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The Blood Is One Mixtape Volume I: No Love

Cover designed by the incomparable Jeff "August" Abplanalp.

It's finally here! The first o-fo-sho official Blood Is One mixtape. Some hard work was put in to this beast on the part of myself and Carl Roe. Big appreciation goes out to Game Brothas and CaLii. In addition to the tracks by BOI artists, I also included several northwest artists including Onry Ozzborn, JFK and up and comer Flouie Fluent, with a little bit of national work by CunninLynguists and Yelawolf to switch things up.

Download it here.

Here's the tracklist:

1. BOI Intro
2. Carl Roe - No Love
3. Flouie Fluent - N.W.N.Y.H.M.
4. CunninLynguists - Stars Shine
5. JFK - All The Time
6. Game Brothas - Priceless (featuring LIL WAYNE)
7. Carl Roe - Where You Goin' To? (original mix)
8. Carl Roe - Lock It Down, Sew It Up (original mix)
9. Game Brothas - Bout That
10. Yelawolf - Alabama Gotdamn
11. Game Brothas - Makin' Money
12. CaLii - Cry No More
13. Flouie Fluent - A Dose Of Truth
14. Onry Ozzborn - 76 (featuring Sleep)
15. Yelawolf - I Wanna Rock
16. Carl Roe - No Love (Instrumental)

The mixtape will be available for only a short time so download it while you can.

For more information on Carl Roe, CaLii and Game Brothas, check out their websites:

Carl Roe - http://www.myspace.com/carlroemusic
CaLii - Welcome 2 CaLii http://welcome2calii.com/
Game Brothas - http://www.gamebrothas.com/

The Blood Is One Artists

"Multiple Skin Tones, The Blood Is One" - Pharoahe Monch, "Shine"

Since Will Pierce and I started The Blood Is One, we have been very interested in recruiting, mentoring, marketing and booking up and coming artists. Hip-hop is only the beginning. The staff at BOI has interest in genres spanning from R&B to electro to alt country. We're currently working with three talented artists - Carl Roe, CaLii and Game Brothas. Following are biographies of all three. Keep this page bookmarked as we'll have music and other stuff posted here as things move on. All three will be featured on the upcoming BOI mixtapes and compilations.

Carl Roe

Carl is born in Chicago and made his way to the northwest after joining the military. He's a very talented guy - acting as a rapper, singer and producer - and plans to tour nationally. His forthcoming LP is entitled The Broken Time Machine.

Kenan Bell

Kenan Bell takes the changing zeitgeist of hip-hop - shaped by such emotional chameleons as Kanye West and Drake - and runs with it. Kenan is currently prepping a great deal of work that will appear with the epic forthcoming Blood Is One mixtape compilation. Look for his work. It's serious.


CaLii

CaLii a.k.a. the Tri-State beast bring the Club to the streets, with a sound that attracts everyone from your club hopper to your local dope boy.  The music lover turned femcee discovered her love and appreciation for music at a young age, and credits music as being an epic part of her life.  She began rapping and writing rhymes at the tender age of 10.  However, CaLii did not begin to fulfill her potential as an artist until upon graduating from Waterbury Arts Magnet School in Waterbury Ct., this is when she became serious about her gift and blossomed into the rapper we all love today.

Presenting Game Brothas!

Alright, so my homie Kemal A.K.A. Mallski Wallksi of Game Brothas is promoted the new album they've released for free called International. You can download it free on the iLike website. Check out the commercial:

Presenting Game Brothas!

I met Kemal a.k.a. "Mallski Wallski" in a college class in California. Probably not the ideal settings for a musical rendezvous but what is? Kemal has a lot of words bubbling up inside of him and has hince attracted to the too distant worlds of journalism, scholarship and hip-hop.

Instead of doing a proper interview, I thought I would just relay some of the stories he's told me. Young Kemal has toured up and down the west coast, from Portland up through Spokane. Both areas are serious white supremacist territory, and he relayed a story of seeing a really pissed off skinhead biker on the way through Portland. Spokane had a "surprisingly" big turnout for a hip-hop show, and according to him it was made up of a whole lot of Native Americans, more than he had ever seen.

His group has quite a few videos available on YouTube and a presence on Twitter. Here's some of their most popular videos:





We're still trying to get Kemal to contribute here at BOI. Maybe this post will encourage him.