Eyedos Presents: MET

As promised, the Minds Eye Tribe album has finally dropped. This is packed with bars and bangers, and a testament to how much the scene has improved in the past decade. Which is not to say heads weren't dropping quality albums back in 2007, they were just fewer & further between. There's been a lot of heat so far this year.

Again, props to Eyedos for the quality control and sheer work ethic. For the record, the full, official lineup for MET runs as follows: Eyedos, Trips, Polar Beers, Trono (Self Portrait), Krypto Man (JYNX Inc), J-Zila, Stresselbee (Epidemiks), Ademus and RuffNek. There's also a half-ton of other guests in the mix here.

Both Trono and Eyedos will be performing at the Regional Indie Hip Hop Compilation Release Party (RIHHCRP) at Club Metronome tomorrow night.

Eyedos - "The Coalition"

Longtime Jynx Inc member Eyedos has stepped out on his own in a big way this year. Always a hard worker, he's been building a national network over the past five years and the payoff has only just begun. Check out the guest list on his solo project Guerrilla Bars - alongside 802 fixtures like Learic, RuffNek and Trono you'll see Rakaa Iriscience, C-Rayz Walz, and Kool G Rap. (That track bangs, by the way: peep "Gun Smoke.")

"The Coalition" is a posse cut slam-fest with serious reach - V-Zilla is an Army of the Pharaohs affiliate from Houston, Ruste Juxx is a Boot Camp purebred from NYC, also the home of Screwball alumni Blaq Poet. The production is perfectly tailored for showoff sixteens and everyone delivers the goods.

Happy Friday.