Normally, I wouldn’t post a video like this, but the news that 2 ML Hollers @ subjects+ 1 Beat Drop Subject are hooking up for a track, had me thinking about it..
Seeing Term doing his chanting in the end, meant I had to do it.
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Beautiful new Wu-Tang. This must be one of the tracks Meth was talking about when I asked him about Cuban Linx 2 last year. It doesn’t sound grimy enough to have been on the original Cuban Linx, which is what a lot of us had been hoping for, but it’s definitely a solid track and a good look for Wu-Tang in 2009. And it’s much better than “Criminology 2.”
via 2dopeboyz
Embarrassing Raekwon videos after the jump
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Well, kinda. Let me explain.
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communications theorist and writer, who devised the expression, “the medium is the message”. What he means by this: the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship through which the medium influences how the message is perceived. (via Wikipedia) In 1967, he wrote The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, which explained how the effects of media massages the human sensorium. The same year, he released an audio recording of this work on Columbia Records.
The album consists of McLuhan reading statements from the book while repeatedly being interrupted by a variety of speakers: people criticizing his theories, other people reading the book in weird voices, sped-up recordings of McLuhan, odd random sounds and samples of incidental music encompassing different genres and moods. The idea was to create a media pastiche that would evoke TV’s connection of unrelated images in audio form. It foreshadowed many future sound experiments, especially those put together by Steinski and turntablists like DJ Shadow. It’s certainly not the earliest form of sound collage, but it’s striking how close it sounds to modern sound experimentation. It’s out of print now, but you can download it here, courtesy of the blog The Sphinx.
Here’s Side A of the record as a sample.
Roc Raida tears “Rock The Bells” into pieces. From the 1997 Zoo York mixtape,
Related: I’m going to see DJ Premier spin in Ottawa next month. Expect a full review and hopefully some pictures.
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If you need a refresher on Izza Kizza, go relisten to his dope mixtape from last year. Otherwise, all you bail bondsman can find ML in the building on 2.4.09.
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Off their upcoming mixtape, Sound Cinema, coming March 6. Smooth shit.
The Bmore Club legend that brought the legendary Tear Da Club Up (and the only ringtone on my phone.. since like forever.), brings us more fire. These 2 remixes of his single, I’m The Shit from the forthcoming Alameda Coldspring are… well bananas (no Gwen Stefani). If you are at any party, or even a funeral.. play this.
Check the heat rock:
Via FirstUp (Youtube studio footage here)
(Note: Remix of the same og song but the difference in name is because the remix is clean?)
Sphere: Related ContentBiggie does a quick rundown of his style. Short but awesome. Another clip from the aforementioned Rap Phenomenon documentary, which is in stores now.
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RJD2 is one of the many dope artists that doesn’t get enough deserved shine around here, only a mention here and there.
With that said, a step in changing that- Ben at AlwaysHustle posted up some new tracks RJD2 released on his myspace blog. In my personal opinion, Song For You is the stand out cut of this bunch, but all are worth a listen. RJD2 has worked with a lot of underground cats like Blueprint, but I’d love to hear him work some mainstream Hip Hop acts, the results could be as hypnotizing as Mos Def on the Wylin remix.
Edit: Read comments, tracks were fake?
