Generally Viacom’s third-world channel’s award shows play second fiddle to the rest of the bunch, but not this year. Call it luck, tragedy or a little bit of both, but the BET Awards will benefit from the incomparable Michael Jackson’s untimely passing as you can expect every artist present will use their respective talents to pay homage to the King of Pop.
Words By Darius Sinclair™
B.o.B. Vs. Bobby Ray has been on repeat since Monday. Especially the first half, as I tried to decipher the samples. Generally samples never slip by me but sometimes a raw beat comes across and it becomes a priority for me to find the orgin. This happened with the banger “My Sweet Baby.” Fury makes a 2004-esque beat, but B.o.B. kills at will. Read the rest of this entry »
“…Just Come To My Crib, Yo’”
I had just eaten a sandwich with some devil’s lettuce when Gotty™ confused the hell out of me by forwarding this frantic blurb regarding the launch of Google Voice, written by some techie nerd from PC World.
The chatter surrounding a Google Voice launch was downright feverish Thursday, prompting many to speculate the event was imminent. Details were sparse, and the launch didn’t come, but Google is definitely ready to do something based on new info.
That info? How about one million newly reserved phone numbers with Level 3, the provider Google’s been using in tandem with Voice since the beginning? Does that get your telecommunications itch scratched? Read the rest of this entry »
There’s pros and cons to being a new trapper-rapper coming out of the South. With that particular lane more crowded than the express checkout at Wal-Mart, without any real skill (or a major hit single) to boast, it’s all too easy for the rookies to get lost in the [iPod] shuffle.
Luckily for Double D, he’s equipped with some musicianship that should get him started on the right track — with this track, “Yes Sir!” Read the rest of this entry »
You know what it is. Thuggish Ruggish L.A.D. with a video for “La The Dark,” off the Living Notoriously Gangsta Grillz.
Gun Rule!
Previously Posted — La The Darkman & Willie The Kid – “Well Respected” Video | DJ Drama Presents La The Darkman Gangsta Grillz: Living Notoriously
Don’t you try this in the comments.
I’m only posting because…hell if I know. DjayCas, the song’s producer, was politely persistent in his asking. Read the rest of this entry »
After a couple of days worth of repeat listens, I’ve come to the following conclusion.
That is all.
What a world that we’re livin’ in when Hip-Hop artists make trailers for everything short of a trip to McDonald’s. Regardless, this August 25th is the official launch of everybody’s favorite astronaut: KiD CuDi’s debut album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day.
Previously Posted — KiD CuDi – “Excuse My Mood” | KiD CuDi – “Mr. Solo Dolo”
Sunday, Sexy Sunday With Marie Soko
Poverty’s Paradise: Original Samples [Kevin Nottingham]
Anti-Social Networking Apparel [Trend Hunter]
Before Desert Storm [Steady Bloggin']
An Open Letter To KSK From Jets Coach Rex Ryan [KSK]
Driver Behind Murder Of T.I.’s Friend Sentenced To Prison [Creative Loafing]
Nike Sportswear x Livestrong x Mister Cartoon [Nike]
Michael Jackson Poised To Make Billboard Chart History, Again [Billboard]
Coolio Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges, Heads to Rehab [E! Online]
Going by what Gotty™ said yesterdayposting this is a no-brainer. Jaycee took his hour long set on Atlanta’s V-103 to pay his respects to MJ on Friday. Not much more needs to be said here, so just download and consume at your leisure.
Download — DJ Jaycee – MJ On-Air Tribute
Previously Posted — J.Period – Man Or The Music Mixtape | DJ Jaycee Presents Michael Jackson – The Soulful Years
It’s hard to tell exactly when Transformers: Rise Of The F*ckery Fallen jumped the shark.
Maybe it was the dogsex, robots humping Megan Fox’s legs or the Transformer nuts clinging about. But if I had to wager a bet as to when exactly the movie dove into the unending abyss of incoherent kangaroo crap, I would say it was right around the time that Amos & Andytron tap-danced onto the scene.
The internet is going nuts right now over Skid and Mudflap, two Transformers that are so offensively stereotypical that Tyler Perry just got the rights to air 50 episodes of a sitcom about them for BET. The speak “urban.” One has a gold tooth. And at one point they even confess about their illiteracy. Good thing they scrapped the idea to have Skid transform into a Menthol cigarette dispenser.
