"I'm Floating Through the Night on a Red Eye, Red Eye"

After a quick first lap around Indicud, I'm already ready to pick a favorite track on the album. I can't say it's a surprise because when I caught wind of Scotty's collabo with Haim, it shot to the top of my most anticipated tracks right behind this one. There's an undeniable calmness about Red Eye that is addictive. The sisters are quickly becoming one of my favorite up and comers because of tracks like this one and Falling. It's a little strange that Cudi only chips in background vocals on Red Eye, but sometimes helping produce the track with Hit Boy and getting the hell outta the way is the best way to go. I'm going to have this on very heavy repeat over the next week or so...#Indicud

Kid Cudi feat Haim - Red Eye (prod by Hit Boy)

"I am Houston, Rep it Hard"

I'll be the first to admit, I didn't really know Beyonce was from Houston, Texas. Matter of fact, other than Kirko Bangz, there really hasn't been an R&B artist that has repped H-town and participated in the screwed and chopped movement. That all changed today when Houston as a collective came together to support Beyonce's new one off her upcoming Mrs. Carter album. Check the fan made video below for the original version of the track that will be on the album...

I Been On is proof that no matter who you are, you can embody the tough "Houston" sound with a little screwed/chopped treatment. I never thought I'd say the words, "man that new Bey track is tough!", but today that happened thanks to help from Houston All-Stars Bun B, Z-Ro, Willie D of Geto Boys, Slim Thugga, and Lil Keke. Oh and in case you missed it, Beyonce is about to begin touring the globe, so there's a good chance she'll be coming somewhere near you...#IBeenOn

Beyonce Ft. Bun B, Z-Ro, Scarface, Willie D, Slim Thug, Lil Keke – “I Been On (Remix) (prod by Hit Boy)

"You're the One That I've Been Searching For, Joy"

Back in October @RyanMcDMusic made a splash with his G.O.O.D. Music debut single Paradise. I swung and missed posting it, so if you're like me and missed it, check it out below...

It shouldn't surprise many people that the best Hip Hop record labels like @G_O_O_D_Music and Young Money are expanding beyond just Hip Hop into Pop and EDM by recruiting artists like @itsKevinRudolf and @HudMo. If I were asked to compare Ryan McDermott to say...Kevin Rudolf, I'd say they both compete in the same Pop realm with Ryan taking more of the R&B/Jazz style, while Kevin takes a more alt rock approach. Ryan's new one below has a breezy, calypso R&B vibe to it with @Hit_Boy pitching in a verse and production on the track. It's harmonious, uplifting and shows off Ryan's vocal potential quite well. Hopefully artists like Ryan can help fill this gaping void of talent in R&B right now...#Joy

Ryan McDermott feat Hit-Boy - Joy (prod by Hit-Boy)

"I Know My Limit & I Ain't Had Enough"

The last Hip Hop beat I heard that was this bangin' was Clique. Interestingly enough, that beat was also produced by @G_O_O_D_Music member @Hit_Boy, who is responsible for the soon to be hit below. For those folks who couldn't tell what T.U. means based on lyrical context or the cover art above, it stands for "Turnt Up" or as Urban Dictionary puts it below:

thee act of getting drunk and high to thee highest degree

Yea you get the picture, it's a new word for getting buckwild that the kids are using these days. As if we needed another acronym to use during chat. Anyways, the track features verses from @ItsaPROBLEM, @AudioPush, @therealjuicyj, and is scheduled to surface on Hit Boy's new Hits Since '87 compilation album All I Ever Dreamed Of. You can bet that album is going to have a lot of good features and be just as G.O.O.D. as it sounds...#AllIveEverDreamed

Hit Boy - T.U. (feat. Audio Push, Problem, & Juicy J)

"Ain't No Nobody F'in With My Clique"

Not much to say about the track below, it speaks very loudly for itself. With a beat done up by @Hit_Boy that has the essence of grandeur both @kanyewest and @s_c_ thrive on, you can tell after a minute that there aren't many competitors in the game that can put out something as hot as this. Shoot even @bigsean gets in where he fits in with a quality verse and a memorable hook.

