Honored and excited to be a part of the The Gene Brown Beatdown in Charlotte, North Carolina!

Blumenthal Performing Arts Center 
Saturday January 7, 2023 
08:00 PM - 12:00 am 

All Ages  
Cover: $35.00  
Various Cover: $35 - $40  
Cover…

Several years ago, I was watching Ken Burns’ documentary miniseries Jazz. In the documentary, one of my favorite moments is when the legendary composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington is asked where he gets his ideas from.

I…

Athletic Mic League - Playground Legends, vol. 2 album

Happy AML Day ya'll!

🔊 "AML Day" off the new Athletic Mic league album, Playground Legends Vol. 2 available now on AML Day, October 28th!!


Once again, the Mic League Music…

Aww look at y'all 
still kinda looking like  
in high school 
gentlemen still riddling 
for the sake of rhyming 
pour up that Uncle Nearest small batch  
perfect timing  
now that's what I called Ergonomic
(Aye) 
AML equals legacy 
let it…

On this day, 20 summers ago, my crew Athletic Mic League released our very first debut album, Sweats & Kicks. With this album, we were determined to make our mark in this rap game. We learned alot putting this together…

remix off the XP The Marxman x DJ Rhettmatic x DJ D-Styles Pacific Standard Time album. 

Shout out to DJ D-Styles and DJ Rhettmatic of The Beat Junkies crew for allowing me to be apart of this project!
Much love…

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕄𝕃 𝔽𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟 
ᴄᴇʟᴇʙʀᴀᴛᴇ ᴀ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɢᴇs! 👑 

𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬‌: 
The 1st Annual “𝔸𝕄𝕃 𝔽𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟” Weekend!  

𝕁𝕦𝕝𝕪 𝟙𝕤𝕥 - The Mic League Kings take over the 
 “After Work Party” at 8ball in Ann Arbor!  …

Happy Juneteenth! 

This is a new joint off our upcoming full-length album we are working on bringing to ya'll. 
It was an honor to be a part of and create…

New video: MED x Guilty Simpson “The Hundreds” featuring the legendary Kokane from their 2019 collaborative project Child Of The Jungle.

Produced by 14KT

Video shot by DDT

Easy Mo Bee. 
One of the chop KINGS in this game 👑

This man has made classics from heavyweights like Big Daddy Kane, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G, LL Cool J, Craig Mack, Busta Rhymes, Das Efx, Nas, Marley Marl, The…

Iggy and The Stooges at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, April 19, 2011. Photo by Doug Coombe

"Music and photography ended up providing me with a community, a career, and also completed me in a way," he says.

Major love, congratulations, and blessings to my brotha Ray "Trilogybeats" Rogers!!

His photography work was included in "The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion" exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts (D.I.A)!!

I am truly honored to be…

It's been 11 years now since my Dad passed and I miss him. Today I wondered how he would have reacted to his son becoming a father this year? I wondered what jokes and advice he would've shared...what words he…

World premiere!

One of my favorites songs and future west coast classic.

THURZ & 14KT "Salt Water" 

PIMLR Sessions

Wali Ali Jr. on Talk Box
Brian Hargrove on Keys
Zyah Belle: Additional vocals 

Backed by special guests :Jimetta Rose, Steven

“First AN10NA” - Directed by Sterling Toles⠀

“First AN10NA” is short film shot and edited by artist, musician, producer, and AML extended fam Sterling Toles. It features the songs "Finish Line" and also "Complications" and "Cosmos"…

Produced by myself and that's also me rhyming on the first verse.

Teamed up with my AML brother Vaughan Tego on this one.

"Complications" appears on Athletic Mic League Playground Legends, Vol. 1

Video Animated by: Eric Horvath

Shout out…

"96' gon be that year" - Big Boi (of Outkast)

These are some of the records I had in my cassette deck or "new" CD player 25 years ago. Legal or illegal I copped these joints when they dropped 😅.

…

🔊 Miz Korona "42 (Jackie Rob)" ft. Guilty Simpson 

Ayo! I finally got to connect with my Detroit sister Miz Korona on a banger. Shout out to my brotha Guilty Simpson on the joint too!

“Honestly the…

This was the first year I was blessed with the opportunity to attend DJ Jazzy Jeff's Playlist Retreat August of 2016.

First of all, I got to say thank you to DJ Jazzy Jeff for reaching out and inviting…

(Jay Electronica, Jay-Z 2014)

[released December 1, 2008] 

Jay Electronica "Swagger Jackson's Revenge"   

2007-08'

One of my favorite most random collaborations in my career to date. I remember I first heard about Jay Electronica through MySpace. Many knew his…

1999.

I was about 18 years old living that young Jersey City, NJ apartment life. Five of us from AML lived in that apartment together. Jamall, Tres, Vaughan, Wes, and myself. I shared a room with Vaughan T (Texture…

[released October 28, 2011]

Bun B "The Life"  

Lyrics by Bun B  
Addl' vocals by 14KT

Recorded at Red Bull Studios, Santa Monica, California

Ten years ago.

It was a wild year for me. I lost my…

"The first thing
my mom said to me
when I got baptized was
"Do you feel any different?"
I replied
with motionless emotion
I said and felt nothing
but little did I know
something strange took place 
everything started to…

Nipsey Hussle "Down As A Great" [14KT OG RMX]

I made this joint December 29th, 2018. I was bumping Slauson Boy 2 towards the end of the year - getting myself motivated for the New Year. I chose to remix…

This is one of my favorite Hiphop albums for so many different reasons, but I just want to share what I remember the day I bought this on CD.

Something interesting happened. I was living with my AML fam…