Apr 132011
 

Theodore Bone Crusher – Who Are We?
(391 views?! This youtube is some bullshit edit, but that Theodore Unit album had tracks. Ghost and Trife throwing darts over a grimy beat, grimier chorus provided by Bonecrusher.)

Mobb Deep f. Eightball – Where Ya From
(Laidback New York traditionalism, but Eighball seems well and comfortable in the mix.)

Fat Joe Big Pun Eightball – Heavyweights
(Huge beat. Pun’s verse is like the foulest ever.)

Cormega f. Lil Wayne – Who Can I Trust?
(True to his renegade nature Mega collaborated with Lil Wayne way back when he wasn’t even hot.)

Outkast f. Raekwon – Skew It On The Bar-B
Big Boi ft. Andre 3000 & Raekwon – Royal Flush

(“When the South was down, Rae was there for them. A lot of shit that I do, it just happens. How that Outkast shit jumps off is I’m pushing through the mall in the A, and I see the kid. And its like respect, kings respect kings. And we just got in the studio, I liked the niggas as individuals, and they looked at me the same way. We made history.“)

50 Cent Bun B – As The World Turns
(Bun B’s best song with an East Coast rapper? Or the one below?)

Jay-Z f. UGK – Big Pimping

Kool G Rap f. Killer Mike, Bun B – Real OG’s
(Tuff song I never see mentioned. From G Rap’s tape on G-Unit.)

Kool G Rap f. Ice Cube Geto Boys – Two To The Head
(These days collabos rarely come out this raw.)

Freeway f. Scarface – Baby Don’t Do It
(Listening to this daily, preferably on repeat. Scarface, best flow ever here.)

Gang Starr f. Scarface – Betrayal
(Premier at his best, ditto the storytelling.)

Ghostface f. Scarface – Face Off
(Would like a more official collabo between the greats, in the meantime this will do.)

Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, Scarface – This Can’t Be Life

AND WHAT ELSE? HELP ME HERE NOW

Dec 162010
 

Att likt Prodigy med HNIC 2 släppa en video för varje låt på skivan har nästan blivit standard. Lil B:s översvämning av youtube sätter ribban ännu högre.

2010 är internetvideon det bästa och billigaste sättet att nå ut, och det vanligaste sättet för folk att upptäcka ny musik på (gissar jag).

Således kom det en hel del grymma videos i år.

Action Bronson – Imported Goods, Shiraz
Rare loops. Raffinerade gourmet-raps. De här två videona ägde 2010. Det här är the soundtrack of winning – det den rödskäggige Action Bronson gör dag ut, dag in. Felet många nya rappare gör är att de så skitnödigt swaggar och self-promotar sig själva för att sedan i studion snegla på vad som säljer för tillfället. Koncentrera er på musiken, ta det lugnt, have fun, och remember that a good product sells itself.

Lil B f. Andy Milonakis – Hoes on my D***
2010 såg vi Lil B och Andy Milonakis med Los Angeles vid sina fötter. “Young Ted Danson” är i sitt element tillsammans med den ännu yngre TV-komikern. En påminnelse om hur mycket humor det är i många av Lil B:s låtar.

Main Attrakionz – Legion Of Doom
Ett dussin andra M.A.-videos skulle kunna sitta här, men Legion Of Doom är nog den mest representativa.

Waka Flocka Flame – Bustin At Em
Word to the Cohen Brothers.

Meyhem Lauren – Got The Fever, Its Like
New York-rap mår bevisligen bäst när man utan skam bygger vidare på det förflutna – standing on the shoulders of giants vidrör man fortfarande stjärnhimlen. (Meyhems andra videos är för övrigt kraftigt amatöriga, flera divisioner under de här två.)

Stor – Allt vi gjort
Den här videon förkroppsligar Stors rader från Min Freestyle… “så länge jag lever, en sådan heder, jag passar vidare och börjar dela med mig…” Slutet när de blickar ut från hustaket ger mig rysningar. “Rappare skriver texter, ST skriver historia…

Mofo f. Sick Art – Shook Ones 2010
Tillbaks till gatan med Shook Ones II-instrumentalen, en 15-årig gästrappare och en iPhone-filmad video. Mofos kanske tyngsta vers hittills.

Labyrint – Kärleken
Labyrint har haft ett lugnt år, men den här videon är på samma höga nivå med vad de presterat förut.

