Follow Tito Lopez on Twitter @realtitolopez.

Tracklist:
1.A King’s Intro (Prod. By VTZ)
2.I Need You (Prod. By 129 Street Productions)
3.GO LO! (Prod. By Blow Musick)
4.Like A Star (Prod. By Vybe Beatz)
5.I Do This (Prod. By King I Divine)
6.The Hip-Hop Skit
7.The Hip-Hop Song (Prod. By L.A. Da Box)
8.Looking Thru The Window (Prod. By Blow Musick)
9.About My Business (Prod. By Nikko)
10.I’m Tellin You – Interlude (Prod. By Blow Musick)
11.Soul Ride (Prod. By Adamack)
12.The Voicemail Skit
13.Cant Be Me (Prod. By L.A. Da Box)
14.Murder Rap (Prod. By Tha College Kidz)
15.Hold It Down (Prod. By L.A. Da Box)
16.Fighting Demons (Prod. By 129 Street Productions)
17.I’m Cold (Prod. By Tha College Kidz)
18.Bad Dreams (Prod. By Shadowville Productions)
19.Earthwindwaterfire (Prod. By Nikko)
20.Lost My Mind (Prod. By Beat Ink)

Thank You Notes:

I tried to type up a short list of thank you’s, but there’s just too many people who help me out. So to all the websites (Defsounds, Hear-It-First, Allhiphop,Stricklee Hip-Hop, etc.) and all the people behind them, I appreciate you guys more than you know. You know who you are. Special thanx for Mix Master Maize for
always being on top of things. Same goes for all the producers who contributed to this project (Blow Musick, L.A. Da Box, Adamack, 129 Street, King I Divine, Tha College Kidz, Beat Ink, VTZ, Shadowville), there’s not enough words to tell you how thankful I am. Shout out to Wild Wayne for spinnin my shit in New Orleans, my boy Luck thanx for always stayin down. To my G.P.T. family (Dee Cee, Nikko, and SiNCERE), let’s go and get our ring. To anybody who’s never heard of me, and is about to give my music a listen, I hope you enjoy it. To everybody who’s already a fan of the music…here’s another one. KING WITH NO CROWN. And to every salty ass lame about to type someting negative about me somewhere, I will NEVER understand why in the hell you’re reading this right now. Keep supporting me. I’m out….T.I.T.O.!!!

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Tracklist:
01. Good Morning
02. Slavin
03. Keep Moving (Feat. Sean Price And Julius Francis)
04. Sometimes
05. Mind Elevation (Feat. Cymarshall Law)
06. Jezebel (Feat. Julius Francis)
07. My Block (Feat. Dave Barz)
08. Watching Me (Feat. Chris Young And Julius Francis)
09. Karma
10. Let Me Fly (Feat. Julius Francis)

Download HERE (Direct Link) (Via DJBooth)

Submissions Closing Tomorrow

Due to the amount of submissions we are ending the submissions tomorrow afternoon at 3 PM CST. Thanks.

HIF is throwing together another mixtape, but this time we are bringing it back to what we did for our very first tape. We will be taking submissions from everyone, so if you’re reading this right now and have any serious skills on the mic or are a producer, send some material through. Massive Trip and Bruce Almighty will be mostly working on the tape, so send all music submissions to Massive Trip ” tripmassive@gmail.com. The name of the tape isn`t 100% decided yet, if you have any good ideas for a mixtape then leave a comment. This tape will be mostly focused on slept on artists and HIF affiliates. It will be a lot like our very first Redefining The Grind mixtape. Also Massive Trip hasn`t decided on a cover designer yet, so if you wanna make any offers to him or anything then shoot him a email. For those looking to submit content, the details are below.

Recipient: tripmassive@gmail.com

Email title: HearItFirst mixtape submission

Make sure you ATTACH the file to the email, no usershare or anything like that.

Also there will be quick skits on the tape with messages from fans and such, if you wanna drop a quick message about the site you can either:

a) Send a email to Massive Trip with a attached mp3 or your message, or

b) Call 1(206)777-0137 and enter the code *7907258 to reach a online voicemail account we have set up, and leave your message there.

