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ALICIA KEYS – PUT IT IN A LOVE SONG (F/ BEYONCÉ) + UNTHINKABLE (F/ DRAKE)

Alicia Keys aka Wifey #7 has a new album coming out on the 15th. She knows she’s money. Get it? She collaborates with Mrs. Carter for Put It In A Love Song, and then with Aubrey for Unthinkable. Think her album’s gonna be dope? I would take that bet and say yes. Partake!

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2010 GRAMMY NOMINEES

All year long we’ve been making our projections about who would be nabbing all the Grammy nominations. Now, The Recording Academy has revealed their list. Check it out and let us know what you think. Don’t you wonder who the Hell is actually on these voting committees?

Agree? Disagree? Which songs/albums made your personal soundtrack? Who was slept on? Over-hyped?

DO Tell.

List after the jump.

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BEYONCE – VIDEO PHONE [VIDEO]

Not a fan of either one of them… but I am a fan of B’s sexy! & that’s why this is here (Kudos to Hype). Fucka Lady Gagaga… wtf is a Lady gagaga anyway? Ya know what “GaGa” means in Filipino?  Yeah. Egg Zachary. Anyways… this is for the fellaz & some of you ladies too

Btw… Lady Gagaga has to have the most Costco nose I eva seent! I SEENT IT!! COT DAMN! No wonder the batch rocks all that crazy schitt on her pinche fay!!

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ILLROOTS/OKAYPLAYER-THE REMIX PROJECT MIXTAPE

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illRoots and Okayplayer have teamed up to present a dope remix collection.  This set includes live covers of artists to include OutKast, Ol’ Dirty Bastard  and The Foreign Exchange.  Way to breathe new life into some of the classics! I have personally fallen in love with the “Prototype” remix. Check out the tracklist and download after the jump!

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BILAL – RETURN OF MR.WONDERFUL

Bilal has been doing thangs on the under since his last album but hasnt dropped some schitt in a minute. It’s a mixtape of the schitt he’s done with other artists as well as 1 off projects. This JUST popped in my inbox so I had to share. I aint even heard it yet… but  I dont need to in order to tell u that u needs to fucks wit it!

Track list & DL after the Van Halen…

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LV’S AND AUTOTUNE 2

The Smoking Section featured a nice mix tape with all of Kanye’s latest musical musings all rolled up into one download-able mix tape called LV’s And Autotune 2. Glad somebody did it, I didn’t realize he had so many current joints out. Partake and check the track listing after the jump!

Download Kanye West – LV’s & Autotune 2 (RS)

01 Diamonds
02 Poke Her Face (Feat. Kid Cudi, Common, Lady Gaga)
03 We Fight, We Love (Feat. Q-Tip, Consequence)
04 Maybach Music 2 (Feat. Rick Ross, T-Pain, Lil Wayne)
05 Flight School (Feat. T-Pain, GLC)
06 Amazing (Remix) (Feat. The Dream, Young Jeezy, Christina Milian)
07 Imma Be Iight (Feat. Lil Wayne, Joe Young)
08 Doing Girls Wrong
09 Knock You Down (Feat. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo)
10 Walking On The Moon (Feat. The Dream)
11 Go Hard (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne, Jay-Z)
12 I’m The Shit (Remix)
13 Oprah Story
14 Kinda Like A Big Deal (Feat. Clipse)
15 Ego (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)

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SOLANGE – SOL-ANGEL AND THE HADLEY ST. DREAMS

I know you’re thinkin’, WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS DOING HERE?, but with features from Mark Ronson, Cee-Lo, The Neptunes, Lil’ Wayne AND Q-Tip, you MIGHT just wanna give this a listen. Plus shorty can actually sing. I think it’s dope she decided to do the OPPOSITE of ride Beyonce’s coat tail and actually came out with something very cutting edge and fresh. Check the two sample songs below:

“God Given Name”

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“Ode To Marvin”

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Partake!

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BlueMagic, My Ass

Your boy is back, eh?

No, that’s your boy, not mine. You would be hard pressed to hear me say anything kind about Jay-Z, sorry. I know I’ve travelled this road before, but I had to comment about Mr. Carter’s comeback. Shoot, I do live in Bed Stuy….his songs, image and brands are everywhere I go. I seen a crackhead freebasing with a Rocawear spoon on Myrtle and Nostrand just last night.

Ok, HORRIBLE joke! My bad. But it does lead me to the theme of this rant. Crack is wack. We know that, right? We did know that well before Ms. Whitney made it a punchline, no? And we acknowledge the tragic effects of the crack epidemic on our community, right? Who you know who doesn’t have one crackhead relative or neighbor? How many of y’all been robbed by a fiend? Who hasn’t walked down the block and seen real-life ghouls? Grown men and women with their skin sunken and sallow, like they died three weeks ago.

Yeah, crack is wack as Hell. Except for when Jay is rapping about selling it, right? Someone, pray tell, let me know what kinda vodun Shawn Carter has worked on the world. If I could get my hands on some of that, man, eff a blog! I’d have a Times Best Seller on my hands! And I would use my magic for good, not just to sell some damn vodka or sweatsuit. Perhaps Beyonce’s proud Creole mama worked a root for her future son-in law. Whatever it is, this man has the world drinking the Kool-Aid. Except for me of course. I’m a conscientious Jay-Z objector, and I don’t give a damn how many records he sold or millions he amassed. I’m not worshiping at his temple.

