Allow yourself to be sucked in by the overwhelming dopeness that is “Ill Street Blues”. Then dig deeper and find yourself completely impressed by the polished jewel that is Sugar Tongue Slim’s Demand More II.
Ill Street Blues ft. Black Thought, Dice Raw and Truck North
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Your friends, your heroes, your god – they’re all faggots in comparison to this movie.
Kurupt once made an extremely underwhelming DMX diss titled Calling Out Names, let’s hope this new feature won’t be equally as entertaining. It’s been a minute since I blessed you with my unsolicited and unfavorable opinions. You don’t have to agree, you don’t even have to read them but here they are…
1. Blu – Stop with the queer videos and these half-ass lo-fi tracks. Either make a real album, with real music and release it properly or just step the fuck off the internet. You’re becoming more and more irrelevant the more Fashawn drops heat rocks. You know Fashawn, the new Blu with some street appeal? Basically, stop being an aloof sissy and put out music that you’re capable of. Ain’t none trying to hear or watch this bullshit. NONE! I say this with love too.
ParieArtNommee. from Johnson Barnes on Vimeo.
2. Wu-Massacre - A big LOL @ anyone buying this. I’ll admit, I was amped when the leaks came out earlier this year but this isn’t an album. It’s a gank move and you’re a fucking sucker if you drop your hard earned money on this shit. For starters the album lacks sequence, true collabos (see Criminology 2.5) and most importantly CHEMISTRY! The entire album was phoned in and if they were smart they would have made an EP out of this crap and done the album the right way, the RZA way. You stupid muthafuckas.
3. The LOX/Jadakiss – Yeah I heard “Slow Down” and you’re killing them, but all three of you are some hypocritical emotional queers. First you sign with Puff. Then you spend the next decade berating and threatening Puff. Now you’re back on his lap like Brett Hart is on Vince McMahons. Oh and Kiss, I know you ain’t made a “wack verse since the 90s” but you ain’t made a dope album in forever! If you’re gonna go the Bad Boy route in 2010 at least get your money right before you hit the airwaves.
4. Def Jam – Either release the new Roots album or just release The Roots. How many push backs must they get? And this is just a pre-warning but if Justin Bieber is ANYWHERE on this album I swear to god I will eBay my Def Jam University sweater.
5. Doing Nas remakes – It’s bad enough we’re not even checking for Nas these days but now all these newjacks are trying to redo Illmatic? No, bad idea. Leave that shit alone and get your own identity. No offense to some of the great talents out there like Elzhi, Freddie Gibbs or Fashawn but leave that Illmatic shit alone. It only reminds us about how shitty hip-hop really has been for the past 15 years when your best music features Illmatic productions re-written lyrics to the tracks.
6. Yelawolf – I’m a huge fan. He just signed to Interscope which only means one thing, either a 2013 record release or a 2013 contract release. Eminem collabo in 2011 though! And speaking of white emcees , just how fat is Sage Francis going to allow himself to get?
7. Brotha Lynch Hung’s Dinner & A Movie – This is the Chronic of horror core music. Yeah I said it!
8. Jay Electronica – Great rapper, great personality, great person. Having said that, if you don’t drop an album you’re going to be Saigon all over again. Remember Saigon? Yeah, never do we.
9. Joe Budden or Buddens – Why are you the most unlikable, annoying personality in hip-hop? It’s not jealousy. I think you’re actually a good lyricist but your voice in unlistenable after 2 minutes because all you seem to do is whine. You might have the sports references on lock, but you peaked. No way will you ever be anything more than a yenta talabenta. Stop whining. Stop with self-indulgent videos. Just stop.
10. Snoop Dogg – General question but after Doggystyle has ANYONE ever bought another Snoop Dogg album? Who even takes this clown serious?
As is the case with most of Lil Wayne’s pre-Carter material, the Sqad Up mixtape series has been largely ignored by those who weren’t Wayne fans before he made the leap into “credibility”. While most rap fans were shocked at how much Wayne had developed as an emcee between 500 Degreez and Tha Carter, those familiar with the Sqad Up tapes were lucky enough to track the evolution first hand. Unlike the previous SQ tapes, this is a Weezy solo affair. Raj Smoove plays a bunch of the most popular beats from the turn of the century and Wayne shreds non-stop for 30 minutes and some change. Feel free to burn this over your Rebirth CD-R…
I already posted a very shitty myspace rip of this song back in October. A few people have asked about a better version, and since it was finally properly released as a b-side to their new single Get It Together I figured it was worth an update.
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – I am trying to break your heart (CDQ)
The band recently added another excellent cover to their myspace page – a take on the Kaldirons’ To Love Somebody (the original can be heard on Eccentric Soul: Twinight Lunar Rotation compilation). It sounds pretty good despite being labeled a ‘rough mix’, so naturally it’s time to dust off the old audio ripper.
