Damn...it's been a crazy slow start to '08, I've been scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as new music goes. Hopefully next month things will start picking up. For now though I've got some solid joints to check out from the underrated emcee's J-Live & Sha Stimuli and some great grown and sexy R&B Raheem Devaughn. Although J-Live & Devaughn are pretty well known, some of you may not be familiar with Stimuli, and I think you should be. He's a great artist from Brooklyn NY who got his start at age 14 on the legendary Masta Ace's "Slaughter House LP" and has been steady making music ever since. He's got a small yet loyal following and is poised to finally break out in 2008 by one-upping Crooked I, and releasing one mixtape each month of this year! Sounds crazy...I'm interested to see how it pans out. Anyway, this first one should be a great introduction especially amongst fans of HBO's series "The Wire". The mixtape is inspired by the critically acclaimed show and each track apparently details an aspect of the show. I wouldn't know myself since I just now started Netflixing the whole series because I've been sleeping on it even though people been tellin me for years how good it is. Oh well. Do yourself a favor and check it and the other two quality drops out below.


J-LIVE - REVEAL THE SECRET EP
01. The Incredible
02. Once Upon A Mic
03. Practice (Magnificent Remix)
04. Feel Like Spittin
05. Red Light Green Light
06. Practice (Spaghetti Bender Remix)


SHA STIMULI - THE WIRE (MIXTAPE)
01 Intro / 23 Dollars
02 DJ Funk f. Flash Da Biskit & Sunny Redd (Hometown Heroes)
03 Snoop Talks
04 What I’m Gonna Do w/ Bugle
05 On My Shit f. Pusha T / Shalik Rivers / Heron & Kingpin Slim
06 Cop N Go w/ Skyzoo & Maino
07 My Corner (Interlude)
08 Never w/ Scarface
09 The Baltimore Question (Interlude)
10 Don’t Come Outside f. Cashmere
11 Two Days (Interlude)
12 All That I Got
13 Pray For Me
14 Crack f. Memphis Bleek & Peedi Peedi
15 Gun Jam pt.1
16 It Get’s Better f. Apryl Williams
17 Break It Down

(Click here to check out Stimuli's MySpace page for more info & music)


RAHEEM DEVAUGHN - LOVE BEHIND THE MELODY
01. Hello Love...
02. Woman
03. Love Drug
04. Energy (feat. Big Boi)
05. Friday (Shut The Club Down)
06. Customer
07. Mo Better
08. Woman I Desire (feat. Malik Yusef)
09. Desire
10. Midnight
11. Marathon (feat. Floetry)
12. Butterflies
13. She's Not You
14. Can We Try Again?
15. Try Again
16. Empty
17. Four Letter Word

Well that's it from me for now, I got a bunch of work to do and errands to run all day...so I'll be back here later on tonight with some more updates for you bitches. One.