The Audacity of Dope

This is my ish right now.  Off Delorean‘s debut album, No More Heroes.

Deacon The Villain, Kno, and Natti are back with new visuals off their latest release, Strange Journey Volume Two.  Produced by J-Zone (that beat is banoodles) and directed by Kno and Matt Hobbs, this video came out great.  And as we all know:

Just take your pick of any line from this new “Miracles” record from the Insane Clown Posse.  These might be so wack, they’re actually dope.  I think I’d rather listen to ICP pontificate about how magnets work than hear Soulja Boy talk about twerkin’ something.  Modern day poetry, at its finest:

If magic is all we’ve ever known
Then it’s easy to miss what really goes on
But I’ve seen miracles in every way
And I see miracles everyday
Oceans spanning beyond my sight
And a million stars way above em at night
We don’t have to be high to look in the sky
And know that’s a miracle opened wide
Look at the mountains, trees, the seven seas
And everything chilling underwater, please
Hot lava, snow, rain and fog
Long neck giraffes, and pet cats and dogs
And I’ve seen eighty-five thousand people
All in one room, together as equals
Pure magic is the birth of my kids
I’ve seen sh*t that’ll shock your eyelids
The sun and the moon, and even Mars
The Milky Way and f*cking shooting stars
UFOs, a river flows
Plant a little seed and nature grows
Niagara falls and the pyramids
Everything you believed in as kids
F*cking rainbows after it rains
there’s enough miracles here to blow your brains
I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco bay
It tried to eat my cell phone, he ran away
And music is magic, pure and clean
You can feel it and hear it but it can’t be seen

Music is all magic
(Are you a believer in miracles)
You can’t even hold it
(Do you notice and recognize miracles)
it’s just there in the air
(Are you a believer in miracles)
Pure motherf*cking magic Right?
This sh*t’ll blow your motherf*cking mind
(Do you notice and recognize miracles)

Music is a lot like love, it’s all a feeling
And it fills the room, from the floor to the ceiling
I see miracles all around me
Stop and look around, it’s all astounding
Water, fire, air and dirt
F*cking magnets, how do they work?
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherf*ckers lying, and getting me pissed
Solar eclipse, and vicious weather
Fifteen thousand Juggalos together
And I love my mom for giving me this
Time on this planet, taking nothing for granted
I seen a caterpillar turn into a butterfly
Miracles ain’t nothing to lie
Shaggy’s little boys look just like Shaggy
And my little boy looks just like daddy
Miracles each and every where you look
And nobody has to stay where they put
This world is yours for you to explore
there’s nothing but miracles beyond your door
The Dark Carnival is your invitation
To witness that without explanation
Take a look at this fine creation
And enjoy it better with appreciation
Crows, ghosts, the midnight coast
The wonders of the world, mysteries the most
Just open your mind, and it ain’t no way
To ignore the miracles of every day

(Are you a believer in miracles)
Magic everywhere in this b*tch
(Do you notice and recognize miracles)
it’s all around you, you don’t even know it
(Are you a believer in miracles) Sh*t’s crazy
(Do you notice and recognize miracles,
So many miracles, the magic miracles)

Are you a believer in miracles
Do you have time for the miracles
Do you notice and recognize miracles
So many miracles, the magic miracles
Are you a believer in miracles
Do you have time for the miracles
Do you notice and recognize miracles
So many miracles, the magic miracles
Are you a believer in miracles
Do you have time for the miracles
Do you notice and recognize miracles
So many miracles, the magic miracles
Are you a believer in miracles
Do you have time for the miracles
Do you notice and recognize miracles
So many miracles, the magic miracles

I can’t believe this is real.  This can’t be life.

Sound Session heads will recall us playing this record when it first dropped and now Paten, Tres Records, and Jerome D have linked up to create some dope visuals for it.  Just that raw, genuine boom bap that we all know and love.  Great stuff off Super Ramen Rocketship.

Fun fact: I’ve never smoked anything in my life.  Not even once.  These lungs stay pure!  I like to live in the reality that I’m actually in.  Am I really missing much?

That said, this song and video are…no pun…fire.

Super dope cover of Tony Bennet’s classic, plus great visuals, from the Mayer himself.  I don’t skateboard at all, but I always love these slow motion skate vids.  This one was especially crisp…

Woah…not only do we get some dope visuals for this great record, but halfway through, Aloe flips it and gives us a sneak preview of another song off his upcoming Good Things project.  Very few artists are as talented all around as this man…I once saw him kill a whole show just playing the trumpet and not even rhyming once.

I get rapped out quite often these days, and when I do, I love stuff like this.  Yes, this is every pseudo-emo girl’s favorite song, or at least it was when it was used in 500 Days of Summer, but so what…it’s great.  I caught these guys at a Filter event at SXSW and was pretty impressed.  Sure enough, when they broke into this song, every girl in the crowd sang along word for word…hit record status.  Above is the new US version of the video, to complement the previously released European clip:

Shout to the whole S.A.S. and of course the homey Phonte.  In Search of Stoney Jackson is one of the doper records in the past year, but that’s to be expected when Strong Arm links up with Madlib for a full project.  Cop that.

Some of my hip-hop buddies dislike this song because it’s…well, for lack of a better term…quite ’emo’, but I’d much rather listen to heartfelt topics than some generic, stereotypical gangster ish.  Jason Goldwatch did a great job on the direction for this one too.