TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 | PST INDIAN SUMMER SOUL SERIES

Kick your short week­end off with a bang tonite, as Pacific Standard Time takes you into Indian Summer with another evening of superb music, beau­ti­ful peo­ple, and emerg­ing tal­ent! PST res­i­dent DJ Sake One will be rock­ing from 10pm til 2am, with his sig­na­ture 360 Degrees of Soul sounds. The man Prophet will be direct­ing vibes. Rocking live on the micro­phone is Portland, OR soul sen­sa­tion Ragen Fykes, who is mak­ing build­ing quite a buzz up and down the west coast with her recent releases on Philadelphia-based label Record Breakin' Music and col­lab­o­ra­tions with a range of Left Coast lumi­nar­ies. Arrive early for com­pli­men­tary cock­tails from Absolut Vodka and min­gle with the Ankh Marketing and Local 1200 fam­i­lies. See you tonight!!!

Pacific Standard Time | Summer Soul Series 2009 | Tuesday evenings @ 330 Ritch Nightclub | San Francisco | CA | 94110

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We should all know by now that Blu is a dope rap­per and, judg­ing from the beats I've heard, I know he's a dope pro­ducer. Apparently, Sene does too. Sene’s upcom­ing mix­tape, Maltas & Music, drops on September 15th fea­tur­ing this track pro­duced by Blu aka GODlee Barnes. His upcom­ing album which drops next month, A Day Late & A Dollar Short, is entirely pro­duced by GODlee Barnes. [via]

The third episode in the "Saving Our Grace" weekly series, this is "The Hope". Directed by Mills Miller. Remember, The Salvation drops September 29th on Jamla Records/Duck Down.

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This is the remix. Here we go. Version 1.0. Rob Murat returns with the remix of his first sin­gle "Dilemma." Featuring hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall, this track serves as a new state­ment on Murat's astound­ing tal­ent as a song­writer, singer and pro­ducer. The album So Much to Say is avail­able now on Rob's own Quench Entertainment Group.

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Haven't I been telling you about Myx Music Label? Haven't I? Today, they announced the sign­ing of Detroit's Buff1 along with L.A.'s DJ Rhettmatic as the duo known as Crown Royale. The group is sched­uled to release an LP next year.

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Kam Moye (aka Supastition) returns to close out this sum­mer with a brand new breakup anthem, pro­duced by Detroit's up and comer Apollo Brown. The track is "Blue Skies," but don't let the title throw you. The flow­ing lyrics are not about blue skies, but the lack thereof. Kam Moye rhymes about a rela­tion­ship gone wrong and the frus­tra­tion of try­ing to save face in pub­lic, a dilemma that many can relate to. He raps, "When peo­ple see us in pub­lic they think it's all love, like, 'take a look at them two together, they got it all,' but lit­tle do they know we rarely get our prob­lems solved. Most of the time I'm wish­ing that I was not involved." These straight for­ward, no BS lyrics com­bine with a looped, slightly eerie female vocal melody to preach the tracks mes­sage. "There are no blue skies." Be on the look out the debut Kam Moye album, Splitting Image via MYX Music Label. The album will be in stores October 27, 2009.

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The three of these songs share a com­mon denom­i­na­tor. The com­mon­al­ity has given me dope music worth buy­ing for almost 15 years which is the very rea­son I'm in the store right now pick­ing up my copy of BP3. A lot of you so-called rap­pers wouldn't even have bars if it weren't for Big Homie so, if you're one of the sheep who just say "F**k Jay-Z, he's old, etc., etc." then let's just see where your career is in 15 yrs and if you're still around, not locked up, pump­ing gas, home­less or strung out on crack, and you did it bet­ter than this ni**a, talk all the trash you want to. "Cuz on the low, half of these rap­pin' a** ni**az wanna work for me."

There are a few artists whose album I'm going to buy with­out hes­i­ta­tion. In one minute, I'll be walk­ing into Target to drop some change on the counter for BP3. Deuces.