Archive for July, 2007

9th Wonder’s Get-Up

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Tracklist for ex-Little Brother producer man 9th Wonder’s ‘Dream Merchant 2′ set, due to drop early October and including the fantastically titled ‘Milky Lowa’:

1 Mr. Dream Merchant Intro
2 Shots f/Big Dho & Sean Price
3 Merchant Of Dreams f/The EMBASSY, Skyzoo & Torae
4 Brooklyn In My Mind f/ Mos Def, Jean Grae & Memphis Bleek
5 Sunday f/Keisha Shontelle & Chaundon
6 Baking Soda f/Big Treal
7 Reminisce (Take Time) f/Big Remo & The Great Novej of the A.L.L.I.E.S.
8 No Time To Chill f/Little Brother
9 It Aint Over ft. Jozee Mo & Tyler Woods
10 The Last Time f/ Royce the 5′9, Naledge & Vandalyzm
11 Saved f/Saigon & Joe Scudda
12 Milky Lowa ft. Camp Lo
13 Backlash f/Sean Boog & Buckshot
14 Thank You f/ D.O.X & O-Dash
15 Let It Bang f/Ness & Skyzoo
16 What Makes A Man f/Rapper Big Pooh & Buddy Klein

Necro Statement

Friday, July 27th, 2007

A statement from Necro, on his leaving the Sounds Of The Underground metal tour:

“I decided to leave the tour collectively with my manager and booking agent (both tour organizers) because we felt the tour’s demographic was not receiving hip hop well. I was facing hostile, disrespectful crowds and was returning the same energy back ten-fold by being more aggressive than them. It was making a lot of people in the tour crew nervous and there was concern someone might get hurt (NOT ME).

“It was also being suggested that maybe I tone down my live show and not antagonize the already antagonistic crowd. I couldn’t roll with that as it’s not my style. I was holding back enough as it is but there is a line. All the bands on the tour loved us and everyone behind the scenes knew we displayed major heart and never once got phased by the hostility. We finished every show with middle fingers up and a big fuck you to the crowd.

I will make one thing clear for the haters: we NEVER got booed OFF the stage. Not once. Yes, a ton of emo kids booed us at every show, but we had a twenty-five minute set every night and we stayed on stage for every minute of it, and we represented. Every show had at least 100 to 200 Necro fans in the pit tearing it up, and our meet and greets were incredible!

It’s just a shame these little kids are so close-minded. The majority of the hate was coming from mop top emo sixteen-year olds who have no clue who the originators of metal are, and didn’t respect my rest in peace chant to metal legends (Dime, Cliff, Chuck, Piggy, SOB).

As far as the tour organizers and I are concerned, you are my peoples so it’s all love and I’m thankful for the opportunity to prove I can murder it in the worst of situations. This actually did a lot for me and is just one move in many my team will make to blow Necro up.”

Pimp C, Bitch!

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Possibly trying to compete with Necro for the title of best interviewee on the planet, UGK’s Pimp C has recently dropped a rant about Russell Simmons (allegedly a “dick in the booty” type), Young Jeezy and rappers wearing what we’ll term the Alan Partridge sports casual look (”v-neck sweaters and argyle socks!”).

Full round-up of the best bits here.

Elsewhere, the best YouTube clip of the month can be peeped here.

All Urchins Simmer Down!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

If there were such thing as hip-hop quote of the month, then this tidbit, from an upcoming HHC interview with the god of death rap, Necro, wins at a canter:

“Give me the gloves. I gotta get the gloves. Give me the gloves. I need the gloves. Do you understand why I need the gloves? We’re being approached by urchins for change. I’m gonna get my gloves, then when an urchin gets out of fucking line I can crack him in his fucking face and not get hepatitis. Where the gloves at?”

Baron Business

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Bored on a Monday? Hit up this nifty link here to download Baron Samedi’s very decent last album, ‘Ripping Yarns’, for free. (And yes, it’s a legit download.)

On The World Cup Tip

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Wanna win $50,000? Get ready to enter the World Rap Championships, hosted by the good folks over at the Jump-Off.

Based around a two-on-two tag-team format, the comp is one for genuine emcees, not wannabe reality TV stars.

“Rap battles are one of hip-hop’s most exciting elements,” explains Harold Anthony, the format’s co-producer. “Yet mainstream shows like Wild ‘N Out, Yo Mama and The White Rapper Show have done nothing to contribute to the evolution of emceeing.”

Check out sign-up info and qualifying dates here.

All Good, Baby Baby?

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

New Saigon!

While it hits hard, you have to wonder whether we’re now unfortunately talking a ‘too little, too late, too many people just shrugging their shoulders’ situation for ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’.

Superbly Done

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Back in the days when Koch really was putting out uninspiring rap albums, they dropped a Killa Beez set that included a couple of amazing vocal performances from Superb, who also popped up on Ghost’s ‘Supreme Clientele’ set.

After managing to set up an interview with the god, he dropped the bomb that he’d ghost-wrote most of Mr Starks’ opus.

Now, nearly five years later, it seems that rabble rouser Tony Yayo has re-ignited the rumour, stating “He didn’t write it. That kid from Far Rockaway - Superb - he wrote that record.”

Interesting…

The Wu Is Back!

Friday, July 13th, 2007

News on the Wu comeback album, ‘The 8 Diagrams’, with RZA dropping details of track titles confirmed so far:

‘We Got This’
‘You Can’t Stop Me Now’
‘Camp Fire’
‘Thug World’
‘Untitled’ feat. Q-Tip

In a year of practically zero big budget rap releases, this can’t come soon enough.

Pros And Cons

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

HHC’s favourite underground rap group of 2003 are back!

NYG’z - aka Panchi and Shabeeno - are still rolling with DJ Premier’s mighty Year Round records, with a street album coming soon. In the meantime, cop the free download b-side ‘NHB’, featuring Poet.

Oh, and here’s some words from Pemo himself:

“To all RADIO DJ’s and webmasters…you probably have to kiss the asses of your bosses dick and not be able to play this on your mixshow or post this on your site, but if you have the balls (Ladies this means you too)…….then show me you know what time it is… I am the streets and I’m not here to bring NEW YORK back either… Its REAL vs FAKE !!! BOTTOM LINE….. Stop playin yourself if you call yourself a DJ…I am watching all of you and some of my good friends in this business have let me down when it comes to you calling yourself a mixshow DJ… Ya’ll play some corny shit and if you are just doing it for a check….then you my friend are a ROBOT !! Thanx for Murdering our Culture you Murderers!!! LIKE CHUCK D said…”Radio Stations I Question Their Blackness, They Call Themselves Black But We’ll See If They’ll PLAY THIS.”
Sincerely,
P”

We’ll now be off to dig out that copy of ‘Giantz Ta This’…

HHC’s condolences go out to the Parker family after the death of KRS-One’s son, Randy Hubbard Parker. Rest in peace.