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Thursday, April 29

Eminem - Not Afraid Leaked

Sorry, I lied. The song leaked out today. And it is fucking sick. I don't care what anyone says, Recovery is gonna be the fucking shit. HUGE props goes out to Pauly Ciero for informing me. Since my place has no Internet at the moment I cannot check like an obsessed Stan that I am. Without further ado...

Das Racist has dropped a free mixtape with all your favourite food themed songs.

and this one:


Here's the link to get this awesome ass thing ( I assume it is. I just downloaded it a few minutes ago.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=363749201&blogId=531866639

Wednesday, April 28

I'm Beamin


Told ya it would drop. I waited an extra hour after it dropped to post it cuz I was hopin to also post the Drake song, but no luck yet. keep ya fingaz crossed


and with a tipof my hat, I fade into the back...............................

Guns and Pork, Guns and Pork!

This is the epic video for "Guns and Pork-Shadrack and The Mandem" by London Lads, parodying U.K. Grime videos. Its a fucking hilarious video, especially with the dude thuggin in skates at the beginning and at 2:39, when the girl with the Jamaica t-shirt busts through the crowd saying Reemix and for an instant the scene transforms into a soca fete.



"No knife fam
Just a fork"

Status Report

WHAT'S THE WORD WHAT'S THE WORD?

I mentioned I would talk about Diggy Simmons a while back, but got too busy, and sick.
What I wanted to ment ion that he like his sisters has a shoe line droppin called Chivalrous Culture Sneakers! Check out the site, it literally just launched today
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 It might entail clothes as well, but we'll see for now. This kid is hittin the market soon and comin full throttle tryin be 2010's Mixtape Phenom. We saw ans are still seein how the world is coming together for Drake, so it really looks like the sky can't even begin to limit this young man especially considering he is set to release his second mixtape of the year soon.

Speakin of Drake. JUST ANOUNCED, HIS SECOND SINGLE WILL BE DROPPING TODAY
. This song is called For Your Love produced by MR. Louis Vuitton Don himself, Kanye West.Now I've heard maybe 3 or 4 other tracks rumoured to be on the album, but this is not one of them. Once it drops I look foward to postin it if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Regardless have fun with that as I'm sure it's gonna be a crazy track even if it isn't right away. Y'all remember how I felt about Over in the beginning and then how I felt about it after a while. In any case, make your own judgement call.
Also slated to be released today is the video for the first official single off of Lupe Fiasco-I'm Beaming, I'm sure we've all heard it by now. As reported by  by The Lup E.N.D. Blog and via Twitter, it was slated for a few days ago, but there was a delay because I think the editing wasn't complete. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened to any artist so don't hold it against him.
 And that's the word.

and with a tip of my hat, I fade into the back..........

Now that we got that out of ther way.

Sorry if this bugs anyone that there are two separate p[osts by me right after one another but I felt those videos should stand alone.

Moving on, I finally have the Official Video For "Love Dealer" by Esmee Denters ft. Justin Timberlake

Yo on the real, I can't believe Justion Timberlake is  almost 30. WOW.

This next one is Ke$ha-Disgusting which she didn't put on her album and gave to Miranda Cosgrove (that little girl from School of Rock who was the biggest brown noser in the world. She's gone on to do a ton of other things, but not important right now). What I wanna know is do you think Ke$ha's version is better , or Miranda's?




This next one is Mr. Hudson-Anyone but him

B.O.B. 'Bet I Bust' f/ T.I. & Playboy Tre video

All I can say after watching this, Dude, what the fuck?!?
Here's M.I.A.-Born Free music video

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
This might be the only working version right now as almost all the other versions have been disabled by request of the government I think.

This next one is Game- 400Bars another controversial song

Tuesday, April 27

New Eminem Freestyle + Upcoming Single

Yo its yo boy j weezy back with some eminem news.

First off a new free style off of Drake's Over and Beamer, Benz or Bentley beat. Check this shit out! he goes hard! Props from Pauly Cicero for the info

Second, his first single from his upcoming album 'Recovery', which comes out June 22nd, has its first single coming out this Friday, April the 30th. It is called "Not Afraid". So watch out for that shiznit! Until then, Peace!

