Archive for August, 2009

Evidence & Alchemist Perform “Letyourselfgo” @ Rock the Bells

Posted in Media, Video with tags , , , on Friday, August 14, 2009 by Tim Althaus

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Thank you to Shake over at 2DopeBoyz. This is just some raw footage of one of my favorite emcees and one of my favorite producers. News about Evidence never seems to get old to me, and it seems like Cats & Dogs is right around the corner. I haven’t been able to put Alchemist’s Chemical Warfare down for the last two weeks, it just keeps getting better after every listen. Make sure you guys watch out for the Step Brothers album coming out next year as well.

*Side Note: “Letyourselfgo” is one of my favorite tracks off of The Weatherman LP

Slaughterhouse interview on Hot 97

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , on Friday, August 14, 2009 by Nolan Levenson

I’ve been jumping on the Slaughterhouse bandwagon as well. Here’s a video of Slaughterhouse on NY’s Hot 97 with Angie Martinez.

Shout out to NahRight for the find.

New Pacewon and Mr. Green video – “She Can Be So Cold”

Posted in Video with tags , on Friday, August 14, 2009 by Nolan Levenson

Just got a facebook update about the new video from Pacewon and Mr. Green for their track “She Can Be So Cold” off of last year’s The Only Color that Matters Is Green (which I would HIGHLY recommend).

Black Moon – A Tribute to the Classics live

Posted in Video with tags , , , , on Friday, August 14, 2009 by Nolan Levenson

Black Moon and Smif ‘n’ Wessun have lately been pretty big on performing their  classic albums Enta Da Stage and Dah Shinin’, respectively, in their entirety. This video, via 2dopeboyz, has a chunk of Black Moon’s set performing live in Brooklyn for another free show (ugh, I can’t believe I missed this, I just got back to NY). It’s super weird to hear the beats with a live band since I’m so used to letting those Beatminerz beats bang, but still good nonetheless.

Mr. J. Medeiros – “Holding On (feat. Tara Ellis)” audio

Posted in Audio, Media, News with tags , on Friday, August 14, 2009 by Nolan Levenson

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A while back I posted the video for the new Mr. J. single called “Holding On”. The track will appear on his new album, Friends Enemies Apples Apples dropping September 20th.

Click here to download “Holding On”. The video can be found here.

Album Review: Slaughterhouse, Slaughterhouse

Posted in Music Reviews with tags , , , , , , , , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Tim Althaus

slaughterhouse-718945 I (as well as everyone else) knew well before this album came out that this album was going to be a benchmark for lyrical linguistics. Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Crooked I & Royce Da 5’9″ are all known for their raw radical and introspective lyrics, and when you put them together the results are going to be monumental. On this album Slaughterhouse sets out to prove that although you may have thought Hip-Hop was close to dead, they plan on showing you it isn’t. I can almost assure you that there probably won’t be another album to come out this year that has anywhere near the lyrical display of this album. Continue reading

Ghostface Talks About Forthcoming LP With Raekwon & Method Man

Posted in Media, Music News, Video with tags , , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Tim Althaus

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Good Lord, that’s all I have to say…

Spotted @ 2DopeBoyz

Exile & DJ Day Live in Paris & Amsterdam

Posted in Media, Video with tags , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Tim Althaus

Every single time I see one of these videos I’m more astonished than the time before. Exile & DJ Day have been doing their thing with MPCs for a while now, and 2DopeBoyz had some video footage over on their page. What these guys do is utterly amazing and I would give almost anything to see them do their thing live. Make sure you go out and get Exile’s Radio now. Follow me after the jump for the Amsterdam performance. Continue reading

J Rocc Scratches Up Guitar Center’s King of the Blues

Posted in Media, Video with tags , , , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Tim Althaus

This is some great video footage, and I can’t thank Crate Kings enough. J Rocc discusses the nature of Blues Music for the first couple minutes of the video and then breaks into his performance. If you haven’t ever heard J Rocc or the Beat Junkies you are pretty much dead to me, because they are nothing short of incredible. J Rocc performs with a live blues band at Guitar Center’s King of the Blues and scratches shit up like crazy. If you are a fan of turntablism or music in general you have to see this one.

Slaughterhouse Already Talking Second Album

Posted in Music News with tags , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Tim Althaus

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According to a HipHopDX article that I read this morning (it’s from yesterday), the guys from Slaughterhouse are already talking about a sophomore follow-up to their self-titled release. The way Joell Ortiz made it sound, is that they would like to put out all of their solo efforts and then move to the next collaborative effort. The guys also said that they will probably start recording some material for the follow-up in the interim so that they don’t have to bang out an album in 6 days again. Joell reveals even more good news when he sates,  “I feel like all of our solo albums will have us featured on there”. Crooked I mentions that even though there were tracks that were left off of the album, they will surface one way or another because “the world needs to hear it”.

It sounds like the next year is going to be pretty insane as far as these guys is concerned, not to mention everything else that is coming out in the next year. This just proves that Hip-Hop is nowhere near dead, it’s a healthy, living and breathing organism that is stronger than ever.