The interviewer is ehhh, but the #1 Human Being is entertaining as always. This will give you a little insight if you’re still confused to what ‘Ye has been doing with Graduation and 808’s & Heartbreak. Internal swagger is truly off the charts…and 808’s gets better on every listen. I really like that record and I’m still a proud backpacker. So there.
More Kanye goodness in this interview with Hot 97’s Angie Martinez. Hahahah @ the verse at the end too.
Kanye skipped across the pond last week for the Glow In The Dark Tour and sat down with the BBC’s DJ Semtex for a great interview. ‘Ye is the illest artist in the game right now, [Jay-Z] plus his interviews are hotter [/Hov]. I highly recommend checking this out…quotables for days.
Kanye West talks with DJ Semtex – http://www.zshare.net/audio/516729337e0e3225/
808’s & Heartbreak drops today. Go cop that.
I’ve been trying to tell y’all about Chester French for a minute now, but if you’ve been sleeping, check out their appearance on OKPtv courtesy of GregTheDude and Tunji. D.A. and Max talk about their background, their sound, and misrepresenting Inverse as “an instrumental hip-hop group” hahahah. Not exactly, but he’s still learning. Peep the clip and see why Pharrell signed these dudes immediately after hearing their demo.
I guess we should probably get back to some hip-hop related content, huh? Well, Obama is definitely hip-hop, but yeah…here’s a new interview with the homies Geo and Sabzi, collectively known as Blue Scholars. Peep some words from two of Seattle’s dopest. TBM.
Swiped from BlogsIsWatching.
It’s a beautiful thing to see some of my favorite people all working together. The homies GregTheDude and Tunji linked up with the other homies Com and Okayplayer to cook up a couple videos for y’all. In these clips, Common talks about his upcoming Universal Mind Control album, politics, his past work, and more. Hit the jump to watch the other two pieces and click here to check the last time we had Com on Sound Session.
I tried to put y’all up on Fortilive damn near 2 years ago when I put “Stereotypes” on my last mixtape, but now Mush, Slo-Mo, and Illmind are really starting to make their push. In case you still aren’t familiar, peep the video above for a nice introduction to the crew. Be on the lookout for their upcoming mixtape and album, both of which will be fire. Stay up to date on their MySpace page here.
Alright, after a few less serious (but fairly accurate) clips from Chris Rock, here’s Joe Biden’s post debate comments on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann. I love how they started with McCain’s most egregious error of the debate, where he tried to paint Obama as pridefully ignorant like Bush. Unbelievable.
McCain’s actually lucky that he has to debate Barack instead of Biden. Biden counteracts McCain’s only perceived “strength,” and wouldn’t hold back and be civil like Obama. For instance, Barack probably felt like if he pointed out that independent veterans groups have given McCain awful scores for his veterans voting, he’d get lambasted because he’s not a war hero like McCain. Biden’s got the rep to bring that up though. He’d tear John apart.
My fear, that I’ve seen others echo, is that Biden’s almost in a lose/lose situation with Palin in their debate. If he smashes her, which is increasingly possible the more we hear from her, some people will complain that he’s beating up on her unfairly. You already know that the Republican surrogates are getting the “Biden was sexist” arguments written out now before anything’s even said. That’s going to be the first talking point of that evening, count on it.
If he takes it easy, people will be impressed that she didn’t get crushed and they’ll over exaggerate her performance. Also, if Biden makes one of his trademark gaffes and does anything remotely construed as disrespectful, it’s all you’ll hear in the media for weeks. He’s got to be on his game and destroy her on nothing but the issues, without running up the score or rubbing it in. You got this, but tread lightly Joe.
Except, of course, when you’re talking about McCain. In which case, ether accordingly.
The homies Phonte and Nicolay called in to Toronto’s Real Frequency to talk with Arcee about their upcoming album, Leave It All Behind. It’s rare that people get to interview both at the same time, so this was dope to hear. Along with LIAB, they talked about the other projects they’ve released recently and what’s next on tap.
Check out the discussion on the Real Frequency blog right here and make sure you stay up to date with everything FE on the official site. Oh, and if you haven’t peeped the sampler, what are you waiting for?
Funny, I was just chilling with my new homies Cee, Bekah, and Notion at their hotel bumping some of Blu’s classic Below The Heavens album and I came home to two new videos featuring the man himself. This dude is one of my top 3 MC’s today, hands down. Peep the interview with Out Da Box TV and make sure to watch the video right below this post too. Johnson&Jonson album in stores on the 23rd!
Spotted on Nah Right.