Metal Lungies

Loungin’, son!

The last couple of posts I’ve made have been, what I essentially call, “throwaway posts”, because they require very little effort on my part — in fact, waiting for the zShare links to upload provides ample time for self-reflection. However, despite the lack of effort, I think that it offers something cool — 10 dope-in-my-humble-opinion songs — for our readers, and that’s what really counts, right? Hey, who said ‘No’? Show yourself, coward!

Anyways, another reason for my recent laziness is that next week is going to be big… Mo’nique big. (See, I was serious.) I’ll be attending a certain concert this weekend around the Southern Cali with a certain incredible line-up and I’ll be writing as detailed a recap of it as I’ll be able to (hopefully with some pictures, depending on how many elbows-to-other-people’s-faces I can get away with). Also, I have a guest post already written for another person’s blog which should be up next week, and the person who runs that blog complimented me for expressing myself (hopefully that doesn’t turn any of y’all away). And, hopefully, the next Beat Drop post for Hi-Tek some time in between.

And then, after all of that… well, I can’t say quite yet. But I can say that it might make some of y’all unhappy. Or it might make some of y’all happy. Or it might not affect you at all whatsoever. How’s that for a cliffhanger (no Stallone)?

We may be banned in China, but feel free to bring the kids around these parts:

Here at ML, to quote one Method Man, “We got love for those with love for us.” We don’t care about your culture or ethnicity — as long as y’all enjoy the site (and even if you don’t), we appreciate your visits.

All we ask for is the opportunity… which is why it hurts my heart (though, admittedly, also makes me feel kind of badass) that this website is BANNED in China. [Cocaine Blunts and The Basketball Jones, sites of which I am a fan, are also banned.] A website called Great Firewall of China allows you to enter a URL and see if that site can make it’s way through the nation’s many “watch dog” rules and regulations concerning censorship of… well, pretty much everything. I encourage any and all website operators out there to see if your site is also banned, and then we can all collectively laugh at how ridiculous the Chinese government is.

To any and all Chinese readers (either those who live elsewhere, or those of you who somehow can access this site from the homeland): Don’t be offended — it’s your nation’s government that we got issues with, not y’all.

And lastly, to shrimp fried rice:

Let nothing come between the bond we share.

Last.fm is a social site that tracks your music, keeps stats, gives suggestions, lets you stalk keep up on your friends music listenings, and a boat load more. I have been using it for a few years now. I just created a group on the site where you can join to contribute to the weekly stats and see what other ML readers are listening to. I don’t know what the hell took me so long to come up with the idea to make a group on Last.fm, considering my profile is an OG. Well better late than never right?

Sign up for last.fm here.

Join the group here.

Like what you read on ML? Want to contribute? We are looking for some contributors that want to join the chaos that goes on here at ML. There are enormous benefits if you are passionate about your music like we are here. We would prefer someone that has good knowledge about about any type of rock/punk/alt. rock/electronic or hip-hop but other genres are ok as well.

Send a sample of your writing (if you have never written anything give it a shot, write a small piece about your favorite artist’s last album/song), a short brief about yourself, to Djlethal01 [at] metallungies dot com, please put ‘contributor’ into the subject of the e-mail.

I look forward to reading your cracked out submissions!

I know you’ve been waiting for the video ever since the interview. Well, the video is finally done and it was worth the wait. The video is well polished and it captures the beauty of hip hop in NY perfectly. See if you can catch some of the visual cues that match up with the song (one hint: boombox). Watch it in high quality quicktime here.

sidenote: I know there haven’t been many updates the past few days, but there was crazy shit going on in the world and I was laying in bed for 2 days straight, intensely sick. But get your eye glasses cleaned, you’ll be using them a lot around these parts.

Your remember a bit back we got shout outs from Squeek Boogie over in Pheonix, well now you can see Metallungies in MTV News segments. If you look closely, use that pause button VCR style, at about 1:28, you can see the entry we had about that Havoc freestyle. Nice eh? 

What’s funny is I saw this segment on MTV2 and noticed nahright & the smoking section but omitted to see ML!! So, thanks to Roberto at cornerstone for the sharp eye.

c’mon homie we major.

out.

EDIT:

Direct MTV Link is here ML is at about with 3:11 left in the clip.

By way of introduction…..

A few weeks ago I began to get this odd feeling in the bottom of my gut. I would wake up in the morning with my breath smelling like ether. Not the same substance which Nas used to burn his greatest rival. But a fume that came from the poison welling up in my stomach. The idea for a cure came to me in a dream: “Start a BLOG”, the dream said. So I made this:

http://newyorkrap.blogspot.com/

It’s a BLOG about New York, Hip-Hop, and our decaying American Empire.
I showed it around the Internets. Your boy DJ Lethal (The man who runs this site, not the DJ from House of Pain) must have liked it because he asked me to join the team at METAL LUNGIES.

I told him like this: I’d be honored.

So to begin:

Face facts: Hip Hop is dead. And I don’t want to hear anyone saying it’s still alive like ya’ll ain’t in agreement with Nas (He said It’s dead motherfucker!)

1. I intend to celebrate it’s memory with every word I utter (type).

2. Just because the shit is dead doesn’t mean there isn’t still good music being made. I’m gonna find it and celebrate that too.

3. I come from a hip hop tradition and that informs everything I do and have done in my adult life. But all music comes from the same place (and will one day return there when it dies) and I reserve the right to post any kind of music I wish.

4. I’d like to say peace to all the lovely people out there and say thanks to my new compadres at Metal Lungies.

Now, I’d like to jump it off with a joint from Nas, who was with Hip Hop during her final moments and came out the room to break the sad news to the rest of us (we were all pacing the hallways). The reason why Nas is the best rapper alive is because he can swagger and boast with the best of them but he can also be introspective and self-critical (something most rappers refuse to do). In this song, from some ancient mixtape I had in my closet, Nas describes how he went from Illmatic to “ehh” and back. It is one of the most honest hip hop songs I’ve ever heard.

“Read a book on Pablo Escobar and got on some shit”

This is a real lo-fi MP3 and usually I try to strictly post songs with high bit-rates. But this song was too fitting and it’s worth a listen:

Nas: The Rise And Fall

Until next time Kiddies
My Name is Blind Boy Grunt.
an’ I’m out.
Peace!

We aren’t playing fellas, ML is now getting namedrops (or cheap plugs :P) from the likes Pheonix’s hip hop radio station Power 98.3, good looks DJ Squeek Boogie (check his ‘Kick Push’ remix!).

ccccheck it out:

Just a quick note regarding contacting us via e-mail, something happened with our server so that if you have tried to contact us via our @metallungies adresses over the last month or so, we probably didn’t recieve it. Sorry for that, but now I assure you we will recieve your death threats, buy out proposals and cesis & desist letters. Spam E-mail on!