Monday, April 26

 First on the dockett is Keane's new track ft. Canada's K'naan-'Stop for a Minute'. Track is awesome It's the type of music that is a creation in your head and when you hear it somewhere out loud it totally makes you go....WHOA!
I know I totally just had a Miles moment, but it happens a lot. I made up a song in my head once and it sounds like the acapella version of the hook. The same thing happened to me with Coldplay's Viva la Vida and Camron ft. Kanye West's Down and Out. Call it what you will but I have this ability to tell what sounds will work next

I got tracks from Bone Thugs, Jeezy and Nas& Damian Marley's first single off of Distant Relatives

As We Enter - Distant Relatives

Distant Relatives | MySpace Music Videos





See Me Shine (Official Video)

Bone Thugs N Harmony | MySpace Music Videos

Sunday, April 25

Sick in bed..well sort of.

Feels like I've been sick all April, probably have. in any case got bored of sleepin and well, here.
I know I kinda gave this a meh when Ahmed posted it a week or so ago, but just saw the music video for this song and my respect level for this song went from a 4 to like 17. Here's Shawn Desman with "Shiver"

Did anyone notice the amount of So You Think You Can Dance Canada cameos? That's because the video was choreographed by Luther Brown. So dope, choreo like this comin from a hip-hop choreographer.

Finally found a better quality version of N.E.R.D.'s "Hot&Fun" This one also features Nelly Furtado on the hook

Download

Saturday, April 24

Love Dealer

Esmee Denters Love Dealer Sample

Friday, April 23

Thursday, April 22




Lupe Fiasco Steppin Lazer Tour from lightsumthin on Vimeo.




Coming At You

as much as this can be described as coming at anything. Could it be that it is coming while standing absolutely still?

HOW TO DRESS WELL - "Decisions" (feat. Yüksel Arslan) from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

Think about it.

Wednesday, April 21

CLUSTER F%*$&


I can't believe they are actin like they've never heard of her, even though her first single was a top 40 hit.







Curtian Call
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This is random as hell

I got a ton of stuff I could show, but I really just rather post this and be on my way

Anyone know where to download all the new songs from Glee? The sites I had all got shutdown

Tuesday, April 20

Throwback Tracks

HAPPY 4-20  EVERY ONE.


Only Ms. Foxx and Richelle would remember this song right after finishing exams



After seeing Nelly reminded me of my Favourite Nelly track and it's not the one you would probably think

I know everyone was probably thinking I'd pull out Ride Wit Me, that is a close number 2, but Na-Nana-Na gets me goin every time

Monday, April 19

B.o.B. – Airplanes (Pt. 2) ft. Eminem & Hayley Williams

Found this just a few minutes ago. Full version of Airplanes Pt. 2 ft. Eminem and Hayley Williams. Check this shit out! It is fucking solid!

Make sure you purchase the album when it drops! It's gonna be real dope!

We continue exploring awesome bears.

It seems these pandas
are different from this panda
but which one's better?

(a very bad example of multi media haiku. But all the syllables are fucking there)

Two Post...




So my last post was was already done shoutout to J Weezy no disrespect homey, didn't see it there.

So New post I saw something about Nas and Damian Marley on the blog with the Distant Relatives album, and since I just Eh-Em... downloaded the Nas & Marley mash-up, nasBOBmarley - RelativesAbroad I thought I would do something with that. I think its really good my favourite track on it happens to be number 2 Life's A pimp's Paradise. I heard that the other MC on the album is AZ, not sure if its true can't see y it would be a lie tho.


Track List
01 Intro (Bob Is Like)
02 Life's A Pimp's Paradise
03 Youknowmy(Rub-A-Dub)Style
04 Ether Train
05 Say Somethin'
06 Work And Blaze
07 We And Dem World
08 Outro

Short and Sweet tho could be longer, but reminds me why I like NAS.

NIKKI is literally...

