From M.anifest: Here’s a song I’m liberating from the vaults, “rocking steady,” produced by Twin Cities producer extraordinaire Benzilla . It’s about that  time of the year where each one of us gets all contemplative about our simple, complex, joyous, and wretched lives :). Just thought to do mine in song. This song will be [...]

[youtube]9mOgtlqmRPY[/youtube] M.anifest today sent out a new track “More Vim” & footage from his trip back to Ghana, read on for his update: Greetings Folks, Still in Ghana battling power cuts, walking dusty roads and defying 3rd world traffic. Here’s a nicely cooked video from director Justin Schell recapping  our 2nd week adventures here filming [...]

[youtube]hRU4VgAJLwQ[/youtube] “We Rock Long Distance” tells the story of three Minnesota hip-hop artists with roots far beyond the state’s borders: M.anifest, Tou SaiK Lee, and Maria Isa. For more information, visit werocklongdistance.com The remix of M.anifest’s “Golly Gosh” is produced by Ghanaian producer, Dj Juls. The original is featured on M.anifest’s mixtape The Birds And [...]

From Muja Messiah’s M-16′s comes “Live To Die Another Day” featuring M.anifest and an ‘assist’ from Lil Wayne ft. Eminem’s “Drop The World”. M-16′s is available from tomorrow (September 14th), preorder now via Fifth Element.

M.anifest says: Been a while since i liberated free music. Here’s one from the vaults: “if i was king” feat Krukid and Produced by Blastah Beatz  (Busta Rhymes, Joe Budden, Aloe Blacc, etc). It will be featured on my next mixtape freetape for cheapskates which will be released later this year. Find M.anifest at Manifestmc.com

Listen: A.R.M. – As We Enter (A.R.M. Remix) A.R.M. comes through with a horn laced remix of Nas & Damian Marley’s As We Enter. Budo, Krukid & M.anifest dropped their EP 2 Africans And A Jew this week (find the purchase link below) & now come through with “a not-so-distant relatives spin to the song.” [...]

Another release from M.anifest’s upcoming Birds and the Beats project. This time, he calls on 17-year-old G Mo to lace the pulsing, whooshing, triumphant instrumental. This young beatsmith has been producing since before his freshman year of high school, and laid down a third of the tracks on M.anifest’s debut album at the age of [...]

Africa-to-Minneapolis transplant M.anifest comes through with the first single from his for-free album The Birds & the Beats set for release on his birthday, November 20. The album was initially meant to be a retail release of twelve original tracks, he has since added two covers, one being this rendition of Shafiq Husayn’s track “The [...]

Minnesota production crew 4Shades recently dropped their new album Ubiquity and have made it available as a free download. The four man crew, made up of O-D, Katrah-Quey, G-Mo and M.anifest, have put together a solid album of instrumentals, remixes, and some exclusive joints. Check it out over at Soul Virgo Pharmaceuticals.