Friday, January 30, 2004
Energy Drinks: the essential new hip hop accessory and is Dr Dre's Detox going to be 'The Most Advanced Rap Album Ever?'
Image courtesy: Bevnet.com
You gotta support a newspaper that clearly has b-boys writing their news stories plus it's free! From today's AM-New York paper cover story "We''ll catch him: U.S. Military says it will get bin Laden by the end of the year":
"Bin Laden's ability to continually elude capture and issue videotapes faster than underground rappers put out mixtapes, more than two years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, has frustrated the military."How gangsta is that?
And how many times is MTV gonna pimp the Candid Camera premise after they won with that corny-ass Punk'd Show?: MTV's Boiling Points.
Via Pop Life:
Limbo Rap: will any of these long-awaited urban releases reach your ears this year? (Cleveland New Times)
But I don't mind album release delays when I read stuff like this: Dr. Dre's Detox 'The Most Advanced Rap Album Ever,' Co-Producer Says. (MTV News)
OK I finally figured out who's behind the R&B track sampling Camp Lo's "Luchini (AKA This Is It)" and featuring Sheek & Jada I mentioned a couple weeks back that I had been hearing on Sunny's Hot 97 midday show. Apparently it's by some dude named Rashad (who he?), it's called "Sweet Misery" and it's on the Brooklyn record store Beat Street's record label. (mp3 link courtesy: Piccadilly Records Manchester)
Anyone heard this Challah Twins mixtape by Samantha & Mark Ronson done for Rocafella? Apparently the tracklisting runs through everything from freestyles by the Young Gunz to a "Threat (Ronson remix)" credited to Jay-Z featuring The Darkness, which
then segues into the Darkness's "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" the "Jetsettermusicletter"
by Morningwood. There are also supposedly songs by Til Tuesday, Thompson Twins, The Smiths, and a song credited to Dead Prez feat. Coldplay on the tape too. Sounds more like Rhino compilation than a mixtape to me.
How comes there's no outcry when K-Rock NY plays Jet's "Cold Hearted B----" unedited at 12:30 in the afternoon?
Are energy drinks the news clothing lines for rappers and hiphopreneurs? First Nelly's Pimp Juice, Russell Simmons' Def Con 3 and now Liquid Ice from Ice-T.
Related reading:
- The Rap on Energy Drinks. (NACS online)
- Energy drinks get their hip-hop on. (USA Today)
And don't forget the non-hip hop energy drinks Bawls and Sumpoosie.
Or for the status seekers with no brains: $30 a litre diet water. (New Zealand Herald)
And finally, anyone seen that Audi A4 Quattro TV ad with the fake Strokes "12:51" track as the music bed? WTF?
PS: looks like my PC woes are finally over. Another couple hours on the phone with Dell's Tech support last night got me back my audio and left me with more knowledge on how to install and uninstall modem and sound cards that I would have ever cared to have. Thanks to all those who offered words of support or advice on how to sort out my problems.
