Metal Lungies

Perennial underground favorites Jedi Mind Tricks are staying busy this year, they plan to put out 5 projects before the year is a wrap. The 6th album is key in our opinion, it’s almost as good as another Army of the Pharaohs album. Check the schedule:

Jedi Mind Tricks and Babygrande Records are pleased to announce an
unprecedented rapid fire 2008 release schedule guaranteed to satisfy
even the most hardcore JMT/AOTP fans:

*The summer release of the first ever Jedi Mind Tricks DVD: “Divine
Fire: The Story of Jedi Mind Tricks”

*The  July 22nd release of Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: Doap Nixon “Sour
Diesel”

*The August 5th release of Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: King Syze “The
Labor Union”

*The September 30th release of Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: Outerspace
“God’s Fury”

*The October 14th release of Jedi Mind Tricks’ sixth album “A History of
Violence”

(Image Source, Bonus: Donvan McNabb in the back shot)

Miami may seem like urban hit central these days. It seems like every other song you hear in the club originated in the MIA-Yayo (no Rick Ross). A relative newcomer, Flo Rida has played a part in Miami’s hit take over in the past year, delivering Low & Elevator off of his Mail On Sunday debut.  We caught up briefly with the man to talk about his career up to this point and various other topics as he gets set to be a part of MTV’s  FN MTV (which kicks off on July 13th).

Metal Lungies: You’ve exploded onto the scene in the past year, what has been the wildest fan encounter that you’ve had so far?

Flo Rida: Oh man, I would say going back to the hotel room, you know, miles away, normally you don’t dabble real close to the venue. And the girls find their way back. And I feel like they don’t even know where we at. They’ll just be listening to every door. And I’ll get a call from my security guard, “man, you know, um, there’s some girls outside the door.” I mean, that’s like crazy to me.
ML: Are you happy with how your major debut turned out and the reception you’ve received?

FR: Oh most definitely. It’s got me worldwide exposure, you know, flying over to Japan, Paris, London, you know, going to the Philippines. All over the world. I’m definitely happy with the turnout.

ML: What are some of your favorite Miami-area albums?

FR: Poison Clan – Poisonous Mentality, that’s with JT Money, I mean that’s back in the day, 2 Live Crew – As Nasty as they Wanna Be, Trick Daddy – www.thug.com, Rick Ross –Port of Miami.

Find out about Flo Rida’s car collection, his fitness plan, if DJ Khaled is really that hyper and more after the jump!

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I’m in BK, NY after visiting Toronto for my mom’s birthday and my own. Remix Tuesdays is going to be posted late this week. I was on the road the past couple of days.

In the meantime, I thought this music video was appropriate. Colin Quinn reinterprets LL Cool J in a video directed by Ben Stiller.

The College Dropout. Late Registration. Graduation. You don’t have to be too edumacated to notice the trend in Kanye West’s album titles.

It’s only fitting, though, as one could call Kanye a “student of the game”, so to speak. He encompasses so many aspects of so many great producers. He’s openly discussed the influence that RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan has had on his production style, going as far as to admit to making his Blueprint-era beats with Ghostface in mind. He worked closely with J Dilla, honoring the late legend by chopping samples the way Dilla would have on his beat contributions to Common’s Finding Forever (and doing a fine job, I might add). And his sound has always held a sense of purity rivaling that of DJ Premier, so much so that on the few occasions where Primo has added scratches to Kanye-produced records (on “Everything I Am” off Graduation and “The Game” on Finding Forever), they could have easily passed as Primo-produced records themselves.

But, Kanye isn’t your typical “student of the game”-type rap star — Kanye isn’t your typical anything, matter of fact. ‘Ye is the student of the game who’ll stand on his desk to show off when he’d get an A+, and who’ll throw a fit and squeeze out a few tears when he’d get anything less than that. He’d be nominated for “Most Likely to Succeed” and “Class Clown”. Sure, he was a mama’s boy (R.I.P.), and he idolized his big brother, but he was honest enough about it that he never set himself up to get teased. Although he had his close circle of friends who may not have been the most popular kids in school, all the cool kids knew who he was. And his personality was so likable that only the biggest bully on campus would try to pick a fight with him… AND, the bully wouldn’t even win.

