Paul's Cousin and Blood Is One Is Back!!

What up.

After a year sojourn from the music world, I have decided to come back. My friend Al Miller has stuck with me through the absence - the world of hip-hop and urban culture clearly has a pull for me that eventually brings me back in.

Hip-hop seems to be full of prolonged absences, in part because of the tumultuous environments that produced it. Eminem didn't release a word for half a decade, while Dr. Dre has done his share of production but hasn't released a full album since 1999. Blood Is One started off promoting some collaborations between Kenan Bell, a very talented California rapper, and Carl Roe, a white ex-military rapper. Bell seems to have dropped out of that world while Roe I'm not honestly sure what to think of.

I came back to this site after Al urged me to get back on to promote his music last year. Over the last year, excitement about Yelawolf and the Southpaw soundtrack, which is an awesome soundtrack where Eminem and Royce da 5'9 channel a 1990s rap sound, got me more excited about all of this.

When I first started Blood Is One, I experimented around with putting mixtapes together in .zip format and then releasing them often with a donation paywall. I'm going to do something really different here and take some of Al's music with Paul's Cousin and mix them in to promotional sample mantages that will get people excited about his work enough to buy. The views on the stuff I promoted for him last year was pretty good, all accounted.

In the mean time, please donate so that we can do big and better things with this.

Let's do this, Al! Let's get money!