Epic Sonning. (via Day & A Dream)
Mobbdeen @ PassionWeiss...
Finally, I managed to write again. I’m so proud of myself. Bitches man…
The Curren$y thing will run a little later. It ain’t that great anyway, so don’t hold your breath or anything like that.
In the meantime, I wrote something about Azealia Banks. I kinda wrote her off after her latest tiff with Lil’ Kim, but it’s really all about the music. Unless your music sucks or you wear dreadlocks without making gully music to match.
Go forth and read.
Oh and pause in advance…
Listening Session: The Stoned Immaculate…
I’ll never forgive Curren$y for letting Wale’s voice be the first thing we’d hear on this album.
I’m so hurt outchea. Pause.
Maybe I’d be more forgiving if I was indulging in some herb, but niggas gotta be at the plantation early.
More thoughts later…
Update #1: Cardo wins again. “Showroom” came on right as I was thinking I should cut this shit off and go listen to “Covert Coup” again instead.
Nas @ PassionWeiss...
The homie Zilla Rocca wrote some heartfelt shit about the Gawd MC…
Infamous Mobb - Mobb Niggaz
Maybe, just maybe, my favourite ever Alchemist beat. Unsung classic by some vastly underappreciated folk from Queens.
Lowkey, ALC has given some serious serious serious serious heat to all the Mobb affiliates - especially Big Twins & Big Noyd…
Its rare to see a video that gets high marks for its unintentional hilarity (everything that happens during Birdman’s verse, Pusha’s niece’s fur, & Pusha’s hand gestures), historic irony (Mannie Fresh & Birdman; Lil’ Wayne & Pusha T), and for being one of the great coke rap anthems. Also, that damn birdcall that works perfectly in the track. So enjoy Birdman Ft. The Clipse - What Happened To That Boy.
This song is so excellent that I think it needs a new home. I’m going to remove it from whatever Birdman album it’s on and add it to Clipse’s ‘Lord Willin” as a bonus track or right after ‘Grindin”. That way I get to listen to it more often.
You can never listen to this song enough…
Questions!! Naija Version
- I ADDED MORE:
- 1. What part of Nigeria are you from?
- 2. How many names do you have? [list them]
- 3. What do they mean?
- 4. Last time you went to Nigeria?
- 5. Last time you got a beating?
- 6. Favorite insult phase?
- 7. Most memorable beating?
- 8. Team Eba, Amala or Iyan?
- 9. What language do (your family) you speak?
- 10. Can you speak your language?
- 11. Can you understand your language?
- 12. Favorite Nollywood actress?
- 13. Favorite Nollywood actor?
- 14. Favorite Nollywood movie?
- 15. Favorite Nigerian Blog?
- 16. You sabi pidgin?
- 17. Can you speak.understand any other Nigerian language besides yours?
- 18. Jollof Rice or Fried Rice?
- 19. Did you spend this last new year's eve in church?
- 20. Last time you attend a Nigerian party?
- 21. Favorite Nigerian food?
- 22. Favorite Nigerian drink?
- 23. Funny story about Nigeria?
- 24. Do you miss Nigeria?
- 25. How many traditional clothes do you have?
- 26. Favorite Naija song(s)?
- 27. Fvaorite Naija artist(s)?
- 28. Any annoying nicknames given to you by relatives or any other relatives?
- 29. What do you love most about Naija?
- 30. If you could change 1 thing, what would you change about Nigeria?
- 31. Last time time you talked to someone from Nigeria?
- 32. Were you named after anyone?
- 33. Planing to go back to Nigeria soon?
- 34. Would you rather reside here or Nigeria?
- 35. Do you miss anyone in Nigeria?
- 36. Do you know how to cook Nigerian foods?
- 37. What reminds you of Nigeria?
- 38. Your top 10 favorite places in Nigeria
- 39. A picture of you in your traditional clothing.
- 40. Favorite family member (relative)
- 41. Favorite Nigerian proverb
- 42. Traditional wedding or White wedding?
- 43. Have you ever ridden an okada?
- 44. Can you dance?
- 45. What is your favorite traditional names(s)
- 46. Girls-Any Nigerian boy you'd date on here?
- 47. Boys-Any Nigerian girl you'd date on here?
- 48. Last time you got a lecture from your parents-what for?
- 49. What word do you use often? (e.g- abeg, tcheww, chai, oya..etc.)
- 50. Scariest thing your parents have threatened to do to you?
- 51. How many times have your parents threatened to send you back to Nigeria
- 52. Can you find phone cards laying around your house?
- 53. Are you the human dishwasher for your family.
- 54. Name the first 5 Nigerian songs that come to mind.
- 55. Which of your Nigerian followers would you like to meet in person?
- 56. Meat or fish?
- 57. Will your children have traditional Nigerian names?
- 58. Do you have a family member/relative that owns a shop? Who?
- 59. Do you have a family member/relative who is a nurse? Who?
- 60. Do you have a family member/relative that lives in London?
- 61. Have you ever been beaten by an elder that was not your parent?
- 62. Favorite Naija pickup line?
- 63. Make up a Nigerian romance line (e.g- you are my generator when they take light)
- 64. Favorite church song (e.g- follow the ladder)
- 65. Mr Biggs or McDonalds?
