Cook Book

Missy's new album is called "The Cook Book" and should be coming out July 5th. Here is the tracklist.

1. Joy -- featuring Mike Jones
2. Partytime
3. Irresistible Delicious -- featuring Slick Rick
4. Lose Control -- featuring Ciara
5. My Struggles -- featuring Grand Puba
6. Melt Down
7. Right One For Me
8. On and On -- featuring Pharrell
9. We Run This
10. Time and Time Again
11. Gotta Move On -- featuring Tweet
12. Mami
13. 4 My Man
14. Teary Eyed -- featuring Tweet
15. Smash the Place
16. Juicy

Its nice to hear that, weak-ass reunion albums aside, Grand Puba's been making some higher-profile comeback attempts lately. He's always been my favorite rapper from Brand Nubian and he sounded great on the Beanie Sigel album. Good to see Mike Jones making the rounds as well. The two leaked tracks sounded pretty exciting to me, particularly the way the three main voices on "Lose Control" play off of each other so well: Fatman Scoop's rowdy hype-man schtick, Ciara's soft tranquility and Missy careening in between. "On and On" sounds like a video game. Its also good to hear that Missy's not doing as much with Timbaland this time; her last album was easily the weakest of all her releases, the Missy-timbaland formula weighing both artists down, and with a few exceptions ("Let Me Fix My Weave," "I'm Really Hot,") it was pretty dull. But the playfulness of the first two singles for Cook book gives me hope. If yr curious, my favorite Missy album is ...So Addictive (the secret weapon is the supremely sparse disco of "Old School Joint," where Timbo does the same deep bass/soaring atmospherics that worked so well on Ginuwine's "Pony"). Da Real World is runner-up (the collab with B.G. and Juvenile is kind of sublime, and makes me wish they'd done more with golden-era Timbaland, even though these days I'm glad both are working with dirtier, grimier production).

new ying yang single

Next Ying Yang single will be huge. Big bass boom and you'll be whistling this flute hook all summer - I hate it when people spend so much time debating "summer jams" or whatever but this will be one, at least it'll be the song pumping out of car windows etc. for the next three months. Sitar punctuation, an entire party in one song, and Mike Jones sounds like a superstar. I love the way he says "Diiiiime." He plays off the Ying Yang Twins well, the south's rude bwoys playing up slurred dialect with no regard for Illmatic, those bastards.

Ying Yang Twins feat. Mike Jones - Badd

Jesus Lies

I haven't checked 2Mex's music lately but I just heard this song and I like it. I don't usually fuck with songs about jesus because jesus sucks but this song is called "Jesus Lies" and titles like that make me want to listen.

2Mex - Jesus Lies

them summer nights

Lil Rob - Summer Nights

Serg doesnt like this song, he said it's too amateur. I think he's right, but thats part of why i like it...such a simple, slow cool air early evening track, love of an ungraspable feeling, straightforward rhymes about how much fun it is to party on warm summer nights. Don't ask me why it repeats the same verse twice, the actual song has three verses and all of them are different. Someone find a better mp3. Its all over the radio here in Chicago, the last verse he talks about how the summer nights finally come to an end, but then there's another summer just 8 months away. Its simple, stupid, and totally fantastic. By the end I have a grin on my face because its late spring and I see it coming, early summer evenings full of possibilities, warm weather, partying til dawn, hitting on girls, etc. If someone gets the full track, post it in the comments section.

jus a little bit

Obviously this came out ages ago, but I feel like posting about it now that it's all over. It's easily the best single from The Massacre so far, although I might be overrating it quite a bit due to low expectations. Still - it is mesmerizing, thanks to that piercing, eastern-tinged melodic loop, a pretty, hypnotizing flute that contrasts nicely with 50's deep-voiced, vaguely dangerous come-ons. I always end up disappointed, though, when the drums/bass enter so suddenly partway through. The melodic hook loses its power - that minimal, unsettling majesty - and sounds more like generic g-unit beat #2,345 (big drums, big ominous minor-key bass, predictability).

But the song actually sounds more ominous BEFORE the drums and bass enter, I think. Without the concrete double-time from the hi-hat, the track relies solely on 50's barrel-heavy vocals for rhythmic stability, and minus the Heavy-Bass-Thump (copyright g-unit, 2003-2005) lie the song's greatest charms - the tenous connection to past-50 Cent hits, and an awkward yet sublime sense of discomfort.

