Sunday, January 28, 2007
Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to the Grind
I've long been a fan of former (?) Outkast affiilaite Killer Mike. Dude is truly like no other in this rap game since 2pac passed and Cube went Hollywood - he's like Young Jeezy-meets-Talib Kweli dropping knowledge and dope boy rhymes in his records. He recently released the 2-CD I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind album on his own indie Grind Time Official record label but it should be getting more attention. Why are this album and Mike not being championed by more so-called hip hop blogs? People, get on your grind and check out this artist and album NOW:
Killer Mike - "One More Gram (feat Chemiere)" [MP3: YSI | zshare stream/download] - this is a crazy remake of BIG's classic "One More Chance."
Bonus audio: "That's Life" - been around for a minute but now also officially available on the I Pledge Allegiance... album.
On the net: MySpace | BUY Killer Mike's I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind
H/t: my dude Sledge who put me up on this. He picked this CD up immediately after reading an interview with Mike in the current issue of Ozone. Mike's always kind of been know for giving better interview than music but with I Pledge Allegiance... , it looks like he's finally addressed that problem.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Killer Mike on Snitching....
Is this really still a hot topic though??
More from the Kitchen on Killer Mike.
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Labels: Killer Mike, Stop Snitchin'
Friday, September 30, 2005
The Southern Takeover
I've commented several times previously on how the South has taken over hip hop. Without getting into a lengthy polemic about it here, let me just throw up some links to some of the latest joints coming out of Georgia, Texas and elsewhere below the Mason-Dixon line currently making noise:
- Purple Ribbon All-Stars feat. Big Bio, Killah Mike, Blackownded, C-Bone & Rock D "Kryptonite" (video: windows real audio: Windows Real download)
Read more about Big Boi's Purple Ribbon label: here, here, here and here.
Bonus Killer Mike joint:
- "A.D.I.D.A.S. (remix)" feat. Amil & JD - why did Sony never release this? The mind boggles. If anyone has this on 12" holla cos I've been looking for this for like over two years now and have never seen it even on ebay or as a bootleg.
BTW, I saw a trailer for the Outkast movie Idlewild last week and it's fccking SICK. Think Cotton Club-meets-Purple Rain-meets-Moulin Rouge-meets-Chicago. That might sound a tad Tey Ghey but trust me, it looks incredible. Plus the folks behind Ray and 8 Mile are gonna be distributing and promoting it so look for Outkast to conquer movies the same way they crushed the music industry. Just remember where you saw a behind-the-scenes peak at this movie first.
Meanwhile more ATL heat:
- Mr. Big Tyme feat. Tight "Check My Footwork" - the essential soundtrack when wearing your A-Town's.
- Maceo "Nextel Chirp" - undeniable club banger. Dunno about the sentiment behind his new single "Hoe Sit Down" though. I'm sure Rhymefest would have something to say about this one. Am I crazy to say that this Chirp joint sounds almost like a UK grime record or is it that those artists are so influenced by what's happening in Southern hip hop tight now?
- D4L "Laffy Taffy" - so bad it's good? Along with the Big Tyme and Maceo records this was running ATL radio when I was down there a month or so ago. Now re-released on Asylum, the label that brought Paul Wall from the internet to the masses. BTW is the Paul Wall joint any good cos I just got sent the new 12" feat. Mike Jones and I think it's kind of weak especially coming after the neutron bomb that was "Sittin Sideways." (update: never mind I just got the full length wax in the mail, so let me check it out and tell you for myself next week)
- Dem Franhise Boyz feat JD, Da Brat & Bow Wow "Oh I Think Dey Like Me (remix)" - I said a while back that the original to this was a guilty pleasure of mine. Same for the surprisingly solid remix.
- Three Six Mafia featuring Eightball & MJG & Young Buck "Stay Fly" - how can purist backpack nerds claim southern hip hop is not "real" hip hop when there's records like this? How many so-called "True school," underground hip hop records have transform scratching in their hooks like this? Possibly the best hip hop record out now by maybe the most underrated crew in hip hop. (stream download)
And BTW, I would have never called it but that kid Webbie's album is kind of hot. Shout to Sean Paul for putting me up on game.