So me and a friend a couple of weeks back were having a convo around Nikki Minaj, and how she is literally everywhere doing everything. I'm not personally her biggest fan, I like my tunes to make sense to me when I'm listening to them and not all hers do for me. Tho when she does something I like, she does it really well she is a lot like Lil' Wayne for me in this way. So here she is featured on reggae artist Gyptian's track "Hold Yuh". This is one of those well done tracks for me.

Please don't hate I know their are some die hard fans out there for Nikki but notice I said *to me* we all have our own opinion.

Let me know what u think, been away for a while but i'm working on a post featuring a series of DJ clashes and counteractions and I'm finding that i'm being really wordy with them, so i'm trying to trim them hopefully next week they will be ready.


Sunday, April 18

Show Dem (Make The Circle Bigger)


Theres just over 50 days left until the World Cup kicks off! Heres an anthem from South Africa by JR featuring HHP
And here's Black Bart too...just because I think he's awesome.

Saturday, April 17

Throwback Vibes

Finally an official music video for this track. You may remember this fron a few weeks back here's Aloe Blacc-I Need a Dollar. this video looks really good especially with the grainy cinematography that's very common when depicting New York City.


Let's keep with the theme of the oldschool vibe from new school cats. This is is a cat from Cali though, yes ladies and gentlemen  Mayer Hawthorne once again. I've hit y'all up with tracks from him in the past that I just couldn't get enough of ("Green Eyed Love Remix" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco") Here is one more which is actually my favourite track from that same album titled "I Wish that it Would Rain". I Wish That it Would rain is the name of the song, the album itself is called A Strange Arrangement. This dude's shit is so dope, creative and original. Anyone interested in hearing more lemme know so I can hook you up.



Movin on to some more old by the new, we find ourselves once again visiting Brooklyn. I heard this guy about a year ago at Rock the Bells while he was performing as a part of Slaughterhouse, who themselves are not that bad. In any case his name is Joell Ortiz, due is dope and then I saw the music video for his song "Call Me" ft. Novel back in February and always intended to post his stuff and download, but never got the chance, Februrary was a hectic month, he was hard to download and March was just fucked.
Anywaaay I love his throwback vibe and swag that is reminiscent of early 90s hip-hop. Not to mention the horns in this song are dope, if they are not sampled from something in the 60s, it's definitley inspired by it.
Yo, near the end of the song, there is a guy in what looks like a New York Knicks jacket and a high-top fade. Doesn't he sorta look like Rakim?


Have you ever noticed how heavily hip-hop especially from the East (New York, Philidelphia and Chicago{which I know is more mid-west}) have horns in their music, a very industiral instrument in it's own right to creatively express the more industrial cities in our society. Sorry just me goin off on a tangent again, just be glad I didn't post Superfast Jellyfish from Gorillaz. I could write an essay based off of that song.

I'll be hittin y'all up after my final exam on Monday with news on Diggy Simmons, more Music and videos,

Alright, enjoy

and with a tip of my hat, I fade into the back.........

Friday, April 16

Shiver by Shawn Desman


Mr. Bonez here with some Canadian pop music. Some of you might know the face above or have heard of him and his brother Danny Fernandes. Its Shawn Desman, he is back with a new album titled- Fresh- expected to be released in May/June 2010. He is the older of the two and i think is more talented. I really like this song, its called Shiver. It gets stuck in your head all day tho...check it out....peace!



My new favourite bear

Gold Panda has a new track out and it is pretty fucking sweet.
Here are some other bears that were my favourite at some point or other.
I got this a week and a half ago but decided to sample it before posting it.
Today's as good a day as any considering today is the Opening Night for the Kick-Ass movie in Canada.


My favourite tracks are from The Prodigy. Man. When was the last time you heard from The Prodigy? "Take my Picture, smak my bitch Up!!" sorry i just had to say that line.
Another good track is The Hit-Girls: Bad Reputation, it's the one in all the trailers.

