The homey David Dallas is gearing up for his Duck Down assisted assault on the North American market after conquering his homeland, New Zealand, and he’s just released the visuals for “Caught In A Daze” with Freddie Gibbs. Shot in Los Angeles and Papatoetoe (how many videos can say that?) by Askew1, the track can also be downloaded here:
(hint: floating left is when I like to pull the most)
As I’ve mentioned on the blog and Twitter, I traveled down to Austin last week for SXSW. In addition to all the incredible shows I saw and artists I chopped it up with, I had the privilege to play in the first annual HoopxHang 3 on 3 tournament. John Gotty of the Smoking Section (my personal favorite blog because of the care they put in their write ups and their excellent musical taste), Nick Huff of Hard Knock TV, and Nike Basketball organized the event and invited about 50 artists, DJ’s, managers, bloggers, record label reps, and other industry folks to take their talents to Doris Miller Auditorium.
Anyone who knows me personally knows that as much as I live and breathe music, sports has always been 329318239128x the passion in my life. I’ll go play any game, anytime, anywhere, so I was just excited to get a little run in during the trip. Also, every time these rappers come through Sound Session, you should hear them go on and on about their skills on the court. After all that talk, I finally got to play with a few of the homies! Topping it all off, Nike came through with free gear from head to toe. #winning!
Special shout to my two teammates: Kenny, a friend of The Smoking Section’s John Gotty, and Chris (pictured below) from Hollyweerd. We didn’t know what squad we would be on before we began, but we meshed pretty nicely.
After winning our first two games (yours truly with the game winners in each…#humblebrag), we were ousted in the semi-finals against the eventual champions…these guys:
That would be Push Montana (who turned into Khalid El-Amin against us), Brock (Diamond Supply), and Dutch (Smokers Club). They had a solid mix of skill, size, and intensity that proved too much for the competition as they knocked off the Pac Div homies (below) in the Championship.
Despite what had to be a logistical nightmare, the event went off without a hitch and everyone had a great time. Hats off to everyone who organized and participated and thanks again to Gotty and Nick for the invitation. Looking forward to it being bigger and better next year…perhaps we could we see a little 5 on 5 action? We need to get these rappers in shape!
Be sure to check out the official recap with more pictures and stories over at The Smoking Section.
New fire from the Kooley High homies featuring a Median sighting! These guys make some of my favorite music out right now…
Mitch: The homie Logics just dropped his first video off of his #Problematic EPÂ which you can download here if you haven’t already. Video directed by Altrac Productions, enjoy.
Hyphen: Did they film this at Fort Lewis? Swag.
New visuals for Big K.R.I.T.’s “Dreamin’,” of his upcoming Returnof4eva project that comes out March 28th for the freeeeee. Krit is one of the best up and coming artists in the game and it’s crazy that he also handles his production. How many other dope artists are doing that these days?
Mitch: Here it is folks, the debut solo project from the recent G.O.O.D. Music addition, Pusha T, featuring appearances from Rick Ross, Kanye, 50 Cent & more. Now we just need that new Clipse album and we’re set. Download link below…
1. Intro
2. My God
3. I Still Wanna f. Rick Ross & Ab-Liva
4. Money On My Mind Freestyle
5. Feeling Myself f. Kevin Cossom
6. Blow (Funk Flex Freestyle)
7. Cook It Down Freestyle
8. Open Your Eyes
9. Can I Live Freestyle
10. Raid f. 50 Cent & Pharrell
11. Touch It f. Kanye West
12. Speakers Going Hammer Freestyle
13. Alone in Vegas (Outro)
When Talib called in to SNSS a few months ago, he was surprised that we liked this song enough to play it on our show. His reasoning was that our show is somewhat known for playing “real” hip-hop, which somehow has a connotation that we might shy away from playing “the girl song” from an album. On the contrary, we love girls!
And I love this record.
Something tells me Rittz is gonna have a big 2011. Directed by Yelawolf, who also guest stars in the clip. Grab the whole album, also named White Jesus, right here.
New visuals from Derek Pike off Daytona’s The Interlude tape, which is one of the few recent releases to achieve the vaunted “Hyphen’s iPod” status. In other words, it’s dope as hell. Download it here.
I cannot wait to hear Jay Elec rap over this.