Drake On Sampling TLC For Mixtape

October 6, 2010 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  
Yesterday, Drake released his R&B mixtape’s opening track, “I Get Lonely Too”. The track samples TLC’s intro from their 1999 album, Fan Mail. Drizzy explains to Rap-Up, the motivation behind the track.

“I was in the car and I had the iPod on shuffle, and I heard T-Boz’s voice come on and I was like, damn, I never noticed the lyrics to this song and how beautiful they were because it was an intro. When I heard it, I was like, man, me and [producer Noah “40” Shebib] could do something with this, and TLC used this as the intro on their album, so I used it as the intro on my mixtape. It’s track one and it’s a great song,” expressed Drake. “I love the words in it and I love how 40 flipped the beat, so I just decided to put it out and give people an idea of the direction the mixtape was going.”

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WIN TWO FREE TICKETS TO WALE PRESENTS… AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

October 6, 2010 JUKEBOXDC Staff Events 1 Comment  

Want to win two free tickets to the U Street Music Hall concert on 10/12 (featuring Wale and The Board Administration’s UCB, Fat Trel, Black Cobain & more)? All you have to do is answer this question:
 
What track did Wale originally want to give to Jay-Z from his More About Nothing mixtape?
 
Send your answers HERE. We will announce the winner on Monday (10/11).
 
You can also purchase tickets to the show HERE.

 

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Pharoahe Monch Debuts “Clap" In London

October 6, 2010 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews, Videos No Comments  

During Pharoahe’s trip to London , he stopped by Kiss 100′s Hip Hop Show on Sunday and premiere a new track off his upcoming W.A.R. LP. Below he explains the concept of the track.

“That song is like a year and some change in the making – not that it took me a year to write it, but I found the beat on tour in Australia. I started writing over it after the Sean Bell incident and it was loosely based on police brutality. It’s still pretty loose around that – American corruption and police brutality.‘Clap’ was particularly inspired by the cases of Aiyana Jones, Oscar Grant and Sean Bell – “All young black people who were murdered by police officers in the States,” the Queens, NY emcee explains. “You feel helpless when this happens and the police never get charged with these crimes.”

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Just Read…

October 6, 2010 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  
“Tupac introduced me to the [writing] of Machiavelli. That’s why I made that. I can’t just, ‘Oh, Tupac did that, so I’m gonna do that too.’ If people read, they would love that man. That man is a mind-game genius. I read the Machiavelli war-tactic books, his biography, everything. That man is just like sticks and stones, bad. You see Waka Flocka, what do you think? Negativity. You read Machiavelli? Negativity. My brain, I’m so sharp, I can play stupid on the camera and they think I’m dumb. So really. you just playing yourself. I’m so ahead of y’all. That’s for the bloggers.”

Yes, that was Waka Flocka Flame. No picture to accompany this, I just want to you read that and then check out his Kendra G interview. Tell me what you think.
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