Probably the best rapper out right now not named Kendrick or Drake (and we don’t say that lightly), Joey Bad dials up another win with latest Summer Knights single, the ragga-tinged “My Yout”.
Joey Bada$$ – My YoutJoey Bada$$ 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
Joey Bada$$
UPDATE: Contest is now closed.
It’s that time of year again when Virgin Mobile brings its annual FREE music festival to Columbia, MD. Gracing the Merriweather Post Pavilion this year on September 21st are a collection of B3SCI favorites that include Madeon, Robin Thicke, Vampire Weekend, Ghost Beach, MGMT, Washed Out, CHVRCHES, Icona Pop, The Knocks, and Sky Ferreira… just to name a few.
B3SCI is giving away one pair of tickets to this coveted festival to one lucky reader! To win just email us here and let us know you’d like to be entered into the FreeFest Contest in the subject line. In the email tell us which FreeFest artist would you most like to see in a photo with Sir Richard Branson and his golden CEO mullet? (one entry per person). We know… decisions, decisions. Our winner will be picked from the pool of submissions on Monday 9/9, so keep an eye on your inbox. You can get additional details on the show as well as ticket info HERE. Good luck and may the fest be with you!
ALSO, to those already attending FreeFest try your luck with Virgin Mobile’s exclusive meet and greet experience! Full details on how to enter the contest can be found HERE at the official contest page.
Virgin Mobile Free Fest (Official)
Our bro Drake gets a remix from one of our favorite artists of the moment in really in genre, Sango. The Detroit-native selects for a very Drizzy-friendly after hours melange of 3 A.M. vibes and down keyed beats that we’re absolutely loving. Sample Sango’s mix for “The Motion” below.
Sango 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.9
Vet hip hop producer Jake One pulls quite the remix rabbit out of his hat w/ this slowed (& might as well be throwed) take on Portugal. The Man’s (!) “Evil Friends” single. That. And oh yeah, it features a cool rhyming bro that goes by the name Danny Brown too.
Jake One 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
This is our jam right here. Long Beach-based duo LBCK serve up a very special soul-sampling disco-driven selection w/ latest track “Carpe Diem” featuring emcee C Plus. We can’t wait to hear more from the LBCK crew; nice track, bros!
LBCK 
(Official)
Rating 8.2
“Cali Love” = 100% easy no brainer. Sabi, whom was a featured artist on Cobra Starship’s hit “You Make Me Feel” a couple years back links up Mr. “Rack City” bro Tyga for the nearly perfect pop/R&B of “Cali Love”. Sabi’s got an EP of the same name “Cali Love” due in October.
Sabi (Purchase)
Rating 8.2
Brooklyn songstress Justine Skye hooks up everybody’s fave Joey Bada$$ (& apparently 90’s MC AZ, although it’s unclear just where he appears on the track) for the electro-tinged mid-tempo jam “Messing With You”. Justine’s “Everyday Living” EP is due next week, August 20th.
Justine Skye (Tumblr)
Rating 8.2
Bay Area rapper Iamsu breaks off a little something fresh for the ladies (and our R&B cooler loving dudes too) w/ the new Tank-featuring “Let Go”.
Iamsu (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Beck has turned his ever experimenting hand back to hip hop in a move anyone would find hard to predict, on this remix of JJ Doom’s “Banished” (JJ Doom = MF Doom + Jneiro Janel).
The results are certainly ‘interesting’, and not in an “I don’t like it but can’t be arsed to say why” way but more in a thought provoking, intriguing way; Beck’s raw and laid back acoustic instrumentation offers a whole new dimension to the original and gives you plenty of reasons to hold out for it’s full duration.
Out on Lex 20th August.
By Nathan Hetherington
Beck (Official)
Rating 8.3
