Hulio Shallone - "Take Ya Girl"
From Huli's album "It's My Turn" that's dropping this Tuesday, weird smooth quiet storm-sounding sample from some old Michael Jackson song I don't remember the name of, one of the way too many R&Bish tracks on the album (so much so that when he says "I wanna talk to the ladies for a minute" at the beginning of one song towards the end it's kind of insulting). But it has this weird hilarious start-stop chorus where he says "rules...to...stickin'...another...playa's...chick...chick...chick" in his flat raspy voice that sounds sorta like The Game.

Ogun and Ray Lugar - "Bmore"
The inevitable local flip on Ja's NYC anthem that probably every city's got at least one of by now, "I got a hundred bars a hundred hits, nigga I'm from Bmore, Bmore", shouting every other street and neighborhood and crew in the city, Emerson, Biddle, down the hill, Park Heights, fitting in every local reference possible (top 10 things that every Baltimore MC references: The Wire, the Ravens/Ray Lewis, the city's murder rate, Carmelo Anthony, the city's drug trade, rowhouses, B Rich/"Woah Now", the city's STD rate, the Orioles/Cal Ripken, Dru Hill/Sisqo/"Thong Song").

Sonny Brown f/ Mr. Wilson and Mo Gant - "Ride Wit Me"
Sonny from Major League Unlimited (also Mullyman's label), sounding like Snoop, riding a beat by Bmore superproducer Samir with those cheap, dry drums and a synth horn bassline seesawing back and forth between two notes.

In other 410 news, this site has an archive of all of Bmore's own Backland's appearances on 106 & Park's Freestyle Fridays from a couple years ago when he won 7 weeks in a row and retired as a champion.

Labels: Backland, Huli Shallone, Ogun, Ray Lugar, Sonny Brown