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1) Somali American emcee/producer YaYa just dropped his new concept album, Yahzilla... The Movie. For those of you unfamiliar with the Pete Rock approved artist, check out this joint he dropped over the summer. The 11 track album is hosted by DJ Caesar, and as you probably can tell, it's inspired by those classic Godzilla flicks. The whole album was produced by YaYa and has cuts by Violator Allstar DJ Supa. Give the album a listen, and let us know if Yahzilla is a movie you're tryna see a sequel of: http://www.mediafire.com/?w7j9qzn42w4eu5g

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O'Halloran's personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin's quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.