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Kidz In the Hall, comprised of University of Pennsylvania graduates Naledge and Double-O, are set to release The In Crowd with Duck Down Records.  Heres what Double-O had to say about the album: 

fans can expect to hear a tremendous growth with The In Crowd. Our debut was a stepping stone in our movement. The In Crowd is a masterpiece and a concise reflection of our sound, as it’s a bolder and bigger sounding album made for huge shows and cigarette lighters. We have taken our experiences and our year of traveling and performing and morphed it into a true musical experience with some of the best rappers and musicians around—the true In Crowd.

After reading that and checking the list of contributors (Masta Ace, Camp Lo, and Sean Price to name a few) I expected something pretty great.  But, gasp!, it kind of sucks.  Their style is all over the place, with little cohesion to be found within the overall theme.  “Drivin Down the Block,” probably one of the better songs, sounds like a recycled Clipse joint.  “Let Your Hair Down” is going for a more laid back feel, but it just comes off as cheesy and poorly thought out.  And I dont even know what to say about “Lucifer’s Joyride” (Travis McCoy? seriously?).  For me, it was a let down, for sure.  Check it out for yourself (by that I mean buy it on iTunes, obviously).  

The upside of the situation is that El-P went to work on “Drivin Down the Block” and turned a good track into a great song.  

Download: Kidz in the Hall ft. El-P-Drivin Down the Block (Remix)

See Also: Kidz in the Hall-Lemme Show You 

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First single off Khaled’s upcoming We Global. Talk about using the same formula, same South-centric lineup, same synthy Runners beats, but I don’t doubt it will bang in the clubs.

Mp3: DJ Khaled Ft. Rick Ross, Plies, Akon, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hoody & Lil Wayne-We Out Here Grindin (Dirty)

Update: More than one post about DJ Khaled would be obscene, so I’m putting this here. Khaled escapes from the zoo and “performs” his new song for Kanye (via Nah Right). How awkward must it have been to be in that room?

knobbz out.

A true story that happened to me yesterday, had to share.

I’m driving to meet a friend for coffee. I get a little lost and decide to turn to a side street on the left side of the road. I file into the turning lane behind about 20 cars and patiently wait as the cars in front of me slowly turn out of the lane. Eventually there’s only a single car in front of me left, and I’m still waiting for it to turn.

I start to notice the cars behind me crossing over the middle lane just to get to the left side. Frustrated, I take a look at the car in front of me. I notice that there’s no one in the fuckin’ car, just two large dogs sitting in the passenger and driver’s seat! I’m getting really aggravated. I sit and wait for an open spot and while I’m waiting, a kinda haggard looking lady smoking a cigarette crosses the street and climbs into the car in front of me.

Good, I think, she’s going to move it! Apparently not; she just wanted to drop off her box of cigarettes in the car. At this point, I say “fuck it” and drive across the middle lane like everyone else. I should remind you that this lady left her car idling for at least about 10 minutes in a turning lane, during one of the busiest times of the day.

“Shut the fuck up. Detox?” That was my reaction when I read that a track off the long-delayed, mythical Detox album had been leaked. More accurately, it’s a reference track, so it doesn’t even have Dr. Dre’s vocals on it yet. Rather, the vocals are from an artist named Prophet and it’s co-produced by an Atlanta producer named WallStreet. This is the first (or maybe second) actual material we’ve gotten off Detox so far and I can’t help but suspect it’s a hoax. Nevertheless here’s the link, courtesy of 2dopeboyz (the text of the email from the insider who leaked it is there too). Right now, all I can confidently say is, look out for Detox.

Download: Prophet – It’s Like That (reference track for Dr. Dre)

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Gotta love the lousy photoshop. Is that the new Audi that doesn’t cast a shadow?

A new mixtape from New Orleans’ own Curren$y. His chill vibe and smooth voice are the perfect antithesis to your angry east coast rappers and his beat selection is always on point. I was worried when his last mixtape, the west coast themed Higher than 30,000 Feet, didn’t live up to expectation, but Welcome to the Winner’s Circle sees Curren$y moving from airplanes to race cars and it’s fresh from beginning to end. Splitting with Weezy might have been the best thing he ever did. My House = generic/tired/wack

Download: Curren$y – Welcome to the Winner’s Circle

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Got this in the e-mail, straight hilarity.  Back this weekend, I’m clearing out my e-mail box so expect maybe like 32732 entries, tell the family.

