I don’t know about you, but I crave this West Coast funk. Off Kurupt’s next album Street Lights.
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Sphere: Related ContentI’ve been digging this song since it dropped. This video looks like Wes Anderson directed it; big colorful panoramic shots. Perhaps a little too tame for a song about oral sex? Better/worse than the “Day ‘n’ Nite” video?
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As seen on Jimmy Fallon. This song > your life
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And the skateboarder is the very dope P-Rod. I like everything about this commercial, it’s just really well done.
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Here’s quality audio from the Kid Cudi concert Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in NYC. Cudi does nine minutes of “Day ‘n’ Nite” (original and the Crookers remix), “Embrace the Martian,” “Sky Might Fall” and a new song called “Heart of a Lion.” For a New York audience to react like that, Cudi must be doing something right.
via All The Way Live
Update: Another one
via Dat New ‘Cudi’
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Killed it. So very dope. The amazing drummer is Daru, who’s also a producer.
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On his rainy album release day, Blaq Poet dwarfed the ragtag Fat Beats crowd, which consisted of sun-starved rap nerds, basement producers and rambling old-heads — all in tow to get their CDs signed or just catch a glimpse of a Queens-bred rapper who braved the bridge wars when he was 16. Low-key, businesslike, and perhaps even a little bored, Blaq Poet spoke to Metal Lungies about his career, his musical tastes, and his newest album Tha Blaqprint, which is produced almost entirely by DJ Premier.
ML: Who are your all-time favorite Queens rappers?
BP: Queens rappers? Run DMC, LL, Mikey D – he’s a old school dude, people don’t really know about him too much – The Rhymin’ Wizard Sudan – it’s a lot, but I don’t remember ‘em right now.
ML: Is there anybody in Queens we should be checking for? Newcomers?
BP: Coming out of Queensbridge, you know, The Mighty SSR, Little Young Boys, Crime Fam, they coming up – there’s whole lot of little dudes coming up, you just gotta check for them real hard.
ML: You were in the Bridge Wars, the most legendary battle ever. Do you think beef today is dead? I haven’t heard a good diss track in a long time.
BP: Nah man, beef today is not dead. But, you know, it’s more serious, it can get realer faster. You know you got the Internet, so you can have beef with anybody. Instant beef. Before you had to earn beef, but now it’s instant beef.
ML: But do you think diss records are dead?
BP: Well, no no no. Everybody’s got something to say. If you have beef, you have something to say, you gonna say it and that’s gonna always be interesting to hear.
ML: You’ve worked with Pete Rock and Marley Marl. What’s unique about working with Premier?
BP: Everybody’s different, they got their own different shit. I learned different techniques from all of them. Everybody’s real different. Premier, he’s more of a magician with records. His instruments are the records.
ML: What are your favorite Premier beats of all time? Read the rest of this entry »
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A fantastic cover of Cru’s classic “Just Another Case” recorded in one take by Philly rapper/producer Lushlife.
For good measure, here’s the original.
More Lushlife here.
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Team ML would like to apologize for the downtime last night and this morning. While the source of the outage remains a mystery, I have my suspicions…
Kim Jong Il has been flooding my inbox trying to get me to post his “Death of Auto-Tune” freestyle (“Death of Seoul”).
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I like this a lot. A low-key NY anthem by Long Island emcee Prafit, produced by the homey Disco Vietnam. “Swing”’ has been getting some love on Real Late with Pete Rosenberg, which is cool. Strong Island y’all.
More Prafit, all produced by Disco. I’m especially fond of “Nice Weather”.
