Wednesday, September 30, 2009

C'mon Son!

twerk that.


-i didn't know people were still making it twerk! nice...

Get at me Dog.


-this is hip hop. i love it.

Parallel Uni-Verses!


-damn this shit got me hype.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Monday, September 28, 2009

Salvation.


1. The Opener (produced by Cyrus Tha Great)
2. Return Of The Real (produced by Just Blaze)
3. The Beautiful Decay (produced by 9th Wonder)
4. My Interpretation (produced by Best Kept Secret)
5. Popularity (produced by Nottz)
6. Like A Marathon (produced by 9th Wonder)
7. The Shooter’s Soundtrack (produced by Cyrus Tha Great)
8. Under Pressure (produced by 9th Wonder)
9. Penmanship (produced by Black Milk)
10. Dear Whoever (produced by Illmind)
11. For What It’s Worth ((produced by Eric G)
12. The Necessary Evils (produced by Needlz)
13. Easy To Fly featuring Carlitta Durand (produced by 9th Wonder)
14. Bottom Line (produced by Eric G)
15. Metal Hearts (produced by 9th Wonder)
16. Maintain (produced by Nottz)


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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Flight 360.



Tracklist:
01. Turbulence
02. Look What I Got (Featuring Korleone)
03. Stupid (Featuring OJ Da Juiceman)
04. Welcome Aboard
05. Hold Up
06. Yeah We Gettin' Rich (Featuring Ludacris)
07. Can;t Remember (Featuring Bobby V)
08. Big Dawg (Featuring Lil' Wayne)
09. Quit Flossin' (Featuring The Casey Boys Of Jagged Edge)
10. Refreshments
11. Big Wheel Whippin'
12. Weight Droppin' (Featuring Raekwon)
13. DJ Know Me (Featuring Young Dro)
14. Ghetto (Featuring Cee-Lo And Sunni Patterson)
15. Prepare For Landing
16. Outta Here

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Who's Gonna Hunt Chris Brown Tonight?




Comedian Affion Crockett parodies Jay-Z's "Run This Town" video, transforming it into a Chris Brown manhunt led by pseudo Hov, Rihanna and 'Ye.

Brand New.


Tracklist:
01 - Vices
02 - Bed
03 - At The Bottom
04 - Gasoline
05 - You Stole
06 - Be Gone
07 - Sink
08 - Bought A Bride
09 - Daisy
10 - In A Jar
11 - Noro
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Show No Weakness.


MAKA featuring Swerve of EOC, from the upcoming solo project "Return To Sender".

-eoc UP.

I'm Sorry... Taylor.

This Perfect Life.


-i guess since he got dropped from interscope he leaked the album... anyway... let's see if this is any good. charles hamilton is still wack. haha.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Man On The Moon: The End Of Day



KiD CuDi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

Track List:

Act 1: The End Of The Day

01. In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)
02. Soundtrack 2 My Life
03. Simple As

Act 2: Rise Of The Night Terrors

04. Solo Dolo (Nightmare)
05. Heart Of A Lion (KiD CuDi Theme Music)
06. My World Ft. Billy Cravens

Act 3: Taking A Trip

07. Day N Night (Nightmare)
08. Sky Might Fall
09. Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)

Act 4: Stuck

10. Alive (Nightmare) Ft. Ratatat
11. CuDi Zone
12. Make Her Say Ft. Kanye West And Common
13. Pursuit Of Hapiness (Nightmare) Ft. MGMT And Ratatat

Act 5: A New Beginning

14. Hyyerr Ft. Chip The Ripper
15. Up Up And Away

this album is my shit right now

Friday, September 4, 2009

Bobby Creekwater- The Day It All Made $ense


-damn first obie, then stat, now bobby creekwater gets dropped from shady records? what's going on over there? is there anyone left on the roster besides D12 and Eminem? so sad... anyway this EP is the shit. don't sleep.

Tracklist
01 Intro
02 2 Far Gone f. Junior Varsity
03 I Want It All
04 Miss Atlanta f. Mykel
05 Business Man
06 Everybody Loves Her
07 U Betta Know It
08 Spotlight f. Stat Quo
09 Testimony
10 The Day I Got Dropped

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The New Hate.


Listen to The New Hate by Jay-Z Featuring Kanye West & Aziz Ansari

-shit is funny yo.

this sandwich is doooooope! and i gotta wash my diiiiiiiiishes!

At the office with the T-Pain Autotune app for iPhone

I know its D.O.A but this pretty fuckin funny haha..

Mayer Hawthorne


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don't sleep on this.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

xxlmag.com FEATURE: Jay-Z, ‘Bout Me




Working with Jay-Z keeps you on your toes. You’ve gotta be prepared to roll at a moment’s notice. And once things are in motion, plans change, then get rearranged. Start times for photo shoots and interviews are moved around, then locked down, then moved again. But if you want to work with arguably the greatest rapper of all time, you deal with it. It’s not like you don’t know how busy he is.

