Jul
9
Sorry Heather…had to get this too! 
Here’s the video for the My Drive Thru featuring Santogold, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and N.E.R.D. Produced by Pharrell.
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Jul
8
OLD SCHOOL TUESDAY: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Foe Tha Love Of $ feat. Eazy-E
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Probably one of my all time favorite Bone songs, a definite classic. Even if you didn’t know what these dudes were saying half the time you had fun trying to say the lyrics everytime. With a classic verse from Eazy E and a beat that to this day is still pretty effin fresh, I am proud to present this Tuesday’s Old School video. Foe Tha Love of $! STUPID SUCKKKKKKKKA!!!!
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Jul
4
Ever since Jay Z sold out Madison Square Garden for his Fade To Black concert a plateau was set for Hip Hop live shows. Throughout the growth of the Hip Hop culture, it has gone from rocking parks to clubs, small venues to slightly bigger theaters, citywide tours to nationwide tours. And up until June 28th, massive outdoors festivals had been out of Hip Hop’s reach. Jay Z set a new standard for live shows and opened up the gates for Hip Hop to be viewed live on a much…much larger scale. MTV.com got to chat with Jay Z about his recent success in Glastonbury & his next moves (New LP in the works?).
Jay Z has had tremendous success during his tour of Europe, bowling over fans with a slew of festival appearances, including his historic appearance at England’s Glastonbury Festival on Saturday.
“Well, I’m pretty much now in a great place, I’m in the zone,” Sir Hova of Brooklyn told MTV Base this week. “Glastonbury was a historic event for me, I played Milton Keynes the day after that and it’s just … You know, I’m feeling the love. Any time you can come from where I come from — Brooklyn, New York, everybody knows the story — [and] come so far. It’s not that it’s that far, but to come overseas and have people embrace you the way I’ve been embraced thus far, it’s just an amazing feeling.”
One person who obviously didn’t share the fans’ feelings was Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, who was a much-publicized critic of having a rapper headline the traditionally rock-centric Glastonbury fest. Maybe Gallagher’s stance has softened in the wake of Jay’s acclaimed performance — Jay told us he’s heard the guitarist wants to have a conversation.
“I haven’t spoken to him,” Jay said. “I heard he was reaching out, but I haven’t spoken to him.”
Jay even said he’s open to working with Oasis in the future should something suitable come up. “Anyone,” he answered, when asked about who he’d be willing to work with. “Oasis as well — it doesn’t matter to me, I don’t bear any grudge, it’s all good. I just believe in good music and bad music, I’ve always said that. You look at any interview from the beginning of time, I’ve always stated that I don’t believe in the lines and classifications that people put music in so they can easily define it.”
Read rest of interview @ MTV.com
Jun
30
The one and only Tim Westwood got to chat it up with Jay Z before his now “Historical” performance @ Glastonbury 2008. Jay seemed geniuenly un-phased by all the negative comments he received via HATERS. The craziest part about this interview is that he was actually unaware how the performance would truly turn out. Now it has already gone down as historical…score one for Hip Hop… Haters, keep it moving thata way>>>>
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Jun
17
Found this over on the OKP boards!
According to HitsDailyDouble.com, Lil Wayne’s The Carter 3 has sold 969 thousand copies in a little under it’s first week. This is dedicated to all of the people that doubted the success of The Carter 3. Now I know a lot of people have their gripes with this album, but the hype is real…and by the looks of these numbers he will be around for a lot longer than we anticipated.
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Jun
11
FANFARE: U-N-I - Beautiful Day (Live)
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The boys U-N-I bless us with a live performance of their fly joint Beautiful Day! They also sit down with Hip Hop Official and talk about various topics including how boring it is working 9-5’s when you could be making music. And I must say, I absolutely agree with them.. Give it a looksee!
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May
20
Jessica Tonder is one of my favorite new artists of 08, period. We featured one of her joints called The Bee (Remix) featuring Proton on a previous post, which was incredible. She has an amazing voice, and the music she makes is pretty progressive in comparison to a lot of these other vocalists. Not to mention she ain’t bad on the peepers. Anyway, here’s a new joint from Miss Tonder called Soldier.
Jessica Tonder - Soldier (CLICK TO LISTEN)
Yeah, she’s kind of a big deal.
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May
20
FRESH: Beck - Chemtrails
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Here’s a pretty crazy joint from Beck called Chemtrails (co produced by Danger Mouse), from his new album that is scheduled to drop later on this year. This song might make a bit more sense if you know what chemtrails are, and also the government conspiracy behind them. I’ve been a fan of Beck for quite sometime, and he always seems to drop some of the most progressive shit ever…but is slept on in my opinion. Anyway, enjoy!
Beck - Chemtrails (CLICK TO LISTEN)
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