Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives Artwork x Track listing
Seriously, I belive that thios will be one of the most influential albums not because of it's heavy star power but for it's message this is an ode to Africa.
The album title derives from Nas and Marley's relationship, their shared African ancestry, and the shared ancestry of the entire human race; which musically and lyrically inspired each recording.Can't wait to hear the album!
1. Intro (Something New) (prod. Damian Marley)
2. As We Enter (prod. Damian Marley)
3. Revolutionary (prod. Damian Marley)
4. Count Your Blessings (prod. Damian & Stephen Marley)
5. Belief is Key (prod. Damian Marley)
6. Africa Must Wake Up f. K’naan (prod. Nas, Damian & Stephen Marley)
7. Black Horizon f. K’naan (prod. Damian Marley)
8. Only the Strong (prod. Damian & Stephen Marley)
9. Our Generation f. Joss Stone & Stevie Wonder (prod. Damian Marley)
10. Empowerment (prod. Stephen Marley)
11. AID (prod. K’naan & Nas)
12. Let’s End It (Poverty) f. K’naan (prod. 9th Wonder & Damian Marley)
13. The Earth f. Bob Marley (prod. Salaam Remix, Damian & Stephen Marley)
14. Black Man’s Paper f. Erykah Badu (prod. Afry) [UK Bonus]
15. Weed On f. Snoop Dogg (prod. Damian Marley) (iTunes Bonus)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Kanye West Suprise Appearance
HE'S BACK!!! from ibn jasper on Vimeo.
like going raw dog, and the next morning coughing was a cold line!
Mos Def “History” featuring Talib Kweli [Sneak Peak]
A sneak peak at upcoming music video for J Dilla produced record “History” by Mos Def featuring Talib Kweli from his grammy-nominated album The Ecstatic.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Mos Def & Jay Electronica “Holiday” (Prod. by Just Blaze)
MOS AND JAY..........TOO MUCH!!!!!!!! I LOVE HIP HOP!! LOL
Reflection Eternal ft. Jay Electronica, Mos Def & J. Cole "Untitled"
Best collab of 09' in my opinion, just think if they were to combine as a group
(if they were to add MF Doom & Black Thought it would be serious!! lol)
Just Blaze and Jay Electronica played this track on Tony Touch’s show on shade45 Tuesday night. Here’s a good quality rip of the dope 4 going in over a hi-tek production, enjoy!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Beatnick & K-Salaam – Don’t Die feat. Bun B, 88-Keys & Colin Munroe
The official music video for “Don’t Die” by Beatnick & K-Salaam featuring Bun B, 88-Keys and Colin Munroe, from their album Where The Streets Have No Name, available now.
Directed by Mills Miller.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Arts person of the year
He has yet to release an album, but that hasn't stopped hip-hip phenom Drake from landing a No. 1 single, inciting a fierce bidding war among labels, and landing a pair of Grammy nods, Robert Everett-Green writes
Most successful pop musicians will eventually make a song or even a full album about the drawbacks of fame and fortune. Drake is a little unusual. He tackled the subject even before his debut album was done.
What might have looked like hubris in someone else, however, turned into prophesy for the 23-year-old Toronto singer, actor and rapper. Since the beginning of 2009, Drake has become hip hop's new golden boy. His mix tape So Far Gone was one of the hottest music releases on the Internet this year, his single Best I Ever Had became a No. 1 hit last summer, and he's competing for two Grammy Awards against the likes of Eminem, Jay-Z and Kanye West. All this, and Drake still hasn't finished making his first album.
“I had one of the craziest years of my life, maybe one of the craziest years in hip hop for any new artist,” he said, sprawled on a distressed leather sofa in the prime downtown condo he bought last summer but has only recently had time to furnish. The decor – mostly hardwood, leather and sisal – is understated and frankly male. The view is easily worth a million or two, and seems to confirm that the multilabel bidding war that erupted around Drake last summer ended very much in his favour. (The winner, Motown Universal, released an EP of “extended-play selections” from So Far Gone in September.)
Drake, who grew up as Aubrey Graham, has been in show business since 2001, as a seven-season regular on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation . His move into music over the past few years may seem like an echo of his Degrassi character, Jimmy Brooks, but Drake says it happened the other way round: He began making music (his first mix tape came out in 2006) and then the Degrassi writers made Jimmy an aspiring rapper.
“ I went to a predominantly Jewish school, so to be half-black and Jewish wasn't something a lot of other kids could understand.”
Drake's upbringing is a tale of two cities: Toronto, where he lived with his white Jewish mother in prosperous Forest Hill; and Memphis, where he spent summers with his drummer father, Dennis Graham, and his uncles Teenie Hodges (who co-wrote songs with Al Green) and Larry Graham (who played bass with Sly and the Family Stone).
