Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2009

NYLE "LET THE BEAT BUILD"

THIS IS AMAZING!

Peep the violinist gettin buck in between notes.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

G.O.O.D. LADY GAGA RMX

"She say she want whatever she like
But'cha gotta bring yo friend
We can have one hell of a night"

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A-Track gives the story on how this remix came about: "I was home for 2 days this past week, between WMC and the start of my European tour. Perfect timing: Kanye sent me this joint and asked me for some “good ol scratches” (verbatim). I jumped on it immediately and here we are just a few days later, it premiered on Hot 97. This is a really low res radio rip but I like it because hey, I get plenty of shout outs! Thanks DJ Enuff." But offerings of Martin Louis The King, I offer you the CDQ.


Kid Cudi (Ft. Lady Gaga, Kanye, Common, & A-Track) - I Poke Her Face

Saturday, April 4, 2009

FrXsh To Death!


"I loved you ever since we first laid
I'S LIKE THE LETTER H"

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That dude FrXsh has FINALLY given me a sample copy of the mixtape! CDQ Coming Soon, but until then... bump this and get addicted.

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FrXsh - Rose Petals
FrXsh - Like A Star

(I know alot of this was over your head. Let the man explain in the video below...)

Contacts:
MYSPACE.COM/FRXSHMUSIC
MYSPACE.COM/DESLONDECHRIS
YOUTUBE.COM/DESLONDECHRIS
YOUTUBE.COM/FRXSH

Sunday, March 29, 2009

HOV's teaser

"Tell me I didn't make a mistake..."

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Jay-Z "Maybe"

I can't lie. My anxiousness for the Blueprint 3 kinda died out somewhere along the way. Not sure whats going on with hip-hop right now (IT SUCKS!) but I need SOMETHING. This song was something like a 99 cent 4 piece nugget at Wendy's... just a lil snack.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ebrahim: D'Angelo, Lupe Fiasco, & Joni Mitchell FREESTYLE Blend



A soulful, young, indie artist on the come up: EBRAHIM.
No unique story for him. He's just a talented lover of music, who's waiting on his turn.
Obviously a very talented True artist who has mastered 12 instruments. Skimming through his songs, I Honestly could not find One I did not like. He's got a gift, and a passion to perfect his craft. I can appreciate that. Take the time to check out his Myspace, and LISTEN to his music. My personal favorite songs: "Irrelevant" & "Family Tree"

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Freddie Hubbard: 04/03/38 - 12/29/08

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Freddie Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop, and post bop styles from the early 60s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop. He also won a Grammy in 1972 for best jazz performance by a group for the album “First Light.”
On December 29, 2008, Hubbard's hometown newspaper, The Indianapolis Star reported that Hubbard died in Southern Oaks, California from complications from a heart attack suffered on November 26th of that same year.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Hip-Hop's Jack Kerouac

AKA: (What the F••• is a) JAY ELECTRONICA!
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My critique of what makes a good or bad movie is habitually based on the music in the movie. I feel as though it can make it or break it, because great music conveys and increases a certain emotion. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind is a favorite movie of mine mostly because of the mood of the music and the emotion from the actors is Spot ON. And again, in THIS, Jay did a perfect job of matching his attitude with the mood rendered from Jon Brion's soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
This was a free release made available on a his Myspace page back in 2007. It is 15 continuous minutes of music, without drums, and there are five segments, marked by changes in music and mood. The occasional snippets of sampled dialogue are from the movie “Turtles Can Fly” (the children arguing in Farsi), and Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. The first segment is comprised of spoken word by Just Blaze and Erykah Badu describing the first time she met Jay.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Novel - "HARD 2 STAY AFLOAT!!"

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Novel - Hard 2 Stay Afloat • A+

(He took the breakdown from Kanye's Coldest Winter and looped it. PERFECTLY SOULFUL!)

Saturday, December 13, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS "I come bearing dat new new!"

Musiq: OnMyRadio

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Four albums deep into a career with no Top Ten pop singles to his name, Musiq put alot on the line with his latest single released, “Radio”. Which sounded suspiciously like some of that snap music that was goin down some years ago. Hmmm… not a good first sign. I believe we are now in a progressive state of music, since that is the only thing that survives. But this “Radio” single was a wee-bit out of character. Even though it’s the last song on the cd (But the first single tho?? That’ll hurt record sales FAsure.), everything before it sounds like the usual line-up for this dude. A couple of GREAT Love Ballads, and then some mediocre bluesy shit (NO DIS. I’mma Beat Head!!! and Musiq has a way with words… we just don’t see eye 2 eye.) But overall the cd has some ear-caressing tracks that blends old-school soul fervor with new-school hip-hop tempos.
The gist of Onmyradio: something that would get played a couple times the first week I owned it, and after said week, it would only get played upon request. But it Really isn't THAT Bad. There just isn't any evolution with his music. You will get bored of it quickly, because it all sounds too similar to his other cd's.


