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Good Morning. Before we get started this week, 2 very important R.I.P.s go out to DJ Mehdi from Paris and Troy Davis.

DJ Mehdi was one of the most incredible DJs/producers to come out of Europe. His discography of remixes and production is a collective of international hits. He’s most known for his song ‘I Am Somebody’ that featured hit group Chromeo. It was a smash in the clubs all over the world. Peep his profile in the Wikipedia when you get a minute.

Troy Davis’s legal lynching is both sad and sickening. But unlike some people, I have long since accepted that the America we live in is full of contradictions and inaccuracies. Public Enemy said it best, Welcome To the Terrordome.”

Rihanna released about 6 singles off her Loud album. All of them were smashes. Loud is probably the most iconic pop album of this decade, if not this new generation.

This week she leaked “We Found Love” which features Scottish producer Calvin Harris. It’s the first single off her next album and another hit from RiRi to keep the dance floor ablaze with sexiness. Fans warned Harris via Twitter that his new song for Rihanna better be hot. At this point, Rihanna could just fart on a record and we would still love it!

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New R&B singer Mateo has been doing his songwriting thing for a minute. But the recently signed Krucial Noise artist re-released his record “Say Its So,” except this time he got Mr. Swizz Beatz to do the drums and his wife Alicia Keys to lend vocals to the hook. Talk about a new artist getting your attention with star power…

The record is truly incredible and if Kerry ‘Krucial Keys’ Brothers (yes Alicia’s longtime music partner and former manager) George Bushes the button on this, “Say Its So” could be a mainstay at radio this fall.

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Unsigned artist Mac Miller’s online supremacy is becoming the stuff of legends. With 1 million Twitter fans behind him, Pittsburgh’s youngest steel kid continues to ‘swashbuckle ‘n backpack’ his way around the music world in true Pirate fashion; collecting money, dames and Twitter followers wherever his music is heard and celebrated.

This week he leaked a track “Willie Dynamite” that features the production of fellow Burgh compatriot Big Jerm. It’s another example of this kid’s musical genius as he takes us on a day-in-the-life trip around the world, Mac Miller Style. Enjoy.

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If you ever meet Scram Jones face to face, you should salute him. He is the architect behind some classic hip-hop records you might have enjoyed over the years and recently. But simply put, he is hip-hop: the producer, the DJ and the emcee.

So it came as no surprise this week when the song “Boombap Jones” leaked to the blogisphere. It’s a classic song both in its creativity and its samples. But Scrams wordplay on “Boombap Jones” is nothing short of “not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good! (There it is…)”

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And finally introducing Ray JR, not to be confused with Ray J if you read it too fast. This kid is from East Cleveland and teamed up with flash mob specialist Machine Gun Kelly and the legendary Krayzie Bone on a new track titled “Sloppy.”

Yeah I said legendary. Bone-Thugz-N-Harmony were the first to put Cleveland hip-hop on the map. The track “Sloppy” is that Midwest riot starting music. Let’s see if it makes enough noise to get Ray JR to be heard. Until we read again…

Brandon ‘TNT’ West

Producer, A&R, Promoter

Holla at him @tnt718