various artists - Hello World V. 1 (B-More Real Ent.)

B-More Real Entertainment is a crew I saw perform a year or two back at Sonar. Their performance wasn't very interesting, just the usual having a dozen guys onstage at once being each other's hypemen kinda thing, but they had free CDs at the show and I picked up a couple mixtapes, had been meaning to write about them for the longest time but just took a while to get around to it. This is a pretty low budget CD, lotsa freestyles and sometimes the vocals sound kinda rough, but there's some good energy on here, kind of a compilation of tracks by different artists on the label including Harm, Cas, Juney, Fish Gates, Marc Wayne and Moore. Check out B-More Real on MySpace.

Fish Gates - "Fish Gates Anthem" (mp3)
I think Fish Gates is one of the best and strangest rapper names I've heard in a long time, so this guy is totally deserving of having his own anthem. I mean, c'mon, Fish Gates, I have no idea what it could mean, but it just sounds awesome. Lemme say it again: Fish Gates.

Labels: mixtape/album review, mp3