Now as someone who has read the comic and been following this movie since day one, I am fuckin AMPED for this film, and I know it won't dissappoint. FYI A lot of things changed from the movie and the comics, this actually might be for the better. 
Regardless, Kick-Ass is gonna kick ass and you better get in line to see it. The music all in all is pretty cool and definitley has my respect and I think it will garner some of yours. Especiall Slam's God I love that kid's style. We also have Nicholas Cage and Adam West proving how nerdy and what big fan boys they are.


Oh yeah this is something else I found Party People by The N.E.R.D. N.E.R.D from Erin Ashley on Vimeo.





And for anyone who didn't get that whole smack my bitch up reference





Thursday, April 15

Thursday Throwback


Can't Knock The Hustle

Semi-Free Associative Post #1

Hey. A favourite video of mine has been rescued from YouTube purgatory and has been reposted. I want to share this with you as well as some other videos that this makes me think of. Listen to each one and draw your own thematic/narrative/emotional/alphabetical connections. Or pick and choose, there's a lot of them.

SO apparently 400 bars equals out to about 20 minutes, cuz dats how long this song is.

We got Game: 400 Bars which is apparently only the first part cuz I downloaded trhe full version that is just over 20 minutes long. I dunno bout dis one, got a lot of mixed reviews on dis, especially by those who loved his track 300 bars. Game finds a way to dis just about everyone he's ever had beef with, and then some.
and now part 2

Every Painting in MoMA

Photos of every painting hanging in the painting galleries at MoMA as of April 10, 2010. Enjoy! And keep that index finger on the space bar ready to pause

Wednesday, April 14

FIGHT MUSIC ROUND 3

Hey everyone, I got another one for ya. tell me which version of this track do you like better. Each one is by this new artist VV Brown who hails from the U.K. and further re-emphasizes my point that the Brits are tryin to take over when it comes to music lately. Each track is titled Shark in the Water, only the one above the album cover is the original and the one below it is the remix.


You know the deal, please tell me what you think.


and with a tip of my hat, I fade into the back.....

Summer time calls for Best Coast.

It's summer! almost anyway. And the best way to celebrate is with my favourite lo-fi songstress Best Coast.

Also. LCD Soundsystem, who I AM seeing in May, is streaming the entire new album at
http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/index2.htm

that's right. This is Happening.

Echo

No matter how much I disagree with everything about R. Kelly, I actually really like his music and this is my favourite song of the week!

Some news, some songs

So according to Eminem's twitter site which I have kinda been following for the past week, there is supposed to be some big news coming. But earlier today, he updated it and it said that there is no Relapse 2 anymore. Not quite sure what to think of that. He might just be renaming it or could be another delay or something. But since he put that there is big news coming, I wouldn't worry about it much. OR it could be in reference to Detox coming out soon because according to Dre, Jay-Z and himself have a single coming out in a week or two called "Under Pressure", so look out for that.

And here are a couple of songs I came across.
Here is a remix of Hold Yuh by Gyptian ft. Nicki Minaj. It's real tight I must say, so definitely check it out. She only has one verse in it though...
Two new B.o.B songs from his upcoming album "B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray". Both are pretty good. I'd look out for his album when it drops on April 27, 2010. It's shaping up to be pretty good so far.
PS: The song 'Airplanes' is gonna have a part 2 with none other then my man Eminem, so look out for that.
And a new club banger by none other than Flo Rida and T-Pain himself called "Zoosk Girl". It's not as good as "Low" and its definitely not as good as "Right Round" but its still gets you moving. I expected better but what can we do, I'm sure it will probably grow on me anyways. Oh and he has an album coming out this year/summer as well called "The Only One". 

Lin Yu Chun

Prepare to be amazed people! You just have no idea what to expect. This dashing young fellow, Lin Yu Chun belts out the classic Whitney Houston song "I Will Always Love You."



Yes, I think he gives Whitney a run for her money!
He is totally my future husband *wink* It was really his bow tie that got me.


Then I found this little guy as well. Appropriation is a hell of a thing. It is beautiful! Reniel Tulabing! He is so lovely!!!

