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Last night, the Deputy performed his hit at the Elegant Hoodness Showcase inside the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. Child of The Ghetto was a definite sleeper. *Harlem shakes*

Props: DJ Wonder

Here’s something found by the good folks at The FADER.

“I made this mix because people sleep on DJ Quik. Maybe they’ve

breadth or depth of his talent. “— Matthew Africa

East Coast bias-ness > The Swine Flu. *downloads now*  Tracklist after the jump.

You heard the man, download here.

Props: J. Tinsley 

Interview: Tracy Garraud

Call 21-year-old Jeremih an R&B singer and he’ll smack you with a smirk. The Chicago native only recently discovered his talents as a vocalist and by recently we mean less than a year ago. While his cousin Willie got his man-band on auditioning for Day 26, Jeremih was busy experimenting with engineering science, instrumentation—and what do you know—rapping. But after transferring to Kanye’s drop-out school, Columbia College, Jeremih solidified his passion in music and when Chi-town caught on, everyday started feeling like a birthday. Currently perfecting his Def Jam debut, Jeremih talks to Rap Radar about the current era of R&B, how he created a radio monster and who’s birthday cake he’d like to taste.

RR: Congrats on the single reaching #1 on iTunes for R&B. That’s a real good look.
Yeah, thank you, thank you. It’s crazy to see how things are going right now.

Yeah, you’re receiving plenty of love super early…
Man, this has only been a matter of months. I wrote the song and recorded it in September of ‘08 and it was October 31st when they first played it in Chicago.

I heard that you just went in to the radio station and asked them to play it?
Well in Chicago they offer a power hour of local talent. They played it back to back like it was a new R. Kelly track. And they were still mispronouncing my name, but I didn’t care (laughs). Then my manager, Louis, gave it to the Hot Boyz from Power 92, who said that by that night their lines were just filled with calls talking about who’s this new “Birthday Sex” dude and from that day on it was more of a reaction record because people would call in every day and be like it’s my birthday.

Ha! Did you have that in mind when you were writing the song…that it could work every day?
I mean some people like it, for it’s sexiness, for it’s words, for it’s content, but some people like it for just it’s composition, for it sounding just like a good ass song. I didn’t think about it when I was writing it, but you’re right, it’s a birthday every day.

How does your mother feel about you having a song called “Birthday Sex?”
(laughs) She sings it now. At the end of the day she knows…

…You’re a grown ass man.
Yeah, and who doesn’t love to have sex? I mean that’s how she had me (laughs). But I managed to write the song, have the title, and have the radio play it, so that means a lot and that it really wasn’t that vulgar. It wasn’t on some, “let me put my dick in you.” I was able to write it more with metaphors and that’s how I write period. 

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OK one mo’ for now. This is strictly for the ladies. YN’s smoothin’ you out on a Monday morning, y’all. 

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Here comes the beginning and the end. Black Star came out to the Ohio Players break and got their “Brooklyn’s Finest” on before launching into “Astronomy (8th Light)”. After the jump, they close things out with “Respiration”. Don’t fret I got more footage. What’d you like to see?