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When super producer J Dilla passed away in 2006, few could claim they felt the loss more than Madlib. He and Dilla had come together to present one of the most critically claimed albums of 2003, Champion Sound, and were planning on coming together again to continue to bring jaw-dropping soundscapes to the masses for years to come. It wasn't meant to be. Since the loss of J-Dilla, Jaylib's other half has continued pushing his beat factory to its limits, interweaving solo projects dedicated to or predicated by Dilla's spirit in with EPs and albums highlighting some of today's most underrated lyricists and singers. Madlib is the textbook definition of a "über-producer", one who raises the bar consistently in quality and quantity, leaving a legacy few (besides his partner J-Dilla) could even come close to touching. But, as Roger Guenver Smith said as he portrayed Huey P. Newton in the critically-acclaimed A Huey P. Newton Story, "Everyone wants to bring you flowers when you die, no one gives you a bowl of soup to help keep you alive." It is in this context, Dub MD and Cyrano would like to present a "bowl of soup" to Madlib entitled Madicinal Libationz.

Cyrano's horizons are set even higher for 2009 as he attempts to add to his ever-growing, Madlib-esque catalog, including releasing 3 albums, Back 2 Lyfe (produced by Centric for Free At Last Music Group) and Soul Train Dancer: A Tribute To Rosie Perez (produced by JSLIKK for Backpackers Anonymous Music Group) along with SOBEIT (produced by Kid Hum for House Of Waxx Recordings) Also, be on the lookout as the RockTheDub website will be releasing a mixtape with Cy Yung entitled The Bleu Bayou Project. In addition to all that Dub MD with be connecting once again with Detroit emcee Nametag for Classic Cadence Vol. 2 and once again with the diabolical genius that is Illmind for Blaps, Rhymes & Life Vol. 3 in the next couple of months, stay tuned!

01. Pacification (Produced By Madlib & Mamao)
02. Mongrels (Produced By Quasimoto)
03. Da Boom (Produced By Quasimoto)
04. Delusions Of Slander (feat. Naturel) (Produced By Madlib)
05. SONAR (Produced By Madlib)
06. Forcefeel (feat. SiLent Knight) (Produced By Madlib)
07. Madagascar (Produced By Quasimoto)
08. How You Feel (feat. Access Immortal) (Produced By Quasimoto)
09. Montego Bay (feat. Ill Poetic) (Produced By Madlib & Mamao)
10. O.K. Corral (Produced By Madlib)
11. P.A.T.O.I.S. (feat. Wordsmith & Junclassic) (Produced By Madlib)
12. Red Bird (Produced By Madlib)
13. Vowel Movements (Produced By Madlib)
14. Wrapsure (Produced By Madlib)
15. Goin' Back To El Segundo (feat. Dominque Larue) (Produced By Madlib)
16. A Hard Drive (Produced By Madlib)
17. Aftershox (feat. Zero Star) (Produced By Madlib & Mamao)
18. Bing Chaireez (feat. Junclassic) (Produced By Madlib)
19. Bolsheviks (Produced By Jaylib)
20. C.Y.I.D.I.T.C. (Produced By Quasimoto)

In preparation for Access Immortal up and coming new collaboration album with DJ Ruckspin, he joins forces with Dub MD to present you with this exclusive free compilation entitled "The Scrapbook: Volume 1" a collection of tracks from the past, present and future. This new mixtape features collaborations with Karniege, Medinah Starr, Oktober, Golden Child, Mello and Emaze, along with production from Ruckspin, 9th Wonder, Vanderslice, J-Zone, The Wisemen and many more. If your a fan of that classic 90's style New York boom bap, your gonna love this one!

Brooklyn born Access Immortal and DJ Ruckspin are on the verge of releasing their debut as the newly formed duo Project Gotham as they prepare to release the new album "Birth Of A Dream", which is due to hit shelves sometime this Spring 2009 via indie imprint Introspect Records. The new album features the likes of Vast Aire, Karniege, SiLent Knight, Fresh Daily, C-Rayz Walz, Poison Pen just to name a few, with 100% of the production handled by Ruckspin, so make sure you pick up 5 copies!

