Fact Of The Day: Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian descent, took a beating from 2 members of the Imperial Klans of America, the 2nd largest KKK group, after the Brotherhood Klan. The IKA is now being sued, almost to the point of bankruptcy by Gruver and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their hopes are to to win damages large enough to put the supremacists out of business.

Yo, It’s our inaugural post. We’re the FRESHm3n, and we’re here to keep you up on your music and fashion game. We’re gonna kick it off with some new music.

In Stores Dec. 9th!

First up, we got Chi-Town artist Common (a.k.a Common Sense for the die-hards), who has dropped refreshing albums such as Can I Borrow A Dollar, Be, and Like Water for Chocolate, will be dropping his 8^th LP on December 9^th called Universal Mind Control. Look for production by the Neptunes, Mr. DJ, and No I.D., and features from Kanye West and Pharrell. Here’s a newly released track from the album, “Changes”. It was released to celebrate the victory of a certain black President-Elect….

Changes

http://www.zshare.net/audio/51165613df3bd263/

And look out for the next LP, The Believer, in 09 

In Stores on November 24th

Mr. West, a.k.a. the Louis Vuitton Don, a.k.a Kanye West is dropping his 4^th effort, 808’s & Heartbreak on November 24^th. The album features a heavy use of the Auto Tune software, made popular by T-Pain. He claims this album is just something that he had to get off his chest and it has much more emotion than his other efforts. The album is actually emotionally fueled; he gained inspiration from his break-up with his fiancé and the death of his mother, the late Donda West (Coldest Winter). As of now, all the tracks but 2 have leaked, but we’re gonna just give y’all a sample…the law ain’t no joke lol. Go cop the album and support Kanye’s new “pop art” genre he’s created.

Check out the tracks here

Love Lockdown

http://www.zshare.net/audio/510670673a68a64d/

Heartless

http://www.zshare.net/audio/51066721a6802520/

Street Lights

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5120276681104283/

See You In My Nightmares

http://www.zshare.net/audio/51205884d18e68bd/

 Since we’re on the Kanye subject, check him and his G.O.O.D. Music artist Malik Yusef’s song for Barack Obama’s album (yea, that’s right) Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement due out tomorrow. The track is called Promised Land featuring Adam Levine from Maroon 5

Promised Land

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5129457324a92acc/

In Stores NOW!!

T-Pain’s 3^rd LP, Thr33 Ringz is out now. Go check it out, after all, he’s the originator of the Auto Tune craze rappers have been on as of late. Singles include Freeze ft. Chris Brown, Can’t Believe It ft. Lil’ Weezy and the newly released remix ft. Justin Timberlake.

Here’s a preview of the album

Freeze ft. Chris Brown

http://rapidshare.com/files/150615849/T-Pain_ft._Chris_Brown_-_Freeze_-_buckmarleyxxx.com.mp3.html

Therapy ft. Kanye West

http://www.zshare.net/audio/50696659abcc3a50/

Can’t Believe It Remix ft. Justin Timberlake

http://www.zshare.net/audio/510690525e416c44/

DJs Mick Boogie and Terry Urban released a mash/blend mixtape of Jay-Z and Coldplay tracks called Viva La Hova. Tracks are bananas, so check em out.

Get it here….completely legal too, since it’s a mixtape haha

www.vivalahova.com

Sidebar: Cop Coldplay’s Viva La Vida LP too…you’ll appreciate the mixtape more afterwards

Speaking of Hov, Jay leaked a track off the Blueprint 3 called History….now I gotta say, this track is beautiful. The lyrics are dope, the beat is amazing and everything comes together perfectly….I think it’s one of Jay’s top 10 tracks….yea, I said it. Production on the track comes from Kanye West and the hook is sung by Tony Williams from G.O.O.D. Music…..and I heard that Kanye sampled a French song for this? Its that dope.

History

http://www.zshare.net/audio/511249566c9f0551/

ATL rapper Ludacris is releasing his newest album Theater of the Mind on November 24^th. After hearing singles such as What Them Girls Like, Undisputed, One More Drink and some leaked tracks, this album is shaping up to be one of his best. The album boasts production from Swizz Beats, DJ Premier, 9^th Wonder, and Darkchild, among others. Since the songs on this album are meant to be like mini-movies, he doesn’t have any features on the album, but rather Co-Stars. A few co-stars on the album are Lil’ Wayne, T.I., T-Pain, Chris Brown, Common, Nas, and Floyd “Money” Mayweather. Peep the vid for the newest single, One More Drink (ft. T-Pain)….its ridiculous….and yes, he does cut his arm off to get away from a chick around 1:20 haha.

One More Drink

http://www.zshare.net/audio/20091688043355c6/ 

One More Drink (Ft. T-Pain)

Even though this track dropped a few weeks ago, I had to post this….The Cool Kids have been doin it big lately; especially from their venture with Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound to their inclusion in the new 2k Basketball game. This track, (I Got) Colors, is sick….the beat is ridiculous and Mikey/Chuck don’t disappoint on the lyrics.

(I Got) Colors

http://www.zshare.net/audio/512952589477a51b/

…btw, wear headphones when you listen to the beginning of the song….it’s trippy lol

XXL recently did a cover featuring the 10 Freshmen of the Rap Game. It featured up and coming artists such as, B.o.B, Asher Roth, Wale, Ace Hood, Curren$y, Charles Hamilton, Kid Cudi, Blu, Cory Gunz, Mickey Factz. Three of them released a track, sampling Sam Cooke’s Change Gon’ Come to make their own version

Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth, & B.o.B – Change Gon’ Come

http://www.zshare.net/audio/51295327ea8b40ce/

And finally for all the Rhymesayers fans out there, Brother Ali dropped a track celebrating Obama’s victory called Mr. President.

Mr. President

http://www.rhymesayers.com/radio/get.php?web=01_Obama_Your_The_Man_1.mp3

Represent Positive Change

Stay Esfac’e

-The FRESHm3n

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