Posts tagged hip hop

dominickbrady:

**Trigger alert: possible rough language**

The Art of Rap

via Kiss My Black Ads:

Ice T’s forthcoming film, The Art of Rap. Taking you back to the streets where it all began, Ice T shows how the rap game first started and how things have changed since then. In the early days of hip-hop, rap music was raw and emotional, it was about your struggles and what you were going through at the time. “Rap music saved my life,” he says, acknowledging that if it hadn’t been for rap he would be in a very different place today. The film features emcees like Treach, Grandmaster Caz, Immortal Technique, Kool Keith and more and is scheduled for release early Fall 2011.

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“The Funky African: Questlove on Fela”

My man Drake is stepping up to the plate. So I might have to stop screaming that best thing.

~Weezy, Vibe Magazine

Is LIL WAYNE conceding what his jibberish has always made obvious? Maybe I’ll never have to make that 3 page blog post on why he’s so not GOAT public after all (I know, who would read that anyway)

wayne concedes

alicewonder:

The Pharcyde — Drop

another oldie but goodie…remember when you could feel hiphop in your bones? this reminds me of that.

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“New Day,” 1:10 Sample from rapper, @eazylittle’s, forthcoming project, “The Public speaker,” Sept 18th

Be Eazy

My homeboy, Eazy, truly does do it for the love and that’s it.  He’s married, doin’ the 9 to 5 as an admissions counselor for Georgia College & State University, workin’ on his Masters of Public Administration part time…and primed to release a mixtape later on this week.  No budget, just internet beat makers, sweat and late nights.  Disregard that this sounds like a recipe for disaster from another black guy with misplaced rap priorities, lol— dude’s nice and just has an earnest desire to create good music. I enjoy what he puts out there and look forward to hearing his project come Friday. The music will speak for itself.

PS Photo links to an interview he did recently with the blog, “For Coloured Girls.”

PPS He’s got waves that make brushes seasick, lol.

Jody Breeze dissing Jeezy? Noise in the Hood!

At least give us a decent verse, man.  Remember when folks where comparing Jody to T.I.?

1986 Get Mets-merized

Thank God this was not my first encounter with Hip hop. The hilariously absolute worst rapping I’ve ever heard in my life. But if you’d heard worse show it to me cuz I’d Iike to be even more amused.

Shout out to @jdubcomedian for putting me on this

Top 10 Hottest Rappers in the Game…

My Homeboy Marchaz M. weighed in on his ranking of the hottest rappers of 09 (taken from MTV’s nominees) after I gave my opinion:

“Eventhough Jay isn’t well-liked by America’s youth…is he hot?…the answer is yes. Because of that, I think this will be the first one of these lists that they’ve done in a while in which Wayne wont be in the top 2, bcuz if it is strictly who has been the hottest in 2009 then 1. Drake, 2. Jay, 3. Wayne, 4. Kanye…I’d be willing to bet that’s your top 4. After that I’m confused, because although Fab is one of my favs…I don’t think he’ll be on the list. I don’t think Em should be in the top 10, but he’s a 100% lock to be in there..which means Roth won’t be lol. So I will go with 5. Gucci, 6. Soulja, 7. Em, 8. Cudi, 9. T.I., and 10 will go to Rick Ross or Plies….only because Plies is hot right now, and Ross, credibility issues and all, had tremendous buzz earlier this year.”

Do you agree?

On the Young Jeezy & Gucci Mane-DJ Drama beef…

**Jeezy needs to learn from the Luda-TI beef.  Let that mess go! Very few people woulda said back in 03-04 that TI would be bigger than Luda in 4 years but now look (I def wouldn’t have said that, esp not after ‘Stomp,’ I know some of you might have predicted it tho, haha). I think both Tip & Luda’s parties benefited from squashin it: TI didn’t have to have the ether-esque ‘stomp’ held over his head for the rest of Hip hop time and Luda just kept doing great collabos while making mediocre albums that people almost cared about.

