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Lennon is a 17 year-old native of Connecticut who whilst has only been producing for 4 years now, has a mature sound that’s far ahead of his years. Lennon grew up on Dilla and mentioned some of his influences being Kanye, 9th Wonder, RJD2 & Alex Goose, which is evident in his music. Apart from influences spanding through all music genres, Lennon also draws great inspiration from the legendary Spike Lee’s movies.

Currently, Lennon is working on a new project with the Cosmic Souls Collective (one of the members, EPonym, rhymes over Lennon’s ‘Like That’ track on ‘Beat Tape’) which he recently joined, a couple of blog mixtapes & is always looking for opportunities to produce for other artists. Looking to the future, Lennon’s dream would be to work with people like Eminem, Dre, Flylo, Drake, Jill Scott, Lupe & The Roots. Given his talent at such a young age, the sky’s the limit really.

‘Beat Tape’ is Lennon’s most recent project and displays a variety of his production styles. On the mixtape you will hear a remix of a Madlib track, a Masta Ace classic & also a load of great jazzy, soulful & even eerie instrumentals. Lennon also has a couple of other tracks & another beat tape for download on his website, check it out here. Big up to Lennon for help with the post.

Download: Lennon – Beat Tape

Fresh from rocking the crowd at the Jazzy Jeff x Droppin’ Science at Jazz Cafe, Skillz (p.k.a. Mad Skillz) drops his annual end of the year rap up for 2009. After last year’s effort was let down by lame production, this one’s a contender for best so far, touching on everything from the Kanye / Taylor Swift incident to various beefs from the likes of 50 Cent vs. Rick Ross & Eminem vs Mariah Carey, to the uprise of twitter & the sad demise of Mr Magic, Roc Raida, Baatin & DJ AM, all over a dope soulful beat. Heat!!

link: Skillz-2009 Rap Up

props to Voice of the Underground for the hook-up!