And I got more. Stay tuned over the coming week or so for more heat from the South and beyond plus a special Too Short mp3 focus on his incredible Pimpin Inc. mixtape that just dropped. Meanwhile though, #10 and #9 on the countdown yesterday (plus we got the #1) - RESPECT.MY.GANGSTA!
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Grip Plyaz - "F-ck Dat Hipster Sh-t (No Shots)"
I f-cks with this track even though dude plays that, bullsh-t service-some-blogs-first game (although he swears he doesn't and that he had internet issues). Sh-t is hot either way:
Grip Plyaz - "F-ck Dat Hipster Sh-t (No Shots)" [zshare stream/download mp3 download link]
Remix with Killer Mike coming later this week....
Online:
Grip Plyaz - MySpace
Labels: Grip Plyaz, Hipsters
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
New music for WBW: Yelawolf – "I Wish" feat. Raekwon
Music by the MC,
Yelawolf feat. Raekwon – "I Wish" (produced by Malay) [sharebee link - I know....]
Get more Yelawolf via Metal Lungies....
Labels: Raekwon, Wu-Tang Clan
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Trailer: DJ Scream - Heavy In The Streets DVD
One of the men behind the B.o.B. mixtape is back with a new DVD featuring Shawty Lo, Soulja Boy, Playaz Circle, Gorilla Zoe, Young Jeezy, Pastor Troy, Project Pat, Shop Boyz, Killer Mike, T.I., Dem Franchize Boyz, OJ The Juiceman, Crime Mob, Greg Street, DJ Nabs, Bun B, Maino and more (apparently)!
Online:
DJ Scream - MySpace | YouTube
Monday, August 07, 2006
More vegetables and other good stuff from the Kitchen...
Yeah! Now that I've got your attention, find out who she is below.
Following the post a couple weeks back about the documentary An Incoveneient Truth and the follies of the global warming "debate," here's some more Summer reading, listening and viewing that's actually good for you:
Who Killed The Electric Car? (trailer for the lazy)
Poplicks' review of the movie Only Human which is described as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner only from the Israeli-Palestinian rather than Black-white perspective.
Exo is co-signing the unauthorized documentary on Arundhati Roy (pictured above).
Wise Intelligent from the legendary group Poor Righteous Teachers has just dropped Blessed be tha Poor? The Un-MixTape as an appetizer before his official independent solo release Wise Intelligent iz…The Talented Timothy Taylor arrives. Click here, here, here and here for more info.
Killer Mike "That's Life" (spotted via Hardly Art...)
GWB vs. U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (via Joey)
Now on DVD: Why We Fight - a look at the American military machine, this film examines the political and economic interests and ideological factors, past and present, behind American militarism.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
All Day I Dream About Air Max....
Baby Boy: a musical marriage made in heaven or a creative fall out straight out the gate?
New J-Dilla
Mannie Fresh interview mp3 links.
Killer Mike, now of Purple Ribbon Allstars, interviewed.
Peep the entire YoungBloodZ album via this e-card. (related: catch Big Boi's Got Purp PRA crew and YBZ as the Dirty South invades Club Speeed on December 4th for live performances.)
Nike Air Max 95's 10 years on - arguably the greatest running sneaker of all time design-wise. I remember paying an online sneaker dealer $400 for 2 pairs of the first reissue of the neon green/grey joints after I slept on copping them the first two times around. It was so hard to find these shoes in NYC once they got hot that people would be mad evasive about where they had bought them when you asked. It was like a little cult of Air Max 95 wearers conspiring to keep the rest of us out. (semi-related: rare and unreleased Nike sneaker showcase via Freshness)
Fall Out Boy want Babyface to produce their next album - WTF?!
Radiohead remixed.
Is it a wrap for The Game?
Interesting interview with the Illmatic One from the new Nas-Premo cover issue of Scratch.
Finally, I told you this kid Sway was gonna blow a while ago and that nobody would fcck with a $65,000 volkswagen which I was proven right about. Y'all better start paying attention....
Monday, June 13, 2005
"You love to hear the story again and again..."
"The monument is right in your face...."
Priceless quotes from an allhiphop.com article on Cam'ron's new Vivali clothing line:
“I’m not doing a sports clothing line. I’m doing a straight up couture clothing line.”
“Their dollar (Euro?!) is 2-to-1 on ours. It’s worth way more than ours....”
“Vivali, which means “I’m fly” in Italian says Cam, is somewhat available to his people in Harlem and the surrounding areas... “Right now, we got certain things at Apollo Express on 125th Street between 7th and 8th street right next to the Apollo Theater (!).””
I hope when Cam says Vivali is couture that he means it'll be more like this than this. And just in case, let me throw a n/h designation on this entire section of the post. You never know when you're mixing Cam and Italian high fashion (!).
Kanye West feat. Jay-Z "Diamonds (remix)" - Hovi MURDERS it!!! (via Lemon-Red)
"Possibly the most covered hip hop classic"
Who really buys hip hop?
Make - the magazine to peep for releasing your inner McGyver (via The New York Times)
Shout to Jeannie - great party you and Joel threw last Friday for Monique.
But I'm a little tied up to post anything of real note so peep some of these alternatives:
- Killer Mike's 510 to 514
- Velvet Addiction (shout to Nikki)
- The Last Nerve (check out the post about the "N.I.G.G.A. scholarship" there)
- Wasteland Drifter
More tomorrow (or later this week)....
Friday, January 02, 2004
2003 YEAR END WRAP-UP: Remixes & Videos
Images courtesy: TurntableLab.com
REMIXES:
1. 112 – Hot N Wet (Remix)
2. Alicia Keys – You Don’t Know (Mid 1 Reggae Remix) (unreleased)
3. Black Moon – Stay Real (remix)
4. Blu Cantrell feat. Sean Paul – Breathe (remix)
5. Common feat. Q-tip, Erykah Badu & Pharell – Come Close (Jaydee Remix)
6. Common – New Wave (Playgroup Remix) (unreleased)
7. Fabolous – Can’t Let You Go (Just Blaze Remix): see also Angie Martinez – Take You Home (Just Blaze Remix)
8. Jaheim feat. Jadakiss & Left Gunz – Diamonds in the Ruff (Remix)
9. Lil Jon feat. Busta Rhymes, Elephant Man & Ying Yang Twins – Get Low (Remix)
10. Jay Z – La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again) (Remix)
11. Killer Mike feat. Amil & Jermaine Dupri – A.D.I.D.A.S. (Remix): BTW, anyone who has an official pressing of this on 12" wax and is willing to sell it, please email me.
12. Nas feat. Jadakiss & Ludacris – Made You Look (Remix)
13. N*E*R*D – Provider (Zero 7 Remix)
14. Panjabi MC feat. Jay-Z – Beware of the Boys (Mundian to Bach Ke) (Remix)
15. Playgroup – Number One (Zongamin Remix)
16. Rapture – Sister Saviour (Black Strobe & DFA Remixes)
17. U.N.K.L.E. – In a State (DFA Remix)
STILL ROCKED THESE IN 2003 (EVEN THOUGH THEY CAME OUT THE YEAR BEFORE):
1. Le Tigre – Deceptacon (DFA remix)
2. Mario – C’mon (Just Blaze Remix)
3. Metro Area – Orange Alert (DFA Remix)
FAVORITE VIDEOS:
I won't even pretend to claim I saw a lot of music videos last year. I really don't have the patience or desire to get brainwashed by Viacom on a daily basis any more and, let's face it, it's hard to find music videos to watch nowadays, even on M2. However, of the ones I did see, these were the most interesting:
1. Chemical Brothers – Get Yourself High
2. Ludacris – Stand Up
3. Missy Elliott – Pass The Dutch
4. Outkast – Hey Ya!
5. Outkast – The Way You Move
6. Queens of the Stone Age – Go with the Flow
7. R. Kelly – Thoia Thong
8. Sean Paul – Get Busy
9. Juelz Santana – Santana’s Town
10. T.I. – Be Easy
11. White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button
12. White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
