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Showing posts with label Nas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nas. Show all posts
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Window Seat to my State of Mind (video)
finally have a YouTube vid for Window Seat to my State of Mind.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Elzhi - It Aint Hard to Tell
Normarll I would be offended that someone would even have the gaul to attemp a remak/homage to Illmatic. This is the 1st song ive hear off the mixtape and I am not offended at all...excited and intrigued is more of how i feel.
Dope.
Download Here
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Elmatic (review)
"The other day I was in one of my infamous hip hop debates in the barber shop (I get a shape up every three days so I’m in there a lot) and today’s discussion was about was Snoop’s “Doggystyle" album a 5 mic classic. Most people didn’t t think it was, but I gave it a 4.5… a GREAT album but not a classic and one of the reasons is because of Snoop remaking Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh’s hip hop classic “La Di Da Di.” When I heard that song for the first time in my man Bill’s whip I was in hip hop disgust! Who remakes a hip hop song? ESPECIALLY a classic! Who does that? That’s sacrilegious! Which turned into another debate about why is that frowned upon in hip hop? With any other genre of music, there are remakes, some are good (see Luther’s version of “A House Is Not A Home”) and some are bad (see Omarion remaking Aaliyah’s “One in A Million”) but nobody stones you for doing that. And my response was and will always be that hip hop is more than just a genre of music, it’s a culture with music being just one of the four components. No one cares if Beyonce does her own choreography or if Taylor Swift writes her own songs but what if we found out Rakim or Nas NEVER wrote any of their verses or if the Rock Steady Crew never came up with any of their own moves?!?! The hip hop world would be in disarray! Like Kris said 'rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live.'
So when my man Allen told me his favorite mc Elzhi was going to remake Nas’ hip hop classic “Illmatic” and call it “Elmatic” I was like why? I mean seriously….why? What’s the point? To pay homage to Nas? Than do a song with him. To put the younger generation onto it? To be honest, I would assume Nas and Elzhi kinda have the same audience for the most part. In fact I would think Nas’ audience may be just a little bigger than Elzhi’s and Nas wouldn’t need his help schooling the youth on “Illmatic.” But it is what it is and “Elmatic” is dropping and truth be told, I didn’t wanna have anything to do with it." Read More
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
DUB PLATES AT TUFF GONG
Here is part 2 that constitutes out of a 3-part short film where Nas and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley take a trip out to Jamaica. On the third night Damian and Stephen Marley went to work over a new Stephen song called ‘Jah Army.’ The song is pure heat. Dubplates are the stock and trade of the Jamaican musician. Tuff Gong itself is a place filled with so much history as Stephen explains to Nas at the beginning – even Bunny Wailer made an surprise appearance.
(in the order that i saw it)
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
NY is Killing Me
"With Nas’ collaboration Distant Relatives album alongside Damian Marley on the way, we should expect more revolutionary type music from him. This one is taken from Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here album released earlier this year. Even though the actual tempo of the beat isn’t your conventional rap track, Nas still adds that hip-hop flavor to it."
this shit is DOPE!
LISTEN HERE
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Music Friday's
SPK's Playlist
"Hip Hop" - Dead Prez
"Heartbeat" - Nneka
"The Healer - Erykah Badu
"Wolves (Intro)" - Dead Prez
"Sly Fox" - Nas
"Hello/Goodbye" - Lupe
"Poison" - Nas
"'They' Schools" - Dead Prez
"Radio Freq." - Dead Prez
"Streets on Fire" - Lupe
"The Grind" - Erykah Badu (feat. Dead Prez)
"Be Healthy" - Dead Prez
"I'm a African" - Dead Prez
"We Want Free" - Dead Prez
"Assassination" - Dead Prez (i love the little kid in the beginning)
"Changes" - TuPac
"If I Ruled The World" - Nas (feat. Lauryn Hill)
"One Mic" - Nas
"Freedom" - Lauryn Hill
"Road to Zion" - Damian Marley & Nas
"Still Dreaming" - Nas
"The World is Yours" - Nas
"Express Yourself" - N.W.A.
"Amerykahn Promise" - Amerykahn Primise
"I Know I Can" - Nas
"Be A Nigger Too" - Nas
"Fight The Power" - Public Enemy
"Fuck Tha Police" - N.W.A.
"Can't Truss It" - Public Enemy
"N.I.G.G.E.R." - Nas
"Redemption Song" - Bob Marley
"American Terriorist" - Lupe
"Heard 'Em Say" - Kanye West
"Locked and Loaded" - Deftones & Dead Prez
"Come On, Get U Some Free!"
EXTRAS
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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