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Oct 28 2022

Athletic Mic League album Playground Legends, vol. 2 available now!

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…

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Oct 26 2022

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "AML Day" verse

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…

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Jul 25 2022

AML Sweats & Kicks 20 Years later!

 

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…

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Jun 24 2022

AML Family Reunion 22'! Celebrating the 20 - Year Anniversary of our debut album, Sweats & Kicks!

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!  …

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Jun 3 2022

"Last Night a Camera Saved My Life: The Photography of Doug Coombe"

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.

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Dec 10 2021

“First AN10NA” - New AML short film directed by Sterling Toles!⠀

“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"…

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Nov 29 2021

Athletic Mic League "Complications" (Official Video)

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…

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Apr 27 2021

14KT reflecting on over 20+ Years of Beats!!

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…

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Apr 12 2021

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "Unconscious" verse

 


"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…

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Mar 15 2021

Athletic Mic League "Winners Win" (Official Video)

 

AML "Winners Win"  off the new Athletic Mic League album, Playground Legends Vol. 1

Video shot by Trilogy Beats & Pen Frank   
Edited by Will Fairbanks ⠀

 

In October 2020, we met up in Southern California for our second retreat…

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Jan 25 2021

Athletic Mic League in "Ann Arbor Undercommons" Art Exhibition!

 

 

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…

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Nov 1 2020

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "The Vanguard" Verse

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…

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Oct 28 2020

Athletic Mic League "Hold My Hand" (Official Video)

 

The first single off the New Athletic Mic League album in 15 YEARS!!! 🙌🏾

AML "Hold My Hand" - [prod by 14KT]

⠀  
Shot by @trilogybeats313 / Edited by @bdamon004 for Aux Cinema (@aux_cinema)⠀

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Oct 23 2020

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "Complications" Verse

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…

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Sep 24 2020

Invincible "Sledgehammer" (Official Video) 

[released 2008, recorded in 2007]
 

Directed by Kareem Edouard 

Produced by 14KT & Haircut of the Lab Techs


Around this time, my crew Athletic Mic League used to have music meetings on Sundays at DJ Haircut's (bka Mayer Hawthorne) apartment.…

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Sep 10 2020

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "Hold My Hand" Verse

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 …

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Aug 10 2020

In The Lab w/ The Lab Techs Ep 2- Richmond Sessions Pt. 2

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…

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Jun 22 2020

In The Lab w/ The Lab Techs Ep 1- Richmond Sessions Pt. 1

🎥: 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…

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May 25 2020

The Making of Athletic Mic League "Hold My Hand" 

 

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…

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Feb 26 2020

Big Pun's "It's So Hard"

 

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…

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Jun 22 2019

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "RU???" verse

 

 

"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…

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May 26 2019

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "Memorial Day" verse ( First ever "beef" record on wax)

 




"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…

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Jan 15 2019

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "The Declaration" Verse



 

"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…

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Oct 16 2018

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "Heavy Medal" verse

 

 


"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…

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Aug 11 2018

Yo! KT Raps? - Athletic Mic League "HHQ" verse




"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…

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