Casa Bey to Forte

We are in a new stage of hip-hop where we can have a new single from an artist like Mos Def and at the same time have the original sample be revealed (see above)...and it takes nothing away from the magic of the music.

This has been done before (ghostface rhyming over "LALALA means I love you" comes to mind immediately) and 9th Wonder teaches a class on hip-hop with a section in his syllabus called "Santa Clause ain't real" where he shows his students the line between the original sample material and what their favorite artists actually create in their music. Some students end up disappointed when they find out that certain songs aren't made from scratch by an artist. Outkast's "So Fresh, So Clean" was given as an example, as was Alicia Key's You Don't Know My Name.

Actually, better DJs have been playing the sampled and and the source material from the earliest days of hip-hop and it only enhances both compositions. Right now, listening to Banda Black Rio's "Casa Forte" only makes me want to hear Mos Def's "Casa Bey" even more. They are both strong cuts in their own right.


side note:

This has got to be the best fan vid ever! Ghostface as Racer X! Daytona 5000. JediDan has hit all the marks with this Speed Racer mash-up video. too dope.

youTube records

These are some songs and videos that i just can't get enough of:



The GAME f. kanYe West - "WOULDN'T GET FAR"
The wardrobe malfunction in the beginning of the video is more telling of the state of hip-hop today and the characters these rappers play than anything since Slick Rick's "It's a Boy" and Biggie & 112's "Sky's the Limit" videos that had little kids dressed up as the rappers of the day.



Kanye West - "throw some D's" REMIX
"That's why i respect Alicea Keys,
she said effit i'ma just ride with these!"
How many rappers you hear saying they respect
any other woman than their momma?!

Once again a rapper playing a role. but this is more tongue-in-cheek. Maybe this is Kanye getting himself in "dirty old man" mode. I love the motion graphic puppets in this aswell. Great concept. So simple and SO well executed!

and
Read A Book


Written, performed and Produced by Bomani Armah.
Video produced by Six Point Harness - "Read A Book"
"Buy some land...F#@K spinning rims!"
'nuf said.

or even better:
Read A Book LIVE (as hell!)

and one more!


UGK & Outkast - Int'l Player's Anthem (Extended Cut)
This is what makes Outkast great. The yin and yang, spacey vs. down-to-earth bookends of Three Stacks and Fat Sacks (love that! Andre 3000 and Big Boi respectively) add so much personality to a simple song about pimpin'.