Today we conclude the promotional portion of DB49 week with two exclusive solo DB49′er efforts, one from Bentley and one from Kristmas. DB49′s debut album Happy Hour drops tomorrow, you might as well start pre-gaming now. The album is conveniently free, so you have more money to spend on beer and weed and DB49 merch or whatever you like to get fucked up on. As of post time it’s around 9 only in certain parts of Europe and Africa, the rest of you got no excuse.
First up alphabetically we got Bentley’s I Know. The song is a slightly off-kilter/drunken take on typical rapper/r&b chick collaborations, dedicated to the universal subject of bitches. You get a nice mellow nod-inducing beat from Mr. Beatnik, two hilarious Bentley verses as bookends, and some sweet crooning from guest songstress Ahu in the middle (her phrasing of ‘I know all the bitches’ is profoundly bonerrific). There’s also a nice little bit reminiscent of the ‘vertical hold’ gag from The Man On The Moon, you’ll know it when you hear it.
Next we got Why I Wanna from Kristmas. Here Professor Kristmas gets his Harvard on to give a 301 level class about the in and outs of the W2 Boy philosophy, with detailed arguments and examples and an appropriate soundbite from ATL to drive the point home. The song was co-produced by Bossman and R.Dot. It premiered officially last night on Baller’s Eve radio.
Big thanks to Codie G for blessing us with the exclusives. Art credits go to Bentley (who came up with the idea for the pic above) and John Turner Jr (who brought it to life).
A world premier from the Canadian mainstay Mindbender. Taken from his upcoming solo album, Jupiter, produced entirely by Rich Kidd and dropping July 15th, 2010.
While the rest of the world was out enjoying the weekend, Hunstville’s DB49 were working hard to make the world a better place. Pastor Eddie Butler (aka Kristmas) is close to solving the oil spill crisis in the Gulf by using nothing but Victoria’s Secret thongs and maple syrup. Slick Tony (aka ST 2 Lettaz) just harvested the first batch of Hengina, a new 100% organic strain of weed grown hydroponically in a 50/50 mix of Hennesy and vagina juice. Petey Wheatstraw (aka Bentley) is set to launch a team of three hos to Jupiter to confirm that in space no one can hear the pussy fart. Always on the cutting edge of eloquent ignorance, these guys are on the front lines of snatchentology motorboating towards a better tomorrow.
Aside from their important humanitarian undertakings, these titans of twat are also working on their magnum opus Happy Hour. Today I have the honor of sharing with you a small glimpse of this ongoing epic labor of love, an exclusive preview of the group tirelessly at work with producer ATX on a track called “Kick the Doors.”
Steady Bloggin proudly presents The Legend of Homebwoi, a collection of Girffin, GA’s finest material from the past and present. Original, intense flows, infectious hooks, fantastic beat selection and honest, 9-5 blue collar lyrisicm are what make this guy special and its time that more people paid attention. With his project with DJ Noize, Coming 2 America, dropping July 4th, a spot on Madden 2011 and a new cartoon on the way, now is the perfect time for a refresher course on Homebwoi.
Big Thanks to Alex and The Great John Turner for the cover art. To see more of John’s artwork and contact information please visit http://www.johnturnerjr.com/updates.html
Without leaking too much of what makes The Legend of Homebwoi such a great listen, here are three tracks that feature instantly recognizable (as long as you aren’t 17) samples that should have gotten this guy a huge deal when they were released a few years ago.
Steady Bloggin Presents The Legend of Homebwoi Friday May 28th.
Homebwoi’s re-imagining of Drake’s “Over” is the first single from our The Legend Of Homebwoi project. Not only does Griffin, GA’s finest rip this thing to shreds, he completely makes the beat his own and casually discards the original into irrelevancy. If you are one of the unfortunate who has been sleeping on this man’s music, prepare for a sea change. Steady Bloggin Presents The Legend Of Homebwoi drops Friday.
