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[Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hard (right-click and "save-target-as" to DL)]
Black Dontae’s latest album, The Ecstatic is real smoove-like. As much as I think he’s a talented singer, I’ve missed his lyricism since Black on Both Sides, something awful. This is just a little sample of his latest freshness to 2-step to on another manic Monday.
U stay classy(?) internets,
senbei
[2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards - DJ Premiere conducts "The Cypher"]
Talented lyricists are an endangered species.
[Pharaohe Monch - Welcome to the Terrordome]
Troy Donald Jamerson > most.
SEN
p.s. For the youngsters out there (damn, I thought I’d never be this dude =P), this is a remake of Public Enemy’s classic from the LP, Fear of a Black Planet.
[i heart self-titled albums (know about jagged edge! =P)]
[Tower of Power - So Very Hard to Go (right-click and "save-as" to DL)]
Even though it’s hella sad, this song has never failed to make me feel better than I was momentarily before hearing it. There is something hella fresh to me about memories of waking up to my Japanese American daddy singing at the top of his lungs to this record before school in the Richmond Annex. Lenny Williams (not unlike my pops) is cooler than the march of the penguins.
C
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[iLL-Literacy feat. Passion - The HereNow]
According to the relativity of simultaneity, it is impossible to say in an absolute sense whether two things can happen at the same time if they are separated by space. However, the band of funky fermions known as iLL-Literacy insists that everything and everyone share a single moment – that we are all logged into a grand social network known as the HereNow. It is the central hub where our avatar souls bend time in hopes to save the day, and where our common date with Destiny is to avoid becoming dated. As coy fishes in the flow of time are poisoned with mercury, and Pluto is denied planetarianship, it seems that our moments (like all other natural resources) are plundered not with consideration for the Now, but fear of the Future. By way of syllogism, the question then becomes: when frozen in time, can thou keepest it cool? Indeed, where the electron is negative, iLL-Literacy’s spin is positive. And positively charged thou shalt be with another single from their debut project iB4the1.1. Fusing their talents with the vocals of the photonic phenom known as Jeremy “Passion” Manongdo, the iLLs beckon thine to come hither and join “The HereNow”–a P/G-Funktified ode to being present. Lean in for the moment.
This is the second single from the iLL boyz of iLL-Literacy off their forthcoming authoring of authentic awe-inspiring audio artistic awesomeness. The first chapter to their album iB4the1.1 comes out Saturday, November 17 (tomorrow!) and promises to bang, slap, knock, and funk your earbongos the funk up to the fullest extreme.
Soulclap!
C
[American Idiots.]
Wifey and I went to watch green Day last night in San Jose and they tore the motherf*ckin’ roof off. 3.5 hours straight. Knew almost every song they played. Had a blast.
The most memorable moment to me last night was when the band’s lead-singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, began speaking in the middle of the set when he stated: “So back in January, a BART Police Officer killed a kid for no f*cking reason. I remember walking through the streets of downtown Oakland right after the riots had stopped and this is basically what came out. I wrote this song in Oakland, California…”
[Green Day - Murder City (right-click and "save-target-as" to DL)]
Desperate…but not hopeless,
C
p.s.
[He should have turned 24 in February. R.I.P.]
[Rafael Casal: Eastbay Funk.]
[Rafael Casal - Bay Area Slang Top 100 (via iLL-Literacy)]
SO. F*CKING. DOPE. WeOutCheahLikeYADADAIFIGGADEALMeTho. yee.
*Smiley Face*
C
[Louis Logic (formerly of Demigodz)]
[Louis Logic - The Ugly Truth (right-click and "save-target-as" to DL)]
Although this song came out waaay back in 2001 from Louis Logic’s first solo LP, Sin-A-Matic, I always find it a good reminder of the ways that power is structured in U.S., and how the vast majority of people in power perceive those who do not happen to be white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, heterosexual and/or wealthy.
In order to fully understand the message of this song, it MUST be listened to the entire way through. This sh*t is pretty shocking if you’ve never heard it (and for most will be very difficult to listen to), but believe me that it will all come together at the end. Essentialist thinking in its purest form. And that’s the UGLY truth.
Where’s Waldo Louis Logic?
C
p.s.
F*ck George Walker Bush & all his ancestors.
[Jeimil: Archipalego/Vallejo-Bred.]
[Jeimil - Sideshow (right-click & "save-target-as" to DL)]
Although my partner in rhyme is one of the most difficult people to get in the booth, when he is actually able to make it happen, he makes it happen. We are (hella slowly) in the process of putting together a new Broken Halos project right now, and this DJ Dahi-produced joint is a sample of Jeimil’s uncanny ability to access the inner workings of his soul, and expressing it through rhyme. Me thinks its safe to say that (when he does it =P) Jei is my favorite emcee doing it today.
Stuck in a sideshow…tryna find hope…figure-8’s: infinite in high notes…tires screeching…tryna outrun the pain…full-throttle though the motherf*ckin’ rain.
masashi
[Masta Ace: True Skool]
[Masta Ace - Beautiful (right-click and "save-target-as" to DL)]
Masta Ace is definitely an originator/architect when it comes to the roots of Hip-Hop. This song is from his 2004 LP, A Long Hot Summer (which was really f*cking good). If you are a Hip-Hopper and for some reason haven’t heard of him, take a gander at this old classic.
[Juice Crew - The Symphony pt. 2]
Is Brooklyn in the house?
C
