KSJS Urban TOp 40 + Adds (+ Local Charts)

KSJS Top 40 is an evolving trend in music. We try to support the most earnest hip-hop artists in the game, whether veteran, newcomer, local or not. This week we have new singles in rotation from Rapper Big Pooh, Kendrick Lamar, Sean Price, all household names, as well as independent artists Apollo The Great and Wriggley Scott whose singles caught our ear. These 5 tracks were selected from a pool of 15, which were sent for review to our team. Based on the responses, and urban management’s discretion, these 5 singles were chosen. You can see the charts at the bottom of this post, however we are also going to break down some of the tracks currently in rotation.

KSJS – Urban

San Jose, CA

TOP 40 CHART

November 6th, 2012

Heavy Rotation

1. Slaughterhouse- Flip a Bird – Shady Records
2. Chase Moore  & DJ Epik – Painted Picture (feat. Illmaculate) – Chase Moore Music/Fireworks Productions
3. Zion I- We Don’t (feat. Grouch & Eligh)- Live Up Records/Gold Dust Media
4. Cache – Why Play Me (feat. Moe Green)- Open University
5. Persia- Dumb Dumbs (feat. The Eclectic & Rahman Jamaal)- Mamazhouse
6. Menacin Johnson- For the Win (feat. A Plus & Abstract Rude)- self released
7. J. Good- Saved by the Bell (feat. Co$$)- #TUS
8. Casual x J. Rawls- Respect Game or Expect Flames (feat. Del)- Nature Sounds
9. Jesse Lives- Like Mike- The Infamy Entertainment Group
10. Ekzakt- The Rise (feat. Equipto, Nio Tha Gift & Jus Me)- Ekzakt Precision Media
11. Wu-Block (Sheek Louch & Ghostface Killah)- Stick Em’ (feat. Jadakiss)- eOne Music
12. Skipp Whitman- The Upgrade (feat. Louie Bello)- Whitman & Co
13. Malcolm Lee- Highway Blues (feat. Dem One & Solis Cin)- Malcolm-Lee.com/Open University Productions
14. Montage One- Lie #1 (feat. The Foreign Exchange & Yahzarah)- Stimulus One Music
15. P.O.S.- FYS- Rhymesayers Ent.
16. Dag Savage – Cali Dreamin (feat.Fashawn & Co$$) – Dirty Science
17. Moka Only – Sleeping Dogs – URBNET Records
18. Chris Keys & Oh No – Devastation (feat. Montage One & Guilty Simpson) – Heavy Keys
19. Matty Slims – After I’m Gone – High Esteem Studio/ Open University
20. Beneficience – Reality vs Fiction (feat. Masta Ace & Total Eclipse) – ILL Adrenaline

Medium Rotation

1. J. Nolan – Breakdown – The Manifest Movement/TSST
2. Topic – Freedom Ain’t Free – Boss Life World
3. Tranzformer – Life goes on (feat. Shi-Dog & Tenacity) – Abolitionist Projects
4. Cola – A Better Way (feat. Al-Bundi) – Metafizix Music
5. John Robinson & PVD – MIles & Trane – Cotter/Brick Records
6. Roc Marciano – 76 – Decon
7. Sub Ren – Penz & Swordz – Mezzanine Chop Shop/ Open University Productions
8. Chuuwee – Float On – #TUS/Amalgam Digital
9. Dedrick Jamaal – Broadway – New Wave Music/Dunn Deal PR
10. KonSci  (Of MindsOne) – Dire Straits – Soulspazm Records
11. Bambu – Upset the Set Up ft. Killer Mike – Beatrock Music
12. I-L Twice – Shut It Down – Open University Productions
13. Terrace Martin – It’s Real (feat. Punch) (Prod. by 9th Wonder) – Warner Bros.
14. Fashawn – Back In The Game ft. Chevy Woods (Prod. by JRB) – One Records
15. Pac Div – Truth – The Div Co./PacDivDaily.com
16. Murs & 9th Wonder – It’s Over – IWWMG/Traffic Ent. Group
17. Vince Staples & Michael Uzuworu – Matlock – Independent
18. Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson – Truth be told – Mello Music Group
19. Selekwa – Madhatter (feat. Choclair) – Ravish Entertainment
20. IAMSU – Mobbin – HBK Gang

Adds

Sean Price – Remember (feat. Freddie Gibbs) (prod. Statik Selektah) – DuckDown Records

Wriggley Scott – Music (feat. Feras Ibrahim, JIbberish & Nora B) – Another Music

Rapper Big Pooh – Friends – For Members Only

Kendrick Lamar – The Art of Peer Pressure – Aftermath Ent. / Interscope Records

Apollo The Great – Touch the Sky – Thorobread Media Group

TOP LOCALS CHART | Week of October 30th, 2012

1. Cache – Why Play Me feat. Moe Green – Cache Beats / Open University
2. Persia- Dumb Dumbs ft. The Electic & Rahman Jamaal- Mamazhouse
3. Casual x J. Rawls- Respect Game or Expect Flames (feat. Del)- Nature Sounds
4. Jesse Lives- Like Mike- self released
5. Ekzact- The Rise (feat. Equipto & Nio Tha Gift)- Ekzakt Precision Media
6. Malcolm Lee- Highway Blues (feat. Dem One & Solis Cin)- Malcolm-Lee.com/Open University Productions
7. Matty Slims – After I’m Gone – High Esteem Studio/ Open University
8. Cola – A Better Way (feat. Al-Bundi) – Metafizix Music
9. Sub Ren – Penz & Swordz – Mezzanine Chop Shop/ Open University Productions
10. I-L Twice – Shut It Down – Open University Productions
11. IAMSU – Mobbin – HBK Gang