Fresh Panda Blog: 2012

Friday, November 23, 2012

HOTTEST MIXTAPES THIS WEEK

Alot happened this week; Mac Miller started crooning over jazz instrumentals, French Montana dropped his long awaited and extreamly nasty Mac & Cheese 3, Loso finally gave us the Soul Tape 2 and the Drama King drops any hip hop fan's mini wet dream. All this plus much more.. and people wonder why everyone listens to hip hop now.

Stream and DOWNLOAD all for free here

French Montana - Mac & Cheese 3

featuring Diddy, MGK, Harry Fraud, J Cole, Rick Ross, Curren$y, Future, Young Chop, Fat Joe, Mac Miller, Ma$e, Fabolous, Tyga, Ace Hood, Action Bronson, and more!

Fabolous - Soul Tape 2

featuring J Cole, Pusha T, Joe Budden, AraabMuzik, Streetrunner, and more

Joe Budden - A Loose Quarter

featuring Ab-Soul, AraabMuzik, Cardiak, Royce Da 59, Kobe and more

DJ Kay Slay - Grown Man Hip-Hop

featuring Kendrick Lamar, Termanology, Max B, French Montana, Beanie Sigel, Busta Rhymes, Styles P, Fat Joe, Cassidy, Vado, Busta Rhymes, Tone Trump, Murda Mook, Papoose, Jim Jones, Fred The Godson and much more

Kid Ink (RocketShipShortey), Webbie (Sweet Jones Jr), Mac Miller (You EP), Lil B, Fashawn, Clyd Carson and many more have also released tapes this week. Check them all out HERE

Monday, November 12, 2012

RUN THE TRAP! (Baauer, Yellow Claw, Candyland & More)

Okay, so for those who don't know, all the kids who loved the hip hop / dance tangle in dubstep but got sick of it's "much" tendencies have picked up what they are calling TRAP music. Their trap music is very similar to the hip hop sub genre by the same name but has dance breaks, alot more synths etc. But when it comes down to it, they both give you those killer rolling 808's that Lex Luger (via Waka Flocka / Rick Ross) popularized about two years ago. Now hip hop and old dubstep fans have new, ground breaking beats for the club with this new Trap shit. While i wish it had a slightly different name (something not as corney as "Trapstep") this shit is fucking awesome. Soundcloud is flooded with these 30-60 minute trap mixes from various DJ's so you can just take some molly, let them play and get a party going wherever. YouTube channels such as OfficialTrapCity & blogs like Run The Trap give you all the the Trap you'll need at first. But i do warn.. it becomes an addiction. Anyway, without further a-due, Peep the TRAP

get more @ Official Trap City (youtube)

or This is Trap Music (soundcloud)

Stay tuned for the trap mix dropping on FPB's 8Tracks

Monday, July 2, 2012

BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS / MIXTAPES OF 2012 (SO FAR)

As of July 2nd, Fresh Panda has what they consider the best hip hop albums of 2012 so far. Its ben such a good year for hip hop we figured we'd get the ball rolling early.

Without further a-due ; in no particular order...