I think the Neptunes have been doing some good work in this area lately, like that Q-tip song Emil posted a while back, or the Drop it Like It's Hot Remix. The lack of a massive, predictable bass boom gives the song great power in the context of the 808-dominated pop charts; its use of minimalism works like negative space in art - the absence of HUGE drums makes the song sound massive, important, and helps it stand out in the mix. Certainly this method has also failed the Neptunes (see "Broken Glass" from Kweli's album, or a good number of tracks on the Slim Thug leak) but when it works, its a refreshing switch-up in between "How We Do" and Lil Jon club banger #6,217.

White T's and White Belts: Happy Festivus ('04) Mix

As a bit of promo for the "White T's and White Belts" party me and my boy are doing this weekend in Philly [@ the RUBA in the Northern Liberties (between 4th and 5th on Green Street which is just north of Spring Garden i.e. behind Silk City)], I've uploaded a mix I made a bunch of my peoples for Christmas in December of '04 (i.e. was too broke to cop them anything so made them this shit). This mix is clearly hollertronix bitten influenced, what with its mash-ups ecclectic blends/mixes; some of the shit is a bit dated (the Amerie joint wasn't all over the radio yet); a lot of the mixes are edits that involve a great deal of time-stretching and re-sequencing (i.e. they're impossible to do in real life without the aid of a ccomputer) but I hope you enjoy it anyway. It's a bit of a taste of the type of madness that will be going down at the White T's and White Belts jump off this weekend. Seriously, if you're in Philly, come wile out with us. Shit's only $3 and it's gonna pop the fuck off. Anyway, enjoy the mix, come to the party, and holler in the comments section and let an arab know if you feel the shit.

I'm personally pretty happy with it.

Part 1

01. 00:00 -- 02:04 modest mouse “FLOAT ON”
02. 02:04 -- 05:58 young gunz “FRIDAY NIGHT” (“FLOAT ON” EDIT)
03. 05:58 –- 09:47 beanie sigel f/ peedi crack & twista “I GOTTA HAVE IT” (emynd EDIT)
04. 09:47 -- 12:53 cheap trick “I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (LIVE)”
05. 12:53 –- 16:10 amerie “ONE THING”
06. 16:10 –- 20:44 usher featuring fabolous “CAUGHT UP” (“NEED YOU TONIGHT” EDIT)
07. 20:44 –- 24:10 antenna “TO CLIMB THE CLIFF” (emynd EDIT)
08. 24:10 –- 28:36 ratatat “17”/public enemy “BRING THE NOISE” (“I’M REALLY HOT” BLEND)
09. 28:36 –- 32:11 d-12 “PURPLE PILLS” (“AUF ACHSE” EDIT)
10. 32:11 -- 35:22 franz Ferdinand “AUF ACHSE” (emynd EDIT)
11. 35:22 -- 38:49 tv on the radio “STARING AT THE SUN” (emynd EDIT)

Part 2

12. 00:00 –- 03:48 nina sky “MOVE YA BODY” (“OBSTACLE 1” EDIT)
13. 03:48 –- 07:25 interpol “OBSTACLE 1”
14. 07:25 –- 10:56 debbie deb “LOOK OUT WEEKEND” (emynd EDIT)
15. 10:56 –- 14:38 j.j. fad “SUPERSONIC” (“TALK IT” EDIT)
16. 14:38 –- 16:46 esg “TALK IT” (“SUPERSONIC” EDIT)
17. 16:46 –- 18:47 le tigre “DECEPTACON”
18. 18:47 –- 22:08 crime mob “KNUCK IF YA BUCK” (“DECEPTACON” EDIT)
19. 22:08 –- 27:09 radiohead “STREET SPIRIT” (emynd EDIT)

-e

Underground Hiphop YAY!

I don't know if anyone gives a shit about any of these songs but fuck it I'm moving and that means packing shit and coming across music I forgot about. So yeah now you get to listen to underground hiphop shit that I haven't checked for in a minute.



Konceptual Dominance - Self Titled

King Koncepts and Kirby Dominant of the now defunct Kemetic Suns crew teamed up to release this album. Kemetic Suns were a crew based out of Oakland with a number of members who liked to put out "conscious" rap. The rest of the crew was KiloJoule and Hypnotic. I've got Hypnotic's Internal Symmetry tape somewhere when I dig that shit up I'll throw it up on here. The crew was formed around some north African and Egyptian spiritual beliefs which became very prevalent in their tapes. The Konceptual Dominance tape was a more traditional as far as rap concepts go but it still had some of those tones. Kemetic Suns came up right around the same time as the Legends but the Legends had the advantage of being more accessible and just having a better work ethic. I don't know if Kemetic suns would have been as popular, shit I doubt it but I think they still might be around if they just worked a little harder. Hell if LMNO can still put out music Kirby sure as fuck could pull it off.