The baby diapers is sitting in the back.

At first I thought this was a clip from Miss Rap Supreme.  Then, I thought this girl was a genius (Jeezy should kill George Bush).  But I finally settled on insanity; sweet dance moves though.  

“Drop” was a single released by the Pharcyde, in support of their second album, Labcabincalifornia. It was produced by J Dilla, still going by Jay Dee at the time. Dilla employs his soon-to-be signature crisp, neck-snapping snares and claps. He uses a haunting, spacey backwards sample and a scratched chorus of Ad-Rock from “The New Style”: “Feel the beat….mmmmm…DROP!” I’ll be honest, most of the lyrics to this song don’t really make a lot of sense to me. Nevertheless Bootie Brown kills it, and just reading the lyrics doesn’t do his verse justice:

My name is Bootie Brown and I’m proceeding, leading,
they try to follow but they’re shallow and hollow
I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle, of O.E.
they have no key, or no clue
to the game at all, now they washed up
hung out to dry
standing looking stupid, wondering why
(why man?)
it was the fame (fame!), that they tried to get
now they walking around talkin’ about represent
and keep it real, but I got to appeal
cause they existing in a fantasy when holding the steel

The song also got a fantastic video courtesy of one of my favourite directors, Spike Jonze. If you haven’t seen it before, see if you can figure out what’s going on before the video finishes:

You can read Jonze’s one-page treatment for the video at Delicious Vinyl’s blog, it’s really interesting.

Da Beatminerz did a remix for the song that appears on the  12′ for “Drop”/”Y?”, as pictured at the top of post. The Ad-rock sample remains but it’s placed low in the mix, and there’s a new chorus:

Believe it or not/it’s all divine/I got the super phat shit that will blow your mind

The backwards electronic-sounding sample is gone; instead the remix compliments a filtered bass line with thudding drum hits.  Lyrics are unchanged but the song’s intro and outro is different: Bootie Brown introduces the track as a Beatminerz remix and Tre adlibs a bit at the end.

It’s an interesting take on the track, and in lieu of new Pharcyde material from the original quartet, any material from that era is welcome. Though the original lineup is reuniting for Rock The Bells, maybe new material will come from it. This interview with the group seems to indicate so.

So, you guys gonna make a record?
Slimkid3: We’re gonna go to the lab and work it out. We don’t want to jump the gun, we just want to let it happen.
Is there a lab to go back to?
Slimkid3: Hmm. Uh, I guess we need a lab. Just got back together, uh, yesterday, so… If a lab just so happens to pop up, that would be great.
Fatlip: Yeah. I mean of course it’s hard to say, but the way things have been for the last day, I have to say yes. Things are good.

Listen to both and tell me which version you like better:

The Pharcyde – Drop

The Pharcyde – Drop (Da Beatminerz Remix)

Entitled ODB Ason Unique, this movie looks like it could be good. These rap documentaries often slip due to lousy production values or an excess of bullshit, but hopefully this one will have an appropriate mix of Wu mysticism and discussion of the man’s music. Either way, I’m more interested in this than I am in that other dead rapper movie.

Official Site

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Wow.. sports is pretty non-uplifting these days, lets have a rundown of the headlines on ESPN.com this evening.

• A filly horse dying after a race, then it’s put to sleep in front of thousands.
• A fallen from grace pitcher is apologizing about all sorts of wrongs except that hollering at underage country star shorties part.
• Good coaches (most likely) leaving.
• Chi-town Running backs getting gully with the police.
• Managers cursing like sailors.
• Car racers crashing, going to the hospital.
• Falcons player catching a battery charge.
• More race crashing.
• Don’t worry there is murder here too.. after a yankees/red sox dispute. That’s why ML now roots for the Royals now, it’s not going to cause us any harm, ever.

Pass that Xanax please!