"Victorious, Yeah We Warriors, We Make History, Strive Off Victory..."

I'm back in a flash! Or not...once again the H-Man went and disappeared and left y'all out to dry...there's a perfectly valid reason for this however, THE 2009 NBA MOTHERFUCKIN PLAYOFFS! AHHHHHHHHHH! I have been completely unable to unglue myself from the television every night for the length of 3 games, as i have been utterly and totally obsessed with watching every game i can possibly watch, at the detriment of every other responsibility, including that of ridin. Even though I'm from and reside in D.C (fuckin Wizards...don't you miss them being called The Bullets, way more bad ass and honestly much more representative...when's the last time anyone saw a Wizard?), my pops is from Denver and have always been a fan of The Broncos and The Nuggets. So now you know who im rootin for...I am predicting a Cavaliers and Lakers final (am not willing to bet on who will win that yet, need to see how they perform in the second round...), a King James vs. Kobe repeat, but this time The Chosen One is more grown up (and stronger..."kid" is 6'8", 2% body fat, and weighs almost 275 pounds...) The Mavericks have surprised me by eliminating the Spurs in 5 games, but i think that the Nuggets (who will get to the second round after tonight, that 58 point blowout was craaaaaaazy...give it up for the boy Meloooooooo! Iverson was my favorite player for yeaaaars, but i still think tradin him for Chauncey has made the Nugs a way better team) and honestly, the Bulls Vs. Celtics matchup is the most entertaining 1st round series that I have ever witnessed. Can't wait to see what Game 6 will bring, but I have a feeling that despite the injuries, Boston will end up taking it, Pierce and Allen have been CLUTCH. The other series have not been too interesting to me, though i do hope the Magic (Howard was a beast last night), the Blazers (although they are up against tremendous odds now down 3-1...) and the Heat (hope Wade's back spasms heal up) all go through to the next round. So, there will be LESS games, when the week is over, but believe me i will be watching every single one i can. WHERE AMAZING HAPPENS!





Also, there have been a number of great ads that i have seen in between, three of which are my favorites. Still cannot watch the Patrick Ewing one without laughing my ass off, so awkward and hilarious. Ch-ch-check em out!


AHHHHHHHHHH!


Would be the best Taxi ride eva --- MJ: "Je peux toucher la radio? Pourquoi pas?"



I wish i could be THAT happy about anything...haha


Cleavand Cavalier spoof of Heineken commercial! Perfect, especially for a sneaker freaker like me...

"I'm the boss, I'm the mayor, make it rain, on these haters!"

Bawse! I'll be the first to admit that i havent exactly been a fan of Ricky Ross, in fact I rather hated on the dude for a long time (some might say with good reason, the only decent thing he really put out before was "Hustlin", and that shit got old REALLLLL quick...) However, i don't know, whether he just stepped his game up or if Curtis lit a fire under his ass with all the attempted bullying, but Rick Ross has released a great album, Deeper Than Rap. There are only 2 tracks I'm not crazy about, the rest is dooooooooope. The production is IMPECCABLE (most of it by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, and one fantastic Toomp track), his flow and lyrics got better, and for once Miami Rick is surpassing all expectations, smooth as I always hoped he could be. Just yesterday, he was on the FRONT PAGE OF THE ARTS SECTION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. Kanye even bestowed him his highest honor, saying that he can listen to it in his apartment (whatever the fuck that means, i guess it's a big deal to him and others...)Since I copped it, i haven't been able to stop listening to it. This album is by far Officer Rawse's finest work, i love being pleasantly surprised like this! Triple C's!

here are my two favorite tracks:


"Valley of Death"


"Usual Suspects" ft. NaS

"Lock yourself in a room, doin 5 beats a day for 3 summers..."

