Happy Presidents Day, you guys. I hope you can spend it like a true patriotic American: shopping.
20 Jan 2009
Happy Presidents Day, you guys. I hope you can spend it like a true patriotic American: shopping.
20 Jan 2009
Crax. Well, we'll scale back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1ZUgIZKDI
16 Dec 2014
We also mourn the passing of the legendary Blowfly. I think I can safely say there won't be another like him.
13 Jun 2007
Okay, that was fun but STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND PLAY THIS.
2015
Lizzo's new album just came out. I'm thinking I'll be picking it up.
Rip mr. price. Half the massively influential Heltah Skeltah, Sean Price was quite the wordsmith and will be missed. This is NSFW, but it's pretty awesome anyway.
Earl's new album just dropped a few weeks back. Video's good, but audio could be better. NSFW.
2015
DJ Jazzy meat, we miss you!
httpv://youtu.be/yAIG_DPIPao
1989
Let's shift gears a bit.
(NSFW)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4cyE2CMmhE
While most of my favorite rap (and all that I've posted thus far this week) is from the dirty south, Cadence Weapon is from Montreal via Edmonton. I first heard about him because he posted on a music message board I used to read. I think he's pretty great. His beats are pretty wild, and he writes interesting lyrics.And in 2009 he was named Edmonton's poet laureate. Pretty cool.
He also puts on a hell of a live show. I saw him in October, and I'm considering driving to Winnipeg again next weekend to see him again. This was the last song he played when we saw him, and it was hype as hell.
Again, strong lyrics in this. But the video is so good I couldn't pass it up.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYjHdfGhbxo
SGP is a part of the current wave of mixtape rappers (see also: Lil Ugly Mane, Gorgeous Children) bringing back the mid-90s Memphis sound. His mixtapes are full of pops, hiss, and really poor mastering. He was signed to 4AD last year and brought out Mysterious Phonnk, which was a collection of his best mixtape tracks re-done with far, far better production values. This session has Purrp in a mic'd up room performing three tracks: "Mystikal Maze," "Get Yah Head Bust," and "Don't Give a Damn." The songs and visuals are both on point.