Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Straight Outta Beantown....
Edan, the future of hip hop or the lost member of The Strokes (or is that The Libertines) and The Perceptionists.
Spotted while in Boston this weekend again:
- This Rakim Told Me - Hip Hop Wax Facts, Straight From The Original Artists book that I skimmed through at Newbury Comincs looks sick. Def. must-cop like Jeff's joint.
- The Boston Phoenix on nerd rap blogger faves Edan & the Perceptionists. Still haven't heard any of the latter or much of the former despite recommendations from people I respect.
- Cats into this kind of stuff: who can tell me the name of track that's on some reggaeton(-esque) ish sampling Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" with a dude mumbling most of the lyrics and chanting "Chacarone" (or something that sounds like that)? Heard this joint not actually at Young Catch's jumpoff but from my homegirl Didi M. who picked it up on an unmarked mixtape while in Costa Rica. I NEED that record though, it's crazy.
- Cool handbags for ladies who dig such things and carry iPods. (spotted via Dig!)
And also:
The History of Sampling (via Cool Hunting)
The Swift Chancellor's Best Hip-Hop albums of all time (that are not on most lists) and Best Hip-Hop names (in no particular, scientific order).
Rhymefest's entire A Star is Born mixtape available for streaming here. Shout to my man Mark Ronson who runs the All I Do label that's putting out 'Fest and who was killing it last night with half a bag of wax and a few CD's, WTF? Who else can do that and still be eclectic enough to go from Double XX Posse (which I had in the crates last week too but didn't spin) to Beanie Sigel and Jimi Hendrix? (streaming mp3 of mixtape via his official website)
DJ Explicit's Big Daddy Kane fan blog (wasn't Hashim trying to do one of these a while ago?)
DJ Alma live at Madame X TOMORROW night. This is the woman behind The Good Foot making her own DJ debut so go out and support.
Maceo and the Macks "Soul Power 74" - the track behind J-Lo's "Get Right and Usher's "Ride" jacked by Rich Harrison. (mp3 via tunes.co.uk)
ignore magazine - still grindin'....
Beardmanica on DJ Smurf - the man behind the Ying Yang Twins' "Wait" - at Moistworks.
The documentary DVD was incredible so I'm not sure this Lords of Dogtown movie is really necessary, but at least it looks like they got the look right based on the trailers I've seen.
And while Dave Chappelle implodes, cop season 3 of the classic (and highly underrated) In Living Color. C'mon, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans and J-Lo and a few others (mostly named Wayans) too? Love or hate those guys, you gotta admit few other shows have been as funny and responsible for launching so much talent of color into the mainstream.
