Pharrell Customs Bike For Harley-Davidson
Ced Hughes – Spacely Sprockets
More great music from artists I’ve never heard of. Yes, I’m obviously new to this blog shit but I’m gettin’ it together. Sue me.
Lil’ Jon x Joell Ortiz – Famous Shoe Release Party
Boy I’d sure like to make it to these kinds of parties…Famous released some limited edition kicks and had a release party both in LA and NY (at the same time, mind you). This is some behind the scenes footage from the event that went down.
Paul Wall In Texas Monthly
The People’s Champ is featured in the July issue of Texas Monthly where he talks about his new song “Codeineâ€and the effect drug use has had on his life:
The advance copy of your new album has a song called “Codeine†that’s a pretty tough look at drug addiction. You got your start in a hip-hop scene where cough syrup was the drug of choice and was central to the music. What prompted you to write the song?
That was actually my wife’s idea. It’s a remake of Dolly Parton’s song “Jolene,†but where Dolly Parton was saying, “Jolene, please don’t take my man,†we’re saying “codeine.†That’s something we were going through, me and my wife, my family. I was addicted to codeine, and it was stealing me away from them. To be honest, though, I don’t think we got clearance [for the song sample] in time, so we might have to save it for the next album.
Can you tell me a bit more about your experiences with codeine?
In the hip-hop community, it’s kind of cool to take codeine; it’s kind of like marijuana. When you smoke weed, people don’t look at it like you’re smoking drugs—they think it’s cool. But codeine is an actual narcotic; it’s like liquid heroin. It was a real hard thing for me to kick, especially because people didn’t treat it like it was a real drug. When you’re sipping on codeine, you get a little lazy, you get fat—but that’s something people accept in Texas, because we’re one of the most obese states in the country. All my friends are fat.
How did you manage to kick the habit?
My biological father was addicted to heroin, and he left me and my sister when I was about four or five years old. That was always my main fear: I don’t want to be him. I don’t want to turn into him
Read the entire article here.
Source: Ozone Mag
Outasight x Freddie Gibbs – Near The End
This collab track is dope….when I saw Nah Right post this I had to actually reseach to see who Outasight was…the results are? VERY DOPE. I’ll be checking more of this guy in the future right this second.
Source: Nah Right
New Pimp C Album On Its Way
It’s been over two and a half years since the death of the late rapper, but new music from Chad “Pimp C†Butler will soon be available to his fans.
With UGK partner & rhyme Bun B’s Trill O.G. slated for an August 3rd release date, it’s only right for the Pimp’s album to follow soon after. Preliminary artwork for The Naked Soul of Sweet James Jones leaked online over a year ago, leaving people to speculate and anticipate the album’s release. Now the speculation is over as the album is currently set for release on September 21, 2010. The record will be Pimp C’s third and probably final solo release under famed Southern label Rap-A-Lot Records, which will be distributed through their new venture with Fontana/Universal Records.
While this may be a posthumous album from Pimp C, longtime friend and UGK partner Bun B assured their many supporters that the album will be of quality.
“We had enough vocals [for the album], but it wasn’t just about taking whatever vocals I had available,†Bun B said in an interview with XXL Magazine last year. “It was about constructing songs. It wasn’t about just throwing all the Pimp C I had out there. I had to really try to make an album.â€
The tracklist is not currently available for the album, but we suspect it will be released within coming weeks. Stay tuned to Keep It Trill for updates regarding the album. R.I.P. Pimp C.
Coming out a day before my birthday at that? This news just made my weekend.
Source: Keep It Trill
Mazzi & Noemad Present NY Clout – Tastemakers Series: Sway
You know what…this is one of the more creative hip-hop interviews I have seen…definitely inspiring.
Juvenile – Beast Mode (Album Review)
Okay, my first album review….not sure why the hell I’m reviewing anything on a blog I’m still trying to build, but maybe we can show you just how serious to are when it comes to both studying the in and outs of this music industry while also showing our true undying love for it…but anyway…
So, before I start the review, let me first say that I 1) was a HUGE fan of Juve and his crew during the Hot Boy days, and 2) I can’t honestly say that I been really heavy on post-Reality Check Juve. Aside from the very hot track “We Be Gettin’ Money” (while not taking away from “Gotta Get It“), Cocky & Confident was a bit of a continuing decrease in my eyes.
So now we have his new album “Beast Mode” (Atlantic/UTP) which, if one were to judge a book by it’s cover, we not put it off to the greatest start. To paraphrase it, it’s a very unoriginal (maybe I shouldn’t call it that, given how long he’s been in the game providing this music), monotonous, formulaic-sounding album that touches on the usual topics of sex, drugs, and generally living life like a rock star. With that said, after a few cups of cognac and a couple blunts, this album will probably satisfy every rock out moment in the modified system of your car on the way to and from the (strip) club.