01. The Scrapbook (Intro)
02. The General (Produced By 7L)
03. Ring The Album (feat. Golden Child) (Produced By Ruckspin)
04. Monday Night Raw (Produced By J-Zone)
05. Everything I Know (Produced By Ruckspin)
06. Fuck The Rap Game (Produced By Access Immortal)
07. Welcome To The Hood (Produced By GreenSteez)
08. Culture Shock (Produced By Ruckspin)
09. Styles Upon Styles (feat Karniege & Medinah Starr) (Produced By Nygh)
10. Acc The Villian (Produced By Ruckspin)
11. Days Go By (Produced By 9th Wonder)
12. The Reign (feat. Oktober) (Produced By GreenSteez)
13. Million Dollar Rapper (Produced By The Wisemen)
14. I Will Not Lose (Produced By Lawz Spoken)
15. The Mechanic (feat. Mello & Emaze) (Produced By Alchemist)
16. Resident Evil (Produced By Vanderslice)
17. The People (feat. Medinah Star) (Produced By Kanye West)
18. M.V.P. (Freestyle) (Produced By DJ Premier)
19. DJ BMV (Freestyle) (Produced By Pete Rock)
20. New York (feat. Ph7) (Produced By Ph7)
21. The Scrapbook (Outro)

Here's some exclusive new heat from Queens emcee, Spectacula as he joins forces with Dub MD for this brand new project entitled "Unexclusively Exclusive" a 16 track digi-zip jam packed full of classic hip hop music. The new mixtape features beats from a whole host of producers from the likes of DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Alchemist, Black Milk and many more, and in the immortal words of the homie Fresh Daily, it's supaspectacular!

This new project is in preparation for Spectacula's up and coming new studio album "Every Second Counts" which due for release sometime this year. The Queens emcee will be releasing a mixtape every month until the summer in the lead up to his album, this mixtape being the first in his "Quality In Quantity" series. Also check for some new releases from Dub MD this year as he tags-up for a second time with Nametag for Volume 2 of the "Classic Cadence" collection, along with projects with an army of other artists in 2009, keep it locked!

01.) Intro (Produced By Kon and Amir)
02.) Shine (Produced By The Alchemist)
03.) Pressure (Produced By Pete Rock)
04.) Your Welcome (Produced By 9th Wonder)
05.) Let Go (Produced By Madlib)
06.) Full Time Job (Produced By Pete Rock)
07.) Just Venting (Produced By Khyrsis)
08.) For The Websites (Produced By Black Milk)
09.) What's Next? (Interlude)
10.) Going Out Of Style (Produced By Pete Rock)
11.) The Forefront (Produced By Bronze Nazareth)
12.) Wasted Potential (Produced By DJ Premier)
13.) Snakes In The Grass (Produced By Khyrsis)
14.) For The Hell Of It (Produced By Easy Mo Bee)
15.) Gravity (feat. Gorillaz) (Produced By Gorillaz)
16.) Unexclusively Exclusive (Outro)

The official "Blaps, Rhymes & Life" mixtape series is back! Dub MD and super producer Illmind re-connect for a second time to bring you another exclusive free mixtape project, "Blaps, Rhymes & Life Vol. II" is a 22 track digi-zip packed full of classic illmind production. This time around the mixtape features established artists such as 50 Cent, Eminem, Scarface, Talib Kweli and Heltah Skeltah, as well as featuring a whole host of up and coming artists from the likes of Bambu, Megaciph, Above Ave and Grynch just to list a few.

Illmind is also set to release a couple of studio albums in 2009 with the debut LP from his group Fortilive consisting of emcees Mushmouf and Slo-Mo, the project will be dropping sometime in 2009 via Myx Music. Also lookout for his up coming new instrumental album which is due for release this year aswell, for more information and updates, check out www.illmind.biz and www.blapsrhymesandlife.com.

Also be on the lookout for Dub MD dropping some new artist mixtapes in 2009, as he collaborates once again with Nametag for the follow up to "Classic Cadence Vol. 1" with Volume 2. Along with releasing projects with a posse of emcees including Spectacula, Access Immortal, Cyrano aka Cy Yung, Zero Star, Junesflow and more, keep it locked!

