Sunday, November 30, 2008

NIKE 6.0 VIDEO “WRITING ON THE WALL”

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This video is crazyy, Nike just dropped it and they have been filming with four riders (Mike Spinner, Dennis Enarson, Nigel Sylvester, and Garrett Reynolds) for the past year. They traveled to Atlanta, Miami, Dubai, China, Spain, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and San Diego. So much dope footage.

And you can download it for free right here.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

It's B-L-U....drop the E


Seriously, if you haven't heard Blu by now, you are missing out! Hands down, my favorite emcee in the longest time ever. Anything and everything that dude touches, I'm sooo down with. Please, do yourself a favor and listen to this cat, like really listen. You won't regret it. Tracks from all over the place, if you want more (and you will) you gotta hunt em down yourself. Here's some help, he has more than 5 separate projects with different production, features, and crazy collabs.

Thoughts
My GrandMa's Kitchen
Departing Flights
GloryUs
Baby Don't Leave Me Now (Johnson & Jonson)
Up All Night (Johnson & Jonson)
Love Don't (C.R.A.C.)
Alchemist - Therapy feat. Evidence, Blu, Talib Kweli & Kid CuDi
Keelay and Zaire - The Times feat. Blu, Fortilive and Nino Moschella
Evidence - For Whom The Bell Tolls feat. Phonte, Blu, And Will.i.am

Scanz Murderin' The Industry


Hmm what to say about Scanz....well recently he has been droppin weekly freestyles (titled Murder The Industry) with 2dopeboyz, picking a different "Top 10" beat from each week to get on. All I have to say is that dude has been killin it, on some real ishh. Check out all 5 weeks below. Def peep Scanz on myspace, I-tunes, and the Four Hour Future Blog. His album, Prelude To A Legacy, released on the Rawkus 50 is ill...a lil sample included below.

Scanz
Assassin (most current release after Prelude To A Legacy)
I Am Hip Hop (off Prelude To A Legacy)

Sunday, November 23, 2008

In My Tapedeck, Side 7 (Tokyo Police Club)



When I first got these tracks I was skeptical because I'm normally not a fan of many remixes to songs. I really only downloaded these remixes because I have been on a Tokyo Police Club stint lately while riding the bike....and I needed moree! After giving the remixes a listen, I was completely impressed and happy that they were so well done. Long story short, I just discovered "The Remix Company" also known as RAC (Remix Artists Collective). Sounds like a pretty cool idea, even though I still don't no much about them because their website will not load for me right now. Maybe you will have better luck. Original songs and remixes below.

Tokyo Police Club

Friday, November 21, 2008

Obama Bike


These bikes are sickkk, props to PedX for the link. Bikes by Thunderdog.


The Roots Survive Tour Bus Crash


The Roots survived a double-decker tour bust crash Wednesday (Nov. 19) night while driving though Paris.

Just hours ago, Roots member ?uestlove revealed to Okayplayer.com that the bus, complete with full lounge and bathroom on the first level, was flipped upside-down.

The news came just days after the group announced a temporary retirement from touring [click to read].

?uestlove emailed Okayplayer, which he helped co-found, the details of the crash, which he wrote an hour after the crash.

"In reality the crash was all of about 7 seconds," wrote ?uestlove. "...but to do a 360 on the highway and end up ramped up (the van that crashed into ours was UNDER our double decker bus) in the air....is....well...a frigging miracle."

"My first thought was not move a fucking inch," he continued in the e-mail. "I always had fear that we would fall off a cliff while in high mountain traveling like Denver or Switzerland. I couldn't tell where gravity began and ended."

The group was en route to a stop on the Glow in the Dark Tour in Paris, which ?questlove wrote would "be a miracle" if they made.

To conclude the e-mail, The Roots' drummer wrote: "Til then just wanna let everyone know that we are happy to be alive. and not in that tv cliche way....but man......that was divine intervention. we are so grateful for this outcome."

Shittt, maybe someone was trying to tell them not to do the Jimmy Fallon show and to keep touring?? Whatever it was I'm glad that they are alright, I mean, they are only the most important musical influence in my life, being that I'm from Philly and all. Glad you're all ok!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

In My Tapedeck, Side 6 (Takin' It Back)


I've been coming across some gems from my early days of childhood, these joints def got the "repeat" in my brand new sony boombox back in the day. Yeah, we all remember those days.


Da Bush Babees - S.O.S. featuring Mos Def



Capone-N-Noreaga - Invincible



Def Squad - Full Cooperation



Eminem - Infinite



Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew



Kool G. Rap - My Life



Last Emperor - Secret Wars



Rawkus Recordings - A Tree Never Grown



Talib Kweli - The Manifesto



Tuesday, November 18, 2008

CLIPSE


Clipse....New mixtape December 1st on Complex.Com alongside their new clothing line Play Cloths, in preparation for the official third album release Til The Casket Drops, dropping next year.

Here's a lil' intro from the mixtape. Thnks to 2db.

Clipse - Intro

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

In My Tapedeck, Side 5





Mos Def - Make It All Better feat Talib Kweli & Q-Tip



Oddisee - Tell The Truth feat. Nikki Jean






Nobody Beats The Beats - Piece Of Mind



Blockhead - The Strain




Heartburn = Worst Thing Ever!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

In My Tapedeck, Side 4


Got some classic teenage material and some newer rocky-ish stuff. This is not just a hip-hop blog, now you know. Get downnn.

*Artist name links to website, click the track name for the jump.










Makeshift - Cold In The Summer

Saturday, November 8, 2008

In My Tapedeck, Side 3


So this should really be side 4 but once again, Mr. Blogger decided that it would be cool to delete one of my posts.
*Artist name links to website. Click track name for the jump.







Evidence - For Whom The Bell Tolls feat. Phonte, Blu and Will.i.am



Kaboose - Goin' Outta Control feat. Royce Da 5'9"

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Obama For President!


Holy shit, I still can't believe it. All the hard work payed off, this is only the beginning!

WE BARACKED THE MOTHERFUCKING VOTE!