- 66. Last time you had suya?
- 67. Did your parents have special devices (belts or slippers etc..) that they used to beat you?
- 68. Have you ever hidden the beating devices in your house from your parents?
- 69. Describe what Nigeria means to you in 5 words or less.
- 70. Have you ever stolen meat from the pot?
- 71. When was the last time you were volunteered as the cleanup service for a party?
- 72. Can you list 10 tribes in Nigeria?
- 73. What was most often used by your parents to beat you?
- 74. Did your parents ever have the sex talk with you?
- 75. Do you have a "phone voice"
- 76. Greatest lesson your parents have ever taught you?
- 77. One place in Nigeria you really want to visit?
- 78. Why?
- 79. Have you ever had a maid and or driver?
- 80. Last time you found out about a new relative you had?
- 81. Last time you found something that wasn't ice-cream in the ice-cream container?
- 82. Does your mom have more than one fridge/freezer in your house?
- 83. Last time you forgot to greet an elder?
- 84. What happened?
- 85. Last time you ate rice?
- 86. Can you tell the difference between normal jollof rice and party jollof rice?
- 87. If you were told that you would be leaving for Nigeria tomorrow, how would you react?
- 88. Last time you heard a "when i was your age" speech?
- 89. Do you ever plan on moving back to Nigeria?
- 90. Meat pie or puff-puff?
- 91. Cowbell, Nido or Peak?
- 92. Ovaltine or Milo?
- 93. Last time you washed clothes with your hands?
- 94. Favorite memory in Nigeria?
- 95. If you could have anything from Nigeria brought here, what would it be?
- 96. Ever been beaten with the fufu stick?
- 97. Last time you parents threw you a birthday party?
- 98. Picture of you when you were little?
- 99. Have you ever been woken up in the middle of the night to greet a relative on the phone?
- 100. Least favorite form of punishment?
- 101. Recent picture of yourself
- 102. How many times have you been to Nigeria?
- 103. Favorite Nigerian snack?
- 104. Have your parents ever had more friends of theirs at your party than you have?
- 105. Have you ever been late to your own party?
- 106. Girls- Can you tie a gele?
- 107. What do [bawoni], [kedu] and [sannu] mean?
- 108. Can you open a bottle with your teeth?
- 109. Why do you like being Nigerian?
- 110. Are you a proud Nigerian?
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Freddie Gibbs - Pull Up feat. Jeezy & T.I.
Oh shit!
Snowman is granting Gangsta Gibbs access to heavy-hitters for this mixtape. Fuck yeah.
Maybe I’ll have more to say about this later. For now, it’s going on the iPod for the club/drive mix tonight.
DAUGHTERS VIDEO!!
Hey young world…. The “DAUGHTERS” video premiere’s tomorrow on VEVO, MTV Jams, MTVU, MTV2, & VH1 SOUL tomorrow!! #NasDaughters
Complex X No ID X Nas...
Complex speaks to No ID about his work with Nas.
This shit is incredible…
gq:
The D’Angelo Outtakes:
More From GQ’s ExclusiveOver at GQ.com, our correspodent Amy Wallace posted some of her favorite bits with the soul singer that didn’t make the final story. They’re all worth reading if you’re a D’Angelo fan, but we re-read this one a couple times:
Even his first album, Brown Sugar, had been audacious—with its references to “Chocolate Thai,” has often been presumed to be an ode to the powers of good weed, while “Shit, Damn, Motherf*cker” was as dark and ominous as anything since Sly & the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On.” But D’s onstage persona was more muted—it simmered, but didn’t burn. D’Angelo looks back on that time with some discomfort. A perfectionist, he wishes he’d had more of an active interplay with the audience. But it all took off so fast, he says. He was confused, he says, by his sudden notoriety, even as he, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and others were credited with launching the “neo-soul” movement (a label he hates). “It counteracts the very fucking idea of what it was in the first place,” he says. “It’s black music thinking — it’s black music manifested outside of the box. And when you label it neo soul, you’re putting it right back in the box. How about you just call me soul music?”
That argument was just one of many D was having in his own head. “I tried to fight, I guess, what typically fame quote-unquote does to people,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop being, you know, the rambunctious mug that I was, because that’s what made my music what it was. It happens to the best of them, you know: At some point in everyone’s career, it was like the music lost its bite. I’m like, ‘Well, how do you avoid that?’”
“You’re some kid from wherever, you get signed, you come out with a record, and boom, you’ve got money and instant success and there’s really no template to follow,” he says, recalling how Gary Harris, the EMI exec who’d signed him, gave him a copy of Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, David Ritz’s commanding biography. Hungry for guidance, D devoured it in two days. When B.B. King first met the 22-year-old D’Angelo, Vibe magazine reported in 2000, the bluesman remarked that D had an old soul. Says Harris today: “He’s the oldest young man you’ll ever meet.”
MobbDeen @ PassionWeiss...
I wrote something about 50’s latest tape.
Briefly put, we need less “lost tapes” and more “hit/pop tapes” Fif.
But why be brief when typing words doesn’t cost me extra and reading them costs you nothing?
Clickety-clack suckas…
