Metal Lungies

It’s back for another year, and it starts tomorrow. Just seeing the Foo Fighters again is worth the price of a 2 day ticket.

You can still cop tickets at the official site.

eLXavi646‘s YouTube channel is full of classic breaks, some amazing stuff there (especially the “En Espanol” section).

GRANDGOOD has video of the Nuts performing material from their upcoming album, Planet Of The Crates.

Download: The Beatnuts – Se Acabo (Remix ft.Method Man)

Peep this old ODB freestyle he did for Funkmaster Flex in 1996. Dirty goes in on the “Broken Language” beat like no other. My favorite part is when he mentions “The Count of Monte Crisco”. His interview is cut off at the end, which is heartbreaking.

Download: Ol’ Dirty Bastard – ’96 Broken Language Freestyle

Bonus: Buddha Monk – Prepare for the Buddha Monk featuring Brooklyn Zu, Da Manchuz & Ol’ Dirty Bastard (off Unreleased Chambers, 2008 Visions of the Tenth Chamber, 2000)

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Kanye West will release his fourth album this December. The album will not be called Good Ass Job as has been previously stated/rumored. His first single, “Love Lockdown,” will be released this Monday or sooner if the Internet has anything to say about it.

My friend’s immediate reaction to the title was, “It sounds like it’s going to be some kind of R&B crap and I’m not going to like it.” Regardless, expect to hear this song every day for a long time.

Any mixtpae with Super Mario World on the cover is cool by me. I first heard NandoMcflyy, a DC rapper, on a song with Wale where there went in over some acoustic guitar. His mixtape is plenty more guitars and it sounds pretty good. I’ve been liking a few guys out of DC recently: Wale of course, X.O. and now Nando.

But dude gets a definite ‘fuck you’ for the song "Ash" which contains a sample that is just plain wrong. Not going to say what it is, but here’s a clue. It might even be worse than Charles Hamilton‘s "Windows Media Player" track. Hate aside, check him out.

Download: NandoMcflyy – SNES

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A couple new tracks from the coolest kids on the block (even cooler than the kidz on the block, but maybe not cooler than new kids on the block).  Also a Que B.I.L.L.A.H track featuring the duo and a beat that pops and sparkles like mikey’s watches.  Finally, check the Juke and the City remix that I’ve heard spun all over the place.  Stay up.  

Cool Kids: If It Rocks, Let it Knock 

Cool Kids: Nigga Please 

Que B.I.L.L.A.H: Colors feat. The Cool Kids 

Cool Kids: Mikey Rocks (GT’s Juke and the City Remix)

Jadakiss in the studio (with white dudes!) previews some tracks off his upcoming Def Jam debut, while making analogies about Cake (pineapple??).

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Site note: I’m currently without a computer, RIP my Dell, so communications and postings from me are gonna be kinda sparse for a little.

Seattle producer Jake One has always been more interesting to me than similar producers.  He is a G-Unit affiliate and has done tracks with 50 and E-40, but he is also adamant about the underground scene.  Check out his thoughts on the unnecessary disparity between underground and mainstream hip-hop. 

“What’s kind of weird about it is that 50 can do it and people will fuck with it but for some reason people only fuck with his version of it,” Jake says. “Like the song “All Of Me” with Mary J Blige on 50’s album, a couple of other people like Brother Ali had a song to that but he decided not to use it. It probably could have hit a totally different way. But in the same vein, underground fans probably wouldn’t fuck with 50’s version because they hate the person on it that’s rapping. They get so mad with that shit like that was supposed to be for them.”

And as a producer he is not just ubiquitous, he’s as solid as they come.  Listen to these two tracks off of White Van Music, set to drop October 7th.  The doom track is bonkers.  As a side note if I could have anyone rap at my wedding it would be Doom.  If the wife says no, shes out.  

Jake One feat. Brother Ali and Freeway: The Truth 

Jake One feat. MF Doom: Trap Door

New mixtape from the Sonic the Hedgehog loving Internet rapper Charles Hamilton. Good looks on having Shadow on the cover, because everyone loved that game.

Shit is kinda fresh. “Windows Media Player” is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard though.

Download: Charles Hamilton – Death Of The Mixtape Rapper

Peace to smokeYYY

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So, has this whole ordeal about Rick Ross being a C.O. in his former life — you know, back when he was mere mortal William Roberts and not “the biggest bawse that you’ve thus far” — boiled over yet? Yes? No? Either way, before most major label rappers sign their multi-million dollar contracts, chances are that there were less glamorous times that forced said rapper to work for (**gasp**) minimum wage!!

If a popular MC decided to dedicate his next album to rhyming at length about his first job, chances are that that popular MC wouldn’t be all that popular afterward. To save them the trouble — and, what with today being “Labor Day” and all — this month’s Fun Facts will reveal what a number of hip hop stars did before they became famous. Hopefully, it won’t cause you to look at any of these artists as being less “real” (not that all of ’em were “real” to begin with).

1. Snoop Dogg’s first job was as a grocery bagger at Lucky, a now-defunct Los Angeles supermarket chain.

2. Just as Outkast member Andre 3000 claimed to have done after dropping out of high school (in “Git Up Git Out” off Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik), Organized Noize’s Rico Wade worked at an Atlanta loading dock at age 9.

3. Jay-Z claims to have never held an actual job prior to getting into the drug game, thus dispelling an internet rumor that he worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken as a teenager. This rumor started years after it was mentioned in a “What if…” article in Rap Pages Blaze.

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