“What began as a humble, hour long dig-diary is now a vital, vinyl ritual, complete with it’s own cult following, monthly party and award-winning logo. We begin our 3rd year of Cratery with a 2nd. The 2nd official edition of Dollarate: our post-holiday guide to wallet-friendly digging. Theoretically, the records on this month’s podcast are all records that you should be able to find for $10 and under. Please don’t be that dude that drops $20 on Fancy’s Wild thing LP in the Cosmos beats and breaks section. As usual, Kaewonder, Serious and I go one-for-one on some dollar bin heat that just might have you sifting through a stack of Roger Whittaker/Nana Mouskouri/Mantovani records at the local Goodwill you’d all but given up on. Don’t forget to join us for Cratery Live: This Saturday February 5th and the first Saturday of every month at Red Light (1185 Dundas St west).” - ARCEE

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Famous and Rich Kidd team up to do justice to a beat from Burd & (the late, great) Keyz.

DOWNLOAD:  Famous f/ Rich Kidd – Slow Down (Prod. Burd & Keyz [R.I.P]) (DJ PACK) (MP3s) / WAVs

PREVIOUSLY: Rez Raida f/ Famous – Gittin’ Bizzy (Prod. Rich Kidd)

Circle clique member Ro Dolla drops off some new heat to keep everybody from dying from hypothermia around these parts.

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DOWNLOAD: Ro Dolla – On The Run

PREVIOUSLY: Ro Dolla – Money (Unofficial Remix) (Prod. Boi-1da)

This beat slaps hard, shouts to T-Minus, who has been killing it as of late!

PREVIOUSLY: T.I. f/ Drake – Poppin’ Bottles (Prod. T-Minus)

PREVIOUSLY: Luu Breeze f/Vado – Makin’ A Killin’ (Prod. T-Minus)

Not that crazy about this joint (maybe it’ll grow on me), but definitely dope to see Wiz hook up with the original West Coast pimp, Too Short.

PREVIOUSLY: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa – That Good (Prod. Cardo On The Beat) (VIDEO)

Yet another leak from Smoke DZA‘s upcoming sophomore LP, “T.H.C. (The Hustler’s Catalog)”.

DOWNLOAD: Smoke DZA f/ Kendrick Lamar – Uptown81 (Prod. Hit-Boy)

PREVIOUSLY: Smoke DZA – The Early Days of George (Prod. Hi-Tek)

Kendrick Lamar‘s labelmate Schoolboy Q hooks up with Toronto producer Lord Quest for a joint that is featured on his new album “Setbacks”.

PREVIOUSLY: Schoolboy Q f/ Alori Joh – Phenomenon (VIDEO)

PREVIOUSLY: Schoolboy Q f/ Kendrick Lamar & CurT@!n$ – Live Again (VIDEO)

Miles Jones drops a dope viral video to the remix of his Boi-1da-assisted original joint originally found on his recently-released debut LP “Runaway Jones”. Video directed byAaron Alleyne and Miles Jones.

PREVIOUSLY: Miles Jones – Never Wrong (MIXTAPE)

S.A.R.S Mixtape founder and Fifth Letter Fam member T.R.A gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at some of Canada’s up-and-coming talent in his new webisode series. In the first installment, we get a look at Fifth Letter Fam/Freedom Writers emcee Adam Bomb’s new video “My People” (produced and directed by Big Sproxx), Tona‘s new video for “Blue Shield”,  a quick 16 from newcomer Caliph, and some commentary from D-Sisive about his latest video. All the gentlemen also give updates on their respective upcoming projects.

PREVIOUSLY: Tha Rhyme Animal – Tha Realness (Prod. Amir Da Terrorist) (VIDEO)