Tone Fults Featuring Messiah Of Madness "Wealth, Weaponry & Power" [ALBUM]

Steel-Town PA’s deadliest is back! Grimey Production ace, Tone Fultz has a Halloween drop of his new LP. Wealth, Weaponry And Power is a trip through the deranged and remorseless viewpoint of Fultz’s murderous mic alter-ego, Messiah Of Madness.

Within is storm drenched, shadow-laden rugged hip-hop detailing ill-gotten gains, the destruction of street suckers and other R-Rated activity. When questioned on the extremity of his work and how his friends feel about his music, Fultz revealed, “my friends don't look at me differently after hearing my music. We all grew up in the projects and in that environment you’re either a predator or prey and I choose to be the predator. Anytime something crazy went down in my hood I usually was in the center of it. Even though I have money and I’m a long way from the projects, that killer instinct never leaves you. It will scar you for life.”

Listen to Wealth, Weaponry And Power: Here

Sole album feature comes courtesy of Solomon Childs (Theodore Unit) on previously released single “Talk To Um” (Fultz has also produced several tracks for Childs in the past).

This album comes on the heels of Iron Angeles, which was Fultz in the producer role lacing a full-length album for Reagan Era Records own Dios Negasi (with appearances throughout from the Reagan Era crew).

Listen to Dios Negasi + Tone Fultz on Rap Is Outta Control (Shade 45): Here

More Info: https://www.instagram.com/messiah_of_madness/

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Lounge Lo & Crunch Lo (The Lo Brothers) "Da Boom & Baneen" [EP + VIDEO]

Da Boom & Baneen is the new EP from The Lo Brothers, Crunch Lo and Lounge Lo of the wider Othorized Fam collective, seven tracks produced in full by Shaka Amazulu The 7th, with mixing from Producer Data and Shaka himself and mastering from Shaka as well. The video for Brotherhood of the Wolf premieres alongside it through Black Stone of Mecca. The tracklist keeps it in the family: Baneenology opens, Othorization and Staten Islanders sit in the middle, Da Boom Theory closes. Blood runs deeper than music, as the release notes put it: two voices, one bloodline, built on years of shared history. The Wu-Tang family tree keeps growing leaves; this one grew on a branch that never left Staten Island.

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Suave-Ski & Zip Nasty "Rod Serling" [VIDEO]

Rod Serling is the first video from Eugene O'Neill Drive, the upcoming album from Suave-Ski and Zip Nasty, and it was shot on site in New London, Connecticut. The credits: video by Lensforhire, shots by Brand Vision Co. Suave-Ski, an award winning independent artist from New London, builds everything from the ground up, and the album title names the city's own theatrical street; the video title names the man who hosted The Twilight Zone. A town documenting its own mythology, one release at a time. The presave is coming; the album follows. Rod Serling would appreciate the framing.

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O The Great x Ashtronomics "The Monsters Are Due, Pt. 2" [ALBUM]

The Monsters Are Due, Pt. 2 is the second installment of the Halloween series O The Great began with Ashtronomics, five years to the season after the first volume. The original ran on horror cinema references from Escape to Witch Mountain to Carnival of Soulz; the sequel keeps the double bill going: Sleepy Hollow Intro, Page of Madness, American Psycho, Tales From The Hood, Brom Bones, Mischief Night, Red October. Ten tracks, all costumed. A series that keeps an appointment across five years is a ritual, and the New York underground keeps its rituals carefully. The monsters are due; they were due last time too. That is the point of monsters.

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Droogz Brigade "Kuato" (prod. Al'Tarba) [VIDEO]

Kuato is the new video from Droogz Brigade, produced by Al'Tarba, and it is an advance single from Mecanique, the album arriving in December. The credits read like a French underground production sheet: verses from Staff L'instable, Al'Tarba, Rhama le singe and Sad Vicious, beat and mix by Al'Tarba, mastering by Senbei, editing by Sekel, preorders through Modulor Records. A title like Kuato points to a certain science fiction film about mutants and hidden prophets; the brigade's taste in references has always run genre deep. December is the date; the video is the invitation.

