Music

Friday Video: GLC and Kanye Salute the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

From GLC’s upcoming album. It’s pretty neat to see that they will be including this on a compilation that supports the Negro League Baseball Museum.
The beat is hot too.
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h/t to okp

27Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued

Friday Video: Katie Couric Interviews Weezy

After watching the interview, I have gained a little respect for the young one. I’m definitely in agreement with the idea of being yourself and going at life with reckless abandon. I still can’t listen to dude rap, for real, but that may be just a difference in taste.
Of one considerable note, however, is the [...]

6Feb2009 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued

The YBP Review: 808s and Heartbreak

Note: I’m borrowing this from the review I dropped over at Amazon. I figured some of our readers would want to hear my POV (since you read this blog). Have a Happy Holiday!
For some people, music is a form of entertainment. If you’ve never listened to something and understood the art of what was being [...]

26Nov2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued

The Audacity of Hip Hop

From Newsweek.
When superstar lyricist Nas declared, “Hip-hop is dead!” in 2006, he reignited a long-running debate among artists and observers in the rap community. While the money-guns-girls wing of commercial rap is certainly here to stay, many fans insist that hip hop’s political roots are rotting. But on the eve of an election in which [...]

26Sep2008 | Kismet | 4 comments | Continued

Janelle Monae! Ya heard?

She’s been mentioned here once or twice before. She was recently written up in a music review in the New York Times after an appearance with Rafael Saadiq at the Highline Ballroom in NY. You may have heard her on the Idlewild soundtrack (”Call the Law,” “In Your Dreams”). But if you don’t [...]

3Sep2008 | Garry | 6 comments | Continued

Friday Video: Common ft. Pharrell - Announcement

The beat is something disgusting. My only gripe is the line where Common spits:
The flow was paid by Lincoln, so we got more whips than slaves
Oh word? The last time I heard a double entendre invoking the beating of slaves and cars was Talib proclaiming how rappers shortsightedly did so, embarrassing the legacy of their [...]

29Aug2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued

Almost Friday Video: Q-Tip - Gettin’ Up

Minty, fresh feel good joint. Not mad at it. Wish I would have seen this live on the Rock the Bells tour.

Hat tip to OKP.

28Aug2008 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued

Friday Video: Something’s Gotta Give

Big Boi and Mary J. Blige throw in their collective, political commentary through an easy-going track. Hat tip to Obama Props.

22Aug2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued

Oh Really Solange?

Watch this video without sound.

Then turn the sound up.
Is this clever cognitive dissonance or a clever lie?
I know. That’s mad vague. I don’t want to give too much away though.
Discuss.
(Sidenote: The girl looks more and more like her big sis every day)
H/T Purple Zoe over at the Ultraviolet Underground
X-Posted @ Waiting2Speak as [...]

6Aug2008 | Kismet | 4 comments | Continued