Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Pity this child....
Another PSA announcement: it looks like someone is coming down hard (No Ted Haggard) on the hip hop blogosphere, or at least my tiny slice of it, 'cos a bunch of my recent mp3 links have been taken down involuntarily.
One day these music industry f-cks are going to understand that what folks like me are doing is f-cking HELPING.THESE.ARTISTS! It's called promotion, people. They give away promo mixtapes and samplers by the (promo wrapped) truck load but having someone do the same via a blog at no cost to them for an audience looking to discover new music is a problem?! Can anybody explain this to me - I mean, WTF??
Anyway, the tip of the day for my readers is: visit often and d/l any music that strikes your interest ASAP before the links expire or are disabled by the mp3 Nazis. Like this one...
The Roots x Beatles feat. Zion-I "Pity the Child/Come Together" - hot track from the excellent new (?) Best of the Roots mixtape by J. Period. Why didn't their Game Theory album sound more like this? (alternate link: Zshare stream/download | Buy)
Check out The Pack on MTV "You Hear It First."
Frank N Dank - new album Xtended Play Version 3.13 is in stores now featuring a GRIP of production from some of the T.dot's best known beatsmiths (and J. Dilla!) which is not that suprising since this Motown duo have been (still?) living up there. I used to love their "Take Them Clothes Off" single on ABB Records. Peep the first single from the new album: "What Up" Dirty | Clean | Instrumental (right click and Save As please). Click here for more details.
Related: Check out the J. Dilla x New Era Fundraiser/Release Party in Toronto at the end of this month. Support it!
Finally, TOMORROW NIGHT: details here on the "re-release party" for the paperback edition of "Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture 1960-1987," the seminal sneaker history book by NYC renaissance B-boy Bobbito Garcia.
