Monday, September 13, 2010
Video: Nas - VEVO Go Show Live at the Ace Hotel in New York feat. Q-Tip
Friday, September 10, 2010
Video: Nas - VEVO GO Show (teaser)
From VEVO:
"Teaser clip from the latest VEVO Go Show with legendary Queensbridge MC, Nas who gave a surprise performance at QTip’s night at the Ace Hotel in NYC. Tip joined him on stage for a rare live performance of the classic track "One Love" that he produced from Nas's seminal debut album, Illmatic."
Full video coming Monday....
Monday, August 30, 2010
Two New Joints from Nas: This Is The Way w/ Spragga Benz & Power, Paper & P*ssy
I dunno how much I really wanna be cosigning this Spragga shotta business - the video is SUPER flagrant even by rude bwoy/gangsta rap standards. Look at the cover above and you know here he's coming from: criminal minded 2010, yard style! Here's the track, produced by Salaam Remi, if you really need it that bad in your life though:
Spragga Benz - This Is The Way feat. Nas (prod. Salaam Remi) [usershare mp3 download link]
Shotta Culture in stores TOMORROW!
And here's a FIYA joint, also produced by Salaam Remi apparently, off some upcoming Green Lantern mixtape:
Shout to Billy Squier and Herb Alpert! Frankly this track is kind of flāg' too but by usual hip hop standards it's actually normal. What a twisted set of values we hip hop fans live by!
[first mp3 via Lo | second one via Semtex & Roy yet again!]
Labels: Nas, Reggae, Spragga Benz
Sunday, August 29, 2010
HipHopisRead.com & Lyrics To Go presents Nas - Illmatic: the Samples
Ivan (with an assist from Lyrics to Go) does it yet again!
"What can I say about this album that hasn't already been expounded upon by music journalists and institutional scholars alike? Illmatic is to hip hop what Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is to jazz: a quintessential centerpiece to its respective genre. Dallas Penn summed it up quite nicely: "The Sun, Moon and stars along with the spirit of Rakim Allah came together to form this rap music manifesto masterpiece.""
If you don't know about Illmatic, I don't even know what to say except this is probably one of the ten hip hop albums you ABSOLUTELY need to listen to. Once you've done that, come back here and learn about the original source music sampled that built this masterpiece.
Download HipHopisRead.com & Lyrics To Go presents Nas - Illmatic: the Samples HERE.
[via HHIR]
Labels: Crate Diggin', Jazz Music, Nas, Rare Groove/Soul Music
Friday, July 16, 2010
New Music: Jadakiss feat. Nas & Sheek Louch - Soldier Survivor
OK, not exactly new (actually wild old in blog time), but I kinda missed it when it dropped (I know: how do you miss a track with Nas and the Lox, seriously??) but I heard it a few weeks after and had my wig split as I heard Mister Cee go in on it on his Friday night mixshow. Similar formula but I kind of feel about this how I felt about "Made You Look" - if you don't like this, I seriously question whether you really actually like hip hop. Just saying....
Jadakiss feat. Nas & Sheek Louch - 'Soldier Survivor' [mp3 audio stream]
No D/L link - even though its a mixtape track, I'm not taking any chances with the RIAA's attack dogs. Its from the DJ Drama and DJ Green Lantern-produced The Champ is Here 3 mixtape though which you can download HERE (or stream HERE).
Labels: DJ Green Lantern, Gangsta Grillz, Jadakiss, Nas, Sheek Louch, The Lox
Friday, June 18, 2010
Throwback Music: Nas – It Was Remixed
Rare, unreleased and remixed Nas from his almost 20 year career, check the track listing:
01 Nas – Stillmatic Intro (Soul Supreme)
02 Nas – It Aint Hard to Tell (Nick Fury)
03 Nas – Life’s a Bitch (Arsenal)
04 Nas – NY State of Mind 2 (45 King)
05 Nas – Take it in Blood (Alternate)
06 Nas – Street Dreams (K-Def)
07 Nas – Halftime (The Butcher)
08 Nas – Bridging The Gap (Marley Marl)
09 Nas – Made You Look (Single rmx)
10 Nas – The World Is Yours (DJ Hollywood)
11 Nas – One Love (LG)
12 Nas – 2nd Childhood (Cookin’ Soul)
13 Nas – Ether (Soul Supreme)
14 Nas – It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Large Professor)
15 Nas – Memory Lane (DJ Premier)
16 Nas – Ghetto Prisoners (45 King)
17 Nas – Self Conscience (Tony Mahoney)
18 Nas – Life’s a Bitch (Buckwild)
19 Nas – Surviving the Times (Cool & Dre)
20 Nas – Family (Cloudkickers)
21 Nas – The World is Yours (Q-Tip)
22 Nas – Street Dreams (R Kelly)
23 Nas – 2nd Childhood (Soul Supreme)
24 Nas – The Cross (9th Wonder)
25 Nas – Thief’s Theme (Cookin’ Soul)
26 Nas – Hope (Wyldfyer)
Download Nas – It Was Remixed HERE. [megaupload link]
[via Steady Bloggin']
Labels: Nas, Old School Hip Hop
Friday, June 11, 2010
New Music: Estelle feat. Nas - Fall in Love
A little too close in sound and format to her breakthrough smash "American Boy" but I think this will probably work anyway - its the perfect theme song for the soundtrack to your upcoming summer. Check it....
