Video: Noah Caine - "The Genesis, The Beginning"...

Via Hip-Hop site Ashley Outrageous:

" Queens is definitely still in the building with evidence of that being Noah Caine. In case you haven’t been following his releases, he remains 3 for 3 on the buildup to his upcoming project Noah Caine: The Pre-Season, which is set to release later this month. The above is a trailer for the tape, and below is a statement from Noah. This tape is going to be crack, you read that here first.

'We are all Rookies.
We hope to make it from the streets to the boardrooms, or the bright lights, cheers and admiration of the millions upon millions of people worldwide. You have to start somewhere. You have to have a genesis. From the ground up, until the crown’s up. Are you ready?' "

Looks very, very promising!

Check out "Noah Caine: The Pre-Season" when it drops later this month.

Follow Noah Caine on Twitter: @NoahCaine


Via Ashley Outrageous

You Didn't Know: Hey, We've been busy...

...But we'll never stop ticking. If you take a look at the live reader "check-in" traffic feed, in the right column below our affiliates, you'll see that the ABM New York City site is constantly being used by the masses to get their daily dosage of DOPE whether it be Hip-Hop, fashion tid-bits, or other miscellaneous ends. Yeah!

We're always striving to give our readers the right blend of under-ground material as well as mainstream. (Cool right?!)

We thank you for your continued viewership!

Definitely Abstract, New York.


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New Music: PreZZure (@PreZZure) - Last Words...

@PreZZure said:

" The following will be the outro to my album "Darkside Of The Good Guy". 11.13.11. Enjoy. "

Sounds good, we'll look out for that and put you guys on. Queens, New York, has hope.

Connect with PreZZure:

www.PreZZure.net
www.twitter.com/PreZZure
www.PreZZure.tumblr.com
www.myspace.com/iAmPreZZure

New Music: Blu, Freddie Gibbs & Homebody Sandman – In...

Off Homebase NYC's compilation effort featuring some of the newest rhymesayers from abroad as well as in our own back yards. You can grab the full effort off of the Homebase NYC Bandcamp page. So go...

Listen/ Download below:

Mixtape: Hi-Jynx Presents "Your Love: Smells Like Money" (Tracklist + DL)...

Tracklist:

1) Intro
2) Vickie Vale
3) Pursuit
4) Paradise
5) Like a Kid Again
6) Skit 1
7) Got Me
8) The Seats
9) Wings
10) Skit 2
11) Winter Without You feat. Mr. Reed
12) Stop & Go
13) Kryptonite
14) Outro

Hi-Jynx says:

"My previous effort “Music Monday” was an exhibition effort. This effort, “Your Love: Smells Like Money”, is a step in the direction of more coherent records. Together they are themed and individually they stand out from what I’ve done in the past. I have a snippet of a record on the project that’s floating around now and the response has been crazy. Its heavily geared towards females without diving into R&B territory, I believe that gives listeners something to anticipate because its rarely done by a hip-hop artist these days."

Do yourself a favor and download this beautiful gem right here. It really is the epitome of New York Hip-Hop

Download Link - Hi-Jynx Presents "Your Love: Smells Like Money"

New Music: Hi-Jynx - Paradise...

Listen/ Download Here. Hi-Jynx - Paradise

" Hi-Jynx Presents: "Your Love: Smells Like Money" is an artistic compilation chronicling the beautiful, as well as passionate, emotion of your Summer days & nights.

To be released in North America, Canada and Europe for FREE digital download in late August. "

Off the upcoming effort Hi-Jynx Presents: "Your Love: Smells Like Money" due out sometime in August.

Stay Tuned, we definitely are!

For more updates on what Hi-Jynx is currently up to, visit his ever so popular Twitter page:

@JynxUrself

&

JynxUrself.com

Video: Kalae All Day - O.G.LYRIKALBOOKBAGGER f/Homeboy Sandman...

Here's the latest offering from the prolific, multi-talented Femcee Kalae...and it's in the form of a video!!!


Don't forget to pick up her recently released effort
Afromatikneohippierocksolemusic on her Bandcamp profile.

Watch Kalae do her thing and show you why she's a true O.G.

Catch up with Kalae while she tweets on the go!

@Kalae

Video: GTDS Presents "Sunday At The Dojo"...

" While out in N.Y. for my mans Hi-Jynx “Doubt” video shoot, I was entered into a Ski Beatz sponsored Beat Battle at the last minute (Shouts to Tony Billz), while I can’t release that footage, I got a dope cosign and put together some quick shots of some of the music (from 24 Hour Karate School) and people at DD172 and The Dojo.

I’ll up Part 2 with the footage from the Hi-Jynx video shoot a little later. "


One of our affiliate sites GiveTheDrummaSome.com posts footage of his travels to NYC from CT to compete in a beat battle sponsored by veteran producer Ski Beatz. While he doesnt give away too much (We guess he's saving it for the anticipated Part Two) he does provide some clever editing in the process.

Enjoy!

Via GiveTheDrummaSome

New Music: J Face - Wasted Talent...

