SOHH is reporting that Consequence’s next album “You Win Some, You Lose Some” is actually coming out. Apparently dude signed with Columbia because Sony/BMG wasn’t really a great situation for him. Its being executive produced by Kanye and Q-Tip, and the projected release date is around Summer 09. They don’t have a tracklist for this yet, but I am eager to see one. I really enjoyed Cons’ first album, and with the addition of Q-Tip to the team this looks to be a classic.
After the jump is Cons’ video for Job Song. One of Cordero’s best.
Must watch: DJ Premier sits down with Peter Rosenberg to talk about his career and all the amazing stuff he’s done. I know from experience that talking to Premier is unforgettable. He talks to Rosenberg about “Nas is Like,” “Unbelievable” and so much more.
On “Nas is Like”
On “Unbelievable” and hanging out with Biggie on Fulton street
On his favorite producers, wanting to work with Ghostface and 50 Cent, having his own album
Off the upcoming Biggie Smalls: Rap Phenomenon DVD coming out January 27th, right after the biopic. D-Dot remembers Biggie calling him to his side and singing him the hook for “Hypnotize” for the first time.
I’ve heard nothing but good things about the Biggie biopic, but I feel like it will focus on drama and omit classic moments like this.
ML friend Berk hit me up to let me know about a series of tour podcast diaries Zune is doing with Murs & Kidz In The Hall (the recent ML Hollers @ subjects). To view all of the episodes you need to sign up at Zune (here for Murs & here for Kidz). The professional quality production is nice, no camera phones clips here.
Yesterday while reading Modi’s thesis on facial tattoos & craziness (the Stephon Marbury interview is a.must.see), his Mike Tyson clip triggered me to look up if there was anything new regarding the James Toback documentary Tyson. While there is no trailer out, some French site has 2 random clips from the doc, which reminded me of how why I need to see this ASAP. Sadly, IMDB only lists a release date in the UK for 3.27.09. If this doesn’t hit the US (which would be a huge blunder), maybe a nice quality bootleg will come out of it.
Fascinating story behind this beautiful animated interview with John Lennon, courtesy of Current.
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon’s “bed-in” phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries traditional pen sketches by James Braithwaite with digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.
It’s incredible to me that Lennon spoke to this 14-year old kid without an ounce of condescension. John treats him like an interviewer on network TV.
This is the trailer for the documentary on Lil Wayne coming out next year. There’s kind of a buzz about this because the director is Adam Bala Lough, who is apparently “a respected film maker in the world of music documentaries“. Also because it will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. The company making it is QD3, the people who put out all those Beef DVDs. I’m not one to hate, but why were the Beef DVDs never premiered at Sundance? Those films are documentaries about the real life struggles of rappers… against rappers.
But seriously though, this trailer gives off the eerie vibe that this film is supposed to be released post-mortem. In Lil Wayne’s memory and shit. That scene with him lying down at the end with those lyrics playing. Scary.
After the jump is the unrelated (I found it on Quincy Jones III’s blog) video for Two Words, one of my favorite songs from College Dropout. I didn’t even know this had a video until today. Not sure if I like the one on Chappelle show more.
Can you be classy with a giant LA tattoo on your face? Apparently you can. I’m going to get “Thug Life” all up on my left side and the “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” banana on the other to balance it out.
