Last week Nike held the first World Basketball Festival at Radio City Music Hall. Team USA played onstage, and so did a surprise performer - none other than Jay-Z himself. NYC Renaissance lady Vashtie snuck a camera in and put together a nice little recap for those of us who missed it. Play, watch, repeat.
New Roots album How I Got Over out now for 7.99 on Amazon! Feelin’ this track and vid “Dear God 2.0″ more than some of the others (even though evasive talent Blu is on “The Day”), but overall the album doesn’t disappoint. Who’s going to the Roots Jam tonight or the Prospect Park show on the 11th?
Second, just want to echo Fader’s statement about this new single from (Diddy), Ricky ROSS! and Nicki Minaj. Though Diddy doesn’t impress on the mic, props to the arrangement of this remix collaboration. Been missing Ross, whose flow is always braggadociously funny, and as for Minaj, the rainbow bright space-bot steez suits her theatrical rap-attacks perfectly. Enjoy!
Kind of a compilation of several beats from Shafiq’s recent album Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka, primarily the track “Cheeba” feat Bilal. Imagery is lush, funkay and throwback, so bliss out to the five minute-plus video now. Premiered this morning on Okplayer. Look out Bilal’s solo album soon from Plug Research.
The latest Madlib invasion: the man of 1,000 aliases just released In Search of Stoney Jackson, another ridiculously sumptuous, beat-filled collection with Phonte and Planet Asia rapping over the top about stupid shit like junk food and bailouts. Listen to a couple samples below; obviously it’s a favorite of our other favorites: Rae, Shafiq, etc [...]
Damn I was actually going to buy tickets for this joint! Though Doom was probably never planning on showing up, the thought of Mos getting onstage with a would-be idol of his . . . the nerd in me was looking forward to it. Since it’s been on my mind, I’ll do like my Height [...]
Yeah, yeah everyone said that the Colts were gonna smash the Saints in tonight’s Superbowl game, but if you’ve ever been to New Orleans you know how much heart that city has - and the Saints are the pride and joy of the N.O. Final score was 31-17 suckas! Pour out a little for Peyton [...]
M.I.A’s sis Kali coming through with a jeweled perspective on the current world economy. The brand is Superfertile and the line is aptly named CRA$H. Don’t know where to get it besides London boutiques. Check out her earlier collections too, which include coat-of-arms interpretations and endangered species themes.
Props to Green Owl for this one.
Doom just released a compilation of sorts - pretty much his hand-picked collection of unreleased material, with features including Ghostface, Sean Price, Vast Aire and Mastah Killah to name a few. You’ve heard a lot of the beats and some of the rhymes before but fuck it, I could listen to DOOM all day [...]
Props to Ned from Green Owl for this little Jay Electronica x Just Blaze track “Exhibit C” off Tony Touch’s Toca Tuesdays mix last month. I’ve been a fan of Jay for a while now . . . though besides his mixtape What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica, I couldn’t tell you what he’s [...]