Big up to Danny at The Find for running the first one of these . Thought I was done versifying on the topic, but some of the comments were interesting: Although I'd argue that jazz-hop has become just as sampled as old funk records by now (even though the depth to which producers have been digging through jazz has been pathetically unimpressive, in which I totally agree with you), jazz and hiphop music are completely non-compatible in all but a surface aesthetic or instrumentation. Jazz is inherently [...]
This mix is brought to you by Audioleak , for its soon-to-be-released webzine/downloadable magazine. I'll hit you with the link when it drops. Big ups to AtotheZeem . You could probably break him off if you had something good to throw in his mag. So...Dirty Laundry: I gave you the 16 most brolic tracks of 2011 ...I gave you the 14 weirdest bangers of 2011 ...This here's the 19 funkiest-ass joints of 2011. As A Lion - Esoteric / Distractions - Talib Kweli / Manute Bol - The [...]
Extra Brolic Shit: Lol - Danny Brown & Black Milk / Huzzah! (Extend-O-Mix) - Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire (feat. Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown & El-P) / Light Years - Has-Lo & J-Zone / Science - DJ JS-1 & Jeru Da Damaja / Black Lagoon - Black-Tokyo / Drones Over BKLYN - El-P / That's Your Brain (Swangin) - PSY/OPSogist / Hoard 90 - Gangrene (feat. Roc Marciano) / Walls of Insurrection - Dälek & Gym Brown / M.A.S.H. - The Black Opera / Bubonic Plague #3 - Tenshun / Beware - Death Grips / an [...]
Offical Hard Body Knocks of the Year 2011 Hey DJ - Juan Deuce & Falside / Who Is It - KRS-One & Bumpy Knuckles / Help Me - Pastense, HiCoup & Willie Green / The Heat (American Language Remix) - P.L.O. (feat. Has-Lo, Zilla Rocca & Curly Castro) / Villain - Metasyons / Culture Shock - Animal Farm (feat. DJ Rob Swift) / Ghetto Dreams - Nas & Common / Mo Danger - Mohammad Dangerfield / Hot Breeze - Sadat X / Memorex Massacre - Timeless Truth / Dumbtron - Willie Evans Jr. (feat. Paten [...]
The jazz/hip-hop relationship hasn't been nearly as fruitful or long-established as you'd think it woulda; if funk and soul are hip-hop's parents, jazz is kinda like an uncle who drifts into town now and then, sleeps on the couch, bums hip-hop's cigarettes and tells stories about the good old days. Trouble is, we look at him like he's a played out rummy bum-ass, but back in the day uncs had skills, scared people just as much as hip-hop does/did, and had seriously bad-ass musical chops. The much-maligned 'jazz [...]
Quanah Parker (last to come in), Dylan Egon. Asbury Park, NJ. 2011 'American Beauty' :: NPR New Pirate Radio (Dr. Monokrome & Priviledge) (feat. Taiwo)
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I could be wrong in naming L*Roneous a Most Overlooked of All Time...maybe he's huge in the Bay and I just don't know about it. I'll tell you what though, I didn't discover 1998's Imaginarium until this year, and it is a certified classic. Definitely a high water mark for late-'90s hip-hop, and I can't believe I slept on this jaw-dropper draws-hopper. I don't do the whole biography blahzay blahzay (he runs it down his own self here ), but let's just say Da Versifier's credits stretch back to 1990. On the meaning of [...]
Bil Basmala (formerly known as Autolect) came in hard this year with his four volume Nobody Beats series...he asked me to take the slew of funky, soutronica, neo-hop, authentically deep tracks and create a best of in my usual style. (Meaning lay samples all over the place.) Peep it out and get the upcoming Nobody Beats box set of all five volumes when it drops. Wake Up / Shots / Prophet (vs. Jeru Tha Damaja) / Vortex / Measure / Yesterday / Floating Lazarus (vs. Malcolm X) / Time Lapse / Nice / Miles A [...]
Time to put your money where your ears are. Your mama's so fat, she's the 99%. Immortal Technique :: The Martyr Free LP from Tech. Just when we need it most. Share & enjoy, motherfuckers. Uncommon Records :: Save The Horn We're in fractured times with fractured brains, and a lot of cats have their hearts in the right place but don't walk the [...]
It's A Crime - Roc Marciano / Vein - Cannibal Ox / Scrap Or Die - Danny Brown / Scot Free - Bronze Nazareth (feat. RZA) / Caught A Body - Ryks / Crime Saga (Perfecta '79 Remix) - Shabazz The Disciple / The Shit Is Real (DJ Honda Mix) - Fat Joe / Take It In Blood - Nas / The Street Theme - Greenhouse Effect / 125, Pt. 2 (Fresh Air) - Joell Ortiz / Advance Pawns (instrumental) - DJ Muggs / I Can't Cope - Skipp Coon & Mr. Nick / Small Time Hustler (instrumental) - The [...]
