Planet Asia presents the first music video from his new album “Black Belt Theatre,” in stores everywhere on February 28th, 2012. Inspired by classic kung-fu and blaxploitation cinema, “Black Belt Theatre” features appearances from Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Paul Wall, Ras Kass, Camp Lo, Fashawn, Rasco, Willie The Kid, Torae, Mistah FAB, and The Jacka, plus production from Oh No, Khrysis, DirtyDiggs, and more. You can pre-order the album here and listen to audio snippets of the whole album as well, which sound very very promising!

About a year ago Freddie Joachim & Question posted a video podcast with some very nice music. After reading Freddie Joachim’s blog stating that there is vol.2 coming up made me very excited because I enjoyed the first one it was pretty sweet. And I hope for many more to come!

New tiggalo new tiggalo new tiggalo….Phonte brings a video for the 9th Wonder produced “The Good Fight”, from the Charity Starts At Home album. To me some of the realest talk I’ve heard in a while, and beatwise it’s 9th Wonder doing what we love him for. Proper.

UK’s finest, Sonnyjim, found this African Honeymoon joint in a bunch of samples he was going through one day, he liked it so decided to rhyme on it…the result is a super smooth slice of funk sprinkled with some spacedust…to be enjoyed with a nice red and a cheeseplate, or so he tells us…

Back in ‘11 it was known that Blu was working on a secret album ‘UCLA’ with producer Madlib. Today Blu dropped the album, you can listen it here. Enjoy! [EDIT: It seems Blu was so nice to remove the album from bandcamp shortly after putting up. Wonder why…]

Super Nice Music is proud to present The BUMS, two of the few honest and true Hip Hop craftsmen still out there. The album, “Like This”, is a re-release of the 2008 debut of the duo hailing from North Carolina, and contains a never before released bonus track. We bring you this overlooked gem with the announcement that The BUMS are back with new music coming in 2012.

The BUMS are MO (MC, Producer) from Richmond, VA and TJ Hooky aka Dick Grayson (Producer) from Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. The acronym BUMS stands for Building Up Musical Sounds, and not without reason. Both MO and TJ come from Hip Hop’s golden age, both produce music and like to blend the all-time great American music like R&B, Soul, Jazz and Funk with the classic Hip Hop from the likes of Dilla, Pete Rock, Madlib, DJ Premier and Dr. Dre.

The BUMS met in 2002 through a mutual friend and shortly after started working on their debut LP, entitled Like This. Although originally released in 2008, the Super Nice crew feels like this LP is not recognized for what it is, a true Hip Hop classic, and therefore decided to re-release the long player to give it the shine it deserves. This fourth Super Nice release is just a warm up to more and better things to come from the unique duo that is The BUMS!

Currently The BUMS are hard at work in the studio to finish off two new projects: A Beautiful World and Bumtacular Fleets, which are both expected to be released on Super Nice Music in 2012.  After releasing these two projects MO and TJ hope to expand the sound of The BUMS to different genres such as Jazz/Instrumental and R&B projects. 

Follow The BUMS on twitter: @thebumsmusic and listen or hit the download link below! 

Kurtis Stanley released this video for his single “On My Mind” from his critically acclaimed album, “Gummy Soul”. Produced by Wally Clark and Amerigo Gazaway, this tune conveys what the Gummy Soul camp does best.

“On My Mind” is available here.

VINTAGE NOIZE artist ULOGY and Super Nice Music’s Groups very own Dave Redi have teamed up to release this brand new single “The Love” for Ulogy’s forthcoming album “DEconstruction”. The concept of this track is a perfect setting for the 14th of Feb.

“The Love” is available here for FREE!

Make sure to keep an eye out for more niceness by VINTAGE NOIZE and ULOGY’s forthcoming album “Destruction”. For the latest Ulo news keep eye on his twitter page (@Ulogy).

As i’m a big De La Soul fan myself I’m glad they are finally dropping a new album and I’m happy it sounds good! Seems like De La Soul has put in a lot of work into the upcoming album.As they know the fans are (im)patiently waiting they dropped these 2 teasers on the net. Peep it!

West Coast producer/emcees The Alchemist and Oh No release Vodka & Ayahausca, their second psych-rap full length as Gangrene on Decon. The new record is a follow-up to their gritty Decon debut Gutter Water. Al & Oh again split their time helming mind-bending beats and spitting tripped-out rhymes. Vodka & Ayahausca boasts choice collabs from Kool G Rap, Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), Dilated ally Evidence, and Greneberg EP collaborator Roc Marciano, who murders the suggestive “Drink Up”. ”Vodka & Ayahuasca” is available here.