Want to celebrate John Daly’s triumphant return to Golf relevancy (something I know nothing about) rocking zubaz-looking pants at the British Open this week? More importantly enjoy a nice summer beverage? Well let me introduce an original drink creation from the ML bar.
Take some…
and mix it with..
You can call that joint ‘The John Daly’.
You’re welcome. and drink responsibly.
Diddy/Ciroc, cut the check or send a case!
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Tomorrow evening as a part of their American Playlist series, the Kennedy Center is putting on a show featuring DC go-go staple Mambo Sauce alongside that little band called The Roots. While all the free tickets are long gone, you can still check out a free stream at the American Playlist site . With an assist from the Kennedy Center’s Erin Dowdy ML will be smuggled into the center. Be sure to catch our rants observations on the twitter feed, and check back here when we post some thoughts over 140chars and pictures of the show.
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Listen to STS’ sugary sweet “Sole Music” remix with microphone crusher Donwill, off STS’ Sole Music EP. Yumma dum dum.
The Brown Bag AllStars seem to have hit their stride more than ever. Just listen to Koncept and Sene tear this souful beat apart. Can’t wait to hear Koncept’s Playing Life EP.
“Narco Corridos” and “Cult Assassin” come from DJ Muggs and Ill Bill’s collaborative LP Kill Devil Hills. “Narco Corridos” (“drug ballad”) is a heartfelt reflection on Bill’s uncle who passed away, chronicling his drug abuse. Muggs = one of the most underrated.
When I talked to Capone-N-Noreaga last February, Capone tried to justify their Ron Browz-produced crossover single:
Music today — they censor music so much that you have to make the thuggest record commercial to some extent. To get your albums in certain stores, your shit gotta be squeaky clean, because that’s just where music is at right now.
“Rotate” had a lot of people looking at CNN askew, but The War Report 2 is completely free of such unfortunate compromises. Intended as a sequel to their debut, The War Report 2 looks to duplicate the success of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II, the only commercially successful throwback rap album in recent memory. Raekwon, who appears on three songs, actually acts as executive producer on WR2, lending CNN his excellent ear for street ballads.
The album is refreshing because CNN stick to what sets them apart: their glorious lack of subtlety. No facades. In a welcome nod to early New York gangsta rap, Capone and Nore romanticize life on the streets without any excess theatrics. Besides the intro, which ascribes audio from a war documentary to life on the streets, the only real exception is “The Oath,” whose mafioso concept makes it sound like Rae passed them Cuban Linx leftover, but not in a bad way. The street single “Thug Planet” turns a “Planet Rock” sample into the soundtrack of an urban nightmare. Capone-N-Nore’s dynamic works better than ever as Capone is a surprisingly proficient technical rapper and Nore manages to be a street rapper and a parody of a street rapper at the same time (“Big loads of a fishscale / Guns from Israel / Dude named Ishmael / Told me that his shit sell.”).
The closest they come to a radio track on their new album is the Faith Evans-assisted single “Hood Pride,” which despite the sung hook and anthemic beat, doesn’t make any overly gimmicky stabs at radio play. Chalk it up to Raekwon’s influence or a legitimate desire to keep it all the way gutter this time; either way, The War Report 2 is this year’s raw, uncut New York rap album.
Also: the “Thug Planet” video.
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HerFavoriteColo(u)r is an EP from the darling of the underground hip-hop scene, Blu. It’s entirely self-produced, relying predominantly on jazz samples. But don’t think you’re getting a fully developed Blu album; HerFav is only 30 minutes long and half of it is instrumentals. It’s unpolished, but not in a bad way. It plays almost like a jam session.
Also, I have a newfound respect for Blu because the intro samples The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, one of my all-time favorite movies.
via i write in red ink that turns blu when the book closes…
Update: Well this came out of nowhere. Nature Sounds has announced that they’re re-releasing Her Favorite Colo(u)r on August 24. The album, which has been mixed and mastered, will come with The Godlee Barnes LP as a bonus disc, which also initially saw release as a low quality download about a year ago. Here’s a song from the mastered Her Fav and yup, it’s still dope. Blu’s long-delayed album on Warner Bros. is slated to drop next year, but it’s more likely that Blu will quietly throw half an unfinished version of it on his Tumblr before then.
Seriously, this guy murdered the rap game in 2007 and he’s been missing ever since he signed with fucking Warner Bros. It’s like major labels don’t know what to do with talented artists.
The non-album cut “Don Cornelius” has been on constant loop since it dropped, but here’s the first single from Black Milk’s Album of the Year. “Welcome” sounds like a leftover from Tronic that’s been cultivating in an underground laboratory in Siberia for two years, being injected with hormones and fed Ostrim meat sticks to make it unnaturally powerful. The album drops in September, presumably with Ivan Drago on the cover. God save the children.
via Black Milk
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Audible Doctor is rappity rap rappin on this joint from his upcoming EP Some Stuff. Mr. Doctor might want to hire a naming agency for future projects. He’ll follow his EP with a full length album Trust Me, I’m A Doctor. OK, that’s much better.