But focusing on those robots (or 3/5ths of robots if you want to get technical) is letting the rest of the movie off the hook when there is so much more suck to discuss.
So with that said, here are 4 other reasons Transformers sucked:
The “Comedy” – One of the reasons I wasn’t a big fan of the first movie was the hour or so of downtime between the middle of the movie fight scene at the end. The writers of the sequel obviously didn’t agree with my opinion, so they decided to make the middle of the movie a seemingly endless barrage of potty jokes and puns fit for the straight to DVD release of American Pie 12: Who gives a piefuck? At one point, we got two male bare ass shots in about a minute that only made the movie crowd groan. Yea, I know I just got ass-raped for my 8 bucks, Michael Bay. No need to rub it in my face. Read the rest of this entry »
They aren’t losers, they are Lasers.
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Blackout 2 in stores now.
Previously Posted — “Dangerous Emcees” – Review Of Method Man & Redman’s Blackout! 2 | TSS Presents Smoking Sessions With Method Man & Redman
I can’t even take credit for this post, as that belongs to mainly my man Zo. Inspired by SRCP’s Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love releasing in stores this week, Zo wanted to take heads back SRCP’s early musical history as a group.
Without delving into the whole history of the group, they’re one of those mysterious crew’s who probably have recorded material unreleased, floating around in various forms & circles, than they do available for purchase. In fact, “Butterscotch” was the first song that SA-Ra ever recorded together all the way back in ’96. A melodic song that oozed sexuality, an angle that would soon become one of the hallmarks of their sound.
“Moments With SA-RA” EPK where they speak on those early recordings.
The beauty of it is one of Killer Mike recorded a song to the track used for “Butterscotch.” Reverting back, the best way to explain the metamorphosis of this track & the group is to let the words of the trio tell the story.
AllHipHop.com: Aside from the rumors, there are a whole bunch of unreleased songs with their own little urban legends. What’s up with “Fantastic Vampire” and the joint with Killer Mike?
Taz: That’s supposed to be a single. That might come out on something different. The Killer Mike joint—we’re gonna’ put that on an album. The original one is called “Butterscotch.”
He heard the song when I was down in Atlanta while we were trying to sell him some beats. I played him about 30 tracks and he was like, “That’s cool.” I said, “You’ve gotta understand this. When you hear these beats, you’re supposed to approach this music a certain way. Let me play you an example of how you’re supposed to approach this music. Here’s one of our songs.” So I played him that, and before it even got to the second verse he was like, “Man, that’s what I’m talking about. I gotta get that!” I asked him if he wanted to buy the song featuring us, and he said, “Nah, I want to buy the song with your hook on it and I’ll get on it.” We gave him the track, and I headed back to L.A. I had a stop in Denver and he called me on my cell phone like, “I’m in the studio right now. I want you to talk right now on the intercom so I can put it on the track.”
The track never came out, so we might have to put this on an album. That’s actually the first song we ever recorded as a group, in the bedroom at my mom’s crib. We was all chillin’ and Om’Mas had just hopped off the plane. We had been begging him like, “C’mon man, come back so we can do this.” We finally got him back, and the first day he came back was when we recorded. So that song is sentimental with us.
The only time I saw “Doin’ It Well” slated to be released was for Ghetto Extraordinary (which was ironically shelved itself). Playing off the same sexual theme for “Butterscotch,” Mike puts it into his own interpretation, bringin’ a fictional lady down from her high class society into the mix of his world filled with Atlanta’s nightlife pleasures.
Pic: Fader
“It made me feel high,” Mike admits. “This how the fuck I feel at the club, this is how I like feeling. I had to return to that playa shit, I done killed enough niggas.” [Fader]
The completely different interpretation of the track is what makes up the composition of SA-RA. Too often, there are those who focus on their spaced-out appearance, the seemingly lack of cohesion with their music and the whole left field aesthetic that surrounds them.
Listening to an artist like Mike bring that sound back to more familiar surroundings gives it more accessibility…and even more appreciation for the original. It’s then that you realize, SRCP aren’t that many miles removed from your normal listening experience.
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Download — Sa-Ra Creative Partners – “Butterscotch (Frequencies)”
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Download — Killer Mike – “Doin It Well”
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New trailer for Hov’s upcoming “D.O.A.” video. It’s set to debut immediately after Sunday’s BET Awards and for those 3+ minutes the screen looks to be replete with Read the rest of this entry »
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