The Audacity of Dope

As mentioned last week, Sound Session is officially back on the air and I’m catching up on our recent show archives for you all now.  Here’s the first episode we’ve recorded in the new KUBE 104.9 FM studio, so apologies for a few parts that peaked a bit high on the audio.  All the episodes going forward will sound nice and crispy, even better than they used to.

On this episode, we ran through tracks from some of our favorite folks out right now: Drake, Raleigh Ritchie, Tom Misch, Kanye, Kendrick, Tunji Ige, dvsn, Gallant, and more.

Enjoy this one and I’ll be back soon with the next episode…

Show #547 (4/10/16)

1. Raleigh Ritchie ft. Stormzy – “Keep It Simple”
2. Drake ft. Wizkid & Kyla – “One Dance”
3. Drake ft. The Throne (Kanye West & Jay-Z) – “Pop Style”
4. Tunji Ige – “On My Grind”
5. Your Old Droog – “42 (Forty Deuce)”
6. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. KRS-One – “Buckshot” (Local Music)
7. A Tribe Called Quest – “Jazz (We’ve Got)” (Throwback of the Week)
8. Kanye West – “Feedback”
9. Kanye West – “30 Hours”
10. J Dilla ft. Snoop Dogg & Kokane – “Gangsta Boogie”
11. Kendrick Lamar ft. Bilal – “untitled 03 | 05.28.2013”
12. Nick Grant ft. Big K.R.I.T. & Killer Mike – “Royalty (Remix)”
13. Bobby James – “Lifted”
14. D.I.T.C. – “Diggin’ Number”
15. Elhae – “478 (Outro)”
16. Sol – “Happiness” (Local Music)
17. Sam Lachow ft. Tangerine – “Where You Belong” (Local Music)
18. TWENTY88 (Big Sean & Jhene Aiko) – “Push It”
19. dvsn – “Do It Well”
20. Gallant – “Miyazaki”
21. BJ The Chicago Kid ft. Kendrick Lamar – “The New Cupid”
22. Yuna – “Places To Go”
23. Royce Da 5’9” – “Tabernacle”
24. Anderson .Paak ft. The Game & Sonyae Elise – “Room In Here”
25. PARTYNEXTDOOR ft. Drake – “Come and See Me”
26. Tom Misch & Carmody – “Easy Love”
27. Lion Babe – “Satisfy My Love”
28. Kelela ft. GoldLink – “Rewind (Louie Lastic Remix)”
29. Kanye West ft. Kendrick Lamar – “No More Parties In LA”

Link to download – https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72U-rgJjvmWZnRaZmpmSUN5bzg

If you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and stream/download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.

Big shout to Daytona for sending over the behind the scenes footage of him and 6th in the studio cooking up a record called “Camelot.”  I don’t think fans get to see these scenes enough, and certainly, nobody gets to see 6th’s beard enough. No word on where/when this song will be released, but I’m sure you’ll hear it on SNSS when it drops!

On episode #299 of SNSS, we celebrated our last night in KUBE 93’s current building/studio by playing new records from Wiz Khalifa, Blu, Coolroy, Fresh Daily, Pac Div, Lupe Fiasco, Pharoahe Monch, Kaimbr & Kev Brown, Miles Jones, and more.  Plus, the homey Black Milk checked in from Detroit to talk about his concert Wednesday at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle.  He’ll be rocking alongside local favorites Candidt, Grynch, and Sol.  It’s gonna be a great night, be there.

Next week, we’ll be celebrating our 300th show in a brand new, state of the art studio.  As J said at the end of the broadcast, “Hall Of Fame numbers…”

Show #299 (2-20-11)

