“Cool” is the first in a series of 7” singles from Tres Records featuring producer Chikaramanga of Giant Panda. The Tres family has released some of my favorite albums of last two years; Big Tone’s Art of Ink, Shawn Jackson’s First of All… and C.R.A.C. Knuckle’s The Piece Talks.
Future installments will feature Co$$ and Shawn Jackson.
via twodopeboys
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Congrats to YelaWolf on earning himself a blurb and a big ol’ picture in the New York Times on Friday:
Doing the nasal Dylan impression on the hook, which turns “Subterranean Homesick Blues” more druggy, is YelaWolf, a white rapper from Alabama with a classic rock jones and a glorious, tinny drawl, as heard on last year’s mixtape “Stereo.” On his forthcoming mixtape, “Trunk Muzik,” he boasts, “Trashed off the glue you build an airplane model with/In the gutter like an empty PBR bottle is.”
But since everybody knows Metal Lungies has ten times the clout of the New York Times, YelaWolf called me from Juelz Santana’s video shoot for “Mixing Up the Medicine” to talk about his career thus far and his artistic direction. Not the bum ass Times.
ML: I heard a rumor that you signed to a major. What is your label situation?
YelaWolf: Nah, just Ghet-O-Vision right now. We aren’t signed with any major.
ML: Is anything on the table?
YelaWolf: I don’t know, man. I don’t even ask questions. I don’t deal with that shit after being at Columbia. I just kinda trust [A&R, producer] KP and [my manager] J Dot. They’ll let me know if something serious comes across the table, or else it’s usually just a bunch of talk and a bunch of letdowns.
ML: So you were at Columbia originally?
YelaWolf: Yeah, ‘07 going in to ‘08 we signed with Columbia and we were there for a real short time before Rick Rubin came in and fuckin’ shut everything down. So me and KP and J Dot left as a unit and started grinding for the last couple of years on the street as Ghet-O-Vision.
ML: Killer Mike described you as a cross between Dungeon Family and Lynyrd Skynyrd. How would you describe your sound?
YelaWolf: That’s pretty good. That pretty much hits the nail on the head. I definitely derive a lot of melody from classic rock and as far as content goes, I derive a lot of my inspiration from MCs out the Dungeon Family of course. West Coast, Hieroglyphics and East Coast, BIG, Jay-Z, Mobb Deep, Group Home. Lyrics and beats, man.
My classic rock – I was born into that. That was just where I was at. I had a single mom, 15, 16, and she was really heavy into classic rock, so I was surrounded with that, but hip-hop came through– my mom’s boyfriend was touring with Aersosmith doing lights during the Walk This Way tour and when I was a kid they bought me a Run DMC t-shirt, a “My Adidas” CD and some Beastie Boys shit and that’s how a I found it. And then fast-forward, I just really fell into it along with skateboarding and shit, I just soaked up all this pop culture.
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The real Birdman.
Usually, we only mention Birdman in reference to his jewelry collection and his finance tips, but apparently he has an album coming out for some reason. Using his Bird-powers, he got Bun B and Drake to spit acid all over this track. If you can endure Birdman’s verse, you’re in for a treat.
via Nah Right
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Odd and cute charming fan made video for this track off Jay Stay Paid. Directed by the awesomely named Marcus McDammit.
While we’re on the subject, here’s a little bonus Dilla beat , the instrumental to Common’s “Love Is.” So very fresh.
Most other sites have only casually taken notice of his banger with Raekwon and that turd of a song he dropped with Juelz Santana, but I think the Yelawolf has a lot more to offer. The Alabama MC combines rock influence with southern twang for something very original in hip-hop (minus Bubba Sparxxx).
“Pop The Trunk” is from his upcoming mixtape Trunk Muzik.
THE HYDRILLA via Maurice Garland
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This song could’ve done without Wiz Khalifa and Lady G. Bad Lucc and Kurupt’s verses are full of anger and frustration, but Khalifa and G just spit that cutesy quirky wordplay that has plagued 2009. Terrace’s beat knocks, but I prefer his funkier, jazzier stuff.
Regardless, I’m excited to hear what a full-length Terrace Martin album sounds like. His albums with Kurupt, Bad Lucc and Murs are all MIA.
“The Demo” is the first leak off Terrace’s solo album of the same name.
via Xclusives Zone
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The Lessondary; specifically Jermiside, A Brother Named George, Von Pea, Donwill, Illyas and Elucid; update “Check The Rhime” for KevinNottingham’s forthcoming A Tribe Called Quest tribute mixtape.
Don’t sleep on The Lessondary crew. They’re a rare pocket of talent in hip-hop.
KevinNottingham.com via Donwill
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Til The Casket Drops comes out December 8.
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Ghetto, a member of Termanology’s ST Da Squad, celebrated his release from jail with 100 angry bars over a fresh Statik Selektah beat. Damn, Ghetto should get out of jail more often.
His mixtape, Trunk Music, will feature production from Lil Fame, Statik Selektah, MoSS and Lee Bannon.
via Nah Right
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As the gentleman from DJ Premier Blog so eloquently explains, this beat was originally intended for 50 Cent.
In December, DJ Premier mentioned that he sent 50 Cent a beat and Curtis turned it down. In response to the Internet’s collective outcry, 50 Cent found the beat and rapped over a loop of part of it, which he dubbed “Shut Ur Blodclot Mouth.” The two never got together to finish the song and Premo eventually gave the beat, which samples 50’s voice, to his group NYGz.
That track is “Ready,” which will appear on Hustler’s Union: Local NYG, which will be produced entirely by DJ Premier.
