Status Ain’t Hood & Spine Magazine were joints ML read before ML even existed (check our long history of linking to those spots in the archives).

Well both sites/blogs/webzines/whatever you want to call them,  have gone under some huge changes as of late. SpineMagazine shut down for a few weeks before re-launching in July. Their site looks sleek.. too bad its all in fucking Adobe Flash. Now, don’t get me wrong I’m not anti-flash, a header or some Flash element is cool but in no way do you would make a all-Flash site in 2008. The choice is to redesign with Flash is a huge headscratcher for me.  I remember when MTV.com went all Flash a few years back.. there was such a vile response that they went back to non-flash within a matter of months. Navigating in Flash is such a pain, that I’m afraid this will hurt Spine’s readership. So please Spine Magazine, for hip hop internets sake go back to the drawing board, I’d hate to see an OG site bite the dust.

Speaking of biting the dust, that is the fate of Village Voice’s Status Ain’t Hood. Tom has moved on to future endeavors but not before he dropped a recap of some of his best joints.  Hate or love him, his writing had a pretty knowledgeable and unique approach to breaking down (mostly current) music that wasn’t a chore to read. You can never forget when Captain Jack checked Tom HARD on Dallas Penn’s site though. Hope he resurfaces somewhere soon (he has a personal blog at the moment).  

From left to right : My brother Adam, Termanology and me. Notice Term and I are the same height. Peep Statik Selektah in the background.

Last night I was invited by my cousin Dan to a listening party for Termanology’s debut, Politics As Usual, coming out September 30th on Nature Sounds.

It was a small, intimate affair. Everyone met on the 4th floor of the EMI office on 6th Avenue and hung out and ate pizza for a bit. Fellow Showoff Records artists Reks and Statik Selektah came through to support. After about a half hour, we went over to the conference room to listen to the record.

Hit the jump for my full recap:

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Just posted the album info, no more than a moment later The Full Clip passes on a new track.

Download (Mp3): GZA – Alphabet.

Saw this at Elitaste, and this is the best video interview I have seen in a long long time. Just, wow.

(Sorry, this should have been up like 5 hours ago, I forgot about this in drafts when zshare wasn’t working for me)

First check another Wale/Young Chris cut, this one is better:

Download (Mp3): Young Chris Ft. Wale – Larger

Playing a new track New Thang in the car.. for the videoman. Thanks Jabari.

Talking about the Road to Def Jam Pt. 1:

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Check out this crazy clock.

Burntpiano passed this on when I didn’t have sound, now with sound I realize its completely post worthy. Only the Japanese would come up with something so hypnotizing but that’s still a clock. For those of you not in the know, Uniqlo is a Japanese store with its US Flagship (and only) store in Manhattan. The best way to summarize the store is H&M on crack and steroids.

Vital info (all stolen without shame from Pitchfork):

Drops August 19th on Babygrande (aka My Birthday, get your greeting cards ready now.).

Tracklising:

01 Intromental
02 Pencil [ft. Masta Killa & RZA]
03 Alphabets
04 Groundbreaking [ft. Justice Kareem]
05 7 Pounds
06 0% Finance
07 Short Race [ft. Rock Marcy]
08 Interlude
09 Paper Plate
10 Columbian Ties [ft. True Master]
11 Firehouse [ft. Ka]
12 Path of Destruction
13 Cinema [ft. Justice Kareem]
14 Intermission (Drive in Movie)
15 Life Is a Movie [ft. RZA & Irfane Khan-Acito]
16 Elastic Audio [ft. FYRE Department & Dreddy Kruger] (Live at the Parish in Austin, TX, 5/31/2007) [bonus track]

The Single & Tour Dates after the jump:

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You’ve already heard HM responding to Donny Goines. But to me personally its not that serious, I enjoy stuff like this instead. Since I always like Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday, this is a natural to post.

Jacked from The Justus League forums Via Ashton. 

More after the jump.

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Q-Tip says Jay-Z and Ol’ Dirty Bastard were almost on “Crooklyn Dodgers”:

At the time we had [Buckshot, Masta Ace and Special Ed], we had Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and we reached out to Jay-Z, I think, at the time, and maybe somebody else. I think they all came. I think Ol’ Dirty Bastard left, and I think Jay came late.

I can’t imagine what “Crooklyn Dodgers” would sound like with ODB on it. Peep AaronM’s write-up on the Crooklyn Dodgers Reunion.

via HipHopDX.com

Here are video clips from what was missed. Some are saying party of the year? party of the year on the East Coast? seems like something along those lines. This went on till 5am and served breakfast.

The last club set from K-Swift too. I won’t forgive myself for missing this for a long time, at least there is youtube.

Diplo (Includes remixing a Milli, but the 2nd half is even sicker):

DJ Sega:

DJ Class & Scottie B doing the classic club track Tear Da Club Up:

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