Some of Blu’s self-produced tracks are kind of weak, but the beat on this one, a long jazz loop dotted with snippets of a vocal sample, is dope. And Blu wrecks it lyrically as always.
via i write in red ink that turns blu when the book closes….
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A 1998 solo single by Q-Tip under the pseudonym “Lone Ranger”. It’s a Tip produced joint, a loose tribute to T La Rock’s classic, apparently recorded under the “Lone Ranger” name to avoid trouble with Jive. This is dope, hard to believe I haven’t heard this before.
Previously: T La Rock in a Jewish nursing home
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I have been waiting on this for like 2 months. I held out on listening to the Imeem stream because I don’t really mess with webstreams especially for mixtapes/albums, also I knew it wasn’t the final version. So I let the antcipation build. It was worth the wait, this mastered final version is one sleek remix mixtape.
Tracklisiting:
001. Sky High Feat. Kid Cudi
002. Good Morning (The Kickdrums Remix) Feat. Big Sean
003. Champion (Nick Catchdubs Remix)
004. Barry Bonds (Eli Escobar Remix) Feat. Lil Wayne
005. We Major (The Kickdrums Remix) feat. Nas
006. Crack Musik (Cookin Soul Remix) Feat. The Game
007. Good Night (Plain Pat Remix) Feat. Mos Def
008. Get Em High (A-Trak Remix) Feat. Common
009. Throw Some (Cousin Cole Remix)
010. Electric Touch (Steve1der & Mighty Mi remix) feat. Lupe Fiasco
011. Love Lockdown (Tom Wrecks Remix)
012. Flashing Lights (Diplo Remix)
013. Addiction (Kenny Dope Remix)
014. Stronger (A-Trak Remix)
015 Workout Plan (Chaise Marcel Remix)
016. American Boy (Benzi Refix) Feat. Will.I.Am
017. Homecoming (Discotech Remix) Feat Chris Martin
018. I Wonder (Scottie B Remix)
019. Good Life (Stretch Armstrong Remix) feat T-Pain
020. Cant Tell Me Nothing (DJ Godfather Remix)
021. Outroduction feat Big Sean
A great little interview with Redman circa Dare Iz A Darkside, plus footage of a concert from Mississauga.
Here’s another great Red interview on Yo! MTV Raps. Props to the TMOD crew.
Sphere: Related ContentHa, with Hulu offering movies- eff embedding a trailer or a video clip from youtube, you can throw up the entire movie, dope. I came across & watched this the other night after not being able to fall asleep. If you dig Airplane or Naked Gun type humor or want a parody of Kung Fu films (I liked it even tho I can’t really stand Kung Fu, sorry Bruce Lee) this is highly recommended. Expect more random Hulu viewing selections in the future. I wonder what RZA thinks of this.
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Biggie is one the few artists whose work I’ve made a point of fastidiously collecting. I’ve tried to get my hands on everything he’s ever laced. Besides his albums, there’s Mister Cee’s Best of Biggie Part 2 mixtape, which contains most, if not all, of Biggie’s collaborations, the recently released “O.G. Edition” of Ready to Die, and countless other tracks and such that are floating around and continue to pop up on rare occasions. The release of the Biggie biopic Notorious, of which I remain extremely skeptical, is one of those occasions. Here are three rare (unreleased?) demo tracks off the movie’s soundtrack.
via 2dopeboyz
via Xclusives Zone
In related news, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is attending a screening of the movie Thursday night and will present a proclamation to Biggie’s family. That’s what’s up.
Brooklyn Borough President Press Release via Vulture
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The homie 88-Keys is going to be performing and signing CDs at Fat Beats next week. If you’ve never been to a show (if they can really be called that) at Fat Beats, the artist performs three or four songs and afterward, it’s usually chill enough that you can get up in his face and tell him lame you think his album is. The place is a true house of hip-hop. And did I mention it’s free?
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Chuck D will be speaking at NYU on January 26th as part of its “Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century” speaker series. Past speakers have included Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods. RSVP here. While I know next to nothing about Public Enemy (bloggers don’t actually know everything), I might check this out.
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Easy Mo Bee, producer of “Flava in Ya Ear,” “Party and Bullshit,” “Gimme the Loot,” “Machine Gun Funk” and “Going Back to Cali,” describes being excluded from Notorious and Diddy’s shadiness. Like so many other hip-hop greats, Easy Mo Bee does not get his due respect. Says Easy,
I don’t know if there’s some animosity or something. I can’t get in that man’s mind. Is it because a long time ago, when “Flava in Ya Ear” Remix came out, I looked on the record and saw “Remix by Sean Puffy Combs, Chucky Thompson and Easy Mo Bee.” I took the record up in the office and I presented it to him and I said, “Yo, what’s this?” He didn’t know what to say. I told him, “You didn’t do it. Chucky sat there and watched. So I just want to know why the credits read like that.” I think it might have been that. Because ever since that, I haven’t really worked over there.
Notorious keeps sounding worse and worse. The last ad I saw for it called it “the biggest movie event of our time.” It’s going to be a long time before Hollywood makes a decent hip-hop biopic. Just imagine a proper Wu-Tang movie.
Peep a separate, 3 part interview (where he talks about Pac, Big and everything in between) after the jump.
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“Get It Together” is a 1994 single by the Beastie Boys, released in support of their ’94 album, Ill Communication. It’s a collaboration with Q-Tip that avoids the pitfalls of modern collaborations. Rather than simply tacking on a verse to the end of the song, Q-Tip and the Beasties spend the song trading off verses and bizarre adlibs in a refreshingly loose fashion. Tip is clearly freestyling his lyrics and Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock go with the flow, shouting adlibs and playing off his verses.
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