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Piff Penny "Air B&B Wars" (feat. Crotona P) [SINGLE]

Air B&B Wars is the new Halloween single from Piff Penny, featuring Crotona P from the Bronx, produced by Kyng Syx. Penny, the Durham, North Carolina emcee who grew up between Baltimore and DC, has been building one of the quietest deep catalogs in the region, from the Sativa series to the EPIFFANY album and the Baltimore Believe mixtape; the partnership with Kyng Syx already has its own entries. The new track, by its own description, is spooky and loud, a seasonal theme with heavy bars. A single about the war over nightly rentals, on Halloween, from Durham: the underground comments on everything eventually.

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Gatekeeper (Gravediggaz) "Runnin Mad Wild" [SINGLE]

Runnin Mad Wild is a new single from Gatekeeper of Gravediggaz, and the title is a callback: on the group's debut era, the Gatekeeper opened a classic with the line about running mad wild because death was his style. The new single arrives under the Gravediggaz billing, with the horrorcore institution's name still carrying the weight it built in the nineties. For a genre the culture keeps burying and resurrecting, a new verse from one of its architects is an event on its own terms. The title tells you the memory is intact. The single does the rest.

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Sean Links "The Mainline Freestyle" [VIDEO]

The Mainline Freestyle is the third Sean Links freestyle this site has carried this year, after the Hall Freestyle and the Piano Love Freestyle. The format is the tradition: no concept, no album frame, just an MC and a beat, testing whether the craft holds without production doing the lifting. Links's album Mad Max, produced in full by HxlySmxkes, is out on vinyl for anyone who wants the long form. The freestyles keep coming in between. The mainline, in this context, is the vein. The underground's pulse, taken regularly.

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RJ Payne "Sho Nuff" [EP]

Sho Nuff is a new EP from RJ Payne, five tracks, ten minutes, and every title belongs to the same mythology: Kiss My Converse, The Shogun, Am I The Meanest, Catching Bullets With His Teeth, Who's The Master. Anyone who knows the film being quoted will hear its villain laughing through the tracklist; anyone who does not will still get the posture. Payne's name has surfaced on this site before, on a feature on Red Cafe's Once In A Red Moon. Ten minutes, no features, no fat: an EP built like a character study. The last track asks the question the whole project has been answering. Sho'nuff.

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Jeru The Damaja "Tokyo" [VIDEO]

Tokyo is the new video from Jeru The Damaja, an animated clip from the album Blessed The Evolution, and every frame of it was hand drawn and hand animated. The story starts after the show: the glow still on, a stranger offering somewhere new, a cabaret, a wall of laser lights, a door in the back, and a night that turns into a fight for the exit. Dark comedy and action storytelling in the classic tradition of the culture, told with a straight face and a wink. Blessed The Evolution marks thirty one years since The Sun Rises in the East, produced by Leandra Lionza with Jeru on executive duty. The master still draws his own frames. Stay until the last line.

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LA The Darkman "La Paraphernalia" [ALBUM]

La Paraphernalia returns as part of THE LA TRILOGY: Black Stone of Mecca is reissuing LA The Darkman's LA Luminati, La Familia and La Paraphernalia together on CD for the first time, remastered from the original digital albums, each title limited to one hundred copies, with ultra limited Deluxe editions carrying a bonus disc from the Return of the Darkman series. The tracklist runs deep: 4 Brothers with Statik Selektah, Termanology and Willie The Kid, I'm A G with Trick Trick, Crack In The 'Lac with Chamillionaire, Bang Bang Bang with Tony Yayo. Art direction comes from Shaka Amazulu The 7th. A preserved chapter from the Wu lineage, as the label itself puts it, and a physical home for records that lived online.

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Hus Kingpin "Halloween Hus: Murda Muzik" [ALBUM]

Halloween Hus: Murda Muzik is the new album from Hus Kingpin, nine tracks, fifteen minutes, arriving on the holiday. The tracklist keeps the costume on: Chasing the Dragon, Night Writer Pt. 2, More Homicide, Halloween Cream Team, Quiet Killer, Dark Knight Over Palm Trees, All Saints Eve. This site has covered the Lord Wavy before, from Next Level with Inspectah Deck to the WAVO FOREVER cycle; the new record compresses his usual sprawl into a seasonal capsule. Fifteen minutes is a statement of discipline for an artist whose recent albums run long. Murda Muzik on Halloween, palm trees in the dark: the wave wears a mask for one night only.

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