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Juan Epstein (Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg) discovers a provocative young talent on the streets of New York City. Something tells me we haven’t heard the last of Prince Metropolis Nome.

via 2dopeboyz

Shouts to smokeYYY at The Real Ish, the youngest blogger to send me stuff.

Download : Wiley – Summer Time

If you haven’t seen his video for “Wearing My Rolex” yet, you’re missing out. I’m not spoiling anything, just watch it.

Bonus beats: Dart Adams wrote a fantastic introductory guide to grime, the oft-misunderstood U.K. rap genre. Read and learn.

For his supporting role in Killa Season, Hell Rell will always have a space reserved in ML’s heart. This is the first single off of Black Mask Black Gloves (The Ruga Edition), in stores July 22nd.

Hot track, for surely. This is a single off the album Not 4 Sale, in stores Sept. 2008. ML Hollers @ Kardi coming soon!

Another live performance of Dangerous, this time from BET after the jump.

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Welcome to week 2 of the D’Angelo Remix Month. Every Tuesday in July, I’ll be covering a different D’Angelo song and an accompanying remix.

“Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine” was the 4th and final single released in 1996 in support of D’Angelo’s album, Brown Sugar. It’s self produced, riding a funky, organ-driven groove accompanied by light percussion that sounds like it was generated with drum brushes. Strings play in the chorus, but they aren’t overbearing and serve D’s voice well. Its jazz club performance video is very fitting.

A remix was produced by Erick Sermon for the 12′ release of the single, billed as the “Def Squad Remix”. The remix starts with Redman fucking around on the mic before the Erick Sermon beat kicks in with stiff, stuttered drums. The opening organ swells from the original are retained and Sermon adds spacey keyboards, turning in a spare, hard-hitting beat for Red to rip shit. Redman delivers a quick and typically hilarious verse then returns to do adlibs on D’Angelo’s chorus. After that, the Green Eyed Bandit himself does typically awkward adlibs over D’s vocals. Red closes the remix with a few quick bars over D’Angelo’s cooing, amusingly threatening:

“Hey yo dreamy eyes/you better run it”

I like the original the best, but the remix is still dope for having a Redman verse over Erick Sermon production when both were in their prime as rapper and producer, respectively.

Remixes of “Me…” were done by Jay Dee and DJ Premier as well, but I can’t find those anywhere. If anyone reading this has either, please send them to me and I’ll do a quick write-up of them. Just check the contact info on the homepage.

Download:

D’Angelo – Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine (Brown Sugar, 1995)

D’Angelo – Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine (Def Squad Remix ft.Redman) (Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine 12′, 1996)

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Be sure to check him out at Rock The Bells.

It’s always funny when people get really worked up about Pokémon. Oh, and if you don’t think Pokémon is hip hop, look no further than the permanently gun-toting Blastoise.
via Kotaku
Bonus:  a quick search for "gangsta pokemon" brought me this.

Talib Kweli performing with Pete Rock and Buckshot at the The American Museum of Natural History, thanks to Tunji.

Fucking hilarious.

I would be on that list of donators if I wasn’t basically broke.  Definitely pitching in on the next video, DP & Raf.

With that Jesse Jackson nonsense going on, this is perfect timing.

Thanks Steve to from Best of Both Offices.