Oh No’s “Disrupted Ads” album drops January 29th via Kash Rock Entertainment. The album is about half instrumentals and half vocals featuring appearances from Blu, MED, Gangrene, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Souls of Mischief and others.

A couple of weeks back, we dropped the MP3 for “Jones’s” featuring Blu & MED. Today, enjoy the official music video directed by Hayden Baptiste.

As MED prepares for the release of his fourth installment of his Bang Ya Head series, check out a brand new video from Bang Ya Head 3, for the song “Candlelight” featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow.

On MED’s last B-Day, 12/12/12, he dropped an upcoming track from Bang Ya Head 4, for the song “Run It” featuring Gangrene and produced by Oh No. Stayed tuned for the entire project coming soon…

Oh No’s upcoming album “Disrupted Ads” drops January 29th via Kash Roc Entertainment. The album features brand new instrumentals and guest features from Gangrene (Oh & Alchemist), Blu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, MED, Souls of Mischief, and others.

Today, check out the first leak from the album for the song “Jones’s” featuring Blu and MED.

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Rather than one long trip, each track renders more like a different strand of greenery and the occasional water pipe full of Salvia Divinorum. Some are intense head rushes, others are creeper highs. No tripping balls with bats flying around you somewhere near Barstow stuff though. Instant rushes are felt on tracks like “Drink Up” featuring Roc Marciano, “Dump Truck” featuring Prodigy & “Gladiator Shit” featuring Kool G. Rap while others like “Top Instructors” and “Odds Cracked” require a few coughs to take effect. The Alchemist, while still an average-at-best MC, manages to pull off the rhyming act on most tracks, noted improvements over many of his lyrical endeavors (his penchant for fecal-themed raps is not a good look though). In contrast, Oh No is developing nicely on the mic, his nasal baritone rests favorably against these irreproachable knocks. The production here is sharp and insightful, more straight-ahead than the Gutter Water project, dirty boom bap at its finest.

The interjections and cut-aways punctuating above and below the tracks are sublime and often hilarious, much like the promo videos the Decon crew collected/conjured on Livers For Sale (personal favorite is dude with the pipe and Mr. Miyagi headband). This is just one entertaining ride for hardcore hip-hop fans all the way down the corridor, one that economically rocks your knot at just under 42 minutes. First quarters are usually lackluster, early 2012 may just be remembered as the winter of Ayahausca. Dedicated to those that wanna hear moves.

EPs may be celebrated in Indie Rock/Electronic music circles but they are generally glossed over in the attention-deficient world of hip-hop. At first glance into a SoundCloud cumulonimbus, the pairing of Gangrene (Oh No & The Alchemist) and Roc Marciano looked like a typical Garage Band cook-up or a mash-up in the vein of the vexingly mediocre Wugazi project. Upon further booth review, the flawless vocals of Roc Marciano on cuts like “Hoard 90″ & “Jet Luggage” revealed this was no haphazardly honed project.

Roc Marc is one of the last of his mold, a throwback MC more worthy of his Pete Rock-cosign than his days as depth chart fodder for the Flipmode Squad. A slew of mixtapes and two stirring releases in the last 2.5 years (P Brothers’ The Gas & last year’s masterful Marcberg), cemented Marce as one of the preeminent undercore lyricists of this era. His flawless delivery and clever crime chronicles (albeit of the one-note variety) recall what hip-hop means to many of its followers: a basement littered with Jansports, eggshell notebooks and crates of dusty vinyl.

The Alchemist is an average rapper at best and unfortunately it is him instead of the more vocally agile Oh No that grabs the mic more often than crafting MPC monstrosities. ALC & Oh No build a bewitching sound here, one that drips in psychedelia as well as drones with straight-ahead jazz and boom-bap flourishes.

The EP is rendered in split-vinyl fashion with Marciano powering the A-Side & Gangrene on Side B. Luckily Roc Marc salvages side two with an appearance on the scatalogically-themed “Sewer Gravy” and the offering’s piece de resistance, “Jaws,” an Itunes-only solo bonus cut. For the latter, Oh No chops John Williams’ ominous great-white-coming-for-that-ass composition into a knock worthy of the mid-70′s panic-inducing film (one can almost hear Richard Dreyfus mouthing “we’re gonna need a bigger boat..”). Roc does his best underwater predator impression and wraps this 7-track oeuvre in fine fashion.