It’s always nice to flip through my crates of 12 inches to find an old gem that’s been pressed between two other records like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for too long.
“Your gun has no nuts/its a lesbian”
Archive for Song of the Week
Song Of The Week: Cash Brown Vs. Styles P & Pharoahe Monch
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.
Song of the Week: El-P “Drones Over Brooklyn”
I know, I know, too easy. But after all the reported sightings of a drone flying over Brooklyn/Queens just had to do it (Gawker, CNN, and from Vice’s Motherboard, “The FBI cut out that ‘unmanned aircraft’ business when it took to Twitter to do some witness recruiting. ‘Anyone with information on the #drone near #JFK yesterday can remain anonymous,’ the bureau tweeted, along with the phone number of a tipline.”). Besides it’s a great song.
Off of El-p’s album Cancer 4 Cure [Explicit]
Song of the Week, Quelle Chris- “RatShit”
Quelle Chris (Mello Music Group) reminds me of a more straight ahead hip hop version of Ninja Sonik; young, dumb, and fun. And it should go without saying that there’s no other way to take that but positive. Cuz “looking for work is work.” Now go make that ratshit ass clap…clap, clap, clap.
Song of the Week: Ruthless Bastards
If I’m a bastard, then you’re a bastard, everybody’s a bastard. This is one of those 12″ records I picked up in ’97 not knowing anything about it, something just urged me to snatch it up. And damn. Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice cuz the Wu put ‘em up on one of their Killa Bees comps (But apparently didn’t do much for them after that).
“Frontin like he hard, dunn, he must’ve ate some thug cookies”
Some more from them here-
Song of the Week- Sean Born “Grandeur (Prod. Kev Brown)”
To start off the new year, here’s a joint from Sean Born and Kev Brown. Hailing from the Mello Music Group and Low Budget fam, kings of making waves in the hip hop universe on the humble (not to be read soft) tip.
And pick up Sean Born’s new album, “Behind the Scale” here.
“A gritty 90′s style album for those who grew up on Illmatic, Midnight Marauders, Only Built for Cuban Links, Moment of Truth, and Ready to Die. Behind The Scale shows the other side of what some are glamorizing about street life and drug trade. This is unfiltered, real sh*t on tape. Some of the stories are intensely personal and Sean second-guessed including them, but if it ain’t raw it ain’t real. Behind The Scale is about change, transition and growing up.”
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