Thursday, September 16, 2010
Vainglorious
Wow. We have every indication that this Dipset reunion is going to be as great as their best material, it's like the last 3 odd years never happened. This beat is like a week old. Cam makes an extended X Clan reference, Jim Jones' shit talk is better than his verse (I love what a bad voice Jones has but how crazy would it be if Max had the freedom to get in on the act?), they randomly decide to get Dame's back and diss Kanye. The only part that gets you is there won't be a Kanye beat on the next album, because no one has more fun on Ye's shit than Cam, but he probably wouldn't have made a contribution anyways. No craft or actual criticism here just geeking out because I love the fucking Diplomats.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Hip Hop Tweets: September 7
A semi regular roundup of the best Tweets in and around the Hip Hop Community.
Tom Breihan: Someone explain the spoken-word guys in that Pac/Tyson documentary. Can't imagine a cooler idea for a doc being paired with lamer execution.
Wiz Khalifa: one of my family members told me not to wake up with chickens or mike tysons tiger in my penthouse. Hahahhahahahahhahaha
Freddie Gibbs: Just met Lisa Bonet, she still fine
Statik Selektah: @Grafh no doubt... we gotta link
Swizz Beatz: @aliciakeys you shocked me today when you knew all the words to ERIC B FOR PRESIDENT wowwww
Lil B: mannnn I tell u this all these rappers is scared of Lil B I tell u that. I tell u Lil B done something no1 has - Lil B
Monday, September 6, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hip Hop Tweets: August 31
A semi regular roundup of the best Tweets in and around the Hip Hop Community.
Talib Kweli: Ok cocaine. I get it, you're back.
Soulja Boy: @YellowBoneStar_ yu killed it baby real talk swag swag
Snoop Dogg: bacctage at the @justinbieber show in NYC with the beautiful Vita Chambers... its all gravity!
Soulja Boy: @_LoModele swag
Joe Budden: Posta Boy- Jurassic harlem http://www.zshare.net/video/796007009885d666/
Soulja Boy: @SouljaboysAngel swag
Maino: I irritate u huh?RT @CiaraImani: Umm everytime I see maino's corny ass on this MTV commercial for this show I get irritated.
Soulja Boy: @BitchiamFAMOUS swag
Crooked I: Jus left court.. It's a shame to see people get time in chunks all because they can't afford a lawyer.. #EffTheSystem
Swagger Jacked
I feel like Pierre Delacroix after sitting through Blak Iz Blak: I don't want to have anything to do with anything 'Swag' for at least a week. After "Pretty Boy Swag" I thought the B and Soulja union was going to be a positive thing, Soulja could teach this kid how to edit and turn his style into a viable product. Instead Soulja Boy is suddenly a cokehead and all the great energy that had finally won me over has been replaced by this breathless near monotone play at weirdness. Is it me or is it fucked up when you need to bite someone else's weirdness? If you do, is it still technically weird? This song is a cry for a celebrity episode of Intervention.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Live From James Evans' Crib
Joell Ortiz- Funkmaster Flex Freestyle
Sorry, I physically can't care about the internet between June and August. Joell Ortiz pops into Hot 97 and does something I can't remember anyone doing in years: Tears it down with 5 minutes of crack. Joell, arguably the greatest rapper left in New York amongst a sad, slim field most notably challenged by one Juelz Santana, dropped his first and only album three years ago. As a fan of that album and its artist I feel like he should be in the midst of a promising mid-level career, the kind guys like Beanie Sigel and Jadakiss used to be able to enjoy comfortably, without having to resort to stunts like Slaughterhouse.
Have we really reached a place in Hip Hop where no flash lyricism, not to be confused with Detroit and Philly's seemingly intentionally boring old school technical proficiency, but real writing, wit, fire and lively punchlines have no place in our culture? Joell concludes his freestyle by begging all MCs listening to take it back to the pad and pen. A majority of the successful music produced over the last decade in this city seems to fall into two camps: stubborn underground old schoolism and popular parody, where guys like Mims or Maino or 50 or Jay-Z made Clear Channel Rap that could've come from everywhere. (Then there's the Diplomats, who I will address on this site any day now) Perhaps Joell has a point. That it's more than playing at grimy atmosphere, trying to recapture a sound with knock off Rza beats and weak attempts at a Buckshot sneer (See: Fat Joe). But the studied, detail rich, alternating funny and sad writing that powered New York's Golden Age could be the only way back to relevance. Start at the beginning.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Hip Hop Tweets: July 26
A semi regular roundup of the best Tweets in and around the Hip Hop Community.
Rick Ross: rollin up..grams of real estate..purple pastime's..
Curren$y: I waketh...I baketh... Early drivin da el co bumpin eazy e ... Jet Life
Wiz Khalifa: 4 of us gangsters caughin on tha porch finna go down red robin n fuck up these turkey burgers
Lil B- @iamdiddy I NEED U TO MAKE A COOKING VIDEO DIDDY AND YOUTUBE IT!!! MASTER CHEFS IT IS A MUST!!! COOKING TO WONTON SOUP ! SWAG
Juicy J: yesturday we started tapin our new reality show''COOKIN ANIT EASY'' wait 2 u see da chiks we got on da show u gone shit yoself lol!
Dru Ha- NY Times reports "Gulf Rig's alarm was habitually set 2 inhibited 2 avoid waking up the crew w/ late-night sirens" - Isn't that the point?
Big Boi: @BunBTrillOG that's the beauty of the block button, fuck dem hoe ass niggaz
Soulja Boy: @DJDRAMA wowww drama thats so ironic dat u just tweeted me nigga im in da studio i just made a song called "DJ DRAMA' this shit go hard!
Just Blaze: im gonna leave onyx "bacdafuc" up playing on 10 for the dogs while im gone. ill see how they act when i get back. #experimentinonanimals
R.A. the Rugged Man- @JustBlaze as a kid I wondered who the pic of the white guy was in the RAKIM album.. Then I found out who the Great Paul C was.
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