Mr. Carter, what are you doing to me. First you say you are going to retire, then you come back with a lackluster album. Then you come back with one of the best mixtapes/albums for a mediocre movie (yeah, I said it: American Gangster was just so-so) then you keep dropping singles that just kill one after the other. What the hell are you teasing me for? Do you want me to beg?
Fine, please, make another album. I need you. The world needs you.
P.S. Tell your wife to chill, she’s kinda ODing on this Sasha Fierce thing.
It’s been a minute (well, a bit more than a week) since the last update and I apologize. We’re getting ready to drop the new season of stuff soon and we’ve been slaving in front of computer monitors and screen printing tables making samples and tweaking stuff. I did find some distraction on Saturday however when a bunch of heads and I went to see GIRLTALK at Terminal 5 this Saturday past (November 15th) and crunked out with my junk out. If you are not familiar with the work of Mr. Greg Gillis fret not, I’ve included a brief sample form his most recent album Feed The Animals below:
Girltalk - Give Me A Beat
His music is best described as a taking a buttload of songs from now and then, compacting them in a garbage truck and then throwing a rave inside said garbage truck with a leprechaun DJ making it rain gold coins. Yes, it’s that good. His show was decent. There were a bit too many meatnecks and “cool kids” there for my taste but all in all it was a good show.
Speaking of cool kids, I was fishing around and stumbled upon this beauty:
Seems like somebody went and took sugar and made it even sweeter. I dare say that this remixtape is BETTER than the original. After the first listen my heart smiled the same way it did when I heard The Grey Album; all warm and fuzzy like. I highly recommend you make this download and crank it up to 11 on the iPod because as alphapack says, “This shit BANGS!”
The Knux just might be my favorite new hip hop group out now. They’re young, they’re fun and they have something to say, which is rare considering I can’t understand a gosh darn thing that comes out of Soldier Boy’s mouth. His whole thing is “Tell ‘Em” but what the hell is he tellin’ em? “You to can make it big if you rhyme like you’ve been huffing paint thinner over some beats made on My First Sony.
Anyway, check out The Knux if you haven’t because there is a reckoning coming and change indefinitely will come.
Everybody knows I’m not a fan of that “Love Lock Down” track by Kanye. The beat is dope but I’m over the vocoder. You remix (”mash” really) with JUSTICE and I like it a little more. But only because it’s JUSTICE.
If you like that hard, sexy, crunchy, funky electro dance music then boy/girl do I got a doozy for you. Crash Overdrive. . . Ever heard of them? No, well you have now you have. This sounds like they put on a pair of shit-kickers and angel armor and straight stomped out a dumptruck in a mosh pit.
Apathy, that white boy from Connecticut, is one of my favorite rappers from the past few years because not only can he rap REE-DIK-YOU-LIS, but he seriously holds it down for true hip hop heads. I met this dude once at an industry party and he killed every other wannabe MC there, even the dude I came to see, whose name escapes me now. Obviously that other dude was on some stupid BFDG s#it (”Bitches, Funds, Diamonds and Guns”) because he left zero impact on my computer. He’s a real cool dude too.
If you never heard an Apathy album or at least never heard him spit, you live an unfortunate life. You need to hit up the YouTubes, peep his myspace page and burn down your local record store at the stake because APATHY is The Truth.
Here he is over the “Swagger Like Us” hook (b/c the instrumental hasn’t even dropped).
“The only time I swagger is when I’m drunker than a pirate.” - Apathy
- KAGE
I was wondering when the next time I was gonna hear DOOM spitting. I miss that gravelly voice that sounds like he’s rapping with thumbtacks in his mouth from behind the iron mask. Throw it on top of a Jake One beat and you got straight Dylan Hot FIYAH! This joint, as well as other gems, is coming out in October on Rhymesayers and the line up looks flippin’ amazing. Def worth an iTunes download.
Tracklist after the jump (and trust me this joint is gonna be major).
So you’ve probably heard the original “Jockin Jay-Z” like 40 BILLION times (50 billion if you live in Brooklyn). You might even be tired to death of it. Well, check this: somebody (DJ Danny Diggz to be exact) decided to breathe new life into the undying Hova track with this mashup (I hate that word) which is kinda sick. He totally capitalized off the comment that silly opinionated little Noel Gallager said a while back at “Glasto” and made him and HOV kiss, make-up and make beautiful music together.
It would have been interesting to see Noel take this “beef” to the “streets” instead of wax. . . About as interesting as watching old people sleep.
Here is some nice morning booty shaking music to brighten up hump day. As a matter of fact, this right here might make you want to hump the person in the cubicle next to you. Just remember, that is sexual harassment and it is by no means my fault. Blame it on the boogie that DLake hath presented you in the form of “Green Light” by John Legend featuring that modern day Renaissance Man Andre 3000. Even better than the original and the original was already b’dass.