Over the past 13 years in hip-hop, Jay-Z has gone from an on-the-come-up lyricist (1996’s Reasonable Doubt), to a label owner (Roc-A-Fella Records), to a multiplatinum-selling rapper (1998’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life), to a classic-album-recording artist (2001’s The Blueprint), to a major-record-label executive (Def Jam president), to the builder of a sprawling empire, with a successful clothing line (Rocawear), stakes in an NBA team (New Jersey Nets), a chain of trendy sports bars (40/40 Club), his own fragrances (9IX and X) and a creative new venture (Roc Nation). That’s not even delving into his smaller, lesser-known, unconfirmed, secret or on-hold business dealings.

But most recently, Jay’s time has been dedicated to The Blueprint 3, his 11th solo album and 14th overall including three collaboration LPs. It’s the second follow-up to the Brooklyn MC’s classic, The Blueprint, released on the eight year anniversary of the reverred disc, which is also the eighth anniversary of 9/11. But unlike any of Hov’s previous LPs, BP3 doesn’t have a Def Jam or Roc-A-Fella logo on the back. After 12 years signed to Def Jam—three of those as pres—Jay split ways with the powerhouse label, after buying back his last remaining album from the company for a reported $5 million. He’s since been focused on Roc Nation, an entertainment, publishing and management company he has in an unprecedented partnership with mega concert promoters, Live Nation. The Blueprint 3 is the first release off of Roc Nation and is distributed by Atlantic Records for this one project.

Jigga’s new effort has stirred up several meaty issues of discussion since its existence became reality about three months ago. Despite Hov’s possible living-legend status (that depends on whom you’re talking to, of course), the hip-hop audience has been a bit underwhelmed by the constant trendsetter’s last two efforts (2006’s Kingdom Come and 2007’s American Gangster). So some topics have been: What will Jay have to offer on an album so closely tied to a classic? And after all his wealth and success, can he still relate to rap and its audience?

On June 5 of this year, Jay addressed the issues with defiance. That evening saw New York’s Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex introduce the initial single off The Blueprint 3, “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” a semiautomatic attack against those who’ve overdosed on T-Pain’s famed vocal-assistance technology. Yet, as polarizing as it was provocative—“D.O.A.” was celebrated in some parts for its brashness and No ID’s rugged, bluesy production—some critics found a reason to accuse Jay of being out of touch or, even worse, a bullying elder statesman. Mr. Carter considers the criticism ludicrous. In his eyes, his attack wasn’t on the youth, but instead on the lack of originality. A veteran with a reputation for quality, he sees hip-hop as a genre coming awfully close to the danger zone. For Hov, it’s simple addition by subtraction: To save the culture, the artists that routinely damage it by simply following trends (Auto-Tune, for instance) must perish.

If it’s an indisputable success, The Blueprint 3 could cement Jay as the first 40-year-old rapper (or almost 40) to truly dominate the music globe—a major feat in a time when hip-hop seems to skew younger than ever. Still, even in that potential triumph lies another interesting question: Will Jay-Z become bigger than hip-hop? Scratch that. Considering his staggering résumé as it stands before the release of BP3, is Jay already above rap’s clouds? And, if so, does it make a difference?

After weeks of waiting patiently, and some tennis-match-like back-and-forth scheduling, XXL’s Bonsu Thompson sat down with the tireless businessman and self-proclaimed God MC to talk about the one thing that matters most to his truest fans, the foundation of his entire kingdom: hip-hop. —Matt Barone

Because you had so much time to live with this new album, do you think it’s your most thoughtful body of work?

No, it’s just the approach. I don’t think it changed the music any. You can look at it both ways. The Blueprint was all natural. You could tell the rawness of the spontaneous thoughts. Or you can have someone who plans and plots and makes sure everything is the same. Lyor [Cohen, CEO of Warner Music Group] asked me, after he listened to the [new] album, “Did you mess up by putting an album out every year? Should you have taken your time and done it like this one?” And I was like, “No, it’s just process.” I don’t think The Blueprint was bad. But this album has to come out. It’s just really cohesive. It feels really good.

What would you say is The Blueprint 3’s grand statement?

I keep using this phrase “new classic,” because it has classic sounds and instrumentation, like how music was recorded before. That’s why the whole album cover [features] white instruments just left in the corner, no color. It’s all about the instruments. It feels classic in that approach, but it’s new subject matter, new flows. It’s not like an Amy Winehouse thing: a take on what was already done. I mean, if you listen to “D.O.A.” just the sax alone, those type of sounds. The subject matter is right now. It’s a hot-button issue right now.

It’s funny that you stress the subject matter being current. One criticism of “D.O.A.” has been that the topic is a year old.

A year past or a year early?

