Archive for October, 2008
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. M.I.A. continues to be way far ahead of anybody in terms of pushing and graying boundaries. “Shells” is off of the How Many Votes Fix Mix EP and is pretty crazy. If I tried to describe it I guess I would say a sing songy, deep bass grooved song that uses Angolan samples. Hope that helps haha. Juice is getting lots of love these days and we are definitely glad to see it here at B&B. This is an interview with him and Camp Lo that took place backstage at the AllHipHop.com 10th anniversary party. He talks about his beat battle championships, how he met Camp Lo and their new album on the way, A Piece of the Action, that he helped executive produce. Pretty dope interview and I can’t wait to hear what they cooked up for this album! I know we had them on the old site before we migrated over to this site but with Tip’s upcoming album, The Renaissance, on the way I thought we would put them up on here. Well as I have stated before, Q-Tip is one of my favorite rappers and Tribe as a whole are one of my favorite groups. Tribe’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm was also my first hip-hop album. Sampling Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” in “Can I Kick It?” was one of the first times that I recognized a sample immediately too. So a lot of firsts in hip-hop are associated with this group for me. Click the break to read more.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Ahh finally a break from all the videos and and there’s nothing better than a new B.o.B. track to do that. B.o.B. is coming with a pretty low key track with a sung chorus and piano loop. Everything this guy has put out since “Haterz Everywhere” has been good music and this is no different. Listen close to the crowd at the beginning of the track, they say some pretty funny stuff in the background. In a turn I never saw rap beefs taking Kidz in the Hall are talking about challenging Asher Roth to game of flip cup because they question his college credentials haha. Then Double-O and Naledge start repping U Penn and talking about Wharton and ask if Asher really went to college. They even describe their degrees as “Bentley’s on the wall” haha, this shit is just hysterical.
TheReal just keeps coming with the funny ass videos. This one was done to commemorate the great battle of Billboardsburg aka the beef to sell more records between Kanye and 50. They do a historical type documentary on the whole beef and it made me laugh my ass off. “I think 50 Cent’s main issue right now is he’s tired of using technology … AYO!” At a recent Columbus, OH show these 3 go off freestyling on stage. This is probably one of the best legitimate freestyles I have heard in a long time. All 3 really seem to go off the dome instead of spitting prewritten verse. This is definitely worth a listen.
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