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Before Spotify, and before Napster; those of us with an appetite for weirdo, left-field, alternative, underground hip hop would trade dubbed cassette tapes through janky Angelfire-built websites. Connecting w/ eachother via chat rooms like AOL's "Hip Hop Music'', SOHH (Search Online Hip Hop), UGHH.com; or on message boards like the Living Legends forum, the Heiro message board, the Anticon message board, LA2THEBAY forum. We’d spend hours scouring websites like HipHopSite.com and ThaLandz.com for RealAudio files of new underground hip hop; and pour over new releases at online retailers like Access Music, Sandbox Automatic, and B-Boy Kingdom; always looking for the most obscure rare underground rap tapes. A lot of music from that era never made it onto streaming. This show is dedicated to the lost golden age of underground hip hop & the internet. Enjoy.

7 Aurelius

7 Aurelius

7 Aurelius has been played on NTS shows including Quiet Storm, with Thugz Mansion (7 Remix) first played on 9 August 2013.

7 Aurelius, ‘Sev’ as his good friends call him, is no stranger to making music. He came up through Rap-A-Lot Records where he layed down thick beats for gangsta rappers in Houston, Texas. He considers his time there as a “boot camp” of sorts because it was there he learned the ropes and was taught the game. Although nothing spectacular was ever released, it was still vital experiences that helped shape, train and prepare him for the next level.

In 2001, Seven’s life would change forever after a chance meeting with Murder Inc. label head, Irv Gotti. He met Gotti at a party and began connecting with some ideas. Seven would move to NY to work with Murder Inc. and ultimately be catapulted to the big leagues. Under Gotti’s wing Sevev began banging out tracks for Ashanti’s “Always on Time” and “Foolish” then he laid down the music for J-Lo and Ja Rule’s “I’m Real.” Those tracks would earn him a name in the industry as a hot major player and sought after producer.

Since then Seven has earned the title as ‘The King Of Divas,’ and has worked with some of the biggest names in R&B, from Janet Jackson to J-Lo and Alicia Keys to Ashanti he has helped shape their material into pop music masterpieces. His secret behind his tracks he says, “you just gotta stir it up. You definitely gotta stir it up sometimes just to get it poppin.’ I custom fit the tracks to fit the artist, I want my sound to be unpredictable and I want it to form fit the artist. Ultimately, I’m just the stage and there the star, they shine. I just want to be the best stage for them, to showcase them and make them look their best.”

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7 Aurelius

7 Aurelius has been played on NTS shows including Quiet Storm, with Thugz Mansion (7 Remix) first played on 9 August 2013.

7 Aurelius, ‘Sev’ as his good friends call him, is no stranger to making music. He came up through Rap-A-Lot Records where he layed down thick beats for gangsta rappers in Houston, Texas. He considers his time there as a “boot camp” of sorts because it was there he learned the ropes and was taught the game. Although nothing spectacular was ever released, it was still vital experiences that helped shape, train and prepare him for the next level.

In 2001, Seven’s life would change forever after a chance meeting with Murder Inc. label head, Irv Gotti. He met Gotti at a party and began connecting with some ideas. Seven would move to NY to work with Murder Inc. and ultimately be catapulted to the big leagues. Under Gotti’s wing Sevev began banging out tracks for Ashanti’s “Always on Time” and “Foolish” then he laid down the music for J-Lo and Ja Rule’s “I’m Real.” Those tracks would earn him a name in the industry as a hot major player and sought after producer.

Since then Seven has earned the title as ‘The King Of Divas,’ and has worked with some of the biggest names in R&B, from Janet Jackson to J-Lo and Alicia Keys to Ashanti he has helped shape their material into pop music masterpieces. His secret behind his tracks he says, “you just gotta stir it up. You definitely gotta stir it up sometimes just to get it poppin.’ I custom fit the tracks to fit the artist, I want my sound to be unpredictable and I want it to form fit the artist. Ultimately, I’m just the stage and there the star, they shine. I just want to be the best stage for them, to showcase them and make them look their best.”

Original source Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Hush
LL Cool J, 7 Aurelius
Def Jam Recordings2005
Thugz Mansion (7 Remix)
2Pac feat. Anthony Hamilton (7 Aurelius mix)
Interscope Records2002
Don't Leave Me Alone
Ashanti feat. 7 Aurelius
The INC Records2004