VH1 had a party at a swanky Times Square club called Opera for a screening of its Hip-Hop Honors show. ML was in the building taking advantage of the free pasta, mini-burgers and crabcakes (don’t worry mom, Knobbz kept it kosher). We watched the show live on a screen. The setup was less than ideal for viewing, but I was able to catch Jim Jones doing a verse of “We Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That.” As far as I could tell, there wasn’t a repeat of Fiascogate. Honorees included Cypress Hill, Slick Rick, Naughty by Nature, Too $hort, De La Soul and Isaac Hayes. And performers? They didn’t do any of their own songs, but damn. I didn’t stay late enough to see anyone famous at the after-party, but the music was so loud that I wouldn’t have even been able to tell Ghostface that it was a travesty that his scene was cut from Iron Man.
Hip-Hop Honors premieres Monday October 6th at 10/9c on VH1.
Oh boy. Now that’s a show. I’m going to need some diggity Das after atoning for my sins all day the day before. Buy tickets hig-hoggity here. And if you don’t know the boys Das, peep the knowledge:
Bum stiggedy bum stiggedy bum, hon, I got the old pa-rum-pum-pum-pum But I can fe-fi-fo-fum, diddly-bum, here I come
Styles’ Live in New York City is the only live hip-hop album I can listen to from beginning to end. With that said, SP is doing NY’s Jewry a major disservice by performing on Yom Kippur. I’m going to be fasting while Styles is tearing down S.O.B.’s, damn it. Gentiles, buy advance tickets here.
My apologies, EL, I promised I’d post this a week or two ago. I’m dealing with a lot of school work right now, so I’ll be scarce around these parts for a bit.
Oh, and don’t sleep on Jelani neither. (Peep his free album, Wait, You Can Rap?!?! here)
People Under the Stairs are near and dear to my heart. Growing up in and around Long Beach meant PUTS was a requisite for any admirable party mix. In fact, I think I could write a novel entirely about the life changing moments that resulted from “Acid Raindrops.” This is part of the reason that I haven’t listened to anything but Fun DMC for the last two days. But the main reason is that it’s one of the best hip-hop albums of the year. Pay respect.
Looks like Buckshot is home and well enough to do the Macarena. From the press release:
While it’s still unclear what caused the seizures, Doctors believe that Buckshot was physically drained and became severely dehydrated to the extent that caused his body to shut down and suffer 9 seizures in less than 1 day. Buckshot was in good spirits today as he left the hospital, and is looking forward to his next endeavors as he prepares to finish his group project with KRS-ONE, begin work on his third album with super-producer 9th Wonder, as well as a 4th studio album from BLACK MOON (DJ EVIL DEE and 5FT). In a statement this morning, Buckshot said "I want to thank all the fans who called and wrote emails extending their well wishes and prayers. All the support helped me recover that much quicker."
Aaron is gonna dig this, Black Milk’s new album, Tronic is shaping up nicely. A new track hit my mailbox, and I gotta say, it’s pretty damn tight. Hear for yourself:
1. Long Story Short ft. Dwele
2. Bounce
3. Give the Drummer Sum
4. Without U ft. Colin Munroe
5. Hold it Down
6. Losen Out ft. Royce 5?9
7. Hell Yeah
8. Repin for U ft. AB
9. Overdose
10. The Matrix ft. Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price, Dj Premier
11. Try
12. Tronic Summer
13. Bond 4 Life (Music) ft. Melanie Rutherford
14. Elec (Outro)
Unlike the lasttwo, there’s no theme for this month’s Fun Facts, just good ol’ random shenanigans. With school picking up steam once again, nowadays the creative juices are flowing more like Jim Jones than Rakim.
1. Inspectah Deck had a cold when he recorded his verse for “Stick Me For My Riches” off 8 Diagrams — one of his beefs with the final product was that he wasn’t able to re-record his verse before the album’s release. (This fun fact is dedicated to everyone that made it through the first minute of singing on that song.)
2. Former Wu-Tang affiliate and current Aphilliates Music Group president La The Darkman made several guest appearances on good friend Vanilla Ice’s ’01 album Bi-Polar.
3. The Neptunes’ beat for The Clipse’s “Wamp Wamp” — complete with Slim Thug’s hook — was originally sold to Foxy Brown prior to her hearing problems.
