal Sinatra - Frame of Mind (Album Stream) #RGC

Royal Gambling Club artist SoCal Sinatra drops his highly anticipated project Frame of Mind . Check it out after the break!

Rich I.E. - HeatWave 2 (Audio Stream)

Rich I.E. is back with another installment of his wavy mixtape series. Check out HeatWave 2 after the break!

Jayy Starr - South Centralized (Album Stream)

Jayy Starr drops her new album South Centralized featuring production by The Dream Team, DJ Hed and IE producers Curtiss King & Rich IE to name a few. Check it out after the break!

Hit-Boy - Zoomin (EP Stream) #HS87

IE superstar Hit-Boy recently dropped his newest project "Zoomin" featuring artist like Quentin Miller, Gizzle, & Pusha T. Check out the EP after the break!

JooseBoxx.com Presents The Sit Down: Arley @Beyond_Aware

JooseBoxx.com's newest segement will be text interviews with people we feel you should know. Check out our first installment with the homie from up the hill, Arley. 

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JooseBoxx: Who are you?

Arley: I'm Arley from Victorville,CA and I'm an opportunist.

OK so whats new for the clothing line Beyond Aware now that you have been doing it for awhile?

Too be honest not much, as far as releases. We decided to take a step back in order to learn the business aspect of having a startup company. We still create but just haven't released anything do to not having proper paper work. Since this has been an on going project it would suck for someone to take our idea because lack of preparation. Everything is good and ready to go now though

What's next?

Where too start!? We have a new drop coming called dial-up which is just a statement to everyone to prepare for some next level shit from here on. I've been designing and plotting for the last few months on the low so I have a full catalog along aside with plans ready to go. Also once the time is right we want to open our own boutique that way we can bring something to the local scene. I'm excited to see it all come to life!

Besides BA, any other projects or plans Going on?

Yeah I'm always working, I've truly embraced the independence as not only an artist but also a business man. I've started my own marketing firm which has been taking off and given me the freedom to be self employed completely. Definitely a blessing. I'm also working on a tape called "bluescholar" which the militia team has been helping me put together. It's an idea I've had since 19 but timing is everything especially when creating. In between all of that I find time for my education. I'm only 6 classes away from receiving my Bachelors. Can't wait to get that out the way because it seems like I've been in school forever.

Why do you do what you do?

For my family, friends and community. I want to show that anything is possible if one sets their mind, heart, and hustle to it. As cliche as that sounds but it's truly the only way to prosper. The day I asked myself why not me is the day my aspirations turned on.

Who or what inspires you And why?

A lot of people and things inspire me. I'm a student of life so i find it everywhere. One day I can be watching Tupac interviews, Kobe highlights, listening to music, have a conversation with friends or strangers, read a book, try food, or see a painting and feel a certain type of way. I mean life is too active to just be allowed to be inspired by one so You got to be open but also know your ground.

What are your top three factors you would attribute to your success?

First it would be my faith. Not only in god but in myself. Two, It would have to be my team. I have been blessed to have supportive people stand by me and work together for the bigger picture. Three, I would say the hustle that I was born with and learned from watching my parents. Nothing is owed too us, we have to go out and get it.

Tell us about your biggest fear and failure ?

I would have to say my biggest fear is not accomplishing my purpose in my lifetime. I mean .... what more can you fear if we are all going to end up in the same place sooner or later. As far as failure , I constantly fail but I look at them as learning experiences now. One thing I do know is that my biggest failures come when I rush so I'm learning to be patient and take my time.

If you can change one thing about this world, what would it be and why?

It would have to be egos. I mean it's OK to be confident in yourself and hold a standard but now it has simply turned into a monster. Everyone thinks they are a public figure and can do or say whatever the fuck they want without thinking of the repercussions. So if we could tone that down I believe less jealousy and hatred would exist.

In the next 10 years where do you see yourself?