Estelle feat. Nas - 'Fall in Love' [mp3 audio stream]
I've got mad music I wanna post but little time, energy or motivation to get to it, especially with my super-slow bullsh-t ass computers. Not that I think people give a f-ck one way or another anyway, frankly. One blog disappears or stops posting on a regular basis and cats make like Jay-Z and are on to the next one. Sadly what could have been a new medium for fresh voices and points of view I fear has become a straight commodity/volume exercise that's (mostly) just another method for the music industry to try and force their bullsh-t down people's throats. Pardon my rant, I'm just in that kind of a mood right now - have a good weekend!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
New Music: Nas & Damian Marley - The Promise Land feat. Dennis Brown
I like this and I'm short on reggae content this weekend:
Nas & Damian Marley - The Promise Land feat. Dennis Brown [mp3 stream]
From the Distant Relatives hip hop-reggae collab project dropping May 18 on Universal Republic records.
Previously on The Kitchen: 100 Akres Productions present Nas & Bob Marley - Relatives Abroad mash-up mixtape album.
Labels: Damian Jr. Gong Marley, Nas, Reggae
Sunday, April 11, 2010
100 Akres Productions present Nas & Bob Marley - Relatives Abroad
Official plug:
"Various Nas acapellas over beats containing samples from Bob Marley's Uprising album."
I guess this is an unofficial tie-in to that Nas/Damian Marley Distant Relatives album - is that out yet??
[via Grandgood]
Labels: Bob Marley, Mash-ups, mixtapes, Nas
Saturday, April 10, 2010
R.I.P Malcolm McLaren: 1946 - 2010
Malcolm McLaren was one of the true mavericks and visionaries in a music industry painfully bereft of them, believe me! He is rightly considered a pioneer of both punk rock, for his involvement with the New York Dolls and, more significantly, the Sex Pistols and also hip hop. Along with the video above for the seminal "Buffalo Gals" by McLaren and the 80's-era NYC radio/DJ crew, the World's Famous Supreme Team, here's an example of the latter:
Malcolm McLaren And The World's Famous Supreme Team - "World's Famous" [hype machine stream]
The Firm feat. Half-A-Mil & Mary J. Blige - "Firm Biz (remix)" [Blip.fm stream]
R.I.P. Malcolm, the great rock n roll swindle is sadly finally over....
Related:
New York Times TM magazine: Requiem for Malcolm | McLaren’s Last Mix
David Johansen (of New York Dolls) on Malcolm McLaren: 'He was the perfect preservation against stuffiness' [EW]
Labels: AZ, Foxy Brown, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Old School Hip Hop
Monday, March 15, 2010
Music Video: Diggy Simmons - Made You Look Freestyle (Flow Stoopid)
I wanna hate this kid and I've tried to ignore him as long as I could but I gotta admit, this ain't bad! My man, Sam at Atlantic been jockin' kinda hard on twitter though - is this kid about to get signed over there, I wonder....
[via Elitaste]
Labels: Diggy Simmons, Nas
Monday, October 05, 2009
Video: Nas on CNN with Don Lemon
Discussing his Open Letter to Young Warriors in response to the Derrion Albert murder in Chicago last week and defending the violence in his own music in songs like, "Shoot 'Em Up."
[via Rap Radar]
Labels: Derrion Albert, Nas
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
More on the Derrion Albert Tragedy....
First the CNN report:
Then Nas speaks on it in this Open Letter:
"Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong wars! Killing each other is definitely played out. Being hurt from the lost of a love one was never cool.
Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong war! I know that feeling, that frustration with life and needing to take it out on someone, any one. But....
We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for. I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers, and name plate chains. Deaths over "he say, she say"!!!!! "I'm from this block or I'm from that block", or "my moms n pops is f*cked up now the whole world gotta pay"!!!
I remember feeling like I was the hardest "n*gga" breathing. And I couldn't wait to prove it. But let's think. What are we really proving?? And proving what to who?? Everybody knows Chicago breeds the strongest of the strong but I just feel, me, being ya brother from another state feels your pain as if I grew up with you in ya very own household.
You have the ability and mindpower to change they way we are looked at. Look who's watching us young warriors, look who's throwing us in jail constantly, look at the ignorance in the world. Look at the racist dogs who love to see us down. Loving to bury us in the ground or in jail where we continue this worthless war on one another.
Young warriors.... We are WASTING more and more time. We gotta get on our jobs and take over the world. Cuz this movie left the theaters years ago, Juice, Menace, Boys n the Hood , Blood n Blood Out, Belly!
