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Donny Goines offers his point of view on the Rick Ross fiasco… without mentioning Rick Ross. This has to be one of the most ignorant video’s I’ve ever seen. Dude takes out his extensive criminal history report and goes over it on camera. Then dude basically says that rappers who talk about crimes (like Ross) are fake, while rappers who do crimes (like Him) are cool and never talk about doing dirt .

I don’t know when people stopped thinking that this is an entertainment business. Do I care if Ross talks about being a drug dealer? No. Do I care if he was really a corrections officer? No. Do I care if his songs are good? Yes.

The real message we should get from this whole Ross thing is that kids shouldn’t look at these rappers and think that they can be sucessful from a life of crime. Selling drugs doesn’t make you cool. Going to jail doesn’t make you rich and powerful. Lying about going to jail and selling drugs makes you cool, rich, and powerful.

Who cares if some dudes in jail think you aren’t real? They’re in fucking prison!

Dead to the fucking world.

A dope single from Portland and Oregon based group Animal Farm, featuring KRS-One. Off their album The Unknown. Between these cats and Blue Scholars, I’m definitely checking for more cats from the Northwest.

These guys kinda remind me a bit of The Camp but more socially conscious. Go support quality hip-hop and cop that.

Download: Animal Farm – Peace ft.KRS-One

Also watch this great live performance of “Ragtime Girl”. On some 1920s shit, I really dig the concept and beat.

Animal Farm’s MySpace

Panama is a rapper in Baltimore. Aside from that he is also the head of a successful clothing line, and an actor. You might have seen him on Season 4 of The Wire. Dude also happens to be a friend of mine from UMBC. This is a video of him on BET’s Spit Ya Game.

I never got a chance to see this when it ran the first time so I’m glad it got uploaded. He recently released a great new song with Skyzoo called Play Your Position. Look out for this dude.

{Note: I just found this in my e-mail box. Apparently eskay has had it for a while, but Panama actually sent this to me way before that. My e-mail box has been too cluttered [See: Life The Great] to see the diamonds in the coal.}

After the jump is a video of Panama wrecking Bubbles in Season 4 of the Wire.

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More Murs. Comic Con Edition Freestyle.  Bonus: last weeks Supernatural from E3 after the jump

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Look who we dug out in France, making music while having the most redic label apprenticeship ever? It’s ML’s in-house DJ/virgin airlines frequent flier/electro expert/etc, Burntpiano. Dude found the time to slip us a little blend he did while recovering from the hardships of partying every night with the A-list hipsters of France.
Download (Mp3) : Burntpiano: Estelle X Lenny Kravitz – American WomenBoy

The Internets Mix Coup D’etat Vol.2 coming REAL soon.

The first single off Free Agent. Produced by Salaam Remi. Shouts to the homey Mike Heron.

Also: Did I mention I write for Joell’s new blog?

DOWNLOAD : Joell Ortiz – Memories

The Movement is made up of students from the Bronx and the track was produced by the students. I definitely feel the track’s message.

On a lighter note: Casey works at my office and apparently a few weeks back everyone at the office was forwarding around the video for “White Girls“. Good times.

You have been waiting all day, so we’ll keep it brief. The Clipse rolled up I-95 to do a live show, hit the radio, and talk to ML. Thanks to our dude Dan H. at Koch & Geezy we were able to link up with The Clipse to talk for a hot minute (knowing us it couldve been a few hours) on all sorts of goodness. Oh yeah and just like Buhizzle promised in the Beat Drop- the Brothers chip in their favorite Neptunes productions. For a higher cohesiveness sake we decided to keep their picks seperate. The Clipse Present The Re-Up Gang in stores August 5th.

ML: What are your top 5 Neptunes beats and why?

Malice: Oh man… Okay, I’mma say “Grindin'” for one, cause its mine and its just so infectious, and its very minimalistic. I like the joint that they did, “Throw Them Bows [Southern Hospitality]” or whatever for Ludacris. I wanted that, that’s crazy. I liked the “What What [Superthug]” by NORE. That was insane. I don’t know, that was just a good time. Neptunes were all over the place. When I think about it I think about the nostalgia of what we were doing at that time, how everybody was just getting big and it was just real cool. But “Superthug” was definitely crazy, to me. Um… Neptunes, what else? They got so many man, it’s not even fair to try and pinpoint. But we got “Throw Them Bows [Southern Hospitality]”, “Grindin”, what else I say? “Superthug”. Help me, throw something at me.

ML: Did you like “The Call (Remix)”? That’s one of our picks.

Malice: [laughs] Hey, Hey, Hey!! No, No. I did the The Call, with the Backstreet Boys. Yeah, “The Call”. Definitely, Definitely. That was the first time I heard my voice on MTV.

ML: Yeah, that’s the only way I would listen to a Backstreet Boys track was if the Clipse are on it.

Malice: Ok, appreciate that.

Malice [to Pusha]: Favorite Neptune beat?

Malice: “Grindin”, “Superthug”, “Throw Them Bows [Southern Hospitality]”

ML: On the site, we had a few other writers come up. “Ride Around Shinin”, a lot of people liked that.

Malice: Yeah. What was the one I really liked by Bubonic and them though?

Some Dude: Cross The Border

Pusha T: [Philly’s Most Wanted-] Cross The Border Remix

Malice: Yeah, Yeah. And the Lox joint that was just like that.

ML: What about you Pusha?

Pusha T: Cross the Border remix is my favorite Neptune beat.

ML: You guys are on the “Everybody Nose (Remix)” right?

Malice: Pusha…

ML: How’d you get on that? Did Pharrell just call you up?

Pusha: Basically. I mean, I was down there when it was going down. They were doing the Glow in The Dark tour. I mean it only makes sense. “Everybody Nose”, you know what it is. You can’t have Lupe, Kanye West, Pharrell, and me there and not be on a record of that magnitude.

ML: He didn’t have to ask? You were there.

Pusha: I already had it written.

ML: Alright. Are you gonna be in the video? Did you already shoot it?

Pusha: Yeah, we just shot the video.

ML: And how did that go? A good time?

Pusha: It was good. Hype Williams.

ML: I saw the Consequence [kyte] video, you were in the background checking out the BBC t-shirts.

Pusha: Yeah

ML: What are your personal highlights from the upcoming Re-Up Gang project?

Malice: Man… It’s just great when all of us get together. Personal highlights off of the album?

ML: Yeah

Pusha: Making it man! Making the album! You know what I’m sayin? The four of us just together brings it back to the fun of hip-hop.

ML: What kind of reception have people given you working with producers outside of the Neptunes?

Malice: It’s been love. A lot of people really look forward to hearing us on different tracks. You know, they love us on the Neptunes tracks, but they just wanna see What else the Clipse can do with other tracks as well.

ML: With “We Got it 4 Cheap” you proved that it can be Joe Schmo and you’ll fucking murder it.

Malice: Appreciate that man.

ML: Working with other producers, how do you feel that the dynamic has changed in the studio?

Malice: Well, we had it real easy with the Neptunes because they would just make a beat and toss it to us, and then we just go do what we do. Now we gotta sit down, we collaborate, let the producers get a feel for us. We also get to see where they think the Clipse should be from their mindset or point of view.

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K-Swift died in an accident at a swimming pool this morning. I just found this out. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see her perform at Artscape this past weekend, but I’m sure it was great. This is a big loss for Baltimore.

R.I.P. The Queen of Baltimore Club Forever.

So DJ01 and I went to Artscape for Sunday only. Mostly because neither of us own cars, and public transportation to Baltimore is a crime on the weekends (or anytime for that matter). I was able to borrow a car on Sunday, so we made the trip.

After a stop off at Metal Lungies Radio studios, to pick something up and record DJ01 dropping the best freestyle ever, we arrived at Artscape around 3 pm. We immediately went to the Food Area and consumed epic amounts of ocean product in the form of a crabcake sandwich (pictured above) and a plate of fish and chips.

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