Take that, take that, take that...whatup whatup, here's the thirsty Thursday update for all my faithful followers and beat junkies. A little while back i mentioned my boy KD Supier (Supierior Productions), well this is a post dedicated to him, cuz one day he's gonna be LEGEN- wait for it - DARY. Fresh outta Berlin and now residing in Beantown, KD and i first bonded in New York city during Haloween last year over some drunken shouting "WE THE BEST!" DJ Khaled impersonations. Since then, we have kept in touch, and are starting some Fresh Like Green Tea collabs...We have also become "Ciroc-Stars", due to our mutual love of vodka of the P-Diddy persuasion (i swear, it's better than the Goose...) Just a day ago my man did a remix to Common's Neptune produced "Gladiator", and i shit you not, its better than the original. So, give some love to the European connection KD Supier, and download all his hot fire underneath! Ciroc Stars in the building tonight!

Common - "Gladiator" (Supierior Remix)

UGK - "Da Game's Been Good To Me" (Supierior Remix)

Bun-B - "Gangsta" (Supierior Remix)

Jay-Z ft. Pharell - "I Know" (Supierior Remix)

Supierior Gangster Mixtape

Pimpin Ain't Dead Mixtape

“Foreign Beggars oh no make you sound so so, slapping wack MCs just for chatting out their blow holes”

Fresh from London, Foreign Beggar's DJ Nonames new mixtape, Strictly Grizzness. Featuring all the Dented Records fam, its a definite must cop! You can download it for free here, or visit dentedrecords.com and buy the hard copy (which i highly recommend, these boys need your support!). It's "a fresh pinched loaf of grime and dubstep", and is bound to get your mind and body movin, so check out this uniquely British sound! Peep the Foreign Beggar's Myspace and Reverbnation sites for some more guaranteed fresh sound. And, as always, big up Pavan!

Download Link and Tracklist Below! Grizzle!

DJ Nonames - Strictly Grizzness Mixtape

1.Vista- Dysekta (3.5 records) into Tes La Rok- Bass 31 (3.5 records)

2. Ed Strong (from IRS) - untitled (white) into Vista- Gameboy (3.5 records)

3. Frisco ft Chipmunk and Double S - Skengman Mode (Always recordings)

4. Benga- 26 basslines ft. Orifice Vulgatron and Kyza (Tempa)

5. Skream- Oscillator ft Metropolis (white)

6. Virus Syndicate - Infected (planet mu) w/ Dhruva & Sharmaji- koli stance (white)

7. Coti ft. Doctor- Calm Down (Minus 30 recordings)

8. Mala-Left Leg Out (DMZ)

9. Wiley prod. by rapid -Flyboy (Big Dada)

10. Ghetto prod. by Lewi White- Top 3 Selected (J Clarke enterprises)

11. Devlin prod. by Lewi White- Nothing New (white)

12. Coki - The End (DMZ) into JME - A little insight (Boy Better Know)

13. Durrty Doogz, prod. by Scratcha DVA - Keep Up (Axiom recordings)

14. Lofah - Disko Rekah (Deep Medi Musik)

15. Skepta, prod. by Plastician- Intensive Snare (Terrorhythm recordings)

16. Caspa- Rubber Chicken ft Abstract Rude (Tempa records)

17. Matty G - West coast rocks ‘Caspa rmx’ (Argon recordings)

18. Ghetto, prod. by Lewi White - Mountain (J Clarke enterprises)

19. Loudmouth - Suck Out (inst) into Loudmouth ft. Badness- Cut Out

20. Badness, D.E.velopment, Bruza, DJ Spiro and Terror Danjah – Hardcast rip

21. Planas and Ruckspin ft Virus Syndicate, Foreign Beggars and Dr. Syntax - Nature of It (Ranking records)

22. Thunderclaps ft. Orifice Vulgatron, Ghetto, Shameless and Deadly Hunta - Judgement day (Ejector Seat records)

"Pyrex stirs, turned into Cavalli furs, the full length cat, when i wave the kitty purrs..."

Its finally here peoples! Haven't been very good about posting since last week, but my Mac has been sent in for repair (just fucked up on me for apparently no reason, fuck you Steve Jobs!) and the brotha from anotha motha Knutz was in DC this weekend. We were quite occupied with ridin and being ganjaweed warriors. So, the Clipse X Kanye West collaboration is finally here (been waiting on that shit for monnnnths), with a nice single cover art by Kaws. It definitely doesn't disappoint, and is DEFINITELY a big deal! Check it out, and give some mad love to VA all day! Happy 4/20, hope y'all get baked like a chicken pot pie!