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This is by far my favorite Chicago song, I’ve always dreamt of someone sampling it or even remixing it. Bird Peterson answered my prayers brining the horn section into the new millennium.

Download (Mp3):  Chicago-25 or 6 to 4 (Bird Peterson Remix)

Bonus Download (Mp3): Wale-Freaks (Bird Peterson Remix)

If you want more Bird Peterson check out the great Krudmart mix he did back in May.

Underground head Pigeon John does a dope rendition of his song Cheerleader while director Vincent Moon films him crossing The Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn, NY. Check out more interesting indie performances at Crackle.

2 mixtapes of the moment floating around that you need to have. One of which we’ve been building up for a bit, and the other one doesn’t need any introduction.

1. Prayer Shout Out Intro
2. Bishop Lamont – Donkey Kong Savage
3. Bishop Lamont – Send A Nigga Home
4. Devils Ain’t Got No Love skit
5. Bishop Lamont – Money
6. Bishop Lamont feat. Busta Rhymes – Kissing The Curb
7. Bishop Lamont – Get Off My Dick
8. Bishop Lamont – City Lights
9. Community Lost Skit
10. Bishop Lamont – Feelin Like Shocker
11. Bishop Lamont feat. Warren G, Busta Rhymes & Stat Quo – Guerilla Pimpin
12. Bishop Lamont – Why
13. Bishop Lamont – It Hurts
14. Bishop Lamont feat. Xzibit, Ras Kass – Be Coo
15. Bishop Lamont – Better Than You
16. Bishop Lamont – 2 Much Godfather
17. Bishop Lamont – OH My GOD!!! 

Download (Zip): DJ Whoo Kid & Bishop Lamont-The Confessional via GetRight.

Bonus Download (Mp3): Wiz Khalifa Ft. Bishop Lamont & Glass Malone-Say Yeah (Remix) (Produced by Focus)

Nas after the jump.

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The rumblings were true, come July 11th  you can consider everything else obsolete. Image jacked from Engadget.

Digging through my old stash of stuff to check out, I noticed this never came about. Anyone know what happened? Did 50 block it?

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Pardon my laziness in getting around to posting about this. A memorable night for sure, with performances from Yak Ballz, Kidz in the Hall, Supernatural and Scratch, Murs and 9th Wonder, Buckshot, Blackalicious, GZA and Rakim. Unfortunately, the Nokia Theater is not ideal for taking pictures, especially when you’re in the middle of a crowd and not seven feet tall. So I only got a couple of passable pictures. Also, take into account the fact that I usually use my camera to break open chestnuts.

Kidz in the Hall killed it, but their performance was a truncated, slightly more energetic version of their album release party last month.

Scratch came out and rocked it alone for awhile because Supernatural was caught in traffic. Luckily, he showed up with enough time to drop a great off the top freesytle, using a camera and an umbrella from the audience.

Accompanied by 9th Wonder on the 1s and 2s, Murs held it down. My favorite part was when he randomly gave out a cheat code for the old Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! game between songs.

Buckshot stole the show, doing some Black Moon classics before bringing out…

KRS-One! who I managed to catch looking like Michael Jackson at the end of Thriller. Buckshot also brought out half of Smif-n-Wessun (don’t know which half) who did Bucktown.
After a Blackalicious performance that went on for way too long, GZA and family stole the show again and did all the Wu classics. Masta Killa made a guest appearance. GZA stood still long enough for me to get my best picture of the night.

All that was left was Rakim, who was late. Technician the DJ, who I’ve liked since Styles P’s Live in New York, rocked it for a bit. Oddly, Styles’ performance on his live album also preceded a Rakim performance. Tech then passed the baton to Kid Capri who spun classic records until Rakim showed up.

At this point I had made my way from the overwhelmingly packed front to the back where a few people were break dancing. Rakim’s performance was well worth the wait, but was cut short at around 12:30 by the folks at the Nokia Theater. I bet he regretted showing up so late and then doing a good 5 minutes of ‘which side is the livest’.

But I’ll cut him some slack because apparently he had lost a loved one two days prior to the show, for whom NYC put up their lighters.

It was a great night that was unfortunately broken up by long waits between performances and cut short during its grand finale.