Too simple read the title of each song on the tracklist tells you plenty. Most of the tracks are too similar to even really separate, include the first track, “Go Hard Or Go Home”, and the tracks “I’m Da Man”, “Nothing Like Me (which features a Juve Jr.?)”, “No Team” and “Lights, Camera, Action”, which are all pounding minimal beats filled with braggadocio layered in between thought of violence and triumph. For the more adult subject matter you need look no further than “Drop That Azz” and “Pussy Cat”. You also have the straight party music (“Drinks On Me”) and well as the obligatory didn’t-Lil-Wayne-already-do-this-but-better get-high track (“La La La La La”).
As far as lyrical ability, this is probably Juve at his strongest as he continues to master his craft, completely with southern countrified lines like “got flavor like steak sauce” and “shit stains on my tennis shoes, I be kickin ass'”, lines that only he and a few other emcees could even pull off without sounding completely laughable.
To close out, as said before, this album is great for getting to amped to party, wherever that may be. It’s also great for riding music in the whip. But at the end of the day, you may find yourself breaking out the old Cash Money records as a reminder of when Juve was definitely at his prime.
“Drop That Thang (Drop That Azz, Edited)”
will.i.am Speaks On Recent Theft & Recovery
will.i.am recently took to his blog to break down what happened and why he’s actually partly responsible (hey, it’s a real world out there…::shrug::):
everyone is talking about my car getting broken into… actually…i accidentally left it open…unfortunately someone walked by it and took everything out of it… in my car was my coke bottle cap man bag…and in that bag was my drivers license, black american express card, visa card, 10 thousand dollars worth of items, and my ipad… ha ha… (thats when i remember i turned on “find my ipad function) to make a long story short – threw gps and find my ipad on: i located it and the dumb ass criminals and sent 6 cops to their house…recovered all my stuff…”wow”…the lesson here is never steal technology…
Yea, like shit it is.
Duo Live x Snoop Dogg — Laid Back
Not bad, but I have to ask…when did Snoop start trying to hand at reggae? An even better question–why? Is that Autotune at the end?
Dipset (Short Of Cam’ron) – Salute (Video – Funk Flex Car Show)
…still waiting on a real LIVE performance of everyone together…
Killah Priest x Ill Bill x Sabac Red – Psalm of Satan
In these dark times, songs made with light and happiness do not always seem relevant, as it was when Killah Priest wrote this epic story from the point of view of Lucifer. Lucifer who was God’s brightest angel, who God had made in charge of all music, would later rebel against God. Jealous of God’s love for humans, Lucifer would end up leading revolt against God and the other angels. The war in heaven would see Lucifer and his band of rebel angel’s fall from God’s grace. This knowledge we have from the New Testament however not once is Lucifer mentioned in the Old Testament. In fact some theologians believe that Lucifer was an early creation of the Catholic Church to be the bogeymen and foil for all goodness in the world. Killah Priest who is both spiritual and worldly has written a sinister verse, drenched in disdain and vengeance from Lucifer’s perspective. Sabac Red adds a sense of urgency to the song with his verse referencing Armageddon and the rise of the Beast. Lastly Ill Bill pens a verse about Lucifer manifesting in modern times as a skilled assassin working for government agencies or is he controlling them?In the end it is always up to the listener to decide what to believe, whom to believe and how this song relates to the dark world all around us.
In hindsight, perhaps I should’ve waited until after the weekend to post this…
Personal Topic: Drake Vs. Ludacris?
I’m pretty late here, but I find this necessary to still be talked about: last week Drake did a pretty extensive video with Allhiphop.com about various topics, some of which we’ve already heard about even before this blog began, ranging on topics from Rihanna to the Lil Kim/Nicki Minaj issue, yahdayah. What both peaks my interest all of a sudden while also showing that I’m pretty slow on picking up the indirect shit is one part of the interview where he discusses a rap style which has been picked up by quite a few rappers, inclusing just about every member of Young Money themselves:
AllHipHop.com: How much do Young Money artists bounce off each other? I noticed you have similar inflections and cadences or rhyme patterns. I noticed this one thing that Nicki said, “It’s going down. Basement.â€
Drake: Well, that flow has been killed by so many rappers. And, I never want to use that flow again in life. [Laughs] I wanted to take if off my album, because I was like, “I shut ‘em down. Onyx.†I hate the fact that that rhyme is still in there. To be honest, that flow, you can trace it back to like…I trace it back to Big Sean (artist on Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music). That’s the first guy I heard utilize that flow throughout the duration of a verse. I’ll give him that credit. I think Kanye got it from him. Me and Wayne found a dope way to do it. I don’t want to sound cocky, but the best way its been used was on “Forever.†Those lines just all individually make so much sense. They’re all punchlines. Then a bunch of rappers started doing it and using the most terrible references in the world. I don’t want to offend somebody…I hate that rappers picked that flow up. I wish they had left that for people that know how to use it. [They go like] “It’s a parade! MACY’S!â€
So, what I learned from this excerpt are two things: 1) Big Sean was apparently the inventor of this variation of punchline, and 2) Ludacris is one individual that Drake feels sucked at pulling the flow off. Anyways, Illseed made a mention in his rumor blog that chances are there won’t be a response but I will say I am sure looking for ward to see how Ludacris feel about that statement…
Read the entire interview in it’s entirely, on Allhiphop.com.
Only In Hip-Hop – Lil Wayne & Gucci Mane…