Before you continue to cry about the lost "Golden Age" of NY hip hop, listen to '2057 EP' and 'The Ports EP', the simultaneous releases by MC/producer J57, featuring a slew of NY-area lyrical talent over nostalgic-but-not-dated, smooth, sample-driven tracks that easily continues the streak of solid material from him and his Brown Bag AllStar family.

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On the cusp of an upcoming double EP release, Brown Bag AllStar's producer/rapper J57 drops a taste of what's to come with "Elite Status," the self-produced headnodder featuring bubbling wordsmith Rasheed Chappell and cuts by the always impressive DJ Brace.

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Award-winning Australian producer/remixer M-Phazes teams up with plenty of MCs from the US of A, and dishes out a video for his reworking of the Brown Bag AllStars track "What It's All About," starring everyone's favorite brownbaggers.

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