Not as elaborate as other Madlib offerings, but I’ll take it. Another leftover from Strong Arm Steady and Madlib’s In Search of Stoney Jackson, “Jordache Look,” has been my walking to class anthem since it dropped.
Also, the album opener, “Best of Times” featuring Phonte.
via Grindstone
Gorgeous video for this Mos Def-produced gem, directed by Jonah Schwartz. Genuinely creative, I love it. Much props for starting with Antonio Carlos Jobim, too!
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Melvin Van Peebles is a pioneer in black cinema, having directed, written, produced, scored and starred in what many people consider the first blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasss Song. The New York Times recently published a fantastic profile of Peebles’s attempt to turn Sweetback into a stage musical that’s essential reading, if only for passages like this:
In person Mr. Van Peebles is a throwback to the era of Afros and revolutionary rhetoric. His beard has gone ash white, but he still sports black leather vests and pants, purple-shaded glasses and vintage high-tops. He is rarely without a soggy cigar — occasionally lighted — or a bellicose zinger, like: “If somebody messes with me, it’s not a lecture they need. It’s a brick.”
Read the whole piece here.
Hip-hop fans may be more familiar with Peebles from Madlib’s prominent sampling of his music on his two Quasimoto albums; allegedly ‘Lib and Peebles were supposed to do a double album together back in ‘05, I wonder what happened to it?
Download: Quasimoto – Bad Character
Get up on a little of Peebles’ music too. Here’s “Come On Write Me” from his 1974 album, What The . . . . You Mean I Can’t Sing?!
Some of you folks may have seen this already on the WaxPoetics site. It’s an old Toyota commercial from the mid 90’s and it features Lootpack. Usually these things don’t really stick with me, but I have been watching this video on loop since yesterday. It’s taken my life, and it might take yours…
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The as of yet unnamed supergroup rocks over a prominent sample of Michael Jackson’s “We’re Almost There.”
My vote: The Corey Woods Experience Featuring Dennis & Cliff. And they would be wearing white tuxedos and top hats on the cover. Shut up, it’s my fantasy.
via Nah Right
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I wrote off Georgia and Dudley’s last few albums as bland neo-soul, but their new album Someothaship is shaping up. The verses are down-to-earth enough to keep the track from floating into the neo-soul ether. Declaime sounds a lot like ODB and the beat is extra afro funky.
To demonstrate their versatility, the Tanya Morgan boys jumped on an updated version of the Black Moon classic. Their album Brooklynati was upbeat and rosy, but Messrs Von Pea, Illyas, and Donwill sound right at home on “I Got Cha Opin.” Especially Illyas’ growling first verse. I would love to hear Tanya Morgan go all hardcore 90s boom bap on their next album.
Producer nVMe’s adjustment of the beat is unnecessary. The little flourishes detract from the grime of the horn loop.
The song comes from the Duck Down SURVIVAL KIT Mix CD, which features “today’s rising stars” paying tribute to KRS-One and Buckshot. The mix drops at 3PM EST today over here.
Also listen to Buckshot and Kardinal Offishall’s “I Got Cha Opin ‘09”
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Donwill has blessed us with a few free projects already – Aight, New Drink and the Vainglorious Remake LP – but Don Cusack in High Fidelity will be his first official album.
Donwill will assume the character of John Cusack from the movie High Fidelity for a concept album full of introspection. Only the unmastered for now because the album hasn’t been mastered yet.
via Young H
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Sample heads will be excited and disappointed to learn that dkelloway of The-Breaks.com forums has discovered the sample for “Ice Cream” by Raekwon.
Excited, because the “Ice Cream” sample has long been a mystery. I think I read that someone asked RZA what it was and he couldn’t even remember.
Disappointed, because it’s just an Earl Klugh record. Not the score to a Brazilian telenovela or some psychedelic Christian spoken word record. Just good old Earl Klugh.
The sample is Klugh’s “A Time for Love” which appears on his 1980 album Late Night Guitar. The melody we know as “Ice Cream” is a sped up acoustic guitar loop.
Listen to a demonstration by The-Breaks user patriquino:
Just goes to show you that a producer’s skilled hand is just as valuable as an ultra-rare loop.
The-Breaks user PETERMAFFYA has already put together a quick remake.
via The-Breaks.com
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…You can tell me yours when you catch your breath. Wink. I’m a senior at a central Pennsylvania university known for its parties, its football, and its cows, but Bodymore, Murdaland [let me hear you Wire fans!] is the place that I call home. I love Metal Lungies for the same reasons you do- the witty retorts, the honest reviews, and, of course, the music- but that’s not why I’m here. DJ01 has asked me aboard, and I have graciously accepted his mission, to put my useless endless knowledge of pop culture to good use by joining the boy toys at ML as your newest, blondest, current affairs collaborator. Think of me as a prettier Colbert: reporting daily and dedicated to giving you the skinny on the happenings of the music industry and beyond. Sit back. Relax. Watch me put the ‘pop’ in hip (h)op.
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