Tuesday, July 27, 2004
MP3 Tuesday and why the music industry is wack....
Tego Calderón: the Jay-Z of this reggaeton ish.
Photo courtesy: New York Times
New De La Soul feat MF Doom "Rock Kokaine Flow" at Spitkcker.com (NB: turn off you pop-up blocker software to allow the player to open). Is this the track that will win back De La their underground following and catch the ears of younger fans?
Lenny Kravitz/Jay-Z "Storm (Just Blaze remix)". (mp3 snippet courtesy StacksVinyl)
Shyne dissing 50 & G-Unit. (spotted via Lynne D. Johnson which has been criminally ignored by me and will be very belatedly added to the bloglist at left real soon)
The Roots' Al Hirt-by-way-of-De La (or is that vice versa?) sampling "Stay Cool" that was the subject of a little debate a few days back on this site. (Win | Real)
Young Buck album pushed back: good news or bad? Me I'm diggin' him more than Lloyd Banks thus far.
Guerilla Black "Guerilla Nasty": the West Coast Biggie or fake biter? One things for sure: being Rodney Jerkins-affliliated isn't helping his cause.
More on reggaeton for those still not knowing. Go get a late pass. (spotted via Hip Hop Blogs | Related: check out Tego Calderón in the cover story of this month's Fader magazine with Beanie Man)
Speaking of late passes, despite my urging everyone to cop the Jada album on release day, I only just copped it yesterday after checking out the whole thing at an HMV last week while in the T.dot. Despite some lukewarm reviews from others, I have to say I'm feeling it although Jada is far from being one of the "top 5 dead or alive" like he used to yell in all his rhymes about a year ago. "What You So Mad At?","Shine" with DJ Quik and "Shoot Out" with Styles P are just a few of the other heaters on this album besides the ones you've heard already plus you get Kanye and Eminem. Hard to front on that package. In fact, I'ma cop the wax on this too to play out when I DJ. (mp3 couretsy hiphopsite.com)
Well it's release day again and Terror Squad drops today. I think I'll take a chance on it since I like the two singles out already and I'm one of the three people who actually liked Fat Joe's last album as well.
Meanwhile, catch up man cos B-more club music is probably next to bubble.
Or let me make it easy for those of you who are still trying to get your heads around the 2003 takeover: Dirty South Radio. (both links spotted via Government Names)
And to end: why the music industry is wack. (The Macon Telegraph)
