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The Sasquatch! Festival in the hinterlands of Washington state this year will have a heavy dose of hip-hop with The Roots, Childish Gambino, Shabazz Palaces, and araabmuzik in the lineup for the multiday music festival in George, Washington. The rest of the hip-hop offerings will have a heavy Seattle flavor, as Shabazz collaborators THEESatisfaction will perform, as well as Dyme Def, Fresh Espresso, The Physics, Sol, Grynch, Fatal Lucciauno, Metal Chocolates, Spac3man, and Scribes.

Also there will be Little Dragon, Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, SBTRKT, Charles Bradley, punk/rap fusion act Don’t Talk to the Cops, and soul R&B group Fly Moon Royalty, along with the headliners Jack White, Beck, and Bon Iver. The festival runs during Memorial Day weekend at The Gorge Ampitheater, tickets are available now.

The animation is a bit rough but the track is amazingly funky. The Physics is forcing me to break my unwritten rule to not post about a group twice so soon but I haven’t nodded my head this hard in years.

Peace everyone. I’m going to do this like my radio show, Soulhop Radio, and say, less talk and more music. I hope everyone is enjoying the sun season of summer, no matter where you are.

1. “Tight Ship”, Stephen Marley

His new album Revelation Part One: The Root of Life is the best reggae album out this summer for uplifting Roots Reggae. “Tight Ship” gets my vote as one of the top 5 songs on the album.

Quotable: There’s no room for mistakes / we running a tight ship for sure
Get the broom sweep the place clear I space

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The Physics, the three-piece Seattle crew, just released their self-released sophomore LP “Love is a Business” today, and this is the lead single from the album. The track, with plenty of the thick, molasses-sweet soul that 9th Wonder makes his living from, is the type of summertime jam that’s made for enjoying rare sunshine some places don’t seem to get enough of. (You guys from Hip-Hop.com that came to Red Bull EmSee in Seattle last week with me should be nodding your heads now.) Check out the album preview on Bandcamp for select cuts from the album, and if you’re in Seattle, check out the album release shows tonight at the Crocodile.