Tracklist:
01. N.S.S. Intro
02. On Me (Feat. Butch Cassidy)
03. Still With The Bullshit
04. Karma Is A
05. Homie
06. Brown Lil Squares (Feat. Bow Wow)
07. Loaded (Feat. YG Soprano)
08. Kidnappin’ Hip Hop
09. Before It All Ends (Feat. Snoop Dogg And Jay Rock)
10. Skit
11. Till Death Do Us Part (Feat. Xzibit)

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Tracklist:
01. Show You My (Feat. E-40)(Prod. By Rodney Jerkins)
02. Top Of The World (Feat. T-Pain, Ya Boy, And Yung Joc)(Prod. By Corna Boyz)
03. Move (Prod. By Jackpot)
04. Save Your Love (Feat. Mario Wynans And Stephen Michael)(Prod. By Boombatt)
05. Girl Like This (Feat. Rico Love)(Prod. By Scott Storch)
06. Lookin At You (Feat. Fatman Scoop)(Prod. By Rodney Jerkins)
07. Lets Go (Feat. Christina Milian And DJ Tiesto)(Prod. By Tiesto)
08. Girl Gotta Girlfriend (Feat. Snoop Dogg And Bobby V)(Prod. By Benny Cassette)
09. Realest Alive (Feat. Fat Joe And West Coast Kam)(Prod. By Chuck Diesel)
10. Get Up On It (Feat. The Game And Lil’ Kim)(Prod. By Lil’ Jon)
11. Sexy Muthafuckas (Prod. By I.N.F.O.)
12. London Lingo (Prod. By Scott Storch)
13. For You (Feat. M.J.)(Prod. By Corna Boyz)
14. Champions (Prod. By Boombatt)
15. United For Neda (Feat. Iranian Allstars)(Prod. By Mams Taylor)
16. Girl Gotta Girlfriend (Razor And Guido Remix)(Feat. Snoop Dogg And Bobby V)

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Tracklist:
01. Intro (Prod. By Richard Raw)
02. I’m Rich (Prod. By Richard Raw)
03. 2 The Beat (Prod. By PC Beats)
04. The Show (Prod. By Richard Raw)
05. Nothin Like It (Feat. Fred Knuxx, Shah Cypha, And DJ Shortee T)(Prod. By Richard Raw)
06. Soul Deep (Prod. By Richard Raw)
07. Let It Bang (Prod. By Main Ingredient)
08. God Show Me A Sign (Feat. Dr. Malachi Z York)(Prod. By Richard Raw)
09. 2Morrow (Prod. By Simply Ease)
10. Backseat Love (Prod. By Richard Raw)
11. Small Wonder (Prod. By Richard Raw)
12. Jock’n My Team (Feat. Big Baby, Dro Hethen, And Thurro (Harv))(Prod. By Richard Raw)
13. Ahead Of My Time (Feat. Feat. K.O The Knockout, Phil Nash, 49ers, And Yung Syren)(Prod. By Richard Raw)
14. Loose Control (Prod. By Richard Raw)
15. Girls (Prod. By MikeJMusic)
16. Born Black (Prod. By Richard Raw/MikeJMusic)
17. Home (Prod. By St. Christopher)
18. Redemption (Feat. Hezekiah, Carisma, And Empress Nekia)(Prod. by Richard Raw)
19. Paranoid (Prod. By MikeJMusic)
20. When I Die (Prod. By MikeJMusic)

Download/Stream HERE

I tried my best to work with what I had. Everyone who worked on this mixtape had a fucking tight scheduel, but we made it work. It’s going to drop in the next 2 days, with Haze working on it now. Sorry for the wait. Here’s the tracklisting (not counting the Intro/Outro/Interludes). Enjoy

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1. (00:02:25) Jay Burna – Anything is Possible
2. (00:03:42) Jay Burna – Call My Name
3. (00:02:57) Jay Burna – For Tonight
4. (00:02:25) Jay Burna – Git Like Me
5. (00:03:27) Jay Burna – Goin Major
6. (00:01:57) Jay Burna – Help
7. (00:03:49) Jay Burna – Hoorah
8. (00:03:43) Jay Burna – I’m Here
9. (00:03:24) Jay Burna – Movie
10. (00:01:35) Jay Burna – Music Angel
11. (00:01:47) Jay Burna – One Finger In The Sky
12. (00:03:27) Jay Burna – Rolling Stone
13. (00:03:02) Jay Burna – Take ‘Em To Church
14. (00:04:18) Jay Burna – We Do It (feat. Black Congress)
15. (00:02:19) Jay Burna – Work So Hard
16. (00:02:22) Jay Burna – You and Me
17. (00:03:37) Jay Burna – Believe

Well, most of you, if not all, remember Beyond Belief. He’s been dwelling in the underground for the past few months with no word. Well all hope has return, for he has surfaced with his debut album, “What about BOB?”. The multi-platinum selling producer Kwame grabbed Beyond Belief, who is the debut artist on his boutique label Make Noise, and threw together this album.

