Metal Lungies

The panel is back for another discussion.

If we post ONE press release from the chaotic release date, you are damn right its gonna be Ghost. Read up the album details as well as info about Ghost’s upcoming book (just pushed back). Don’t forget about catching Ghost Deni on tour.

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Rae speaks on the long standing rumors about the financial/creative friction in the Wu. Man, I really hope there’s no truth to the 7 WTC members to 1 disapproval rating for the album. Did RZA take scoring Kill Bill Vol1 &2, Ghost Dog, and Afro Samurai too far? 80% Guitars? But on the bright side, they worked out the GFK beef, maybe they’ll work this out too. Part 2 after the jump. Shout out to Buhizzle for the link!

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Somehow we missed that Ghostface, Rakim, and Brother Ali are on tour right now where they are backed by a 10 piece live band! Needless to say we all over this.

Here are the remaining dates:

November 8 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
November 9 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up
November 10 – Kansas City, MO – The Beaumont Theatre
November 11 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
November 12 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
November 13 – Bloomington, IN – Bluebird Theater
November 15 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
November 16 – New York, NY – Nokia Theatre
November 17 – Baltimore, MD – Sonar
November 18 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
November 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero

Wow, a bunch of ML readers (read: 2) have been really feeling the Vol II from a few days ago, so as promised I dig into the ML vault (which really is a zipdisk). To bring you Vol I.

Zip: Ratatat Presents Remixes Vol I (Mixtape)

Tracklisting:

1. Ratatat/Brooklyn Zoo — “Intro”
2. Beanie Sigel & Dirt McGirt — “When You Hear That”
3. Missy Elliott — “Hot” (WEA/Elektra)
4. Raekwon — ”Smith Bros.”
5. Kanye West — “Get Em High” (Def Jam)
6. G-Unit — “Stunt 101” (Interscope)
7. Dizzee Rascal — “Fix Up” (XL)
8. Method Man & Buddha Monk of Brooklyn Zoo — “PLO Style”
9. Lazer Life of Brooklyn Zoo — “Freestyle”
10. Raekwon & Ghostface — “Cutting It Up”
11. L.O.X. — “Dirty Ryders”
12. Jay-Z — “Sunshine” (Roc-A-Fella)
13. Missy Elliot — “Wake Up” (WEA/Elektra)
14. Ghostface Killah & Jadakiss — “Run” (Def Jamz)

Customary props to Spine Magazine. This is the 1st single from Super Gangster, Extraordinary Gentleman, which is SP’s contribution to the soon-to-be-infamous December 4th clusterfuck (nh). Also, peep the trailer to the psychodelic-looking music video over at OnSmash, because – really – what is anything in hip hop nowadays if it doesn’t have a trailer?

When I first heard this track yesterday, I thought, “Ehh, nothing special”… it’s been 24 hours since, and Swizzy’s beat and hook has been on a constant loop in my head. I feel like blowing my mind as a result, and I’m not talking about getting high.

Download: Styles P – “Blow Your Mind” featuring Swizz Beatz

I just came across the fact Ratatat has posted their latest mixtape of remixes on their official site. The mixtape which I’ve been bumpin on my ipod for about half a year, definitely needs to get some shine for the crazy synthy beats they use to remix hip-hop songs. Did I mention that Ratatat is an electronic/rock group? I’ve only been aware of their work for a little over one year and everything they have put out has impressed me immensely.

First rapper to get Ratatat production on an album will win ML’s admiration 4 life.

Our fav. picks on the mixtape: The Mule & Three Kings.

If you like this I’ll dig up Vol.1 for you guys, let me know if the comments.

Zip File: Ratatat Presents Remixes Vol.2 

Tracklisting:

01.  Young Buck Ft. T.I & Ludacris – Stomp                        5:06
02.  Notorious B.I.G – Party & Bullshit                           3:54
03.  Jay-Z & Notorious B.I.G – Allure                             4:22
04.  Z-Ro Devin The Dude & Juvenile – The Mule                    3:55
05.  Young Buck – Shorty Wanna Ride                               3:50
06.  Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z – Glock Nines                           4:07
07.  Despot – Freestyle                                           1:38
08.  Memphis Bleek – Alright                                      4:12
09.  Slim Thug T.I & Bun B – Three Kings                          4:54
10.  Young Jeezy & Bun B – Over here                              4:30
11.  Kanye West – Diamonds                                        3:35
12.  Beans – Freestyle                                            2:22
13.  Notorious B.I.G – Dead Wrong                                 3:10
14.  Saigon & UGK – We Gon Ride                                   3:56

The 2nd Single of B.A.R.S., In stores this Tuesday, Nov 6.  And look-All you instrumental fiends & freestyle rappers, we got you covered!

Mp3 Link- Cassidy-Misunderstood, Instrumental.

You can listen to the whole album on MySpace. Early!

