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Cyndi Lauper & Lil Kim Perform Time After Time & Lighters Up [LIVE] (Link Updated)

Posted by KAGE on Jul 21 2009 | Music


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OK, so when I read the description, I kinda thought I was bugging out. Cyndi Lauper and Lil Kim? Yeah right! That’s like the most ridiculous collaboration ever. That’s like Billy Graham and Al Sharpton collabing on a sermon. I must be drunk or something.

Alas, even though I have imbibed a bit tonight, it’s real. Cyndi Lauper and Lil Kim. . . TOGETHER. Why? Mandela’s birthday (OK, makes a little more sense) to make a live mashup of Time after Time and Lighters Up. I must say, it’s kinda fresh. Cyndi can lay it down for BK (even though she, like me, is a Queens native).

- KAGE

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KRS-ONE & Buckshot – Robot

Posted by KAGE on Jul 13 2009 | Music


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Hip Hop music is funny. It’s like when someone decides to make a statement, the collective unconscious decides to amplify that statement by making there own synchronous statement on the original statement. The result is one big ideology that echoes through like minded individuals. This could be mistaken as a “trend”, but it’s far from trendy.

Enter KRS-ONE & Buckshot – Robot. The Blastmaster and The BDI Thug ignite this track claiming it to be the official death of Autotune. Different from Jay-Z’s D.O.A. however, they offer a bit of a history lesson on Autotune and it’s impact on hip hop music. Peep the video directed by Todd Angkasuwan (he even has Buckshot doing a little dance on it. . . legendary!). I’ll def be looking for their album when it drops September 15th.

- KAGE

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Donny Goines- “The Breakfast Club”

Posted by KAGE on Jun 30 2009 | Music


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NY hip hop has definitely suffered over the past several years and not because lack of talent. The place where hip hop music was born is still being held down by older heads: Jay-Z, Nas, etc. but that’s just it; it’s the older heads that are holding it down as there is a lack of new raw talent with the staying power to garner mainstream success. Most hip hop music and rap now that you hear on the radio comes from “The Dirty”, “Chi-Town” and “The Left Coast”.

Enter Donny Goines.

Donny Goines while newish to the game has a solid flow, immense beats and the personality and attitude needed right now from a New York rapper. I won’t get into a track-by-track review of his sophomore album The Breakfast Club (although I easily could), instead I’ll give you the link so you can download the full album for free and judge for yourselves.

Goines is a BEAST! Download: Donny Goines – The Breakfast Club
Tracklist after the jump.
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Micahel Jackson R.I.P.

Posted by KAGE on Jun 25 2009 | Music


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Michael Jackson – Bad (Mowgli is Bad Remix)

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He’ll always be BAD to me.

M.J.R.I.P.
- KAGE

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Whatever Happened To. . .

Posted by KAGE on Jun 24 2009 | Music


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Fannypack?

They were around way before M.I.A. and Santogold. They helped usher in the whole female neo punk-rap-electro-dance-rock movement of the 2000s all whilst representing Brooklyn HARD. Far as I recall, they released 2.5 albums, appeared on a couple sountracks (Harold and Kumar, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry) and then gone with the wind. I wonder what the ladies are up too now. Whatever it is, they’re probably looking fine doing it.

fannypack – hey mami (tokyo drift)

- KAGE

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arisa itami – when I look in your eyes

Posted by KAGE on Jun 21 2009 | Music


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My girl Arisa from Ouchi Gallery is much more than a gallery owner and curator. She also sings in a group called Room 507. Check her out in her first “music film” directed by Daniel Frei.

YouTube – arisa itami – when I look in your eyes.

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VIDEO: Bashekia – A.I.M.

Posted by The ShadowPlastic Label on May 26 2009 | Music


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I am loving the water color style animation of this music video. Very dark and very moving. It reminds me of Jae Lee’s artwork a bit.

Bashekia - A.I.M.

Ready. . . A.I.M. . . Fire!
- blogmaster X

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AUDIO/VIDEO: Kid Cudi – “Superboo”

Posted by KAGE on Mar 12 2009 | Music


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That dude Kid Cudi can’t really do wrong in my book. That guest on Kanye’s Welcome To Heartbreak and that Day And Night track pretty much sealed it for me. But this right here, this laminates it.

Damn, makes me wanna go out and find a “Superboo”.
- KAGE

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AUDIO/VIDEO: Se7en – Girls (Feat. Lil Kim)

Posted by KAGE on Mar 12 2009 | Music


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Wait a minute? Do my eyes decieve me or is this dude grinding all up on Lil Kim. . . Uhm. . . Not Black and not Justin Timberlake?

Ohhhhh SPIT, Asians on the come up!
- KAGE

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VIDEO/AUDIO: Lil Wayne – “Prom Queen”

Posted by KAGE on Mar 04 2009 | Music


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I don’t know, are you feeling this?

And wait, is that REALLY KORN doing the instrumentation. Why yes, yes it is.

I didn’t even go to my prom.
- KAGE

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