01.) Mic Legacy - Larry Davis (Produced by Illmind)
02.) D-Black - Hold Up (Gangsta Shit) (Produced by Illmind)
03.) 50 Cent - Who Run It (feat. Eminem, Cashis & Lloyd Banks) (Produced by Illmind)
04.) Heltah Skeltah - So Damn Tuff (feat. Buckshot & Ruste Juxx) (Produced by Illmind)
05.) Scarface - It's Not A Game (Produced by Illmind)
06.) Thoth - MA To The West (feat. Oh No) (Produced by Illmind)
07.) Naps N Dreds - Bully! (feat. Kool G Rap) (Produced by Illmind)
08.) Diamond D - Don't Beg (Produced by Illmind)
09.) Pumpkinhead - Of The Same Air (feat. Talib Kweli) (Produced by Illmind)
10.) Fortilive - Trunk Pop Music (Produced by Illmind)
11.) Project Heights - Champion (feat. Rakaa Iriscience & Noelle Scaggs) (Produced by Illmind)
12.) Sleek - Hi New Orleans (Produced by Illmind)
13.) Che Grand - Streets (Produced by Illmind)
14.) Starrs & Murph - Damn (Produced by Illmind)
15.) Bambu - Quit (Produced by Illmind)
16.) Above Ave - Root Of All Evil (Wake Up) (Produced by Illmind)
17.) Grynch - A Dream Undeferred (Produced by Illmind)
18.) Kingdom (The Movement) (Swaggerboy, Kilo & Problem Child) - Heartache (Produced by Illmind)
19.) Naturel - Love To The World (Produced by Illmind)
20.) Blitzkrieg (Bee Lavish, Quayluds, D-Minus & Contra) - Ruling Elite (Produced by Illmind)
21.) Megaciph - War (Produced by Illmind)
22.) Mister RP - Diamonds Aren't Enough (Produced By Illmind)

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Dub MD presents the brand new exclusive mixtape project entitled "Hip Hop Renatus" with some of the most slept on and underrated emcees featuring the likes of Supastition, Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Mr. Live, 6th Sense, Sic Osyrus, Fred Knuxx, Karneige, Access Immortal, Donny Goines, Diablo Archer, Emilio Rojas, D.V. Alias Khryst, Wordsmith and many more, doing what they do best over some of the greatest producers in the Hip Hop's "New, Rare, Classic & Unreleased" instrumentals including J Dilla, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, ?uestlove, Large Professor, Oddisee, Illmind, Marley Marl, Madlib and 9th Wonder just to list a few.

Renatus in old Latin meaning Born Again/Reborn: 44 emcees over 34 handpicked beats! Thirty four tracks of that raw, authentic, no apologises Hip Hop music for the purest, 100% EXCLUSIVE from the emcee to this project, with a classic intro by the genius that is DJ Unexpected. This new mixtape is available for exclusive FREE DOWNLOAD right here, so pass it around, throw it on your iPod or burn it to CD-R, its yours! Thanks to everyone for all the continued support!

01. The Genesis (Intro By DJ Unexpected)
02. 6th Sense - Hip Hop Renatus (Produced By Erick Sermon)
03. Mr. Live feat. Earl Blaize - The Bitch That You Are (Produced By Oddisee)
04. Sic Osyrus & Donny Goines - Why Lord? (Middle Fingers Up) (Produced By Khrysis)
05. Karniege - The Kush (Produced By Jake One)
06. Skyzoo - Bang This (Produced By The Alchemist)
07. Dominique Larue - Role Play (Produced By 9th Wonder)
08. Emilio Rojas - E To The M-I-L-I-O (Produced By J Dilla)
09. Access Immortal - Stay Strapped (Produced By DJ Premier)
10. Melodiq feat. Nikal Fieldz - Bottom Of The 9th (Produced By 4th Disciple)
11. Diablo Archer feat. Myk Dyaleks (of BrokN.English) - We The New Era (Produced By Domingo)
12. Sha Stimuli - Today We Living (Produced By Nottz)
13. Fred Knuxx - Air 'Em Out (Produced By Hi-Tek)
14. Laelo Hood - Extra, Extra! (Produced By DJ Khalil)
15. Supastition - Sound Of Reform School (Produced By Black Milk)
16. Black ELement - Feel The Hunger (Produced By DJ Scratch)
17. Droppin' A Message (Interlude)
18. Zero Star - On My Backpack Shit (Produced By Large Professor)
19. Little Vic - Let The Dollar Circulate (Produced By Ayatollah)
20. Cymarshall Law - This Is The End (Produced By Salaam Remi)
21. Donnan Linkz - Buzz Kill (Produced By Oh No)
22. Cy Yung aka Cyrano - OK Corral (Produced By Madlib)
23. Tislam The Great - Once Again (Produced By Questlove)
24. Faro - Love Me Or Hate Me (Produced By Scram Jones)
25. Arsun F!st - I'm In Here (Produced By Marco Polo)
26. Sense-I - Sense-I's The Name (Produced By Nicolay)
27. Wordsmith feat. Kontact & Black Knight - Signing Day (Produced By Pete Rock)
28. Journalist 103 - Til' The Trumpets Blow (Produced By Illmind)
29. Clap Cognac feat. Jedi Knight - Chosen Ones (Produced By Havoc)
30. City Scholar - The Rebirth (Produced By Evidence)
31. Detroit Red - Hip Hop Redefined (Produced By Buckwild)
32. D.V. Alias Khryst feat. Retsam Da Prince - It's Da Govarmynt (Produced By Marley Marl)
33. Nametag - Champagne Bottle Flow (Produced By Ski Beatz)
34. Panama aka Da Spanish Kid - Born Ready (Produced By RZA)
35. Hi-Coup feat. Spectacula - My Father Told Me (Produced By M-Phazes)
36. Preach Jacobs feat. N'telligence - Mic Check (Produced By Rockwilder)
37. The Exodus (Outro By DJ Unexpected)

