Tuesday, May 03, 2005
"Yo, we got this locked, it's in the pocket...."
8 Miles times two bars equals? Oh, never mind....
R.I.P. Gangstarr?
Dip Set - UK division
Alchemist feat. Prodigy "We Got This" - this is Retardo Montalban with the Malcolm Mclaren
Oh sh-t, the ALC is coming with both barrels fully loaded: Alchemist feat. Twin & Evidence "To The Top" - rockin' over a loop from an old Style Council song that sounds bizonkers. (mp3 via Hiphopgame.com)
And after my question yesterday, here's some Amerie non-LP heat. If this “Love’s Off The Chain” track got left off the album, it must be sick (links via The Fader blog | TTLab)
Shout to Tego for the Bathgate shine on his blog.
Speakers Push the Air
Irie Member - A to the L of Altrap and crew's new blog.
"Happy slapping" (related: clip #1 | clip #2 | download more via Agenda Inc.)
June 7 - Little Brother's Chitlin Circuit 1.5 mixtape
Todd kelly's Common radio blog.
Kartus - Germany's #1 for Hip Hop & Streetball. No sure why duke put me on the list for his email newsletter which is completely in German (!) and I wouldn't even mention it at all, but I clicked through to his site out of curiosity and noticed that these Picture Dog Tags were kinda fly.
16 Bars - the "Superbowl of Hip Hop." Are cats really gonna buy this on Pay-per-view?
Finally, if their suspect list of the top 10 hip hop albums of all time is any indication, I don't hold out much hope for MTV's celebration of the best in hip hop since 2000 (I won't even get into the question of whether that's an oxymoron to begin with). Efil4zaggin over Straight Outta Compton and Death Certificate over Amerikkka's Most Wanted are at least somewhat debatable (thought not in my view). And, as great as I think Run DMC are, they never made an album that deserved to be on this list. The Makaveli album isn't even Pac's best never mind the issue of whether he made an an album that merits being on this list either (haters, fall back - I'm a fan of his too).
But the biggest travesties of all: Public Enemy made the greatest hip hop album of all time and no-one's even come close to topping it, but it barely made this list and no Tribe or Wu-Tang 36 Chambers?!! C'mon.... Of course, these kind of lists are completely subjective so challenging them is almost pointless but I had to say somethin'. So what's on your top 10? (I'll get around to posting mine in the comments section below at some point.)
