Metal Lungies

As you know, we fancy Travis Barker’s drum work around here, thus we must share:

From The Roots annual Grammy party. Props to Eskay for the find.

Wow, is all I can really muster out to say, if you know who Coolio is you really do need to watch this. There are just too many things of note, one thing I will ask is what is the career of those girls on the set? “Hip Hop Cooking Video Hos Models”? This appears to be a weekly series, so be certain we’ll have the next masterpiece Chef Coolio makes.  Can you imagine if Cam’ron did something like this? I’d probably quit everything in life and watch that on repeat for the rest of my life.

Credit to EW.

More video interview, transcripts are endanger! P talks about his case and how the police tried to get him to set up 50.

Def one of the better Rick Ross interviews. Dude owns 2000 pairs of sunglasses? Truth be told I felt a little awkward watching Rawwssss rub & talk about his tattoos.

Let me introduce one of the top 5 daddies in hip hop, Trick Daddy.

This is so fucking funny. Damnit Mayer, you’re making it hard for me to hate you right now.

It’s been a while since when we heard the smash song, Stonger, for the first time, and it’s about time Kanye hooked up with Daft Punk for a live rendition.

Foo Fighters & John Paul Jones with the strings section was pretty damn good too:

and y’all can breathe a sigh of relief Soulja didn’t win anything, but Herbie (rightfully) surprised the world!

A Plus says the long-promised new Souls of Mischief record is finished, and talks a bit more about his album with Del. Watch the video for the whole scoop. Not a word mentioned about Prince Paul’s involvement in the album though- fingers crossed that was more than a rumour.

So Master P is really on this positive rap tip eh? While it has been done a lot better by countless rappers, I applaud him trying to do songs with a positive message behind them. In the end it’s too bad that he’s doing it about 6 years after falling off the face of the rap game. Having Romeo shirtless in a video for such a song, name dropping “A Bay Bay” along with some complete off the topic rhymes explains why the Percy Miller empire has fallen.

It’s great to see Bun B back on stage carrying on for UGK. Enigmatik was there and was able to capture some video and jot down a thorough review.

More here.

Move Pt. 2

For all y’all loyal ML readers, sorry I couldn’t come through with a Remix Tuesdays this week. Instead, I offer you this 2005-era gem, a fierce posse cut featuring Oh No, Roc C & J Dilla, produced by Dilla himself. Oddly enough, the music video for subtracts Jay Dee’s verse but he still figures prominently, lip syncing to the pair’s verses and nodding. This is was filmed after Jay was diagnosed with his illness but he seems to be in good spirit. Check out Ma Dukes rocking gently to the beat too!

A very underrated Dilla donut, with a brilliant sample. As with all departed hip hop legends, we learn to appreciate these little moments after they’re gone.

The J Dilla Beat Drop is on its way and will be posted soon.

In the meantime, go read Hip Hop DX’s excellent Dilla tribute in two parts, featuring interviews with brother Illa J, Jay’s mom, Maureen Yancey (aka “Ma Dukes”), Talib Kweli, Phat Kat, Busta Bus & more. The interview with Ma Dukes is absolutely heartbreaking but well-worth your time.