S.T.S. is back at it again this week with his latest Khari “@Kharrari” Mateen produced track entitled “WHITE”. Slim gives you a fairy tale story in his eyes, looking for the “Fairest of them All”.

S.T.S. lays claim to the GOLD standard with a freestyle on this Bear One flip of Arcade Fire’s track “Refelktor”.

Produced by Khari “Ferrari” Mateen.

“The meaning behind the song is that I love shopping so much it’s like a disease (oniomania) that I ended up shopping when I didn’t need to. And to top it off, we ass black folks still gotta deal with racism as if we can’t afford stuff at Barney’s. It breaks my hear, cause I was a big Barney’s shopper.” – S.T.S.

After releasing “Hell Wrong” from his upcoming project, S.T.S. delivers the official music video for the track, which is shot by Omari ( @Omari_RI ) and Kyle ( @YungYle ).

S.T.S. (Sugar Tongue Slim) follows up his release of “Hell Wrong” with a lyric video to the song. The lyric video was put together by @Uprodigydesign. S.T.S. is busy in the lab putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming project, and will be delivering more new music and visuals in the upcoming weeks.

Black Thought and company absolutely murdered Big L’s beat on this Toca Tuesdays freestyle. We miss great moments in radio like this. #MMJB

LISTEN: Money Making Jam Boys Freestyle On Toca Tuesdays.

Money Making Jam Boys Freestyle On Toca Tuesdays

Enter the Money Making Jam Boys – an offshoot project headed by Black Thought and Dice Raw, with up and coming emcees Truck North, P.O.R.N., and S.T.S., all of whom joined The Roots on their 2010 How I Got Over LP. Released as a free, downloadable project, the MMJB takes Thought and company outside of the live-instrument element, letting them show off over raw, unadulterated, dusty beats crafted from drum machines and samples. While not a solo album from Thought, perhaps this is a bit what it might have sounded like.

The formula here is pretty straight-forward. They never aim to satisfy the industry’s current definition of “hot”, instead they pretty much just hop on top of a collection of raw beats, running it down the line and just doing what comes naturally. The abrasive opener “500 Horses” finds the crew over a wicked Frank Knuckles track, while DJ Jazzy Jeff gets creative on the cut for the hook. The Khari Ferrari produced, “Tear It Down” follows, as S.T.S. opens the track with a show-stopping flow that allows him to stand confidently next to his older peers. This leads directly into the cinematic “Judgment Day”, which segues in perfectly, thanks to Mick Boogie and Terry Urban’s mixing, matching the two tracks up of the same key.

There’s some nice homages to the days of old included herein. “Coming Out Hard” creatively samples drums and breaks usually credited to Eric B & Rakim or Slick Rick, but sounding completely original in execution. “Philadelphia Zoo” finds Black Thought channeling O.D.B. in this loose-knit cover of it’s Brooklyn counterpart, over a terrorizing beat reminiscent of the pre-G-Funk gangster rap era. The most obvious of these however is the cover of Nice ‘N Smooth’s “No Delaying” (here called “We Ain’t Playing”), where Black Thought brags “Kickin’ wicked rhymes like a fortune teller, ’95 I made the word Illadelph up.”

The faults are few and far in between. Nothing wrong with the uptempo, breezy “Here You Say”, although it has a hard time fitting in with the rest of the album’s raw production. The same can be said for the super-soft “Money Make The World Go Round”, a mellowed out, vocal driven track that feels strange among the rest of the mix.

In a word, The Prestige succeeds, as it doesn’t attempt to go for radio play and is unspoiled by industry evils. This is the type of music that these cats ultimately want to make, without having to worry about the pressures of an imposing record label or rapidly changing musical trends. Jam on it.

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