If I get blessed to live 10 more years I would like to start an actual non-profit organization, I say actual because many people start one for the grants and live comfortable off of those funds which they are just taking advantage of the system. No, I want to be self funded where I can help not only the youth from my country but others as well with resources they lack. So I don't know physically where I would be but I know what I will be doing.

RIBS for the Week of 9/23/2015 featuring Epyk, Evil P, RasJosh Beats, Ars N Nay, Spok Beats, Rokem and more

                                        Reviews In Brief from staff writer Tristan Douglas’ week

1. Evil P x RasJosh Beats collabo

This instrumental collaboration between Patrick Placentia and RasJosh speaks for itself. But I’d like to add that this track makes me think of Ice Cube maddogging people in a lowrider.

2. Epyk- Feeler

 

Epyk is a really nice guy but you wouldn't know it from his raps

3.

Bone Solyd and Rokem – Jazz Spectrum

Really enjoyed this EP. Fresh, melodic, chill stuff. Check it out!

https://audiohustler.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-spectrum-ep

 

4.

Ars N Nay - The Launch

Just bumped this whole album; great stuff. Ars n Nay are confident without being cocky, smart without being boring, hard-hitting but still chill. Both MCs are solid and engaging, their beat choices are always on point. I appreciate their depiction of working class life in the I.E. and the 626.

        https://arsnnay.bandcamp.com/album/the-launch25

 

5. Spok Beats – Lions9

https://chamberrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spok-beats-lions9

Real beat heat here folks ‪#‎chamberrecords


*****************************************************Tristan “Tanjint Wiggy” Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx and member of the Inland Empire’s West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on twitter @Wiggism or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com.

 

Pot Shots w/ Tristan- (Ep. 3: Soundcloud) #Soundcloud #PotShots

Whats happening to Soundcloud?

Curtiss King - Give It 2 Me (Audio)

Inland Empire favorite Curtiss King drops his I-75 Beats produced single "Give It 2 Me" . Stay tuned for his upcoming album "Raging Waters" and tell us what you think about the song in the comment box!

Waseem - Don't Need (Music Video)

Moreno Valley artist Waseem drops his +Voice2hardTv directed music video for his song "Don't Need". Check it out after the break!

Mac Lowe - The Foundation (Audio Stream)

Got a chance to check this project out by Rialto artist Mac Lowe and enjoyed what I heard! Press play after the break!

SGM - Who (Prod. by AndreSweet) (Audio)

Tru Carr - "Early in the morning" Feat Zeeko, TjWavy & Young Smash (Music Video)

Moreno Valley artist Tru Carr drops the video for his single "Early in the morning", with help from Zeeko, TjWavy & Young Smash. Check out the video after the break!

Gc - Who Am I (Audio)

Check out 16 year old Moreno Valley artist Gc and his track "Who Am I". Rate this track 1-5 in the comment section!

K. Certified - Grown Azz Man ft capone (Audio)

Here's a song for the ladies by Fontana artist K. Certified! Let us know what you think in he comment section...

RIBS (Reviews In Brief) for the week of 9/16/2015 ft. Asend, Kordisepz, Mr.Sham, Belzar, RasJosh Beats, Kaine

from staff writer Tristan Douglas’ week

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Asend Beats – After Hours EP

Asend is an MPC-wielding boom-bapping funkmaster who keeps a doobie lit. Don’t miss his soothingly melodic and chill first release, the After Hours EP

http://soundcloud.com/asendro/sets/after-hours

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Kordisepz- Infekt & Rejektz beat tapes

Both of these whole tapes are dopeness… Kordisepz knows hip-hop but he sounds destined to score crazy films in my opinion. His music will challenge and entertain you.

https://soundcloud.com/kordisepz/sets/infekt-beat-tape

kordisepzbeats.bandcamp.com

Rejektz was put out by Us Natives, Peep them at usnatives.bandcamp.com

3. SoundCloud Overview: Mr. Sham

                  

