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Shabbat shalom, ML readers! I’ma leave you for the weekend with two of my favourite mashups of recent memory. The rest of the Lungies team are a bit busy right now, so I’ll be doing most of the posting for a bit.

The first is from the amazing mashup/culturejam team, Evolution Control Committee. Off their Herb Alpert/Public Enemy mashup album, The Whipped Cream Mixes. This is song is a mashup of PE’s "Rebel Without A Pause" and and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass song (anyone know which one?) I’m not going to post the whole album, but you can find it online somewhere. This was actually one of the first mashup albums, pre-Grey Album. What? Yes, they did exist before a capella albums were released officially.

This version of the song is absolutely brilliant.

Rebel Without A Pause (Whipped Cream Mix)

Here’s a sweet promo video made for the song too.

The second mashup is the Al Green/Nas mashup album, Almatic (props to the awesome Dumpin.net for pointing this out to me). This would be one of the best mashup albums in recent memory but for three things:

1) Most of the acapellas are clean versions.

2) It has a bunch of DJ drops.

3) One of the songs chosen is Oochie Wally. There are some things you can’t fix, my friends.

But it’s still very dope. Y’all know I’m an Al Green fan and the beats they sample from his stuff are consistently great. Here’s my favourite mashup of the album, the remix of "Made You Look" mixed with Al’s "Love & Happiness". It’s also one of the few songs that isn’t censored.

Made You Look/Love & Happiness (ft.Jadakiss & Ludacris)

Cop the whole album here, courtesy of the good folks at Swindle Entertainment. You can download the songs individually too, which is nice.

Have a good weekend!

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The legendary Rev. Al Green is working on a new album produced entirely by ?uestlove of the Roots. That’s not news, but this new track released from the sessions is. This has the potential to be amazing and this track seems like a good indicator of what the album could sound like.

If you don’t know Al Green, you don’t know soul. The definition of Memphis soul and a frequent sample source for hip hop (go read up).

Here are some details about the track itself:

Recorded in October of last year for his upcoming album on Blue Note.  ?uestlove on the drums and James Poyser on the keys (also known as The Randy Watson Experience).

Al Green- Thought It Out

More info here, here, and especially here.

Via DJ Soul’s dope blog.

Bonus beats:  ?uesto has released video from the sessions as well.

Here’s him laying down drums for the record:

Al sings with the band:

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We like Mario, in fact he is probably ML’s favorite R&B male singer over Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, etc. (those songs with Jadakiss don’t hurt!).  To our surprise life isn’t all gravy for Mario, MTV has a documentary airing this Sunday, October 21st  at 10pm about his struggles dealing with his mom’s addiction to heroin. Now that’s some real shit that a lot of people in the limelight wouldn’t talk about, so props to him for sharing his story, hopefully his mom stays clean.

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[youtube]cdaAWFoWr2c[/youtube] Things of note: R. Kelly doesn’t take off the Gucci plastic tag on his sunglasses. He also didn’t have time to sing for someone to come and braid his hair before he started filming. We love the bowl of apples near the drum machine near the end with the fakest looking trying-to-focus the camera during some intense shit filming ever. Wait, what’s the point of this again?

This video wins one award, best supporting actor….to the panasonic cordless phone.

P.S. The final installment of our much-belated Trapped in the Closet reviews THIS WEEKEND, tell your grandparents.

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Production duo Cool & Dre are bringing out a new act, Joe Hound. He seems to be versatile, putting out a laid back song geared at the ladies in the club as well as a complete polar opposite song that is geared at the dudes in the street. This dude isn’t GOAT but hey, I won’t lie Cool & Dre made Christina Milian listeanable. My favorite is She Likes It, mostly cause of those sultry synths.

Joe Hound Ft. Hakeem-She Likes it

Joe Hound Ft. Dre & C-Ride-Chopper

Joe Hound Ft. J Holiday-Bed

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Yes I’m man enough to admit I read TMZ almost as much as I read ESPN. Any who these 2 things from today leave me hella puzzled.

Ok being a Mixtape DJ is cool, I knew you could be modeling for karmaloop & LRG. But writing introspective R&B songs for Akon, amazing. This is like Funkmaster Flex writing for 112 or some shit.

Then there is this (don’t sift through the pics)..Floyd Mayweather is going to be on Dancing With The Stars? Is this the new jump roping for boxers?

I wonder what Royce thinks.

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Had a little birthday celebrating to take care of but now we are hitting you with the trifecta. Chapter 18, 19, 20 all in one!

