Metal Lungies

We’re back at it! Sorry we missed you guys last week, we had to skip last week to handle some lavish travel. 8PM EST like always (we hope you adjusted your clocks, flava flav.). You can also join by using #mlamazingrace, but this week will also be picking up things with #tar & #amazingrace

Note: We might skip next week, too. Stay tuned (ML is going to SXSW, check for more info on that this week.).

“Overwhelmed” is right. Bilal rides down the electro-psych neo-soul rabbit hole with a careening electric guitar, pulsating synths, and dusty attic drums. These two last bumped heads when Daedelus remixed Bilal’s single “Restart” last year.

Bespoke drops April 26. Tour dates after the break.

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Big K.R.I.T. takes a ride in a candy coated DeLorean. I can picture Michael J. Fox riding shotgun blazed as hell.

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via I. Blog. Dope. Shit.

While you had your finest L.L. Bean camping gear setup in a line at the mall waiting to pickup the iPad 2, a bunch of hip hop names joined in the act, minus the camping & lines part, of course. The one exception seemed to be Freeway, who mingled (and videotaped) his experience standing in line with all the non-rapping folk at a Philadelphia mall.

Big Sean

Boi? Boi!!!

Freeway

Freeway took the extra step of documenting the scoopage in video form, watch the magic below:

I’m curious how many apple store employees recognized the long bearded rapper?

Because…. some people recognized “Freeway”:

Just Blaze linked up with Dan the Automator to pick up their iPads in the Bay area.

Oh, and Just personally reassured us, there were no lines in the books. (We predict Just bought 3 different iPads).

Bonus: Staple Design’s Jeff Staple got his, too.

I, like Son Raw, find dance remixes of classic hip-hop tracks repugnant, even offensive. But Dash EXP’s remix of “Everyday Struggle” is actually a worthy Biggie tribute because it keeps the anger of the original and even amplifies it. The sped up vocals bring out an urgency in Biggie’s voice without sacrificing any of the grit. It takes Biggie off the stoop in Bed-Stuy and into the machine city in the Matrix right before Neo fights Mr. Smith.

Bonus: Matty G’s “The Realness,” which gives Mobb Deep the dubstep treatment. Respectfully, of course.

Killer Mike is getting some good mileage out of his menacing No I.D.-produced single. The video dropped last year and now Big Boi adds a verse to the remix. Big Boi, Killer Mike, and Pill also claim they’re working an album together, which, between Pill’s signing to Rawse and Killer Mike’s album with El-P, will come out in 2035.

Download: Killer Mike – Ready Set Go (Remix) (ft. T.I., Big Boi) / (Clean)

via Killer Mike, Joe Baker

Freddie Gibbs is known as the new breed of gangsta rapper, but that hasn’t stopped him from doing left field collaborations like this. Bass producer Mexicans with Guns got Freddie for his album and did a special 7″ mix with a verse from Bun B.

Download: Mexicans With Guns – Highway to Hell (Ridin Dirty 7″ Mix) (ft. Freddie Gibbs, Bun B)

via Pitchfork

“Box Chevy Pt 3” was the high point of Yelawolf’s breakout mixtape, but the song’s standout verse belonged to an unknown rapper whose scalding double time verse prompted many a Google search of the name “Rittz.” All they found was a MySpace of a guy who looked like Carrot Top’s country cousin. It turns out Rittz was on the verge of hanging up the mic when Yela called him.

Over a year later, the Georgia rapper is signed to Yelawolf’s Slumerican imprint and he has his own mixtape out. Packing dozens of words into each second, Rittz lets out a lifetime’s worth of frustration with women, friends, and his career. He also parties it up with lots of drugs. It’s a true country rap affair with appearances from Yelawolf, DJ Burn One, and Supahot Beats. Time will tell if White Jesus does for Rittz what Trunk Muzik did for Yelawolf.

Update: Apparently, the tape has been “Re-Mastered,” so download it again.

Download: Rittz – White Jesus

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Crazy shit: I actually kind of remember Barry Horowitz.

Download: Action Bronson – Barry Horowitz (produced by Tommy Mas)

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E-40 is in a league of his own. Who else makes rap this dark, minimal, and weird?