Ha! I saw that one coming

The top 5 worst rappers...

John Legend - Evolver in stores now!

John Legend's new album from G.O.O.D Music, Evolver, hit stores yesterday. I have yet to listen to a song other than "Green Light" or "It's Over", but as the title of the album explains, his musical style is always...evolving.

T.I. - Live Your Life (video)

The video for the T.I.'s "Live Your Life" debuted today. This song was co-produced by Just Blaze (one of my favourite producers) and Canei (who?). The sample for this song was lifted off O-zone's "Dragostea Din Tei", or as most people know it, the Numa Numa song. I like that they put in Rihanna's verse from the album version of the song into the video.

I've also included the video for "No Matter What", which is one of my favourite songs from Paper Trail. The song was produced by Nate "Danja Handz" Hills.

Mitch Hedberg - Sesame Seeds

This is too funny. Granted its nothing to do with music, dj'n, production, hip-hop.. it's still good for a few laughs.

Everyday Normal Guy

This song is just too funny, and surprisingly good too. I know it's old, but hey.

When I go to the club, I wait in line, muthafucka

Universal Mind Control - Artwork

Here is the cover for Common's upcoming album, Universal Mind Control, formerly known as Invincible Summer. This album was supposed to drop in the early summer but now the word is that it's coming out on December 8th. I guess good things can't be rushed.

They Can Kick It !!!!

Here's an old school clip of Tribe rocking a party back in the day when hip hop was still good. These kinds of videos make me wish I grew up in the 80's, but at the same time I'm still grateful I got to see them perform atleast once.

Big ups to The Meaning Of Dope for posting this... click on the link for some more of these videos.

Another new beat

Dj of the Week - Grand Master Flash

Joseph Saddler aka Grand Master Flash is my choice for kicking off the "Dj of the week". One of the main reasons is that I just finished reading his autobiography The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash. The book details his entire life from toddler to now. I always had an idea of how hip-hop started, with dj's playing breakdowns of records and emcee's rhyming over it, but to read about how it ACTUALLY happened was incredible.

Realistically, Grand Master Flash is best known for being a pioneer. Is he the best dj out there? Probably not. Is the richest or most successful? Probably not. But he was the first! He was the poor soul that got robbed by the industry, so hip-hop artists could learn about business through his mistakes. (And yet some still haven't learned).

Oh and, his group, GMF and the Furious Five were the first hip-hop group to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame.

Notorious...coming in 2009

Check out the trailer for the movie about B.I.G. starring Jamal Woolard as the Notorious B.I.G. and Derek Luke as Puffy.

Featured Artist - Kid Sister

Kid Sister (aka Melissa Young) is a Chicago rapper signed to Downtown Records. Previously, she was signed to DJ A-Trak's label, Fools Gold and is also dating A-Trak, who is Kanye West's tour DJ.

Kid Sister has been MC'ing since 2005 and has been considered by some to be one of Kanye West's protege's. Her music can be roughly categorized as club rap, because of the up-tempo music, with influences from house music and other club genres. All in all, it's a refreshing mix considering how the music industry is so saturated with hard-hitting, serious rap music these days.

Her most prominent single to date was the late 2007 hit "Pro Nails". The original song caught the attention of Kanye, who eventually jumped onto it for a verse and appeared in the video.

*side note: this song totally grew on me after a while me and my buddy whiled out to this song like crazy haha.

Since "Pro Nails", she has released a few other singles, including "Family Reunion" with David Banner and most recently "Get Fresh", which I'm totally feelin. (Props to J-Swing for the song.)

Get Fresh

Her debut album, Dream Date, is set to be released this November and it will feature production by Trackademicks, Spank Rock's XXXChange and many others.

808's and Heartbreak - album art, Robocop + What It Is (unreleased) and Coldest Winter (mastered)

Word is that this will be the album cover to 808's and Heartbreak...I know, it's the same as the artwork for Love Lockdown.

First up: "Coldest Winter". This song is dedicated to the memory of Kanye's mother, Donda West. It follows a similar formula to Love Lockdown with heavy drums and lots of auto-tune.

Coldest Winter (mastered)

Next up are 2 songs that didn't make it to the album. The first is named after one of my favourite movies from the late 80's, "Robocop". It has some...interesting sound FX in it.

Robocop

The second is "What It Is" and no, it's not related to the early 2000's song by Busta Rhymes and Kelis. This beat sounds really familiar to me for some reason...I can't figure out why. It probably didn't make it to the album because there's not enough auto-tune on it haha.

What It Is

Props to Hypetrak and 2dopeboyz for these tracks.

Some of the biggest names in sports x Guitar Hero

This seemed too good to be true when I saw the title. A-Rod, Tony Hawk, Michael "Mr. Gold Medal" Phelps and Kobe rock out to the newest Guitar Hero game.

Mark Wahlberg talks to animals hahaha

Andy Samberg gets his Marky Mark on in this SNL skit.


Marky Mark responds...

New beat!

Made this on Oct 13th if you couldn't tell.