Or his new name…Marti… Read the rest of this entry »

New leak from the Boss Rick Ross (no more C.O. jokes from me, he left ’08 unscathed) and save for a couple bars it would’ve been a blip in the blogosphere radar.  However, he slipped this barb in there near the end. Read the rest of this entry »

Remember when Kanye used to be the likable/slightly hubris underdog?

I was playing Mashonda’s (Swizz’s ex) shelved debut album January Joy and was reminded of his not so distant past. It came out overseas a few months after Late Registration and features ‘Ye on the song “Hold Me.” The track appeared on a few mixtapes around that time, but I still never had it until I started looking for her album last year. I finally found the entire album and was reintroduced to it yesterday. Hearing him over this simple soul sample made me remember why he connected with so many people out the gate. Read the rest of this entry »

Some recent remixes that came out this past week & we just wanted to make sure you had them for the archives. Read the rest of this entry »

Basically.

You can click to enlarge it so Read the rest of this entry »

“You smell like tuna and mackerel…”

*Jojo @ 2:11*

Previously Posted – Fat Albert In The Hood: “Beware Of The Snitch”

The homie Shake said he was “on the fence” about “Anybody Listening,” the new single from Maple Leaf rapper Classified.

Well, I’m officially over that fence and headed to the party. Read the rest of this entry »

Aaaaand we’re back with a toughness.

Technical difficulties rendered all of us incontinent from withdrawal, I’m sure. Thanks for all the concerned emails… we’re confident you were suffering right along with us.

Anyway, weekend’s afoot and we have plenty more to speak on… so stick with us, good sirs and ladies.

Words By Lola P.

Coming from Toronto, Canada, seventeen year old Jahvon definitely has a bright and rhythmic future ahead of him.

His team sent me a new freestyle of him today with Mr. Kardinal Offishall on Polow’s beat for Rich Boy’s “Drop” record. It made me take notice. Being that I am from Toronto and write for several publications, I’m supposed to know about EVERY rapper on the face of this country…but unfortunately it’s kind of hard to keep up with this and THAT (the USA). While I was very familiar with Jahvon and some of his music, (Mainly a track/video he released last year featuring Lincoln, Rochester & Mhedic from the Foundation Group, titled “Turn it up” produced by Tone Mason) I still hadn’t taken a lot of his music in. After listening to the “Drop” freestyle, I thought I’d check him out to form a better judgment. Three songs in and here I am. Read the rest of this entry »

With big budget videos, huge producers and this new guest feature by Akon, Slim Thug and Koch Read the rest of this entry »

It spawned from this.

DJ Seiko & Dame Grease – Bloomberg Series

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No new music.

This is strictly comedy. Just a good hearty bellyache courtesy of the man behind the ad-libs & colorful whips, Young Dro.

Above is his reaction to something I don’t want to see, called 1 Guy 1 Cup. Apparently it’s grotesque enough to make him pray to God, tape his mouth and lean back until he he almost falls out of his seat.

“I can’t look at this shit…not through these Louies!”

Huh-larious.

I’m no genius, but “spy-proof” seems like too obvious an oxymoron to me.

That’s the word they’re using to describe the monstrosity of a phone, pictured below, that Obeezy gets to keep. Read the rest of this entry »

For every Dennis Miller & Bill O’Reilly trying to knock Hip-Hop’s newfound connection to politics, there’s a Neil Armstrong.

You can pretty much ask anyone (literally) who’s encountered him in some way & they’ll tell you that through it all, Neil is one “grounded” dude to say the very least. And to watch his rise from the dude politely asking me to take down his catalog…then granting us our inaugural Smoking Session. Since then homie’s progressed to DJ’ing for Hov, to working Obama’s Inauguration and, still, nothing’s changed.

He sent out this email blast yesterday & posted it on his blog. It’s his recap of the Inauguration Day events. It was so moving, I told him I’d be reprinting it in full.

“You need to grow up…Djing will get you no where.”

I’ve actually been told those exact words. Years ago when I was maybe three years into DJ’ing, by an ex-girlfriend. She was Korean. (ohh yeah u know I was gonna mention that – its called being salty….).

Actually that sentiment has been expressed to me by many a person at times in my life, even myself. Ask my boy Vinroc; at one point he had to pretty much convince me with his hippy lollypop land mentality to keep at it.

Hmm, well let’s fastforward to what I did for the last 3 days shall we ;)

The people of the United States inaugurated the 44th President – Barrack Obama. 1st time in history, we have a black president – actually as Jay drops in the new remix – “Our president is black , in fact he’s half white – so even in a racist’s mind he’s half right…”

That’s a line from one of Jay-z’ new remixes – You can download the “My President is Black” song right here. It’s dope, give it a listen…

On this grand occasion, I actually got to contribute a bit of my craft to the celebration at the neighborhood inauguration ball, and also for the 1st time in history 2 turntables and a mic were there on this grand stage to welcome the President to his new office. Read the rest of this entry »

Akooon and Keeeels. Toooo bad it suuuucks.

These two are certified hit-makers, legends if you will, and this is the best they can come up with? Even though he says we can, I won’t blame the Konman. Only Robert.

He used to drop positive singles, tracks Read the rest of this entry »