HOMEBOY SANDMAN GOES OFF OVER DUJEOUS BEATS

In case you didn't know, the Day In Day Out instrumental album dropped. One great thing about instrumentals: you can, like, rap on them. And if your name is Homeboy Sandman, you can rap amazing, retarded, ridonkulous freestyle bars over them. Which is exactly what happened in this dope freestyle session from WNYU's This Culture Never Dies, posted to 2DopeBoyz.com last week. The Queens MC—a former classmate of Rheturik's, a recent signee to Stones Throw Records and a good friend to the Duj—linked up with up-and-comer I Am Many to trade bars over the instrumental to "Research," and it was friggin' awesome. Click here to check it out.  

And don't forget what we said last week, MCs/poets/singers: If you send us a dope freestyle over a DIDO beat, we'll post it up here.

Be sure to cop Boysand's newest release, Chimera. Mega-daps to This Culture Never Dies, which hits 89.1 FM in NYC and wnyu.org online every Saturday from 11 pm to 1 am, and host Dharmic X for supporting the Duj and DIDO so tough. And of course, buy the DIDO instrumental LP over at iTunes in case you've been sleeping. 

Yours,
The Duj

"DAY IN DAY OUT" INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM ON SALE NOW!

We hope you've been enjoying our new album, Day In Day Out. Wanna enjoy it even more? Or maybe you love the music but hate those bum-ass rappers rapping on it? (Just kidding!) Well, then we have great news for you. The Day In Day Out instrumental album is on sale now! Click here to cop it on iTunes. 

And it gets even better. Attention rappers, singers, poets, orators, on-wax mumblers! A little contest for dat azz. Record your own freestyle/song/poem/melodic burping over one of the DIDO instrumentals, and send it us at info@dujeous.net. We'll post our favorites here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We're good like that. 

Yours, 

The Duj 

"I WITNESS" SEES SOME SERIOUS LOVE ONLINE

In case you missed it, "I Witness," a standout cut from Dujeous' Day In Day Out has been getting an ish-ton of love online. HipHopDX posted it here, garnering a 4.5 rating out of 5, over 1000 plays, 88 FB likes and a whole bunch of tweets and retweets. DJBooth.net showed love as well, with this dope review: 

If rap is, as Chuck D, famously claimed, the “black CNN,” then you can consider Dujeous a crack team of investigative journalists. On a new single off their next street album, the Booth-approved crew hook up with underground stalwart Immortal Technique for an I Witness report on the situation in the streets. Over the crew’s own hard-hitting production, driven by bell arpeggios and clattering percussion, rappers Mojo the Cinematic, Rheturik and Mas D reveal what other news outlets have been keeping under wraps. In addition to the expected horrors—kids selling crack, pervasive, cop-inflicted violence…—Immortal Tech evokes subtler forms of oppression: “After they evacuated people sloppily, they asked realtors to invest in the property / The rebirth of Manifest Destiny in the South, stack chips while they trained to drag dead bodies out.” The solution? “It’s time to react, create strategic acts of vengeance.” Has this bracing, politically-charged banger got you fired up and ready to retake the streets? That’s what I like to hear. But be sure to include a trip to the local record store on your itinerary; Dujeous’ latest LP,Day In Day Out, was independently released yesterday, April 3.

Awesome. What do you guys think of "I Witness"? Let us know in the comments below.

Yours,

The Duj 

PREFIX MAGAZINE REVIEWS "DAY IN DAY OUT"

Super shouts to Prefix Magazine, who checked in with a dope review of Day In Day Out earlier this week. 

New York hip-hop outfit Dujeous have come a long way since releasing their debut, City Limits, back in 2004. The past eight years have been kind to the band, which features three rappers/singers, a pair of producers who also play bass and guitars, and trumpet player Dave Guy.

You might know Guy as a member of the Dap Kings and Menahan Street Band, which likely led Dujeous to linking with Sharon Jones for their sophomore album's catchy-as-hell single, "Spectacular." Said album, Day In Day Out, also finds the group teaming with the likes of John Legend and Immortal Technique.

You might think that such attention-commanding voices might overpower those of their hosts. But it's actually quite the opposite. Jones, Tech, and Legend perfectly complement Dujeous vocalists Mojo, Mas D, and Rheturik across the brass-and-bass grooves here. If you like your boom-bap with a strong dose of funk, jazz, and soul, you shouldn't be sleeping on Day In Day Out. 

To check out the whole review and stream the album in full, click here. And if you haven't copped Day In Day Out yet, click here (after slapping yourself).

Yours,

The Duj

DIDO RELEASE PARTY AMAZING-NESS

Thanks so much to all who came out to break bread with us (see above) for the epic DAY IN DAY OUT release party last night. Neil Armstrong, DJ Parler and DJ Concerned for spinning—you guys killed it. Our brother Dave Guy. Colin Brown, Cru Jones and Mobius Collective. Ryan West for fixing the sound (he mixed Day In Day Out too—give the man his propers). Ryan Littman for the videography. Drom for being great hosts. Akir and Jigsaw for the epic intro speech (yall are cray-cray). Peace to Apex's tuner for being broken (Mercury is in retrograde, right?). Everyone we're forgetting. And most of all peace to every single person in that crowd. Love yall.'

Here's a little clip of Dave Guy killing it courtesy of the amazin' Chevon and the Necktie Revolution.  

More video and pictures to come once we get them all together.

Did you guys get to buy Day In Day Out yet? Click here to cop it for just $7.99 on iTunes. 

Yours,
The Duj