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When last week we introduced you to Rafael Casal, a poet and a rapper who has performed on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, then this week we will continue in the same zone and introduce you to George Watsky, another Def Poetry poet. Unlike Casal, who has been unable to "blow up," Watsky recently managed to go viral with his video "Pale kid raps fast" (over 4.5 million views in 10 days). Thanks to this his other music has been getting more and more attention as well, which is nice to see. His 2009 album titled "Watsky" has been getting more and more attention, as well as the mixtape we're going to talk about here: "Guilty Pleasures."

Guilty Pleasures is basically a mixtape which features all songs from "Watsky" (the album), mashed up with different kinds of beats starting from Ke$ha's "Tic Toc" and Miley Cyrus' "Party In The USA" to M.O.P.'s "Ante Up," Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and everything in between. The mixtape is quality in it's best meaning: Watsky's wacky, funny, but also on-point and meaningful rap has been fitted perfectly on seemingly irrelevant beats. And it sounds good. From a teenager's sexual problems in "The Waking Hour" (featuring Mariami) on an Akon beat to a battle of the races on "Color Lines" (featuring Catch Wreck) on a Miley Cyrus beat: it all sounds like the song was written to that particular beat and the message doesn't fade away.

So my conclusion? Get the mixtape, it's well worth it. I mean, it's free. :) And if you do like what's on the mixtape, then buy the album. Simple as that.


DOWNLOAD LINK: WATSKY W/PROCRASTINATION- GUILTY PLEASURES (2010)

Tracklist:

1. Headphones-Amplified (feat. Rafael Casal)
2. Fuck an Emcee Name
3. Seizure Boy
4. Who's Been Loving You?
5. I Got This Love (feat. Passion)
6. A Conversation With Bieber
7. Waking Hour (feat. Mariami)
8. Girl Next Door (To Everybody Else)
9. Run My Mouth (feat. Danny McClain)
10. Color Lines (feat. Catch Wreck)
11. Hercules
12. Fight! Fight! Fight! (feat. Dahlak Brathwaite)
13. Two Blue Moons
14. Everything Turns Gold (feat. Gift of Gab and Mieka Pauley)

Rafael Casal, a young poet and rapper from the infamous Bay Area first gained recognition for his brilliant poems on HBO's Def Poetry Jam. As an underground artist and the founding member of TheGetback (check out TheGetback.com), he has released 2 EP's which are available for free download. In July 2010, Casael, along with Daveed Diggs released The Bay Boy Mixtape. It features 11 hot tracks with substance, poetic wordplay, chill beats and catchy choruses. To be honest, I personally don't understand how Casal along with his Getback companions have managed to stay so unnoticed- at such talent! I mean just check it out:

Song: "On Tour"
Many of us brag bout the stars and the women
but what we keep hidden are the scars and stumbles
pick up and zip up my bag again
cuz I'm back to somewhere else
on the map again
break another heart for the making of my art
so I savor every part of my travellin

Or the brilliant chorus of "Love Thing:"

It's a love thing, it's a love thing
it's a love until we breakin' up then
could be great but it could be nothing
want to trust but there's always something

So... Make sure you download The Bay Boy mixtape, tell your friends about it, head over to TheGetback.com and get the latest music and news from Casal and the whole Getback crew! We can't let something so good go unnoticed, can we?

DOWNLOAD LINK: RAFAEL CASAL- THE BAY BOY MIXTAPE



Tracklist:

1. Babysittin 03:12 2. Foxy Girls (Candy Store) 03:04 3. Run 03:54 4. Bay Boy 03:16 5. Hooked On You 03:48 6. Love Thing 03:20 7. On Tour 04:12 8. For The Record 04:06 9. Fucked Up 02:34 10. Could Be Wrong 03:58 11. Ghostin 02:34