Metal Lungies

ML’s 6th Beat Drop installment, focusing on Just Blaze, will be up on the site this Friday. No special guests this time around, but plenty of special music.

Barring some Christmas miracle, this will likely be the last Beat Drop of the year, but look for Beat Drops in the near future on more of hip hop’s most famed beatmakers — among them J Dilla, RZA, Kanye West (on that note, R.I.P. to Dr. Donda West, who certainly seemed like a great person based on Kanye’s references to her), and the Neptunes. Also, we’ll be doing some Beat Drop posts focused not on current producers, but on artists from past generations — Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Roger Troutman and Zapp, just to name a few — focusing on their classic music and the hip hop tracks that have sampled them. ML was like heaven in ’07, and we’re going to be great in ’08! [Pardon the cheesiness of that last sentence — I was trying to channel my inner-Busta-Rhymes-on-“Scenario”-remix.]

So, why am I bigging up ML so much right now? To provide a perfect segway to this… Hey! Nielsen & Billboard.com have nominated us, along with several other blogs, for their Best Music Blog contest. To all our readers who will click the hell out of any zShare links we post but will only leave comments when we screw up — Just playing, y’all! It’s all love! — feel free to give us your vote at your earliest convenience. We’ll make sure that you’re properly compensated… with quality posts and great music. Hey, it’s almost as good as money!