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Until • C+
SomeOne • B-

Monday, December 1, 2008

GET BRAND NEW!


"
ME NO LIKE TO EYE FIGHT!!"

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HOVA Feat. Santogold - Brooklyn (Go Hard) • A-

Mack Maine Feat. Lil Wayne - Throw Back • B

T-Pain Feat. Polow Da Don - My Own Stepts • B-

Jadakiss Feat. Lil Wayne - Death Wish • B+

Nas - Something Foul
• A-

GLC Feat. Kanye West - Big Screens
• B+

T.I. Feat. Mack Maine - I'm Dat Nigga
• B-

Young Jeezy Feat. Pharrell - Rumor Has It • B+

Kevin Rudolf Feat. Birdman - Tennessee • B

Common Feat. Kanye West - Punch Drunk Love • A-

The Dream - Rockin That Thang • B

Basic Vocab - Come Get With It
• A-
This is Actually from 2003, but I heard it for the first time a month ago, so I thought I would share.

*My apologies for the delay. Some of this is from two weeks ago, but I've been a little apprehensive to upload songs. I guess I was waitin on Hova :)

Saturday, November 29, 2008

MUSIC: Music Machine Mixtape

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Sometimes I'll be listening to different "mix"tapes, and they actually do a lil scratchin or some nice blends, and I THINK to myself.. "I could do that!" But after listening to THIS mixtape done by the FINGERBANGERZ clique I said to myself, "I WANT TO DO THAT!"

When they aren’t touring around with the Jabbawockeez, tag teaming with a guy named Z-Trip, or yukin’ it up with Carlos Mencia the FINGERBANGERZ are holding down San Jose and the Bay all-day and they make the most noise at their signature bi-monthly party MUSIC MACHINE!

With 10+ years in the DJ/production game, these dudes are as versatile as they come. From rocking house parties and high school dances in their teens, to battling in ITF, DMC, and rockin parties all around the continent in their 20s, they have been tested in the arena and they are taking names!

Fingerbangerz is a team of two DJs, and each DJ has his own style and approach to the crowd. If you're ever in San Jose on a 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, it sounds like a nice lil attraction.

Their choice of songs and artists is so multifaceted that its shocking. Name dropping for the artists featured on this mixtape to emphasize the ambidexterity of these cats blending ideas would Not do it justice. [For example: they took a quick sample from the MOVIE "FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF" with two songs EYE have never even heard.]You would have to hear it for yourself. SO GO DOWNLOAD THE MIXTAPE HERE, and you can find these cool kids on their MYSPACE or YouTube Channel.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

CLASSIC KANYE + Other Dope Shit

*808s & Heartbreak: November 24th*
**This is coming Right On Time**
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"All the streetlights glowin Happen to be just like moments passin in front of me. So I hopped in the cab, and I paid my fair. See I know my destination, and I'm just not there."

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Kanye West "StreetLights" • A+

T-Pain "Sweet" • B

Young Dro (Feat. Yung L.A.) "Take Off"
• C

MGMT (Feat. Jim Jones) "Electric Feel" • B-

Kanye West (Feat. Young Jeezy) "Amazing"
• B-

Kanye West (Feat. LIL WAYNE!)
"Tell Everyone That You Know"
• B+

Charles Hamilton "November 10th 2008" • B


*Good ol Wayne actually puts in work on that "Tell Everyone That You Know"! Don't sleep on that Lil fella.

