Y’all already know we got love for Black Milk here on LxNxM.  Album of the Year is out now!  If you’re cool, you’ll buy the full album through the Bandcamp link below.  If you’re not cool, or hard up on cash, or just a cheapskate, click through for two free downloads.

Black Milk drops Album of the Year on September 14th and it seems like he wasn’t boasting at all when he chose that title. Everything I’ve heard thus far from the album is stellar and this video proves once again that Detroit has some of the nicest emcees in the country.

Today I popped Elzhi’s Out of Focus EP into my tape deck (yes I still listen to cassettes) and reminisced on how gifted Elzhi is as an MC. That EP is from like ’98 –I’ve even been told it distinctly sounds like it’s from ’98 –and mostly features production from DJ House Shoes. Neither Elzhi nor Shoes had come-up in the rap world yet, but both were just a year or two away from changing that. This is all around the time that Detroit artists like Dwele G, Waajeed, Hodge Podge (now Big Tone) and El were all emerging out of The Hip-Hop Shop/St. Andrews and on the verge of record deals.

Here we are some 11-12 years later and Elzhi is still coming off the top with crazy quotables and verses unlike any other rapper. It’s clear that he’s getting better with age and I’m loving him for it. Instead of having House Shoes on production this time, he’s got the even more internationally known, yet still Detroit born and raised Black Milk holding down beatmaking duties for his latest single. Those two have been grinding together since Slum Village’s Detroit Deli album. The two 313 favorites just released a video for their latest song called “Deep.” Ya gotta love the brief cameos from Phat Kat, T3, and DJ Dez.

Get to know Detroit through this video.  Black Milk is easily one of the best producer/rappers in hip-hop right now and Royce Da 5’9 is one of the surliest. If you’ve never seen it before, peep the video for “Losing Out” off of Black Milk’s ridiculously hot Tronic album. Gotta love the Hex Murda cameo. This is the definition of Detroit heat. Royce just dropped a new album less than two months ago called Street Hop. Check that out over here.