Looky here, Charles Hamilton. I secretly wish Will Smith would come be my best friend and hook me up with the girl of my dreams just as much as the next guy. But Hitch is not an appropriate movie to sample. Scarface? Yes. The Godfather? Sure. Seinfeld? If you do it right, yes. But randomly throwing in lines from Hitch is off limits unless you’re a pioneering oddball genius like RZA.
Um, oh yeah. Dude dropped another mixtape. This one is all Dilla beats and Charles keeps the rhymes nice. It’s a quickie though. After the eighth track, it’s all instrumentals. The second mixtape in the Hamiltonization Process. Whatever, at least he doesn’t constantly pimp his websites like before.
Brown Bag AllStars is a group comprised of four guys who work at Fat Beats; in what capacity, I’m not sure. Here’s a track off their mixtape which drops this Friday.
Take a break from getting Love Lockdown (Ver 2) stuck in your head and watch this. Old to some, new to me, features a small interview with Kanye in the middle. Off an episode of UK’s Channel 4 The Album Chart Show from last year.
Big Shug’s new album "Otherside Of The Game" is coming out November 4th and features a heap of DJ Premier beats as well as appearances from Termanology, M.O.P. and Bumpy Knuckles. Tracklisting:
1.) Intro 2.) Soundcheck (produced by DJ Premier) 3.) When I Strike (produced by DJ Premier) 4.) What it Means f/Billy Danze of M.O.P. & Frankie Wainwright (Produced by Soul Professa) 5.) Like A Muhfucka (produced by DJ Premier) 6.) Murdapan (produced by MoSS) 7.) 123 Bang f/Bumpy Knuckles & Hectic of ST. (produced by MoSS) 8.) Bring It Back (produced by MoSS) 9.) My Boston f/Termanology & Singapore Kane (Produced by DJ Premier) 10.) Better (Produced by Lee Bannon) 11.) Lonely Heart (Produced by Purpose) 12.) The Meaning Of Hardcore (produced by MoSS) 13.) Protection (produced by Lee Bannon) 14.) Militant Soldiers II f/Blaq Poet and Singapore Kane (produced by MoSS) 15.) Keep Calling Me (produced by Jay Quest) 16.) Young Death (produced by Gemz)
"My Boston" has already leaked and if it’s any indication, this album is going to be dope.
Here’s Blu’s set at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco last Thursday (9/11/08) in its entirety. He runs through a bunch of stuff from Below the Heavens and tracks he’s released through his MySpace. And while I’m at it, here’s Johnson & Jonson‘s (Blu and producer Mainframe) new video, “J&J”.
When I was in New York earlier this year interning at GIANT, I stayed with my older brother. He used to write for a bunch of rap magazines and still regularly receives promos in the mail despite the fact that he’s all but retired from rap journalism*.
Anyway, I was going through his promos and found the last two DJ Khaled albums. I was absentmindedly flipping through the CD booklets and noticed the following executive producer credits on each album.
Listennn…The Album: Executive produced by DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, and The Streets
We The Best – Executive produced by God
My brother emailed me the other day to tell me he got the promo for Khaled’s latest, We Global; executive produced by Allah. Wish I was kidding.
Serious, not only does he have the streets and represent them, he’s got God and Allah on his side. Maybe they can help him make moovies.
It’s been wayyyy too long since we talked with Royce about The Bar Exam 1. Now, after a bit on anticipation & delays Bar Exam 2 is finally here.
Tracklisting:
01 Crazed Madman Intro
02 Heat to the Streets f. Kid Vishis (prod. Green Lantern)
03 It’s the New
04 I’m Me Freestyle
05 I’m Nice
06 Gun Music (prod. Green Lantern)
07 Weatherman f. Sucka Free & Kid Vishis
08 I’m the Shit Fool!!! (Interlude)
09 We Deep f. Trick Trick (prod. Denaun Porter)
10 Let the Beat Build Freestyle f. Stretch Money
11 Royal Flush Freestyle f. Canibus & Elzhi
12 Jockin My Fresh (prod. Green Lantern)
13 Gettin Money Freestyle
14 Gangsta Remix f. Akon (prod. Green Lantern)
15 Happy Bar Exam 2 f. Marv Won
16 Ignorant Shit Freestyle
17 Flow Boy f. Tondalaya
18 Been Shot Down (prod. Green Lantern)
19 J-Ro vs. Mike B (Skit)
20 Kill Em Pt. 2 f. Kid Vishis
21 Wall Street f. June The Great
22 Royce Outro
New joints from some of my favorites as well as other recent tracks. I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this, but the Blu, Curren$y and Stimuli tracks convinced me. If you want to show someone what hip-hop is about right now, link them to Metal Lungies. If they aren’t rocking with the Internet yet, give them a copy of this mixtape. DJ Nice, what’s good?
01. Torae – Back 2 The Basics (Intro) 02. Jadakiss – Who Run This (Feat. Jay-Z) (Produced By Baby Grand) 03. Joell Ortiz – Sympathy 04. Styles P – Villian (Produced by J.Cardim) 05. Stimuli – Walk On Water 2 06. Skyzoo – Bragging Rights (Remix) (Produced by Analogic) 07. Fashawn – Our Way (Feat. Evidence) (Produced by Exile) 08. Godchild – Another Day, Another Dollar (Produced by Mike The Martyr) 09. Reks – Money On The Ave (Remix) (Feat. Skyzoo & Termanology) 10. Cambatta – What It Do (Produced by Boonie Mayfield) 11. Statik Selektah – Mr. Popularity (Feat. Consequence) 12. Cory Gunz – Lay Me Down (Produced By Nottz) 13. Lil Wayne – Still Standing (Feat. Junior Reid) (Snippet) 14. Emilio Rojas & M-Phazes – 585 15. Kanye West – Love LockDown 16. AC – I Engineer (Feat. The Senate) 17. DJ KO – Someday (Talib Kweli, Torae, John Robinson & Tiffany Paige) 18. Statik Selektah – This Is It (Showoff Remix) (Feat. D-Dot, Redman & Black Rob) 19. Ced Hughes – Back 2 The Basics (Like This) (Produced By Ced Hughes) 20. Ludacris – Undisputed (Feat. Floyd Mayweather Jr.) (Produced By Don Cannon) 21. B.o.B – I’ll Be In The Sky (Produced By B.o.B) 22. ESSO – Thinkin’ Out Loud IV 23. Max B – Live Comfortable 24. Big L – Principal Of The New School (Unreleased) 25. Naledge – Happy Birthday (Produced By Statik Selektah) 26. Fashawn – Because I’m Black 27. Blu – HoldOn 28. Theo – 2055 (The Future) 29. Rain – Back 2 Life (Produced By Scram Jones) 30. Curren$y – Whoa (Outro) (Produced By Kid Eight)