These days the crew has since disbanded and Kirby is the only one that I am aware of that still makes music. I think he does more production than rapping these days. That is unless moka only still getting him to release shit.

Clockworx - On The One

Providence rap repping on this shit. Clockworx was made up of two rappers, AmsUno and PhesOne. They were down with The Secret Service crew (TSS) whose most successful member these days is Sage Francis. They released a couple 12"s with production by Celph Titled and D Tension. That was about it for Clockworx, like most rappers they just couldn't get shit together to drop a proper release. They eventual disbanded and who knows what the fuck happened to Phes but AmsUno is now on Labeless and it seems like he's getting his shit together to finally put some stuff out.

Sixtoo - Chekmate
Sixtoo - Talkinshit

Some older Sixtoo shit here from 1995 with him busting some raps before he got all sadfaced and started making music with Damo Suzuki. The sound quality isn't all that great on these but fuck it this is Sixtoo before he got all psycheintangible. It's very amateurish but I think that's what I like about it. It's like rap music that I would have wanted to make when I was 16 rapping about rocking your whole shit and battling your entire crew.

steady bloggin

Grime MC Riko has a blog.

The Agony Of A B-Boy

I fucking love this album, I used to jam the shit out of it four years ago. I still break it out every now and then but then it ends up in my headphones for weeks. Daddy Kev's production matches AwolOne's gruff voice so fucking well. This album is probably my favorite of Awol's shit, most folks can't really fuck with the weirdness of Three Eyed Cowz Presents Four Eyed Mortalz. I liked that album but people hated me for playing. On this album Awol reels in the weirdness and comes with some shit that goes down a little easier. Some folks don't like Awol's monotone style but I think it works for the sound of his voice and his whole stream of conscious steez. He is just telling you his thoughts as they are.

AwolOne - Agony

I use to wake up to this song first thing in the morning, had that shit set to go off with my alarm and I fucking love it. This song use to set the mood for my entire fucking day. Awol rides this shit with his permanently hoarse voice over what sounds like some guitars that were stretched the fuck out. D-Styles is on the cut and just adds that little extra bit that reminds me why I love rap music so fucking much.

AwolOne - Rhythm

Stupid suckas is so fucking temporary and AwolOne just trying to have fun. The beat is on some whistle while you work shit but Daddy Kev makes it work as he drops those loud slave driver drums. The beat has this happy ass feel to it but against Awol's voice it loses it's Disney appeal.

AwolOne - Ignorance

Daddy Kev opens with some of those scary horror strings falling from the sky but then he brings the beat in to get all cute with it. Awol wishing he could be as raw as Ice T but since he's deaf dumb and blind he just does what he can.

yeah

I'm graduating today, so I won't be posting regularly until I hook up a job/apt thang. Serg, Icarus, Emil etc. will hold it down. I will also be posting at Purpology. Word.

I Don't Give A Fuck About Reupping An Mp3

well it's time to talk some shit so here we go.

Some folks out there like to ask for mp3's to be reupped because they suck at the internet and missed it the first time around. To those people I say fuck off with that bullshit. Do you call the TV station when you miss a show? You missed it when it was up then that's your own goddamn fault. Shit I'll give you a break if it's the first day but if it's been a fucking week then get your goddamn weight up. This is a blog it's not your goddamn mp3 service. You want instant service then start paying us motherfucker. We post mp3's on this shitty website because we fucking feel like it not because we want to cater to your bitchass needs because you are to lazy to find this shit on your own.

Oh and motherfucker don't ask us to reup the shit when you're the idiot who disabled yousendit because you clicked the wrong goddamn link. If you can't figure out how to click properly then don't even bother checking this goddamn site because you idiots are just fucking it up for all the people who aren't stupid as fuck and know how to figure out the complex labyrinth that is yousendit.

