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JARREN BENTON, JOELL ORTIZ & CYHI THE PRYNCE – TEAM BACKPACK CYPHER

We are one month removed from the biggest event in TBP history, Mission Underground LA (MULA), and quite possible the biggest underground hip-hop festival in current production. It is only fitting to drop the biggest cypher of the event first. This one features Funk Volume’s Jarren Benton, G.O.O.D. Music’s CyHi The Prynce, and Slaughterhouse’s Joell Ortiz over one of the hardest beats we have ever heard from Trox. If you aren’t familiar with any one of these artists PLEASE get acquainted after watching the cypher, as they are some of the most elite emcees in the industry right now.

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SAGA X ALCHEMIST – SAGA GHANOUSH (ALBUM STREAM)

Saga wastes no time snatching up seven instrumentals from Alchemist’s Israeli Salad project and blesses them for his Saga Ghanoush EP. Stream it, enjoy it, buy it.

Comprised of seven hand picked instrumentals taken from ‘Israeli Salad,’ Saga showcases his silver tongued lyricism over ALC’s use of middle-eastern sampled source material. By keeping Israeli themed delicacies as the focal point of the artwork, originally designed by the Haifa-based graf artist, Unga, of the Broken Fingaz crew, Saga swaps the avocado for an eggplant, to represent the key ingredient found in Baba Ghanoush…or in this case, ‘Saga Ghanoush.’