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VIDEO: Roach Gigz “Goomba Pimpin”
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Main Attrakionz – Best Duo Ever (mixtape)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010I’ve been anticipating this ever since Squadda sent the excellent cover you see above. I feel like the image they chose may be a sign of the group becoming more and more comfortable in their own strange niche, and that growing confidence is translating into both better presentation and better music. Hence a kind of polished feeling is prevalent throughout the mixtape, ‘polished’ not in the sense of them embracing a cleaner sound but in the sense of an improved more masterful execution of the dirty weird sound that attracted me to the group in the first place. Mild spoiler… the mixtape makes really good use of the old hidden track gimmick, I wont give away too much but lets say you’re actually getting approximately 1.7 mixtapes instead of 1.
DOWNLOAD: Main Attrakionz – Best Duo Ever (mixtape)
An extra thought on the rectangular shape of the cover – it’s a small and possibly even unintentional detail but this idea has tons of potential for artists who release internet-only material; no cd/lp = no point in keeping the cover art square = lots of interesting artistic possibilities. I wanna see somebody send me a mixtape with a cover that’s a tetrahedron made of dragons and titties, let’s make that happen.
OFTB – Hot One
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010A quick follow up from the Death Row: Unreleased compilation we dropped a while back. Passed on by our graphics designer extraordinaire dirt_dog from the TROY side of thangz is “Hot One” by OFTB. The Watts trio were signed directly by Suge Knight after impressing with their first album Straight Up Watts and droppin’ a grip of successful underground tapes which spread through South Central in the early 90s. Their Blood affiliations did little to dissuade the nation of Death Row behaving more like a marauding gang than an organized record label, but it eased the tension Suge was having with his own people. In no small part due to the fact that the three biggest acts signed to the boutique were all from Crip neighborhoods, two of whom claimed to be active. This joint was originally featured as a track on the Murder was the Case vinyl sampler, but didn’t make the final cut on the CD platform. A shame as it’s dope as fuck, and in combination with Above the Rim’s “Crack ‘Em” would’ve meant they’d have had a hot joint on each of Death Row’s major releases that year. There’s also the possibility that it was being held over for their Death Row debut, a lost tapes version of which dropped a few years back.
Download Now: OFTB – Hot One
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Chase N. Cashe “Special”
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010VIDEO: Main Attrakionz – Still the Legion (dir by Avery Clifton)
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010VIDEO: Lil B – The Trap
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Lil B gets his Wu-affiliate swag on, complete with camo attire. An appropriately shitty (80kbs or something) version of this song has been around since June I think, but since there’s a nice new video I ripped a slightly better 256kb version. I think this is supposed to be on Black Ken.
DOWNLOAD: Lil B – The Trap
Tha Dogg Pound ft. RBX “DPG 2010″
Monday, August 16th, 2010Birth of a Nation: 4/29/92
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Shot from the eye of the hurricane in South Central Los Angeles moments after the Rodney King verdict was announced, Matthew McDaniel’s footage is as raw as it gets. Capturing an open sore, where uprising met opportunism, the documentary is edited into a video nasty melange of sound bites, violent rhetoric and hopeless frustration. However, it’s perhaps more notorious for its sampled use on Dr Dre’s post-King opus The Chronic. “The Day the Niggaz Took Over” and “Lil’ Ghetto Boy” both snatch the soul with a couple of poignant quotes, but to truly experience the sheer anger, it’s best to catch the whole show.
Birth of a Nation: 4/29/92 – Download Now
Also, don’t forget to check out Alex’s Gang Sign Culture in LA post as a fitting accompaniment.
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Squadda B – Black Boy
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010I’m a big fan of Squadda’s take on Everything is Everything from the Dear America Ep. Now he put me onto another dope takeover of a Cappa beat he did a while back, this time it was Black Boy. I already suggested Run as the next possible candidate, Splish Splash would be a good one too.
Soulja Boy & Tyga “Be Quiet”
Monday, August 9th, 2010One of my favorite pieces of recent rap minutiae has been Soulja Boy’s discovery of 90′s Memphis rap. For a while he has been building toward a full-on use of the style and it seems like he has settled into it when he isn’t cheffing it up with Lil B. The initial acknowledgement of the adaptation came on “My Clientele”, where SB drops a Kingpin Skinny Pimp reference (while pretty much rocking his style [and voice]). On “Be Quiet” with the venerable Tyga, his first verse is all out Yall Aint No Killaz. One more step towards (critical?) legitmacy for Soulja Boy or just a result of some uncle telling the kid he sounds like KSP? I’m A-OK with being the only person who cares about this, by the way.
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“Be Quiet”
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