... the other Black experience
^^^ Definitely Nas-influenced, sound is decent.
To also add on about Nas, my man said the new album Life Is Good was totally produced by No I.D. & Salaam Remi and is the best release he's done since Illmatic. I'm gonna check it out.
Side note: saw Cash Money / Young Money Records ceo's Birdman/Baby & Slim on the cover of Billboard for the Urban Power issue. I'm mad happy for their success with Wayne, Nikki Minaj, Drake, etc. But I admit Baby's steelo & public persona irks me and always has. His ridiculous (my opinion) tatts and grill pieces just seem to put me off. I guess everybody can't have the Naw'lins hood charisma of Master P.
Playa-hate? I could be considering how they're multimillionaires livin' it up but honestly I'm more than happy for him & Slim and seriously hope they do become billionaires soon, it's in their grasp for real. I just more prefer Slim's laid back style while Baby annoys me some. But like Tyler Perry, I don't to like the product in order to respect the hustle and success. Get that cash money, brothers.
Also heard the track 'We Ain't Them' from Childish Gamibino /Donald Glover; pretty cool. Honestly my hard-headed ass almost wrote him off as some actor/comic, critical darling dabbling in rap that the white folks love so much but he really sounds cool. Do ya thing C-Gam.
Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on "I come from the wheel of Ezekiel" is a great lyric. It would have been cool if the interviewer had asked Nas to reconcile what he had just said with a gem(sarcasm) like Oochie Wally.
Re: Birdman and Wayne...
Different stylist???
Ha yeah. And bring back Mannie Fresh! One of the best producers in the game and he did CMB Records & Wayne's classics like "Go DJ" & "Block Is Hot".
Master P breaks-it-down to it's very last compound here:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImSPd-Bx9w&feature=related
Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on Shocked to see this at Kmart in between Selena Gomez and Pitbull videos
The first thing that struck me was the sparse but killer footage from the Venice boardwalk and skatepark. Then I was like "Common??? Oh SNAP!"
I wonder how he even ended up performing with Colbie. Who on her team reached out thinking Common of all rappers would break the singer to a mysterious new demographic? Maybe it's working as this has to be her first mention on Afropunk. I had her mistaken for Natasha Bedingfield until a few minutes ago. Maybe Common reached out. No one knows what people are listening to on those earbuds these days.
No concern for people decrying that he wasn't "keeping it real". 99% of those critics would probably look away if asked "Did you buy the last Common CD or get it off the torrents?"
What was his internal convo like?
"Hella MCs worked with John Mayer, a card carrying tool, with no backlash."
"Some of the most popular MCs in the game now are an ex correctional officer who now masquerades as a drug lord, and a Canadian dude who used to act on a teen drama talking about 'I was a cold dude'. Please.
"I dissed the whole Westside Connection, on wax, at height of their influence. Things were so hectic Farrakhan stepped in to quell the drama. What can any of these fools really say to me?
I just say Common, please give us a six song EP of all hi speed midwest rap one day guest starring Psychodrama and the 2 good MCs from Crucial Conflict someday.
^^^ you hear that? It's the sound of thousands of Black women's hearts breaking, ha. Oh no, not Common!...
I give it to Comm that he didn't phone it in as a simple pop collab and throw half -assed verses on it, he actually had cool relevant lines & a chorus. Plus he didn't play all distant in the video like "my street rep is on da line...", naw he was cozy with homegirl like "What, a bro can't dance with becky? You forget who my last girlfriend was..."
Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on Maybe the Colby/Common Connection started because common worked with Lily Allen.
The boss, the boss, the boss. I think I said it before, but if you watch an interview with Kerry King or King Diamond they always emphasize the fact that they are regular folks who are horror fans, etc.
Not like metal dudes are out saving the world, but I wish Rick Rozay would just reach out and say "kids, this is just lowbrow entertainment. If you look where Hoover and Meech are at right now and for a long ass time, that tells the real story. Or you could look at Tray Dee, who is going on a decade in the pen over some of that stuff we always rap about.
They got these legal iron spikes now called gang enhancements. In California you could possibly get 5 more years added onto your sentence because of that rag and that 3 letter tat, and you were just trying to be like Weezy. Leave the boss talk to me and focus on graduating and a skill set that will be in demand in the future."
But that's too much like right, and there's a part of many people that enjoys gangster entertainment (SAMCRO starts again in Sept!). I just think dude is pushing kids that are already on the edge in the wrong direction. Did Ice T lose any credibility when he said he USED to do all that but quit?
