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Yesterday, New Orleans-bred DJ Quickie Mart released the third volume in his smoke-filled series of hip-hop albums, Haze Diaries, with rapper Gotham Green. Quickie Mart produced the beats on 11 of the record’s 18 tracks, as well as providing turntable scratches and recording the entire album.

Haze Diaries Vol. 3 provides an ideal sun-soaked soundtrack for the summertime, with cloudy soul, jazz and soundtrack samples riding on bouncy drumbeats that sound equally good in a car with the windows down as from speakers turned outside in a window above a July barbecue.

This is the music video for the album’s first single, “LA to JFK” (with guest MC, El Prez). The album can be previewed at Bandcamp and purchased here.