Kwame & Beyond Belief invite all his fans, and haters haha, online while he gives a listening session of his album. This of course will be live from K1 Studios. When do you ask?

TONIGHT at 8PM E.S.T. via his UStream Channel:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/in-the-lab-with-k1

Both Beyond Beliefe and Kwame will be there from start to finish, and are even offering to answer questions and to accept feedback for the album. Download the free advanced copy from Datpiff underneath.

Live TV by Ustream

http://www.myspace.com/beyondbeliefmusic

http://twitter.com/BeyondBeliefNow

Download HERE (RS)

Tracklist:
01. Don’t You (Prod. By Cook Classics)
02. Bring It Forward (New York, New York)(Prod. By Versatile)
03. Whatever It Is (Feat. Mela Machinko)(Prod. By Frequency)
04. Money (Feat. Mistah F.A.B.)(Prod. By DJ Static)
05. Don’t Mess With A Woman (Feat. Amanda Diva & Naledge)(Prod. By Dub Z)
06. Sublime (Feat. Peter Hadar & Outasight)(Prod. By Buckwild)
07. She Like (Feat. Che Grand & Izza Kizza)(Prod. by Apple Juice Kid)
08. Make Me Feel (Feat. Emilio Rojas)(Prod. By Kwame)
09. Oh No (Feat. Patent Pending)(Prod. By The Goverment)
10. What U Expected (Remix)(Feat. Rain, Termanology, Reks & Big Lou)(Prod. By Statik Selektah)
11. A Love Song (Feat. Lydia Caesar & Skyzoo)(Prod. By Digga)
12. Closer (Prod. By Dame Grease)
13. Digital Genocide (Feat. Planet Asia & Poison Pen)(Prod. By DJ Snips)
14. Grateful (Feat. Tanya Morgan & Jeremy Carr)(Prod. By Cookin Soul)
15. Party Apple (Prod. By Apple Juice Kid)
16. Can’t Get it Right (Feat. A.Pinks, Esso, & 6th Sense)(Prod. By 6th Sense)
17. These Times (Prod. By Dub Z)

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Tito Lopez – The King Wit No Crown: The Prequel (Mixtape Sampler)

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or

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Well the wait is finally coming to an end, Tito Lopez’ upcoming mixtape “The King Wit No Crown: The Prequel” is dropping in about a week, and until then he decided to drop a (very) short sampler to give us a little taste of what’s to come. It’s a mix of original tracks, as well as a lot of remixes as usual. I’m really looking forward to this, since I even have not heard it yet. Big moves coming this summer with Tito Lopez, be on the look-out!

Bonuses:

Tito Lopez – You Can Have Lark

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Tito Lopez – Let Me Go (Prod. By Blow Musick)

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Tracklist:
TRACK LISTING
00 Intro
01 Streets Wont Let Me Chill
02 Who I Be
03 Back To Basics
04 I Mean Business
05 Get In Line
06 In The Ruff
07 The Shining
08 The District
09 Make It Clear
10 Off The Late Night
11 Let Me Explain
12 First Time

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Jesus, two amazing rappers in one day. Kriminology hailing from the famous Johhny J “Da Promoter”, and Jay Burna hailing from not-so-famous (no hate intended, but the dude got mad skills) DJ Hi-Def. Both are HIF friends and i decided to throw both of their names up onto the HIF Affiliated Artist list. If you are a fan of Down South Original Music (im talking about SUC Click & Screw shit), check out Kriminology. If you love the urban West Coast type flow, check out Jay Burna!

