The Audacity of Dope

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?

My dinner is calling me (potstickers FTW!), so I’ll make this a quick one.  Peep this week’s edition of SNSS to hear some dope new music from artists like Focus, Pill, Donnis, Solange, Fashawn, Paten Locke, Gift Of Gab, Felt, the NYG’z, and more.  I think three of the songs we played might be in my top 20 tracks of the year:

• Mike Posner ft. Big Sean & Freddie Gibbs – “Bring Me Down”
• J. Cole – “Lights Please”
• James Pants ft. Mayer Hawthorne – “Thin Moon (Remix)”

Hmm…I’m looking forward to our end of the year “best of” show.

Shout to the Far East Movement for coming through the studio a while back as well.  Look for that full interview to be posted on the blog soon (have you checked our interview with Royce Da 5’9″?).  And speaking of interviews, shout to the new homey Elliott for meeting up with us for an upcoming article on Sound Session in the Seattle P.I..  For some extra goodness, check out his great sports blog – Outside The Press Box – and his movie site – What Would Van Damme Do?…I bet he’d dance.

Show #235 (11-29-09)

1. Focus ft. Crooked I, Jay Rock, Kida, & Marsha Ambrosius – “Homage To Dr. Dre”
2. Pill – “Coastin’”
3. Donnis – “Gone”
4. B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars – “Nothing On You”
5. Solange – “Stillness Is The Move”
6. Lupe Fiasco – “Thank You Freestyle”
7. Fashawn ft. Aloe Blacc & Devoya – “Hey Young World”
8. Paten Locke – “Ventilation P. Locke”
9. Gift Of Gab – “Richman, Poorman”
10. Freeway & Jake One – “Waited Too Long” (Local Music)
11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Xperience – “Crew Cuts” (Local Music)
12. DJ K.O. ft. Silent Knight & East – “80’s Babies”
13. Felt (Murs & Slug) – “Bass For Your Truck”
14. Obie Trice – “Got Hungry”
15. Royce Da 5’9” ft. Busta Rhymes – “Dinner Time”
16. NYG’z – “Ready”
17. Kidz In The Hall ft. Marsha Ambrosius – “All Night (Make Up Sex)”
18. **INTERVIEW WITH FAR EAST MOVEMENT (SNIPPET)**
19. Murs ft. Far East Movement – “Break Up (The OJ Song) (Remix)”
20. Consequence ft. Kanye West, Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Common, & John Legend – “Whatever U Want (G.O.O.D. Music Remix)”
21. EvergreenOne & Todd Sykes – “If I Was Famous” (Local Music)
22. Slum Village – “Dope Man”
23. Mike Posner ft. Big Sean & Freddie Gibbs – “Bring Me Down”
24. J. Cole – “Lights Please”
25. James Pants ft. Mayer Hawthorne – “Thin Moon (Remix)”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?v2jnnznmz22
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/692461798ab01565/)

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.

I had heard of Friendly Fires for a while, but hadn’t really peeped their music before I caught them in Seattle earlier tonight.  This was one of my favorite tracks that they performed and I remembered seeing the video at my day job.  Dopeness all around.

“One day…we’re gonna live…in Paris…I promise…”

You might recall that Slaughterhouse recently dropped by the Sound Session studio, but soon after, Royce Da 5’9″ returned for another show in Seattle and came through solo.  We covered a ton of topics in the 3 part conversation so I decided to put the full video online for y’all to enjoy.

Shout to Royce, easily one of the most down to earth and talented artists that we’ve had on the show.  When I was a high school kid losing my mind to all his verses in the late 90’s, I never would have thought I’d have the opportunity to kick it with him a few times.  Craziness.  Go cop Street Hop immediately and peep below for the interview.

Part 1:

(watch on HyphenTV)

• Reception of the Slaughterhouse project
• Familial relationship of the group
• Future of Slaughterhouse
• Earliest memories of Eminem

Part 2:

(watch on HyphenTV)

• Working with Eminem as part of Bad Meets Evil
• Learning recording techniques from Em
• His favorite MC’s
• Detroit’s knack for producing dope rappers
• His thoughts on J. Cole

Part 3:

(watch on HyphenTV)

• The Charles Hamilton/J Dilla fiasco
• His current relationship with Dr. Dre
• His new Street Hop album
• What he has left to prove in the game
• Future Bar Exam mixtapes

If you would prefer to just listen to the discussion and toss it on your mp3 player, here’s the audio of the full interview:

Royce Da 5’9″ on Sound Session – http://www.mediafire.com/?mkjzymhzzj1
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/690590078f4fcc91/)

Enjoy!

Newest visuals off KRS & Buck’s group album…Revolution on the cuts.  Looks like the homey Todd Angkasuwan should be working on the next Tron movie too, dope ish!