Vanglorious: Jake One's White Van Music Posted by Junior

Jake One: White Van Music (Ft Alchemist, Evidence & Prodigy) The Truth (Ft Freeway & Brother Ali) From: White Van Music [Rhymesayers, 2008] It's been a minute since I've featured any new hip hop on here which is mainly down to being pretty uninspired by most of the releases this year (yes, I know, I sound old). However, just like in 2007, the fourth quarter seems to be delivering an unexpected deluge of decent releases; Jeezy has bucked the trend and come back with a very strong third album, previews of TI's album don't sound awful and, from almost out of nowhere, producer Jake One's album looks like it's going to finish near the top of my releases for 2008. A producer whose stock has been rising non stop, Jake is probably still most known for producing the monstrous Rock Co Kane beat off De La's The Grind Date though he's been quietly stealing albums from big name producers for a number of years now (check out his tracks on 50's Curtis for a good example). Considering Jake has worked with everyone from Strange Fruit Project to 50 Cent it's no surprise that the artist roster for White Van Music mixes the mainstream and underground but what's more surprising is how well the artists work together, the album never sounding like a mish mash despite having both MOP and Little Brother on there. This is no doubt aided by the variety of beats on offer with Jake fine tuning his sound to match each artists style. The clean version of the album was leaked a little while back and I've been umming and ahing over which track to feature so thought I'd put up two to give you a taste of the variety on offer. Considering it's not out to buy yet and will no doubt be available to purchase as individual mp3s it only seemed right to stream these rather than put them up for download. Enjoy and be sure to check it out when it hits the shelves (virtual and physical) on October 7th.