The trouble with doing a lot of things is that you always manage to leave something undone. The something nags at your head and the nagging messes with the other things that you’re doing. I’m supposed to be transcribing an interview for the site, finishing some tracks for our forthcoming mixtape and chasing up a podcast feature from a dope new producer who we’ll intro shortly…

…what i’m actually doing is writing this post so I can purge my head of the thoughts that it deserves some HH words and that I should have put it up ages ago.

I’m talking about ‘Messengers’. J.Period and K’Naan’s refix project taking work from musical revolutionaries Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Fela Kuti and re-interpreting it for the Hip Hop generation.

As the press release says:

‘…a unique and powerful remix project, paying tribute to the lasting legacy of these musical giants. Weaving afro-beat, reggae, ska, folk music and rock into this genre-bending musical experience, The Messengers stretches the boundaries of hip hop—and the mixtape genre itself. Remixing the classic work of Fela, Marley and Dylan, The Messengers captures the timelessness of their sounds and the continued urgency of their messages. The result, as fans have come to expect from J.Period, is like no mixtape you’ve ever heard.’

Now i’m not sure the work lives up to all of the hype surrounding the project, but there definitely are some gems in the mix. Each of the three parts has been dropped individually so now we’re waiting only for the full bundle + bonus tracks set to hit on 22nd Sept. I could go on but I thinks it’s best all round if you click the link, make the jump and cop all three for yourself…for free…now you can’t argue with that level of freeness can you?…well you could I guess, but we won’t bother listening…forward!

Download Messengers Freeness

Links

J Periods Myspace

K’Naan’s Myspace