Metal Lungies

I’ve gathered bits and pieces of these developments on twitter, now elitaste wraps it up in nice video form.

*Ben Baller grills coming soon (the impressions are done?).

*You can hear a minute & a half preview of the Wale Ft. TV On The Radio track in the background starting at 4:25, and it sounds fantastic.

Another Rik Cordero & Q-Tip visual treat. It’s The 3rd single/video from Q-Tip’s The Renaissance.

Treatment from Mr. Cordero:

A surreal performance setting combined with clever narrative elements will define Man Woman Boogie with fluid camera movement and cinematic proportions. The uptempo jazzy beat inspired me to think about classic films that feature relationships between men and women on trains. Off the top of my head, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Darjeeling Limited featured some great scenes between a man and woman combined with the immediacy and urgency of a moving train about to reach its destination. Upon destination the man and woman would go their separate ways and reconcile later on. The moving train to me is a great metaphor for the ups and downs, ins and outs and the rush felt between the forces of man and woman.

Always been a fan of MTV’s documentary style shows from True Life to Diary (they need to bring it back). The most recent one, Britney Spears: For The Record was a very interesting perspective on the life she can’t seem to escape. Based on the teaser trailer, this TI series looks like another winner. Premieres Tuesday February 10 at 9pm EST.

Via Xclusives Zone

Over the beat for Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle”. We posted about JoJo a while back and it’s been a minute since I’ve heard anything by him. This kid is a beast, insanely talented and really deserves a fucking deal.

Jojo Pellegrino – Grab His Bottle

Here’s a great video by JoJo from a year ago, with a cameo by Maino for some reason. The second track is dope.

There’s some more recent tracks on his MySpace.

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And he wants everyone else to be naked too:

So far we haven’t recorded anything, but conversations have been coming up though. That’s pretty interesting to hear the conversations come up about maybe us going in and doing one more fuckin’ killer album, but this time just have everybody take they shirt off—even me, take my shirt off from the door. So instead of coming in with your ideas and this and that, everybody just come in naked and build it from there. I think that’s something that we never actually ever did. Usually I had all the ideas or something or some brothers had predetermined ideas, but I think now, it’s like everybody in the crew is a master at what they do. And so we all got to accept that, even me, that as the Abbot I gotta accept that. If we take that approach, I’m pretty sure we would come with something very, very unique. I don’t know if that’s gonna happen, but there are conversations.

OK, RZA doesn’t actually want to get naked with Raekwon and U-God, but it was still a shock to read “but this time just have everybody take they shirt off.” Maybe I’m being naive, but I think the Wu is still capable of putting together a great album. 8 Diagrams didn’t live up to the hype, but it definitely had its moments.

via XXLmag.com

Here’s some bonus RZA gayness:

Nice to see 50 doing something Jay-Z/Nas can’t seem to pull off. Based on what Premier said a month back, I wonder who approached who? Check the ad-lib growls throughout.

50 Cent – Shut Ur Bloodclot Mouth (Produced by DJ Premier)

Edit: Uhoh.. Statik Says:

FYI that 50 / Premo shit that dropped today aint real 🙁

As a bonus, I also caught this amusing interview on a Conan re-run back from September from when 50 was promoting his Pacino/DeNiro movie, Righteous Kill. Hate or love his music, dude is definitely an interesting interview with a personality.

Via The Meaning Of Dope

A great little interview with Redman circa Dare Iz A Darkside, plus footage of a concert from Mississauga.

Here’s another great Red interview on Yo! MTV Raps. Props to the TMOD crew.

Ha, with Hulu offering movies- eff embedding a trailer or a video clip from youtube, you can throw up the entire movie, dope. I came across & watched this the other night after not being able to fall asleep. If you dig Airplane or Naked Gun type humor or want a parody of Kung Fu films (I liked it even tho I can’t really stand Kung Fu, sorry Bruce Lee) this is highly recommended.  Expect more random Hulu viewing selections in the future. I wonder what RZA thinks of this.

One of my favourite comedians right now, Patton Oswalt,wrote a blog post on his MySpace about how adding Jason Statham to various arthouse pictures would improve them. It’s fucking hilarious.

CHANGELING: Jason Statham plays the kidnapped boy, who immediately beats his kidnappers to death, then fights female assassins on top of a blimp.
CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: Jason Statham injects the backward-aging man-freak with a Sino/Chilean rage compound, and they fight in lava pit.
DEFIANCE: Jason Statham throws Hitler into a woodchipper, eats the entrails as they fly out the other end, and then shits out Winston Churchill.
DOUBT: Jason Statham drop-kicks the Pope through the core of the Earth, and the Pope’s head goes up Meryl Streep’s ass and then Motorhead’s “The Ace of Spades” plays.
FROST/NIXON: Jason Statham pulls off David Frost’s skin, drops him into a tank of sea salt, and then Statham and Nixon rent a limo and drive across country, shotgunning hippies.
GRAN TORINO: Jason Statham glowers at Clint Eastwood, who glowers back, creating a Glower Vortex which destroys the planet.
THE READER: Statham kills the teenage kid with a lawnmower, then fucks Kate Winslet literate.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD: Jason Statham drives an 18-wheeler full of nitro into the title suburb, blows everything to shit, and then spends 90 minutes hunting down absolutely everyone involved with the making of this film, beating them to death with TV trays.
THE WRESTLER: Jason Statham, Richard Nixon, the ‘roided-out Benjamin Button murder-freak, the Churchill feces-baby and Mickey Rourke drive cross country in a limo, with Leo DiCaprio’s severed head on the hood, where they crash the Spirit Awards and kill everyone.

Read the whole thing here.

Premier always has something interesting to say. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on Nas’ last album and getting turned down for American Gangster.

Aari Jubran via DJ Premier Blog