King Tutt - The Evolution EP (Unruly Records) When I picked King Tutt as the best club music producer in the City Paper's 2007 Best Of Baltimore issue, I was really trying to look ahead, and find someone less known that was showing a lot of potential, instead of just giving the award to someone more...

Poe & Rasheed- Diverse Hustle (Dogg University R-Sinal Records) Here's another mixtape that I kinda dug out of my stack of neglected CDs and can't really remember where I got it, although there's an Akbar Entertainment Designz logo on it so I guess Skarr Akbar did the artwork, maybe I got it from hi...

NOE - Deal Or NOE Deal (DJ Daa One) My review of NOE's latest mixtape is in this week's City Paper. It's got a bunch of songs with Jim Jones and other Byrd Gang dudes, including that "Swagga From Us" song that I already voiced my opinion about a while back, and there's a good track of him freestylin...

Ron G - Lunch EP (Mania Music Group) Back when the Mania Music Group site did their whole "month of Mania" promotion back in October and gave away a bunch of free music, Ron G's was the last of the solo EPs they posted. And I wanted to kinda chill and not post about them all at once, so it took me a...

The Uncanny Click - Revenge Retaliation (DJ Rsonist) The Uncanny Click are a trio from Northeast Baltimore comprised of the rappers Gator Tha King, Cartlime and G-Kid, and Gator also produces a lot of their tracks. They e-mailed me this 'street album' a couple weeks ago, which is also available on d...

JSoul - Love Soldier (Blackout Studios) J.S.O.U.L. is an R&B singer from Baltimore who I first heard on The J Rock Project , his collaborative mixtape with rapper Ab Rock. I always saw him at a beat battle last year where he was competing with the productions he does under the name Black Sinatra, an...

Born King as...Killa Fifth - The Blacklight Mixtape After I reviewed Born King's last album, The Secret Order, in the City Paper a couple months ago, I got a chance to sit down with him and his brother singodsuperior and chop it up a little bit. And it was pretty interesting to get a better idea of ...

Ogun - Checkmate (Architects Recording Studio/Real On Purpose Ent.) This week in the City Paper I reviewed Ogun's new mixtape, although really it's been out for a few weeks already so you should already have it. Last year we named him the best male MC in our Best Of Baltimore issue and I really feel...

Nathan Blaze - Demo EP A while back at a show I ran into BeaLack, one of the producers behind Mania Music Group, and he gave me a copy of a project he had worked on outside the label, a 4-song EP he produced for an artist named Nathan Blaze. The guy is a little marble-mouthed and sometimes he really...

Claire Hux - Jammin On The One Mixtape Mixed By DJ Scottie B. (Unruly Records) Claire Hux is kind of a new direction for Unruly Records, not quite Baltimore club music but not-not Baltimore club either, a weird hipster rap electro dance group featuring a rapper named DLake and a singer named Symbol....