What kind of set this off this little rant was cutesy boy asking for a mp3 with better audio. For one we didn't rip the motherfucker and two shut the fuck up with that crybaby bullshit. Motherfuckers are spoiled as fuck with this mp3 shit. I use to dub tapes with free cassettes I got from dog food bags. You think I complained about the horrible sound quality of that shit? Fuck no, I manned the fuck up and rocked my tape hard as fuck, hiss, pops, and all. Driving by metro center banging my tape loud as possible through some blown out mobil authority 6x9's trying to catch the eye of some girl waiting for a fucking bus. You're sitting in front of a fucking computer getting music fucking delivered to you so shut the fuck up with that bullshit.

If you like this website great, if you don't so the fuck what. This shit wasn't started to help you download. If you want help with that talk to napster because this shit only exists because we want it to. Maybe I shouldn't say we because this is just my opinion and not the opinions of everyone on this site but fuck it, I find that shit annoying.

"Vinyl Junkies" by Brett Milano

Disclaimer: I know you idiots only come here for the mp3s, but fuck y'all. Sometimes people like to read, too.



So, I finished reading Brett Milano’s “Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting” published by St. Martin's Press a couple days ago. It’s basically a rather short book that attempts to explain the psyche of your average record collector through firsthand anecdotes and interviews with people like Peter Buck from REM, Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, Robert Crumb, Egon, Cut Chemist, and a bunch of other folks. Much of the text is based on Milano’s ability to (a) write cutsey anecdotes that are pretty funny and entertaining and (b) his attempt to perform his collector mentality through his prose (saying stuff mid-paragraph like “Oh, I’ve just added something new to my want list!”). The book isn’t very lofty and doesn’t really attempt to draw any grand theoretical conclusions or lessons from the culture of record collecting which both works to its advantage and disadvantage. To its advantage? Well, it’s simplicity makes the book easily likable and very easy to get through (I’d be surprised if it took you more than 4 or 5 sittings to finish it), but it’s simplicity also keeps the book from really being anything more than just a sort of freak show where these eccentric record collectors are put on display as these silly oddities that may or may not have psychological problems. To be sure, the portrayal of these eccentrics isn’t vicious and is done with a quite a bit of humor and light-heartedness, but I think the average reader would have a hard time relating to most of the characters that make an appearance in the text. Furthermore, I think the book would’ve greatly benefited from including at least a chapter or two that discussed the issues and questions that record collecting undoubtedly ask us all to consider (i.e. issues of “authenticity,” an artist’s or a work’s “aura,” how record collecting relates to capitalism, etc), but I really can’t be too mad at the book for not doing something it had no intention of doing in the first place. So, suffice it to say that if you’re interested in record collecting or you find eccentric people interesting, than the book is worth a read—just don’t expect to be particularly enlightened or challenged.

But, I think it’s worth addressing here some of the questions that the book hints at but never explores. So, off we go:

1. Nature or Nurture?: What’re we to make of these obsessive collectors who collect seemingly just for the sake of collecting? Or, in other words, how can we account for their obsessive desire to collect these random pieces of wax that magically contain music in their grooves? Are these collectors simply psychologically different than the rest of “us” (I’m using the third-person plural “us” because I’m pretending at this point that I’m not one of these pathetic obsessive collectors), or are these obsessive tendencies cultivated and nurtured by late capitalism? Is there something in our postmodern culture that has “created” the collector or are these collectors just innately weird and obsessive?

2. Authenticity and Aura: What’s with the obsession with “authenticity” and “aura”? Many of the collectors in the book seem much more interested in collecting the “authenticity” of a certain piece of recorded music than they are the actual music itself. After all, how else can you explain the fact that many of these collectors have CD copies and/or repressed vinyl copies of some of their “holy grail” records, and yet still drop obscene amounts of money on the “original,” first-pressing? The argument goes that the “original” is as close to the artist’s “original” vision as possible, but that argument wears thin very easily. So, why and how are these pieces of vinyl fetishized to such a great degree? And, by extension, what does this fetishization tell us about capitalism? Is this fetishization a sort of anti-capitalist reaction to capitalism (i.e. consuming something with no regard for it’s actual “use-value” or even its “exchange-value” but simply its “aura” of authenticity and its history a la Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking My Library”) or is the fetishization simply a slightly more complicated affirmation of the logic of capitalism (i.e. just plain ol’ conspicuous consumption)? Of course, the answer to this question probably varies from collector to collector depending on how and why each collector consumes what he (and, yes, it’s almost always a “he”) consumes, but suffice it to say that the collector occupies an interesting space and might have a different relationship with what he consumes than other consumers have with what they consume.

