Download HERE!

T-West gives us his re-interpretation of Drizzy’s latest; taking the hook, dropping his own 16, and giving it a nice uptempo electro-twist. It definitely doesn’t hurt to be an emcee AND a producer.

Oh, and if you’ve been looking for something new from the kid West (I’m still bumpin’ “T-dot State Of Mind”!) peep his myspace page for two new joints that definitely keep him on my ‘one to watch’ list

(not that I have an official ‘one to watch’ list but, you know what I mean).

Directed by Jordan Towers

Seen on HHC!

Off Belly’s new mixtape “Back For The First Time” with Dj Smallz dropping October 27th.

Download “So Gone” HERE!

Seen on HHC!

Download HERE!

If you were wondering what’s been up with Bishop Bigante from say ’04 to now, I’d say this freestyle pretty much sums it up nicely. Original beat? I don’t know, impossible to tell nowadays.

Some new Gucci joints feat. Drizzy (seen on 2DBz):

Gucci Mane – In My Business f. Drake & Sean Garrettt
Gucci Mane – Street Cred f. Drake & Killer Mike

A nice joint off Wolfe J’s mixtape (DL link below). Shouts to G!. Rich Kidd comes nice on the beat (as per usual) and KJ shows why he’s one of the most promising artists in the city.

Wolfe J – Backpack Dreams feat. KJ (Prod. by Rich Kidd)

Previous: MIXTAPE: Wolfe J – UpSideDownDay tapemix

Via 2DBz:

“I’ve been hearing about this record for quite sometime. And I must say… it’s pretty dope (although it still might be an unfinished version). Off Timbaland’s Shock Value 2. Shouts to DJ Neptune.”

Update via NR: “Both the bonus joints had ref(erence) in the filenames so it’s safe to say they aren’t finished as well. Believe It Or Not is a Gucci track featuring Drake and neither will be on Thank Me Later.”

DOWNLOAD: Timbaland – Say Something f. Drake | Mediafire
BONUS: Drake – Believe It Or Not f. Gucci Mane | Mediafire
BONUS2: Drake – King Leon | Mediafire

Via NR and poduced by the birthday boy. No tags version!

Birdman feat. Drake – More Milli (prod. Boi-1da)

From FarBeyond Entertainment’s Footnotes blog!

Part II of Chris Shaban’s editorial piece “In Defense Of Drake”:

You’ll read this if you’re a real hip-hop fan.

Part II

Thanks for coming back here to read Part II at Cityonmyback.com. To be totally honest, I wasn’t expecting so many rap peeps to get at me, especially with cool sites like this one picking it up, so I have tried to make this edition a little more Hip-Hop than Part I (Which after reading it online sounded more like a biography on a person (me) that you’ve never heard of and probably don’t care about.)  I got enough ‘Shabby, what the bloodclotare you talking about?’ to last me a lifetime. Because each site is different, I have worked with Ty to post it here in a unique way.  To make it easier to read on this site, the FootNotes will actually appear right after the sentence in parenthesis and blue text.  It makes its seem really LONG that way, but it’s super easy to read.  If you want to view it in actual ‘FootNotes’, where you can roll over the word with your mouse and the blurb pops up in a neat little box, click the link above that says ‘FootNotes blog!’ right under the Drizzy studio picture.

As I previously mentioned, the idea for this article was originally two fold. First was to help the my company’s current and potential corporate partners understand a little bit about the benefits of investing advertising dollars in Canadian Hip-Hop (I guess it’s a little disappointing that we have much less issue acquiring support and booking shows for other genres, but still struggle with Rap. Now, of course, the blame isn’t 100% on the shoulders of the companies and schools for that. It is VERY fair to say that the quality of music and level of execution by many folks (but not all, mind you) who consider themselves to represent Hip-Hop on a boardroom level here in Canada just hasn’t been getting the job done. And that’s not really an opinion, right? Like Maestro Fresh Wes was more than 20 years ago, and we still really don’t have too much to show as far as financial or mainstream success goes in Canadian Rap music. However, within that fact, the companies and schools aren’t totally off the hook on the matter as there is still something to be said for being ‘ahead of the curve’. We still have a long way to go but I hope even this little blog and any other positive efforts for the cause will keep the forward momentum going.) The second being the need to relate to College & University Event Programmers in an effort to see an increase in the Urban shows at campuses across the country. That is why the original blog is still housed at blog.farbeyond.ca. But, hey, this bad boy can also be taken as strictly entertainment, and I’m ultra cool with that too…

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Download!

Omarion – Electric
Lloyd – I’m Wit It
Janet Jackson – Rock With You
Brandy – Drum Life
Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland – Promiscuous
Keri Hilson – Control Me
Beyonce – Beautiful Nightmare
Melanie Durrant – Where I’m Going
Kanye West feat. Mr. Hudson – Paranoid
Missy Elliott – Lickshots
Casely – Drunk Dial
Kim Davis – Valentine 4 Life
Solange – Sand Castle
JS – Ice Cream
Beady Belle – Moderation

Previously: The Boogeyman (TBM) – The Burn (October 13th 2009)