Danny Brown – Re-Up
I den andra videon står Danny och rappar obesvärat medan nåt crackhead står och river ut kopparrör från hans kök, vilket såklart är en för hiphopen välbehövlig dos av sjuk verklighet, men jag gillar det här beatet mer. Vad är det han halsar egentligen? Svedka? Är det hemlig svensk fulvodka, eller vad? (The Hybrid-skivan har även andra riktigt bra grejer.)

Yelawolf – I Just Wanna Party f. Gucci Mane, Pop The Trunk
House party-känslan mer än låten i sig. “I’m drunk as Paul McCartney“. Och Pop The Trunk vinner i sin lågmälda realism och hotfulla vardaglighet lätt över annan gun talk som musikindustrin sprutar ut.

Earl Sweatshirt – Earl
För ett år sedan kände ingen alls till OFWGKTA, och nu när man söker youtube på namnet Earl, så är detta det första som kommer upp. “Knock blunt ashes in their caskets and laugh it off…” Hur kan han rappa så bra, så liten? “Try talking on your blog with your fucking arms cut off….

Mohammed Ali – Kan Nån Ringa 112
Kanske mer än någon annan i det här urvalet tillhör Mohammed Ali de artister som dels kan säga något om samhällets utveckling och samtidigt verkligen nå ut, och dels kan ta den här musiken till en ny nivå, musikaliskt. Videon är också helt next level. Det där jävla torget i Stockholm i ruiner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lo2RrdvPc

Z-Ro – Freestyle
Ok, ingen “video”, men nästan årets bästa video. Den här låten måste släppas snart.

Dec 122010
 

Prodigy f. N.O.R.E. – What U Rep

Det här är ett av de hårdaste beatsen. Ren bakgatssplatter. Prodigy är som vanligt det passande soundtrack för att dra i sig  sur ganja och Wikileaks-dokument. Och N.O.R.E. reppar hooken alldeles utmärkt för de som håller skjutjärn.

Det enda övriga jag känner igen från Hangmen 3:s katalog är lika hårda och textmässigt skogstäta Verbal Grafitti från Cormegas The True Meaning, den starka uppföljaren till 00-talets bästa skiva.

Inget låter lika mycket 2010 som Prodigy. En video för att runda av.

Oct 312010
 

Lil B har alltså gjort en låt med Cormega, något som vi har efterfrågat en längre tid. QB-rapparen lägger tyvärr ingen vers, bara lite random snack, mest för syns skull. Seriöst, hoppa in i studion med en bra producent. Synergieffekten skulle vara att Cormega spottade hungrigare, och lilla B lade ner mer tid på sina rader.

Theres a lot of younger rappers who dont study there history especially sadly in my own city. Theres young dudes who never heard of or listened to Kane or G Rap,Lil B is NOT one of them.I have heard him quote lyrics from dope MCs, not hot rappers so that enough merits respect. What some call old heads Lil B calls influences you’d be surprised how humble and respectful he is and the love he has for East Coast pioneers. Lil B is a better at marketing then some people that are paid at lables to market(check his youtube). He generated his own buzz and is generating more buzz by doing and saying whatever the fuck he wants. Hes a smart dude and he respects hip hop more then some of the rappers who got rich off exploiting it. Chasing The Rain is one example of Lil B making a dope song. The cooking dance generated a buzz that probably wouldve been a hit record if he was on a major. The kid knows when where and how to say things and apparently its working because people keep talking about him. People said hes the worst thing to happen and that he killed hip hop so he made a song called “I killed Hip Hop” ALOT of the top rappers sold out way before Lil B had a demo out let him live.
People say hes gay because of something he said well I know of a rapper who said “she look so good I’d suck on her daddy dick” and not only did people not criticize him they song along. PAUSE
Come on it 2010 almost 2011 lets stop bringing each other down its getting real tired!

Att Berkeley-rapparens ökänt bögiga uttalanden enbart är en marknadsföringsploj är nog inte hela sanningen. Jag har redan sagt mitt om den saken, att det inte är “unrealistic to assume that Lil B:s repeated use of Bitch and Hoes On My Dick and Suck My Dick is a deconstructionist strategy of sorts. Like geeks do with geek and niggers do with nigger. Repetition changes meaning.

Vem förutom Lil B har modet att röra om i en av musikvärldens mest homofobiska och misogyna grytor?

Och vem utav det gamla gardet är smart nog att uppfatta och erkänna den 20-årige rapparens vision och intelligens? I’ll tell you who, världens bästa rappare, that’s who.

