One More Crate is just what the name says: one more collection of old records for you to get with and explore. In this case, were raiding our own creations, pulling some joints that wont make the album, some that will (although possibly in another form) and some joints that we love. One More Crate is also our mission statement, and the drive that fuels our love of vinyl collecting. I dont care how long youve been in the store, flea market, basement, garage sale, were not leaving if theres one more crate.

DJ Ian Head and I have been collaborating for years, ever since we were introduced by mutual friend, musical (and personal) fam Subtext. But the birth of Dolla Bin came not from the collaborations, but from the record shopping. Dropping rhymes over Ians ridiculous beats was the shit, but I kept turning around to ask about his crates, look through the stacks and trying to tag along when he shopped. So as the friendship grew with the crates, so too do did the music we were making. As we press down the home stretch of finishing a full-length Dolla Bin album, we decided to stop and let you check One More Crate of what weve been working on.

Beatin Em The first line popped in my head on my way to class, and the rest followed in the middle of lecture (with apologies to Dr. Ingersoll). I ran home, scanned through the files of criminally un-used Ian Head beats and dropped the vocals. I love this joint because I was able to salvage a great line Id never used (Now they like the morning moon), but heads geek off me styling out at the end go figure

Beautiful In a lot of ways, this is the birth of Dolla Bin. Back in 2002(3?) I was coming out of a rough patch personally and came through Brooklyn and heard this beat it was over. Perfect. Its a personal record, but people seem to really feel it. That response let us know that we could do some special shit when were on the same page, and theres your Dolla.

Oh One of the new generation of Ian Head beats. Amazing. Dudes getting so sick with the arrangements. Theres a vocal version, but its gonna take some more work before it meets the standard of this instrumental. Enjoy.

S.A.T. (Serve All Toys) We laid this right after deciding on the name. Its an old concept playing off of my name (Verbal and Math happen to be the two main sections of the S.A.T. nerdy as fuck) but keeping that classic hip-hop style and language. Ians beat was so battle ready I had to come with the punch lines. Not an album cut, but one of the better of our cast-off songs. The second verse is the realness catch all the references and you get a Dolla (hint, buy Style Wars and youre halfway there).

Heavyweights Ian is a secret weapon on the mic. This is his concept and chorus, and he wrote his verse in the beginning (w/ drops for my fill-ins) and sent it to me to finish. Heavyweights is the essence of Dolla Bin getting in them crates wherever they are. Can you tell I was listening to a lot of Doom at the time? Check the delivery. My man Big Piece one told me you have to bite in order to get good, but damn!

Infatuated Sometimes less is more and this short, one verse joint from our early sessions is a perfect example. As a whole song, this love letter to vinyl (thinly disguised as a woman) could have been lame. Spit it and quit it. You gotta know when to shut the hell up. Like now.

Pragmatic All about the beat. One of my all-time favorite Ian Head beats. I salvaged half of a discarded verse and came up with one of my favorite choruses. I do hate self-righteous underground grandstanding but hopefully this avoids being heavy-handed. Pragmatic is the sound of Dolla Bin finding ourselves musically. You can just feel the pieces falling together sometimes

Bonus Track Freestyled to a beat to hip Ian to a song idea, and the freestyle took on a life of its own. Cooking eggs.