“My mom is the Scrabble player, overly neurotic and organized, the epitome of a proper woman,” Drake said. “All the rappers like my mom, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne, she's a great lady. And then you've got my dad, who's straight down-south, a real, true Memphis man, not glamorous at all. Very intelligent, but my mother definitely has him trumped in the class category.”
Drake never felt completely at home in either milieu. He was a black kid in a white Jewish enclave, and a Jewish Canadian in a Southern black 'hood.
“I went to a predominantly Jewish school, so to be half-black and Jewish wasn't something a lot of other kids could understand,” he said. “A lot of their nannies were black. They made me feel like an outsider, for sure.
“Memphis was like one of those wild theme parks in movies. We might be shooting guns in the back yard at my cousin's house, or drinking beer. My dad watched out for me, but he was like, ‘Go ahead, see the world.' Crazy things would happen.”
Outsiders are often good observers, and Drake was fascinated by the different forms of high life he saw in his two hometowns: the well-bred upscale women in his mother's set versus the flashy, bling-laden guys he saw at rap shows in Memphis. He wanted a bit of both for himself, but also sensed that the gold under the rainbow might not be enough.
“As a 23-year-old kid, that's what I strive for: money, cars, clothes, now furniture – material things,” he said. “That's what we're conditioned to think happiness is. But are we on the right path? Is it possible to find love, to enable you to enjoy all this stuff? I'm a young man of substance. I don't like chasing empty connections. That's what my album is going to be about: my new situation, about me getting a firm grasp on it, and then trying to find the missing component.”
He's been lucky so far, both in the timing and reception of his own work, and in the high-profile collaborations that have come his way, with Kanye West, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige. He has a solid entrée into the top tier of the American hip-hop scene, above all through Lil Wayne, who took him on the road with his Young Money crew in 2008, signed him to his boutique label in June, and showed him what hard work really looks like.
“My mom always used to say, ‘You've got to work hard, because when you're resting or you take a break, there's somebody else that chose not to,' Drake said. “Lil Wayne is that guy, who chooses not to ever take a break. When I'm tired at the end of the night, because we've done a show and an after-party, he's like, ‘I'm gonna go on the bus and record some songs.'”
It's a timely lesson, because wonder boy Drake is still just getting started. With luck, his album may be out by the time he suits up for the Grammys.
Robert Everett-Green,
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Friday, December 18, 2009
Corinne Bailey Rae – I’d Do It All Again
Video for the first single off her forthcoming album, “The Sea,” scheduled to be released on January 26th, 2010. Glad to hear her sing again
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
I truly appreciate Rihanna lol
"I wanted people to move on with me," she continues, "'cause the last big thing they know about me is That Night. And I don't want that to be what people define me as."
- Rihanna in a GQ Magazine article
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Mike Posner – Drug Dealer Girl
puff it, pass it, push it, peddle it! I was amazed at how well this video came
out ......and also love Rosa Acosta.
"One Foot Out The Door" Episode 4: The Making of the Drug Dealer Girl Video f. Rosa Acosta from Mike Posner on Vimeo.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
J.Cole Interview w/ Streetlevel
As the first signee to Jay-z’s newly-minted RocNation, J. Cole is poised to be at the head of 2010’s freshman class. StreetLevel linked with te North Carolina native to talk about sneakers, clothes, basketball, and being late with the rent in NYC.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The original Azie (Mobstyle) talks to Gasface about Harlem in the 80s, “Paid in Full” and more
Snowman Talk from Gasface on Vimeo.
Gasface says:
“In the 80’s, kids already wanted to be like Mike.
But some of them also looked up to AZ, Alpo or Rich…
Guess what ? Most of them became rappers.
Azie and his partners lived the fast life in the 80’s,
Jay-Z and Dame Dash made a movie about it in 2002.
Now 46, Azie sits in his X6 and reflects on his past in the game,
why he never really liked crack, his sister’s boyfriend, nor the outcome of his Roc-A-Fella biopic, ‘Paid in Full.’”
Friday, December 4, 2009
I got something to get off my chest!
Early today I saw a video of Nasir "NAS" Jones, intoxicated and getting arrested.
people we really need to stop reporting and throwing flags at individuals, we will never grow as people if we continue to upload bullshit to the net like that. I see so much bad news and craziness in the world that we need to began to encourage our people rather than broadcast there downfalls.
people we really need to stop reporting and throwing flags at individuals, we will never grow as people if we continue to upload bullshit to the net like that. I see so much bad news and craziness in the world that we need to began to encourage our people rather than broadcast there downfalls.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
magazine photography has really steped it's game up!
I swear this picture really speaks to me, than the past issues of Complex. Em'
has really came up this year, the photographer was really inspired by I am legend.
Then theres the re-launched of VIBE magazine they came hard with the Chris Brown, and Drake covers.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
beyonce is that deal!
I'm sorry folks but I've never been a big Beyonce fan but today I was
jumping through the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol and lady gaga you look
great too baby
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