Tag Archive for 'hip hop'

just cause i dont want to war with you, dont mean go warm up the barbecue

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from roughly 1994 until 2000, hip hop was completely dead to me. it wasn’t until i came across aesop rock’s float and the deltron 3030 record that my interest in the genre began to flourish for a possible round two, round one being from ‘88 - ‘94. during the younger days of hip hop, i fully immersed myself into the music and it made a big impact on my later listening habits. but i got truly tired of the inconsistency. i could never depend on an artist/crew to put out two or three succesive records of good to great material. it was more like one great record, the rest, pure shit. this lead to distancing myself from all hip hop. even though i have gotten back into hip hop, i could never fully give myself over to hip hop as i did in younger days, for fear of feeling betrayed yet again. but the select artists i have found, since the reawakening, have made, collectively, a pretty big impact on my soul. quality over quantity.

in case you need a reintroducing, here’s a killer mix to help you on your way. thanks aesop real.

1. paradise - c-rayz walz (prod el-p)

2. grand ol party crash - cage feat jello biafra (prod dj shadow)

3. goin off - blueprint

4. fumbling over the words the rhyme - edan

5. up 2 no good - tame one

6. the ride - oh no featuring medaphoar

7. 2 brothers from the gutter - percee p featuring diamond d

8. the point of no return - immortal technique

9. 18 with a bullet - murs

10. american history x - ill bill

11. crap artists - despot (prod blockhead)

12. heavy artillery - mr lif

13. windsprints - cool calm pete

14. jump muthafuh - hangar 18

15. run the numbers - el p w/ aesop rock

16. behold - lodeck

17. scream phoenix - cannibal ox (prod el-p)


your logic does not compute

“i dont wanna sound like a dick, but your chart says youre fucked up. you talk like a fag and your shits all retarded.” its a damn shame that mike judge’s latest flick idiocracy didnt make it past week 2 at the theaters. i am guessing that its going to gain a office space like cult following after a year or so. it’s definitely funnier and smarter than the above mentioned judge flick. idiocracy works much in the same way as office space. its hilarious cause its not far off from our own personal realities or in idiocracy’s case, not far from a possible sad reality. the only thing that keeps idiocracy from being the hit that office space was, is that it will probably offend more than it humors.

somehow about three weeks ago, the coup’s pick a bigger weapon ended up on my ipod. me thinks i drunkingly dowloaded it via emusic, i think this cause it was in my emusic folder. i, of course, had heard of the coup but had never listened to ‘em. my knowledge of their existence stemmed from the shit storm of controversy stemming from their 01 release, party music. it wasnt the music that caused the controversy, although it ended up being #8 on the pazz and jop poll, but the art work depicting the coup blowing up the world trade centre. a cover that had reportedly been in the can several months before 9/11. anyway, i still have not heard party music, but if its half as good as pick a bigger weapon it will be the second or even best hip hop record i have heard in a long while.? head couper and mastermind, boots riley, melds various styles that on paper sound like a nightmare, but the end product sounds like a political science major mc’ing an ass shakin block party.? that still doesnt really do the coup’s choice of style/lyrical offerings justice.? check ‘em out to make up your own lame comparisons.

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the man and the mask

hip hop’s answer to mr release-a-week, robert pollard, mf doom is a man that seems to always have his hand into something, he’s released something like 15 records in 7 years. not unlike uncle bobby the results often vary from glimpses of brilliance to what the fuck? luckily for both, the glmpses of brilliance far out weigh the questionable. his 2003 and rjd2 produced release vaudeville villain which was released under another one of his monikors victor vaughn, is a classic record no matter what the genre.

this here is a bootleg compilation entitled doomilation and has been oop for quite some time.

1. word of advice

2. bells of doom

3. is he ill

4. the mic sounds nice

5. hold on to

6. songs in the key of tryfe

7. centerstage

8. monday night at fluid

9. foolish

10. the line up

11. it aint nuttin

12. blacklist

13. all outta ale

14. quite buttery

15. put your quarters up

16. people places and things

17. strange universe

18. fondle em fossils

19. yee haw

20. yikes

21. pop quiz

22. one beer

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