                  Mr.Sham is the artist that not only got me more into poetry and spoken word but also got me into the melding of the two. As one of the main MCs in West Coast Avengers, he provides fun nerdcore paintings in verse form but as a poet in his own right he is one of the most formidable image-machines and expressers of the heart that I have ever come across. His recent works with RasJosh Beats “Prowlin’” (co-produced by GL Kool) and “Robbin’” are dark and spacious in their booming post-society yet urban sound. Others with RasJosh such as “Geronimo” incorporate nerdcore and uptempo bass for a fun and still slick product. As West Coast Avengers (full disclosure: my group!) enter the half year point of promoting their latest LP (The Inland Empire Strikes Back), expect more leaks from their individual members like this… https://soundcloud.com/seanbobo/geronimo

4.

Kaine aka NoEnd MC - "Ramen & Tacos" Teaser & Bad Chemistry EP

      NoEnd Emcee AKA Kaine of Institute Esylum is one of those dudes who has crazy bars and when you stop and listen to his work you realize it’s an incredibly cynical and razor sharp perspective on society, human nature and institutions. Check out his Bad Chemistry EP for some ear candy and peep his new “Ramen & Tacos” teaser and get hyped for his hella IE-repping project coming soon. http://soundcloud.com/kainetheinsane/bad-chemistry-unbroken-chain

5.

true life- Belzar Beats

Just listened to all of Belzar's beats. He has a ton of bangers, check him out!


https://soundcloud.com/belzarbeats/true-life#t=0:01

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Tristan “Tanjint Wiggy” Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx and member of the Inland Empire’s West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on twitter @Wiggism or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com.

Compton: A Write-Up By Tanjint Wiggy

  Bought physical copy of Dre’s Compton yesterday, learned more in 7 minutes reading the booklet than 7 weeks of Facebook handwringing. Some stuff that I think got overlooked when the album was being discussed when it was only available on iTunes without the credits easy to access:

  Dr.Dre co-produced 8 beats over 7 tracks (involved in both beats on Darkside/Gone) on the 16 track album, just about half. To put that in context, the only album you or anyone has heard in the last decade and a half that has a substantial amount of beats produced by Dr.Dre without co-producers is 2009’s “Relapse” album by Eminem, which really is a great record in my opinion. Dre produced about 13 of its 15 tracks and about 10 of those with no co-producer. In many ways I see Eminem’s “Relapse” as the ultimate culmination of “Detox” whose title has similar themes (drug recovery). Dre meant it to say he’s not relying on weed culture for his classic albums and Eminem had an actual Detox situation so I am not at all tripping that Compton: a soundtrack really does exist on the border of album and soundtrack, being more of an album than 1996’s Dr.Dre Presents…The Aftermath but less of an album than 1999’s 2001. Dre mixed every song, usually with help, notably with Premier on “Animals”. His old bassists, guitarists and keyboardists L.A. Dre, Mike Elizondo, Mike Resto and Scott Storch are nowhere to be found on this album. Dre raps on about 14 of the album’s 16 tracks, giving it its narrative about his life and N.W.A largely. Knowing what I know now about the music process, the fact that he mixed every track means more to me creatively now than when his last albums came out. Further context: N.W.A’s work was co-produced with DJ Yella. The Death Row work was heavily co-produced by Warren G, Daz and to a lesser extent Soopafly. The Chronic 2001 was co-produced almost entirely by Mel-Man with the exception of the final track which Dr.Dre did not even co-produce at all. It’s not new that Dre’s contributions are co-produced. Even mid-90’s Death Row singles like “Keep the Heads Ringin’” are co-produced by Sam Sneed.

Some more interesting tidbits about the album:

DJ Premier produced “Animals”. Can’t believe this wasn’t discussed on any threads I saw.

King Mez and Justus are writing Dre’s verses for the most part, some by Kendrick.

Snoop has no writing credits on either song he appears on. Who ya gonna call?!?

