not alotta people can start making music in 1989 and still put out something worth listening to or something that can connect w/ todays crowd in 2012 but the best kept secret can.
if ur so young that D.I.T.C. doesn’t mean much other than “that’s the group Big L was in?” then i highly instruct you to go out and do the math. With the passing of a great, after seeing this, it’s a reminder that not many can keep the ball rolling and even more the reason to respect ur rap elders.
he has produced EVERYONE and is one of the original triple threats. he did my all-time favorite Brand Nubian song “punks jump up to get beat down” , made tracks for EDO, A.D.O.R. (dating myself), Red Hot Lover Tone and has more remixes than Busta. shit most people don’t remember this dude has a Grammy from the Fugees album “The Score”……a fucking grammy!
D.I.T.C. hands down the most underrated of crews that never got the props they deserve from the masses……but kids from my era have so much love for this guy it almost makes up for it. peace!
POSTED BY: Sleezy Trees - May 5th, 2012 - Consumerism
MCA’s body wasn’t even fucking cold yet and those faggots at Digital Gravel put up a t-shirt for sale with the Run DMC font saying RIP MCA..
Those dudes are classless money grubbing cocksuckers.
“A PORTION OF PROFITS WILL BE DONATED TO THE PABLOVE FOUNDATION (PABLOVE.ORG) an organization funding pediatric cancer research and advances in treatment, educating and empowering cancer families, and improving the quality of life for children living with cancer through hospital play, music and arts programs. “
They are trying to make it seem right by donating “a portion” of profits to a charity. Fuck them. A PORTION? A FUCKING PORTION? Dude was dead literally an hour and this shirt went up..
Oh.. and their cash grab piece of shit shirts comes in two colorways..
POSTED BY: Sleezy Trees - May 4th, 2012 - Hip Hop, WTF
MCA of the Beastie Boys just passed.
I don’t really know what to write? Beasties were one of my favorite hip hop groups of all time. This one has hit me real hard.. I feel like I lost a friend and we never met.
Beasties literally raised me. (They raised all of us). They inspired me. My first car at 16, I covered up the previous owner’s Grateful Dead sticker with a Beasties one. I remember fellow Beastie Boys nerd Big Dan and I had a conversation about them one day. “Who is your favorite” he said to me like we were pre-teens with a crush.. “MCA” I replied. “I can picture you liking MCA..” was his response. I used to rock out to License to Ill every night when I closed up shop at Sam Goody in the 90s.. (my first job). I used to bug out to Hello Nasty while on mushrooms using headphones (The sonics on that album were incredible). I used to throw a speaker in the window of 56 Green St. hang out on the stoop and drink beers to the The Mix Up in the summer time. I started fucking with Ricky Powell mainly from my love of the Beasties.. I tried to collect as much as their shit as possible… I bought bootleg Beasties shows on VHS, taped all their TV specials… I never got to see them live..
POSTED BY: el caballero - May 3rd, 2012 - Audio, Hip Hop
First, New York starts to love rap again.
Then New York rappers start to love each other again.
Then we get shit like this.
This is the first leak off Mayhem Lauren‘s Respect the Fly Shit, recorded at SXSW (in the Embassy Suites, Room 243 to be exact according to Dante), follows a simple formula: dope rhymes + dope beats = dope song. Stay tuned for more info on the album, coming soon from LRG/Greedhead. Harry Fraud on the beat.
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POSTED BY: el caballero - May 3rd, 2012 - Audio, Hip Hop
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Every once in a while, the world of merchandising is turned on it’s ear. The Swoosh, The Polo Horsey, The Cancer Riddled Cowboy Puffin On A Square… Well fuck all that! Hov bout to show you how to do this, shun.
The Marcy Brooklyn Nets are about to shatter all merchandising records. Fuck selling tickets, popcorn, or programs – these mufuckas have the world-wide privilege of selling BROOKLYN. From Chechnya to Chelsea, all types of frail JKfgts will be yearning to rock official Medina gear.
I know exactly what the yung Joo marketing exec said at the pitch meeting for this campaign… “We’re not selling our basketball team…we’re selling the Brooklyn Fucking Bridge.” Genius. Cut the check.
Everyone’s been asking about it, and we’re proud to reveal the secret location for the Bacardi Plus Fest is here at Good Life! We’ve got Danny Brown, one of the best up and coming hip hop artists performing up close and personal with an opening set by our good friends Black El & Durkin! Plus DJ sets all night long by DJs Evaredy and Knife. Best of all, it’s free! RSVP is subject to capacity so don’t sleep! Get here early!!!!
Darq E Freaker – Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine) (ft. Danny Brown)
File under: “Shit I have to post while Faraone is ‘marching on Wall Street’”
When I have to step in a put up an Aesop Rock video ahead of Faraone, there’s little doubt his blog passion is at an all time low.
I figured if there was one righteous cause powerful enough to distract Faraone from chanting slogans until the world is fixed, it would be his long-running, well-documented beef with ASAP Rocky over his “occupation” of Aesop’s name. In his year-end diatribe against all things purple and swag, he unleashed this first-ballot hall-of-famer:
On that note, I’m flabbergasted over the trending popularity of A$AP Rocky. Not just because he couldn’t rap his way out of a tinfoil hat, or because “Purple Swag” is the lamest combination of played out ingredients since peanut butter and jelly in the same jar.
But when Aesop, “a poetic and musical genius to this fool’s ignoramus” as he says, drops a video to post Faraone is nowhere to be found. That’s like free throws for a blogger; you gotta hit those if you wanna be on the team.
The fact that it’s actually a decent video is just extra icing on a big cake of shame.
