Strange combination of artists, but we ain’t mad. From Blade Of The Ronin, hitting March 3rd.

The newest single from Kenn Starr’s new album “Square One.” Produced by Detroit’s Black Milk. Directed by Jay Brown.

From Kenn Starr’s January 29th release, Square One.

Black Milk remixes Diamond District “Ain’t Over” from the Diamond District remix record March on Washington (Redux), hitting December 15th. Remixers include Black Milk, Diamond D, Large Professor, Jonwayne, Quelle Chris, Nottz, Paul White, Oh No, Apollo Brown and L’Orange. Peep the tracklist below as well.

1. First Step (14KT Remix)
2. These Bammas (Oh No Remix)
3. The Backup (L’Orange Remix)
4. Working Weekends (Large Professor Remix)
5. Purveyors of Truth (Apollo Brown Remix)
6. Say What You Mean (Quelle Chris Remix)
7. Ain’t Over (Black Milk Remix)
8. Erything (Diamond D Remix)
9. You Had To Be There (Doppelgangaz Remix)
10. Lost Cause (Nottz Remix)
11. March on Washington (DJ Skizz Remix)
12. Bonus Flow (Paul White Remix)
13. I Mean Business (Jonwayne Remix)

Black Milk is back with a vengeance on his new album, If There’s A Hell Below, available now. Featuring a little help from Pete Rock, Sean Price, Guilty Simpson, Bun B, Blu, and more.

This shit knocks. Black Milk’s forthcoming album, If There’s A Hell Below, is out October 28.

From Black Milk’s forthcoming album, If There’s A Hell Below, due October 28.

“Now or Never” is the second single off of the second Converse CONS compilation, CONS EP Vol. 2, coming later this fall. The song was partially recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks in Brooklyn, New York.

Wikipedia tells us: “The New Dance Show was a television show in Detroit, Michigan, which ran on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV). Hosted by R.J Watkins, The New Dance Show was a low-budget local version of One Direction and featured regular dancers including a man who dressed like a Gypsy and wore a cape and a woman who dressed as a boxer.[1] The Mayer Hawthorne “Long Time” music video is presented as if it were an excerpt from The New Dance Show.[2]

The New Dance Show was developed as a spin off of The Scene, which ran October 1975 to December 1987. The Scene went off the air in 1987 and The New Dance Show debuted in November 1988, the first show being recorded at Reggie’s Moulin Rouge in Detroit.”

Catch Black Milk on the “Loops Don’t Lie” Tour, dates below.

Aug 06 – Asheville, NC – One Stop
Aug 07 – Atlanta, GA – 529
Aug 08 – Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
Aug 09 – Jacksonville, FL – Rain Dogs
Aug 10 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
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BLACK MILK WITH LIVE BAND NAT TURNER – EUROPE TOUR

Aug 21 – London, United Kingdom – Jazz Cafe
Aug 22 – Hradec Králové, Czech Republic – Hip Hop Kemp Festival
Aug 23 – Orpund, Switzerland – Royal Arena Festival
Aug 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
Aug 27 – Berlin, Germany – Cassiopeia
Aug 28 – Gent, Belgium – Dok
Aug 29 – Munster, Germany – Hot Jazz Club

Black Milk delivers a new single today, available now via Bandcamp and iTunes.

From Slum Village’s forthcoming Vintage LP.

On this episode of Rhythm Roulette Mass Appeal linked up with Black Milk. Fresh off the release of his LP No Poison No Paradise and Glitches in the Break EP, Black Milk invited them down to his studio in Dallas, TX to participate in the blindfolded challenge.

Fresh off the heels of his full-length No Poison No Paradise album, Black Milk continues to pull music from his vault. “Cold Day” is the first single from his forthcoming EP, Glitches In The Break, which will be released digitally on March 4 and on 12″ vinyl on Record Store Day, April 19. Digital pre-order is available now via Bandcamp.

Detroit’s Black Milk has a long, storied history as a part Slum Village’s extended family, and even has collaborated with J. Dilla early in his career. Which is why it makes sense that despite Dilla’s passing, his sound looms heavy over that of Black Milk’s, who carries on his legacy years after his death. No Poison No Paradise is Black Milk’s fifth solo LP, and if anyone in Detroit has built a successful post-Dilla career, it’s him.

The similarity between the two producers can work both for and against Black Milk, however. On one hand, if you were to tell a blindfolded fan that this album was a newly uncovered Dilla LP, Milk’s production style is so airtight that they’d be hard-pressed to argue with you. However the flipside of that coin is that some will just pass it off as a copy, unaware of Milk and Dilla’s past work together.

Songs like the gospel-driven stick-up tale, “Monday’s Worst” and the ominous “Codes & Cab Fare” with Black Thought, create infectious grooves, as Black Milk’s ultra-descriptive rhyme style paints the picture for you. “Sonny Jr.” breaks the traditional hip-hop mold completely, as he enlists Robert Glasper on horns, for a gorgeous, jazzy instrumental melody. Again on “Perfected On Puritan Ave” and “Dismal”, Milk aces the exam with fully realized, bittersweet, soulful hip-hop music.

While the aforementioned cuts help Black Milk carve out his own sound and style, there are moments on here that feel mined from the Dilla catalog. “Parallels” is essentially a cover of Slum Village’s “Look Of Love”, which is a strange choice of inclusion if he is trying to distance himself from his mentor (who knows, maybe he isn’t?). Meanwhile, songs like “Ghetto Demf”, “Black Sabbath”, and “X Chords” show heavy influence from Jay Dee’s Beat Generation era, and while dope, will have some folks screaming “but it’s not Dilla!”

If anyone in Detroit has persevered in the post-Dilla world it is Black Milk, and truth-be-told, he is a much stronger emcee than the late great James Yancey. It is respectful that he is carrying on his legacy, however he does lean too heavily at times on the production techniques of his teacher. As he shows in several moments on this album, he does not need to rely on the old Dilla formulas to make great music. Hopefully as his career progresses he can break out of this shell.

In this Interview with Montreality, Black Milk speaks about:

- The type of student he was at school (0:12)
- Jobs he had as a teenager growing up (0:44)
- His 1st big paycheck (1:13)
- The key to success (1:30)
- His favorite cartoon character (2:09)
- His favorite videogame (2:28)
- What he would call his book, if he were to write one (2:58)
- The realest shxt he ever wrote (3:20)
- The new generation of Detroit rappers (4:27)
- Hopes of collaborating with EMINEM (5:26)
- Remembering J DILLA (5:38)
- Remembering BIG PROOF (6:18)
- Emcee Producers that he respects (7:07)
- His message to the youth (7:46)