You get but only one born day a year but when two of California’s most focused Hip-Hop artists in rhyme specialist Balance and Dae One, the instrumental wizard who never duplicates his sounds, it’s cause for B-Dae celebration. Read the rest of this entry »
Put your W’s up and cash in all your chips at the casino door. Balance from the Bay is going all in (again) for his next project that’s looking to put Cali back in the top mix of your playlist. In a rare case of dealing with emotions without being emotional, Mr. 510 scoops up Moe Green and J DaVinci to help rally the cause for a classic case of the polar opposites. Read the rest of this entry »
Take a look at this Tavis Smiley special featuring thoughts shared by QD3, Bishop Lamont, Talib Kweli, Devi Dev of Houston’s 97.9 The Box and Wiz Khalifa on the internet social media’s effect on broadening hip-hop mainly through social media. All the parties involved drop gems on how the genre, and the music industry as a whole, has transformed in the past decade and some change thanks to the web. Read the rest of this entry »
Like most artists locked down on Aftermath Alcatraz, freedom eventually becomes a necessity and inevitable since the album-to-year ratio is 1:10 over there. Still, Bishop Lamont carved his buzz out with a spoon until he was on the greener side of the pasture. The Shawshank Redemption: Angola 3 looks to bring his West Coast stock up to the premium status that’s alluded him so far with assistance from Bink!, DJ Quik and Dr./Warden-never-any-hard-feelings-Andre-Young. Read the rest of this entry »
This post should be prefaced with the fact we’ve long been supporters of Bishop Lamont and that remains the same.
However, this Aftermath cast-off sounds straight desperate on his ironically-named new video. Shot during the final days of the famous Fat Beats LA, “U Ain’t Fresh” finds Bishop stuck moving diagonally and clinging on to a way of life that is literally closing up shop on him. Read the rest of this entry »
– Drake won over big in the court of public opinion, as well as the critical ears of the review crew.
– Blog beef… skew it on the barbie.
– Remember, after you skate across that Summer school stage a few months from now that Everest College wants you. Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine yourself and an equally educated Hip-Hop head on the blacktop, picking out a three-man, Westcoast posse cut with every notable Golden State MC from the past five years standing directly in front of the two of you. You’ve got a limited budget, so any one of the eight-figure hitters like Cube and Doc Dre need not be contemplated. Read the rest of this entry »
Possibly a piece of his supposed Reformation, “Gone” finds Aftermath cast-off Bishop Lamont enlisting John Mayer to play the Justin Timberlake to his T.I. on this lavishly produced laundry list of problems arisen from love lost. Detailed, disheartening and interwoven with epic grand piano keys, pulsating pads and devilish strings, this track sounds like it was meant for sexual education classes and executive produced by Tyler Perry. Since most of us have been in similar relationship runarounds and can relate, Lamont might finally have found that link between lauded and legitimate success with proper label support and a Red Shoe Diaries-like video. Read the rest of this entry »
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Guys, I messed up.
A few weeks back, my long-standing request for a Smoking Session with West Coast pioneer Warren G was finally granted. As an artist I literally grew up listening to and who helped enlighten my musical taste-buds at an early age, the rare opportunity to speak to an idol was something I’d been bugging Gotty™ for since day one. So, it was quite stellar to hear that after years of waiting in the wings, our connects came through in the clutch, hooking up a phone interview to help promo his appearance in the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors tribute to his former label Def Jam, along with an upcoming seventh record from the Long Beach vet, The G-Files.
I got the call a few weeks later and, as expected, Warren was cooler than a cucumber and the interview came & went without a hitch. Until, of course…I got home to my Google Voice account and saw I’d pressed 4 an extra time on my piece-of-shit flip-phone to un-record the entire conversation/interview.
Heart. Break. Read the rest of this entry »
Featuring Scoop DeVille & Chevy Jones.
A few West Coasters you may know by name decided to get together for some ghetto gospel. Read the rest of this entry »
Straight outta right field, The Game’s set-trippin’ in Auto-Tune. Read the rest of this entry »
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The great Aftermath push of 2009 is in full swing, as another track has leaked from the camp. There was the 50 and Eminem/Dre/50 joint. Now apparently, a little Detox is order. Read the rest of this entry »
I stopped watching at the 17 second mark, where Bishop says, “You’ll probably see a Detox in December, you’ll probably see a single, uhhh…November.” Read the rest of this entry »
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