From the upcoming Soul Assassins album titled Intermission. Artwork created by Chase Tafoya, who was commissioned by Soul Assassins to do artwork for each track on the album.

Bun B + M1 – Gangsta Shit (prod. by DJ Muggs)
artwork by Chase Tafoya

Behind the scenes footage of the video for Classical, which should be out later this month. Peep the audio also. link

Another joint from the Soul Assassins’ Intermission album. I hope they make a video for this. Peace to Vega.

Rza – Intermission ft. B-Real, Planet Asia / snippet

When the beat dropped I started getting flashbacks to scenes from Manhunter. Especially that scene where the detective is on the beach but can’t stop thinking about the serial killer on the loose. Something about the 80s, sand and murder. I think it’s time I go to sleep. This track is off of Intermission, peace to Dj Muggs!

Sick Jacken And Evidence – Classical

New Soul Assassins album is coming out in June. Peace to K7. visit Soul Assassins, DJ Muggs

Soul Assassins- Intermission (June, 2009, Gold Dust)

1. Gangsta Shit – Bun B + M1
2. Classical – Sick Jacken & Evidence
3. Gunshots – Chace Infinite & Alchemist
4. Do It – La Coka Nostra
5. Rep Yo Shit – P.C.P (Sick Jacken &Necro)
6. Good Evening LA- Self Scientific
7. Meet Your Maker – Reef The Lost Cause & Outer Space
8. Intermission – RZA, Rev.William Burk, Planet Asia, B-Real
9. Champions ( Remix) – Prodigy & Big Twins
10. Let Go (My Life) – Fashawn
11. Like That Y’All – Planet Asia
12. World We’Re In – Cynic
13. Call It Like I Aee It – Chace Infinite & Krondon
14. Matchbox – Dust
15 Figure It Out – Young De feat. Xzibit & Mykestro (Bonus Track)

Featuring regular cohorts this is an intermission album between Soul Assassins 2 and the up-upcoming Soul Assassins 3 album/movie. Peace to Muggs.

Psycho Realm & Co. have launched an official blog á la Soul Assassins. Check SickSymphonies.com/blog for your regular dose of politicallly dark and sometimes conspiratorial hip-hop with a tinge of apocalyptic spirituality and counter culture materialism. Being from New York I remember how hard it was to get copies of their unreleased cd comps about 10 years ago or so. Even Napster was weak on Pyscho Realm from my memory. But what I do remember is that they were one of the first “underground” groups to have an official site. I think it might have been one of my first online mail-order purchases actually. I look forward to the direct access to their world perspective and more nuggets like this one. Peace & respect to Big Duke.

Sample Clearance

I used a break in this Queen song for “All Along The Watchtower”, which you can find on the Unreleased EP that’s been floating around the underground for about a decade now. It didn’t make the first album because Queen wouldn’t clear the sample. The reason being Duke’s line “they want me lifeless I might just/kill everyone of those faggots like a virus”. They took it personal because of what happened to their lead singer Freddie Mercury, who died of bronchopneumonia induced by HIV back in ‘91, one day after publicly announcing that he had the disease. We didn’t mean no disrespect Freddie.

Queen – Jealousy

Psycho Realm – All Along The Watchtower

Courtesy of Soul Assassins.

Cypress Hill – Caliente (Demo 1989)

Here’s a really rare recording of Cypress Hill off their 1989 demo tape that got them their first publishing deal. The demo was entirely in spanish and it was before any of the songs from the first album had been made. This track here features Sen Dog by himself over a very early Muggs beat that set the tone for what was to come.

This is some funny shit. Dj Solo puts the pop star-wannabe Shannon Eileen and Grammy winning producer/engineer (he mixed down the Fugees album) Warren Riker on blast. He produced the original beat to their almost-hit and is not happy with the limited props. “But what they don’t know is, no one fucks with DJ SOLO… DJ SOLO does the fucking!!!” Link

Dj Solo – Trigger Finger Instrumental

Here’s the deal. About 3 years ago I made a beat for an aspiring songstress named Shannon Eileen. She told me that she wanted a “James Bond girl” type sound but more on the hip-hop tip, so I made her this beat, later to be named “Trigger Finger”. I did the whole beat and even the melodies that she would eventually sing, but I didn’t have a proper studio to record in. She suggested I give the broken down tracks to her friend and Grammy winning producer, Warren Riker, who engineered everything from RUN-DMC’s worst album Crown Royal, to Sublime “compilation” after Brad was dead, to gay-ass Korn and racist-ass Lauren Hill. He then took my song, added a couple keyboard parts and then said he produced it and I got 1 writers credit that I share with Shannon because she wrote words to the melody I wrote. Apparently outside of the hip-hop world, “Producer” means adjusting a few levels after someone else does all the work. 3 years later, she has a video for the song and it’s on MTV’s The Real World and The Hills (which are 2 of the worst shows on the planet and are the basically the reason why the rest of the world hates us). That’s how the music business works, kids and because I was new, I got fucked. But what they don’t know is, no one fucks with DJ SOLO… DJ SOLO does the fucking!!!

So here you go MCs!!! A free ORIGINAL DJ SOLO beat for you to make a song from and the best one will get used on a future DJ SOLO mixtape. I put a new hook on the song which is a sample of Redman saying “When I pull my trigga finga, all y’all n-ggaz hit the deck!” So if you’re an MC, make it hard, this is revenge track! It can be in any language, from any country, but if you make a song, hit me up on my myspace with a link to download it. I will feature the top ones on the Soul Assassins blog as well.

Isn’t this copyright infringement you ask?? NO! Because they don’t own the samples in the song, so Shannon Eileen and Warren Riker are the ones breaking the law by selling this song that uses copyrighted samples. How do I know this? Because I have the records at home due to the fact that I produced the song. All 3 of the horn parts are from famous movies… can you guess which ones, Warren?

Funny promo video for Dj Solo’s mashup blend cd. Link

And here’s the full mix:

Dj Solo – Soloshmash (full mix)