Over the years, there have been some fucking dope duos. Especially one’s that have one dude focusing on vocals/hooks and another spitting verses. Why hasn’t the T.I. & B.o.B. combination blown up. There on the same label. They make the same music. There from the same city. That right there is more than enough reason to become a new era Outkast.
Joell is all about dropping random cuts for no reason. You may remember this beat from an old Big Pun track. Regardless, 1/4th of Slaughterhouse releases a pretty good track. Something we rarely see from his these days. See: “Rubberband Man” for an almost identical hook.
Wiz has soldout, his music isn’t the same. It’s clear all he cares about is himself, making money, Amber Rose (who the hell is attracted to a bald chick) and smoking weed.
Off of the upcoming Wu-Tang compilation, Legendary Weapons. Not sure what to expect out of the album, but hearing Ghost & Sean P on a track together is a treat and a half. Dope cover-art, dooope song.
Download: Ghostface Killah, Sean Price & Trife – Laced Cheeba
Very pleasant surprise…these two tracks emerged yesterday, both featuring a “Hit Em Up” era 2Pac going off at the entire East Coast rap scene (yes, he even calls out A Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul). I would estimate these were both recorded in ’96..and both are pretty dope, making it pretty weird that they never made their way onto a posthumous 2Pac compilation or any DPG album. ‘Watch Ya Mouth’ features some vicious lines, but I’d say I prefer NY 87 overall…two of the most underrated West Coast MCs ever (DJ Quik & Kurupt) both go off. These are both great additions to any Pac fans’ library so check em out.
Download: 2Pac – Watch Ya Mouth
Download: Tha Dogg Pound – NY 87 (Featuring DJ Quik, 2Pac & Deadly Threat)
As apart of Rihanna’s “Loud Tour”, J. Cole opened in Los Angeles and performed the first single off his debut album.
In this third and final installment of The Cool Kids’ video series, Chuck and Mikey take a break from their recording session in Miami to sit down and discuss their collaboration with Pharrell Williams on their highly anticipated, upcoming album When Fish Ride Bicycles. The guys have always looked up to Pharrell and say that it was a dream come true to be able to work with him. The three of them ended up knocking out a hot future single off the album Summer Jam (featuring Maxine Ashley). When Fish Ride Bicycles is available exclusively on iTunes on July 12th, 2011.
J. Cole hops on the video blog bandwagon releasing his first ever. He highlights a show in Toronto and shows his reaction to the clearance of his first album single. Cole World: The Sideline Story drops 9/27.
If this isn’t the best project of 2011 to date then I will eat a hard copy of this release. The artwork is dope, the leaked songs have been absolutely amazing. There is literally no reason why this project won’t be good. I promise.
Don’t give a fuck about what anyone says, Glastonbury shits on every other festival. British people go much harder than Americans, so you know with the thousands of people that attend every year it has to be something incredibly special.