Ice Cube has no writing credits on the song he appears on. WHO YA GONNA CALL?!?

  Vocalists like Slim the Mobster and Candice Pillay appear on tracks they are not listed as features on such as “One Shot One Kill” and the final track on the record…Slim the Mobster was signed to Aftermath around 2006-2007 and his “additional vocals” on “Diary” at the end of the album is the only official appearance I’ve seen of his on any Aftermath project. He might just mainly be one of Dre’s writers but I stay thinking that for every Eminem and Snoop there’s a Hittman and Bishop Lamont; no guarantees in this game even if you signed to Dre.

Dre did not co-produce the song the Game appears on.

Dem Jointz is an insane beast. He has the best beats on the album and the two best in my opinion “Genocide” and “Satisfiction” are produced by Dem Jointz and others but not by Dre.

Y’all notice that Cold187UM is on this record? That’s amazing for those of us who followed the Ruthless/Dre saga over the decades. Just some thoughts on the album as an album:

  Every beat on this album is memorable and successful. Like Kendrick’s work, the content will make it less re-listenable to old guys like me than is ideal, but like punk, music this aggressive is targeting 16-22 year olds primarily though this music is so strong anyone can enjoy it and I do. It delivers on the promise of Kendrick’s first album – to come back to the end of the novel that Dr. Dre started with N.W.A’s work. Even eponymously- whereas N.W.A is Straight Outta, Dr.Dre and Aftermath and more characters from throughout his career are taking the listener into Compton. I wrote a review on the west coast connection forums (dubcc.com) of Kendrick’s first record where I say something like….it’s well done but all in all it reveals that in 25 years plus Dre’s music’s saga has only ended up about 5 miles from where it started. I did mean that as a jab at the time but this album completes the idea in a way that makes me revise the thought- I would call it the last gangsta rap album if I didn’t know that there’s all too many posers out there still itching to rhyme “trigger” with the n-word on their next record. For MY intents and purposes- this is the last gangsta rap album: it ties up and addresses the political implications of gangster rap, has a more mature attitude with less glorification of the Compton life it describes than the late 80’s work from these same people.

Some less holistic notes:

  The performances from Snoop on this record are insane, as are Kendrick’s and Eminem’s. The new male vocalists are good but they all kind of sound the same, even Snoop and Dre’s voices are tuned in a way that they sound similar to each other and other male vocalists on the record. I remember a mid-2000’s interview with Dr.Dre about Detox in which he said his next album won’t be about highlighting the artist with his beats but using the artists to tell a larger story, to be one instrument in the symphony of the album or even like an actor in an audio movie. He delivered on this because he gave the record a consistent sound, especially vocally, which reminds me – anyone notice how the song with Xzibit is a double time rap until Xzibit comes in and they give him an easier boom-bap beat? It’s super dope and it works for the song but I chuckled at that because I was excited to hear X2thaZ bust on the first beat as I listened to it closely for the first time. Dre’s beats are all fantastic, I particularly like “It’s all on me”, “Deep water”, and “One shot one kill”. Dre does sit down with his ghost writers and explain to them what he wants to say in a given verse. This is done to satisfying effect on the record as he addresses everything from his old friendships with the members of N.W.A. to uncashed checks from the Eminem salad days.

  I’m surprised at the hate I’ve heard this record get, it’s really solid and I am not sure what folks were expecting. Soundtracks like Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case being outstanding compilations was already part of Dre’s legacy from the Death Row years and this album is a proud and probably classic addition to that tradition.

___________________ Tristan “Tanjint Wiggy” Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx and member of the Inland Empire’s West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on twitter @Wiggism or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com.

Grandmas Porch - P.S Write me back (Music Video) #OnMyMamaRecords

IE group Grandma's Porch release a visual for their song "P.S WRITE ME BACK". This video will guarantee to make you grin and reminisce at least once! Check it out after the break!