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In a funny, new short video segment produced by Duck Down, random New Yorkers read Action Bronson’s lyrics out loud and try to make sense of it. This segment highlights a Bronson verse from Statik Selektah’s new single “Beautiful Life” from his forthcoming album, “Lucky 7” set to release on July 7. Watch the hilarious NSFW video below:

You can purchase (or preorder) Statik Selektahs’ new album below, and if you’re in New York City, come to his album release show, which will take place at Santos Party House on July 6. You can get advance tickers now, here.

Statik Selektah ‘Lucky 7’ Album Tracklisting:

1. Intro ft. Hannibal Buress
2. Another Level ft. Rapsody
3. Beautiful Life ft. Action Bronson & Joey Bada$$
4. Hood Boogers ft Your Old Droog & Chauncy Sherod
5. The Locker Room ft. Dave East
6. In The Wind ft. Joey Bada$$, Big K.R.I.T. & Chauncy Sherod
7. Crystal Clear ft. Royce Da 5’9”
8. How You Feel ft. Mick Jenkins
9. Murder Game ft. Smif N Wessun, Young M.A & Buckshot
10. Gentlemen ft. Illa Ghee, Sean Price & Fame of M.O.P.
11. Bodega! Ft. Bodega Bamz
12. The Trophy Room ft. Skyzoo, Ea$y Money, Domo Genesis & Masspike Miles
13. Sucker Free ft. JFK
14. Wall Flowers ft Your Old Droog, Termanology, & Lord Sear
15. Top Tier ft. Sean Price, Bun B, & Styles P
16. Silver Lining ft. ASAP Twelvyy, Kirk Knight, & Chauncy Sherod
17. Cold ft. Wais P & Jared Evan
18. All You Need ft. Action Bronson, Ab-Soul, & Elle Varner
19. Scratch Off ft. CJ Fly, Talib Kweli & Cane
20. Alone ft. Joey Bada$$
21. Harley’s Blues

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Brooklyn’s Chelsea Reject is quickly making her rounds in the New York region and her new freestyle on Shade45’s Showoff Radio further stakes her claim. The Duck Down MC is fresh off the release of her project CMPLX and continues to promote its debut with these recent bars. Stay tuned to her future moves and come out to her free show alongside Kirk Knight, CJ Fly, Buckshot, and more at the Duck Down BBQ, June 11th.

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“Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.”

Not only is it important to have a voice and knowledge of self for all paths on this earth, but hip-hop is in demand for such. It’s seemingly easy for today’s younger generation to get lost in the midst of trap-queens and senseless subject matter. And if you think this doesn’t impact our society and hold weight on the next generation, you are highly mistaken.

Hailing from New York City by way of Brooklyn, Chelsea Reject is here not only to display creative genius but shed light on a crevice that needs the shine; queens in hip-hop. When we say queen, that takes you back to self knowledge, alongside respect, dignity and truth. Early-20 year old Chelsea is beyond qualified and reflects all of this, reminiscent of an early Lauryn Hill  with an Erykah Badu aura.

With no official album out and a comfortably suited number of songs/visuals released, Chelsea is keeping fans on their toes. It is not uncommon today for artists to catch a heavy buzz and cross paths with life changing opportunities with no official album out, in which she is doing, and doing it well.

Let’s also take note of Chelsea Reject joining partnership with the legendary Duck Down Records. This speaks miles, not only because of the mark Duck Down has and continues to leave on hip-hop’s timeline, but being the first female emcee alongside the camp. It really doesn’t get much better then that, especially being in Brooklyn where it all started. Now that’s a milestone and something to certainly keep an eye on.

Coming soon this year is the ‘CMPLX’ project, which will be a compilation release. With a lot of build up and solid promotion on her and managements end, the release should be a total success. Considering Chelsea is in her early stages and still publically experimenting with her sounds and delivery, it’s refreshing to watch her grow as an artist. In a recent interview with Dj J Hart’s ‘The Big Bang Show’ she explained the project in a little more description:

“It’s a 15 track compilation of a bunch of different sounds I have been experimenting with. I have a lot of Pro Era on there. It’s going to be a different vibe. My goal is to give people a new perspective into my music. I’m trying to give people a new sound, and show my versatility.”

Let’s talk about the new wave of amazing artists hailing from New York City. Joey Bada$$ and the whole Pro Era Crew, Flatbush Zombies, Action Bronson and a handful of other standouts over the past five or six years have been go-to’s when mentioning hip-hop’s east coast life jackets. Chelsea Reject has been building with some of the best artists of our generation, and fans are excitingly sitting back and enjoying watching her journeys unfold. It’s a sigh of relief for us real hip-hop and music heads.

Before we close out, it’s important we touch on Chelsea’s stage presence. The art of performance is something that gets slightly bypassed in conversation and can easily be a slept on unofficial element in this game. I mean, it’s one thing to release awesome records and professionally edited videos. But it’s another to compliment this with a live performance, on or off your turf. We had the pleasure to catch Chelsea Reject live in Philly recently alongside Pro Era’s Kirk Knight and Mick Jenkins. She blew the lid off at the Barbary, and many other states following that evening. With all that being said, be sure to catch her live when you can. It will not be a disappointment. Much love and respect to Paul Bogosian and Duck Down James.

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The Duck Down Records latest signee Chelsea Reject has had a lot of changes in her life in the past couple of months. Fresh from inking with Buckshot’s independent label, Reject has been busy opening up for Jay Electronica at the A3C Festival and opening on a couple of dates of the The Smokers Club Tour alongside Method Man & Redman, B-Real (of Cypress Hill), Berner and Mick Jenkins.

It’s been a long way coming for Chelsea Reject’s career. I first caught wind of the Brooklyn-bred MC in early 2011 at a Lyve Life showcase Dyme-a-Duzin used to put together, and she’s been bubbling ever since.

Three years later, her latest video “Everything’s Change” is setting up the release of her full-length project “CMPLX” due sometime this year. The video itself has a real spacey vibe to its aesthetic, the smooth jazz instrumental blends well with Chelsea’s laid-back flow as she spits about all the changes going around her including friends, passion, and the desire for artistic growth. Here’s what Reject had to say about the video:

“Everything’s Change” is about life and seasons and how “change” is the only consistent thing I know. Somehow it’s still the same shit.

Check out the latest visual and let us know what you think!

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The world is full of stimulation, but everyone prefers certain stimuli over others. Indiana rapper Nyzzy Nyce prefers smoking. In the video for “I Just Rather,” we see where this preference comes from. The opening sequence, which features him miserably and drunkenly stumbling down an alley, is very different from the second half of the video, which features him happily getting blazed with his friends. It’s a simple concept, but the execution is nice.

His mixtape, Nothing Nyce, drops later this summer. Watch below.

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” You sleeping that’s the cousin of death/ I take every gift from under the tree til’ there ain’t none left.”

Fittingly, in the video below Sean Price plays the Grinch who stole Christmas. Let the Brownsville Brooklynite’s nostalgic flows get you amped up for somewhat of a Brooklyn reunion next Tuesday at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg featuring performances by Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price, Buckshot (Smif N Wessun), Skyzoo, Flatbush Zombies, and DyMe-A-DuZiN of Phony Ppl. Don’t miss out!

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