Nights & Weekends – Never Let You Down

Never Let You Down - Old Creek Revival - EP

Here’s an awesome fusion track…plenty of hip hop, plenty of soul, plenty of rock. There’s a little something there for everyone. Definitely a feel good track to bump on a bright, sunny day (like we’re having here in Minneapolis at least).

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Junk Science – Wherego ft. Raad Haider & Scott Thorough

Wherego? (feat. Raad Haider & Scott Thorough) - Feeding Einstein (Deluxe Edition)

First off, thank you to everyone who shared Catchy Hip Hop with your social networks and friends (read post below if you didn’t read about this blog’s “audience drive”)! Every little bit helps. The past two days have been awesome and I hope some new people found some great music.

It is a beautiful day here in Minneapolis and this song is just the laid back tune I need. Turn the volume up on this one and enjoy some sweet, delicious sounds.

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Catchy Hip Hop Audience Drive!!

I realize this rare — editorializing and all. However, I have a favor to ask of all you reading this. Taking my queue from NPR, college, and non-commercial radio stations, I wanted to hold some sort of participatory drive. However, I’m not asking for money. I don’t want your money. I mean, I do because it would be nice to have it in my pockets when I need to buy milk and shit, but I don’t expect it.

But anyways, I’ve been doing this blog thing for one hot minute and really loving it. Not many people visit and I’m totally cool with that (but am always grateful to see that there are even 10 people visiting!). Why I’m running this blog is because one of my greatest pleasures in life is suggesting a song that I love to someone and they in return, derive the same pleasure out of that song as I do.  In fact, I’m having something of a quarter-century crisis because doing that isn’t a job and that is all I really want to do with my life: share beautiful music. Naturally, this is a good outlet then and I want to keep it going! So here’s where y’all come in:

Catchy Hip Hop’s First-Ever Audience Drive:

I propose that if you read this blog with any regularity, that you take one second from your day and help me out and share this blog with someone, anyone, anywhere! I’m asking this now because I’ve become completely jaded with hip hop and to be frank (sorry to switch personas on you), I just need some motivation to keep doing it.

One thing that you could do is find your favorite song that I’ve posted and use that link to share on your social networks. Or play a track from the blog for a friend and tell them where there’s more like them! Not only are you helping me and the blog’s growth, but the growth of tiny artists. I pride myself on not posting what a lot of other blogs are posting and go very very very far out of my way to find complete unknowns.

You can also tell them they can stay updated by following the blog on facebook and twitter

I’ll end my pleading here.

TL;DR Need motivation to keep this blog going! Share it with your friends!

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Duenday – Matt’s Cool Raps

Matts Cool Raps - Duenday

What do you get when you have an infectious beat with some good raps? A CHH track. This is one that you’ll want to turn up since the beat is a little quieter and there is plenty of nuance (ie the cowbell). Plus the group is from Minneapolis so it is hard to go wrong (that is a generalization — I’m pretty jaded by Minneapolis hip hop lately).

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Sage Francis & B. Dolan (aka Epic Beard Men) – 2BAD

Had to take a break from work to post this new Sage and B. Dolan track. Kind of has an oldschool, Beastie Boys-in-Sabotage feel. A certified banger? I guess I would classify it as that.

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Blaise B. – Lost Boy

Don’t know a thing about Blaise B. except that he’s from Chicago (I think). I would talk about why I think this song is catchy (which I do) but I think a person who reads this blog should do it. Or tell me why you don’t think it’s catchy. Or why you think this blog is a big stupid joke. IT WOULDN’T BE THE FIRST TIME AMIRIGHT.

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Humbly Crooked – Happy Dayz

Found these guys completely randomly and I have no idea where I can find any of their other material. It is a very fun mix of soul and hip hop that I’m really diggin’. So, Humbly Crooked, if you’re reading this, where can I listen to all of your music?

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Def Letter – Last Call

Last Call - Social Introduction

I’m so extremely hype on this track!! I think what is most appealing about this song is that unlike most hip hop tracks, it doesn’t depend on the drum which totally mixes up the dynamic. Drums are so fundamental to rap that when the drum isn’t the forefront of a beat, I get a little flustered…and I like it. It showcases the guitar loops and layering and the rapping so much more and for the subject matter of this particular tune, it somehow reinforces the emotional elements of the verses.

Rap mumble jumble, blah blah blah, listen to the song, it’s frickin’ awesome.

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Bleubird – Hello Hallow ft. Astronautalis

Hello Hallow (feat. Astronautalis) - Cannonball!!!

Thanks to my friend Katie E. for suggesting this one! This song showcases intricate lyricism but between the topic of the song and the beat, which is maybe a little more playful and less passionate than the lyrics, you get a pretty interesting dynamic.

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Fraction & Fresh Kils – That’s A Rap ft. Mister E

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Drum heavy tracks like this one always get me rockin’ This particular track has a sense of urgency about it that I find infectious. Smooth raps and boom baps. Peep it.

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