Joell Ortiz – Summertime In Brooklyn
Propers to Mr. X for that second dose.
The kid Legend sent his latest which is compiled Ortiz materials as well. Enjoy!
DJ Nice & Legend Present Joell Ortiz – Brooklyn Bomber (Tracklisting included)
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That boi’s spit game is vicious G.,i was listenin a lil bit yesterday, now thats some feel good summertime shii
‘I can’t wait til I blow up/like a dedicated Arabic soldier…”
too many yo.
Jo-Ell Quickman combak ! 2008,
HisSolo Albumish !
(IHOPE) !
Im sorry, but i love an intelligent, ghetto-ass rapper!
He & LOSO are definitely trying to bring B.K. bac from its hiatus.
ps., i know u dont do many reggae/dancehall post but could u please make an exception for that Mavado f/Pres Barack track, they are two inspirational individuals right now…
CHICAGO (AP) — It took six years to get this far, but a jury in R. Kelly’s long-delayed child pornography trial is now deciding whether the R&B singer is guilty or innocent of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
Jurors began deliberating Thursday afternoon and continued for three hours. They were told to return Friday morning and were immediately sequestered.
The panel includes the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly’s Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
As they left the courtroom to deliberate, jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. He would also have to register as a sex offender in Illinois.
The 41-year-old superstar, who has pleaded not guilty, was charged in 2002. His trial was repeatedly delayed, once because the judge seriously injured himself falling off a ladder and another time because Kelly had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.
Jurors heard closing arguments on Thursday.
Kelly’s attorney banged on the jury box with his fist, he yelled and he whispered, he laughed and he pleaded for more than in hour in his emotion-filled closing.
At one point, Sam Adam Jr. referred to a defense argument made repeatedly during the trial that a mole on the singer’s back proved he simply can’t be the man in the video.
After displaying a freeze frame of the man’s back in the video — with no apparent mole — Adam walked over to the defense table and placed his hand on Kelly’s shoulder.
“The truth be told, there is no mole … that means one thing,” Adam told jurors, then paused and lowered his voice. “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Prosecutors wrapped up their arguments the same way they began them a month ago: by playing the entire graphic sex tape in open court.
The 27-minute film played on a monitor just outside the jury box — the lights switched off and the blinds pulled across courtroom windows — as Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Heilengoetter read through sections of the indictment.
Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape. Neither testified at trial. But as the video played Thursday, Heilengoetter told jurors the man on the tape is Kelly and that he controlled the encounter.
At one point in the video, entered into evidence as “People’s Exhibit No. 1,” the female dances and urinates on the floor — the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female. At another point, the man hands her money.
Kelly sat across the room from jurors at the defense table in a gray pinstripe suit, his hands folded in front of him. As the sex tape played, he appeared tense, keeping his eyes on the monitor, his mouth drawn tight and his brow furrowed.
“The one person who is responsible is sitting right here,” Assistant State’s Attorney Shauna Boliker said, pointing at Kelly. “What you know now is that this is not a whodunit, but a he-did-it.”
Over seven days presenting their case, prosecutors called 22 witnesses, including several childhood friends of the alleged victim and four of her relatives who identified her as the female on the video.
In two days, the Grammy winner’s lawyers called 12 witnesses. They included three relatives of the alleged victim who testified they did not recognize her as the female on the tape.
During the trial, Kelly endeavored to make a good impression on jurors, always standing straight and folding his hands in front of him whenever they entered the courtroom.
Jurors, in turn, made a good impression on Judge Vincent Gaughan, who repeatedly praised their attentiveness. All appeared to take careful notes, even when testimony became highly technical.
NEW YORK – Chad Hugo is nervous.
He’s sitting backstage for an interview after his band, N.E.R.D., performed a rousing set in a sold-out Madison Square Garden as part of Kanye West’s “Glow in the Dark” tour. He’s affable and gracious, but admits that the questions are “freaking me out.”
“You’re like my shrink right now, and it’s really scary that I’m spilling all this (stuff) to you,” he says, laughing.
Maybe that’s because he’s not used to the spotlight. Although he’s spent more than a decade as one half of The Neptunes — the superproduction duo whose whirring, funky soundscapes have become a signature in pop, R&B and hip-hop — he’s always been overshadowed by the team’s omnipresent face, Pharrell Williams.
