Sean Armstrong and E Major - LOUDER! (Under Sound Music)

This is an EP that came out last month featuring two artists from Under Sound Music paying tribute to J Dilla by rapping over a few of his beats. I know it's kind of sacrilege to not totally worship Dilla these days but he was always just a good producer among many to me, nothing more, nothing less, so I like the way this is kind of a small, straightforward project with guys just grabbing beats they like and flowing over them. You can download it on the Under Sound band camp page.

E Major and Sean Armstrong - "Aquarius" (mp3)
Good choice of a beat here that was originally used on a Common track.

Labels: E Major, mixtape/album review, mp3, Under Sound Music

I wrote about Rome Cee signing to Under Sound Music and releasing his new track "Rap Messiah Freestyle" on the City Paper's Noise blog.

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Noise, Rome Cee, Under Sound Music

Here's E Major's latest video for "Feature Presentation" featuring Cynthia Hawkes, off The Major Major Mixtape on Under Sound Music.

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Labels: Dirt Platoon, flyer, Under Sound Music

Here's the video for "Bright Sound" by UllNevaNo, from his upcoming Under Sound Music mixtape The Color Brown, featuring him rapping over Kev Brown beats.

Labels: Under Sound Music, video

E Major f/ J Hill and King Mez - "Where You Came From?" (mp3)
Here's the lead single from E Major is… Better Than Yours, a new EP dropping soon. E Major did the beat himself (with cuts by DJ Face) and I'm impressed, I didn't know he could produce like that.

Labels: E Major, mp3, Under Sound Music

E Major f/ Tia - "Taking Over" (mp3)
It's only been a couple months since The Major Major Mixtape dropped and here's already some newer music from E Major, produced by Ms. Tris Beats.

Labels: E Major, mp3, Ms. Tris Beats, Under Sound Music

Labels: Always Dope, Brakefast Records, flyer, Los, Red Maple, Under Sound Music

Labels: A-Class, Always Dope, Brakefast Records, flyer, Red Maple, The Black Sunn, Under Sound Music

Labels: Brakefast Records, flyer, Greenspan, Red Maple, Under Sound Music

Labels: Always Dope, Brakefast Records, flyer, Red Maple, Under Sound Music

Labels: Always Dope, Baltimore club, Brakefast Records, flyer, Red Maple, Scottie B., Under Sound Music, Unruly Records

Labels: Always Dope, Brakefast Records, flyer, Red Maple, Under Sound Music

E Major - The Major Major Mixtape (Under Sound Music)

E Major has really matured into an artist to watch in the last few years, first with the Major General Mixtape, where I feel like he kinda got out of the typical underground rapper box and used some different kinds of beats, and then with the Majority Rules album, which really flowed well as an album and had a good variety of different sounds and topics. And this new mixtape is probably up to par with those, although to be honest I might not be as interested in it because it doesn't really seem to represent any new step forward like those releases did, it's just kinda some new tracks. Also, that "Unheard" song he dropped a few months ago, which at the time was tagged as being from this mixtape, isn't on here, and really I think E spit better on that song than anything that actually made it onto the tape. This been out since last month, but the release party is at this Tuesday's Always Dope, since the original date was postponed because of the blizzard, and you can download the whole thing on Band Camp.

E Major - "The Major Major Intro" (mp3)
In a way this track is aptly titled because it's really more than intro, more like a full on 4-minute song, E Major really kinda tells his story on this one and I think it's better than a lot of the song songs on the tape.

Labels: E Major, mixtape/album review, mp3, Under Sound Music

Labels: Always Dope, Brakefast Records, E Major, flyer, Red Maple, Under Sound Music

E Major f/ Substantial and Dre Beloved - "Play2Win" (mp3)
Here's a track from The Major Major Mixtape, which E Major and Under Sound Music are dropping in a few days. Michael Byrne has a story on E Major in the City Paper this week, and the release party is at Always Dope next Tuesday.

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, E Major, mp3, Under Sound Music

E Major f/ Kane Mayfield and DJ Blak Majik - "UnHeard" (mp3)
This is what the fuck I'm talking about, E Major reaching out to Mania Music Group for a grimy new single with Kane on the mic, DJ Blak Majik on the cuts, and BeaLack and Headphones on the beat, really kinda surprised me how vicious they both got on this. Listen to E Major's first verse, I love that line "noone's selling records so how the fuck we sellin' out?" Everyone in this town that's jumping on bandwagons and dickriding trends as if it's gonna make them famous needs to hear this shit and sit and think for a minute. Brandon also wrote about this song on No Trivia.

Labels: E Major, Kane, Mania Music Group, mp3, Under Sound Music

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Labels: flyer, Greenspan, Under Sound Music

Labels: E Major, flyer, Sean Toure, Turntable Club, Under Sound Music