Metal Lungies

Why is this even a single?! The video may be the best or worst thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t even know yet. Check For:
Gymnastics
Masks
Big Words (a la Money in the Bank)
Discovery Channel Gags
Bikes?
Robbery Scenes with smoky suitcases
Windmills
Old men wizards
More Gymnastics
Crew Shots in Paintings
Young Dude doing magic
An adlib that tells you to “Bungee Jump, or something”
And much more….

After all that, I have to ask. Why is Styles P sleeping on a bench? Thats not hard. Thats homeless.

Not a good look.

Via The Rap Up:

A concept video of “Us Placers,” directed by Va$htie. It features child versions of Kanye, Pharrell, Lupe, and Thom Yorke.

This should seriously be the official video for the song. The kids are great, especially the Pharrell. Much props to Va$shtie for making this.

LOL at Kid Kanye wearing a mask hoodie, ala his outfit in the vid for Game’s "Wouldn’t Get Far".

Also: is it me or does Kid Kanye look like Jay Electronica with the scarf?

Loved the reference to Dylan’s video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in the form of the title cards. For those who don’t already know.

I’d like to see an actual album or at least an EP from this group.

Seriously, dude is in his 30s and he’s acting like he’s on a plane for the first time. Smarten up, 50.

And picking on Yayo is liking picking on a mentally handicapped kid. He can’t defend himself.

Produced By XP aka The Large Professor b.k.a. the guy that put Nas on the map, for the uninformed. Just a sick song, I heard it a couple months back and fell in love with it so naturally I’m happy they shot a video for it. I like the cinematography on this piece, it’s gutter and creative all at the same time. Something different at a time when hip hop is becoming too cut and paste, na’mean. Crazy lyricism and the double chorus is bananas, if, you know, you pay attention to that sort of thing.PS. I was trying hit ya’ll with the newest Killer Mike Panel Discussion yesterday and almost crashed the site, so here’s the link instead. In the immortal words of Cameo, Word Up!

You won’t find amazing lyricism here, but you will find a group just having fun who don’t take themselves too seriously. The reason I’m posting this is you gotta check the flossing of the mario kart tattoo  and lines like “I play bitches like sega” “You know what WII can do”.

A little something from Stones Throw to warm your hearth in this cold season. Badd Santa is a dope compilation of really bizarre and great Christmas (and a little Kwanzaa) music, from reggae to Miami bass.

Here’s a sweet little promo ST made for the album.

You can check it out here. There’s a nice mix of the Badd Santa songs available through the Stones Throw Podcast too, mixed by label head Peanut Butter Wolf.

For all my fellow Heebs celebrating the last night of Channukah tonight: Fatlace Magazine hipped me to Shady Records head Paul Rosenberg’s annual Hannukah Radio show on Shade 45 on Sirius Satellite Radio, with special guests DJ AM, actor Jonah Hill (Superbad kicks ass) & Marky Ramone of the Ramones! Takes a while to load but it’s worth it.

There’s a second set of shows available at Rosenberg’s blog, Paul Rosenberg.For those celebrating Kwanzaa, I think you already know.

Bonus mix for the season: A DJ Yoda exclusive mini-mix from Fatlace Magazine (who are killing shit right now). Act like you know.

LA-based rapper Blu (here pictured with Detroit rapper/producer Ta’araach) is going places. His collabo with Detroit producer Exile, Below The Heavens, is probably my favourite hip-hop album of ’07. It’s gotten accolades all over, from HipHopDX to Okayplayer, where it’s been nominated for three Okayplayer awards, including Album of the Year.

Exile’s productions are super soulful, reminiscent of Pete Rock or Jay Dee in places. And Blu raps about stuff everyone can relate to, from girl troubles to working blue collar jobs for a little cash. And dude sounds hungry on the mic. I’ve got high hopes for this cat.

I’ve embedded a video for one of my favourite tracks off the album, So(ul) Amazing, below:

BTW, you can stream the whole record off Blu’s MySpace too.

And he’s got more stuff coming down the pipe for ’08. I got tipped off by one of my favourite blogs, When They Reminisce, about another Blu album, this time with producer Mainframe. Together they are Johnson & Johnson, and they’ve got a full-length LP on the way, at the moment set to drop in April ’08. From what I’ve heard from the record on their MySpace, the album’s got a more quirky sound to it (I’ve heard it compared to Madvillainy by some people and the comparison holds up). I like what I’ve heard so far.

Here’s a video they put together for their song Bout It Bout It (No Master P):

The other project Blu is working on for ’08 is an album as C.R.A.C. Knuckles, which is him and Detroit producer/rapper Ta’araach (pictured above). Not too much info on this album yet, but you can listen to some songs on their MySpace page.

Don’t be surprised if you see Below The Heavens as one of Metal Lungies’ picks for the best of ’07 (our round of 2007 coming soon!)

It’s been awhile since the first instalment with KRS-One and Crazy Town but seeing this song on a blog was what inspired me to start this feature.

This time around, Slim Thug is paired with former Disney teenybopper Hilary Duff for a remix of her song, "With Love".

I can’t vouch for what the original sounds like (honest!) but the remix puts Slim over a synthy beat with hard drums. His verse isn’t AWFUL or anything; it’s just very generic.

But what really detracts from the quality here is that he’s rapping on a FUCKING HILARY DUFF song. I ain’t heard of that!

Anyway, here’s a video of the song with the remix dubbed over. Prepare to be weirded out.

SOHH has brilliantly got Tony Starks to guest blog for them. He just filed his 1st entry; here is a sample:

Even if the computer wilds out you can always back that sh*t up on one of them sticks. What’s that sh*t called? I don’t know. Mike (Ghost’s manager) is on it like that.

For some reason we get this feeling that someone maybe “ghosttyping” (no pun intended). We need to look into doing that ourselves around here.

Eskay posted this a few days back but we weren’t in the mood, but regardless, this shows you kids that you don’t need some crazy budget to make a dope video. We highly recommend watching the high quality version over at the directors site, if your internet connect is up to par that is!

More Ghost for you daily fix! With The Big Doe Rehab dropping today here are some Ghostface supplemental talking awesomeness on the set for the Celebrate video. Co-sign on Ghost’s suggestion on getting your grandma a copy of the album.