Beats — Hoopsfix.com

July 18, 2011

By Jos Smart | @JosSmart Back on this once again and this week I’ve pulled together four of my favourite albums / mixtapes that have surfaced since we last spoke. A couple of names that followers of beatsfix will be more than familiar as well as a nice dose of artists that might need a [...]

Beatsfix: RéY, Josh Osho, Ms Dynamite & Maverick Sabre

May 31, 2011

By Jos Smart | @JosSmart Yes yes. So it’s been a quick couple of months since the last Beatsfix and I finally felt it time to break out another update. The pace things move on the internet these days, taking two months out of the ‘blogging’ game is as good as retiring at your peak, [...]

Beatsfix: Big K.R.I.T, Nardwuar & Ghostpoet

March 28, 2011

By Jos Smart | @JosSmart Another week, another dose of music to add to your rotation. Hopefully everyone had a minute to check out last week’s stand out mixtape, The Weeknd – House of Balloons (let’s be honest, Pusha T’s Fear of God didn’t match the hype). This week there’s once again another free mixtape [...]

Beatsfix: Pusha T & The Weeknd

March 21, 2011

Get your ipods loaded up with only the freshest beats, brought to you in our weekly roundup from Beatsfix writer Jos Smart. Find him on Twitter @JosSmart. All mixtapes downloadable by clicking on link. Last week the music gods treated us to a great selection of quality mixtape material. Well it looks like this week [...]

Beatsfix: PacDiv, Dom Kennedy, Mac Miller & More

March 14, 2011

Get your ipods loaded up with only the freshest beats, brought to you in our weekly roundup from Beatsfix writer Jos Smart. Find him on Twitter @JosSmart. All mixtapes downloadable by clicking on link or image. Pac Div – Mania! Los Angeles’ finest rap trio put out their long awaited mixtape Mania!. Hosted by gobshite [...]

Beats: Fat Joe ft. Raekwon ‘Pushing Keys’

February 25, 2011

Words by Jos Smart | @JosSmart As a rapper, you know you’ve reached a certain level when people want you on their track, not to rhyme, but just to bark coke laced boasts to close out a song. It’s a fairly niche service to offer but as long as you’re the expert then you’ll stay [...]

Beats: Tyler, The Creator – YONKERS

February 12, 2011

Words by Jos Smart | @JosSmart Eating a live cockroach. Vomiting. Nosebleeds. Bare chests. Multiple gold chains. Blacked out eye balls. Nooses. Suicide. Tube socks… and that’s just the video. Tyler, the Creator’s YONKERS is the lead single off his highly anticipated second album GOBLIN. Those aware of Tyler and the ODDFUTURE / OFWGKTA movement [...]

Beats: The Streets – Roof of Your Car

February 5, 2011

Words by Jos Smart | @JosSmart I remember the first time I heard The Streets. I was about 15 and after holding it down as a paperboy (wasteman) for a hot minute I took a huge career leap forward by becoming a kitchen porter (chefs bitch). Even as a teen I was on my grind. [...]

Beats: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Wings

January 29, 2011

Words by Jos Smart | @JosSmart If you’re a Hoopsfix head then I’ll bet a few pennies that the majority of you currently play or, at least at one time, played the game of basketball (© Michael Jordan). And if that’s the case, then I’ll bet a few more pennies that at one time during [...]

Beats: Wiz Khalifa – Exit Row

January 22, 2011

Words by Jos Smart | @JosSmart Recently I was lucky enough to see both J Cole and Drake headline their first London shows at Koko and Hammersmith Apollo respectively. Both shows were sold out and both shows had people, understandably, gassing on twitter. I’m not going to review each show in any depth, all I’ll [...]

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