Jean Grae is from South Africa and used to be in the rap crew Natural Resources until she went her own way when they split. This will be her first album in FOUR years, titled Jeanius, and it drops on July 8th. It’s coming out on Blacksmith Music and they’re hoping this anticipated album will be the one to bring her out from the underground scene and make the move to mainstream. The album was produced by “9th Wonder” which includes Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and Destiny’s Child. If you think you’ve never heard of her, she was on the Rock The Bells tour, toured with Talib Kweli, and coached on the “I Wanna Be A Rapper” MTV show.

Bottom line: Jean Grae has mad rapping skills. She can flow like no other and spit lyrics with them best of them plus she’s hard as eff.

Kweli and Mick Boogie are back with a new “mini album”/mixtape called, The MCEO Mixtape. To download it click here (here’s an alternate link if that one’s down). For more info check out this video from Inverse featuring Kweli talking about the project:

Track List
1. Mick Boogie and Talib Kweli: Intro
2. Talib Kweli f/ Busta Rhymes: Follow The Leader
3. Talib Kweli: Independent (Amadeus Remix)
4. Jean Grae: Think About It
5. Talib Kweli: Hard Faces
6. Interlude: Origins Of Blacksmith
7. Jean Grae: Mean
8. Strong Arm Steady f/ Planet Asia: A Problem
9. Talib Kweli: D’Evils 2008 (produced by 6th Sense)
10. Talib Kweli f/ Fly Union: Say That Again
11. Talib Kweli and Buckshot: Hold It Down
12. Interlude: MCEO Breakdown
13. Talib Kweli f/ Krondon and Phil Da Agony: Hunters
14. Jean Grae: Love Thirst
15. Talib Kweli and Phil Da Agony: Dat Piff
16. Interlude: Kweli speaks on Strong Arm Steady part 1
17. Strong Arm Steady: Stack It
18. Krondon: Big Homie
19. Interlude: KRS-One Speaks
20. Talib Kweli and KRS-One: The Perfect Beat
21. Talib Kweli, Nina Sky, Blu & Joell Ortiz: Hostile Gospel Remix
22. Interlude: Kweli speaks on Idle Warship
23. Idle Warship f/ MC Chris: Screamin’
24. Talib Kweli and Jean Grae: Thas Wassup Now
25. Interlude: Kweli speaks on Jean Grae
26. Jean Grae: Number Eight
27. Talib Kweli, Jean Grae and Ne-Yo: Hot Thing Remix
28. Talib Kweli and Dr. Cornel West: Bushonomics
29. Talib Kweli & Novel: I Am
30. Idle Warship: Industry Diary
31. Talib Kweli f/ UGK: Real Women
32. Talib Kweli: Outro

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