Damn, The Clipse got the Purple Haze Cam’ron (not the lame Crime Pays Cam) on the best Neptunes beat I’ve heard in years. Aside from delays, things are looking up for Til the Casket Drops.
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RZA gave an exhausting interview to the A.V. Club as part of his book tour for The Tao of Wu, his compendium of wild philosophical interconnections. If you skip all the mumbo jumbo, RZA actually talks about music and makes some surprising claims/revelations. It’s a daunting read, but c’mon, it’s The RZA.
On how he came up with the idea for Ghostface’s “R&B” album four years ago,
Ghost, I think, took my advice. I said, “Yo, we should do a love album.” I told him this four years ago, we should do a love album. I was going to produce it, he was going to rap on it, and we’d make it strictly about love. Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let’s bring love. He wasn’t feeling it then, but now he has an R&B album where he’s bringing songs more sympathetic and shit.
On how “Gravel Pit” was originally meant for Aaliyah,
People thought that “Gravel Pit” was a bad decision. Now, I don’t think “Gravel Pit” was a bad decision, it was our first top 40 record as the Wu-Tang Clan. It was during the period where top 40 was important, and during the period that the European scene was really coming strong, and our sales were equal in Europe and America, and I wrote the song for Aaliyah, who we lost before she could do it. But it was written originally for Aaliyah, who was my favorite artist, and I felt every single she made was great.
On the possibility of an Ol’ Dirty Bastard biopic,
We have talked about it. His estate is pretty confused, like any estate is in our country. The estate is kind of confused on what to do, and all the rights and all that shit, but it’s definitely been talked about. There’s also been talk about a Wu-Tang Clan movie. So we’ll see what life brings. In my opinion, I’d rather see an ODB pic than a Wu-Tang Clan pic, because Wu-Tang is still alive, and may be active for a few more years. But an ODB pic, just to really describe his life, would be good. Right now, there is a documentary that’s done that’s pretty good. It ain’t a knock out of the park, but it’s pretty good, it gives a nice piece of him. Then you start with that, and we can build more awareness about his life, and build more interest in people seeing a movie about it.
What would be weirder, RZA x Aaliyah or Raekwon x Timbaland?
The A.V. Club via The Playlist
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Well look whose back, you may remember when we chatted up with the Lessondary homie Jermiside a year or so back. After not hearing from him for a bit, Jerm just hit me up to give me the scoop on his new mixtape Die Jerm Die which features guest spots from Tanya Morgan’s (and ML friends) Von Pea & Donwill amongst others. I’m a few tracks in and this mixtape is a diverse offering from it’s soulful sampled track, electronic inspired beats, and mellow introspective underground tracks with Jerm’s rapid flow.
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Sphere: Related ContentTravis Barker has yet to disappoint us with a rework of a song, and this song is no exception. AND he gets Bun B to add a verse? This video is definitely winning..late pass face smash.
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Exile and company have been murmuring about adding vocals to the instrumentals from Radio since the album came out in January. Muhsinah and Blu have already appeared on two Radio beats while a track leaked in August suggests the Lessondary crew (specifically Von Pea, Donwill and Elucid) are working on their own Radio tribute.
J. Mitchell, who sings the hook on Fashawn’s “Life as a Shorty,” lends her voice to the chopped-up, haywire “Your Summer Song.”
Radio (Remix) drops early 2010.
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Fashawn’s Boy Meets World might just be the “mature” rap album so many have tried to make.
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DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples and Sean Boog of The Away Team are linking up for an album, the latest of many recent MC/producer albums. Not much more info about this project, but “More Than Okay” is the single. I’ve been fan of Babu off the strength of Duck Season Vol. 3. And he’s cool as hell to talk to.
I’m guessing this cover art is tentative because it’s just a cropped version of this with a logo on it.
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Wait, Gender Bender? This might be too flamboyant for the hardened, unfeeling ML readership.
Add Ta’Raach to the list of monster Detroit producers. You may know the rapper/producer as half of C.R.A.C. Knuckles alongside Blu and if you’re really cool, you know about his album as Lacks, Re: Lacks, Vol. 1: With the World. “Orenthal” features swinging, soulful Pete Rock-like production.
Here’s a primer on ‘Raach. Get familiar.
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Abstract raps meet classy production on producer Dumhi’s new EP, Indian Summer. Underground releases are rarely this polished. And even though the featured rappers are mostly unknowns (the most recognizable names are Donwill and Jermiside), the rhymes are rarely lacking. Gem right here!
Back cover/tracklist after the jump