3. Race and Gender: The book does briefly mention this issue, but why are most record collectors white males? Anybody that knows anything about hip-hop knows that this isn’t an entirely accurate question since record collecting has been a fairly important part of the creative process since hip-hop’s incipient moments, but I think hip-hop is the exception more than it is the rule. If I remember correctly, I believe that literally everyone interviewed in the book is a white male (except for the one or two white females that Milano surely went out of his way to incorporate into the narrative). How do issues of race and sex relate and/or create the collecting mentality? It isn’t, after all, rare to find a white male who collects mainly black music (go on over to soulstrut if you need some proof of that) so there’s issues of racial fetishization and potentially issues of cultural appropriation (colonization?) at stake here, too. But, even if we throw out all the race-based questions, we are still left with many gender-based questions because of the simple fact that it is no secret that males are much more likely to be collectors than women. Milano briefly explores this, suggesting that perhaps it’s the male’s innate instinct to horde and collect, but I wonder if there’s something more sinister and ideological at stake. Are women not collectors because culture doesn’t allow them to have that type of relationship with products? If we accept the notion presented in bullet # 2 above that collectors have a different relationship with what s/he consumes than other consumers do, then we need to ask: is there something in our culture that encourages women to consume in a somewhat more “simple” manner that upholds the traditional consumer-product relationship? Or, in other words, if collecting is somehow a form of consumption that subverts the status quo (which I’m not necessarily saying it is), why are men the only ones that desire to consume -- or are capable of consuming -- in this manner?

Of course, I don’t have the answer(s) to any of these questions and I’d be being completely unfair if I criticized Milano’s book for not attempting to answer these questions. In general, I do think “Vinyl Junkies” is a good introduction to the world of record collecting (especially if you know nothing about it but are interested in it) and is a good starting point if you are interested in any of the questions above but it doesn’t even come close to giving them any serious consideration. But, fuck it, it’s a fun book and sometimes that’s all you need.

-e

new david banner

Mid-tempo with club shouts, then its got those country guitars and loping D Banner growl rapping about how he's gonna dump your body in the river and he ain't leavin' a trace. Banner on the beat. I like it a lot, but it's definitely more an album track than single material. Serg mentioned he sounds raspy. Probably because he's shouting all the time.

David Banner f. Marcus - Certified

GET ON MY HYPE REMIX

Yeah I posted "Get On My Hype" before but fuck just look at the totally shitty fucking line up on this remix. The motherfucking west on fire with this one. credit westcoast2k.net for this heat.

Messy Marv - "Get On My Hype (Remix)" Feat. E-40, Dru Down, Keak Da Sneak, The Team, Richie Rich, Left, Turf Talk, Guce

Up And Down Like A Teeter Totter

I'm lazy, so here are some mp3s that have people rapping on them.

Turf Talk Iz Back feat D-Shot

Throw It In They Face Turf feat Droop E

King Of Rock


get it here

b.g. video

Here (right-click-save-as) is the video for B.G.'s "Where Da At" which I talked about here. It's perfect. What's ya heart beatin' for?

y'all don't really want it

Well I'm leaving Ohio in a little over a week and I won't be coming back, graduating school and I don't really have much of a plan right now other than just figuring shit out as I go along. Which I'm actually more comfortable with than being all certain of what I want to do. I do know I'm done with school, at least for a little while; I've felt seperated from the real world too long. Anyway while I was here in the OH I spent some time going to hip-hop shows in Cleveland and Columbus. Not often, but I did get to chill from time to time, and it helps that my friend Drew lives down in killumbus and has the connections. Anyway I went to one show and I totally don't remember who was performing, except I know SA Smash was there. SA Smash have some good songs (I always liked "Body" and that song with Vast Aire) but for the most part they're kind of a snooze (dude, where are the hooks? Just talking about partying does not make it a hot party record.) Anyway the one song where everybody kind of went nuts was Camu Tao's "Hold the Floor." Camu Tao is from Columbus so there's a lot of hometown pride, I guess its the closest to "crunk" you'll get in an Ohio college town. It was also on a Def Jux compilation for some reason. Anyway here it is:

Camu Tao - Hold the Floor

Peace out Ohio. (I'm gonna go listen to Bone Thugs and "The Cleveland Shuffle" now. Oh yeah, keep an eye out for the Cleveland Shuffle, they play it all the time around here. It's the first couple bars from "Billie Jean" looped and its a "Cha Cha Slide"-style dance track. Word.)

