Cali iz Active Video

I know this single's been out for a while, but here's the video for "Cali Iz Active" off that Dogg Pound album Noz went nuts for. I think the album is pretty good too and worth checking, but I'm definitely looking forward to hearing what Daz is gonna be dropping later this year. Some cool Cali cameos at the end of the video...including (wtf!) Dilated Peoples.

Hard As Fuck 2

You need this shit in your life because it's awesome. Go here and cop it for 4 bucks trust me it's good.

Southern U marching rap

The video quality is ehh but its not every day you get to see a marching band cover "Headbussa".

Reporting to you live from the windy city

"She the type of girl to make..."

Worth the Weight was beyond disappointing, so fuck weird Timbaland hornets' nest beats - "Gettin Some" is easily one of the biggest/best club tracks, best tracks period, to come out in the last year or so. Shawnna deserves more credit for lighting up clubs&cars&request lines nonstop the last 6 months, all-populist groundswell. OK so what 'makes it' is the "Blowjob Betty" sample, but Shawnna can carry her own, even on a track constructed with such perfect symmetrical simplicity. In fact, she tears up beats with gritty, minor key edge while Timbo's soft cartoon touch seemed to drain her energy on her debut. Shawnna fails on millenial E'd up club chart hits; she needs grimey aggressive shit that lets her voice get deep and fierce, and she needs tracks with Tremendous Knock®, booming trunk shaking anthems like "Gettin Some."

"Remember to keep your hat on straight."
Block Music sounds like the mid-00s street instead of Worth the Weight's millenial pop-rap, sparse minor key club cuts with morbidly deep bass kicks and snares that crack across the track, big dark chiming bells, with Shawnna spitting focus and fire and rapping about Chicago, touring the streets with a hand on yr girl's purse and your hat uncocked. Best tracks are gothic minor-key uptempo club cuts, busy abrasive shit like "Candy Coated" with 8ball and MJG that thumps along rattling 808 clapsnares and an 8ball vocal sample (808ball!), dark synth riffs and that stereo-wooooosh that swoops emphasized tension. But its gut-vibrating rhythmic energy drives her more than weird sonics, the simple boom-crack that sets her new shit apart. Lyrics have been stepped up, and it sounds more like a Shawnna album than anything else. It's to her credit that the silver-spoon daughter of a wealthy blues legend can sound more street than half the rappers out.

Like a Do or Die album, Shawnna's divided her shit equally between slow meditative reflective songs and bangers; most of her slower tracks work alright, aside from the awful "Take it Slow" with Luda and Bobby Valentino, whose 'youthful enthusiasm' is really starting to grate. Compare his extraneous squeak with Johnny P's ("do you wanna riiiiiiide...") mature&identifiable blues-anguish on "In Tha Chi."

Gettin Some Remix with Luda, Too $hort, Pharall and Lil Wayne:
Shawnna does some tongue twisting triplet pattern, holds her own. $hort dog's trying not to emulate the BJ Betty sample, vocals creaky and old at first but lyrically he hasn't aged a minute, spitting timeless pimp shit. Wayne thinks he's on the whisper song but it's undenaible that he kills his verse, 'Santa Claus, leave her with a white chin / Yes I get a lotta neck like a violin.' Pharell spits some double-time shit that is somehow simultaneously impressive and distracting, on some 'look ma no hands.' Luda finishes the track with a hot pop sixteen which he still does with a nod and a wink better than anyone.

Chicago feat. Buddy Guy, Avant and Malik Yusef
For those who don't know, Shawnna is blues legend Buddy Guy's daughter. Guy appears, Olu Dara style, on the aforementioned "In Tha Chi" and on this track with restrained melodic punctuation. Shawnna's skill is totally evident here, rapping with the emotive range that no one else from Chicago can really capture - I like Lupe and "Kick Push" just fine, but nothing hits you like a lump in the throat like "Chicago":

Baby believe me ain't nothin easy bout this here
trust me i'm buggin how n****z lovin me this year
but i'm on a mission i see my vision, that shit's clear
all through my struggles i never stumble y-yeah,
i rep my city like most you n****z would never do
shout-out latifah see my n****z we forever crew
i'm not a rapper i'm teachin rappers bout how to be
this for my robert taylors, my Ickes, my Ida B's
Chi be so proud of me
they peep me out the street
so when you see me throw yo C's up properly
Anything I can be
I'm bout to do that shit
Like who'd a thought I'd be rappin right next to Ludacris
Records like "Move Bitch,"
we been through every city,
My second family is twenty-feezy JC and Tity
But I can't forget the crib,
Thats where the business is
And if you from Chicago I know you feel this shit.


OK so the helium vox sample, knew I knew it, couldn't place it, couldn't recognize it, OH SHIT





"90 miles, outside Chicago...can't stop drivin, I don't know why...."

fridaysoreal

Just west of the north and clybourn red line stop, note the free guestlist access^^^^

More AZ, more Premier

AZ - The Format
Semi-annual man-premier-is-wack-now-but-check-this-joint-out post. Beat is urgent, key and neccessary. Wait for the marimbas. AZ is on point. Don't sleep.

