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Thursday 29 November 2007

Amazing.



Points for:

-The VHS effect, making the video look like a dubbed porn you found in your dad's closet.
-Looking like Bootsy on them steps before the lights come up.
-Taking the talk box tube out of his mouth before the effects let up. Gangsta.
-The Doves bite towards the end.

Feel free to highlight your own.

A+

Saturday 17 November 2007

Sunday 11 November 2007

One to watch: American Gangster



This is turning out to be the event of the year!



Besides the Jay-Z, "inspired by" business (this song and now the video just get me hype!!! love the film concept), the American Gangster soundtrack features Hank Shocklee (source music) and Marc Streitenfeld (score, he also did the score for 'Gladiator').

And of course, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Ruby Dee! on film. Not to mention Common, Chiwetel Ejiofor and so many more. Whoa!

On Beef.


There's nothing like a little conflict to light the proverbial creative fire under an artist's ass. Hip hop, perhaps unique in its level of self-reverence/reference, lends the most immediate (both in relativity and overall production to release time) examples. The dis track/answer song/etc. goes way back - Roxanne(s), bridges, what have you - and continues to thrive today, straight to the net or YouTube (Curtissss!) having, to a degree, replaced leaks to radio or mix tapes.
On the whole, "beef" in other genres tends to be a little more subtle and far-reaching. Amy Winehouse broke in America off of an album basically devoted to putting the sleazy guy she ended up marrying anyway on blast for some old shit. Just no names named.
Anyway, this new Prince track is, situation-wise, kind of curious. It's not all that often that an artist inadvertently goes after a large portion of his loyal fanbase. And then, when it kind of backfires, offers up a new track as part olive branch/bitch slap/explanation. But if the recent squabbles are going to get Prince back up to this musical level, I sort of don't mind if the conflict continues.
And once I finally figured it out, I like the "out like the wolves in the first" line.

Thursday 8 November 2007

Sunday 4 November 2007

Word.


http://www.illdoctrine.com/2007/10/why_albums_used_to_matter.html


Wow. I just got hip to the magic of Ill Doctrine recently, but it is the site I go to when I want to feel good about the music and the word again.

His opinions and the way he phrases them are right on point. Stop, Look, and Listen.

o:{and track back to find a very silly guest appearance by Just Blaze!}

Do it fluid.


Mess up my mind.

Here.

Here too.