Random Axe member Guilty Simpson and Madlib aka Otis Jackson are doing an album together under the name OJ Simpson. “Coroner’s Music” is the first leak off the album. I think Guilty works best in small doses, but this album has a lot of potential.
Nothing I ever heard from Cafe before this really blew me out the water, but he sounds great over this Pete Rock banger. I’m always happy to hear newer NY cats over Pete’s treats – Pete even does adlibs like he used to do in the 90s! This is quality.
“Baby” is by far the best cut I’ve heard off Ghost’s new album Wizard of Poetry (due September 29). However, unnecessary Auto-Tune mars a perfectly good hook sung by Raheem DeVaughn.
Off Time Machine (Hood Politics VI), dropping September 22. Term’s new mixtape is a mix of old and new, “Nobody’s Smiling” being one of the new tracks. Tracklisting after the jump.
For some reason, I never like Khalil tracks the first time I hear them, but I can’t stop listening to them after a week or two. So I’m going to give Khalil the benefit of the doubt today. I’m anxious to see if the Slaughterhouse supergroup (Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, Royce Da 5’9, Joe Budden) can actually deliver a quality album.
I’ve been digging this song since it dropped. This video looks like Wes Anderson directed it; big colorful panoramic shots. Perhaps a little too tame for a song about oral sex? Better/worse than the “Day ‘n’ Nite” video?
Here’s quality audio from the Kid Cudi concert Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in NYC. Cudi does nine minutes of “Day ‘n’ Nite” (original and the Crookers remix), “Embrace the Martian,” “Sky Might Fall” and a new song called “Heart of a Lion.” For a New York audience to react like that, Cudi must be doing something right.
