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…
Oct 28 2022
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…
Oct 26 2022
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…
Jul 25 2022
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…
Read moreJun 24 2022
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! …
Jun 3 2022
Iggy and The Stooges at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, April 19, 2011. Photo by Doug Coombe
Dec 10 2021
“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"…
Read moreNov 29 2021
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…
Read moreApr 27 2021
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…
Read moreApr 12 2021
"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…
Mar 15 2021
In October 2020, we met up in Southern California for our second retreat…
Read moreJan 25 2021
Historical moment for the AML crew!!
The Mic League celebrates the opening of Story, Word, Sound, Sway (SWSS) an 11 person exhibition of black alumni at the University of Michigan Penny Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor. Co-curated…
Read moreNov 1 2020
Photo: Trilogybeats
"I'm the future
you can't plan for
that's pregnant
with a vanguard
leave you where you
stand while
I'm a walking landmark
Walk until i'm grandpa
gold coffin
in a black car
loft in the afterlife
laughing with…
Oct 28 2020
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Shot by @trilogybeats313 / Edited by @bdamon004 for Aux Cinema (@aux_cinema)⠀
Oct 23 2020
Photo : Trilogybeats
"I heard that
what you live by
you die by
in conversations
so don't be surprised
if I die
from heart complications
Been a long walk since
cutting and pasting
generated tones to
owning P - Basses…
Sep 24 2020
[released 2008, recorded in 2007]
Around this time, my crew Athletic Mic League used to have music meetings on Sundays at DJ Haircut's (bka Mayer Hawthorne) apartment.…
Sep 10 2020
Photo : Trilogybeats
"If he tries to
bite the style
I don't care
if the kids, teachers, and clerks
liked his smile
I'll still sheath
knife the child
Keep a sharp remark
hidden underneath
the fitted
someone once tried to …
Aug 10 2020
This is one of several sessions during the Richmond Retreat, featuring the The Lab Tech production crew behind the AML sound. In this episode, Me and 3Steez bounce off each other, while trying to recreate a jam session from the…
Read moreJun 22 2020
🎥: Trilogybeats & 14KT
On the dawn of a looming worldwide pandemic Athletic Mic League held an epic 4 day retreat at Wes’s creative compound. This was the first time in over 15 years my crew were able…
Read moreMay 25 2020
This was the second night at our week-long AML retreat back in March. Trés had been asking me to play a beat all day that I was working on late the night before. Sometimes when I make what I…
Read moreFeb 26 2020
This happened around December 1999' and Jan 2000'.
I was living in Jersey City, NJ with a few of my AML members at the time.
My brother Tres Styles was always hustling and hitting up networking events out in…
Read moreJun 22 2019
"Two unclothed teenagers
sit in a room
dude on top
missionary position assumed
her feelings submerged
in the rhythm
of you
and the boom
box
but just another
pair of boots knocking
to you
nervous as the truth watches
legs…
May 26 2019
"Once again
another AML testament
the curtains rise
drama disguised
no choice but leaving
hard surmises
MIDAS'll vocalize the setting
wetting the Jedi
for weak competing
med-i-c's
is what you're getting
for calling out
the seven brethren
unexpecting to see…
Jan 15 2019
"Can you hear me?
Are you listening?
I am the voice
who fought silence
to make statements
a minority
That's how you rate greatness?
light-skin but still
looked at
as the strange tint
reminiscent of
rapes, trades, ships…
Oct 16 2018
"I've seen revolution since
1936
when Jessie Owens was leading the world's battle
against Hitler
You listening nigga?
naw, run it back
I've seen revolution in
the seed of Harry Edwards
1968
the revolt of the black athlete
when John…
Aug 11 2018
"Hip-hop is like a second nature
ever since utensils and paper
skills was never rated
over dollar signs and money makers
players to player haters,
hip-hop was never negative
battling competitive
forget drugs and spitting lead to live
In the…