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  • » Name: Amanda Bassa
  • » Location: VA
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The Undisputed Truth

End of the Summer


September 02, 2008 | Tags: none

Although summer officially ends on September 22nd (you can thank my near-completion of a B.A. in Geography for my random knowledge of things like that), the summer in a cultural sense of the word ends after Labor Day weekend for most of us. The kids are likely to be in school again, the pools are getting ready to give up for the season, and it’s about to start getting colder. The seasons may be changing, but one thing that remains a constant is that there are artists out here in the DMV that stay grinding to put out tracks. I’ve gotten an incredible amount of stuff in the inbox over the course of the summer and figure I’ll end the summer by putting some stuff up for you to download and give a listen to.

 

First up we have a mixtape that you may have already heard, since the wonderful Shake posted it over at his corner of the internet a couple months ago. It’s entitled “The Hope” and is brought to you by Lyriciss. The D.C. emcee has another mixtape dropping in October, so if you like what you hear, be on the lookout because more is coming soon.

http://www.zshare.net/download/14661657efa65d9b/

 

Next on the list we have a mixtape that is a compilation of tracks from various DMV emcees, put together by my man Modi, Start Of the Line, and KNOWxONE. It features music from Tabi Bonney, Wale, NandoMcFlyy, Marky, T.E.F.L.O.N., RA the MC, Dirty Water, and more.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bnvuqr

 

Third we have a track from locals David E. Beats (DC) and Kendall Elijah (MD), entitled “We On”.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/17737615143f72fe/

 

I’ll end this post with a new track from Virginia’s R.E.U.B.. I met this guy at an event at GMU last semester (or was it two semesters ago? I really can’t remember) and was pleasantly surprised at the subject matter he chose to address in his songs and his overall disposition. He struck me as a guy that seemed to care about the world around him, and that’s always a plus in my book. He recently dropped a remix album entitled “The Billboard Insurgence: r.e.mixed”. He hit me with his latest track entitled “Overdrive”, and now I’m sharing it with you. This is one of those tracks you could play around your girl who may not share your gutter ass taste in music, and she’d probably enjoy it. We all need a few of these tracks in the repertoire.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/17915410b1c3a675/

 

I hope everybody had a safe and fun summer, and best wishes to everyone in their fall endeavors.


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