Metal Lungies

First single off Theater of the Mind, it takes it back a few years using a Indian theme on the beat. 

Download (Mp3): Ludacris Ft. Chris Brown & Sean Garrett – What Them Girls Like.

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Be Easy/C.R.E.A.M

Sirens

Rebel Without A Pause

See Also: Public Enemy at Pitchfork 

Be sure check out Pitchfork.tv for all the performances.

To celebrate this feature making a fifth installment, I thought I’d base this month’s Fun Facts! around a theme. With rap beefs being the subliminal-laden wars-of-words that they are, I figured I’d be doing a service to solve some of the mysteries behind one of hip hop’s most legendary feuds…

Since Jay-Z and Nas have put their differences aside, there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered as to certain lyrics spit in “Takeover” and “Ether”, their respective diss records. So, each of the 10 facts below will revolve around a lyric — 5 from “Takeover”, 5 from “Ether” — and provide a context of what these New York legends really meant, and make clarifications as necessary.

(The same Fun Facts! rules as always apply — in other words, everything beyond #3 is utter bullshit. Enjoy!)

1. Jay: “I showed you your first tec on tour with Large Professor…” — Jay and Nas were doing a show together at some small New York venue early in their respective careers, back when Jay was running with Jaz, and Nas (then primarily known for his “Live At The BBQ” verse) was running with Extra P. The crowd was apparently getting rowdy, so Jay came out on stage with a burner to quiet things down.

2. Nas: “Smilin’ in my face, love to break bread with the God…” — Nas was supposed to be in Jay’s video for “Dead Presidents” in the “playing Monopoly with real money” closing scene, along with AZ and Notorious B.I.G., but apparently no-showed. Check the video at 3:22 –- that empty seat across the table from Jay was meant for Nas.

3. Jay: “And you ain’t get a coin, n***a, you was getting fucked then/ I know who I paid, god, Serchlite Publishing…” — Contrary to what Jay may have thought, former 3rd Bass frontman and current sell-out MC Serch, the namesake of Serchlite Publishing, has claimed that Nas was compensated for every time that a sample of his voice was cleared (including the few samples used by Jay).

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The loop digga is back with his new album for the BBE Beat Generation series. This new project has a bunch of features and many of the tracks are only produced by Madlib with no rhyme input.

I really enjoyed this new album even though I only got part of it for this review (Holla at me BBE!!). I’ll go track by track.

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Aaron teased you about it, now the cat is out of the bag.. looks pretty damn solid.

1.) Its Time (Produced by Easy Mo Bee)

2.) Watch How It Go Down (Produced by DJ Premier)

3.) Respect My Walk (Produced by Buckwild)

4.) Hood Shit f/ Prodigy of Mobb Deep (Produced by The Alchemist)

5.) Float (Produced by Nottz)

6.) Please Don’t Go (Produced by Nottz)

7.) How We Rock f/ Bun B of UGK (Produced by DJ Premier)

8.) Drugs Crime & Gorillaz f/ Sheek Louch & Freeway (Produced by Nottz)

9.) In The Streets f/Lil Fame of M.O.P. (produced by Hi-Tek)

10.) So Amazing (Produced by DJ Premier)

11.) Sorry I Lied (Produced by Large Professor)

12.) We Killin Ourselves (Produced by Pete Rock)

13.) The Chosen (Resurrecting The Game) (Produced by Havoc)

In stores 9.30.08.

2Dope posted this a few weeks back but even though its labeled CDQ it doesn’t sound mastered, luckily the mastered version just came through (and I wanted to use the above pic):

Download (Mp3): B.G. Ft. Juvenile, Lil Wayne & Trey Songz – Ya Heard Me.

Bun B. DJ Ayres. Free. Do you need any more words? Kinda wish I was in the south right now..

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• August 18, 9:30 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.: Raleigh at Cat’s Cradle
  300 E. Main St., Carrboro, NC 27510
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  1374 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30309
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  214 E. Sixth St., Austin, TX 78701

To check out this free event, attendees must be 21 or older and RSVP at www.scion.com/livemetro.

I am sending out a mandate that this becomes everyone’s wedding song.

After many years, looks like Angelous (who has only been mentioned around these parts in Buhizzle’s classic fable) is still around, still kinda sounding like Jay-Z. He has a new mixtape out called Angelous Reloaded X series 7 aka the most complex mixtape title ever.

Here is a new track I got:

Download (Mp3): Angelous Ft. J. Boogie – Old School

Angelous’ MySpace

Bishop Lamont gets real comfortable on some beats for nearly ten minutes on Shade 45. Vodka in the morning, Bishop?

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