Download - "Kinda Like A Big Deal" - The Clipse ft. Kanye West

"I used to give a fuck, now I give a fuck less, what do I think of succes? It sucks, too much stress..."

Harlem Holla to all my peoples! First things first, just checked out Media Fire and broke the 100 DOWNLOADS of Fresh Like Green Tea Radio Volume 2! Thanks so much for the support! So, re-watched American Gangster today, and goddamn do i love that movie. Denzel is superb, i can't believe he got snubbed at the Oscars and didn't even get a nomination...Something so cool about Mr. Washington playing a bad mufucka like Frank Lucas (and of course Alonzo in Training Day), a sort of unpredictability about his character, no matter how calm he seems on the surface you can actually SEE him scheming. Crazy how much rap related it is in the end, as it does feature Common, T.I. and RZA in the cast, and of course the Jay-Z side project. Anyways, just wanted to share with you guys how much i dig that movie, if you haven't seen it, GET ON IT> Below if my favorite song off the soundtrack (beautiful) as well as my favorite scene (you might recognize a certain "Stringer Bell" for all you Wire lovers). the last link is my homie KD Supier's remix project of Jay-Z's American Gangster album. He's a dope producer, look forward to a collaboration between him and Fresh...wait for it, wait for it...Like Green Tea Radio in the very near future, that shit will be as pure as "Blue Magic"...


Anthony Hamilton - "Do You Feel Me?"



KD Supier - Supierior Gangster Download

“You rappers are Neanderthal, it’s hard to catch what you’re saying, with your primitive grunts and groans it’s like I’m chatting with cavemen...”

What's poppin kids (that reminds me of some Statik and Jada..."left homes with half his dome in a napkin, for asking what's poppin when i asked what's crackin...ahaaaaa!") Thank you so much for the love i been getting on my last episode of Fresh Like Green Tea radio, it's been getting a great reception (except Facebook threatened me, they seem to think I'm running a business or some shit...). Today i present you an awesome performance courtesy of BBC (the real one, not Pharell's, haha) from my boys, The Foreign Beggars (word up Pavan!), in collaboration with Engine-Earz. It's a mashup of "Stay Seated" by the Foreign Beggars and "Hydroactive" by Engine-EarZ. Check it out, and stay tuned for the new Foreign Beggars album United Colours of Begattron , featuring Guilty Simpson, Noisia, Phatkat,Jehst,DJ 2Tall and more. Dem boys is grizzle!

"Pump up the volume, pump up the volume..."

Aight, aight, its that time again! FRESH LIKE GREEN TEA RADIO VOLUME 2! A special delivery by the Easter Bunny, hope all y'all get it. Recorded this two weekends ago in NYC, the sound quality is doooope. The intro is produced by none other than my main man MJ I'll try to get a streaming version up a.s.a.p, but im feeling a little stuffed and slightly drunk right now, so ill take care of that tomorrooooow. So, download the show, and please, let me know what you think, holla at me via email, facebook or twitter! So, happy day off tomorrow ( I know I ain't workin) and happy eastaaaaaaa.

Fresh Like Green Tea Radio Vol.2

"I am only a fighter, in the form of a writer, in the form of a poet, potency in the mic..."

