Another nice interview with the legend. The Cormega part starts about an hour in, giving us even more depth than what we brought you some months ago.
Sep 072012
Sep 052012
Excited about this one. K In The Trunk was thugged out RnB done right.
Sep 042012
Thirstin is not one of my favorite rappers, but definitely one of my favorite people in hiphop.
I have no idea what this is a trailer for (movie, music video, or something else?), but basically, everything the man does deserves more attention.
Sep 032012
M.O.P. bowling. My favorite part is when they’re talking about the birds, though; from On The Waterfront, to Mike Tyson, to Ghost Dog, to Mash Out Posse, keeping pigeons is a crucial part of New York (more precisely, Brooklyn?) culture.
RELATED: These dudes, somewhere in I don’t know where, taking shit to that next level, with the big truck with hella birds in it.
While all this is immensely fascinating, the hobby consisting of catching pigeons, keeping them in cages, and competing with them is not for me.
I suppose bird watching goes better with my Scandinavian temperament. One day I will start doing that shit hardbody, like so many others in my family have done before me.
Aug 312012
American producers copying dead European trends is not a good look. Especially when you do it in a cold, technical manner, not bettering the style, nor understanding what actually makes dubstep enjoyable at times.
What makes rap music survive and stand strong is words and how you twist them around in all kinds of manners. Something ASAP Mob don’t seem very interested in. Tellingly, the only good rapping on their new tape comes from Detroit, Miami and Washington DC.
How many punchlines over throw back beats will Action Bronson and eXquire spit before everyone realize that they got their million dollar deals through nostalgia-tinted New York bias, and nothing else…
Mobb Deep should have handled their differences ten years ago. Or kept it on the down low. Now they make their city look weak and unintelligent.
What happened with kids of this pedigree anyway?
Some fans put their faith in that Joey kid. He’s not Bad, though… he’s a$$.
The last song from New York that had official rapping on it, and wasn’t over a throwback beat? I can’t recall. Probably from before they caged the wave. Max B rotting in prison because he only could afford a public defender? Que vergonha… With the truth behind bars, or sleeping in coffins, who will now make sure the core of the big apple don’t rot?
Surely not these non-rapping ASAP rappers…
Aug 302012
Aldrig riktigt pumpat denna snubbe, men det här bara porlar fram som vattnet i en bäck. Video looks good, too.
Behövde det här för att återfå tron på dagens New York, efter att ha lyssnat igenom Lords Never Worry (de enda minnesvärda verserna på det tapet kommer från Detroit, Washington DC och Miami).
Aug 282012
Persian Wine? Listen, man, the God-fearing denizens of the middle east don’t drink no crushed grapes…
On the other hand, we got Danny Brown, Fat Trel, Gunplay (on the same track!), Raekwon, and a song called Banging On Waxx, produced by Ty Beats, on here. Tomorrow is the day when the fate of ASAP will be decided…
Aug 252012
En till obesvärat stilmedveten grej från den där rödskäggige Queens-rapparen som inte heter Action Bronson.
Aug 252012
1. Tek To A Mack [Produced by Roc Marciano]
2. Flash Gordon [Produced by Alchemist]
3. Not Told feat. Knowledge Pirate and Ka [Produced by Roc Marciano]
4. Pistolier [Produced by Alchemist]
5. Thugs Prayer Pt. 2 [Produced by Roc Marciano]
6. 76 [Produced by Roc Marciano]
7. We Ill [Produced by Roc Marciano]
8. Deeper [Produced by The Alchemist]
9. Death Parade [Produced by Roc Marciano]
10. 20 Guns [Produced by Roc Marciano]
11. Peru [Produced by Roc Marciano]
12. Thread Count [Produced Q-Tip]
13. Nine Spray feat. Ka [Produced by Ray West]
14. Emeralds [Produced The Arch Druids]
15. The Man [Produced by Roc Marciano]
More than half of the songs produced by Roc himself? CHECK!
Q-Tip just did one beat? CHECK!
Just a few guest verses, supplied strictly by the very inner circle? CHECK!
He’s putting Emeralds on that bitch? CHECK!
That other song that leaked was banging? CHECK!
Non-generic song titles with many references to hand weapons? CHECK! CHECK!
Alright, 80 days left ’til Reloaded…
Aug 112012
The Real Recognize Real song and video is cool, but Im Just That Good (click for download) is crack.
Beat reminds me of this Brazilian classic.