El-P puts his twist on the Brooklyn outfit’s funk. Even if you’ve heard Chin Chin before, you haven’t heard them like this. Def Jux’d the fuck out! And while you’re being sonically transported to the dark side of Atlanta be sure to vote for Chin Chin’s Go There With You video on MTVu’s Freshman Countdown. Shouts to the homegirl Katy!

DOWNLOAD: Chin Chin – GG & the Boys (El-P Remix) | Mediafire

Linking up with 247HH, DJ Babu Rhettmatic sent this to me yesterday and I meant to post it but to be honest I was too involved with blasting it through my headphones to do anything else with it. You already know Rhett holds it the fuck down on the 1s & 2s and the artists shown in the image above should be bonus incentives to hitting the jump and enjoying some funk.

It’s a 30 minute mix with some Funk shit (not the P-Funk, but Funky Soul shit) & some classic & new Hip Hop shit.  It’s something to get your James Brown on.  Go ahead & share with your friends….and please feel free to post it up on your music blogs as well.  Hope you like it…enjoy! – Rhettmatic

Tracklist + Download link after the jump…

1. Duck & Cover – Orgone
2. Brass In Africa – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
3. Ghost Walk – The Budos Band
4. Super Strut 1 – The Kashmere Stage Band
5. I Wish – The Kashmere Stage Band
6. Reverse Pt. 2.5 – Percee P
7. Day At The Races – Jurassic 5
8. Give It Up Or Turn It Loose – James Brown
9. Special Category/Rapp Cats Pt. 3 – The Roe-O-Tation/Quasimoto
10. The Wrath Of Kane – Big Daddy Kane
11. Jingling Baby Rmx – LL Cool J
12. Walking Into Sunshine – Central Line
13. Melting Pot – Booker T & The MGs
14. Keep On Dancing – Alvin Cash
15. Dance For Me – Queen Latifah

DOWNLOAD: DJ Rhettmatic – Pure Funkmode

It’s that time again folks. Phonte & DJ Brainchild release episode 6 of their Gordon Gartrell Radio podcast. This week Phonte celebrates the release of Zo! and Tigallo Love the 80’s, discusses why Rick Ross would’ve been better off marketing himself as a rapping corrections officer, and counts down the Top 10 Golden Brown Mocha Colored Women of All Time. It’s the Cafe Au Lait Edition.

Tracklist + Download link after the jump…

Dam Funk “Galactic Funk
Prince & The Revolution “Raspberry Beret”
Rick James “Cold Blooded” (Re-Edit & Weep)
Marvin Gaye “Rockin’ After Midnight”
Ready For The World “Oh Sheila” (Trackademicks Remix)
PPP “On A Cloud” (Trackademicks Remix)
Hollyweerd “Members Only”
India Arie “Brown Skin
Spymusic “Dancery”
Marc Mac presents Visioneers “Funkbox” (Jazzy Jeff Remix)
J*Davey “J” (Instrumental)
A Tribe Called Quest “Like It Like That” (Instrumental)
J Dilla “Interlude” (Instrumental)
Ne-Yo “Nobody”
N*E*R*D “You Know What”
Joss Stone “Girl, They Won’t Believe It”
Marvin Gaye “Come Get To This”
Jack Sample Pros “Perskryptsyn”
Waajeed “Fire”
J Dilla “Take Notice” (Instrumental)
Brook D’leau “Untitled”
The Detroit Experiment “Higher”
Zo! and Tigallo “Steppin Out” (Trackademicks Extra Wet Like Stoney Jackson’s Curl Remix)

DOWLOAD: Gordon Gartrell Radio ep.6 [via GGR]

The incredibly talented Janelle Monae speaks with OKP about Erykah Badu’s Okayplayer message board post praising her work. Shouts to Tunji for his work.

PREVIOUS: Janelle Monae – Metropolis (Suite I: The Chase) EP

You know Shake has to cover everything Janelle Monae. She’s beyond dope.

Keeping up with the dope female artists of the world (no not that Kim-wannabe that Wayne is promoting), I present to you Sy Smith. She’s no newbie by any means. Sy started off singing in a DC based go-go band as well as being a back up singer to Whitney Houston. Did I mention she majored in psychology at Howard University? I didn’t? Well she did. She dropped her debut album, Psykosoul, in 2000 in which she co-wrote and produced. Now on her fourth album, Conflict, which dropped last month; she’s still on her funk/soul/r&b game. Don’t sleep and check out two tracks off her latest LP…

DOWNLOAD: Sy Smith – Conflict (This Is Your Brain On Drugs)
DOWNLOAD: Sy Smith – B-Side Love Affair