Thursday, July 15, 2004
Hip Hop: better back in the day? | Different Kitchen at Fuel Ray | New Nas & Alchemist heat
Will you be Nas's next collabo partner?
So I actually only semi-agree with this Newsweek article: Remembering the golden age of hip-hop. There's still lots of great hip hop music coming out although it has definitely become a lot more formulaic and homogenous nowadays and I wish there were more great albums as opposed to merely singles. Why the industry hasn't got hip to the fact that they can't fool consumers with weak albums with only one or two good songs in the file-sharing era is beyond me. (spotted via Global Pop Conspiracy)
Speaking of which: internet users download twice as many films, games and musical pieces as they did a year ago, despite a big crackdown on the activity, according to a study released Tuesday. (full story at CNNMoney.com)
The rims thing must be getting played out if The New York Times is covering the mainstreaming of this phenomenon.
Rap on Nas's Street's Disciple (via allhiphop.com)
And very related: the new Nas heater "U know My Style." Street's Disciple looks like it's shaping up to be ridiculous based on this and other recent tracks that have been floating around. (via hiphopgame.com)
The new Alchemist with Prodigy and Nina Sky "Hold You Down" is kind of crazy too. (via hiphopgame.com)
Now if I could only find links to the new ODB (sounding like some vintage Wu/36 Chambers ish), Fabolous (seriously) and Ashanti/Ja Rule (really seriously), I'd be good.
And stay tuned for a Chocolate Industries-sponsored Vast Aire/Diverse CD-giveaway coming real soon.
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