Ch. 18

• Dykin=awesome term.
• Award winning green screen work in the car.
• Verizon with a RAZR? God damn it that phone is like 343242 year old why won’t people stop using that played out shit.
• Why do I think the Pastor is inspired by R. Kelly’s Happy People video?
• After seeing this Reverend scene I hope Eddie Murphy is getting royalties from this.
• Was it beyond R. Kelly to sneak in a white person into this church?
• R. Kelly singing a graphic conversation gay back and forth gets him street cred right?
• Rufus may be gay but at least he doesn’t have a pink RAZR.
• Wait Chuck is in a hospital so maybe he’s not really crying, maybe it’s just saline solution OD?

Ch. 19

• Not expecting the church? Umm.. for what all we’ve seen it’s not really shocking.
• “You can do it Pimplooscious” will be humming in our heads for weeks.
  Chech? I hope that’s not a subliminal at Don Juan/Snoop.
• I hope Pimplooscious is a gay pimp.

Ch. 20.

• Package? It makes me think Randolph would be a good drug peddler.
• What is the purpose of a hot water bag??
• Man I’m kinda disappointed by Randolph… he is liquoring up in a church AND he snitches?
• Is it me or have you see better fat suits than the one “Randolph” has at your local 5th grade Halloween party (not that we still attend those, kthxbye)?

You’ve been waiting and here is the don of all don’s, PD:

Chapter 18:

• R., starting to get a bit homophobic and/or lonely in the screening room.
• This looks like a real chapter.
• “Phone is staticin’.” That was unnecessary suspense. 
•  Oh, he flipped the script! Goin’ to chuuuuurch!   
• Isn’t Rufus the pastor? Should he be getting up and walking out of the service like that? I don’t know, maybe that’s normal.
•  Chuck is in rough shape, man. 
• Rufus, re-establishing the fact that he’s married to Kathy. Thanks for reminding us.
• Haha! What a choker. He tried to hang up and accidentally put it on speakerphone?                                                                                                                     
• Rufus looks like he’s getting ready to leave life on the down low…            “‘Cause I’m in a hospitaaaaal….” C’mon Rufus, it wasn’t that much of a shock. People go to the hospital sometimes. Just ask him why he’s there.

Chapter 19:

• Pimps go to church?  
• “You want to stop pimpin’ aaaaaall these hos.” “Shhhhh!”
• Pimp Lucius shows no signs of change. The “Ho…me ghost?”  
• I guess if pimps can go to church, so can hos.
• To everyone who thinks R. is taking himself too seriously, watch the end commentary. Kind of disappointing. I sort of wish he was taking this seriously.

Chapter 20:

•  Back to Rosie.  
• Old ladies always want to know what’s going on with the holy man.
• Haha, he’s just singin’ while he’s cleanin’.  “Yes, Lord….yeeees, Lord.”
• YES!  Someone got back in the closet!
• How did Randolph hear what Chuck was saying?
• You know, there was some actual plot development in this chapter.  Thumbs up.

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Just came across this, first you had the original, then you had a version with a Biggie verse, now Lupe get’s on the track riding the drums damn near perfectly. Emily told me herself in Bmore during Artscpae that she is glad that the album is finally droppin on August 28th.

Download: Emily King Ft. Lupe Fiasco-Walk In My Shoes

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You thought chapter 16 didn’t offer much? With chapter 17 it looks like they are really starting to streeeeeeeeetch it out. We don’t even have much thoughts.

• Sylvester is going to joint GLAAD fo sho.
• Thank god Twan didn’t forget his velour jacket, otherwise even considering starting a fire with the jacket still inside would be plain silly.

Here is a highly disappointed PD:

Chapter 17:
Why was Sylvester going to shoot them if he didn’t like it?
There is absolutely no lyrical flow to this chapter…in fact, there are hardly any lyrics at all in this chapter so far…wait, that’s it? WTF? That’s not a chapter, that’s a paragraph.

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Wow, After all that Chapter 16 is sort of a letdown. Here’s hoping its like a slow 24 episode that just leads up to a lot of crazy shit, because this chapter didn’t do much.

• It looks like Twan doesn’t cause  high blood pressure, but rather some pimping smacking turrets syndrome spinoff  to kick in.
• Sylvester is a good life coach.
• Will Sylvester’s cigarette start an inferno?

Of course here is PD:

Chapter 16:
 Roxanne says, (sound)
 Tina busting out the twitchy eye…not exactly Oscar-worthy.
 I don’t have any idea where this whole epic is going right now. I mean, I never really did, but now? Even less.
 A pimp hit her in the eye and that made her develop a nervous condition? You sure that’s not a physical condition, Roxanne?
 Within 20 seconds, Twan is convinced to leave the streets behind and start a new life with Tina. But then Roxanne drops the bombshell.
 This was probably, no, definitely, the worst chapter in the whole series so far. I hope R. starts stepping his game up after this. If it’s just going to be this kind of ongoing argument, I might as well go watch Maury.

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