Cover, Featured | Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Easy Does It MCA Tribute)
Posted by GMONEY on May 14, 2012
The recent passing of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys is a great loss for the music industry. MCA was a musical innovator who transcended the East Coast/West Coast rivalry with an infectious brand of sabotage that will never be matched. Easy Does It holds a special place for the Beastie Boys in their hearts, and credits them as a huge inspiration for their work. As such, they have put together this tribute to MCA, and according to Easy Does It:
“Fight For Your Right” by the Beastie Boys “was the first cover song we ever learned as a band, wayyy back in the day. So it was only right that we paid proper homage & respect. These guys shaped our lives, straight up…we’re just some kids that wanna rap to guitars too. In true Beastie Boys spirit, we dressed up as characters from their iconic music videos and had a bunch of fun on camera. If his legacy can be perpetuated just .00001 % more – by people watching our video, then we did our job.
I’d say Easy Does It definitely did their job, check the video and see for yourself.
Download: Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Easy Does It MCA Tribute)
Dubstep | R Rated # 28
Posted by Mach on May 9, 2012
I realize that our past R posts have started with previews and end with the free downloads, that’s not right so this week we are taking R back to front…in fact I decided to screw the previews/purchases and replace them with more free tracks. Kicking off this week is a bomb from Savant. He recently just lost almost everything on his hard drive, including a good portion of his upcoming EP, ‘Overworld.’ This is one of the few saves he was able to make.
Big Chocolate always drops some quality filth. This remix of his is actually trap, but damn does this deserve to be on R.
Every time I see Jay-Z and Kanye I get excited with the hopes it is the Cazzette remix we are all dying for. Well sadly this is not that remix, but then again should I complain?
Woah, VoidDS brought it with this original. This is dope as hell, the kind of track that artists should be remixing. Not that Call Me Somebody That I Used To Know Maybe crap.
I am really loving all these free originals artists are dropping. This one from Skullee is actually a fun track to listen do, and the drop isn’t too shabby either…it’s actually pretty sick.
Sev hit me up with this…wait what, another original? Hell yea, and funky disco glitch at that. AaA is even a little more famous than the others besides Savant. AaA has created some crazy remixes in the past. I was really excited to get to listen to this and it did not disappoint at all.
Hip-Hop | Spring – Fortune Family ft. Upper West
Posted by J_Salzer on May 2, 2012
Two groups that have made themselves unique using poppy sounds link up to create an absolutely grand song. The Sara Barellis sample sets the stage for an upbeat, fun song. The theme is further driven by quality verses from Reef and Doug. I had been hearing about this song from my man Reef for about a month. Now I know what he was so hyped about. I love everything about this song, whether its Reef’s powerful bars, or Doug’s raspy verse, Spring gets me hyped for Summer. I know this at categorized as “hip-hop” but pretend it says “hip-pop.” Hit FF on facebook here, and UW here.
Mashups, Videos | DOSVEC – Dirt Licker (Video)
Posted by Mach on April 24, 2012
For those of you that did not catch DOSVEC’s newest mashup banger, he just finished up some sweet visuals. Watching I did not know what to expect, I was right to think so. Video is nice, but then you hit the vocals for LMFAO. The mashup up is great, but the end of this video is hilarious. Definitely a fun video to play at a party.
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Hip-Hop, Videos | Double Vision – Day Off (Official Video)
Posted by dshaq on April 16, 2012
Hours after not only the Boston Marathon but their Double Vision Music Marathon, Double Vision kindly gave us some visuals to one of their tracks off their latest EP. The video really depicts their style of music: having fun. Again, these guys did a great job of getting us so many tracks in such a short amount of time, so lets show them some love by downloading the EP’s and hitting them up on Facebook and Twitter below.
Albums, Hip-Hop | Hoodie Allen – All American (EP)
Posted by dshaq on April 9, 2012
How can one not root for Hoodie Allen? The man graduated from UPENN, worked for google, and yet he decided to drop his seemingly set lifestyle to pursue his dream of making music. This is the first we’ve heard of Hoodie since his awesome mixtape from last year, Leap Year, and it goes above and beyond anything I thought. What makes Hoodie so appealing as an artist is not only his catchy beats and choruses, it’s his wordplay. To me, he is up there with Danny Brown and Das Racist(KOOL A.D. & HEEMS) as one the wittiest rappers out right now. It seems as if the mans brain is just one big encyclopedia of pop culture references. His style is so carefree and fun and it just makes us crave more and more of this New Yorker. Since Hoodie is truly the nicest guy in the bidness today(my opinion), he is taking time out of his day to personally call each person who buys the EP to thank them for their contribution and support, if you don’t believe me check this out. So if you want to talk to Hoodie or just support good music and a guy who deserves some respect and acknowledgment, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU BUY THIS. Hoodie congrats!
Electro-House | Fun. – We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) (Feature Cuts Remix)
Posted by Jess on April 8, 2012
New remix from Houston’s own Feature Cuts premiered right here on FNT. This time he tackles Fun.’s breakout hit “We Are Young” featuring Janelle Monáe and turns it into an Electro-House banger. The song is already a huge anthem but it just needed that extra bass to make it a huge party anthem. Check out what Feature Cuts had to say about it and download it via the Soundcloud player below.
“This remix is intended to encapsulate a wide variety of emotions. Although the original is already a major party anthem, the concept that I wanted to bring to the listener was that of an anthem intended to represents everyone, doing anything, wherever, and whenever. By injecting the track full of energy the lyrics are meant to inspire the listener, to establish, and become one with their intentions.” – Feature Cuts