Dub MD is from the UK and he's doin it big!!! Props for this one fam!

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Winter Fresh, is the exclusive new mixtape project from the incomparable Brooklynite Fresh Daily and Dub MD, this AOK Collective presentation is available right here, for free download. This new project features rarities, exclusives, remixes, unreleased joints, collabos and freestyles from 2005-2008, it features tracks with Supastition, Jesse Boykins III, Substantial, Mickey Factz, SiLent Knight and more, with production from the likes of Illmind, Analogic, M-Phazes, 9th Wonder, Madlib the list goes on, all unlocked from the vault for your listening pleasure.

Be on the lookout for Fresh Daily's new project "Tomorrow Is Today", along with his long awaited new album "The Gorgeous Killer In Crimes Of Passion" both hittin shelves real soon, featuring Tanya Morgan, P.Casso, Cool Calm Pete, Substantial and many more, with a production list including Illmind, Oh No, DJ Spinna, Ski, 88 Keys, 2 Hungry Brothers and Analogic all holding down the boards. For more information on Fresh Daily make sure you hit up his official myspace page at www.myspace.com/freshdotdaily.

Also keep your eyes out for Dub MD's exclusive new mixtape project for the purest called "Hip Hop Renatus" which features the whos-who of underground hip hop emcees (44 MC's / 34 Tracks) doin what they do best over the greatest hip hop producers of all-times instrumentals, out later this month for exclusive free download!

01. Winter Fresh (Intro)
02. Raw Hip Hop (Produced By DJ Evil Dee)
03. How Good Is Ya Game (feat. Emilio Rojas) (Produced By Muneshine)
04. Next In Line (feat. Supastition & Outburst) (Produced By Analogic)
05. Assassination Tango (Produced By 2 Hungry Bros)
06. Fresh (feat. 8thW1) (Produced By Nas550)
07. That Damn Good (feat. Substantial) (Produced By Algorythm)
08. Kill A Brand (Produced By M-Phazes)
09. False Teeth (feat. Svengali Bros)
10. Keep Moving (feat. Mickey Factz)
11. Fast Lane (feat. East & SiLent Knight) (Produced By 9th Wonder)
12. Winter Fresh (Interlude)
13. Gimmie My Props (Produced By The Applejuice Kid)
14. HBO (Heart Barely Open) (feat. Jesse Boykins III) (Produced By The Architect)
15. Ricky Vaughn (The Major Leagues) (feat. XV) (Produced By Nottz)
16. Supaspectacular! (Produced By 2 Hungry Bros)
17. Rising (feat. Supastition & Deacon the Villian) (Produced By Tonedeff)
18. Get Over (Produced By Illmind)
19. Boom! (feat. P. Casso) (Produced By 2 Hungry Bros)
20. To My Homie (feat. 8thW1) (as Charlie Browns Field Goal) (Produced By Nas550)
21. Figaro (Fresh Daily Remix) (Produced By Madlib)
22. What It Is (feat. SiLent Knight & Shabaam Sahdeeq) (Produced By Erv Ford)
23. New Blood v2 (feat. Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas & Torae) (Produced By Illmind)
24. Winter Fresh (Outro)

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Exclusive new prelude mixtape from Detroit emcee Nametag and Dub MD entitled "Classic Cadence Vol. 1" for exclusive free download. The new mixtape features some brand new exclusive tracks, new freestyles, some classics and joints off his upcoming new project "Courtesy Of Ambition EP" including the lead single called "Stylin On 'Em" produced by Black Milk.