Jeezy just needs to keep makin’ hood anthems and put the bullshit to the side or he might get surpassed for the wannabe-everyman-hood crown.  Jeezy’s not that great lyrcially so he can be easily replaced w/ another cathy-hook-making-charismatic-great-flow-hood star. Bascially I don’t think he can afford to beef w/ Gucci b/c it’s almost like beefing w/ the very same people that made him.

Maybe this Jeezy-Gucci beef will work if they do the rap, break-up-to-make-up formula and record an ATL Black Republicans 5 yrs from now.

**Some Hip Hop tabloid reading if you wanna catch up

I would…you know what? Do you remember when KRS-One would go onstage and beat up niggas for being wack? I would just send niggas to award shows to kick the wack rappers’ ass, like, Just go up there and beat the shit out of so-and-so…in front of all of his fans.

~Scarfarce on how he’d save Hip Hop

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8-bit Hip Hop medley

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Jay-Z — Dirt Off Your Shoulders

T.I — What You Know

Chamillionaire — Ridin’

Ludacris — What’s Ya Fantasy

Bonecrusher — Neva Scared

Twista & Kanye — Overnight Celebrity

Ludacris — Move Bitch

Lil’ Jon — Get Low

Kanye — Gold Digger

Old School meets New School

Funny how with all the technology we have now, 8-bit tones form the 80’s are this enjoyable to me, haha

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kemiii: (via endofanera) The soundtrack to my upperclassman college career!  The Source Magazine named this project in its, ‘slept on albums of 2005’ segment.  The Minstrel Show was a concept album based around a fictional tv station UBN (U Black Niggas Network, lol) and its overly stereotypical programming.  My favorite thing about this album was the way it combined humor w/ the everyman underdog struggle of hustlin’ for your dreams.  Something I could very well relate to when it dropped and still do now.   Phonte can hold his own w/ any rapper doin it today and can outrap most (if this abum isn’t proof enough of Tiggalo’s skills then check for their exquisite mixtapes, which play more like albums than random colections of songs).  & Big Pooh has great heart that shines through in every verse.  Anyway, if you can’t tell. LB’s my favorite rap group and I could go on and on about what I love about their music.  In a field where alot of rappers brag about being the best (and no, they’re not exempt from boasts), LB’s main concern is making fun, timeless music. “Dope beats, dope rhymes, what more do y’all want? ~Phonte

kemiii:

(via endofanera)

The soundtrack to my upperclassman college career!  The Source Magazine named this project in its, ‘slept on albums of 2005’ segment.  The Minstrel Show was a concept album based around a fictional tv station UBN (U Black Niggas Network, lol) and its overly stereotypical programming.  My favorite thing about this album was the way it combined humor w/ the everyman underdog struggle of hustlin’ for your dreams.  Something I could very well relate to when it dropped and still do now.   Phonte can hold his own w/ any rapper doin it today and can outrap most (if this abum isn’t proof enough of Tiggalo’s skills then check for their exquisite mixtapes, which play more like albums than random colections of songs).  & Big Pooh has great heart that shines through in every verse. 

Anyway, if you can’t tell. LB’s my favorite rap group and I could go on and on about what I love about their music.  In a field where alot of rappers brag about being the best (and no, they’re not exempt from boasts), LB’s main concern is making fun, timeless music.

“Dope beats, dope rhymes, what more do y’all want?

~Phonte

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HIP HOP WEALTH

blackisbeautiful:

Dr. Stephanie Shonekan is the Director of Black World Studies at my school. She is hosting a virtual symposium regarding Old/New Wealth. She wrote a short piece on Hip Hop Wealth HERE If that’s something that interests you, I highly recommend you read it and make a comment. Share your opinion. Join in on the conversation. 

Also the review that I am writing on the book “Dead Aid” will be a part of this conversation as well, it will be up in the next week or so. I’ll be sure to let you know. 

Left my 2 cents about Lil Wayne, new rappers making any money, and the greatest rappers alive (haha) earlier. Join in on the conversation… It’s an interesting one