Snoop Dogg x 12th Planet x Flux (and more) - Throw Your Dubs Up [Mixtape] [New Music]

Snoop Dogg. This is one guy dedicated to his tree since day one... he has brought us hip-hop classics, and now he has brought us among the first mixtapes to feature a Rap/Dubstep fusion. If you thought Snoop's age has closed his mind to this new genre, think again. I really feel this mixtape, even though I don't enjoy all of its tracks. I feel this mixtape because I feel the genre evolving, and I think its only a matter of time until the US catches onto this...  Download it >exclusively here< or download individual tracks below. The tracks I think would be most enjoyed are as follows, but by all means download the mixtape and make your own opinions.



Download: Smoke Some - Problem x Dream



Download:  Platinum Remix - Snoop Dogg ft. R. Kelly and Busta Rhymes x Lex Luger



Download: Be Like Me (Remix) - Snoop Dogg ft P Money, D Double E & Professor Green x True Tiger



Download: Speaker Pop - Soopafly x 16Bit

Kendrick Lamar - Cloud 10 [New Music] and Behind the Scenes [Video]

Download: Cloud 10 - Kendrick Lamar

Windows isn't sleeping on Kendrick, why should you? Lamar brings you "Cloud 10", a Windows sponsored track, and part of "Me Series", that Windows is bringing to life. Looks to me as if Windows is jumping on the music scene, where most people are hanging out, to try to gain more consumers for their phone. iPhone competition in the works? (Doubtful)

Check out the behind the scenes, Windows-sponsored look into Kendrick Lamar's beginnings and song-choices:

Drake - Headlines [New Video]

This be the new video for Headlines by Drake that came out earlier today. A song off Take Care that was dropped earlier this year, feel free to download it here if you haven't got it yet.

Tyga - [New Music]

With all the new music coming out right now, and all these albums poised to drop, Tyga is making sure that his fans don't forget his grind...Don't forget it, then. Careless World, November 19th. He claims this track is yet to be finished, and rumors are circulating throughout the web naming Nas as the artist to be featured.

Download: Apollyon's Theme - Tyga

Tyga also let go two new tracks off #BitchImTheShit, dropping sometime soon, before Careless World.

Download: Make it Nasty - Tyga


Download: Pop It - Tyga

Busta Rhymes - Niggas in Paris [Remix] [New Music]

Download: Niggas in Paris (Remix) - Busta Rhymes 

Quite possibly ones of the most sought-out collaborators in hip-hop within the past year, it just isn't a remix without a Busta Rhyme's verse. It's one verse coming from Busta in this Watch the Throne remix (something not many have attempted).

Possible Earl Sweatshirt Track?

Could this be another part of Kitchen Cutlery, an old Earl/Sly project? Or is this a copycat?

Download: Unknown Track - Earl Sweatshirt?

A short track that we have no idea what it's called, so we'll call it Unknown Track. This track cannot be found anywhere official, no Odd Future blogs, no Twitter accounts. It's all speculation at this stage. What do you think? Is this a leak from old Earl/Sly Tendencies productions, or is not Earl at all? Perhaps a copycat trying to copy his flow, and left this on the web to be found?

Click read more to check out another old Kitchen Cutlery song and read a little more about the saga of Earl.

Chip tha Ripper - The Truth [New Music]

 Hey ya'll Cleveland is my ci-tay

Download: The Truth - Chip tha Ripper

You are now tuned in to some music from one of the real emcees today. The truth in this dude words, no pun intended though, are so real and true to home. Forever reppin' Cleveland where he goes to wreck mics, Chip tha Ripper released this song to be included on his TellYaFriends mixtape, widely promoted on Twitter.

Curren$y - Ways to Kill 'Em (Verde Terrace) [New Music Video]

Spitta drops his visual representation of "Ways to Kill 'Em" off Verde Terrace. Hopefully you all are very aware of that mixtape by now, endless plays in my iTunes library. Spitta Productions does not disappoint. Jet life.

#jetlife

Need to download this jam? We got you right here.