Rozay rant over, and not directed at XDD by any means. I've just been seeing all this promo for dude's album and it makes me SMH.
^^^ no prob (ducking bullet fire matrix-style, ha). Seriously I don't even pay much attention to any of these current rappers 'lyrics' and corny Rozay-wannbe-the real LA-crack-kingpin/pioneer (unfortunately)-Rick Ross never impressed me verbally. His messages are often destructive & plain weak.
But similar to Jay, he and his team have an ear for dope seductive musical production that can (almost) make you ignore what he's saying. I bought a $1 indtrumental Ross cd from the local corner spot hoping to find a lyric-less version of 'Superhigh', no dice. Sad fact is most of the public listen to his hedonistic verses & music equally.
I read an article with 'Ross/Rozay' where he apparently just got into Jean-Michel Basquiat's art " 'cause some of my honies are Haitian" like Jean and has his face tattooed on his arm (like Swizz Beats). Whatever it takes to expand folks dimensions, he should take a cue from Hova and check into investing into JMB's and Banksy's art like Jay said on the song. Not sure if he can afford it yet though he claims "rich forever". Better investment than Maybachs.
Side note, honestly I hope the real Freeway Ricky Ross wins his lawsuit against Officer Rozay. Freeway did his time and is now attempting to use his infamous name to help his community. While the imposter entertainer Rozay wants to glorify Freeway Ross' and other "incarcerated scarfaces" gangster pasts. And he owes Rob Rodriquez & Cheech Marin credit for the "God Forgives, I Don't" quote from Machete.
And yes, Sons and new Boardwalk Empire seasons in September! Can we end summer early? I want these shows like football fans want first kickoff.
^^^ I like his stuff and the song with dude on the acoustic guitar.
What's wrong with this line-up?...
As much as I dig Santigold, you have her closing a show with Kane, Lyte, Slick Rick and the last artist you want follow, Doug E. Fresh? C'mon these cats are legends in Hip Hop music with quite a few gold records amongst them. Santigold is a very cool neo-New Wave with a hipster audience who I'm not sure if she's earned gold for any of her 2 albums. Perform on the same show, yes. Santi closing I don't know, much of the audience may walk out.. Maybe if it was a show with Kid Cudi, MGMT, The Weeknd or so other hip upcoming artists.
Permalink Reply by kifaru on Somebody must have thought it would be a hit. This is how we mix the old and he new.
X-D-D-M*9 said:
^^^ I like his stuff and the song with dude on the acoustic guitar.
What's wrong with this line-up?...
As much as I dig Santigold, you have her closing a show with Kane, Lyte, Slick Rick and the last artist you want follow, Doug E. Fresh? C'mon these cats are legends in Hip Hop music with quite a few gold records amongst them. Santigold is a very cool neo-New Wave with a hipster audience who I'm not sure if she's earned gold for any of her 2 albums. Perform on the same show, yes. Santi closing I don't know, much of the audience may walk out.. Maybe if it was a show with Kid Cudi, MGMT, The Weeknd or so other hip upcoming artists.
^^ You know what? I can semi-respect that. But she should be performing before the Hip Hop legends, not closing. Doing risky mixed genre shows is cool like when I when I saw the GZA open for Bad Brains (which rocked, 70% of the auduence of punk rockers was heavy into GZA screaming Liquid Swords lyrics).
There are many ol' heads who like myself who dig Santigold but I don't have her latest album. The pressure falls mostly on her to move a larger crowd of late 30's-40's Hip Hop heads who may not know her after Dougie, Kane and company rip the stage. Everybody knows you NEVER want to go after Dougie, maybe Prince can but that's it seriously. Santi has her psuedo-Latifah's Safari Sisters-style dancers but it will be seen if enough of her fans and Dougie fans rock well together. She did a decent show a few years back in Philly at the Roots Festival and she was properly booked towards the first half of the show while TV On The Radio and The Roots closed.
Yeah I'm making a bigger deal out of it, not like there's going to be a riot: get that trendy chick off stage, bring back Kane! ha . But it kinda annoys me that some (probably white) promoter said "book Santi on there to close the show, I like her! She's Black too and less expensive than Erykah Badu".
Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on This reminds me of when the "big four" speed metal bands used to open for people in years gone by. Hella people would leave when they were done. I remember personally doing this after seeing Slayer and Megadeth a few times and being stoked to get home early.
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