Minlus McCracken - Rock And A Hard Place (Wandering Soul Records/Hazmatic Records)

Minlus and McCracken are two cats from Glen Burnie who are tight with some other Baltimore area artists, including Third Kind and DJ Excel, who both contributed to this album. The CD dropped back in May and they've been doing shows pretty consistently, including one at the Turntable Club this Friday. Apparently they're friends with Beetle Juice from the Howard Stern show, and on the into track they have a clip of Howard talking about them (and pronouncing McCracken like "MC Cracken," haha). I like some of the production on here, it's some real dark, dense boom bap shit. They're selling the album at places like the Sound Garden and on CDBaby.com.

Minlus McCracken - "MuFucka" (mp3)
One of my favorite tracks, ill beat.

Labels: DJ Excel, mixtape/album review, mp3, Third Kind