IT’S A BAAAAATTLE!!! Both of these great songs use the same beat by Ayatollah. While the beat is actually so dope it stands to be in two separate songs you gotta imagine there’s some industry rule #4080 shadiness going on behind the double duty. Yep. Apparently record companies being shady extends to the independents as well. According to HipHop-Element.com Cash Brown and Ayatollah were both cut out of the loop before the instrumental got used with Styles and Pharoahe for ESPN. Without their consent the record company doubled down and doubled up, without their consent or need for it cuz, wait for it…contracts son, contracts. Sign one. No verbals. Cash Brown should have taken his own advice from his song “Pay Me.” That’s the life.
Archive for March 13, 2013
Peoples Mixtape by Chin Injeti
To help pad the the paltry quantity of new releases this week, here’s a pretty solid mixtape for free download. Features David Banner, Jay Electronica, Bishop Lamont, Dj Khalil, Skratch Bastid, Talib Kweli, and some others. It’s also got a Buggin’ Out Remix with Moka Only, Krondon, and Chace Infinite (Self Scientific).
Tuesday Forecast- New Music Releases
Well. Not so much of a heaping helping this week, but i will explicitly point out that Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics is NOT a re-issue. All new material ya’ll. You should still be able to get a listen to the whole album streaming at NPR.
Rochester Subway, on film
Rochester lifestyle guru LJC visited the abandoned subway (previously) recently and got some great shots, using film. Remember film?
Wang Yue’s “Meitu” Tree Hole Paintings
Here’s something for a monday morning that, while being cute and adorable, is hard to scoff at. Wang Yue has taken to creating her art in the knots and tree holes around Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei Province. While art will always have a place on canvas, I think the culture as a whole gets elevated when it’s pushed forward and presented “outside of the box.” To me, technical skill has become less and less of a primary concern and creativity has really taken over. Granted you still gotta have some skills but we’ve already seen what the Masters have done and there’s plenty of people on the photorealistic tip. Wang Yue’s creativity is something I can actually feel.
It’d be really funny if she became as popular as Banksy and people started digging up the trees like they do with ripping his stencils off of walls. Then there could be a war between art thieves and the tree hugger army. I digress.
via IU2 & TwistedSifter
Group Therapy
…Obsession and compulsion. In my case it’s bowling shoes. I used to go bowling just to rent the shoes. Then I started keeping the shoes. After I was banned from every bowling alley in town, I broke in after hours.