First of all, Jay’s whole “American Gangster” thing is BEYOND wack. Y’all wouldn’t let nobody else get away with this! He sees the movie, decides to make a song inspired by it and now he wants to star in a movie based on the song? So, basically he’s gonna make “Streets Is Watching” AGAIN. Where is Spike Lee? Is he okay with this? › Read More…

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Jay-Z, Beyonce and Apple to form super digital record label

Jay-Z, Beyonce, and Steve Jobs: How’s that for a power trio? An inside industry source recently told MOLI that it’s a done deal: Pop’s top couple will move to Apple to run a new music division. It sounds rather incredible: Carter’s already got a pretty good job, running Def Jam, and Jobs may be too smart to get into the tanking recording business (as others have said).

Of course, if it is true, my guess is this would be a new, revamped record biz, one based on digital distribution, not boring old physical products. It certainly speaks volumes about the state and the culture of the music industry, if two artists who have been served well by the current way of doing business are willing to jump ship. Spokespeople for Apple, Shawn Carter, and Def Jam (Mr. Carter’s label) did not return requests for comments. The move would of course follow Paul McCartney’s move from a traditional label, Capitol, to one run by another entity, Starbucks Music. Starbucks started signing artists after establishing a successful retail model through their Hear Music outlets and compilations. Apple has made a similar achievement with iTunes, to say the least. Apple is definitely poaching at least one smart guy from a label: Capitol publicist Jason Roth starts at the technology company July 2. He says he knows nothing about the aforementioned rumors.

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?uestlove’s Myspace Blog – Jay-Z Kingdom CAME?

Link:
www.myspace.com/questlove

Note: This Blog has now been deleted. I wonder why?
Could it be someone at the label perhaps? Read on…

Look, Jay-Z’s subject matter was always garbage (or at least has been for the last 4 or so albums). The point here is not his topics, because before this, all he used to only talk about how everybody hates him and he’s made it, and see what happens when he know longer exists and aint no love blah, blah, blah…

Nonetheless, i always loved big Jigga.With Kingdom Come Jay was in a Lose/lose situation, because if he spoke of his struggles everyone would have said that he’s lying and he’s rich and he aint real etc.So that he was real and simply spoke about his ‘now’ reality, I applaud him.Therein lies the problem…

Musically, this album is as good as the Black Album. But my WORST fears were realised. It happened when I got word that Jigga had Gwyneth Paltrow singing the chorus to “Song Cry” at Royal Albert Hall.I was THE ONLY one who complained. I understand the Chris Martin connect, but when you have his actress wife singing another song on the same night… you are merely just saying “Look at me and my new friends”.I said this to everyone and Jigga then mentions it on his album!

Fifty Cent said; “If money hasn’t changed you, then you haven’t made enough”.Well Jay-Z has made enough and guess what folks… he’s changed.

It’s not the lifestyle I’m talking about, because for that i will just quote Arnold The Governor;”Anyone who says money changes you is a liar. I feel exactly the same way with 90 million dollars as I did when I had 50 million dollars”.He was joking but I get his point… Jay-Z has been mega rich for a mighty long time, AND he’s been dating Beyonce for years. Yet his art was unquestionable.

You know what’s changed folks?

HIS FLOW>>>

“Show Me What You Got” has to be one of Just Blaze’s greatest musical bangers… yet take yourself back to the first time you heard it.I thought… “What the hell…??” What BANGING beat has Jay-Z never slaughtered/absolutely pulverised? This was a first.A banging Just Blaze beat with Jigga equals “You Don’t Know”, “PSA”.It shouldn’t be a… a… a grower!!!

Throughout the whole album Jay-Z’s flow just isn’t Liiquid Nitrogen.It just… is. i mean, he sounds like Jigga, talks like Jigga, even rhymes like Jigga, but Iceberg Slim is dead.

And it’s this simple; whatever it was that Jay-Z had around him that kept his “flow futuristic”, is gone. Be it Dame, Biggs, competion with rivals, you name it… it has vanished.

it never mattered what Jigga was talking about. Flow-wise, he was always on top of his game.

Hate to sound cliche’ but Jigga’s problem is that he has lost the eye Rocky… The eye of the tiger. And he is supposed to lose it at some point. You can’t remain hungry forever. And probably he needs this kind of critical backlash in order for him to go back to the gym.

But we should all stop questioning his subject matter- as if he was saying something profound on The Black Album.

Here me out;
I remember the soldiers finding Saddam in Iraq, at that same time Alicia Keys released her version of ‘NY State Of Mind’ feat. Nas and The R.Nas rapped something to the effect of;”I’m pain, like Saddam Hussein, watching news clips of his dead son’s remains…”I can’t remember what it was exactly but it was to that effect.Around the same time, jigga was released; “What More Can i Say?”.Which showed me EXACTLY how much he was actually ’saying’ in the first place. So subject matter wise, at least now he’s rhyming about Hurricane Katrina!

To repeat, the problem here is ‘Your Boy Young’s flow. I will conclude by imploring you not to consider this a scathing review.For in the climate of Lil’ Scrappy (& all the Lil’s, including Weezy) and Young Joc (& all the Young’s, including Jeezy) , I still give this album 9/10.

But in the realm of Jay-Hova, it’s a mere 5.

Pour out a lil’ liqour for good ol’ Iceberg… and hope that his Kingdom Came.

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