A lost 1998 KRS-One demo, produced by Domingo, which will be featured on his Sessions & Lessons LP, due Feb. 17th.

From Domingo’s forthcoming Sessions n Lessons compilation, due February 17th.

From the new Domingo album, Same Game New Rules, available now.

From the new Domingo album, Same Game New Rules, due Tuesday August 19th, 2014.

From Domingo’s Sessions Vol. One.

Off the new Domingo album Same Game New Rules, available July 2014.

Domingo has released the first single for “Same Game – New Rules” entitled “The Return” which features Chris Rivers, Bamboo, Krs-1 and R.A. The Rugged Man. (Cuts by Dj Eclipse)

Domingo is one of the most prominent hip hop producers to ever come from East New York, Brooklyn he has produced for some of hip hop’s most respected and well known artists such as Big Pun, Eminem, Kool G Rap, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Fat Joe, KRS-1 to name a few.

In keeping focus to his NYC grimey street boom bap sound has decided to keep hip hop alive by producing his 7th studio album entitled

“Same Game – New Rules”. The album is slated to have such artists as Nutso, Chris Rivers, Krs-1, Kool G Rap, R.A. The Rugged Man, Ras Kass, AZ, Bamboo, Demorne Warren, and many others.

Domingo has went the crowd funding route on this album to keep it fan supported and independently released having his fans and supporters be a part of the album making experience.

Domingo’s Same Game New Rules, due July 2014.

Hip-Hop legend Kool G Rap teams up with producer Domingo to remake his track “Men At Work” off he & DJ Polo’s classic debut LP Road To Riches. “Men At Work 2020″ sees Marley Marl, Action Bronson, Ras Kass, Necro, Nutso, F.T. & Rugged Intellect join G Rap for this updated, posse cut version. Be on the lookout for Kool Giancana’s collaboration album with Necro, The Godfathers, to drop later this year.

First single from PackFM off the upcoming album I F*cking Hate Rappers. The track is produced by Domingo, and the album is set for a May 25th digital release, and a June 15th retail release. Check out this track below, and pre-orders for the album can be made at http://qn5.com/

PackFM – “Nasty” (MP3)

The label with no rich relatives, QN5 Music, released this tantalizing image today, stating QK10, announcing a list of projected releases scheduled for release this year. No dates have been attached, but the list reads like this:

PackFM & Domingo – I F*cking Hate Rappers
Substantial – Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
Tonedeff & Kno – Chico And The Man
Mr. SOS – Cassette Verite
QN5 Music – Asterisk:Five
Kokayi – Robots & Dinosaurs
Kno – Death Is Silent
Deacon The Villain & Sheisty Khrist – Niggaz with Latitude
CunninLynguists – Oneirology
Tonedeff – Deffinitions Vol. 2

Nice title Deacon and Sheisty. But are you guys trying to start a beef with the Brothers With Longitude?

This time, Domingo packs it tightly with a slim 12 tracks, but truthfully still delivers hit & miss material. Nevertheless, when he’s aiming for his target, he hits dead center. From the get-go, back-to-back bangers “Certified Official” by Dilated Peoples, and “Rumble” by High & Mighty, show enormous improvement in his production, worthy of a place on either of the respective artists albums. He also cleans-up shop with KRS-ONE and Tonedeff on “Clear ‘Em Out” (the song that sparked the whole Nelly “battle”), as Kris plays sucka-emcee duck hunter on one his best performances since “Step Into A World”. Meanwhile, Mets capped rookies, Rise, and Punch & Words also fair well over Domingo’s new and improved sonic backdrops, with Rise’s cute “From The Child To The MC”, and Punch & Words heartfelt NYC dedication, “Native New York”.

Still, it is evident that Domingo saved some of his better beats for the better emcees, as some of the young upstarts (K-Slash, Deacon Da Villian) either came up short on the quality beats, or simply failed to deliver themselves. Other times, the responsibility of failure falls on the emcees themselves, such as on Craig Mack’s road-to-nowhere “The Ha Ha Ha”, Sean Price’s G’d up “Irrationally Speaking”, or another strike from the Cocoa Brovaz’s “Play No Games”, (following the lousy “Spit Again” from SoundBombing III).

But again, Domingo overall shows vast improvement, and is beginning to develop his own signature style with The Difference. Sooner or later it won’t be surprising to see some of these artists asking him to return the favor, in producing tracks for their respective albums, as KRS already has.

With a track list that surely would of caused record store riots 7 years ago Game Over does score points for its effort; Big Daddy Kane, KRS-ONE, Masta Ace, K-Solo, Das Efx, Craig Mack, Jeru The Damaja, the list goes on but taking in consideration some of the questionable music these artists have released in the dusk of their career’s might generate overall questioning of this album as a whole. It’s difficult to hear some of yesterday’s tastemakers fall victim to blase production and tired concepts, which brings up the question, if say a Buckwild or Showbiz had the same artists to work with, would the result compare?

Does lazy production constitute lazy rapping? And if so, could artists like Heltah Skeltah and Royal Flush make valiant returns given truly solid beats? That’s not to say Domingo is a lazy producer by any means (his career has spanned similarly to that of his emcee counterparts), tracks like Masta Ace’s “Rap 2K1″ and “Things On My Mind” by Punch & Words bubble up hot. Kane’s “Flame On” is somewhat noteworthy and Agallah’s fiendish “Get Da Game Right” will bump, but put in the context of the true-blue jams these people used to make and damn well should still be making might possibly sadden a listener or two. This is NYC Gangsta shit maximized. The optimum listening environment would probably be in NYC itself, preferably out of Manhattan and somewhere deep in Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx. 2001 anthem music, with a middle-finger pointed at major radio while almost pleading for long lost mass appeal.