No more rhetoric is necessary for hyping Clique other than to say it will surface on G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer LP due out on September 18th. Hip Hop simply doesn't get more refined or crisp than what's below...#ClassicShit

Big Sean Kanye West Jay-Z - Clique (prod by Hit-Boy)

Videos of the Week August 24th

Usually when you think of a video girl, the first thought that comes to mind is a raunchy makin' it rain Rap video. Well, it would appear @diplo took that stereotype and flipped it on it's head with a stunning video that showcases the female form, but in a graceful and more artistic way. Sure my view is extremely skewed because what man doesn't enjoy women cascading down a stripper pole in all sorts of postures, but on the salacious scale, this one has to rank on the lower end. I'm I off base on that one ladies?

Other than that, it appears @liltunchi made some waves with his anti-New York opinion. I'd probably not like the state I had to spend a year in jail in either if I was him. Sure, there are much better reasons for his opinion, but to garner comments from a http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/nyregion/malcolm-smith-demands-apology-for-lil-waynes-insult-to-new-york.html? C'mon MAN!!

Diplo feat Laserdisk Party Sex - Set it Off (Video)

Hit Boy feat Kid Cudi - Old School Caddy (Video)

Lil Wayne Doesn't Like New York

B.O.B. feat Nicki Minaj - Out of My Mind (Video)

Trey Songz feat Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy - Hail Mary (Video)

"Old School Caddy or a New School Benz"

In a perfect world, producers wouldn't need to employ rappers to drop verses over their instrumentals to create new music. Wouldn't it be cool if they could pull a @JColeNC, @kanyewest, or @timbaland and do it all themselves five-tool style like @TheRealMattKemp from the production to the verses? Unfortunately, it's more often the exception than the rule, so when it happens, I tend to freely give dap to recognize such feats.

What does all this have to do with a new @hit_boy track? Well, you may or may not be aware that Hit-Boy was behind the boards on @liltunchi's and @eminem's Drop the World, Jigga and Kanye's N****a's in Paris, and most recently @djkhaled's Wish You Would. In an effort to get himself a combo meal, it would appear Hit-Boy is preparing to take flight on his own solo gig with his new @wizardcud featured single Old School Caddy. Real simply put, the rolling thump of the beat is what will reel you in on the track below. Sure, the Cudi verse is icing on the cake, but the track as a whole takes a page out of Outkast's stylistically, which is a breath of fresh air in my book...#CaddyOverBenz

Hit Boy feat Kid Cudi - Old School Caddy

"1, 2 Them Boys Coming For You, 3, 4, Better Lock Your Door"

In an attempt to keep up with @Pitbull's album a year pace, @DJKHALED is back at it with a new album in the oven. The first single, Take it to the Head, has gotten some decent traction on Top 40, but single #2 below is going to blow it out of the water. Most of that is because most people will hear @kanyewest and @rickyrozay on the same track and probably buy it based solely on that. Sure the hook is catchy too, but the bass heavy, trap anthem beat cooked up by @Hit_Boy deserved a large slice of that credit pie.

Khaled's new album Kiss the Ring is set to drop August 21st. Like every other album he's released it will be chalked full of high powered cameos from the likes of Ace Hood, T-Pain, Plies, Future, Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Ludacris, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Trae Tha Truth, Mystikal, Big Sean, Vanessa Hudgens, Kid Ink, Birdman, Ice Cube, Fat Joe, Game, Twista, Rick Ross & Maybach Music Group artists (Meek Mill, Wale, & More), R. Kelly, Ghostface Killah, Young Jeezy, Jill Scott, Flo Rida, Drake, French Montana, Young Money & Cash Money. My only question is, who isn't going to be on the album? Word has it @eminem or @drdre might drop a verse on the album too, which would be a whole hell of a lot more noteworthy than the usual suspects above. We'll see if that comes to fruition, but even if it doesn't you can bet there will be at least three more Top 40 singles on the disc, which should make it a solid modern day compilation...#CantHateOnThat

DJ Khaled feat Kanye West & Rick Ross - I Wish You Would (prod by Hit-Boy)
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"Aero Dynamic, Roof Panoramic, My Credit Score Let the Dealer Take Full Advantage"

New track off @PUSHA_T's upcoming mixtape Fear of God, which was slated for a September 2010 release, but was pushed waaay back to early '11. As a team, Pusha and @malice757 made up a fearsome duo that made a lot of great music as the Clipse. When it comes to going solo though, it's clear why Kanye scooped up Pusha to join G.O.O.D. Music. If you need any evidence, give another listen to King Push's verse on Kanye's Runaway. (Honorable mention to his verse on Christian Dior Denim Flow)

Recent tracks aside, his new track My God, featuring the production from @hitboy_SC makes a clear statement that his new solo material is not to be slept on. Sure it's one thing to get a few high profile features (like I mentioned above), but to do it on your own, with your sound that mixes dope beats from up and coming producers to go along with you're already renowned flow...it's like making a jump from Double A to the bigs. Who lotta people can make it to Double A off a couple breaks, knowing people and some talent, but not everyone can hit that 98 mph fastball like Pusha. Literally no gimmicks or candy coated hooks on this one, just bar after bar over a back and forth beat with hint of organ throughout. Oh yea and lots and lots of talk about that white girl...

