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…

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!  …

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.

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…

"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…

Listen: 14KT "The Power of Same" ft. Muhsinah (Tall Black Guy Remix) 

Listen: Tall Black Guy  "I Will Never Know" ft. Moonchild (14KT IAMABEENIE Remix)

First Word Records celebrates their 15th Anniversary continuing it's series of special collaborative releases with…

"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…

"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…

"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…

"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…

"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…

"Fall fall into my left
(what?)
No, right hand
the baton
(yeah)
no time for stuttering
or fumbling
they'll think i'm cumbersome
to relay with speed
others that look at me
see nothing
but a haze of a beam
strutting…

Elijah McCoy is one my favorite inventors. He was an inventor most famous for patenting an automatic lubricator for train engines also known as the "Oil Drip Cup" in 1872. As a kid, Elijah's story first connected with me…

photos: Trilogybeats

KT: I haven't rhymed in a long time
you know what I'm sayin' so.. 
I feel I got something to say.. 

Ro Spit: I think you should say it.. 

KT: so ima say it like

"Tell me something
what do ya'll get
when you take Hip-Hop
with Jazz music
fuse it 
into an abstract movement
in one union
(a vibe)
my moms put me onto it
the same
A Tribe Called Q
and Gangstarr used…

The rhythm taking you to another place (repeats)

The
Sky
Children
Are
Here
Move-
Ment
Has
Be
Gun!

"Yo, from now on
songs are on 
The 
film now showing
with movies screens 
in the
Sky
Tarzaning between dreams
that call…

"Love
yeah
I must've spoke of the word
a couple times around her
but I used the word in a sense
of surrounding her, but
far from drowning her
still I found myself
playing her closer than
my position
was…

"Open your eyes
nothing but sunshine
and fun plans
to hit up every swimming pool party
and summer jam
travel down to southern land
seeing black women in outfits
the size of rubberbands
no question
I love it man
women…

"Nods to your earnings
and your doings
the only day i'll see things
on your terms
is your viewing
though chances I blow up
show up 
Calvin Klein skinny
my weight when the pen 
touches the line
mirrors the feeling…

The Promised Land by Willie Nash

For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world
and this is the victory that overcometh the world
even our faith

I John 5:4

"Speaking of verse four
I speak of a verse
for…

" Eyes closed
closed in on
a legendary road
revolved around the most
legible prose
several pros
have made the grade
many retired
still never known
for how they played
whether home
or away
behold the day
ya'll see the…

"You were taught to work hard
and success was in the pocket
but not that
you could still work hard
and not get
clocks tick
time and money
run aquatic
through the hands
profit
one day you don't
one day…

"They eyeing me
seeing that a blessing 
is eye level to a weapon
seeking possession of it
covetous for their own
method
can't pick up the phone
antennas lift out the domes
of those fishing for answers
how'd you get…