Friday, October 27, 2006
"I'm an asshole, n-gga like Damon Dash...."
Berkeley's The Pack (Uno, Lil B, Stunna & Young L): the Bay Area's youngest in charge....
Bay Area special edition - don't hate if this isn't representative or cutting edge enough for you experts on the scene out there. I'm merely highlighting joints from my peoples and stuff that's come across my radar recently from the Yay. Let me know what y'all f-cks with and what's not crackin' though....
The Pack "Go" - brand new track not slated to be on their own album next year or the special 7-track Skateboards to Scrapers EP that'll be dropping Dec 19th featuring "Vans" and the "Vans (remix)" with Too $hort and Mistah FAB. (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
DJ Shadow feat. The Federation & Animaniaks "Turf Dancing" - one of a few extremely bangin' hyphy anthems on Shadow's recently-released album, The Outsider which has been largely dismissed by the Entroducing fanboys because of his embrace of the new Bay hip hop sound and live instrumentation in his production. F-ck whatcha heard though - admittedly the album is pretty schizo-sounding but there's some good ass music on it and enough of the vintage "Shadow production sound" to satisfy the more open-minded Josh Davis Stans out there. (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
"Too Short" with Kardinal Offishall, Snoop Dogg, Will.i.am & Fergie "Keep Bouncin' (remix)" - kind of cheating on this one as far as Bay area content goes 'cos my muh'f-ckin man Kardi does a remix of $hort's very slept-on second single from the Blow the Whistle album adding himself but TAKING $HORT OFF THE RECORD!! What part of the game is that?? (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
Mac & A.K. "Hard Times" - OG grinders in the Bay hip hop scene, my man Mac is one of the most underrated producers in the game. Look for a collab album he's planning with Planet Asia for release next year. (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
Milano feat. Mistah FAB & Turf Talk "Yes Sir" - sounds kind of like a mellowed out crunk record mixed with some new wave flavor. Not bad though to my ears. (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
E-40 & San Quinn "Baller Blockin'" - from the videogame-inspired Dan The Automator presents 2K7 "soundtrack album." No idea how the game is but the album is about as good as as it could be when virtually every song is about basketball and contains really terrible sports metaphors as a result. That being said, it has its moments including this track and a not bad Lupe joint that I may put in an upcoming post. The album features a grip of other respected mainstream and underground guest MC's. Click here for more details. (alternate link: Zshare stream/download)
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