February 2008 Archives

Method Man and Redman- "Broken Language 2008"{listen}

"The Mr. walk in the White House and f*ck Bush up."

How random is this track of choice? But f*ck it.

I was wondering what the hell had happened to Dead Prez-- and then Onsmash finds one half of the duo. I peeped this a couple days late, but hey.

Stic.Man and M-1 had previously been working on separate projects but are now in the works of bringing together a DP album, entitled Information Age, which should be hitting stores later this year.

And you can dismiss that silly, so-called "review" Maxim Magazine gave N*gger, because according to Stic-- who has been working with Nas on the project-- the album is brilliant.

---------------------> Pete Rock f/ Redman- "Till I Retire"

This video is definitely hot. And this song is much, much better than "We Roll," which had that annoying Jim Jones on it. I totally felt Krush Groove-ish with that DMC cameo, and I like the way Pete flipped the beat on Redman’s end of it.

Let me address this quickly (via SOHH News):

"Jay-Z, Ratner, and Barclays are connected due to mutual interests in the development of a $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. Ratner plans to build over 6,000 apartments and a new arena for his NBA franchise the New Jersey Nets at the site. As a partial owner of the Nets, Jay-Z has been a major advocate for Atlantic Yards and has made appearances at press conferences for the project, while Barclays owns naming rights to the arena."

… Well kinda.

This is the snippet {listen} for what they say is one of the joints from off of Nas’ N*gger, called “What It Is.” And I like it. I can hear this banging in the whip, blaring out a window on a summer night in the hood, bumping out a stereo live at a barbeque, and flooding the floors in the club. The beat is hard, lyrics on-point as always, and the hook is very…not-cliché. Damn they should have let the hook ride a little bit longer.

Being that this was ripped from off of that DJ Khalil listening session, the quality is bad, but you get the gist of it. Question: if this is one of the joints, I wonder if the rest of the album will measure up to, surpass… or sink below.

Kiss is feeling himself right now… you can tell by his newly rejuvenated arrogance. ‘Cause he was really sonning the interviewer.

But moving on, Kiss reiterated what I had said the other day in terms of working hard and not waiting for the label to do your work for you:

Live and direct, Boogie Down Productions is LARGE!!!

------> KRS ONE “Criminal Minded ’08,” Produced by DJ Premier {LISTEN}

Listen all you little readers 9 and up who listen to Soulja Boy (Damn he put Sister Souljah to shameâ€"and he doesn’t even know who she is). You must listen to the LYRICS. Even some of you 17-year-olds will not understand, because your ears are not conditioned to comprehend messages in rap songs. Mmm kay?

Yeah. “The strength of Roc-A-Fella.” Lord knows Kiss is the only hope the ROC has right now.

Jadakiss- “Welcome to the ROC”

Awww, J-Hood. What is wrong with this dude? This has been going on since September, and G-Unit still hasn't given this cornball a bite to eat. If you're not loyal to the fam who tried to help you, what makes you think even the shadiest n*ggas are gonna f*ck with you? That's why he did an entire video with a SONY digital camera...he's still looking for a plate to snatch.

As of yesterday, I was still trying to figure out “this thing” Nas was speaking of at the Grammys. Well, all that came to an end when I found the audio to the interview Nas had with Foxxhole Radio (2-15-08) [listen]

On titling his album N*gger:

This is the latest Fabolous mixtape with the DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz series, which I heard has some crack juice joints on it.

But this is for the streets.

"You're MEXICAN though right?"

"Nah I'm Puerto Rican, baby."

"Oh ... sorry. ... I sometimes get it confused."

FYI- it's not necessary to watch after 1:36... Well I didn't, at least.

Stop the speculation, stop the speculation.



If the Bush Administration has established a bill that prohibits blacks from voting 23 years from now, we will never know because a) Republicans do everything under the table and b) We will NEVER see the documentation. EVER. So how Nas has come to this, I have no idea. And I'm not saying that Nas' claims are completely false, because only God knows what America's corrupt government does behind closed doors. Maybe someone tipped him off?

Hah. Hilarious. I can totally see this happening

First and foremost, Nas is my dude forever, but this better be one hell of an album. If it's not? He'll be a victim of his own dose of ether. You can't title an album with a name so strong, but unleash a tracklist sprinkled with gems that end up outshined by mediocre fill-ins. We see he's really going through with this name, but if it doesn't turn out to be the stellar, hard-core, near-classic album many anticipate, then he's setting himself up for an L that he might not be able to recover from.

In this footageâ€"provided by Mikey Freshâ€"Fat Joe explains why he named his album The Elephant in the Roomâ€"which was really just a bunch of whining about why people never rank him in the top 10, why people never "notice" him, why people never yada, yada, yada...

Shout out to all the real hip-hoppers out there. There's not too many of us left these days.

Twenty-something years on Earth and these two have been a f*ck up to everyone. Parents never wanted their children around them, and they were repeatedly isolated from the rest of the kids in the classâ€"referred to as the “wrong crowd,” or told by administrators and other nagging adults to stop hanging with the “wrong crowd.” Until one day it clicked: The Wrong Crowd is simultaneously half-negative yet the most positive and clever name ever given; and from this came D.E.F.A.M.E and Teganoâ€"two of The Bronx’s most prolific rappers running through the streets of New York City bagging exclusive footage of your favorite rappersâ€"their digital cams in hand and their knowledge of the game sharper than your so-called hip-hop activist’s. It all started way before The Source Magazine, but continues with this magazine’s well-respected name as they head from one event to anotherâ€"from S.O.B’s to backstage at Nokia and the Hammersteinâ€"working hard to capture the essence of what real hip-hop journalism is all about.

Big Punisherâ€"or Big Punâ€"born Christopher Rios on November 9th, 1971, held down The Bronx as the first ever Latino rapper to go platinum. With underground hits like “I’m Not a Player” preceding his highly commercially successful “Still Not a Player”â€"a joint brought together with Pun’s first version of the song and R&B singer Joe’s “Don’t Wanna be a Player”â€"his 1998 debut album Capital Punishment proved brutal lyrical warfare mixed with commercialized appeal. With joints like “Punish Me,” “You Came Up,” “Twinz (Deep Cover ’98),” and a handful of others building clout for Pun’s name, his grammy-nominated album moved on to achieve platinum-plus status.

"Hov came back, that's cuz yall gave him a reason to."

Everybody say whaddup to Gun Hill Road... that's in my borough, the Boogie Down. The rapper in this song goes by the name of Tymes Skware-- a name that first made me cringe with the "gimmick shivers"... but later had me nodding my head like "oh iiiiight. Word."

Uh-oh. Curtis REALLY thinks he's a gangster now!

=()!!!!

Today I'm keeping it strictly news.

Termanology is from right outside of Boston (Lawrence), BUT! NYC has nothing but love for the kid who teamed up with Preemo to bring us "Watch How it Go Down" {watch vid here- and peep the Pun tribute}-- perhaps one of his most notable joints thus far. This track, called "It's the ST," features his crew ST. Da Squad, and is produced by Statik Selektah. "It's the ST" is from off the upcoming mixtape as displayed below, which should be hot in these streets some time this month.

First thing's first. Welcome back, Pap! Looks like he got off that bullsh*t and went back to his old roots, those '04-'05 roots. That's what the f*ck I'm talking about. This is the kind of Pap we like to see.

Pap murdered, ran over, reversed, ran over again, got out of the car, stomped, kicked, and spit on Uncle Murda with on this new track, "Who Shot Ya," spit over one of Biggie's old bangers... "Who Shot Ya."