Kriminology

Jay Burna

JAY BURNA

“Im the heart of the city” quotes the 19 year old rapper. Hailing from the streets of Inglewood, California, Jude “Jay Burna” Francois calls himself “The Beast,” who’s hungry for the music industry. Spending majority of his time in the studio, Jay Burna refers to the booth as his confession room and his audience as his priest.”My music is a journey through my life, where i cater to every soul, not just the hood, Jay Burna uses his expressive lyrics to clearly paint the vivid pictures of his troubled childhood and overcoming, the deaths of his best friend and grandmother. With almost nothing or no one else to turn to, he began to pursue his rap career. His music defines him; bold, genuine, and talented, his music and vocals none like others, Jay Burna, calls his music, “music that makes sense”.”People say I’m weird, I say they’re to use to normal”. His diversity in flows also allows him to bless us with club bangers and love songs for the ladies, his aggressiveness, passion, and energy are reasons why he would be a great aspect to any label. Burna has lived up to his name as the Broward County Beast, murdering, performances, freestlyes, and tracks! His mixtape “Im A Beast” is only a preview of great music to come. Dont be fooled by Burna’s signature (Im Gone), because he presence will be felt for a long time. Now residing in Ft. Lauderdale, his new home, Jay Burna has great plans for his city, “I’m ready to put Lauderdale on the map!!!”

Jay Burna – Black Supaman Freestyle 2009 [VeryHot]

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Jay Burna – Hands Up [VeryHot]

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Jay Burna – What About [VeryHot]

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Jay Burna – Rap Fundamentals Freestyle [VeryHot]

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Jay Burna – Im Gone [Hot]

Oh Lord. Bass. Again, jesus. All i can say

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KRIMINOLOGY

Raised by a family coming from Mexico with almost nothing but pride and hard work, its hard to believe that 17 years later Jose Poblano would be pursuing his dream of making music, let alone rap music. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised in the southwest side of Houston, Texas life wasn’t easy growing up. “I remember my cousin Antonio was the first person to show me rap music period I still remember he was listening to Eazy E,” said Jose. Later the independent rap scene would flood the Houston streets wit the Legendary DJ Screw and Screwed Up Click (S.U.C.) taking their futures in there own hands by creating their own sound. “They were just freestyling and having fun on these tapes so when me and my boys would hang out I just started freestyling too,” said Jose. Making cassettes at home and winning freestyle contests at local hot spots assisted with quickly giving him a name. “I actually took on the name Kriminal because of alotta trouble I was getting into as a youngster and my boss at Burger King was the first to call me Kriminal,” said Jose. Later on, Juan Martinez AKA “Braze” told him that he was an aspiring artist himself, therefore they connected right away. “Braze” being in the rap game tested young Kriminal inviting him into his studio and put him on the spot and recorded a whole CD. “I remember going to his shop the next day looking in the glass case seeing a CD with my face on it Braze telling me he’d been selling them all day and people were loving it”. While hustling these CD’s, the duo ran into hustlers pursuing the same goal known as Hata Proof. C.E.O. of Hata Proof Records, Big Cease saw the hunger in the two and they began working as a team. Years later after many ups and downs, smiles and frowns, they still stand tall together accomplishing goals. “I always believed in myself and always told myself trying is better then not trying, when you don’t try you’ve already lost,” said Jose. Kriminology now is Under  Out Da Nawf Ent / BlockStar Promo.

Featured Artists Are Currently Missing, But Will Be Edited In Later

Kriminology Feat Kyle Lee & Big Cease - Ballin, Smashin [VeryHot]

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Kriminology Feat Big Cease & Vago – Down For My Block [VeryHot]

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Kriminology Feat Big Cease, Braze & Nava - Ink My Whole Body (Stunting On Ya Bitches) [Hot]

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Kriminology – Flossin, Looking Good [Hot]

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Kriminology Feat Flatline & JKapone - Lone Star State [VeryHot]

Bass. Oh lord. All i can say.

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Kriminology Feat Supadave – Make A Movie

Official single out right now, but not my kinda style. Its a song for the women. Nothing personal, but i enjoy the down south gutta styles over this soft genre. Good music, just not my type.