9th Wonder x Warren G, Murs, and Kendrick Lamar - Enjoy [New Music]

What I am personally calling the best collaboration in a good minute, 9th Wonder, the West Coast legend, pulls together a track that embodies the old school and the new school. Kendrick Lamar, the freshman, holds his own with names that have been around for years longer than he, this whole track is just a straight up banger. Released single off of The Wonder Years, buy the track and the album: on iTunes (artist profile: 9th Wonder)



Download (for promotional use only): 9th Wonder x Warren G, Murs, and Kendrick Lamar - Enjoy

Twin x Young Money's Short Dawg - Rendezvous [New Music Video]

Twin 6 as an upcoming Austin rapper, melded with an awesome verse by Young Money's Short Dawg whose mixtape, The Adventures of Drankenstein, is set to drop before Halloween. Just a cold jam brought to you by Rooftop Productions based in Austin, TX.

Enjoy this video? Check out: Rooftop Productions

 Plenty of blunt smokin' and rover rangin', the bass is mad nice on this too. I'm not telling ya how to live your life, but I recommend a download and a blunt cruise (or three).

Download: Twin 6 feat. Short Dawg - Rendezvous

More Music

Short Dawg has a way of killin' it, check out this Trouble on My Mind freestyle that you may have not heard yet:

Download: Short Dawg - Trouble on My Mind freestyle 


This video to Tupac Back freestyle by Short might be familiar to those Tyga fans... I'm keepin' a sharp eye out for this dudes next mixtape, I'm ready for Short Dawg to make moves.

Mac Miller - Smile Back [New Music Video]

Mac's back with his second single off Blue Slide Park, dropping November 8th.

Download the track here.

Frank Ocean - Swim Good [New Music Video]

Frank dropped this visual for Swim Good off his album Nosalgia, Ultra.

 Pretty creative guy that Frank Ocean eh?

Download the track here.

Tyga x Honey Cocaine - Heisman [New Music]

Download: Heisman - Tyga feat. Honey Cocaine

Girl rappers are tryna come up, what does it say about Tyga that he signed a female rapper as the first rapper to his Last Kings label? Has he gained a sort of sage foresight, like his YM labelmate Weezy? We are unsure which Tyga project this has come off of, but it gives us a look into the future. She sounds good, definite talent. Tyga's verse ain't nothin' you could fuck with. Careless World dropping on Novermber 19th, DON'T SLEEP ON IT.

Casey Veggies x Dom Kennedy x Kendrick Lamar - Ridin' Round Town (remix) [NEW MUSIC]

Download: Ridin' Round Town (remix) - Casey Veggies ft. Kendrick Lamar, Dom Kennedy

Tree Thoughts: Sweet, sweet stuff if you like these guys. A whole lot of talent on this track, however the production itself is low quality, but thats only because they want you to jump on iTunes and show some love for the deluxe addition. Little Veggies is trying to get paid; help him out, or not, but jam this piece.

[Video] Finito - NORE ft. Pharrell, Lil Wayne [New Music]

"Neptunes on the beat/ you know what it is/ NORE(aga) what it is"

 Lil Wayne's Verse on Finito

 Noreaga was an important influence on Pharrell's producing

Noreaga, or NORE, let this single go off his new tentative album, Superthug, last month. With the beat produced by young production genius Pharrell, and a solid Lil Wayne verse, he may just have it needs in this album to restir the hip-hop community. He released the video version today, and its quite the visual representation.

 Official Video to Finito - NORE, Pharrell and Lil Wayne

Download: Finito - NORE, feat. Lil Wayne and Pharrell

Kendrick Lamar Comin' Up [New Music]

Kendrick stopped in earlier this week to rock a freestyle on a radio show (DJ Green Lantern), check it out here:

Kendrick Lamar "Ondaspot" Freestyle

 Dope freestyle, always spittin truth, and able to make his own beat and pull it acapella.

He also dropped a NEW song earlier this week on a NY Radio DJs mixtape:

Download: My Mind Drifts - Kendrick Lamar

J. Cole x Jay-Z - Mr. Nice Watch [New Music]

Something a little different from J. and Jay, fresh off Cole World dropping 9.27. Listen to Mr. Nice Watch and download below.