Tuesday, April 13

Hey

I've had this song for about three months, thought it was tight and never bothered to post it. My bad, but lets be honest, how many actually listen when I post like seven things at once in the little player? that's what I thought. Here's Snoop Dogg ft. Kid Cudi: That Tree


N.E.R.D. Hot& Fun live. this track sounds, well hot and fun


New Mayer Hawthorne. This dude is too underrated


This is a nerw dude, well relatively new. Anyway Big Sean-Bullshittin


And oh yeah I got reports on Drake's next single and the video, but I'll save that for later, I'm about to study for my last exam.

Monday, April 12

New Eric Wareheim. Not for Squeamish

You love his Major Lazer videos. You love Tim and Eric. If you've been following his career as long as I have you absolutely love Tom Goes To The Mayor. Here is a new thing. Don't click on it if you don't like blood.
How awesome? So awesome.

NEW DRAKE VIDEO

YES!!! Drake's Over literally just hit the internet.
How you like me now



I finally found a better quality trailer for Kick Ass. Dude, if this movie is anything like the comic, you're in for a crazy adventure.


Dis is a big tune, from a very underrated band
Here's CunningLynguist with cocaine


This next one isn't bad at all. This is Wale-Breakup Song. He samples Stevie Wonder's All I do is Think About You which is a tuff beat still



Oh yeah, my bad y'all I so meant to put this up a full month ago, but skool got mad crzy, I really want to hear some feedback on this album.

We got Gorillaz with Plastic Beach. I tried uploading the deluxe edition but it wouldn't format online. Oh well.
My fave tracks aree Super Fast Jellyfish, Rhinestone Eyes and of course Stylo. All in all, it's a good album.No remember it shuffles when it first starts, I don't know how to fix that, just scroll up if you wanna start fromthe beginning.

Sunday, April 11

Sunday Soul


James Brown performing Bobby Hebb's endlessly covered song "Sunny" at the Olympia in Paris in 1971

Matisyahu feat. Akon - One Day

Someone posted the original song a few months back and I found this version the other day with Akon and thought it was really good. Check it out

Matisyahu feat. Akon - One Day

Saturday, April 10

Real Life In Color



This particular song is called "South Dakota." Their entire album is available to download for free at their website!
Real Life In Color


Also a colleague from my program, Edeline Bernal made a lovely video using this song I featured. Take a look below!

29 from Edeline Bernal on Vimeo.

This is driving my cat insane right now.

Hopefully it will do the same for yours. Is this 300? I hope it is.
I want this to mean something.
perhaps we should also listen to this.
100 TIMES

Friday, April 9

Diddy Presents: Dirty Money

Dirty Money

Diddy describes Last Train to Paris (his new album to be released June 22, 2010) as an "electro-hip-hop-soul funk" album



Thursday, April 8

Thursday Throwback

This tune was stuck in my head for a while the other day, so I decided to make it the Thursday Throwback for this week. From 96, the year Dolly the sheep was born, Bill Clinton was elected to a second term, and Pokémon Red and Blue were released in Japan, its "This Is Your Night" by Amber

Apparently talent is genetic

Diggy Simmons fresh off of his 15th birthday/contract signing with Atlantic records has blessed us with another track called 'Come To Rock'. Now I could have sworn that I posted his First Flight Mixtape, and wanted to reference it and couldn't find it, then I remembered that Blogger removed it. Don't know why that always keeps happenning to me and me only, but it is what it is. Regardless, I fixed the link and it's back, but the search bar still won't let you find it. The original post is December 4th and you'll need to search the archives if this link don't work




Y'all also need to check out his blog, clothing line and shoe company.
oh and here's some other stuff

I came across this next one a month or two ago...yeah february so two months ago and just thought y'all wouldnt be feelin it, but who cares


 Next is the official single for the new movie, Kick Ass. Mika's Kick Ass definitely grows on you....Every version of this song lags a little
I've been waiting for this movie for like a year now, no lie. I can't wait to see it, so here is a trailer incase u got no idea what I'm talking about:

Kick-Ass

Trailer Park Movies | MySpace Video


ATTENTION TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS: WE ARE 2 POSTS AWAY FROM 300!!!! PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE IT OR SOMETHING WHEN YOU ARE THE 300TH. THANKS
and with the tip of my hat, I fade into the back................

