… Q-Tip featuring Norah Jones Hands sweatin, it’s critiquing all this vibe I’m gettin, Playlist setting: Cold Crush, Furious Five, and the Masterdon, Cosmic Force, Bammbaataa, Jazzy 5, Lovebug Starski, Junebug, Busy Bee, Run, D, Jay, LL, Kane, Biz Markie, Doug E., Will, Barry B., Spoonie, Schooly D., Rakim, BDP, Dana Dane, Ricky D., Leaders of the New School, Snoop Dogg, Monie Love,...
Wale with Pharrell on the track, let it loose, yessir. Download Wale Ft. Pharrell– Inhibitions (Let Loose) . UPDATE: Another joint from Wale featuring Rihanna, I really didn’t see this one coming. It’s tagged up courtesy of DJ Capcom & DJ Haze’s Leaders of the New School mixtape. The track will be on his debut album Attention: [...] Related posts: Wale - Attention Deficit...
The latest single from Q-Tip's incredible The Renaissance album is the Norah Jones-featuring Life Is Better. It's a jazzy space odyssey with a typically laid back lyric from the Donald Duck-voiced rapper. Among the song's many highlights, my favourite is Q-Tip's potted history of hip-hop in verse two: Playlist setting: Cold Crush, Furious Five, and the Master Fon Cosmic Force, Bammbaataa, Jazzy 5 Lovebug...
It’s already hard enough to sit stationary long enough to gather material, but on Saturdays it get twice as hard (||). Add in college football & you have cement anchoring one to the couch while watching contest after contest. Yet, I know you want entertainment…and then I remembered these pics that have been sitting on [...]
After playing four festivals this year—Sacred Earth, Entheos , Eclipse , and All Stars—I am gearing up for my fifth and final open air event of the season: Harvest . Barring any unforeseen changes to the schedule I will be playing the closing set at the psytrance stage—a perfect time for the techno/psytrance crossover style that I have been so into this summer. You can read a bit...
PDS with the footage of Wale bringin’ it home to D.C.’s Love. I don’t care what a lil niglet tells you, the percussion on “Dig Dug” will forever go hard. This was the first track that got me open to Mr. Florian’s music. One day, I know I’ll find the perfect nighttime establishment & the [...]
Image by fakehearsay via Flickr didn't think i would ever say this, but i think souls of mischief are better as solo artists. excluding 93 TIL INFINITY (classic nuff said), their best stuff has been as soloists: FOCUS tajai on the last emperor song opio on tek 9's second album casual and tajai versus saafir opio's solo albums tajai's solo albums ...while their group albums have been a mixed bag. personally...
it's amazing what people write on bathroom walls. i think i need to do a book about it. this was at stanton public . Leaders Of The New School feat. MC Jah "Too Much On My Mind"
Dinco D and Charlie Brown stopped by The Block radio show last Friday and talked about the start of Leaders of the New School and being down with Spectrum City, PE, and the Bomb Squad early on. Plus he’s still recording. Listen, via EVR. Peace to Capital P & OG Chino
Great interview with DJ Riz, covers a lot of history. Radio show junkies like myself will appreciate this. Link v i a DJ Riz: My first radio show was in 1990 with Jeff Foss when I was going to college at Hofstra University. He had the “p5″ show which was legendary because it was the home [...]
Hip-Hop star Busta Rhymes has taken a step towards independence via a new worldwide deal with independent publisher Kobalt Music Group. This is a big step for Busta Rhymes Especially since he is one of the biggest Hip Hop stars of all time, this deal that Busta Rhymes has gotten also includes synch licensing and creative services for film, TV, games, ringtones and other media outlets. According to...
You could probably go back to just about any year to find some totally hott summertime hip-hop jamz, but 1991 was home to some true classics. Tracks perfect for hot days with nothing to do but kick back, and in the immortal words of the bard Humpty Hump, doowutchyalike. And saywutchyalike about Will Smith, but [...]
Widge's Note: In addition to being one half of Ireland's ambassador team to Needcoffee, Aaron (along with his partner in crime, Brian, both of them from Quick Stop Entertainment's Cabin Fever) are going to be reviewing hip hop for the site. Why? Because we can. Here, he reveals his hip hoppity past [...]