A year too old. Music was being saturated by Auto-Tune the most last year. So were you thinking business first, like, Kanye’s coming out with this 808s & Heartbreak album, so I’m going to hold off on the criticism ’til he’s in the clear?

No, that’s not how it happened. It really just happened in the studio. We were just having a discussion about the game and music and where everything is going. So No ID plays this track, and Kanye jumps up. Actually, Kanye gave me the idea. He jumps up and is like, “Man, this is hard. This is against everything.” I don’t know if he knew where I was going to take it, but he sparked the idea. I came back the next day and did the record.

What’s puzzling is that your own buddies, like Kanye and Pharrell, wear the brightest shirts and tightest jeans, but you’re clearly not going at them. You’re going after the cats that are trying to be like them, and not themselves. Correct?

Yeah, once it becomes… A trend is a trend. I follow trends. I set trends. Now, when a trend becomes a gimmick, it’s time to get rid of it. As far as hip-hop. Like, when they were saying “bling bling” on CNN, it’s time to never say that word again. It was just about the aggression of everything. I saw everyone, ’cause it was successful, following one path. You turn on the radio, and that’s all you hear. I’m not saying I hate T-Pain. What I’m talking about is a trend that’s becoming a gimmick. And if we continue down this path, we’re going to open the door for another genre of music. Same way when rock was doing hair metal it opened the door even wider for hip-hop to come through and put rock music in trouble for 10 years and more. Right now, there are a lot of indie bands coming out, which is making rock more exciting: the MGMTs and the Kings of Leons. You keep messing around, making generic music, people are going to start turning off one at a time. And if these guys [keep] making great music, guess what? [Fans are] gonna go to them. If you look back in the history of music, that’s what happens all the time. I’m just saying, Stay up. Be aware. Be innovative. Let’s keep making this shit interesting. I love Drake. I’m not hating on young people. Like, when people say that, I’m like, What are you talking about? It’s just stupid. I’m not hating on young people. I love Drake. I worked with him on the album. Every time they ask me what I’m listening to, it’s So Far Gone and Kings of Leon. Them two [acts] owe me money. I’m not Bill Russell, [saying] Michael Jordan ain’t shit. I’m saying Lil Wayne and Kanye are like LeBron and Kobe. My job as someone at the forefront of the game is to leave it in a better position than when I came in. Same way that Russell [Simmons] left it to me. ’Cause this thing saved my life. Literally. So I have a responsibility to it karmically. And after that it’s on you. I did my part. I made “D.O.A.” I said it. I made the statement. I made the push. Here, y’all take it from here.

You’ve been getting a lot of heat about your second single “Run This Town,” featuring Kanye and Rihanna. Critics and the blog world have said ’Ye out rapped you.

I think that thing has gone a little too far. I think it’s more about that than the song now. What I’m saying is that’s just life. If [whose verse was better] was the thing, and we based [song quality] on that, after I’ve done 400 songs, I’m sure once the average of who was better on the song weighs out, I’m pretty high. Some nights [L.A. Lakers player] Pau Gasol can score more points than Kobe Bryant—not saying that Kanye is Pau Gasol, ’cause you have to be really clear with that—[but] as long as I’ve been in the game, that’s going to happen, once or twice or even three times.

For more of the ‘Bout Me interview, make sure to pick up XXL’s October issue on newsstands September 15.

Labor Day Weekend Line Up! Victory Nightlife...

FRIDAY:
SATURDAY:

SUNDAY:

-NO WORK ON MONDAY... SO YEAH IT'S GONNA BE A LOOOOONG WEEKEND!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

BASH AT THE BEACH! SEPT. 5TH!


-brought to you by MEGA POWERS, Mindz Alike & Guttersnipe... be there!

Trappin Ain't Dead



01. Trappin’ Aint Dead (I’m The Truth) ( Produced by MegaMan)
02. Betta Believe It (feat. Lil Boosie & Lil Webbie) (Produced by Mouse)
03. Air Forces 2 (Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
04. My Money
05. My 1st 48 Hrs (Produced by Aktual)
06. I’m Goin In (feat. Lil’ Wayne & Drake) (Official Version)
07. Dead Or Alive
08. Always Strapped Freestyle*
09. Trap Files
10. Sunny Days (Produced by Midnight Black)
11. Might Just Blow That (Produced by DJ Toomp)
12. The Underdawg (Produced By DJ Toomp)
13. First Name Last Name (feat. J Money)
14. Stupid Freestyle
15. Consistent (Produced by The Olympicks)
16. Ready To Ride (Produced by Midnight Black)
17. Biggest Movie Ever (feat JDubb & Boo Rossini)
18. She’s A Lesbian
19. Get Alot (Remix) (feat. Boo Rossini) (Produced by CKP)

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-Air Forces 2 is a muthafuckin anthem! Download this shit!