Lookout for his new official EP "Courtesy Of Ambition" dropping November 2008. The new EP features collaborations with the likes of Marv Won, Quest M.C.C.O.D.Y., Buff1 and songstress Journey. Along with production from cousin Black Milk holding down the boards on around 5 tracks and the rest of the beats will be provided by Black Bethoven, check for it at all good online retailers such as itunes via Voume Up Entertainment.

Also keep your eyes out for Dub MD's exclusive new mixtape project for the purest called "Hip Hop Renatus" which features the whos-who of underground hip hop emcees (44 MC's / 34 Tracks) doin what they do best over the greatest hip hop producers of all-times instrumentals, out next month for exclusive free download!

01. Intro Speech
02. The Campaign (Produced By Magnif)
03. Champagne Bottle Flow (Produced By Ski Beatz)
04. Stylin On 'Em (Produced By Black Milk)
05. Grammy Family (Freestyle) (Produced By Kanye West)
06. Back To It (Produced By Magnif)
07. Pipe Down (Produced By Black Milk)
08. Forfeit (feat. Marv Won & Quest M.C.O.D.Y) (Produced By Black Milk)
09. American (Freestyle) (Produced By Will-i-am)
10. Bang Dis Shit (feat. Black Milk) (Produced By Black Milk)
11. Neva Heard Neva Seen (feat. ONPoint) (Produced By ONPoint)
12. The Beaten (Produced By Black Bethoven)
13. The Lookout (feat. Black Milk & Fat Ray) (Produced By Black Milk)
14. Rambo Rap (feat. B.Stormz) (Produced By B.Stromz)
15. Say Somethin' (feat. Black Milk & Slim S.D.H) (Produced By Black Milk)
16. Red Alert (Produced By Black Milk)
17. Hollywood Divorce (Freestyle) (Produced By Andre 3000)
18. Outro Speech

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"Blaps, Rhymes & Life" is the exclusive new mixtape project from Dub MD and one of the most accomplished producers in Hip Hop Illmind. A producer that balances both the mainstream and underground successfully, working with a full spectrum of artists from Heltah Skeltah to 50 Cent, Little Brother to Black Eyed Peas, the list goes on. This new project features some of the artists Illmind has been working closely with over the past year or so including the likes of 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Heltah Skeltah, Skyzoo and many more.

Lookout for Illmind dropping his brand new studio album currently "Untitled" coming soon, along with his highly anticipated group album as "Fortilive" with Mushmouf and Slo-Mo and his exclusive collaboration project with North Carolina's Supatition and make sure you check out his new beat-tape "New Blap City" + limited edition T-shirt which is available right now, cop them @ http://www.illmind.biz.

Also keep your eyes out for Dub MD's exclusive new mixtape project for the purest called "Hip Hop Renatus" which features the whos-who of underground hip hop emcees (44 MC's / 34 Tracks) doin what they do best over the greatest hip hop producers of all-times instrumentals, out next month for exclusive free download!


01.) Get Ya Ass Up! (Intro) (Produced By Illmind)
02.) Heltah Skeltah - Everything Is Heltah Skeltah (Produced By Illmind)
03.) Brooklyn Academy - Raise Ya Hands (feat. Jean Grae) (Produced By Illmind)
04.) Fresh Daily - Get Over (Produced By Illmind)
05.) D. Black - The Come Up (feat. Skyzoo) (Produced By Illmind)
06.) 50 Cent - Make A Movie (Produced By Illmind)
07.) Supastition - Thankful (feat. Kil Ripkin) (Produced By Illmind)
08.) Naturel - The Bullets (Produced By Illmind)
09.) K.O. (K-Otix) - 48 Seasons (Produced By Illmind)
10.) Torae - New Blood (feat. Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas & Fresh Daily) (Produced By Illmind)
11.) Fortilive - The Come Up (Produced By Illmind)
12.) Broken English - Different World (Produced By Illmind)
13.) Skyzoo - Lyrically Inclined (feat. Wale) (Produced By Illmind)
14.) Naps N Dreds - Do What I Should (feat. Copywrite) (Produced By Illmind)
15.) Quan - Geez Like Deez (feat. Rapper Big Pooh) (Produced By Illmind)
16.) Naturel - Resurrect (Produced By Illmind)
17.) 8th W1 - A Fool's Lullaby (Produced By Illmind)
18.) Faro-Z - Clap Ya Hands (Produced By Illmind)
19.) A.P.E.X. - One More Time (Produced By Illmind)
20.) LL Cool J - Queens (feat. Prodigy, 50 Cent, Kool G Rap, & Tony Yayo) (Produced By Illmind)
21.) Wannabe? (Outro) (Produced By Illmind)