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if I affected your life, in any way trife, when I was doing crime… forgive me…
Jul 052010
 

LILBTHEBASEDGOD IM FOLLOWED BY AROUND 33 THOUSAND, I FOLLOW AROUND 33 THOUSAND, I HAV TWEETED AROUND 33 THOUSAND #BASED #BASED ERYTAHNG BASED!!!

There are still legends living very comfortably as middle level rap stars, maintaining a following without ever compromising their artistic integrity (favorite examples: Cormega, Sean Price, Ill Bill), but the traditional rapper traditionally fits badly into this new paradigm of rap production. Lil B on the other hand – with a hundred Myspaces, almost the double in youtubes, 24 hours a day online, spreading viruslike – lives the Age Of Information like few others.

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, “You’re based.” They’d use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, “Yeah, I’m based.” I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

There are few other artists out there that are so extreme in their passion and devotion to their sound. Sonically and lyrically he explores and goes where he wants to. I believe that everything B does, from the retarded “hoes suck my dick because i X like X” lines to the deep and introspective points of view on things like race, struggle, and growing up can be easily reconciled under this based existence. B and I are only 3 years apart, so to a point I can understand where he’s coming from in being young and aimless and trying to actively figure out your place in the world. Some days I wake up thinking deeply about the culture of the Internet as well. Sometimes I wake up and think about hoes sucking my dick.

Every man has two sides. The balance between them needs to be #based. A dualism as brilliantly explored in The Bible, I’m God and I’m The Devil as in Sabac Red’s underground classic Positive And Negative.

Look at 2pac as the young effeminate black panther and later as the leather clad super thug (or all the other 2pacs he gave to the world). When Jay-Z raps Never Change – is that like nothing happened between Hawaiian Sophie and Parking Lot Pimping and Empire State Of Mind? Cormega kept it #based when he said that “if dough change things I’m no longer the same / But what I became does not conflict with from where I came“. 2pac was so great, so mythical, because he displayed the different people in him. And everything he wrote was not based on his individual life. He wrote models of living, and was, like Malcolm X, the great story of how a person changes, going from nothing to something, taking the world as hostage.

Honesty is gold in the attention economy. That’s what makes Lil B a billionaire even when wearing dirty vans.

LILBTHEBASEDGOD all the hate i will throw it in a pot. and use that as salt and peper and I will cook till my death. in my kitchen alone in tiny pants

stewarthome1 The three r’s of postmodernism – repetition, repetition, repetition!

It’s not unrealistic to assume that Lil B:s repeated use of Bitch and Hoes On My Dick and Suck My Dick is a deconstructionist strategy of sorts. Like geeks do with geek and niggers do with nigger. Repetition changes meaning. Every copy gets a different character. In a retweeting of a female fan’s tweet I feel like I’m seeing a hidden agenda of subverting hiphop’s misogyny and homophobia:

LILBTHEBASEDGOD @LILBTHEBASEDGOD wooooo swag wooo suck my dick hoe woo swag

Complex: Is your unconscious mindset fascinated by homosexuality? You talk about lesbians a lot. You call girls faggots. You call yourself a pretty bitch. Is there interest in that lifestyle?

Lil B: It’s a touchy subject. I respect the hell out of gays and the gay community. I’m not a gay man. I don’t agree with sex with another man or fucking another man or giving blow jobs to another guy. That’s not my thing. I’d rather fuck a girl, fuck her in her ass, fuck her in the mouth or something. Sorry for cussing.

Complex: It’s fine.

Lil B: It’s a very touchy subject. People get scared when they hear the gay word, but when you truly know yourself, you gonna be good.

Jan 052010
 

Stumbled upon (some classic soundbites, and yes, that’s Richard Pryor pulling the gun on Pretty Toney!) this song yesterday:

Willie Hutch – I Choose You

We heard that somewhere before, right? UGK sampled it for their comeback single Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You), featuring Outkast. Even though it’s a good song, it was already played out by then, in my opinion, having been sampled with more heart on Mathematics’ Pimpology 101, featuring Buddah Bless, and before that on Project Pat’s Choose U. But I knew I’d heard that soulful backdrop somewhere even before that. Who was first with it? Mega Montana – and I have to say that he was more creative with it, too; instead of schooling the listeners how to trick women into prostitution and taking their money, his subject was pimping the pen.

Other songs of Willie Hutch’s been sampled before. You might recognize these two?

Willie Hutch – Hospital Prelude Of Love Theme

Willie Hutch – Brothers Gonna Work It Out

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