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FOOTAGE: SANTIGOLD IN CHICAGO

The homie Quddus shot over this dope footage that he got while in Chicago last weekend for Lollapalooza. Gza makes a special guest appearance as well. Partake!

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BILL MUTHAFUCKIN MURRAY!

One of the best scenes in movie history IMO. Wu Tang’s RZA & GZA encounter Bill Murrary hiding out as a waiter in a dinner. If you have yet to see the film Coffee & Cigarettes (2003), I highly recommend you Netflix it now!

eNjOy!

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BLACK MILK X HHDX – ELEC MIXTAPE

Black Milk with another banger mixtape with HHDX before the Tronic joint drops. Partake!

Download Black Milk x HHDX – ELEC Mixtape

Tracklisting after the jump.

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SINCE IT’S A NEW DAY…

I’m making THIS the “classic” of the day!

…nukka.

ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND… the homie Shep informed me of a dope show that will be taking place in NY so if you live there I highly suggest you go! I Pho Shure(beta fifty eight-a) would just to make up for the wack ass GZA Liguid Sword tour I was unfortunately @.

PEEP!

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CLASSIC VIDEO: GZA X METHOD MAN – SHADOWBOXING

I’m sad. I consider myself a Wu head, and I’ve never seen this video before. Props to GorillaVSBear.

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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

When I was a kid in Cali, my older brother and I listened to a lot of music out of New York. Back then, the East Coast was in the lead and Rap City was in heavy rotation. Even in elementary school, I was buying albums and dissecting them on my pH scale for quality. The hip-hop seed was planted early.

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GZA – PRO TOOLS

Artist : GZA
Album : Pro Tools
Release Date : August 19th 2008

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NEW SCHITT (DOWNLOADS AND SCHITT)

We know it’s tempting to take and not ask any questions, but think about this. If a crackhead can pay for crack, why can’t you pay for proverbial crack? We’re gonna hit you with consistent shit, but please, don’t come here and expect to get the new Lil Boosie album or any shit like that. That’s just not our steez. But on the flipside, it would be silly for us to fuck around on the artists we love and post their entire jawns for free too. So we’ll hit you with crack, archival shit, new singles, fresh finds and the like, but don’t expect full joints like that. It’s just not sensible. Now the messageboard and the email lists….well, that’s a different story. You just gotta gain access to those, and who KNOWS what you’ll get But on to the dope shit after the jump…

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THE SOUL OF D’ANGELO

 We had to re-up this one….it’s just a must have and in my opinion, the R&B Mixtape of the Year.

1. D’Angeloduction
2. Brandy : Baby (D’Angelo And Baby Fro Uptown Remix)
3. Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine (Primo Two Way
Street Mix, Def Squad Rx)
4. Brown Sugar” (Alternate Version, Soul Inside 808
Mix, Remix Ft. Kool G Rap)
5. Lady (CJ Mackintosh Mix, Primo Remix Featuring AZ,
Live Version)
6. Cruisin’ (Wet Remix, Dallas Austin Remix, Live
Version)
7. A Tribe Called Quest : Crew (Yeah, That’S D Playing
The Keys Here)
8. Vertical Hold Featuring D’Angelo : Pray
9. Angie Stone For Devox Featuring D’Angelo : Everyday10. D’Angelo & Erykah Badu : Your Precious Love
(Marvin Gaye Cover)
11. The Boys Choir Of Harlem Featuring D’Angelo :
Overjoyed
12. I Found My Smile Again
13. Black Men United Featuring Boyz II Men, D’Angelo,
… : Will Know
14. Girl You Need A Change Of Mind (Eddie Kendricks’
Cover)
15. Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Roy Ayers’ Cover)
16. The Roots Featuring D’Angelo The ‘Notic + The
Hypnotic + The Spark
17. BB King Featuring D’Angelo : Ain’T Nobody Home
18. Live Sweet Sticky Thing + I’M So Glad You’Re Mine
+ Heaven Must Be Like
19. Gza Featuring D’Angelo : Cold World Remix
20. Method Man Featuring D’Angelo : Break Ups 2 Make
Ups
21. Slum Village Featuring D’Angelo : Tell Me
22. Common Featuring D’Angelo : Geto Heaven Part Two
23. Lauryn Hill Featuring D’Angelo : Nothing Else
Matters
24. Left And Right Featuring Method Man And Redman
(Red Astaire Version)
25. Devil’S Pie (DJ Premier’S Raw Mix, 45 King’S
Remix, Red Astaire Version)
26. Africa (Acoustic Version + LP Version)
27. Spanish Joint (Acoustic Version + LP Version)
28. She’S Always In My Hair (Prince’s Cover)
29. Raphael Saadiq Featuring D’Angelo : Be Here
30. The Roots Featuring D’Angelo : Break You Off
(Original Mix)
31. D’Angelo, Femi Kuti And Macy Gray, The
Soultronics, … : Water Get No Enemy
32. Roy Hargrove Featuring D’Angelo : I’Ll Stay
(Funkadelic’s Cover)
33. Sing A Simple Song Featuring Isaac Hayes And Chuck
D (Sly & The Family Stone)

