Here’s some background for this song :

Bey and Electronica drop bars and Lucy Liu narrates, while The Bullitts, who is also working on The Great Gatsby soundtrack with Jay-Z, is actually musician, filmmaker, writer and producer Jeymes Samuel. The song served as the inspiration for a short film Samuels created called They Die By Dawn. “‘They Die By Dawn’ is the definitive sound of the Bullitts,” Jeymes told Rolling Stone, which premiered the track. “It’s the epitome of what I call ‘creating from the hip.'”

The movie is Western and features a sick cast that includes Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, Isaiah Washington and Rosario Dawson. The film is accompanied by an album, titled They Die By Dawn and Other Short Stories, which is due in stores June 4th via Kilburn Lane Music.

Yasiin Bey also performed the song live:

There’s also a trailer too:

Spotted at Hip Hop Wired

Mannie Fresh and Yasiin Bey started working on a project and later named the LP OMFGOD. In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Mannie Fresh says the LP has been completed. The two are going the independent route in releasing LP, and will contain 10 songs.

“We recorded way more than that. But rather than to [just] have somebody say like, ‘Oh, wow’ – I think a lot of times when you do that you throw away music. So, I just wanna give people like ten bangers and let’s be out. Some of those songs, I feel like we should just throw [them] out there. I’m that dude that think of songs to sample that no cats would ever think of. That’s one of ’em. And, given the response … I always read from bloggers what they checkin’ out, and people are like, ‘Dude, that song right there [is the one].’ But if it don’t [make the album], believe me, we gonna put it out. ‘Cause I mean, it would be a waste [if we didn’t].”

Mannie Fresh also revealed that he has a song deal with Kanye West. He says they have done alot of songs, but it’s Kanye’s decision whether or not we get to hear them.

“I got a good song deal with G.O.O.D. Music,” he noted. “A perfect song deal, that pays a lot. But, I just chose not to be signed because that don’t work for me.”

“We did a lot of songs, but ultimately it’s on Kanye, what he picks,” explained Mannie of why the roughly half-dozen other songs he was involved in creating with Kanye’s crew have yet to see the light of day. “I’m not the boss at G.O.O.D. Music, but I can say I got paid well. I would have loved for some of the other songs to make it, but ultimately it’s Kanye’s choice.”

Shouts to The NQM

Mos Def  Yasiin Bey has a good way of flipping a track on some real ish.  Using Chief Keef’s track “I Don’t Like” Bey spits something the people need to hear. Let’s see if cats actually catch the jewels in this one.

Thanks to Hypetrak for putting this up