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – To love somebody
Incidentally, if you Google Image Search “JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound – I’m trying to break your heart” some of the first hits returned will be the lovely myspace pics that illustrated my original post. To commemorate this, note the above picture of Philaflava’s current obsession.
Louie is set to drop his new album “Me & Everyone You Know” April 6 and here is sample of whats to expect. T-list is below as well as pre-ordering info. Check check it out! –Philaflava
Louis Logic – “Broken Record (feat. Black Mask)”
Artist: Louis Logic
Title: Me & Everyone You Know
Label: Pot To Piss In
Digital Release Date: April 6th, 2010
Exclusive PRE-SALE going on @ eMusic.com right now
Physical CD’s available @ http://louislogic.blogspot.com (from Louis direct)
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Featuring M-Phazes, Atari Blitzkrieg, Black Mask, The Day Laborers + many more
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Underground extraordinaire, Louis Logic, returns in 2010 with a brand new full length release. After successful solo albums, “Sin-A-Matic” and “Misery Loves Comedy”, the infamous ‘Drunken Dragon’ brings a project consisting of unadulterated and creative hip hop excursions. This 11 track album showcases songs that Louis has collaborated on with hip hop’s next crop of newcomers and artists on the rise. If you’re a longtime fan of Louis Logic, you will appreciate the continuation of his raw and well thought-out style, as this is a strong pairing of musical talents much like his previous group albums with The Odd Couple and Spork Kills. Album cover features original artwork by Chris Sosa.
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Playing For Keeps (with Mdusu)
02. Right N Wrong (with Bo Jankans)
03. Natural Selection (with Anecdote & M-Phazes)
04. What You Want (with Nocturnal Artist, Ivan Ives & Big Jess)
05. The Lone Gunners (with Bugz)
06. Knock Knock (with Lakai)
07. Party Crashers (with The Let Go)
08. Knock Knock Bastardface (with Atari Blitzkrieg & Roc C)
09. The Long Way Down (with KAWZ)
10. Confinement (with The Day Laborers)
11. Broken Record (with Black Mask)
It wasn’t too long ago I used to see these dudes outside of Fat Beats (NYC) slangin’ their shit. Looks like they made some moves along the way because they’re on their Dead Prez shit now, only this is better than Dead Prez if you ask me. Check out Duo Live alongside Griff, Chucky D and Kool Herc. –Philaflava
Ras Kass and Rhettmatic’s A.D.I.D.A.S. (ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SPITTIN) project is on track for a spring release and pre-orders are still available here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/raskass/ras-kass-untitled-project-2010-limited-cd-and-vin-0 until April 18th. –Philaflava
When people ask (and they don’t) what my favorite non-album Nas tracks are, there are only two acceptable answers in my mind: “Deja Vu” and “Silent Murder.” The former, a metaphoric whirl through the mind of an inner-city daydreamer, has long-since been iconized as the original source of Nas’ now infamous “Verbal Intercourse” cameo. But “Silent Murder” was an altogether different beast. The driving violin sample, the indomitable drums pounding out a pattern for tales from the hood. And yet, there are some that’ve never heard the song. To the uninitiated, “Silent Murder” was an original track from Nas’ sophomore It Was Written. For some bizarre reason, it was never pressed on the North American CD release and appeared only as a bonus joint on the tape cassette, European CD and Japanese CD versions. The problem? On most versions it was out of sync. Due to it’s bonus status, it typically appeared at the tail-end of the album (excluding cassette). Even when placed in it’s correct position (after “The Set Up” and before “Black Girl Lost”) it doesn’t sound right. Mainly because the beginning of the track still has the outro of “Set Up” mixed into it. Make sense? No? Good. Anyway, I decided to make a copy of the album with “Silent Murder” correctly placed and mixed seamlessly into the track preceding it – i.e. how it should’ve been done. What make’s it even more ridiculous is that the song was actually featured on the Columbia It Was Written promo sampler, which interestingly also touted a collaboration between Nas, Method Man and D’Angelo. I wonder if that’s sitting in a vault somewhere….
Nas – It Was ReWritten
01 Nas – Album Intro
02 Nas – The Message
03 Nas – Street Dreams
04 Nas – I Gave You Power
05 Nas – Watch Dem Niggas
06 Nas – Take It in Blood
07 Nas – Nas Is Coming
08 Nas – Affirmative Action
09 Nas – The Set Up
10 Nas – Silent Murder
11 Nas – Black Girl Lost
12 Nas – Shootouts
13 Nas – Live Nigga Rap
14 Nas – Suspect
15 Nas – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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