New York-based clothing company Milkcrate Athletics has announced its latest collaboration, this time with Interscope Records. The veteran line created by deejay/producer Aaron Lacrate plays off of the label symbol, and vintage test-pressing logo from vinyl. At Summer Jam, Black Hippy’s Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar, signed to Interscope, helped model the line.
This follows Milkcrate’s collaborations with Mobb Deep, Pete Nice and others.
In other news, Fifth Element, the Minneapolis, Minnesota retail affiliate of Rhymesayers Entertainment has released Collaboration’s The Key. This digital compilation features Doomtree’s Cecil Otter, Masai Bey, Illogic and I-20. Also available on iTunes, a Soundcloud of the work is available.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1)Plain Ole Bill featuring DJ Name (Wide Eyes)-Collaboration’s The Key (Input)
2)Primecut featuring Masai Bey & Open Mike Eagle-Dig Days
3)Optiks featuring Murdoc & Chief Kamachi-The Real
4)Stefon BIONIK Taylor featuring Mr Gene Poole & DisputeOne-Raw Energy
5)DJ Todda featuring I.B.E-I Just Wanna Know
6)GMO featuring Longshot-Fruits Of Labor
7)Definition Baroque featuring Jbux-Free Pen
8)JEL featuring Swam (Solillaquists Of Sound), NoCanDo, & X:144-Gun Em Down
9)X:144 featuring MaLLy & Scheme, & DJ SPS-Pre-War Requisite (Sacred Art)
10)Dimitry Killstorm featuring DJ Snuggles-SnuggleStorm
11)Bobby Raps & Medium Zach featuring Big Quarters-Best Case Scenario
12)O-D featuring K Raydio-It Will Be
13)Katrah-Quey featuring Greg Grease-Dance In The Morning
14)Benzilla featuring Midwest Konnect-The Plague
15)DJ Pain 1 featuring I-20 & Joshua Gunn-Mean
16)King Otto featuring Silas Blak-Rap Miranda
17)Julian Fairbanks (Audio Perm) featuring Sean Anonymous (Wide Eyes)-Seat’s Taken
18)Blockhead featuring Illogic-Cherry Moon
19)Cecil Otter featuring Illustrate (Grey Matter)-Cool Runnings
20)Mike Swoop featuring So-Leen-Come Closer
21)Kool Akiem Featuring Jimmy TwoTimes & Noam The Drummer-Collaboration’s The Key (Output)