New Project Pat

Tell

Pat's got a new joint called Tell with Jeezy, Lyfe, and Mr Bigg doing the hook. It's about how Pat will never rat even though he's lovin cheese. It's pretty dope stuff and I'm excited to hear Pat's new album. Dude is under rated as hell. In this world of generic as fuck rappers you'd think someone that actually has style would stand out more. But I guess that's what happens when you're not on mtv making songs about shitty new dances.

Ride & Swerve

While I'm posting up about Pat I guess I should throw up this mp3 I got for Blak Jak that features him. The 12" has been floating around, I don't know if this shit is getting lots of play or anything but Pat's on it so you can't go wrong, especially with that first line of his verse. The beat has got this piano loop that I've been trying to place ever since I heard it. I'm pretty sure some indie rapper used a beat with the same sample but I can't remember who.

Pat's new album is suppose to drop August 8th but fuck that seems like a long time. He needs to drop some mixtapes or something. That gangta grillz joint was dope but man that was like the first shit he did in almost 3 years since he got locked up. The world needs more project pat, or at least I do.

Psycrunk

Dr Delay is on some shit. Dude posted this Psycrunk mix on soulstrut a longtime ago and it ruined my shit. Peep this I'm On It Remix, I like it better than the original beat.

I'm On It Blend

honestly you really need this mix in your life. If you don't cop then you will forever remain a fucking bitch. Dude has a dope as fuck stay fly remix. cop that shit here or stay soft.

Classic material

We coming down like a sail, in that goddamn rover
Just when you thought it was the beginning
You bitch, now its over
You can call on the Calvary, reinforcements, and your local P-D
They getting somewhere if they see me
My n*gga thats how these G's be we three, me, C and Master P
Sipping on Gin and Kiwi
Fuck popping in your CD, bitch we popping in them clips
And now we all up in your grill live in 3-D
With drama, disaster, and death when you make me have to blast ya'
Y'all has to recognize you fucking with murder masters
Who plaster your ass and make your momma call a pastor
Dying faster than you thought, now that's your ass bro
It's the class of 9 scrilla on the for real'a
Direct from the villa of killas, now who thinking they trilla'
Watch me fill a wanna be cap pealer with them slugs
Probably for jaw jacking and jumping
Bitch don't make me break you off somethin'

Gangsta Gangsta

New joint from Lil Scrappy. I like Scrappy and the song is pretty cool so his album looks promising. Well that is as long as the gunit influence is kept to a minimum but he's still rolling with BME so I don't expect it to be too much a departure from his first joint. If Scrappy keeps rapping about busting your head open then I'll be happy. The last thing we need is for him to start rapping about how he'll be a nympho if you'll be a nympho.

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Big Tuck And The Mavericks

I don't even give a fuck about basketball anymore but I'm rolling with texas on this shit.

Welcome 2 Dallas

Success-N-Effect

well since cocaineblunts hasn't posted up this shit here are two Success-N-Effect videos I found on youtube. If you're not knownin Success-N-Effect was some early 90's Atlanta rap that sounded more westcoast than anything southern. Their Ultimate Drive-By 12" had this badass cover.

anyways here are the videos.

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO RAP

taken from sohh:

The first single off Feedback titled "Work It Out" features the Dave Mathews Band, who Jurassic 5 formed a close relationship with while touring together in the past.

"It's a step up for us because we have been basically known as an underground group." said group member Soup via a statement. "We've been known as a backpacker group. This album still has elements of that because that's who we are, but at the same time we are also trying to step into another realm."

ok it's been about what like 10 years since unified rebellion and this is what those cocksuckers have to show for rap? This is a fucking insult to rap music. I didn't think it could get much worse after BEP's path to soccermom stardom but sweet jesus was I fucking wrong. Now burkenstocks everywhere can pretend they love "hiphop." You know what is so fucking ridiculous is that j5 were some of the posterboys of the whole take it back to real hiphop bullshit and now they are making cornier shit than any fucking commercial record. Fuck, this shit is dumber than all of puffy's shit records. If for some reason you want to hear this piece of shit music then just check their myspace page, it's titled Work It Out. I'm fucking amazed at how bad this shit is. What bugs me about this shit is that these fuckers are trying to say they are trying to step into another "realm." What fucking realm? Are they striving to be embraced by people who have no respect for hiphop in the first fucking place? people who hate rap unless it embraces psuedo liberal college student ideals that they won't feel guilty about abandoning when they trade in their hemp necklaces for ties and keeping minorities out of their kid's schools. Embrace my fucking dick you bitches.

Primo and Christina

Ain't No Other Man
I feel like I'm committing a sin posting this shit up but fuck I got to say something about this. The song isn't as bad as I thought it would be but it still sucks. I don't really know what the fuck preimer is doing these days. If pushing tired ass rappers wasn't enough (that Big Shug joint was pretty stale) now he's trying to fuck with corny pop stars. Primo really should revaluate what he's putting out there before he reaches guru levels of pitiful music.

To make up for posting a fucking Christina Aguilera song here are some joints off this El Michels Affair 45 that is fucking dope as shit. I got ahold of this shit over the weekend and I guess it's the first of the Shaolin Series which is the band doing interpretations of Wu beats. The first too are CREAM and Glaciers of Ice. Apparently the way this shit went down is that El Michels Affair backed Rae for a show and shit went down so nice they decided to collab on some shit. Cop this shit because you need more champ in your life.

El Michels Affair - C.R.E.A.M.
El Michels Affair - Glaciers Of Ice

cop it here