We’ve been telling ourselves we wanna do a podcast for the longest and we’ve just never followed through with it. Time to stop bullshittin in 2016!!!!! Our first podcast with our bro, BJ the Chicago Kid, is HERE. We sat down with him on Valentine’s Day to chop it about everything from Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, asking Pharrell to sign him and much, MUCH more. Check it out and be on the lookout for episode 2 coming hopefully sooner than later!
Valentine’s Day is this weekend, The season of lovin’ is officially here! I put together a mix of some music for the lovers out there for a free download/stream. The picture on the cover art is an old picture of my parents that I came across, straight cholo/chola shit. Feel free to download, tweet, email, share with everyone you know. Perfect soundtrack to make some babies to. -Milk
For those that are too busy to write all the lyrics to our new single down, we did the work for you. Here’s the lyric video for “Ball Like This” ft. Future, Wiz Khalifa & Kid Ink which is available on iTunes NOW. Download link below!
Purchase: L.A. Leakers ft. Future, Wiz Khalifa & Kid Ink – “Ball Like This”
After 6 years, DOM felt it was right to get back in the studio and give you part two with who other than YOUR L.A. Leakers?! We’ve all grown a lot over the last 6 years, so shit is only getting bigger and better. Summer is year round in L.A. LIVE WITH THIS SHIT.
I did this mix for my boy’s clothing line (suprfukr) back in 2008, the DJ that was supposed to do the other half of the tape never did it, so we didn’t put it out… Soooo…. here’s my half. For all my weird backpack Hip-Hop heads, this one is for all 12 of us.
With today being the 20 year anniversary of Raekwon‘s “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…” album, we figured we would re-upload a tape we did with Raekwon back in 2009. Congrats to Rae on over 20 years of success!
For those of you that don’t know, we’ll be playing at HARD Fest this year (weekend of August 1, 2). To prepare you guys for the festival, we put together a mix with some of the acts that you’ll be able to catch that weekend. ENJOY!
Here’s your pre-turn up, turn up. Get familiar with this before you head out to the club this weekend!
We had a chance to chop it up with the good folks over at ThatDJLife.com and answer a few questions. You can read the whole interview by clicking on this.—-> L.A. Leakers x That DJ Life
K. Dot is back! The new album “To Pimp A Butterfly” was released a few days ago and if you’re from LA, it’s been the soundtrack in everyone’s car pretty much this whole week. The clean version of the album was prematurely released by mistake on iTunes and shortly after the full explicit version was made available. Kendrick Lamar came out the gate breaking records with his new album. He made Spotify history and had 9.6 million streams on the first day!
It’s been almost 3 years since we had some new Kendrick music so we weren’t too sure on what we would get from him. The new album isn’t as aggressive production wise as “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” but Kendrick makes up for the that lyrically.
Aside from Kendrick’s crazy bars, the production on it is just as incredible. The presence of pianist Robert Glasper, producer/sax player Terrace Martin and bass player Thundercat can be felt throughout the whole album. Basically Jazz compositions with Hip-Hop beats/raps over it and even some spoken word at one point on the “For Free? (Interlude)”.
Yo! The album has so many great songs that it’s hard to choose a favorite, but some songs off the album that we gravitated to are “King Kunta,” where Dot transforms into a 2015 Compton bred James Brown. One of the more gritty beats on the album, Dot let’s everyone know that he’s here and the thrown is HIS. Other stand out tracks include “Institutionalized” featuring Snoop, Bilal & Anna Wise, “These Walls,” “Alright,” “How Much A Dollar Cost,” and of course, “Mortal Man”. On the song “Mortal Man,” he puts together a back and forth conversation between him and the late Tupac using old sound bites from Tupac’s past interviews. Another song that really stood out is “Hood Politics”. Dot plays Obama with an attitude, and touches on some of the obstacles he’s had to deal with on his way to that podium. This is definitely an album you have to listen to if you appreciate great Hip-Hop!
Go support great music and grab “To Pimp A Butterfly” album on iTunes NOW. Shouts to our TDE family and special thanks to Kendrick Lamar for another incredible body of work.
We wanna know your thoughts on the album as well. Have you heard the album? If so, what’s your favorite song? Drop a comment below and let us know what you think of the album so far. Be sure to check out more from us on power106.com & laleakers.com as well!
Grammy Weekend in LA, we had the chance to do The Jump Off Mix on our home station, Power 106. People have been asking for us to post the link, so here it is! Feel free to pass along, thanks!
It’s that time, The 2015 Draft Picks are here! 21 exclusive records brought to you by the L.A. Leakers. This year’s picks of artists to look out for! Big thank you to all the artists, producers, and managers that helped us put this together. Excited to grow with you all. Shout out to our folks over at LiveMixtapes for always rockin’ with us. Stream and download below!
Our debut single is officially on iTunes! Shout out to our bros, Kid Ink, Sage The Gemini, Iamsu! & P-Lo! Shout out to all of YOU! Can’t thank each and everyone of you enough! Everyone who downloads our tapes, visits our blog, follows us on social media, etc. THANK YOU! We’re living a dream! iTunes link is below.
Download: L.A. Leakers – “Pull Up”