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Here’s Greg Street’s Full Unreleased Album, Shout To GreenHitz…

Tracklist:
01. The DJ is Dead
02. Mahagani (Feat. Maino & The Game)
03. Sertified Radio Skit
04. Turning Me On (Feat. T-Pain, Keri Hilson & Lil Wayne)
05. Feed These Streets (Feat. Ray Paul Massaun & B.o.B)
06. Voicemail (Feat. Gorilla Zoe)
07. I Think I Love Her (Feat. Gucci Mane)
08. Swag On (Feat. Soulja Boy, Keri Hilson & Yung L.A.)
09. Oh Yeah (Feat. Chubbie Baby & Lil Wayne)
10. Dope Boyz (Feat. Lupe Fiasco, Wale & Kardinal Official)
11. Fly Away (Feat. Rock City, Shawt Dawg & Shortie Wop)
12. That’s Street (Feat. Polow Da Don, Rick Ross, 6′2 & Big Zak)
13. Old School Chevy (Feat. Jody Breeze, Ray Paul Massaun & Young Fresh)
14. Voicemail (Feat. Big Block)
15. Drop It Down Low (Feat. Yung Joc, T-Pain & AK)
16. That Come Back (Feat. Boo Rossini)
17. 1st Annual Player Haterz Award (Feat. Tang)
18. Haterz (Feat. Rich Boy)
19. Ain’t It 6 O’Clock (Feat. Yung L.A.)
20. Saturday (Feat. G.Malone, Mistah Fab, Mack 10 & Fiend)
21. Good Day (Remix)(Feat. Nappy Roots, Beenie Man & Rock City)
22. Action Figgas (Feat. Battery 5STAR)

Download HERE

Hear-It-First.net’s first post was created on March 3rd, 2008.

Wow, so one year (and three days) ago Me and Raimann started this site in hopes that we could bring something new to the blogging scene, and bring all of the newest music to one dope spot for your convenience. After a year of a LOT of dedication and countless hours wasted in front of our computer screens, we are still growing and plan to keep on growing for years to come. With the help of DJ EMI, and prevoius admins this site has grown far larger than we ever hoped, and we have done things that we never thought possible. So thank you everyone for the support, the hits, and any time you ever told a friend about the site. We still have far more to improve on, and any ideas are always welcome from everyone.

P.S. If you’re wondering about the layout I was so pumped about a couple weeks ago, I actually did purchase a new layout and had every intent on having it up asap, but it doesn’t look nearly as good as promised and was a complete waste of money lol. I’m still working on finding a designer, just have patience! I have some big affiliations coming up soon so watch out for those!

A few special shoutouts I wanna make for some people that really showed some major love when we were still a small and unknown site.

Obese (It’s Another One! Oh wait… Now it’s UHTN haha.)
Buck Marley (The admin that got away)
Massive Trip (King Of These Blends!)
Scherrell Birchfield (High Maintenance Ent!)
Crew54 (Funniest dudes on the planet haha)
Bruce Almighty (Thrilla Ent!)
Bobby (Most affordable hosting on the web!)
Fluent Flo (4SK1)

Theres definitely a lot more of you, but these people really helped us out from the very beginning and they are forever HIF Family!

Raimann Edit: Hehe, i cant tell you how many hours i wasted on this site, getting made fun of, making mixtapes and posting music and random shit. I wouldnt give any of that up. Happy 1 Year Anniversary

MidniTe & the staff!

Knonam (link re-up)

“If you’re like me, when you hear Knonam’s music, you will clench your fists and say to yourself through clamped down teeth, ‘This guy is totally out of his fucking mind!’”
-eyedea

Shouts To Knonam, you can check our his myspace RIGHT HERE. Heres His Newest EP, and what he has to say about it:

Hey.
I’m Lookin to Leak my album to as many Hiphop sites, blogs, message boards ect. as possible. I am currently on the Rope a Dope Brother Ali Mix tape and i’m trying to leak my own now, It has songs featuring Jake One, Brother Ali, Eyedea, and Royce da 59, Along with Production by Knonam, Jake One, and Brother Ali.
If you think you could help me leak this album, it would be a great help.
The Loud.com Ep was put together by me and is free to the public.
It has the likes of Super Producer “Jake One” who’s produced beats for (50 Cent, G- Unit, Get Rich or Die Trying Soundtrack, Young Buck, Freeway, Ect.)  “Brother Ali” (Rhymesayers) Eyedea of E & A (Rhymesayers) and “Royce da 5′9” known for his appearance on Eminem – The Slim Shady Ep. (M.I.C) .

1. Intro
2. 1988 feat Eyedea
3. Ransom
4. Dead Wrong
5. Hold It feat Brother Ali
6. Im Back feat Royce Da 5′9
7. Knock You Down feat Jake One
8. Tilt The Brim feat Jake One
9. Knock You Down (Video)

Download HERE

Make shure you visit his homepage (link located under Affiliated Artists), and read his biography AFTER THE JUMP

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