The homey M-Dot dropped this video recently and I kept meaning to post it up. Better late than never…and for the record, you can’t go wrong with that O’Jays sample, especially with M-Dot spitting some fire over it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, time to go have some holiday dinner with the fam-a-lam. Hope y’all are doing the same.
The long awaited video for Macklemore’s ode to Seattle and our hip-hop community is finally here, and as expected, Mack and director Zia Mohajerjasbi knocked it out the park. Shout to everyone involved in the song, video, and our scene. It was an honor to make a quick cameo in a clip that’s sure to be a town classic and I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I do.
“I know, it’s not the same, it never will be/
But my-my-my-my city’s filthy”
Yessir! It’s getting closer and closer to the release of DRG Films’ documentary on U-N-I & Ro Blvd.’s A Love Supreme project.
*cough* narrated by yours truly *cough*
Also, Y-O and Thurzday leaked a new track off the upcoming re-release of the album, due out February 23rd.
Enjoy!
I know I’m a little late on this, especially since I’ve been bumping the tape non-stop ever since OU sent it out, but better late than never. Outasight is one of my favorite artists these days and this project shows exactly why. He’s a dope MC, vocalist, and is forward thinking with his art. Plus he’s just a cool dude. Download this immediately:
Download here.
Congrats to Outasight for recently signing to Asylum/Warner Bros. Records as well. I hear the head of WBR is personally really excited about the signing, so it looks like they might actually give him the push he deserves in 2010…
We used this instrumental on SNSS this week and I realized that a lot of folks out there might not be familiar with the original track. “Rock Wit U” is off Jeff’s 2002 The Magnificent album and in my opinion, it’s a new school classic. It’s one of the smoothest joints of the past 10 years and should be on every R&B lover’s top list of the 2000’s, but it’s always been criminally slept on. I bet most of y’all didn’t even know it had a video, huh?
For better or worse, this week’s SNSS archive is coming to you live from my “vacation,” down in sunny San Diego. In reality, I don’t think anyone in the music industry, or even anyone under about 40, takes a traditional vacation anymore, but at least I get to avoid the office for a week. Plus, the winter weather in SoCal is a bit nicer than the old Pacific NW. The hammock and the hot tub don’t hurt either…
On this week’s show, check out new music from artists like Strong Arm Steady, Outasight, Slum Village, Jay Electronica, Miike Snow, Robin Thicke, Shaun Boothe, Maxwell, Lupe Fiasco, and more. Plus, we were joined in studio by the homies Grieves and Budo, who debuted a brand new song for us and hinted at a big announcement they’ll be revealing soon. Again, more big things happening for talented cats from Seattle, you gotta love it.
Tune in next week for our Best of 2009 show…scientifically engineered to blow every other year end wrap up out the water, believe that.
Show #238 (12-20-09)
- Laws ft. Jay Rock – “Number One”
- Clipse – “Freedom”
- Strong Arm Steady ft. Phonte – “Best Of Times”
- Outasight – “Downtown In My Mind”
- Slum Village – “Da Night”
- **INTERVIEW WITH GRIEVES & BUDO, PT. 1**
- Grieves & Budo – “Smile For The Blade” (Local Music)
- Jay Electronica – “Exhibit C”
- **INTERVIEW WITH GRIEVES & BUDO, PT. 2**
- Drake ft. Colin Munroe – “Runaway Girl”
- Theophilus London – “Humdrum Town”
- RJD2 ft. Kenna – “Games You Can Win”
- Miike Snow – “Animal (Mark Ronson Remix)”
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Champagne Champagne & Buffalo Madonna – “Kings” (Local Music)
- Lupe Fiasco – “The National Anthem”
- Robin Thicke ft. Jay-Z – “Meiple”
- Shaun Boothe ft. Talib Kweli – “Concepts”
- Grynch – “The Right Way” (Local Music)
- Esinchill – “Daddy Was A Sailorman”
- Sade – “Soldier Of Love”
- Maxwell ft. Nas – “Help Somebody (Remix)”
Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?mtmmywf5jyj
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/70211895c39fecc0/)
If there are any problems with the links or if you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.
Big shout to the Crew54 fam for sending this new video from Mojoe & Bavu Blakes through. A dope beat from S1, genuine heartfelt lyrics, and clean visuals…what else do you need? Cop that – http://www.mojoefamily.com/
Here’s the first official leak from Free & Jake’s Stimulus Package album dropping 2 days after my birthday in February. Pretty straightforward joint, but a dope ass beat plus dope rhymes…[Phonte] what more do y’all want? [/Tay]
There were a bunch of things that I wanted to post while my computer issues knocked me out of commission, and this video from Louwop is one of ’em. Rather than do a traditional music video, he invited Shad and Zaki Ibrahim to perform live versions of two tracks off his The Great Escape album. I could vibe to this all day.
The more I hear this record, the more I like it. That chorus is a monster. Not sure I really needed the cheesy Heroes style effects in the video, but when you get to stare at Alicia Keys for 5 minutes, you really shouldn’t be complaining about anything.