RIP Heavy D….dude was always a fun listen and will always be apart of the golden age of hip hop.
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Hello fellow music aficionados, it’s me…No really, you remember me, right? Trav? No, Traaaav….You don’t? You remember Wake Your Daughter Up? You know, that one blog named after a long forgotten mediocre hip hop album from 1990? You don’t? WYDU was in XXL, Vibe and the Hip Hop Connection. Still no? I am the third of the trio of the bloggerhouse gang. Really? Still no? Well, hell, just swim through the archives found on here and get reacquainted with me, because like Nine, I’m back! Wait, who’s Nine you ask? You know, “Whutcha Want”? Oh forget it…
The rumors of my demise have been circulating the internet for the past six months. I’ve heard I quit blogging to join a monastery, that I received third degree burns on my ears after a freak accident that involved gasoline, a match, some Bose headphones and a Drake CD. There was also a rumor that I started a polka blog after swearing off hip hop during a marathon inbox session and overdosing on mediocre to crappy submissions, which probably isn’t too far from the truth.
Honestly, life happens, things change, and real life can be a bitch. Throw in the fact that after five plus years of blogging and having some disappointments in the “biz”, one kind of just gets burned out. It happens. I’ve enjoyed my time away from blogging (I still hate using that term), but I had started getting the itch again the past month or so. I’m not saying I’m back and good for 10-20 assorted posts during the week. I’ll probably go back to maybe writing a couple times a week, talking about stuff of the past or shit that I’m currently digging and forgo the whole promotion/email inbox thing. Meaning, I’ll be doing this for me.
So that’s it ladies and gents, I hopefully plan on doing this a couple times a week. I got some ideas of topics I want to cover and things I want to write about as I get my writing skills back up to par.
Five Things I’ve Been Diggin’ Lately….
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“Face In Disguise” is Build Jewelz reconstituted by Has-Lo and Exile. The producer has crafted music for Mobb Deep, Akon and Snoop Dogg, not to mention his classic long player with Blu: Below The Heavens. Exile lends this track an intense musical backdrop full strings and monastic chanting that brings out a religious tone that matches Has-Lo’s lyrical prose. Hope and faith are pitted against an unyielding external reality that Has-Lo depicts with the wordplay of a virtuoso.
“My grandmother says “you need to put your faith into Christ”
And yet, waning in faith, I hate her advice
An atheist right? To pray in the sky, a face in disguise
Well beyond saying I’m blessed to say I’m alive
Awaiting a sign from god, meanwhile failing to rise
And what’s the point really? I spend the week
Plotting a scheme to get filthy, or let the stress kill me
If I’m cutting you off the love that I had was built cheap
You holding a grudge? Feel free”
About The Album:
Has-Lo, the Philadelphia based emcee/producer who brought you the critically acclaimed album In Case I Don’t Make It, is back! Conversation B is a complete re-envisioning of ICIDMI. Exile, J-Zone, Oddisee, Kev Brown, Eric Lau, Apollo Brown and more lend their extensive production powers to the project. It is eclectic, melodic, chaotic, bleak and brutal all at once. The journey of a man at the tipping point continues…
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Dallas based producer, and new Mello Music Group signee, Gensu Dean has just dismantled and reassembled Roc Marciano’s new classic Scarface N*gga off of Roc Marcy’s Marcberg Album (FatBeats). 2DopeBoyz was good enough to debut the track today as well. The remix is another taste of Dean’s style and what he has in store on his upcoming debut album Standard Life due out in February 2012 on MMG.
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As seen recently, live on the main stage at the A3C Festival, J-Live covers Dwyck in it’s entirety. This studio recording is from the highly anticipated, soon to be released mixtape “The Live Supremacy”. J-Live, in typical three man team S.P.T.A. fashion, covers the classic Nice & Smooth Gang Starr collaboration. Complete with homage to the late great Guru.
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Dirty Pretty Things, Big Pooh’s long-awaited sophomore solo album is now available for sale through Big Pooh’s For Members Only label, and for fans who purchase the album through iTunes, a handful of additional bonus tracks are included, as well as a special, deluxe edition digital booklet. To celebrate, Big Pooh is equally excited to release his latest video, this one for Dirty Pretty Things’ second single, “They Say,” featuring Choklate.
“We wanted to do something fun and different,” explains Pooh, who teamed up with Kent Willard, also the director behind Pooh’s “Medicine Man” video, for this latest visual. Joe Scudda came up with the concept, according to Pooh, with Pooh and Willard executing a dark, twisting visual complete with chase scenes,kidnappings, mystery, and mayhem – not to mention cameos from Scudda, Chaundon, and others.
Fans in Los Angeles this evening can join Big Pooh and friends for the Dirty Pretty Things album release party. Takingplace at Zanzibar, and kicking off at 9:00pm, the event will be hosted by Thurzday, with Pooh taking the stage to perform a few songs for fans throughout the evening. The event is 21+ and a $10 cover will be charged at the door.
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For dreamers and simply music lovers alike, TzariZM’s [Day] Dream EP has finally arrived! This EP takes this one half of Strangaz Productions (other half IMAKEMADBEATS) and shows you who he is a person and what he can create as an emcee.
TzariZM has put in plenty of work with the likes of Planet Asia, Oh No, Casual, Celph Titled, Wordsworth, Akrobatik, Q-Unique, The Beatnuts, Oddisee and more. [Day] Dream will be followed by a collaboration album with Planet Asia, competely produced by TzariZM, called Via Satellite, set to drop early 2012!
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Following up last year’s critically acclaimed release, “Nineteen Ninety Now”, comes an additional bonus set from the MC/Producer duo of Celph Titled & Buckwild. Aptly titled “Nineteen Ninety MORE”, this jam-packed double disc serves as a companion title to the well received “Ninety Now.” Due to popular demand, this release features four unreleased songs from the original sessions, which include guest appearances from Cella Dwellas, Outerspace, Laws (J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League), Kwest (formerly Kwest Tha Madd Lad) and Lord Digga. Also included are the three previously vinyl-only cuts “The Celph Titled Show”, “Nothin’ To Say (feat. Rise)” and “There Will Be Blood [Remix] (feat. DITC and Brand Nubian)”. In addition, all the instrumentals for these songs are gathered here, along with a second disc that contains the entire instrumental version of the original “Ninety Now” LP (including all interlude tracks and four bonus beats). This specially priced 2xCD is the perfect addendum for anyone who owns “Ninety Now” and is an essential piece for any Buckwild/DITC production enthusiast.
“Nineteen Ninety MORE” will be available on 11-8-2011 HERE.
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