The Audacity of Dope

This makes no kind of sense whatsoever.  I love tricks like these.

If Lu didn’t just remind everyone that he might be the dopest MC in the game, I’d be slightly worried that he’s headed in this direction with his music.  While it’s not bad, I’d much rather he continue to murder the mic like we all know he can.  Thankfully, it looks like this is a one-off for the Twilight* soundtrack.

*I will never see this movie.  In a million years.  No.

As I mentioned when the “Whiplash” video dropped and previewed this track at the end, “Young Black Male” is one of the illest records of the year, hands down.  Even though the Pac Div homies haven’t shot an official video for it, this fan made project using clips from Boyz N The Hood works quite well.

“Rickyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” 🙁

BOOOOOOOOOGIEMAAAAAAAAAAAN.

Ahem, excuse me.  Nabil is a beast.

Long story short: my PC caught a virus, the virus hacked this site, and then my Mac had issues all last week as well.  It’s taken me since then to finally get things back up and running, so apologies on the lack of updates for TAOD, but I think we might be back in business.  You’ll notice a slight redesign of the site too.  Looks a bit sleeker, eh?  “All black everything…”

Anyway, one of the few things keeping me sane throughout the madness has been Robin Thicke’s new album, Sex Therapy.  Despite some corny lyrics here and there, it’s a strong effort throughout and there are some really dope standouts.  Peep the video for the title track above, “produced” by Polow Da Don…not mad at this at all, especially @ the scene starting around 1:22. Hello.

I’m kind of on a string of posting Seattle related ish, but how can you blame me when we make songs and videos like this?  Great job by Stephan Gray on the direction as well.

For the record, Rik Rude and P-Smoov’s collab album as Fresh Espresso was one of my favorite LP’s of the year, from any region.  If you haven’t checked the record, you’re losing.

Type (aka, Jeff from my middle school days) is about to drop the video for his newest batch of hilarity, “Man Crush,” but before it’s released at the end of the month, he’s releasing this teaser.  Peep the video to see reactions from some of the dopest folks around town, including yours truly, as we watch the clip for the first time.  It’s so wrong, it’s right.

And if you’ve never seen it, here’s the video for Type & Grieves’ “My Girlfriend Beats Me” from a few years back.  I make another cameo in this one too hahah:

The homey Casey linked up with the other homies Thurz & Y-O for an interview at their Neumos show the other day in Seattle.  Homies everywhere!

Look out for the A Love Supreme documentary to drop soon, narrated by yours truly…

The official voice of Sound Session, D. Black just dropped his new video for “Yesterday” off Ali’Yah, which is in stores now.  Stop playing checkers and get with chess.  Cop that.

Thanks to some horrible virus issues on my PC, my life sucks right now.  While I desperately try to save the important files off that comp, I wanted to toss up Shafiq Husayn’s new video for “Lil’ Girl.”  Not only is a great record and dope clip, but it’s the first ever music video directed by the 5-C’s own GregTheDude!  The homey from college is doing big things…congrats Greg!

And now if you’ll excuse me, it’s back to tinkering with my desktop comp.  Oh PC, why can’t you run like this new MacBook Pro?