I’ll let you in on a little secret — when it comes to R&B, all I really look for is sex. You know, the type of sleaze that made R. Kelly so iconic in the early and mid 90s. Contemporary artists like The-Dream and Drake understand this and bring the right balance of cocky swagger and sexytime to the track. I’ll be completely honest here and just say that my familiarity with Trey Songz’ work peaks somewhere around his high-profile, high-swagger collaboration with Drake; “Successful” from Drizzy’s So Far Gone mixtape. On “The Usual”, Trey Songz is reunited with Drake to make up what is shaping up to some sort of R&B dream team making dream sex jams, just how I like. Hear/download the song below:
At the heels of his unbelievably popularThe Notorious xx mash-up album, DJ Wait What has released This Is Real Life, a project that brings the hip hop kids and hipsters together — a popular notion these days. With pairings like Diddy vs Sleigh Bells, Mase vs LCD Soundsystem, and Nas vs MGMT, you are going to want to check out the well-crafted This Is Real Life. You can listen to the album in its entirety on the SoundCloud player below:
You can download the entire mash-up album for free, if you want, but if you dish out some coin for a download, you will be helping a youth charity promoting writing. #guilt. Make your choice…at BandCamp.
On August 23, 2009, Radiohead played in front of a massive crowd in Prague. The band handed out video cameras to a number of fans who were to shoot the concert from different angles. Footage from several dozen cameras were then edited and clipped together, with a high quality audio recording of the concert, to create this live DVD — and, true to form, Radiohead are giving the entire thing away. You can download the concert in various formats at this website. Watch Radiohead perform “Idioteque” in Prague below:
At the heels of his unbelievably popularThe Notorious xx mash-up album, DJ Wait What has released This Is Real Life, a project that brings the hip hop kids and hipsters together — a popular notion these days. With pairings like Diddy vs Sleigh Bells, Mase vs LCD Soundsystem, and Nas vs MGMT, you are going to want to check out the well-crafted This Is Real Life. (Continue Reading)
On August 23, 2009, Radiohead played in front of a massive crowd in Prague. The band handed out video cameras to a number of fans who were to shoot the concert from different angles. Footage from several dozen cameras were then edited and clipped together, with a high quality audio recording of the concert, to create this live DVD — and, true to form, Radiohead are giving the entire thing away. (Continue Reading)
While this is not the first new piece of T.I. music that’s hit the web (or iTunes) in the last few months, I can now say that the King is back and actually mean it. Despite a poorly chosen song title, “Pledge Allegiance To The Swag” is near-eights minutes of raw hip hop prowess from both T.I. and the Teflon Don himself, Rick Ross. Production is spot on, courtesy of the constantly delivering J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. (Continue Reading)
While this is not the first new piece of T.I. music that’s hit the web (or iTunes) in the last few months, I can now say that the King is back and actually mean it. Despite a poorly chosen song title, “Pledge Allegiance To The Swag” is near-eights minutes of raw hip hop prowess from both T.I. and the Teflon Don himself, Rick Ross. Production is spot on, courtesy of the constantly delivering JUSTICE. League. Hear/download the track below:
My next song, I’m not even sending it to radio first. I’m going to work it from the streets to the clubs. Then as DJs ask about it, I’ll deliver it to them. I’m gonna go all the way back to grassroots. I feel that people right now feel I’m going so far over their heads, given my prior success with Paper Trail. They feel like I’m trying to leave my foundation and my demographic behind, which is far from my intention.
Don’t look for [Pledge Allegiance To The Swag] on radio, but online and in the streets and in the clubs, you can look forward to a record. I’m just trying to feed the streets right now.
Previously, T.I. worked with Rick Ross on the bigger-than-life “Maybach Music III” along with Jadakiss and the lovely Erykah Badu. Give yourself a bonus and listen to that tune too:
Chiddy Bang’s debut album, The Swelly Life has officially been pushed back to early 2011. Earlier, the 19-year-old duo had mentioned a late Fall release. Well now, CB are releasing an eight track “mini-album” on October 11 aptly titled The Preview. Like Xaphoon put it, “The main purpose of this release is to give our fans some new music whilst we finish recording our debut album, Swelly Life. It’s called The Preview because it gives listeners a glimpse of what’s to come on Swelly“.
The Preview will include the best of Chiddy Bang’s earlier days — the MGMT-sampling “Opposite of Adults”, the Passion Pit-sampling “Truth” and the Sufjan Stevens-sampling “All Things Go”. The mini-album will also spawn a new single, “The Good Life”, which Xaphoon Jones produced with N.E.R.D’s Pharrell (!!). Then, Chiddy Bang will have hip hop legend Q-Tip on a “fierce dance-floor friendly dubstep” jam called “Here We Go”.
Like I said before, The Preview will be out October 11 on EMI. We don’t have any media from the new mini-album yet, so let’s remember the greatest Chiddy Bang track that didn’t make it to any of Chiddy Bang’s mixtapes and, presumably, their album — their Radiohead-sampling “Because”. Chiddy just kills it but Radiohead won’t clear the sample… come on Radiohead, you’re harshing my buzz.