Good Copy Bad Copy

This is an excellent documentary about "the current state of copyright and culture" by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It gets into the politics and history at play in the relatively recent trend of free and bootleg media sharing. The documentary crew interviewed a wide range of people who play a part in different sides of the the debate on music and movie piracy. They talk to the Motion Picture Association of America, the people at The Pirate Bay, Creative Commons, bootleg DVD salesmen in Moscow, Nollywood producers in Lagos, Techno Brega artists in Brazil, as well as a few American artists who are well known for their terrific acts of copyright infringement; Girl Talk, and DJ Danger Mouse. So if you got an hour to spare sometime and want to learn a little bit about all the politics and philosophies behind all this free shit we get, its definitely worth the watch.

Website link

Wednesday, April 7

Caribou

Amazing!!!
My new favourite!



Caribou concert on May 3rd! I'm going!!!!!!!!!

The Notorious XX

Some mash up albums are good ideas that just don't seem to pan out. This project is not one of those. This here is a mix of classic Biggie verses with the music of British indie rock band The xx and it just works. Some tracks are better than others, but overall...FIRE!


@SEMTEX

Download here

Love King Video

I had to do it! I'm not always a big fan of Terius Youngdell Nash a.k.a The-Dream, but I gotta admit every song of his I hear is just some catchy ass music. SO, say it with me...L to the O, V to the E, K to the I, N to the G...

T-Dot State of Mind

T-West made this track called "T-Dot State of Mind" months before BP3 dropped and any other Toronto artists used the same title for their own remixes of Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." Out of the three I've heard that bear that popular title, this song is still my favorite.

Literally at work right now.

Okay, if my boss finds me right now doin this I'm so fired. Remember that head to head I did of those Taio Cruz and Ke$ha tracks it turns out the worls helped decide for me.
tckdp www.directlyrics.com from renzo torres on Vimeo.
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Oh and P.S. pauly if u need that hard drive or anything else lemme know.


and with a tip of my hat, I fade into the back..........

Have to Have

It's a little grey in Belleville right now, so I'll tell you all something that makes me feel better. I am very excited by a new band going by the name of Fang Island. Here's Daisy. Pay attention to the little run that Clinton does at 3:18. that's the way I like to run when I'm feeling in such and such a way.

Let's Start the Show


A few points of interests;
First- I'm the one who changed the look, you got an issue or comment (good or bad), lemme know
 Second-REPORTEDLY, GOOD ASS JOB, KANYE WEST'S SUPPOSED LAST ALBUM DROPS THIS SUMMER, PREPARE YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY FOR THE ALL CAPS LOVING AWARDS SPEECH INTERRUPTING, BALD HEADED GIRLFRIEND LOVING "GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME"
 Third BOONDOCKS IS BACK THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes for all you fans of Huey, Riley, Grandad, Ed&Rimmy and of course, Uncle Rukus, prepare yourselves for May 2nd season premiere of the third and reportedly final season. and if you don't believe me...................................
Love the jay Electronica track they used.
And of course how can I forget the music aspect of things, it's been a while since I uploaded my player. This one is all downloadable aswell, featuring Kardinal Offishal, Akon, M.I.A., Big Boi,Pharrell,Charles Hamilton . Real talk, The Big Boi and the Kardi tracks are so dope.

Tuesday, April 6

Crazy Beatboxer


This dude called Anointed S does this crazy beatboxing remix of Loso's "My Time"

untitled

I really like this commercial for the line, I think it could do without all those celebrity cameos, kind of too much. But God DAMN does Ciara age like fine wine or what?


Next up is the trailer for Tron Legacy, the sequel to 1982's Tron, the trailer is pretty self-explanatory, and I gotta say Tron is definitely one of those movies way ahead of its time like Scarface. So good, highly reccomend
 watching it.


This last one makes me laugh, it's from Hot Chip, it's I Feel Better, noticed it Sunday night ik a commercial for MuchMusic's The Wedge

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos