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New Kardinal with the Pussycat Dolls (ie Mostly Nicole Scherzinger) on the hook, a nice crossover look. For those counting that’s 2 tracks with Pussycat Dolls on ML, we are so street.

Kardinal Offishall Ft. Pussy Cat Dolls – Number 1 (Tide Is High)

Spotted this first part of a series of shorts over at Mad Decent, it documents ML-fav Diplo & Dark Meat during their unique encounter at SXSW. Check out it for some words from Diplo & some nice in club footage.

After Diplo was nearly killed by Dark Meat’s tour bus at SXSW, the two joined forces, made some music, and played some shows in the South. True story.

Hosted by the homie Statik Selektah, Appreciate the Hate is a NY mixtape in the classic sense of the word. It’s got hot verses from every underground NY rapper who’s never gonna blow and genuinely funny skits (the blogs one made me smile). On top of that, the tape is very polished and leaves the annoying DJ shit at the door. It also features the Joell Ortiz murder victim, "Brooklyn Let’s Go!".

The Madd Rapper/D-Dot’s relevance to NY hip-hop is often overlooked and at the end of the tape, there’s a bunch of his OG shit: rare Bad Boy tracks, the "Stir Crazy" track with Eminem and even "How to Rob". This tape is like a trip through old New York.

Download: The Mad Rapper – Appreciate The Hate: The Mad Rapper Chronicles Volume 1

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The latest installment in the Missing ELements series. Black tells you what it’s all about:

Ok I know i’ve been on the funny tip lately, but i had to hit ya’ll with this one. STDs can be pretty funny sometimes, when I made this track I thought of the South Park movie song “it’s easy MmmmKay. So I decided to make something for the kiddies if I was teaching Sex Ed.

There’s some goofing on T-Pain on this one, pretty damn funny.

Black ELement – Sex Ed (feat. T-Payne)

Previously: Missing ELements #5

Termanology had a little listening party for his album Politics as Usual at a trendy sneaker shop called Sole Food last night. I honestly couldn’t hear the album very well because the acoustics were so bad, but I did mingle with some of New York’s finest underground rappers.

Term was just as cool as he was when I hollered at him. He told me that he had a crazy party at his house last night and I asked him if he wanted to come play beer pong at my dorm after the listening party. He respectfully declined.

As more people showed up, I noticed Torae who had good news: his upcoming album with Marco Polo, Double Barrel, is finished. Other than that, Tor mostly kept to himself and flipped through a XXL. Donny Goines on the other hand was just like he appears in all of his videos: very forthcoming and talkative. Both dudes showed ML love.

Next, I talked to Statik Selektah who seemed to be having a great time. He also showed ML love and asked if I’d seen his new video. He had played some stuff off his album earlier including a dope Jadakiss track and a funny skit with The Madd Rapper. Before I left, I hit up Lil Fame who had the shiniest teeth I’d seen all night. You would never guess from talking to him that he’s  such a good producer. I usually think of producers as wise men who flip through obscure records all day, but Lil Fame had no seriousness about him at all, just a regular guy.

If you were looking to hear more about the album, check Aaron’s account of Term’s earlier listening party.

STILL AMAZING. *BLOWN*

Via NR.

Latarian Milton on Juan Epstien

A track to check out off the upcoming King Of The Wingflip coming Sept. 30th.

Madlib Ft. Poke – The Ox (805)

I’ve been slowly going through and cleaning up some of the older (read: first) ML entries, the format and grammar was pretty gully in a lot of them back then.

Anyways, one of the first entries I personally did was about The Neptunes straight to dvd movie project called Dude We’re Going To Rio starring Busta Rhymes & Pharrell. Even though a cover got made, it never actually came out in stores, I was curious to see if anything new happened with the long lost film, well since then a trailer surfaced (NSFW near the end):

This seems like it could have been The Neptunes equivalent of Killa Season, with better production and more softcore.

While looking for the trailer, I found that in the recent issue of Complex (which I’ve yet to read in entirety myself) P was asked about the film.

Back when Clones came out, there was talk about you guys making a movie called Dude, We’re Going to Rio.
Pharrell: Are you trying to torture me right now?

No, I’m just curious what happened to that.
Pharrell: It was just bad. Not surrounded by the right people. Just a shitty arrangement. Those guys were nice, but I didn’t know what was appropriate. But now I’m working with Joel Silver so we’re producing something. I’m doing some television things with McG.

I’m guessing we’ll never see the thing.

Video for To The Top (Stick 2 The Script), directed by Rik Cordero.

Busta Rhymes has really surprised me with the quality of his music these days and I’m eagerly anticipating Blessed, which is supposedly tied up with sample clearance issues. Today’s Busta isn’t as goofy as he was in the old days, but he’s still more fiery on the mic than today’s average screwface monotone rapper. Game drops in with a great verse and the long forgotten thong aficionado Sisqo shows up on a song called “Hump On You”. Dudes in Busta’s camp like Show Money and  Reek Da Villain supply him with solid verses here and there too.

1. Outshined Intro
2. Nuff Gun Shots
3. This May Be My Last Time
4. Give A Damn f. Show Money & Reek Da Villain
5. Your Time Has Come
6. Packing Them Things
7. Close The Door f. Reek Da Villain
8. Cleaner Than A Preacher f. Pooh Bear
9. Run The Block
10. Kill The Whole Town f. Reek Da Villain
11. Flipmode Meets BStars f. Game
12. Can’t Fuck Wit Us
13. Missile
14. Hump On You f. Sisqo
15. Pimp f. Hayes
16. On Da Blocc
17. Head Banger f. Alfa Mega
18. Show Money – Do It f. Spliff Star & Busta Rhymes
19. Who Be The Nicest f. Reek Da Villain

Download: Busta Rhymes – I’ve Already Outshined Your Favorite Rapper: Part 2

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