When we see each other why do we see hatred? Why were we born in a storm, born soldiers, WARRIORS....and instead of building each other up we are at war with each other.. May the soul of this young person find peace with the almighty. I'm with you young warriors. You're me and I'm you. But trust me! you are fighting the wrong war.
This sh*t sucks !!
-Nas"
[via Miss Info / Global Grind]
And finally a really thoughtful Op-Ed on this tragedy by Chicago South Side native and Smoking Section contributor, J. Tinsley:
Teardrops & Closed Caskets…
I just don't understand how it came to this? My head is still spinning....
Tweet
Then Nas speaks on it in this Open Letter:
"Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong wars! Killing each other is definitely played out. Being hurt from the lost of a love one was never cool.
Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong war! I know that feeling, that frustration with life and needing to take it out on someone, any one. But....
We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for. I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers, and name plate chains. Deaths over "he say, she say"!!!!! "I'm from this block or I'm from that block", or "my moms n pops is f*cked up now the whole world gotta pay"!!!
I remember feeling like I was the hardest "n*gga" breathing. And I couldn't wait to prove it. But let's think. What are we really proving?? And proving what to who?? Everybody knows Chicago breeds the strongest of the strong but I just feel, me, being ya brother from another state feels your pain as if I grew up with you in ya very own household.
You have the ability and mindpower to change they way we are looked at. Look who's watching us young warriors, look who's throwing us in jail constantly, look at the ignorance in the world. Look at the racist dogs who love to see us down. Loving to bury us in the ground or in jail where we continue this worthless war on one another.
Young warriors.... We are WASTING more and more time. We gotta get on our jobs and take over the world. Cuz this movie left the theaters years ago, Juice, Menace, Boys n the Hood , Blood n Blood Out, Belly!
When we see each other why do we see hatred? Why were we born in a storm, born soldiers, WARRIORS....and instead of building each other up we are at war with each other.. May the soul of this young person find peace with the almighty. I'm with you young warriors. You're me and I'm you. But trust me! you are fighting the wrong war.
This sh*t sucks !!
-Nas"
[via Miss Info / Global Grind]
And finally a really thoughtful Op-Ed on this tragedy by Chicago South Side native and Smoking Section contributor, J. Tinsley:
Teardrops & Closed Caskets…
I just don't understand how it came to this? My head is still spinning....
Labels: Coon Picnic, Derrion Albert, Nas, WTF
Monday, September 14, 2009
Video: Miss Info on giving Nas' Illmatic album The Source's 5 mic Classic rating
Of course she was 100% right. I remember writing rap music reviews for a montreal magazine called Upfront. My biggest fail was giving Mecca and the Soul Brother 3.5 stars out of 5 because, while I liked it, I thought the album was too long! D'oh!
Online:
Miss info blog
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Drake feat. Jay-Z & Nas - "Successful (DJ Noodles remix)" and bonus tracks....
From the BP3-qual mixtape which cats slept on crazy:
Drake feat. Jay-Z & Nas - "Successful (DJ Noodles remix)" [mp3 audio: zshare stream/download | mediafire | yousendit]
If they'd tightened up Hov's verse a bit so he didn't sound like he was rapping off beat, this would be a f-cking looney tunes mashup....
Bonus downloads:
Lil Wayne feat. Drake - "My Darlin' Baby" [mp3 audio: yousendit | zshare via Traps N Trunks]
Drake - "Fear" [mp3 audio: yousendit | usershare via Nah Right]
Labels: DJ Noodles, Drake, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Nas
Monday, July 20, 2009
New music: Beastie Boys feat. Nas - "Too Many Rappers"
Its getting mixed reviews online so far but this is much better than I would have imagined. Check it:
Beastie Boys feat. Nas - "Too Many Rappers" [yousendit mp3 download link]
Its from the forthcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1 which was due in September but which, along with their tour, has been pushed back due to a recently-discovered cancer group member, Adam Yauch is going in to get surgery on very soon. Get well soon, MCA!
[h/t: Nah Right, Rock the Dub, Grand Panda]
Labels: Beastie Boys, Nas
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Video: Nas vs. Biggie - the Battle That Never Happened!
Produced by mixtape legend, Doo Wop. Now THIS is hip hop 2.0 done RIGHT! So who would have won a real-life battle between these two legends?? Of course we'll never really know but the speculation is interesting. Even though I'm a huge Nas fan (and he defeated Jay), my money would have been on BIG!
[via PSD / Unkut]
Online:
Doo Wop - MySpace
Labels: DJ Doo Wop, Nas, Notorious B.I.G.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Video: Common - "NY State of Mind" Live
Cover of the classic Premo-prooduced Nas track from the immortal Illmatic, reimagained as "Chi Town State of Mind." [via RapRadar.com]
Labels: Common, DJ Premier, Nas
Sunday, March 29, 2009
June22 x Nas - Jah's Son mixtape
Don't know much about this except apparently it's a mash-up of Nas's God's Sun album using reggae riddims. Download it here. [direct zip file download via Rock the Dub]
