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Dee Jay Sight + Kidd Called Quest release instrumental project

Published

11 months ago

July 3, 2024

Rochester, NY beat-smiths / biological brothers Dee Jay Sight and Kidd Called Quest have teamed up on a new project. Musical Karma is ten gritty instrumentals on a cinematic scale.

Speaking on the project Kidd relayed “the theme of the project is about those who do dirt to get ahead regardless of how it affects anyone else and how karma hits them. Listeners can pick up on the story from the dialogue samples and skits that play throughout the album.”

Stream / Purchase Musical Karma: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/album/musical-karma

Musical Karma is the second instrumental effort that Kidd Called Quest has released in the past year, following last fall’s Sound Of The Track. That prior project was influenced and inspired by the 1975 Blaxploitation movie, “The Candy Tangerine Man.”

Stream / Purchase Sound Of The Track: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-track

Dee Jay Sight has worked with such artists as Curtis Coke, Eto, 38 Spesh, Lady Luck, Emilo Rojas and many more.

Kidd Called Quest in addition to his work as part of the duo Young Black And Gifted (with emcee Azariah) has been dropping soulful boom-bap work with such notables as Big Shug, Kool G. Rap, Pretty Bulli, Jae Hussle, Curtis Coke and many more.

More Info:

https://www.instagram.com/_deejaysight

https://www.instagram.com/kiddcalledquest

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Kingdom Kome x RUEN see the “Cracks In The Foundation”

Published

3 days ago

May 30, 2025

Rob Ducketts

Hip-Hop Heavyweight Kingdom Kome has just dropped a new single (with accompanying video). “Cracks In the Foundation” (Produced by long-time collaborator RUEN) is a socially conscious dose of jazzy boom-bap. As the emcee states “I was driving through my old neighborhood in Miami and it really had me thinking of the current state of the world today. It got me in an introspective state and I made this message to the youth.”

Listen to “Cracks In The Foundation”: https://youtu.be/Nwp_07pDO6o?si=fb5RTd0wNDK7ZxxQ

Available via streaming platforms now, “Cracks In the Foundation” is the first leak from the Barrel Reserve LP fully produced by RUEN.

Less than a year after the last collaborative LP the duo dropped, Malbec 2 Kingdom Kome reveals “we never stop working on music together. A number of these tracks were recorded while we were preparing Malbec 2 but were better suited for a separate project.”

Following the high-end connoisseur angle, Barrel Reserve is expertly crafted boom-bap for the real hip-hop aficionado. This extends to the album’s guest list, which includes Supreme Cerebral, Recognize Ali, Che Uno, DJ Exes, AjaxLo, Camarah Walleed and Soarse Spoken.

Kingdom Kome is still promoting his other recent LP for 2025 Alchemy II Ein Sof, which was entirely produced by another long-time production collaborator Onaje Jordan (Hometeam).

Stream / Purchase Alchemy II: https://kingdomkome.bandcamp.com/album/alchemy-2-ein-sof

More Info:

https://www.instagram.com/kingdomkome