“Inglorious Beta”-K-Beta

Best Jawns: Black Business, Surrender, That Black Man, Suicide, Come Closer, Another Day 2, Soul Cry, DTLR (Down The Line Rhyme), Burn Through the Journal, I’m Bleeding, With The Family, Infinite Possibilities, Smoke With Me, Life Of Crime and Outchea

Meh: N/A

Hot Garbage: N/A

Dart’s Take: I’d first like to congratulate K-Beta. Then I’d like to congratulate all of the people that contributed to this project (Kev Brown, Diamond District (yU, X.O. & Oddisee), J-Scrilla, Judah, Sketch, Team Demolition, Soulful!, Overok, Grussle, Kokayi, Median, Mina, Ill Ghee, Laelo Hood and Kevlar) and Inner Loop Records. You all have crafted one MONSTER of an album. DMV stand up!

This album will drop for FREE on April 1st but it’s FAR from a joke. This is yet another independent project made by heads without any corporate major label help that SMASHES 90% of the albums released by major labels with exorbitant budgets that took years to make.

Read More Here and see how K-Beta fairs (in Darts highly respected opinion) up against Wu-Massacre, Erykah Badu, Trek Life, Decon and many more artists dropping this week

South by Southwest’s Fourth Most Buzzed-About Artist? Oddisee

I don’t pretend to understand anything algorithmic, so I can’t really vouch for Next Big Sound, whose M.O. is “Music Meets Math.” According to its breakdown of South by Southwest, the fourth most buzzed-about artist during the festival was Oddisee, the D.C. beatmaker and member of hip-hop trio Diamond District.

Oddisee’s not bragging yet: His blog’s been silent since the Austin festival started last week. But there’s a couple of cool nuggets near the top: A snippet of a collaboration with TiRon and a video preview of the upcoming K-Beta collaboration with Diamond District, Inglorious Beta.

View it here.