Please allow me, to introduce me, my name's H-Man, and I'm back godDAMN! So yeah, as you can all imagine, New York trip once again this past weekend(last one for a little while i SWEAR, haha) which explains my non presence since last week...i did do some more work however that i KNOW all y'all will love, you'll find out just what that is soon enough...Went to the Wale & UCB concert yesterday in Richmond with Ride or Die and Jada, totally worth the 5 hours or so of combined drivin/ridin. This cat named J.Cole opened (after this local Richmond band that i wasn't too much of a fan of) who was surprisingly good, who is the newest signing to Jay-Z's label...(check out his MySpace page HERE) Then Colin Munroe opened, who I've been a fan of for a quite a while now, his mixtape (The Unsung Hero) is pretty dope and has a lot of really awesome guest featurings. He definitely closed with my favorite song of his, a Yeezy cover called "I Want Those Flashing Lights". So after about 3 hours, it was finally time for Wale to hit the stage, and it CERTAINLY was not disappointing in the least. It was amazing to see him with a live go-go act like UCB, and Richmond is the closest that he'll be touring to DC the entire length of his tour, meaning that people like myself did come down from Northern VA and DC to see him, he even said that this show was at "home". The energy was insane, he had the crowd in some sort of trance (and the mufucka was wearing some Air Yeezys, and YES, when the lights were off towards the end they DID glow in the fucking dark...shoulda copped em last week!!!). He played some new joints, as well as some old school go-go, and it was an all around high energy night, he did my 4 favorite joints, "Good Girls", "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.", "The Artistic Integrity" and of course the anthemic "Nike Boots". Wale really is about to blow the fuck up, so all of you please support him and buy his album Attention Deficit when it drops in June. Help make him the first rapper EVER to truly make it from the D.M.V!
Wale!


Wale doin some go-go-ness


"Nike Boots" Part 1



"Nike Boots" Part 2


Wale Ovechkin!


J. Cole


Colin Munroe


Tre from UCB


Flyer Than The Rest of Them! "My name's Wale but they know me out in Wales..."

"So I take another loss, wondering why I fucked with you, knowing I got stuff to do”

AHHHHH. So, told y'all last time around i was going to the Blu & Exile show on Wednesday...Well i DID and it was doooooope. Damu the Fudgemunk and DJ Underdog were spinnin, the Flex Mathews played a dope set along with a surprise one song performance by DC supergroup Diamond District. Blu was just chillin in the crowd (smellin like mad reefer) until it was time for him to go on stage. His live performance is very comparable to the way he sounds in his songs, very laid back and relaxed. He played mostly Below the Heavens material, and a little bit of Johnson&Johnson. Much to my delight, he did do "Blu Collar Worker","No Greater Love", and "Dancing In The Rain". Exile was absolutely amazing, did not know how much of a master he was on the MPC, and how fast he can make beats from scratch. Woulda loved to stick around the venue more and kicked it with Blu a little, but Ride Or Die, Jada and I had to leave quite a abruptly to find our friend BKJ, who had been thrown out about 15 minutes before the end of the show, as he somehow got so wasted that he fell onto the stage...this is where it gets good. Somehow, in 15 minutes, he managed to make it 6 blocks, borrow a skateboard from someone and fuck his ankle up, piss on an apartment building, try to get in to that same apartment building, and pass out until the Police arrived. Thankfully the cops didn't charge him (who woulda ever thought right?) and just handed him over to me. Upon entering the car, he promptly passed the fuck out and I hear (from extremely reliable sources) that he was un-wakeable in the car until about 6 in the a.m...Anywyas, here are a few pics and a few vids, make sure you peep em all! Also, will be in NYC until Tuesday, will try to write a few quick posts, but that will all depend my hand eye coordination, which i have a feeling is gonna take a beating this weekend. So, til next time, goodnight and good ride.

"Who the hell gonna stop us? Not a GODDAMN one of ya..."

Aiiiiiight. Gettin ready to leave for this Blu & Exile show (and it turns out that Damu the Fudgemunk is opening for him too, peep his MySpace HERE) but wanted to leave y'all with a little sumthin sumthin before i hit the road. This is a mix that my boy EQ that i used to do Cuts and Rhymez with back in Paris (if you never copped the old episodes i posted it ain't too late! Get em HERE!) For my birthday a couple weeks ago he made me an hour and 20 minute mix, very inspired by Glitch Mob. It fucking DOPE, drive with this and you're sure to get places happy and fast! So, big up to man EQ who now resides in LA, miss you brotha, keep droppin (and recording, haha) them phat sounds. Don't let that goofy smile fool ya! This cat is for real!

DOWLOAD EQ - H-MAN BIRFDAY FRESH LIKE GREEN TEA GLITCH MIX


EQ with the H-Man graduhatin!