About this photo (by Richard Drew), theologian Mark Thompson wrote: Perhaps the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not found in art, or literature, or even popular music. It is found in a single photograph. I don't think it's an image of despair. But it is a more powerful image of 9/11 than any I have found in art, or literature, or music. Like so many of the thousands of images, we simply can't comprehend it wholly. Ten years [...]
This is the part where I write a witty ironic blurb plugging the Overlook Hotel as the perfect writer's retreat, and then I don't because it's not that funny, my tooth hurts and I need a cigarette. So instead I just run a bunch of links for new joints you should cop. Chris Macro :: Macro Dubplates Vol. 3: Brooklyn Vs Kingston [ download ] Some more of that super chicken dub-hop shit. Ill Clinton :: The Antisocialist Kid [...]
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I don't remember when I first came across DDay One's stuff; I used to spend hours and hours scouring rap blogs for new shit and just hoover it all up. See, I came up in the record store days with no pockets. I'd agonize over which records I could afford to buy, and dream about being in an endless record store where they had everything and you could listen to anything. Hey presto, papi: internet. I got really into instrumental hip-hop a couple of years ago, and it seems like the '00s were definitely their peak period. Problem [...]
So in Greek mythology, you had the Titans who ruled over the Golden Age. Cronos was the king Titan, but because he heard this prophecy his kids would overthrow him, he'd eat them as soon as they were born. This one time his wife gives him a rock instead and raises the kid in secret. When Zeus grows up he cuts his pop's stomach open and frees his siblings, who all grew up in there with only that baby-Zeus-sized rock to play with. (That must've pretty much sucked.) They establish the Olympic pantheon of the Greeks, Romans and all those [...]
All instrumentals. All neck-snappin' bangers. Like John Travolta said in that one movie, "Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" Jump Aroundtro / Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen (Instrumental) - Blade / The Game (instrumental) - Cut Chemist & DJ Nu-Mark / Cross Country - Oh No / Music Sucks - Noisy Stylus / Ronin - Serum / The Way I Feel - Boca 45 / Da Joint (Instrumental) - EPMD / Plane - Jultopia / Double Dog Dare You - Beat Rabbi / Fifty Ways To Bleed Your Customers [...]
I already said all I had to say about Autolect and then some last time . Controlled by dendera light. Props to Jazzpants , Tony Grands , Beatbox Radio Show , Under Emergent , and Haas Muhzak for upping Volume One. Big old 1989 style gasface to all that didn't. This is the (mostly) instrumental volume, giving you the full taste of Auto's power behind the boards. It will seep into your bones. Dusty bootsteps on cracked pavements. Prize (vs. Derek [...]
A roundup of recent(ish) bangers. I can't embed other players up in here, so deal with it. Not gonna break the list into cute categories like 'eggs to order' or 'bacon tray' because that's stupid. Also not gonna put 'em up in one big zip file because I keep it legals. Chill Moody, Tone Trump & Schoolly D :: 'West Philly' Blueprint :: 'Radio-inactive' Adam Warlock & Agartha Audio :: '1987 (A Conglomeration of Years)' [...]
I've been meaning to do a series on M.O.A.T.s-the most overlooked LPs and artists of all time. Not talking about 'oh Black Moon is so underrated' or 'oh Biz Markie is actually a very accomplished lyricist by Keatsian standards' but cats who are incredibly talented and so under the radar they're like those cyborg housefly Predator drones the C.I.A. wants to fly up Ahmadinejad's nose. At the top of the M.O.A.T. list was Autolect: the greatest MC/producer you never heard of. So I felt mighty blessed when Autolect himself reached out to me. I'm amped [...]
So, I joined the Twitter this month for some reason. It's got some good peeps on it but Tumblr has more breasteses. The thing is about the Twooter is that you get more insight into rappers' lives than you might want. I mean, these guys are like superheroes or demigods, I don't really care what they think about the new X-Men movie. And sometimes they drop straight crazy shit. Shit that seriously fucks with my mentals. Uh...you're the guy who had that one skit on that [...]
Can't-stop-won't-stop-ten-trac ks-I-forgot edition. Still Shook - Greenhouse Effect / Run - Rakim / Made You Shit Your Pants - Copywrite, Yakballz & Cage / How I Could Just Kill a Man - Styles P & Sheek Louch / Sucker M.C.s - Wu-Tang Clan / Rapper's Delight - Erick Sermon, Keith Murray, Redman & Joell Ortiz / Vapors - Snoop Dogg / I'm Still #1 - Cypress Hill / I'm Housin' - Rage Against The Machine
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