Listen/ Download Here. J Face - Wasted Talent

Here's the second single off of J Face's effort Still Aight.

This is what the man himself has to say about the track:

"Wasted Talent touches on a subject very common to our society, especially in the entertainment business; drug/alcohol and abuse. There's been more than a handful of successful individuals who fell victim to substance abuse, and even some on the verge of success not making it to their full potential. As role models to the younger generation, I think its important that this issue is pushed because this is all we see on-screen. There's more to these individuals than whats portrayed by the media."

Dope check it out!

Fell free to follow him on Twitter Here

@JFaceProducer

Video: America Isn't That Dumb...

Senator Al Franken draws a map of the 50 united States from his memory.

Can you even name all 50?

Didn't think so.

*We don't know what people have more of a hard time grasping...How Senator Al Franken can draw this up from memory, or how President Obama can draw up a health care reform based on real issues facing the country.

Hmmm.

Oh You Hate Harlem??? Pt. 2...

We, being New York residents must always acknowledge the roots of our city. For those who are not natives of this wonderful place it may serve as a shocker to you that we actually have come from a very dark, disturbing period which many rather forget. Many children were birthed from a time where it wasn't fairly easy to grab a skateboard and stroll down 14th street while blasting Lupe's newest single.

In a multiple part series we will pass these visuals on to you.

Learn, New York.

*The continuation. Here is the second installment of the previous post you can find Here.

*Previous Post: Oh You Hate Harlem??? Pt. 1...


The children of an area can tell of the hardship, or lack thereof, of an environment. The children of generations past and generations to come may or may not symbolize a significant social struggle, but will more than likely reflect the technological prowess or scrutiny of the world.

The children...

















" The blacks' own view of Harlem is directly opposite the white liberal one since they cannot see only the dismal in the ghetto without going insane. "










" They (Opressors who the photographer deems the 'White Upper Class') will look at the flourishing culture thriving in the midst of the oppression, be heartened by the fact that the
majority of Harlem's population are surviving - see the many roses that manage to grow up in this jungle. "







It is obvious to us, and should be to you, that the social progress we make in this city is a task within itself.

It is simply because New York has grown. Out of its childhood.



Stay tuned for the final posts of this series.

Please Pardon Us As We Prepare To Upgrade...

Hello,

Simple is as simple does. Extraordinary is as simple isn't. We are none of the above however everything that lies underneath the surface composes our drive. The good, the bad. The failure, the success. The hunger, the starvation.

While we embark on projects and...life in general, all we ask is for your continued investment of ideas, feedback, and interest. Thank you for the emails, the comments, the beef, the headache and the laughs.

We'll be right back after these words from our sponsors to bring you a new and generally refreshing aesthetic.

In the mean time enjoy the posts where they may fall.

Thank You.



Stay on the grind, New York.

Oh You Hate Harlem??? Pt.1...

We, being New York residents must always acknowledge the roots of our city. For those who are not natives of this wonderful place it may serve as a shocker to you that we actually have come from a very dark, disturbing period which many rather forget. Many children were birthed from a time where it wasn't fairly easy to grab a skateboard and stroll down 14th street while blasting Lupe's newest single.

In a multiple part series we will pass these visuals on to you.

Learn, New York.






















" Everything in Harlem is black - except all business which are owned by whites and immigrants. The only stores that are not owned by whites, the street people will tell you, are the omnipresent funeral homes, since white undertakers will have nothing to do with black bodies. Being an undertaker is one of the surest ways of reaching middle-class status. For death is as ubiquitous in Harlem as the fear haunting everybody beneath the uneasy sporadic laughter. Yet I feel safer as a member of the ever-present invisible "$%*#@%" in Harlem than most blacks are, for as always in slavery, aggression is aimed towards fellow victims rather than towards the hated oppressor. "



" This funeral home next to a drug rehabilitation center illustrates clearly the unremitting choice you have in Harlem - the choice between an instant death or an enslaved life under The Man. Thousands of addicts choose the door on the left. "





" This woman is a living illustration of the constant choice in Harlem. A mad attacker had broken into her apartment and tried to kill her with a big knife. She survived by jumping out a window on the third floor - and was crippled for life. "





" They are not only victims of that violence, but are capable of hitting back with all the viciousness injected into them by the 'American way of life.' Often on the roofs of New York I helped tie up these bound souls. On certain street corners in Harlem you see thousands of addicts every day waiting for heroin."




" At night not even the police dare move in these neighborhoods from whose shooting galleries we sometimes could enjoy an incredible view of the "big needle" on the Empire State Building. In my vagabond years I could easily knock the guns from listless heroin addicts, but the far more dangerous crack today makes addicts so paranoid that they riddle everyone around with bullets. "







" This man, who had been an addict for 16 years, suffered from malnutrition and running sores all over his body. He was unable to find any more healthy spots to shoot up in and therefore had to take the foul-smelling bandage off his leg to find a vein. "



" He suffered terribly and knew all too well that he had less than two years left to live. Therefore he had nothing to lose, and urged me to show the pictures to the world in order to frighten other young people so that they should never come to suffer like himself. "





Stay tuned for more.