Metal Lungies

Yet another Hip Hop movie so gully it doesn’t have an IMDB entry. If you’ve been fiending for more Omillio Sparks acting since the (unfairly) non-award winning State Property films, fiend no more friends. Ex$pendable is here.

For you eagle eye movie watchers, Gillie Da Kid makes a cameo as a Security Guard in the film (Oscars can’t be far behind), but it still has far to go to reach ML’s favorite movie starring a rapper(s)-status.

(Image Credit Kevvykev68)

The brothers from Brentwood release their new album We Mean Business on September 9th on their own label, EP Records, distributed through Universal Records (more info on the new label here). This comes from Erick Sermon himself, who shared the news with Ming Tzu of GRANDGOOD at Lowe’s. True story.

Just had the most random encounter with Erick Sermon at a Lowe’s in Brooklyn, NY. He confirmed the new EPMD album is coming out this September on Universal Records. Afterwards, I was really glad he didn’t see the cherry tomato, basil and mint plants I bought. Didn’t want to be another one of those bougie cats he likes to talk about.

While you wait for We Mean Business to drop, here’s a little preview of the album:

EPMD – Blow

EPMD – Run It

EPMD – Run It (Remix ft.KRS-One)

Via Okayplayer

It’s crazy to think of a musical group actually capturing the moment of truth on video. Thank god for technology.

Bonus Beats

Like from Pac Div freestyles:

Pac Div takes over DJ Jamad’s Sirius Show “Afromentals”

And if you don’t know, now you know.

LOL @ Wayne leaving the set on his tour bus. It looks like like Lil Wayne is pretty solid live these days, hopefully he keeps it up for Virgin Fest.

Shawty Lo’s recently talked about video after the jump.

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Diplo’s take on Electric Relaxation.  Its summer, bitches.  Go out and move your bod to this one.  

Download (mp3): Diplo-Brew Barrymore

See Also: Mad Decent, and this awesomeness

In “Diddy Blog #6 The Game Has Changed!” Puff goes into a two-minute rant about how Tha Carter III is as good Illmatic, The Chronic, Ready to Die and All Eyez on Me and how it’s changed the game. Not really, Puff. Weezy’s greatest creation is still the Wam.

Let me just say that I’ve never missed a meeting of the P. Diddy fan club. I keep my shiny suit shiny. He gets hated on nonstop, but I can’t help but love the guy. One might question his right to even talk about rap music, given that his last noteworthy hip-hop outing was the Bad Boys II soundtrack. But come on, don’t act like you don’t lock your door, throw on that “Check Your Coat” joint (via dajaz1) and dance around like a drunk high school girl at the after-prom.

Puff also gets hated on for being something of an attention whore, always making sure to have his face out there (he should talk to Eddie Murphy). Admittedly, in this video dude looks like he ate a box of ice cream sandwiches, fell asleep for half an hour, woke up and decided to videotape himself. Why does he keep looking around like that? I would’ve said something about him being on crack, but the last person that did that caught some serious shit.

You can hate on Puff all you want, but you gotta admit that he’s got swagger like no other. Nobody would pass up the chance to hang out with Puff Daddy. Props to my boy Grant who sent this my way; he applied for Puff’s whiteboy position but wasn’t good enough with computers. Seeing that whiteboy handle the complex task of ending Puff’s little video makes a blogger like myself green with envy. I almost got a job as Jay-Z’s whiteboy but DJ01 said he would smash my nuts with a spiked bat if I left ML.

(Wale @ Noisepop)

Looks like there is no layoff for Wale since he dropped The Mixtape About Nothing. 

5 Finger Discounted straight from Wale’s manager.

Download (Mp3): Wale – Hey Mr Carter (Freestyle) (name dropping Ki-Jana Carter=win)

In case you’ve slept on:

Download (Mp3):  Wale – Put On (Freestyle)

Loaded Lux is M.O.P approved, so that makes him automatically MLs approved. If you saw this yest, whateva, I just got around to it now.

I was just catching up on my podcast listenings today on the metro, and I noticed Mark Ronson premiered 2 new Q-Tip tracks We’ll Trade You & Getting Up.  Authentic Shit has been one of the few music podcasts I’ve tried to keep up with and I highly recommend it.

Grab the whole podcast at East Village Radio (Q-Tip tracks are near the end).

Who? Video off of Snowgoon’s Black Snow (via Baby Grande), which features a very small list of Underground rappers:

Featuring a veritable who’s who of independent hip-hop’s elite players, “Black Snow” features ILL Bill & Slaine of La Coka Nostra, Defari, Apathy, Smif-N-Wessun, Killah Priest, Outerspace, R.A. The Rugged Man, Reef The Lost Cauze, Edo G, Sick Jacken, Pace Won, King Magnetic, Charon Don, Sicknature, Respect Tha God, Savage Brothers, Viro The Virus, Side Effect, Decay, Astonish, Scheme, The Molemen, Rasulallah, Richard Raw, Main Flow, Godilla, El Da Sensei, J. Sands, Maylay Sparks, Thuggy Dixwell, Adlib, Block McCloud, Doap Nixon, Supastition, Brainstorm, Jaysaun, Cynic, Bacardi Riam, Boom Bap Project, Nervous
Wreck, Singapore Kane, Lord Lhus of Bloodline, Equinox & many more

In stores June 24th.