Dat New New

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"Act like ya know when ya see the dodge vipe
I slide through quicka than a credit card swipe
TEXT BOOK STACKS get the school broads hype
I Tanya Hardin' hoes / Hittem with the hard pipe"


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Lil Wayne (Feat. Plies, Andre 3000, & Common)
"Cool Outrageous Lovers" • A-

Lil Wayne "The Best Rapper"
• C+

Beyonce "Video Phone" • B

Asia Cruise (Feat. T-Pain & Yung Joc) "Swagger"
• C-

Kanye West "Coldest Winter" • A

Usher "At The Time" • B-

Lil Wayne (Feat. Jae Millz) "Dick Pleaser" • C-

One Chance (Feat. Usher) "Make-Up Sex" • C+

Slim (Feat. Ryan Leslie & Fabolous) "Good Lovin" • C

Sophia Fresh (Feat. Kanye West) "What It Is" • B-
^(Idk why I'm feelin this song so much. It's catchy...?)^

Doeshun "Pull Up" • C

Slim OG "Kicked In" • C-

Musiq (Feat. MJB) "If You Leave" • A

Fabolous (Feat. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire)

"Act Like Ya Know" • B

Lil Wayne (Feat. Nutt Da Kidd) "Do It For The Boy" • A-

Juelz Santana & Lil Wayne "I Can't Feel My Face" (Pt. 3) • C+

Thursday, November 6, 2008

SOo Much Heat!!

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"God made me super rich
The devil made u stupid bitch
You could be just like me
If you quit wit all that stupid shit!"


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Rich Boy "Drop" • A-

Ne-Yo "Something About Her" • B+

Brendan Philip "Rome-Antics" • B

The COOL Kids "Delivery Man (9th Wonder RMX)" • B+

Plies "All Black" • C

Wiz Khalifa "Never Too Late" • B

Rob Fetti Feat. Yung LA "Like Da Pole" • C+

Trey Songz "Feelin Like Money" • C

Kanye West "Anyway" (Unmastered Copy) • B+

Curren$y "You Love It" • B-

Drake "Friends With Money" • B

Lil Wayne "Marco Polo" (Blend) • C

Yung Berg Feat. Alfamega "You See It" • B-

Baby Boy Feat. Cassidy "Damn-I-Look" • B-

The latest hot shit I've come across. Quite a bit of goodness fell out in the last 24 hours. If you don't see it, I didN't like it. No Diss.

Q-Tip: The Renaissance

Q-tip: The Renaissance

NOVEMBER 4TH WAS MY FAVORITE DAY OF 2008!

Not only does Barack Obama get elected for President of my United States of America, but Q-Tip has graced us with some of his genius.

Jonathan Davis aka: Kamall Fareed aka Q-Tip AKA THE ABSTRACT: Although this is his “sophmore” solo joint, this is actually the 4th solo album in 9 years, because 2 of these were never released by his label due to rejection (“Open” & “Kamaal The Abstract”), BUT I feel as though The Renaissance was right on time. This album was his first for his new label Universal Motown.

In the 90s, he helped gear Hip-Hop in a new direction that embraced the smoothness of jazz and a wider musical pallet with A Tribe Called (Me). Which influenced the modern day Hipsters, such as Kanye. And I am more than impressed to see Q return in the midst of another phase of music (that I believe is being lead by such artists like Mr. Williams, Mr. Fiasco, & “Mr. West! Mr. West! By himself, he’s so impressed. You got D’z muhfucka! D’z!! Rosie Perez!”), and again, leave his footprint on Hip-Hop’s time line.

The Renaissance features artists such as Amanda Diva, Raphael Saadiq, Norah (MUHFUCKIN) Jones, & D'Angelo. 3 or which, I am a Huge fan of. Raphael, Norah, & D'Angelo are all individually melodically cool as shit. The funksters came through with their pixy sticks and added their own lil flavor to the tracks they're on. I wasn’t formerly familiar with Ms. Diva, but I like her style, even though her voice reminds me of someone…

When doing some early track searching for The Renaissance, I was fooled into thinking the album was called Live @ The Renaissance. This may be a real album name overseas, because it has a 10 songs that were not listed on The Renaissance that was released in the states on the 4th. Perhaps there will be a deluxe edition. Cross your fingers boys and girls.


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Gettin Up • B+

We Fight/We Love [Feat. Raphael Saadiq] • B-

Life Is Better [Feat. Norah Jones] • C+

Believe
(Feat. D’Angelo) • B-

Good Thang • B

Tambourine (Bonus Track) • B

Getting Up [RMX]
(Feat. Camp Lo) (Bonus Track) • B+

Where Do You Go (Bonus Track) • B

Say Something For Me (Bonus Track) • A-

Fever (Bonus Track) • B-

That's Sexy (Feat. Andre 3000) (Bonus Track) • B

*Posted preferred songs from the album
**All Bonus Tracks found on "Live @ The Renaissance"