A few years ago I was on tour with EL-P, and during said tour EL had a live band playing with him. The band featured Wilder Zobey of Chin Chin fame on keyboards. You may remember Chin Chin from earlier music blasts and their stellar live show during the Ringolevio album release party. EL also had a fellow by the name of Kareem Bunton playing bass. I didn’t know much of this Kareem fellow other than he snored like a fucking maniac and he had a hella-fied sneaker collection. During one late night drive out of the shit hole that is Albuquerque, NM the lot of us that were still up (myself, fellow hangar member Ian McMullin, Soundguy Jimmy, Wilder Zobey, Photog extradonaire and friend of the blast SeanieCameras and the fore mentioned Mr. Bunton) were all up, drunk, watching the sun come up and sharing music, some we enjoyed and some of our own. When it came time for Kareem to play something he humbly said “check this out and tell me what you think, it’s some new stuff I have been working on”. I had no idea what I was in for, but it was jaw dropping. It sounded like Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath was chilling with Robert Johnson at the crossroads and making a deal with Beelzabub that in return for their mortal soul they get to rock the fuck out of your dick holes with the a sonic assault that makes you want to put babies in your lady and then eat some good pulled pork with no shirt on.
The Juggs are the fucking truth. I have had a rough version of this album for almost a year now and have been waiting for the day I got an email or a call from Kareem asking me to blast this fucker. Well that day is today. Christmas in April muthafuckers.
PS. The Juggs will be playing tomorrow night at Frank’s Lounge in Ft. Greene tomorrow night (4/22/2010) at 11pm (660 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11217 – (718) 625-9339)
If you’re like me you’ve probably been wandering whatever happened to Phan and UG from the Cella Dwellas. This Flatbush duo just had crazy chemistry together and always had a stellar production team behind them. Nick Wiz. Large Professor, Ayatollah and Rockwilder just to name a few. Recently we’ve seen U.G. pop-up on a few collabos like Riot off General Steele’s album and many of our T.R.O.Y. heads will recall the Nick Wiz compliation Cella Sounds that came out a few years ago. But what’s up with the new shit? Well the wait is over.
Upon checking out Addicted To The Vision I came across two tracks from U.G. that just restored my faith in the hip-hop I miss. If you need to taste the product first those tracks are available to stream and download. Don’t sleep! –Philaflava
If there was a version of De La Soul that I could say that honestly was from the DMV (or an extended link to the Native Tonues even), Poem-cees is very close to it. From the time they put projects such as I.O.U. Street and Paranoia to link with fellow DMV artists Priest Da Nomad and Storm The Unpredictable forming SPP Waxworks, these brothas stay busy. Known for their back and forth beatbox performances and slam poetry approach to rhyming, they’ve been prominent in the DMV scene for their originality.
Okay, if they don’t look familiar…..peep this bit from Def Poetry Jam…..
Aiight….now that thats out of the way, time to put you on some more game with their new album, “Everything You’ve Always Wanted” coming out this year. Not sure when but it is this year.
Here’s a sample from the album entitled “Honor” feat. Smokey Temptation (the voice may sound familiar, LOL)
And last but not least….artwork for the album with the guest of who’s who on it (yes, yours truly is part of it):
starring:
BLACKPICASSO as Marcus Busta
NATURALAW-dp as Gold Fro
DJ STYLUS as Nimble Tendrils
also starring:
BASHIR as Pay Shir
SMOKEY TEMPTATION as Himself
ODDISEE as Joe Schmoe
RODDY ROD as Benjamin McMulligan
BILAL SALAAM as Ibrahim Linkin
ARDAMUS as The black Shooter McGavin
PRIEST DA NOMAD as Grown Man Knuckles aka Mr. Moov Sumthin
STORM THE UNPREDICTABLE as Rico Smooth aka Mr. Melanin aka Nestle Snipes
APEX as Oliver Heavyside
BILL VAUGHN as Boogie Otis the Overlord of the Mix Board
KOKAYI as Urs Major
KERSTEN STEVENS as K-Solo
THEORY as Plushy Lowdown
TAMARA WELLONS as Ivanna Saang
CELISE as Laranegra Croft
DARIEN as Cyrus
CYRUS as Morpheus
WAYNA as the real Jamie Sommers
AND FEATURING ASHERU AS BLACK MOSES
coming 2010…..
www.poemcees.com