Yo, what up to all the Metal Lungies out there. Recently ML was in the N.O (New Orleans, duh!) for the Voodoo Festival. I arrived at about 7:30pm the first night for Rage Against the Machine‘s performance. They killed it, this was my first time at the fest, so I had no Idea what to expect. The first place I went to was the Playstation trailer, talk about flat screens, PSP’s and a shit load of PS3’s in there, it was a game nerd’s heaven up in there, and the playstation chicks were hot as hell. Back to the evening, well, I got a chance to get up and close for the first 3 songs of RATM’s performance, I had a shitty camera so the shots sucked but at least I got to see them lol, just kidding. Between them arriving on stage and performing the first couple of songs, about 3 people passed out and maybe 5 were escorted away for crowd surfing, they took a 5 minute intermission them came back out and rocked the crowd. They closed the set with “Killing in the name of” then I left and went home.

Lots of bands were on the horizon, Djlethal01 aka Rockville’s finest told me about the electric performance of a band called Mute Math, so I checked that out, and it was crazy! It was the second day and it was the day time performance on the main stage. The hottest part of the set was when the drummer hopped on top of the keyboard and drummed his solo on the f*ckin keyboard, that was wild. Also the lead singer/keyboardist brought out his grandpa on stage, the old guy was hilarious. Because of it being light outside of course I got a chance to see the crazy people out there, a bunch of acid head chicks were hoola hooping and I got a chance to semi-stalk them throughout the day, it was funny because the company they kept were even weirder than they were. I saw a pirate couple walking around them also some lady with a hideous mask on, both sightings scared the shit out of me.

I got a chance to eat some food on the second day as well, it was nothing like I thought it would be, being a native New Orleanian, I expected more, I never heard of any of theses people that had stands set up, I gave a few the benefit of the doubt and ended up spitting out the food asap. The best thing to eat/drink there was the lemonade, real talk. I did find a cool tent that was selling some run/dmc looking shirts that read “Defend” and it had New Orleans in the middle.

DJ01 already ran down the battle royale that will be December 4th, and while that is definitely the main event of the winter of ’07, there are plenty other upcoming Tuesdays that deserve getting circled on your calendar — December 11th is looking particularly crazy. “Subject to change” should go without saying, and a few of these (i.e. Busta) I highly doubt will stick to these dates. It’s almost over, y’all… what are YOU getting ready for?

November 6th

• Cassidy – B.A.R.S.: The Barry Adrian Reese Story [New rule for rappers: if you’re going to put your real name in your album title, it can’t be “Barry”]
• Jay-Z – American Gangster [I thoroughly enjoyed the 2-tracks-missing version that leaked recently… “No Hook” beat-jacks Sean Price from 2005… not trying to say anything, I’m just saying…]

November 7th

• Cam’ron Glitter (that’s his name now, right?) – Public Enemy No. 1 (mixtape)

November 20th

• Cormega – Who Am I? CD+DVD
• David Banner – The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Freeway – Free At Last [Plenty tracks to preview here]
• Hi-Tek – Hi-Teknology 3: Underground

December 4th

• 2Pac – The Best Of 2Pac – Pt. 1: Thug and Pt. 2: Life [Oh, those 2Pac-legacy-rapers, always coming up with original ideas… Tracklist courtesy of The Rap Up. I’ll credit ’em with at least throwing a couple curveballs in and not filling it up with strictly popular Pac songs, but with that comes the complaining about what they left off… How ’bout “Holla At Me” off All Eyez On Me? And if we’re including posthumous tracks, how ’bout “Teardrops & Closed Caskets” off Still I Rise?]
• Busta Rhymes – Back On My BS
• DJ Drama – Gangsta Grillz: The Album
• Ghostface – The Big Doe Rehab
• [I would’ve mentioned Mike Jones’ album on this bullet point, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. It’s a long story… he sucks… OK, it’s a short story…]
• Saigon – The Greatest Story Never Told [Not to be confused with David Banner’s great story of an extremely-similar name]
• Scarface – MADE
• Styles P – Super Gangster, Extraordinary Gentleman [For a dude with so many nicknames, you’d think that SP The Ghost Holiday Paniro Styles P could come up with something different in his album titles]
• Three 6 Mafia – Last 2 Walk [Well, Wikipedia says so… is MTV still playing “Doe Boy Fresh”?… did MTV ever play “Doe Boy Fresh” other than the season finale of Adventures in Hollywood?][Dj01 EDIT: Looks like Spring 2008 now.]
• Wyclef Jean – The Carnival II: Memoirs Of An Immigrant

December 11th

• Beanie Sigel – The Solution
• Nas – N***** [In Nas’ quest to, among other things, make white bloggers feel uncomfortable, he has succeeded thus far]
• Wu-Tang Clan – 8 Diagrams

December 18th

• G-Unit – Shoot To Kill [Admit it — you can die peacefully now that there’s a sequel to “Magic Stick”]
• Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter III: The Leak (mixtape) [What a title, brings to mind that “Dear Mr. Toilet” line… actual album scheduled for February 12th]
• Lupe Fiasco – The Cool [Remember that scene from Borat where he tries to shake hands with a guy in New York, and the guy straight up ran for his life? Think Lupe would react that way if you approached him with a boombox bumping Midnight Marauders? Somebody get on that]
• Q-Tip – The Renaissance
• Rick Ross – Trilla

December ??th

• Joe Budden – Mood Muzik 3 (mixtape)

Etc.

• Alchemist – Chemical Warfare [No date as of yet]
• Pete Rock – NY’s Finest [Looking like January ’08]