….a little morning icebreaker for your Monday.
Trademark Da Skydiver x Young Roddy – 5-0
It’s pretty clear that we need a full mixtape (or album?) from these two at this point.
Prodigy (Of Mobb Deep) – Genesis (Video)
Wiz Khalifa Responds To Lil Wayne’s ESPN Interview
Spotted on Karen Civil:
A few days before the Super Bowl, ESPN’s 1st & 10 had Lil Wayne as a special guest on the show. There wasn’t anything surprising about that seeing as how Weezy has been on the show before and is good friends with the show’s resident debater Skip Bayless. They had him on the show to speak about “Green & Yellow†– which at that time had been released maybe a day before and was already becoming a topic of discussion as the fight song for the Green Bay Packers.
“Nah, not at all. I don’t think it had anything to do with that,†said Wiz confidently. However, the DXnext alum did note that Wayne missed an opportunity in the interview that aired days before the Super Bowl to acknowledge a peer “I’ve seen the interview, I think it’s just the case of what a lot of older dudes do now…this is just me being real by saying this, they try to act like they don’t know who I am, or try to act like I don’t know what I’m doing,†Wiz stated. “Because when [ESPN] did the interview with [Lil] Wayne, he was [saying] that he heard the song from the [Pittsburgh] Steelers – he heard it ’cause it was my song, but he didn’t say that. He had an opportunity to step up and say that, and he didn’t.”
Eezy Money – City Shut Down (Volume 4)
Tracklisting, stream and download link after the jump.
Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill & Just Blaze In The Studio
Yea. DC’s King of Rap (seriously, who is going to object to this at this point?) along with Boss Ross and Meek Mill stopped through Just Blaze’s latest facility before they caught a flight back to Charlotte for CIAA weekend. Let’s be clear (Obama voice): he already had a lot of haters before, it’s probably pandemonium now (pun intended).
Revisiting…A Great Day In Hip-Hop: The Making Of A Classic XXL Cover
Modeled after Art Kane’s legendary “Great Day In Harlem” Esquire shoot from 1958, XXL’s “The Greatest Day In Hip-Hop History,” was a reminder that the hip-hop world could still come together in the name of unity. The original featured 57 jazz icons chilling on a 126th St. stoop. XXL upped the ante and bumped the number to a whopping 200 hundred hip-hop artists and personalities, across a fold-out cover. It was a relevant and even-handed distribution of acts from across the hip-hop nation—Rakim, the Native Tongues, Hierolyphics, Scarface, E-40, Twista, and Pete Rock are just a random sampling of the crowd. – Complex