Mellow Monday 15: Boxing Day Edition: B.O.B and Lupe Fiasco

     Boxing day, its better than Christmas, you get to take back all the socks you got and use the cash for what you actually wanted. Well I found us a couple new albums you won't want to return.

     B.O.B, love him or hate him he's taken the scene by storm with last years release, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, but if you aren't all for the high production value radio worthy albums then have I got a winner for you. Last month Datpiff.com sponsored Bob's new mixtape "EPIC: Every Play is Crucial". Short of Saint's Row the Third, "EPIC" is as street as it gets this month in my house, and I for one am fine with that. This release isn't going to be getting mainstream airtime anytime soon, which for me is a bonus, nothing ruins a song like hearing it in the grocery store. So we've established it isn't about pop any more, this is hip hop, Bob's roots, and best of all its free, and if you hit that link above you'll get 15 Datpiff exclusive tracks like, Strange Clouds with Lil' Wayne, Things Get Worse with Eminem and Welcome to the Jungle. Anywho I'm not sponsored by anything fun so thats all the product placement I can handle, grab it up and love it, and if you take it back I'll find you.

     Lupe Fiasco, possibly the realist rapper I know of, environmentally, and politically aware and active. Dropped on thanksgiving this mixtape, "Friend of the People: I Fight Evil",  is an homage to how huge electronic music is getting, Lupe drops it over some of the biggest tracks this year, and manages to keep up and keep the rhymes fresh and catchy. Again this tape isn't hittin the stores anytime soon, its a mixtape pure and simple, "featuring" some of my favourite artists, Bassnectar, Nero, M83, The Glitch Mob, and Skrillex to name a few. This mixtape is huge but not many of the tracks are exclusive to it so keep your ears peeled, you heard it here first.

     Kept it simple today, two tapes, two artists, so grab em up while they're free and support the artists when they aren't. Also if you're still feeling that Christmas spirit head on over to our Facebook page and give it a like, its all I asked Santa for.