Metal Lungies

Want a great remix? Call Tanya Morgan. But be careful, because they’ll do their very best to murder you on your own shit.

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On HNR, producer Lee Bannon channels the rawness of early Wu-Tang while MC Chuuwee provides an intricate verbal braggadocio. Bannon has slowly established himself as a master of roughly sketched Madlibian beats. Songs start and stop and cut off abruptly. The tape’s staticky closer “Change em” doesn’t even have drums. Clocking in at just under 19 minutes, Hot N Ready is ripe for multiple listens.

Download: Lee Bannon & Chuuwee – HNR (Hot N Ready)

Track listing after the break

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D’Angelo, last seen allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover police officer, makes his triumphant return on Mark Ronson’s Record Collection sounding liked a drugged up Cee-Lo. When the collaboration was first announced, Ronson said the song was “basically” his favorite on the album.

Download: Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – Glass Mountain Trust (ft. D’Angelo)

“Give Me Some of You” is the second leak from Terrace Martin’s upcoming EP, Here, My Dear. Fans already know what to expect. Monster drums and crazy sax. Look out for the EP dropping September 28.

Download: Terrace Martin – Give Me Some of You (ft. Kendrick Lamar)

via Rap Radar

The Virgin Mobile FreeFest is tomorrow in Columbia, MD at the Merriweather Post Pavillion, and since ML has covered many Virgin Festivals in it’s history. We think it’s appropriate that we share our picks on who to check out this year.

• The Temper Tramp (killed Bonnaroo this year.)
• Trombone Shorty (Yes, the same guy from  HBO’s Tremé)
• Will Eastman (DC DJing god, yes please.)
• T.I. (Sike! He’s not coming.)
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (To hear Home is reason enough.)
• Neon Indian (ML’s chillwave fav).
• Thievery Corporation (To chill out for all the raging that will happen afterword)
• Chromeo (2 things: Bring dancing shoes & try to not OD on funk)
• Ludacris (The (sole) RAPPER of the festival!)
• Sleigh Bells (you brain will melt from this electronic group)
• M.I.A. (A lot of prayers from fans that her live show returns to form here. The B-More dance child Rye Rye might appear, too.)
• LCD Soundsystem (Must catch these guys before their impending retirement, your grandchildren will be jealous)

If you are looking for some non-music things to do, my guy James from Fanscape suggested ML readers check out State Farm’s Club 17k where they will hook you up with chair massages, custom t-shirt printing and a boat load giveaways (trust me, it’s their job to giveaway stuff.). If you click that aforementioned link and install a ringtone they’ll even bless you with some VIP treatment at their compound.

ML’s attendance this year can be best compared to a star football player coming back from an injury– a last minute decision. So if ML does end up crashing the Virgin Mobile Fest gates, we’ll be sure to rant on twitter.. or mess around, and *gasp* make a review post.

While the free tickets are long gone, there have been some $30 tickets released, and that craigslist site is sure to be flooded with them. Lastly, check out the nice preview Express put together.

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Pluto’s not even a planet no more, which I’m very disturbed about. I grew up when Pluto was a planet. Now, I’m 25, I turn around and Pluto’s no longer a planet. I’m going to elbow that guy in the nose. I love Pluto. Everybody loves Pluto. There’s a dog named Pluto in the cartoons. I don’t know how we got on that subject. We’ve got to see if we can get Pluto back.

–Ron Artest

btw Ron is actually 30

On Friday evening (I know, I know) I was aimlessly flipping through the ol’ cable box, ready to turn the TV set off, when I saw RZA’s face on NBC.  Apparently, RZA was guest starring on a new NBC show starring Jimmy Smits (of NYPD Blue fame). I only saw the tail-end of the episode but RZA was playing.. a wait for it..a person jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Anyway if you care to see RZA’s acting the embed is below.

Now, these days, a rapper appearing on a TV series are more common than bedbugs in Manhattan, but then I stumbeled across this on youtube.

Late pass please.

RZA co-starring with Joe Jonas (Jo Bros!!), Jake Gyllenhaal, & Lil’ Jon in a video for indie darlings Vampire Weekend’s Giving Up The Gun?

Yeah.. all of that combined let me to ask the question that you see in the title of the post. I’m not in the least bit upset or worried about RZA doing all this stuff, I’m just saying, hopefully there is enough beats to do a 2nd Beat Drop this decade.

And if I’m a douche then put me in your coochie.

I’ve been waiting for Kanye to stop apologizing and respond to all the Us Weekly-reading haters. The 808s flavored “Runaway” doesn’t count.

Also, I’m starting a petition to keep Swizz Beatz from recording vocals ever again.

Download: Kanye West – Lord Lord Lord (ft. Mos Def, Swizz Beatz, Raekwon, Charlie Wilson)

New York may have found a secret weapon in Harry Fraud, who manages to make the otherwise generic French Montana sound decent. Also check out his work with Sean Price and Ill Bill.

Update: Reader/homeboy G-Wilde points out the sample: La Roux – In For the Kill (Skream Remix).

Download: French Montana – In 4 The Kill (ft. Chinx Drugz, Cheeze) (produced by Harry Fraud)

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If you don’t count Madlib, Lee Bannon is today’s chief purveyor of dirty lo-fi hip-hop sounds. On “I Need That,” he chops up a psych rock sample so thoroughly that you can barely discern a melody. He and fellow Sac-Towner Chuuwee are dropping their project HNR (Hot N Ready) September 21.

Download: Lee Bannon & Chuuwee – I Need That (ft. C Plus)

Download: Lee Bannon & Chuuwee – 6 Feet Deep