I chill with the coppers, you chill with the coppers.

One of these guys is JR Writer, I think

I hope my dude umeancompetitor doesn’t mind that I jacked all this shit J.R. Writer shit from his site (aka my new favorite blog). Peep game. Dude’s got a real hot little Prince expose on that blog, too. It’s hysterical. Go there after you download this shit.

Anyway,I dunno if you noticed it, but J.R. is one focused kid.

- 9 Minute Freestyle

- ”Pushing”

- ”Gat Man” Freestyle

-e

the land where it just don't stop

Fat Pat - Tops Drop (video)

Be warned this is some 80 mb shit. RIP Fat Pat.

On the corner

Common, Scarface and Mos Def - Corners (Remix)
What can I say really. It's good. Its like getting Ma$e on "Jesus Walks" or Common on the "Why" remix. Better than the original, Scarface's verse is best, his grainy voice is perfect, and Mos is on point lyrically, so New York. "The church, the chicken shack the liquor store the dope house the bail bond the nail salon the barbershop and yo house." or maybe its "the yao house," I can't tell.

Bobby Valentino feat. Ludacris - Give Me a Chance
This is so weird! But its very good. It starts out like Blackalicious or something, soft new-agey "positive" rapping over soft, pleasant synth harmonies. But then the drums come in, and it's a lot better than Blackalicious. Drums are a grab-bag of different timbres, bongos and big metallic knocks during the chorus. The same shifting atmospheres as "Slow Down," but the lens is more focused, the drums are more precise, and Luda's got a verse this time rather than a mere cameo in the video, aiming for that number one spot. And there's even a new age/"world music" pan flute thing going on every couple bars! I assume this is Tim and Bob again. It's like they're trying to take the softest sounds and then hammer them with the beat, rip in-the-clouds dreamy airyness and graft it to heavy drums. This is very good music for summer. Promising producers from the Timbaland school, not imitators but its as if they've taken one of his one-off tangents and turned it into an exciting style all its own, slowing it down, removing the funk and replacing it with a fluffy, expansive polish.

I kinda like that rapper, I wanna be like that rapper

Juelz Santana "Mic Check" video

Best song out right now. Minimalistic video that's a "Drop it Like it's Hot" bite, but who cares? Beat is murder, Juelz is flowing, and Rakim dropped by... UNINVITED.

Similarly, I like how Juelz wears his bandana like it's a crown.

2005 is the year of the Dips.

Somebody download that shit and then post it on youshareit.com for me for the unlimited downloads.

-e

Too Hard For The Radio

Yay more regional rap! I picked up this mixtape at Amoeba the otherday, which by the way fucking sucks at carrying mixtapes. They got all the fucking early 90's you could want but when it comes to shit outside of that you're fucked unless you want some lowbudge central valley comp. The mixtape is 20 tracks deep and features a bunch of artists from the bay, from the "new bay" to the "old bay" to whatever the hell label you want to put on shit. The content and styles on here are pretty diverse from piano laced melodies about faces on t-shirts to hard ass drums and buzzing synth songs about putting bitches in positions.

30/30 Bounce - Turf Talk, The Mossie, Poppie Cas, DB'z and A2thaK

Bounce Bounce smoke an ounce drink a fifth cause there's money to count and all that good shit that people like to rap about. Turf Talk sets it off overf some thumping drums with these little electronic squeaks popping up and some deep strings coming in for one stroke.

Wild As It Gets - Furious

Furious rapping about how hard westcoast nights can be when you're staring at the sunset and getting wild like a yokohama tire fishtailing. I like the beat more than the rapping, it just hits a enough for me to not be bothered by the generic we rock and get that money lyrics but his flow on the track makes up for the general content and I can fuck with it.

So Crazy - Federation

The Federation rocking some whiny blips that The Team has used already on "Moe Doe" but this time they raise the pitch a little and rock some drums that just stomp like crazy, making the beat just go way harder. I recommend playing this song as loud as possible.

buy it here

oh and here is a track that Ross Hogg posted over on soulstrut, it's Mac Dre and E-40 getting all latin active on you. Considering that mixtape is titled after a Mac Dre song it's kind of fitting to post this. At some point b-sides is suppose to have this 12" for sale, I know they have the record already. yeah you can try but apparently they are sold out as fuck

Dredio

Dj Dumpy Dump and The Lyrical Rampage