The Audacity of Dope

And while we’re on the subject of TED talks, here’s the homey Shad discussing “Bearings” and how he stays focused on the right path.  If your favorite rapper couldn’t get up and do one of these talks about a substantive topic, and do it coherently, you’re listening to the wrong people.

As usual, you should already know what you get with a Jay Smooth commentary.  Please take 10 minutes out of your day and watch this.

RIP Heavy D! I never met Heav, but from all accounts, he was an incredibly positive and amazing person. He was a classic hip-hop icon that could span all sub-genres of the culture to get love from everyone. Don’t just remember the uptempo pop songs and dance moves…dude could rhyme.

He’ll be missed in this industry and worldwide.

On this week’s SNSS, we were joined by the one and only dream hampton!  Dream is one of the finest literary voices in hip-hop, a co-author with Jay-Z, the longtime friend of the legendary Notorious B.I.G., and just an all around amazing woman.  While in town for a public discussion with Kimya Dawson, dream stopped by our show to share some stories and check out some new music.  She even revealed that she’ll be making her music video directorial debut soon with Seattle’s own Thee Satisfaction!  And while the on air tales were great, oh how I wish we could share all the off air stories…

Enjoy!

Show #335 (11-6-11)
**Co-Hosted by Dream Hampton**

1. Torae – “For The Record”
2. Gilbere Forte ft. Big K.R.I.T. – “Black Soul”
3. Phonte ft. Jeanne Jolly – “Everything Is Falling Down”
4. ASAP Rocky – “Peso”
5. Statik Selektah ft. Nitty Scott, MC & Rapsody – “Black Swan”
6. Drake ft. Rick Ross – “Lord Knows”
7. Freddie Gibbs – “Natural High (Even Higher Learning)”
8. Lloyd Banks – “Love Shots”
9. Wale ft. Meek Mill & Rick Ross – “Ambition”
10. Props ft. Wale – “Grindin’ To Eat” (Local Music)
11. Common – “Sweet”
12. Camp Lo – “Luchini AKA This Is It” (Throwback of the Week)
13. Proh Mic ft. Paola Jean – “Easy Luvin” (Local Music)
14. Amy Winehouse ft. Nas – “Like Smoke”
15. Peter Baldwin – “Suicide Girl”
16. Jesse Boykins III – “B4 The Night Is Thru”
17. Notion – “Zeused Up” (Local Music)
18. Black Milk & Danny Brown – “Zap”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?8dkmvvkbt4a2qdj
(back up / streaming link – http://hulkshare.com/qe1tflqd2jru)
(2nd back up – http://www.zshare.net/audio/958245008231c787/)

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 my guy Rockwell Powers for putting me up on Peter Baldwin’s music. I’ll try to post more from Peter later, but for now, be sure to peep his website and follow him on Twitter.

I figured I’d follow J. Cole’s “Lost Ones” with a track that represents another possible outcome to that unfortunate scenario. While Cee Lo’s addition to the record doesn’t seem necessary to me (and there’s a little too much Coolio in “Gangsta’s Paradise” happening for his visuals), I hope it helps the song get the notoriety it deserves.

Artists take note: this is the kind of emotion you should put in your music. And you also shouldn’t have kids until the situation is right. But you already knew both of those things…right?

No words necessary, just some real ish. #ColeWorld

Pac Div’s The Div project comes out on Tuesday.  Support some of the game’s best.

Seattle: Dom Kennedy will be performing at Neumos on December 13th. Be there!

Shout to all the homies on this record…some of my favorite folks in our Northwest music community.  Luck kinda murdered this record, btw.

Download J. Bre’s The Revelation EP right here.