Metal Lungies

I just watched a commercial for Def Jam: Icon. Why the hell is We Fly High the song for the ad? And why the fuck is Jim Jones in the game as a playable character? Is this a new policy where Def Jam openly promotes artists who threaten their executive staff? Or is the Jim Jones character gonna be a scrawny bitch with a bunch of stupid catchphrases? If thats the case, all they have to do is physically tone down dude and have him repeat some of the classic Hot 97 quotes.

…… I wonder if his signature move is the Kufi Smack.

Check The Commercial:

 

Has anyone been shocked with the recent number of free Hip-Hop releases? It would seem that Indie Hip-Hoppers have just decided that selling out to a culture that makes singles like This is Why I’m Hot a national hit is not worth it anymore. And I tend to agree. After all, is it worth it to try and sway a kid who honestly thinks Lil Wayne is the greatest lyricist of all time? Or Someone who calls into his radio station to request Make it Rain everyday but has never heard Glamour Life, never heard J.O.S.E.? Are these Hip-Hop fans? Is this all they know, or have they lost their way? I had a dude walk up to me yesterday and try to argue that Cam’ron’s Purple Haze was a better album than Illmatic. Is he wrong? Or do I just not understand the intricacy in a line like “I get computers puting”?

Thank God [adultswim] keeps bringing that fire. They dropped a new free joint. Its called Definitive Swim. Its like Chrome Children except with Def Jux artists. Its real hot. Real Hot. Cop it.

If you feel like not putting your hard earned dollars into the pipe for one day then cop that new El-P album when it drops. Could be a giant?

Get some good hip-hop in you, and turn off the damn radio. You’ve had your fill of crap. We all have.

P.S. Fuck the Bouncer at Sonar! You know who you are! DC clubs run your bitch ass anyway!

I came across a new r&b singer on J Records, Emily King. She lists here influences all types of musics, from Nas to Neil Young, which is an eclectic group that I would certainly approve of. Her debut album is reaching its final stages including production by Salaam Remi. The one track that caught my ear is ‘Walk In My Shoes’. Emily shows a beautiful voice with minimalist beat that rocks back and forth and is just begging for a rapper to drop a verse for a remix.  I look forward to hearing more from her.

Check out the streams Quicktime Media Player Real (look out for an MP3 link).

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I was glancing over a Young Buck interview over at SOHH. There was something that caught my eye.. HE IS GOING TO HAVE LINKIN PARK’S LEAD SINGER ON HIS 3RD SINGLE. Sorry, that deserved caps for some reason. Now I know Linkin Park did the whole Jay-Z thing which was enjoyable to an extent but that was like a mash-up more then a callabo. I can’t wait to hear Chester’s screaming teamed up with Buck’s southern drawl. Guest choices like this just re-affirms that Young Buck is BY FAR G-Unit‘s best, and we haven’t even heard the song! But I’ll go out on a limb and say it will eons better than the Audioslave/DMX song, (you don’t even want to hear that!). The album drops March 20th.

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In honor of my favorite thing to do on Monday nights (Watch the white rapper show), I present this little diddy.

Brooklyn Hip Hop duo Junk Science offer here what could easily serve as a guidebook for aspiring white Hip Hopper’s.

Most Importantly: Be Yourself (“If you wanna be black, there’s nothing whiter than that”).

Plus, like “The White Rapper Show”, Baje One of Junk Science has fun with it; slipping examinations of race and stereotypes into an easy to swallow, sugar coated, capsule.

Junk Science: House Wigger
from Feeding Einstein (Embedded 2006)

Peace Kiddies

It never meant to change the world.It did. Made it funkier. Slowed it down. Made it scarier. When you were little, it was like the trashy novel you couldn’t put down. The kind of thing you hid when mom and dad were around. Its gangster rap. And I loved it.

For me it started with MC Eiht. Hood Took Me Under represented a niche of music culture that has long since disappeared in this recent age of synthesized club bangers. He was a real dude who made music about pimpin’ hoes, bustin’ caps, and jackin’ punks. Things that interested the average suburban white kid, who could give less than a shit about what was going down in the club.

NWA knew this. Why do you think they never had any slow jams? Why do you think one producer handled their entire album time after time. Would 100 Miles and Runnin sound as good with a Scott Storch banger? Would the DOC be funky enough with listennnnnn being repeated in the background? Or would Ice Cube be just as militant with Olivia on the hooks?

No.

So put down your got rich, now celebrate jams and dust-off your copy of EFIL4ZAGGIN and remember a time when you didn’t care about the models in the video. After all, Bitches Weren’t Shit.

 You saw the album cover for Red Gone Wild, now check the single. It seems as if Timbaland can’t help himself but to continue to crank out HUGE club hits after HUGE club hits. This time he hooks up Redman, with a track that most defiantly has that bounce.

Check it out: ‘Put it Down’.

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Following up on my earlier post about Disco D’s untimely death, I got this in the e-mail:

Please join us in celebrating the life & legend of respected producer, remixer,
DJ, inspiration & friend to many

David Shayman
known to most as
Disco D
1980-2007

DISCO D Tribute
Feb 21st
Studio B
259 Banker St

SPANKROCK LIVE
DJ FUNK
DJ ASSAULT
STRETCH ARMSTRONG
ANNALYZE
DEREK PLASLAIKO
w/ hosts
LAUREN FLAX & OXY COTTONTAIL

10pm-4am
$10

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO Neutral-Zone

Please join us in celebrating the Legacy of David Shayman
aka
DISCO D

You might be gone, but you will never be forgotten.

hopefully any of you in NYC will make it out to this very solid tribute show. Here is the location of the venue.

Ghostface was mentioned earlier by BBoy so I thought this would fit in nicely. Not only is Ghostface getting cameos on NBC’s sitcom 30 Rock he is also starting his own Poker website, GFKPoker.com. He is a rapper that I feel like can’t do anything wack or doesn’t fit his persona if he tried. While I don’t know what success the Poker site will have it defiantly adds to his aura of being out there/random/innovative.

This clip (shows him only getting onstage not more of the performance, but you get the idea) is from his 1st cameo, the 2nd is due in early March;

a show that gives Ghost cameos? Maybe I should start watching it.

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The equivalent of ‘Detox’?

In Dr. Dre news the doc is apparently is going to start producing movies, and not some straight to video, 1000 copies made minor league ish. He is going major with New Line Cinema. Can you imagine a horror re-cutting of the ‘The Wash‘?. Also Klaxons (a UK band who I’ve been digging as of late) wants to work with him. All of this is nice and all but, if this affects the release of Detox… then it officially becomes the Duke Nukem Forever of rap.

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This is for all the kiddies out there who either have or currently are fronting on the Beatles.

I’m not gonna try to put ya’ll on. That’s not my job. If you don’t know, anything from Rubber Soul on is worth your time. Also John Lennon solo records are all fly to some degree.

They may have started off biting Chuck Berry but the song writing team of John Lennon & Paul McCartney would go on to write one of the most impressive and influential collections of songs in the history of recorded music. Even if you can’t get down with the Beatles themselves. The songs themselves are so melodically beautiful that one simply needs to check one of the ten billion covers by ten billion different artists to hear the universality of a few perfectly placed notes.

Here’s Ghostface’s version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. I’m pretty sure he’s just straight rapping over an instrumental cover (If anyone knows where the original break is from hit me up.)

Also: I like it when Ghost sings.

Ghostface: My Guitar