1. Wiz Khalifa ft. Chevy Woods – “Middle Of You”
2. Malice & Mario Sweet ft. Choklate – “Happiness” (Local Music)
3. Blu – “Amnesia (Remind)”
4. Coolroy ft. Tunji – “Dreaming”
5. Kendrick Lamar – “Cut You Off”
6. Fresh Daily ft. Nicholas Ryan Gant – “Second Hand High”
7. Pac Div – “Take Me High”
8. Lupe Fiasco ft. Skylar Grey – “Words I Never Said”
9. Pharoahe Monch ft. Showtyme & DJ Boogie Blind – “Clap (One Day)”
10. J. Period ft. Black Thought, Rakim, & John Legend – “In The Ghetto (Wake Up!)”
11. Kaimbr & Kev Brown ft. The Kid Daytona & Asher Roth – “More Gritz (Gritz Remix)”
12. Saigon ft. Marsha Ambrosius – “It’s Alright”
13. Miles Jones ft. Shad – “Say What”
14. Raekwon ft. Ghostface Killah, Jim Jones, & Kobe – “Rock N Roll”
15. **INTERVIEW WITH BLACK MILK**
16. Black Milk – “Welcome (Gotta Go)”
17. Jaylib – “The Official” (Throwback of the Week)
18. Pusha T – “My God”
19. Serge Severe ft. Braille – “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” (Local Music)
20. Rick Ross ft. Meek Mill – “Perfectionist”
21. The Good Sin & 10.4 Rog – “Bad About You” (Local Music)
22. Kanye West ft. John Legend & Chris Rock – “Blame Game”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?i3n0naqqpbwi807
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/869108707d93385d/)
(2nd back up – http://www.usershare.net/yn8x00c97the)

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.

On Saturday, May 29th, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek will be making the Seattle stop on their Revolutions Per Minute Tour at the Showbox Market.  We’ve been giving away tickets on the air through Sound Session, but now we’re extending a special offer to our loyal readers on The Audacity of Dope and KUBE93.com.

We’ll be interviewing the duo at 2pm on Saturday and if you would like to join us to meet and hang out with Reflection Eternal, email me – DJHyphen@gmail.com – these 3 things:

1. Name Talib’s business partner for their label, Blacksmith Music.
2. Name 3 guests from Reflection Eternal’s Train Of Thought album.
3. Name the first video released from their new album, Revolutions Per Minute.

I’ll pick 2 winners and you’ll each be allowed to bring a guest to the interview.  It’s just that simple.  What are you waiting for?  Go!

Contest ends Thursday, May 27th, at 3pm Pacific Time.

Ahhh, I love ish like this.  Just a dope ass beat and 3 ill MC’s [hip-hop slang i hate] going in [/hhsih] over it.  Shout to Pac Div, Sean G, and Khalil…

I still wanna be Jazzy Jeff when I grow up.

This is what happens when nobody else is in the studio on SNSS and I’m bored as hell.  Plus, I needed a short video to practice editing with iMovie on the new MacBook Pro I recently added to the arsenal.  I’ll post up last night’s Sound Session later today, but as you can see, I was busy completely wasting my time.

And yeah, I need to get a little lower on the handstand push ups.  Freestanding would be nice too, but I’m not at that Jackie Chan Andrew Bueno level yet.  What up Dru!

Anyone know how to maintain the highest level of quality for Flip Cam movies edited through iMovie?  I converted the .avi to .mov through Quicktime so it would open in iMovie, then exported in what I thought was decent quality, but it looks pretty fuzzy.  Or should I man up and just edit the .avi’s directly in Final Cut Pro?  I need to get this U-N-I interview put together and posted up asap…

I love studio footage, especially when it involves Kanye To The.  Paparazzi squabbles aside, ‘Ye’s life must be great.  He literally flies all around the world with his best friends, making dope music in amazing studios.  Sounds pretty good to me.  In related news, if you haven’t heard yet, 808’s and Heartbreak has been unofficially pushed up to November by Kanye himself.  We’ll see if Def Jam acquiesces.

Swiped from 2DopeBoyz, who also have the individual musical elements of Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” if you’re interested in remixing the track…

One of the all time greats, DJ Revolution, takes you on a quick tour of his home studio in the first promo video for his upcoming album, King of the Decks.  He also lays down a little freestyle scratch routine for y’all.  Hahah @ the soundproof bedroom.  I can dig it.

Apparently they will be releasing a video a week until the album drops on September 16th.  You lucky bastards down in Los Angeles should definitely hit up the release party on Sept. 19th at The Arena:  Rev, Jazzy Jeff, Dilated Peoples, Bishop Lamont, Strong Arm Steady, Pacific Division, & Crooked I all in one night?  Are you kidding me?

Swiped from We Yo!wzers.