Aw man, this is that old Ferrari F50 that I’ve missed. Scoop Deville’s Bobby Womack flip is perfect and Fif’s flow is straight out of 2002. Those days when G-Unit were running the mixtape scene were some of my favorite times and this record sounds like it could have been on any one of those tapes. Great record.
I’m not buying the headphones though.
Happened to stumble across this video today as I was going through music (shout to 2DopeBoyz for posting it) and particularly liked some of the writing on here. Yuna’s voice is awesome too.
The homey Pinder links up with Jon Jon for another dope video, representing the town nicely, even though it was shot in NYC. Go far. Again, think global.
The final track on Phil’s A Different World mixtape was easily my favorite record on the project, so I’m glad to see the heartfelt song got some visuals. If you like what you hear, download the full album here.
I heard a new record from Scheme tonight that features Astonish and I realized that Astonish is probably the dopest MC around that nobody seems to have heard of. Sure, he’s got some notoriety in his hometown of Chicago, and the Molemen affiliation helps a bit, but people don’t seem to be up on him. In this world of massive blog exposure, that’s insane. Here’s hoping he gets a lot more exposure in 2012.
Up top is a relatively new video and below is one of the first tracks I heard from him and played on SNSS in 2008.
Hahahah, this video is fresh. Good concept, reminiscent of Conan’s classic “lip-overs,” and a dope track on top of that. Well done fellas!
Damn, Robin went ahead and cast his wife, Paula Patton, in this video, completely sonning the rest of the industry. You win my friend, you win. Game, blouses.
I remember watching some of the Joe Budden TV episodes (side note: Joey is one of the most entertaining cats in the industry, hands down) when Drake put out So Far Gone and I always thought it was interesting how open Joe was in praising Drizzy’s work. Take this one, for example, where Joe spazzes over “A Night Off”…and rightly so, it’s a phenomenal record. A year or so later, he had the same reaction for Frank Ocean’s “Novacane,” which later led to this (Internet) classic.
Another year later, and it’s not surprising to see Joe release music with that same vibe, though he’s doing it fairly coyly as part of a side project with Emanny, jokingly called Summer Leather Vest (you’ll see the inspiration in the video hahaha). It’s a shrewd, smart move, because it allows Joe to try something new without fully committing to it. I’d expect to see some of this sound permeate his upcoming solo releases, but I doubt he’ll bring much of it to the Slaughterhouse project so fans of the rappity rapp rap shouldn’t fear. I’m glad to see him diversifying his sound though, especially because joking or not, “Unison” came out fresh.
The Weeknd’s first official is for “The Knowing,” and as you might expect, it’s rather open to interpretation. The song, however, is not.
After “Like Smoke” with Nas, which we’ve been playing on SNSS the past few weeks, “Our Day Will Come” is the second track to leak from Amy’s posthumous Lioness: Hidden Treasures album dropping December 5th. I can’t wait for a new Amy album, but it’s tragic that we’re getting it under these circumstances. So talented. RIP.