Since we’ve last posted some stuff from G4TV (aka the Frank-Unit) they have won a Telly award, so congrats to the G4TV family!
They just put out the Kidz In The Hall freestyle session:
One of my Rawkus era favorites, Shabaam Sahdeeq:
I just saw a commercial on television for the new Kidz Bop, and they got Sean Kingston to remake “Take You There”. I jumped online as fast as I could to find that he made a whole new Kidz Bop video. If you’ve heard it, you remember the original song is an infectious dance joint that had references to the hood, kids holding guns, and other trife shit. The original video was shot in Miami and included Officer Rick Ross blowing trees, DJ Khaled, and mad video girls. The new Kidz Bop video is a bunch of little kids dancing on a beach with Sean Kingston. Plus, they altered the lyrics. Next stop… Lollipop.
(Videos after the jump)
Sphere: Related ContentSTS meets up with the Re-Up Gang at the recent NYC show. Nothing amazing, but some tiny bits of clipse performing live and the highlight of Pusha talking and feeling fine after the show!
Sphere: Related Content
DJ01 put you on to Alchemist’s blog yesterday. Seems like every producer has a blog these days. I’ve decided to put ’em all in one place for your reading convenience.
ML fam Marco Polo
Oh No (A.G., Lifesavas, Guilty Simpson)
Jake One (50 Cent, Freeway, Young Buck)
Illmind (G-Unit, Little Brother, Heltah Skeltah) – the place to check first for Illmind records before they come out.
Maestro (Ice Cube, Lil’ Wayne, David Banner)
QN5 Music: QN5 producers Kno, Tonedeff and Elite all blog there
Lessondary Crew: (Von Pea – he writes interesting stories about the making of Tanya Morgan records, among other stuff) Aeon
Taz of Sa-Ra Creative Partners
Low Budget: Oddisee, Kev Brown
Jake One (50 Cent, Freeway, De La Soul)
There’s one very prominent blogging producer I purposefully omitted, for kicks. See if you can guess who it is. Anyone else I missed, let me know.
Sphere: Related Content 
Damn, since its the “in” thing (Andrew is killing it!) I guess its time I dusted off the ML Diggin category.
Serious Kanye heads will know about the track he did with Murphy Lee (!!) a little before his debut College Dropout came out. I came across a final version where it’s just Kanye solo on the track, with a different rare verse (I don’t think it has been reused on a different song?).
I’ve included the more commonly had version for comparison**
**There is also a rare copy with the verse from “Gorgeous” hastily pasted on to the end of “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, but it sounds like ass.
Also for your collection purposes there is a Breathe In Breathe Out version sans Ludacris.
New Blaqstarr Recklessly stolen from Elitaste, who confirms like we mentioned in our RTB recap that Blaqstarr is working with 1/2 of Blackstar- Mos Def (as well as MIA).
Black ELement has been prepping his album, A Major Minority, for its September 18th release for a while now. While he works on it, he’s got a new project, Missing ELements, that’s he’s putting out. Keep your dial tuned to ML over the next few weeks to pick up the new BE tracks as they drop.
Check out the first track of Missing ELements, “Ride It Out”, below.
Read Black’s explanation of the track below:
Whenever an animal is backed into a corner or it’s life is threatened, we have the instinct to fight back. The instinct is to survive and with war plaguing our nation over the last 40+’s years with pointless conflicts we as a people finally begin to seek for change. From generation to generation, though the technology of the weapons has changed the result and heartache stays the same. Families having loved ones fighting for a guy whose a million miles away, just so his son’s trust fund can get a little bigger. War no matter the time, it effects us the same way until we can’t take it anymore, until we ride out!
Check out Black ELement’s MySpace too.
Sphere: Related Content
We’ve talked about it and we’ve reviewed it, now see what you think for yourself. ML has 5 copies to give away of Method Man’s graphic novel. To enter just shoot an email with the subject Method Man giveaway. Winners picked this week, if you aren’t lucky enough just buy it.
Send your entries to:
Bossman is a Baltimore MC who was once signed to JD’s Virgin Records imprint a few years back. I hadn’t heard much of his name in a minute but he just put out a very good tribute track dedicated to K-Swift’s memory.
I’m definitely not as conversant with D.I.T.C as I should be. Here’s some unreleased early Big L off volume 2 of Lord Finesse’s Rare Selections EP.
via Unkut
Sphere: Related Content