I say Amen! to all the top notch acts like@kanyewest and @eminem deciding this year to sign a whole bunch of under appreciated, undersold, legitimately underrated artists like your @PUSHA_T's, @bigsean's, @yelawolf's and @DaRealSlaughter's. I caution though, we saw what happened when a whole lotta great talent came together under one roof, lots of mixed results so far. Hopefully, Hip Hop isn't the same and my comparison will turn out to be apples to oranges. We'll see, but for now you should be excited about the prospects of Pusha T putting out a full length anything, whether that be a mixtape or a studio album. Oh yea and do yourself a favor and cop anything coming outta the @SurfClubMusic right now from the likes of @chasencashe or @hitboy_SC, everything I'm hearing from that camp screams BUY! for 2011...

Pusha T - My God (prod by Hit Boy)

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808 check: Hit Boy & Chase n Cashe - Ahh Sh**

Put it this way, just hearing this track prompted me to burn a bass mix to hear on the car speakers. Well worth it, as you have @hitboy_SC, a platinum producer for Eminem, Lil Wayne, Diddy, Snoop, etc teaming up with @chasencashe to form much of the team known as @surfclubmusic, which is more or less a conglomeration of great production talent mostly. You might have heard Drake shouting Chase n Cashe on 9 AM in Dallas:

"Yeah I try to tell them don’t judge me because you heard stuff

Chase N’ Cashe that’s my brother from the Surf Club"

 It may not be til now or even later because you're a huge skeptic, but there will be a time where you guys hear about and know about The Surf Club.

Check the video for the track below and feel free to press play below...

Hit Boy & Chase n Cash - Ahh Sh**
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Raise You Glasses....Surf Club - Cheers to the Hustler

Producer Chase N' Cashe (Young Money, Lil Wayne) has a young squad of musicians/artists that form The Surf Club. The group consist of Hit-Boy, B. Carr, Chili Chil & Cashe , as well as the very underrated TY$L is on the hook. TY$L is so unheard of, I challenge you to go find his myspace. In face I'll take it a step further and give a little unsigned hype love with TY$L on the hook:

YG feat TY$L - Toot It & Boot It Unsigned Hype!!!


Back to the lecture at hand...Surf Club, they seem to be a talent bunch of cats coming together with a whole lot of great production. They are self described as a mixture between NERD and Dipset. Let me connect the dots here, I may not have made proper mention of this when I posted Lil Wayne's Drop the World track with Eminem, but in the fine print you would have noticed that song is produced by Hit Boy & Chase N Cash. Similarly, you may notice on my New Music bar on the right a certain BANGIN! track titled Pass the Dutch by Young Money feat Lil Wayne & Drake. Bet you can't guess who that is produced by?? Let me go another step further by saying both producers (Hit Boy and Chase N Cash) work under Polow Da Don's Zone 4 label, most recently known for driving the success of Keri Hilson's blossoming career, as well as Ciara and Rich Boy etc. Despite the sun not being able to get to them, it seems like anything underneath that Zone 4, Polow umbrella is pretty hot at the moment.

Seeing that songs that I like usually have the same shelf life as a banana (I'm talking when it's green and you get it from the grocery store and it's brown by the end of the week), when a song gradually grows on me like this one and I end up having a growing appreciation for the way a track is put together (i.e. that banana gets greener the longer it sits on top of the counter), that's telling. It's a gift and a curse being consistently haughty and promiscuous with music because like Jigga I'm always "On to the Next One", but having the self awareness to understand that allows me to use it for a barometer for certain songs like this one that are better than I first gave it credit for on first listen. You got me?

This track remind me of how much I enjoy Hip Hop ballads. Soft tone, strong words, smooth vibe...great ingredients. For all of you at home who care enough to know who is on what verse, 1st - Hit-Boy, 2nd - B.Carr, 3rd - Chili Chil, 4th - Chase N. Cashe. Check it out:

Surf Club feat TY$L - Cheers to the Hustler (prod by Hit Boy) HOT!!!