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The genius of Ghostface prevails.

The good word on the Wu-Tang just keeps on rolling in. According to  pitchfork (via spinemagazine), Wu-Tang is going to use the Beatles track While My Guitar Gently Weeps on 8 Diagrams. With George Harrison’s son and John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing on instruments on the track..

Ashanti Beat Jacks: A Retrospective

Over the Years Ashanti (more her producer Irv Gotti) has ripped the beats off a good many classic rap tracks for her songs. Now, I know a lot of other artists do this too. But Ashanti does it a lot. A lot. Some examples. Ashanti- Foolish: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPOtmqio1k&eurl=[/youtube] Notorious B.I.G. (One..

Fresh in my gray tee.

Good news for people who like to wear clothing — friend-of-ML and occasional commenter Peace Justice Universal (a.k.a. DJ Eurok) is selling t-shirts with the name of his blog/record label/movement, Upset The Setup, on the front in an ill design. And, if you’re not all that interested in “upsetting the..

Rap battles on Teleconferences? Sounds like a good contest to us.

Cassidy has a rather unique contest to promote his album B.A.R.S. You call 215-701-0998 this week and your best drop 16 Bars. Next week the same phone number will announce the 3 finalist that will battle via teleconference. If your whack or refuse to spit bars over your prepaid cell..


Elvis? It’s Blelvis all day everyday.

We haven’t had some DC shit in a bit so here goes:   A former crack addict is local legend as an Elvis impersonator. Only.In.DC. It’s one of those funny/amusing/kinda sad tales all mixed in one glass. Am I a bad person because I thought bad things when I read..

Some good rock from Operator.

  It’s hard for us here at ML to keep up with the rock selections, all out rock head connects are drying up, going emo. Limp Bizkit is still big right? I KIIIIID. No Triumph.We’ve mentioned that we like Audioslave, well today we found a band that right away reminded us..

Rock The Bells, San Bernardino, CA (8/11/07) Recap.

If you were unable to make it to out this year’s Rock The Bells hip hop festival out in the boondocks of Cali better known as San Bernardino, here’s a recap to fill you in on what you missed, complete with horrible-quality pictures. The Hyundai Pavilion staff definitely called my..

Virginia is for label politics.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIV1-ICkXow[/youtube]I’m sure by now everyone’s seen FamLay’s latest, “Da Beeper Record” featuring Pharrell, which hit the net late last week, and (according to The Fader‘s drop) is directed by Hype Williams. This is supposed to be the first single off of Fam’s debut album, Dat Missile. I say “supposed to..