The Audacity of Dope

Day two of Wayne’s WLotD month features a little something off a newly released atrocity that hit the net last week:

“Boy, you know I’m on my bullsh*t, slip on a banana/
You just such a (?), shootin’ like Bonanza/
Dirty like that hamper/
Boy, you are not a man, you are just Amanda/
I bet that chopper bring em all propaganda/
Come on world, bare with me like a panda”
–Lil’ Wayne, “Guerilla”

Wow.  Did they mean to title the song “Gorilla” too?  Seeing as how there are repeated references to apes and bananas, and none to anything army related, I’ma go ahead and guess yes.  Sigh.

As mentioned previously, Little Brother rocked the Key Club in Los Angeles last week and the homegirl Mariko recorded some dope clips of their performance.  Above is the insta-classic, “Step My Game Up” (complete with a hilarious intro from Phonte), and videos of “Lovin’ It,” “Nobody Like Me,” “Extrahard,” and “Sirens” can be found here.  I can’t wait to see LB at Rock The Bells this weekend…

Wayne and Jeezy battled it out last week, but I think we all know there’s only one winner loser here.  The undisputed king of wack lyrics is none other than Dwayne Carter.  As a prize, Weezy wins a continuous streak of WLotD, possibly for the entire month of September.  We’ll see how it goes.  First up, a contribution from my Ill Vibes fam:

“And my jewelry is louder than an engine sound/
Big ass rocks like on the ground/
Dirty like socks that on the ground”
–Lil’ Wayne, “Let It Rock”

This is off one of Wayne’s countless guest appearances, Kevin Rudolf’s “Let It Rock.”  LOL @ paying this dude a ton of money to drop a wack verse, in hopes that his name alone makes the song a hit.  Doesn’t that plan backfire if Wayne has 10 new guest spots a week?  Well, I guess it doesn’t backfire for Wayne.  He gets syrup money for the next decade.  KEEP WACK ALIVE!

More with Janelle coming at the end of the weekend.  Stay tuned…

We’ve seen Nas perform this before, so I wasn’t going to post it up until Tunj pointed out that dude kept the CBS diss in, despite rocking on Letterman.  “I watch CBS and I see BS.”  That’s gangster and I approve.  Plus, it sounds better with a live band.

There’s a good chance I’ll spazz out to this song when he drops it for Rock The Bells at the Gorge.

There isn’t a Seattle Nike+ Human Race event, but I may have to get out there and do some running on Sunday.  Anyone up for “Murph” after the Keyshia Cole/T.I. show at Bumbershoot?

In depth too, then my alliteration ran out.  Peep this great interview with one of the dopest female MC’s in the game, Invincible, over at Sweeny Kovar’s Classic Drug References right here.  If you’re unaware, her new album Shapeshifters is in stores now.  Cop it and go make friends with her too.

(I was going to embed the video, but Hyph doesn’t do auto-play.  Click the image to watch it.)

The homies Phonte and Big Pooh made their way out to Honolulu for a MySpace sponsored concert recently and the recap just hit the web (swiped from Nah Right).  I’ve only been through Hawaii once, for a 30 minute layover on the way to the Cook Islands, but I’m dying to go back.  I’m sure it’s a blast but I already know that Aitutaki > Hawaii.

Los Angeles People: y’all can catch Little Brother’s excellent live show tonight with the Inverse fam down at the Key Club.  Be there!

Seattle People: don’t fret, LB will be at Rock The Bells on the 6th…

So apparently this Little X directed video for Com’s joint may not be the official version, since the BBC blog posted that Hype Williams did the real thing.  In the meantime, this looks fresh to me!  Even though Com has a couple shaky lines (“you’re better than that Lonnie” – Mark Jackson), I still like this song.  It’s no “U.M.C. (Universal Mind Control)” though.  Hopefully they decide to make a video for that too.  It has so many crazy possibilities.  If you need “Announcement,” here you go:

Common ft. Pharrell – “Announcement”

Courtesy of OnSmash.

(I know what you’re sayin’)

AllHipHop caught up with Bun at the Convention to get his take on hip-hop’s role in the political process.  That’s interesting that he’s planning on going to the Republican National Convention next week in Minnesota too.  I understand where he’s coming from, but you couldn’t pay me to be surrounded by that much ignorance.  As Bill said last night, “thanks, but no thanks.”

To hear more of Bun talking politics, peep the interview I did with him for Sound Session back in April right here.  Video swiped from Eskay.