Electro | Deadmau5 – Failbait (ft. Cypress Hill)
Posted by GMONEY on March 16, 2012
Hold onto your hats everyone! Deadmau5 has now taken the plunge into hip-hop. His latest release Failbait features a minimalist beat and verses provided by hip hop legends Cypress Hill. I think this proved it, Deadmau5 can do anything. Sound off in the comments, I want to see what everyone thinks about this.
Hip-Hop | Aspects – Yes Please (Prod. by Akira Kiteshi)
Posted by Mach on March 5, 2012
http://youtu.be/7Lthi4MzJYI
Hip-hop might not be as good as it use to be in the US, but I think the UK does a crazy job keeping it alive. I mean sure up and comers aren’t doing half a bad job like Logic, Kinetics, not Mac Miller (kid needs some new subject matter), and not Sam Adams (No offense Sam. I love your tunes, but hip-pop isn’t hip-hop). Hip-hop isn’t just rhyming because you can, otherwise you would see my name up on this post. Countless people telling me they just listen to hip-hop beats now, thats half the track what about the rest of it? You have to have a good flow and a decent story to tell. Love that grimy feel you get from the UK rappers like what you get from this Aspects track, enjoy.
Aspects – Yes Please by Aspects
Hip-Hop | Aziz – The 1990’s (One Love x Dead Presidents x Full Clip)
Posted by GMONEY on February 28, 2012
Aziz, a first generation American, born to a Senegalese father and German mother, spent most of his life in New Hampshire before moving to Boston to study and play basketball at Brandeis University. Blessed with the gift of gab, Aziz ‘s ability to command a room became apparent at an early age, and from the onset, his older brothers pushed him to turn to hip hop as an outlet. The advice clearly paid off, as Aziz has become a budding star in the blogosphere. The video above is a compilation of three verses taken from his mixtape “TwentyOne” that’s set to drop March 12th. The mixtape takes a track from each of the 21 years Aziz has been alive (1990-Today). It includes 21 different artists and 21 different producers over that time period and he spits 21 verses over those respective beats. This mixtape pays homage to the hip hop that inspired and made him who he is today. Now this is what I’m talm’bout.
Pop | Spree Wilson- Sharpshooter
Posted by ATexas on February 14, 2012
http://vimeo.com/35952479
What genre is this? With 2012 the lines of hip hop, funk, pop and, well, everything have become a blurred vision of hella dope groundbreakers. Spree Wilson’s video and song are like if 1967 Funkadelic had a baby with 2008 pop who then met and fell in love with the opening visuals of a James Bond movie.
Download: Spree Wilson-Sharpshooter
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Videos | Rick Ross – Yella Diamonds
Posted by GMONEY on February 8, 2012
I don’t care what you kids at home who still live with their parents who listen to Lil Wayne religiously think, Rick Ross is the hottest MC in the world right now. The New Yorker recently said of the bawse:
“What matters is not the rap sheet but the rhyme, and the spin the m.c. can give to the trade. Ross’s success in mimicking drug lords has brought him the ability to live like one of them. Profiles have documented his large homes, his fleet of cars, his shopping sprees at watch stores, his solicitous entourage and flexible schedule. Ross may represent the final abandonment of hip-hop’s mandate to “keep it real,” a concept that goes by different names now but has not gone away. Perhaps listeners know that this is a version of “Miami Vice,” a show that Ross claims to have been inspired by. The appeal is less some kind of documentary thrill than Ross’s ability to transmit the confidence that comes from blithely running up roaming fees while driving a Rolls-Royce through Samoa.”
Basically, the New York Times is saying Rick Ross is a big ole’ phony with a perfect correctional officer attendance record. How can you blame them. It’s all true. That doesn’t matter though. Like all good pop music, rap is now theatre, and Rick Ross is simply playing a character. If you didn’t pick up “Rich Forever” the first time I encourage you to do so – as it will inevitably make you feel like you could be the biggest drug dealer in the world.
DOWNLOAD: Rick Ross- Rich Forever (Mixtape)
Hip-Hop | Terence Ryan- Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Remix)
Posted by ATexas on February 7, 2012
Does anyone remember Karen O? In all her super anti-hipster/super hipster glory? Well Terence Ryan decided to take Karen O and make a hip hop lovechild. I love this love child. With haunting lyrics and haunting beats its just here to take your soul…but in a totally good way. He discusses God, work and his strife for musical success. Let Karen and Terence transcend you in this amazing must download. Adding to the already amazing tune which the Yeah Yeah Yeahs perfected, Ryan adds a whole new chapter on this song.
Alternative, Hip-Hop, Indie | WZRD (KiD CuDi & Dot Da Genius) ft. Desire – Teleport 2 Me, Jamie
Posted by W8 on January 31, 2012
Its been a pleasure watching musical genres of all kinds go from an abstract state into one colorful art form. There’s no greater evidence of this than Kid Cudi, known for dabbling in a variety of sounds and tempos, never could he simply be just a rapper. Teleport 2 Me, Jamie leans towards being an alternative indie record, and far from ever being acknowledged solely as hip hop. Actually, this track happens to sample from one of my favorite indie records, Under Your Spell by Desire. That’s a great thing, right when the game seems to have lost its oxygen, Kid Cudi’s musical diversity enters with a breath of fresh air.
Get it on iTunes.
DOWNLOAD: WZRD (KiD CuDi & Dot Da Genius) ft. Desire – Teleport 2 Me, Jamie