Pharrell is a one-named global celebrity as famous as some of the Neptunes’ superstar clients, which have included Jay-Z, Beyonce, Madonna, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. He’s the one who makes the video cameos, gets the boldface mentions in gossip columns, has the clothing line (Billionaires Boys Club and Ice Cream sneakers, in case you didn’t know) and released a solo album.
While their side group, the punk/hip-hop/R&B amalgamation called N.E.R.D., is a trio that includes friend Shay Hayley (they released their third album, “Seeing Sounds, this week), Pharrell is the lead singer and unofficial frontman while Hugo is the silent, mysterious element.
That may be changing — just a bit. Hugo has recently branched out by producing outside of the Neptunes, working on projects by Alicia Keys and Ashlee Simpson. He’s looking for more creative outlets, and even says half-jokingly that he wouldn’t mind a clothing line of his own.
“I used to think that being in the back was cool and it is cool,” says the married, 34-year-old father of two. “But nah, you’ve gotta get recognized.”
Not that he begrudges Pharrell, 35, whom he has known since they were kids growing up in Virginia, his time in the spotlight. “Pharrell is a talented mastermind and he gets what he deserves, he works hard and he’s very creative and I don’t think that anything should be taken away from that.” Both use the word “brother” to describe each other.
Nor is he necessarily soliciting attention for himself: during the N.E.R.D. set, while Hugo danced around onstage, Huge happily blended into the background with the rest of the musicians as he played keyboards. In group interviews, while Hugo will articulately discuss the band’s mission and music, he doesn’t attempt to dominate the conversation (this interview was not sought out by Hugo).
Asked if he’s felt overlooked at times, Hugo responds: “I don’t really stress about it too much like that. … I never thought of it as an issue.”
Yet moments later, he admits that “people wanna be praised for the work that they do … absolutely that’s one thing that I strive for is recognition, and when you don’t feel that, yeah it sucks.”
The singer-songwriter Kenna, who worked with Hugo on Simpson’s latest record, says his good friend is not bitter at all, and has simply chosen not to be famous.
“Chad’s a really humble character and his focus is music and the furtherment of music. He has everything in his mind to make the best possible sonic jumps for music,” Kenna says. “I think that Chad could be as great a frontman as anybody else but he’s really focused on being the producer.”
Pharrell, who calls Hugo a “brilliant collaborator,” says the image of Hugo as the quiet shy type doesn’t really jibe with his colorful personality.
“He’s just trying not to show the world his true mad scientist and unapologetically styled humor,” he says, suggesting a YouTube check to see some vintage Hugo moments. A search finds videos of Hugo tearing up the dance floor, laughing with friends and showing a much more animated persona than his typical media moments.
Unlike the single Pharrell, he’s also self-proclaimed family man, who spends a lot of time with his wife and two children, ages 8 and 10. “I’m like a regular dude, I’m a nerd, so I totally embrace that as much as I can. … There’s more to life than just music.”
But of course music remains Hugo’s lifeblood. Kenna describes him as the backbone: “He’s the reason why any of this stands up. Chad is prolific on all levels, from drumming to keys to arrangement to mixing … when you listen to anything that Chad’s been involved in, if it has any color or any depth, it’s probably coming from him.”
To that end, Hugo is interested in exploring music outside of the Neptunes and N.E.R.D.: He talks about wanting to play his saxophone more, and perhaps putting together another band to play with, just for fun.
But don’t expect a Hugo solo album or clothing line anytime soon. For now, Hugo is committed to being a part of a team.
“I brainstorm a lot, but this is my band — N.E.R.D. is my band.”
Bitch stole daddy money………niggas kicked that bitch teeth out, now she running round harlem with fake breast & fake teeth………that’s not cool, that’s not wavy – Max B
“Yaaaaaaao-ah. Joell Ortiz. Aftermath. So what if I wanna relax like summertime, and so what if I fell off like a bicycle”
no aftermath. now ?! no ?!
Yeeeaaaoooohhhh!
Ortiz is a beast…Get a new deal already.
Somebody sign this dude!
I DONT UNDERSTAND why good indé records as
Babyground, Duckdown or Nature sounds perhaps
don’t produce (maybe just one, but damn) his first solo !!! He’s underground (but with a good buzz) and his talent is known but the hh world. and if he drops a classic, hh heads will reconize da ish.. and maybe a real good commercial success.
okay, maybe joel wanna a major deal again BUT inde has good money for him probably, with his street rap and (latino movement under him maybe)
peace.
“i got ayyybody in check like we in a nike store” -Joell
steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
good read widdy, good read
damn good read