Too Fortunate

Tracklist / Press Release
Art by: www.AlexHaldi.com

“When you least expect it” was the quote that lingered in the two young men’s minds, as they approached the door to success in an UNPREDICTABLE manner. Success refused to listen, but with the bestowing persistence of poetry behind sound and emotion, success did not look away. The young men began to tell their story in a loud fashion carried by their distinct voices to the ears of success and you the listener.
It all began when things were LOOKIN UP, but personal anguish, struggle, betrayal and self discovery became the first out of many obstacles for them. The young men then began to reveal their pleasures and adventures as well, which aimed beyond SPACE JAM, a place that consists of club filled festivities, lust and temptations. Success shows a face of disgust and almost tells the affiliates to find another door but stops as they begin to describe the day after as a realization state. A realization of work needed to be done in order to achieve their goals, REDEMPTION was mandatory. Therefore, the two began to walk far away from the path of being YOUNG NAIVE and in the direction of the fortunate. They analyzed their lives and came to a conclusion that they just needed to CHILL. Music, a woman of great power, was someone they both admired, she had many forms and messages to relay to them. However, they also came to the understanding that she was, as of late, being mistreated and was in deep need of AFFECTION. Therefore, in order to do so they would have to challenge Hip Hop and all of it’s selfish ways. Hip Hop was once a great admirable leader but chose to follow an unethical path which transformed her into SEINFELD, a being of thoughts of complete nothingness. After telling success their journey, success responded with an unlikely answer, an answer that has only been heard by very few before…an answer only some can dream of…”WELCOME IN”…amen.
(Success Story or more PIPE DREAMS?)

(Ortni)
2. Unpredictable
3. Lookin Up
4. Space Jam
5. Redemption
6. Young Naive
7. Chill
8. Affection
9. Seinfeld
10. Welcome In (edulretni)
11. Amen
12. Pipe Dreams

All Words Written, Music Produced By: Fortunate Ones

Fortunate Ones – When You Least Expect it EP (Download link): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KT2B1R7G
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Jets, Fool!

Fresh off his features with Curren$y in Smokee Robinson and Prioritize, ‘Nes graces us with this track off his upcoming tape, “Side B: The PhipsTape,” which is expected to release at the top of April.  Be on the lookout for Phips as he’s also due to collaborate with Curren$y on an upcoming ” Smoke Tape” project which doesn’t have a release date yet.

Here’s a new cut from the gunner himself Young Chris (ha) featuring Roc Nation wunderkind J. Cole. It seems kind of right that they would be on a track together and yet this one is still unexpected old Roc meets new. For those of you who follow Young Simba closely some of this verse should sound familiar…you can find this one on Young Chris’ upcoming mixtape The Network 2

As many people know today marks the anniversary of Christopher Wallace’s death and all these years later the impact is still felt. As Canibus put it and many have repeated “The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th” so today pull out the old cassettes and bump the classics in the Notorious one’s name. Some people called him the King of New York, Frank White. Others called him Big Poppa but regardless of what he went by one thing remains clear…Biggie Smalls is the ILLEST.

If the world we know turned to dust and a new civilization wanted to know what hip-hop was that video/song is the essence of it all. We’ll always love Big Poppa….rest in peace B.I.G.

Finally the video for B.o.B’s first single off his debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray is here featuring Bruno Mars and plenty of beautiful girls for your viewing pleasure. Nicely done video, be sure to check out Bob’s album coming next month!

The new Wu-Massacre album will release in  three different covers, each corresponding to the three Wu-Tang Clan members from the album, Ghostface, Raekwon, and Method Man.  The above artwork, the first of the three, will be used by Method Man;Ghostface’s album art can be found after the jump.  The Wu-Massacre will release March 30th.

Illustration by Chris Bachalo with Art direction by Alex Haldi – who designed the When You Least Expect It EP.

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Above is the alternate version to Kid Cudi’s successful single “Pursuit of Happiness” and honestly it’s just as good as the original video. Really good alternative take on the song so check it out.

News of T.I’s return single has had the internet going nuts for a while now and finally today the track was liberated and it KNOCKS! Tip hasn’t lost a step at all with this one giving us some of the classic heat we’ve come to expect from the King. Enjoy it above.

“champagne wishes,thirty white bitches..I mean the shit is fuckin ridiculous”

Jacked from Yeezy

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Some new Cole for the soul; Off Whoo Kid’s 10 for ‘10 XXL Mixtape

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Here’s a new joint from the Sol-Angel herself, Solange and it’s called “Under Construction”. She released this one via Her Damn Blog over the weekend and it’s smooth so kick back and enjoy! Apparently it won’t be on her upcoming album.