Enjoy!!

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Last Night the DJ Saved My Life!

After a recent concert my life as a music journalist made sense again. The unpredictability in the hustle. Sometimes there are nights that I am staring at the ceiling wondering why I moved to New York . Focus. Pitching ideas. All for the bylines that mean the world to me.
So when I got to go to the Common concert without having to write about it I was thrilled. Percee P opened the show. While the music blazed over most of the audience’s head, I was zoned out to his articulately paired euphemisms, sprinkled across igneous JDilla beats.
As usual, nostalgia flooded my music consciousness. I rarely listen to the radio. I rely heavily on my own ever-evolving collection for satisfaction. When I truck to Best Buy I am probably too busy buying some to the left music to tune in to the latest.
When I was in elementary school, my older brother, who is a well respected producer beat me in the head with Goodie Mob’s Soul Food and Tribe’s Midnight Marauders. We listened to stuff like Jungle Brothers. Heltah Skeltah. Nas. Davina. HOV. Everybody. So my tolerance for nonsense was obliterated before I hit middle school. Any anyone who flips through my IPOD or hollers at my extensive CD collection is floored by the diversity.

So when Q-Tip hit the stage I went into a trance. I never knew he had such a knack for showmanship. This dude proceeded to hit every solo joint and Tribe song imaginable. I started to feel dizzy watching every hand in the crowd move perfectly in synch, like we were plucked out of an MTV documentary, to “Electric Relaxation,” “Award Tour” and the shocking “Sucka Nigga.”DJ Scratch is beyond words. He and Tip did a little mixing exchange that is probably better fit for a photo to explain.
Then Tip announced, “I’ma get on my jazz shit” and proceeded to SCAT! Yes. Scat like on some Mos Def meets Jill Scott on codeine. I almost forgot that I came for Common. Q-Tip is strongly competing for one of the best performers I have ever seen.

Then Common blazes onto the stage with hits from Be, Finding Forever and Electric Circus strapped to his waist ready to explode. Despite seeing him at many Vh1 Hip-Hop Honors events, Lonnie Lynn was far from tired and ready to pan the camera to himself for his moment of glory in the very place Hip-Hop music was born. He was sensual and inviting. His presence commanded the attention of everybody in the Nokia theatre.
Hip-Hop is alive. Whether through the old –heads reinventing their sound, or the new generation carving their own niche off the block, there is good music to be made and heard. And I needed that night to remind me of the sessions in my brother’s room listening to GZA and critiquing music and trying to be reminded why I still care.
You all were on my mind like Hip-Hop and I wish you were there with me tonight to understand the gravity that surpasses these pictures. Until next time.

My love affair is back in full swing Jack!

And for some reason my camera did something funky here and it was like a double picture with Common’s face (during “Testify”) is glowing through that hand.

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