Huntsville vet Mic Strange just tears through this tormented Digital production like tormented Memphis vet Rampage Jackson tore through a door. The track is straight vicious. And the video direction by ST 2 Lettaz aka Stephen Trillburge is as impressive as it is genuinely frightening. Enjoy!

We’ve been waiting to hear another judiciously sampled production from Rich Green ever since we lived and breathed Swagzilla’s I Need More before, during and after the man that’s in every Huntsville video ever went away for a few. And yet again Mr Green comes through for his team with this understated, delicate but no less bumping auto anthem.

Rich Green ft. Bravo Money, Jack Boi & Willie Wonka – ’84s’ (Prod. By Rich Green)

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This is the sound of the running theme of sincerity over swagger that has come to characterise the best of hip-hop from Huntsville and Alabama. It’s the sound of the W2 boy spirit as produced by Slow Motion Soundz intern cum composer R.Dot and Tennessee’s Sizahanz. It’s also just a great example of DB49 member Kristmas and O’Third Ent’s Cunta going so hard in the booth you know they popped a few dozen capillaries. Put simply, Bama keeps creating it. And we stay in absolute awe.

Via the first port of call for everything Huntsvillian – Mr Codie G.

Cunta & Kristmas – ‘Somebody’ (Prod. By R.Dot & Sizahanz)

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Rest in peace Slurricaine Da Don from Florence, Alabama, who reportedly passed away last night.

We were fortunate enough to attend G-Side‘s epic live show in Oslo, Norway this Easter and play a part in the truly insane afterparty with the Club Juicy and Baller’s Eve fam at Club Blå. Thanks to P from 2Trill4TV we get a chance to catch a few songs from ST and Clova’s recent Huntsville show at Vertical House Records, which was also the city’s first ever rap/rock event – a joint concert with internationally known local band Thomas Function. Check out more photos and videos from the gig as well as a backgrounder into the whole concept from Codie G over at Huntsville Got Starz. And believe us when we tell you G-Side are bringing the live show back to hip-hop.

It’s been 11 months since Huntsville’s O’Third Ent hit us with their critically acclaimed Bandz, featuring G-Side and featured on the Huntsville International project. It’s been around 10 months since we interviewed them. And it’s been approximately 48 hours since Bossman’s last banger. Needless to say, you can’t outwork em.

The new anthem ‘Every Night’ is taken from O’Third Ent’s upcoming project ‘In The Box’, which will feature music from core O’Third members DJ Cunta, Monster, Bossman and S.N.Y.P.A. as well as new recruits Swagzilla (Wut2dayiz, I Need More), Mitch and Hollywood, their first female artist.

DJ Cunta & Monster – ‘Every Night’ (Prod. By Bossman & O’Third Engineers)

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We’ve got more music from ‘In The Box’ coming soon, but in the meantime meet Swagzilla and Mitch, O’Third’s newest members:

As soon as those inverted chimes resonate gently through what feels like a summer’s evening breeze in Huntsville – the location for G-Side’s new video – you’re overwhelmed with emotion. It’s the same feeling you got when those epic Mongolian panpipes came in on Clova’s Rising Sun verse and the heartfelt cries perforating the pores of sound on Impossible made things seem anything but. So we now know Bossman, who produced this track – which is only a taste of what’s to come on G-Side’s upcoming album and won’t appear on it – is the real deal (as if it wasn’t obvious from his work on Can’t Outwork Me).

What stays with you though, after watching ST and Clova ride around their city, past the space station, space rocket and through the open road, top down, is the feeling that you’ve visited Huntsville. Let’s hope we get more views like this of the city the New York Times claimed owned hip-hop last year.

And let’s hope the road to G-Side’s album ‘The One…Cohesive’ isn’t too long.

If this is what constitutes an offcut from Alabama supergroup DB49‘s very-soon-coming debut album ‘Happy Hour’ then we’re the kind of clientele that’ll stay on after the drinks deals and splurge into the early hours (ie. we’re copping 10 copies if they’re selling). Produced by our P-Town connect DJ Sizahanz.

Original, as in actually hand drawn (yes, actually hand drawn), artwork by the eminent John Turner Jr who is doing big things with DB49 and the Slow Motion Soundz camp.

DB49 – ‘In The House’ (Prod. By DJ Sizahanz)

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While there won’t be any audio (only artwork) leaks from G-Side’s upcoming album before its release, we can expect the road to be paved with landmark pieces such as Money In The Sky (a track produced the morning after G-Side’s Olso show and recorded that evening), Impossible (featuring Geographer, who the SMS camp crossed paths with while performing at SXSW this year) and this (the video of which was released last week), which is the first song produced by Slow Motion Soundz intern R.Dot.

G-Side – ‘Back 2 The Future’ (Prod. By R.Dot)

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Via Codie Global.

Filmed by the Speed Of Sound Family at the new 6,000 sq ft Speed Of Sound, Sound Engineering Facility, this typically dignified G-Side experience, produced masterfully by Slow Motion Soundz intern R.Dot, came out of nowhere. And this, like all music from Huntsville’s and rap’s non-hipster avant garde, feels like it’s suspended in another realm.

What is essentially just black light takes on a more potent form, leaving the viewer half-stunned as Clova flows between a rap and a whisper, and ST, ever his partner’s sonic polar opposite, rap’s like that fighter that keeps hitting you with big punches but holds back just enough so he can keep on hitting you, switching up boxing styles for the fans as he floats and stings.

The concept of being “way above the clouds, right below space”, as Clova put it on Huntsville International the song, is now being expressed visually in videos that don’t fit any mould.

Via R.Dot’s blog.