Download: Mr. Nice Watch - J.Cole (featuring Jay-Z)

A Look at Young Money [Throwback Tree Thoughts] (Wreckin' Birthday to CL)

So especially when new albums are on their way, and singles are being dropped, it can kinda cool to reminiscence and play some throwbacks to remind ourselves how exactly it was our favorite artists made it. This is something that we here at Hip Hop and Trees will strive to continue. (Say Throwback Tree Thoughts five time fast)

Today's feature is Young Money Cash Money Entertainment, inspired by Charles (aka C.) (official blog owner and the guy who started Hip Hop and Trees from scratch himself) and his musical inclination toward YMCMB.

Say What You Like... Weezy Can Sure Pick 'Em

As Weezy grows weaker, we see Last Kings and OVO only growing stronger. Smart guy, that Dwayne is. With Tha Carter IV and Take Care on the way, as well as Tyga's Careless World, Young Money seems to be going big in 2011, cashing in on the name that they have each built for themselves over the years. With their hype and popularity seemingly at an all time high, it can slightly easy to forget how it all began.

YMCMB... Wayne's Legacy right here

A Generous Look at Drake's Take Care [3 New Songs]

"ayoo.. free music ya'll... its drizzy...hardly home, but always reppin'...bollywood flow ya'll..."

Tree Thoughts: October's Very Own decides to hook the bloggers up with these insanely generous tracks for a little look into his latest album Take Care (okay, how typical is this Drake album name?). These tracks are good lookin', and even though I don't claim myself a devout Drake fan, I can definitely appreciate the hell out of these tracks, and the fact that Drake is just giving us this. Sure, he comes out a little emotional in Club Paradise, but he goes in on Free Spirit, (what up Rozay!). Forget reviews though, ,its music, make your own opinions! (Somethin that is seriously ill on Drakes blogspot is his rampant use of OVOXO...) OVO = Octobers Very Own ... XO = The Weekend... Yeah, I'm ready for that album now.

Download: Club Paradise - Drizzy Drake Rogers

Download: Free Spirit - Drake ft Ricky Rozay


TT:
Some OVOXO (Drake + The Weeknd), just in case you've missed the unofficial mixed collaboration of OVOXO.

Download: Trust Issues (OVOXO remix) - Drake ft The Weeknd

TT:

Anddd, last and perhaps least, a song that is not exactly Drake's but was featured on his personal blog, so for all you die-hard Drizzy fans, he wanted you to hear this, so give it a listen and a download. (Yeah, it's kind of a short flow, before you hit that play button, but Drake sure was excited about it.)

Download: Round of Applause (remix) - Waka Flocka ft Drake

Adele in Hip-Hop [Tree Thoughts]

So, Adele is an interesting case, let's be honest now, we heard her voice on Rolling in the Deep for the first time, and we were like "Damnnnn, who is this girl, I'ma get to know her, what up what up" and then a quick google search taught us a serious lesson. Music is about the music, and less about what the person is singing looks like.

Adele is quickly becoming everyone's favorite singer, with her soul and talent and steely ambition, nothins gonna stop this girl. In fact, even that dude Big Sean wants dinner and little Chardonnay with Adele...

"She never compromises her sound for anything...She makes the kind of music people sample, and that's the best kind..." (Big Sean on Adele, 9/7/11)

Yup, it's true, some of your favorite rappers have sampled Adele; and more to come without a doubt, so it would do you well to familiarize yourself with the female powerhouse that is Adele, and maybe throw a little more respect and props in her direction... Here are some of songs that I'm sure all of you have heard, but it's nice to see exactly how our favorite rappers use Adele samples to get their point across, and how sweet the sound is, how sweet the sound is.

Let's start with a personal favorite of mine, and list about 3 more. Examples of Adele's beautiful voice meshing with the truth:

Hometown Hero - BIG K.R.I.T. ft Yelawolf (Sampled: Hometown Glory by Adele)

Hometown - Big Sean (Sampled: Hometown Glory by Adele)

Rolling in the Deep (remix) ft. verse by Childish Gambino - Jamie XX
Notes: Jamie XX (Drums/producer for band: 'the xx') remixed Adeles original track himself, adding heavy bass and drum patterns that remind us of dubstep...Childish Gambino's verse is at the end.

Reminded ft. Adele - Tyga (Sampled: Someone Like You by Adele, also performed live at VMAs)