One Last Round-Up of Year-and-Decade Round-Ups
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Media | 1 Comment
Heading into this New Year season I was none too enthusiastic about taking time out of my hectic schedule to look back at shit. Especially a whole decade’s worth of it.
But I wound up doing a bunch of different round-ups (links below), and enjoying a bunch of others. Here are the best look back corrals [...]
Year-End Rap-Ups from Skillz and Bekay
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Hip Hop, Media | 5 Comments
Year-in-review rhymes are a major perk of hip-hop fandemonium; I’m pretty sure that folk, rock, and country cats don’t do this, and if I’m wrong I have no interest whatsoever in hearing them. Somehow I don’t think I see things through the same lens as anyone who’s ever worn cowboy boots or Birkenstocks.
While Skillz is [...]
The History of Boston Hip-Hop – Live On The Air Right Now
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Boston Hip-Hop | 8 Comments
I know that a lot of you enjoyed the extensive Boston hip-hop throwbacks that we’ve brought you in the past few months. Even those of you who bitched about it left wet marks on your keyboards.
Today and tomorrow, on WZBC 90.3FM in Boston, Bean rap DJ-enthusiasts Brian Coleman, Pacey Foster, and Scott Limanek will be [...]
(Literally) A Disturbing New Trend
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Audio, Boston Hip-Hop | 5 Comments
I couldn’t tell you much about these guys except:
a) from Boston
b) Affiliate on vocals, Silvamore on production
c) they actually pressed up a CD(!) for their four-track almost-EP Year of the Carnivore
d) the CD actually has some cool artwork and style to it(!!)
e) Silvamore was part of the JTTS-affiliated team that smashed Hip-Hop Trivia at the [...]
Flava Flav Will Never Let You Go
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Video, WTF | 2 Comments
It’s gotta be fate that this drops just in time to put the final punctuation on this long, dark crack dream of a decade. As the sun sets on a period of stress and upheaval, let the dulcet Autotuned notes of William Drayton, Jr. bring comfort to your acknowledgment that the only constant in life [...]
Don’t Be Blinded By The Right
Posted on December 30, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Media, WTF | 4 Comments
Even those of you who who blast my writing must concede that I make more sense than those conservative assbags who populate the New York Times Best Seller List. Of course you won’t – since you’re likely ignoramus sympathizers yourselves – but deep down you know what I’m talking about.
My Boston Phoenix colleague David Bernstein [...]
Beyond Dilla and Dipset: Can Hip-Hop Deliver in 2010?
Posted on December 30, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop | Leave a Comment
For a break from radical posturing and whizzing bullets, 2010 promises spreads from two of the genre’s most reliable beat specialists. Lucky for us, former Aesop Rock collaborator BLOCKHEAD’s The Music Scene (Ninja Tune, due January 12) arrived at the Phoenix months ago and is surely his most mesmerizing sonic spring break ever. I have [...]
“Somehow, Someway” Remix from Law & Order
Posted on December 29, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Free Download, Hip Hop | 2 Comments
Before the year ended I wanted to direct one and all to the Law & Order mixtape by Big Willie Green and NASA. Shit is sick – for proof just peep this fly fucking remix of one of the greatest Organized Konfusion cuts ever known to alien-kind. Mixtape recommended for anyone who has yet to [...]
A Healthy Holiday Helping of Termanology
Posted on December 29, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Boston Hip-Hop, Free Download, Hip Hop | 9 Comments
While some of us had our hip-hop hustles on hold for the holidays, it seems Termanology was in the laboratory. Dude has surpassed just about everybody in the prolific rhymes department – including that sucker who considers himself the top dog but who really makes junk music with the son of some guy who molested [...]
When Def Jam Was Just That
Posted on December 29, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Free Download, Hip Hop | 4 Comments
Upon seeing my spiel last week about how Jay-Z fucked up Def Jam, JTTS friend and occasional accomplice Enig sent over a link to remind us what sort of powerhouse the integral imprint once was.
Hopefully some of you are old enough to remember the Survival of the Illest series, which came on three free green [...]
We Told You We’d Be Back
Posted on December 28, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under JTTS Announcements | Leave a Comment
New posts underway right now…
Our fucking in-boxes were stuffed…
Just like your mother’s…
Best Christmas Song Ever. Hands Up.
Posted on December 25, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Video | 6 Comments
The only Christmas song I’ve ever liked beside “Dominic the Donkey”
Sticky literally has Santa buying crack
And I’m pretty sure St. Nick gets laid somewhere in there
We here at JTTS can only hope you have an equally fulfilling ho ho holiday
Hip-Hop In 2010: Mainstream rap relies on one man, but will Jay-Z atone for done damage or keep polluting his genre?
Posted on December 23, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Consumerism, Hip Hop | 14 Comments
There’s a song on JAM’N 94.5 that makes me want to slash and laugh myself to stitches. The tormenter is Def Jam recording artist Jeremih “Birthday Sex” Felton; his weapon, “I’m a Star,” is a miraculous synthesis of hackneyed production and faux-consciousness. It’s one of those insulting tracks that proves how powerful big label honchos [...]
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