Congrats to Blu for winning Rookie Of The Year!!!
Shouts to everyone else that won too....
Album Art of the Year: Kanye West - Graduation
Album of the Year: Common - Finding Forever
Album of the Year - Hip Hop: Talib Kweli - Eardrum
Album of the Year - Hipster: M.I.A. - Kala
Album of the Year - R&B/Soul: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Album of the Year - Rock: Radiohead - In Rainbows
Banger of the Year: Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
Most Anticipated Album of 2008: THE ROOTS - Rising Down
Most Slept On Album: Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Most Slept On Artist: Cunninlynguists (WORD!)
The Dilla Award (Producer of the Year): Madlib
BONUS: Blu and Exile - So(ul) Amazing
GO GET THAT BLU & EXILE - BELOW THE HEAVENS LP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Friday, December 21, 2007
FANFARE: OKAYPLAYER AWARDS RESULTS
CLASSIC: Ghostface Killah - All That I Got Is You ft. Tekitha
Since we didn't get a chance to post an old school video on Tuesday, we felt it was only right to at least hit you with a classic......Happy Friday everybody, enjoy.
SAY WHAT?: Inverse - So Far Interview
Los Angeles hip hop has definately been missing that soul that we used to have in the early days, it almost seems as if every emcee or group from the West Coast is either a NY knockoff or on that SMACK DVD battling type shit. So these cats are like the twinkle of light in the dark......pause.....no pun intended and no homo. Say hello to Inverse
this interview was taken from Descry's Blogspot.......
Descry: Do you guys have certain themes carried out in your songs? Have you developed the Inverse sound since that early beginning?
Tunji: Umm...I think, first and foremost, we're both songwriters and really focused on lyrics...so you're always gonna get some well written and thought out words from us...But overall, we just try to make really honest music with a soulful vibe. The songs are usually pretty personal too, but we try to keep the hooks real catchy and memorable as well.
Toby: I would say that I don't think we particularly try to carry any specific themes in our sound....there's some combination of the music mixed with our life experience that leads us in one direction or another....so that can carry us in a lot of different directions...as long as we're being honest and it's done well...then I think we're doing what needs to be done.
Tunji: Our songs are about life...and we try to make soulful, honest hip hop.
Descry: Honest hip-hop...hmm. What artists inspires the "Inverse sound" as a group?
Tunji: Waaaaaay too many to name....I mean, all the people you would expect...OutKast, Jay-Z, Nas, Common, etc. But also, all the really dope artists around us who we are friends with and learning from like Brother Ali, CunninLynguists, OneBeLo and whatnot. I'm also inspired by great songwriters like the Beatles, Bob Marley...all the Motown era soul groups, Sly Stone, Stevie, I could go on forever. Music is like oxygen to me, I'm listening 24/7.
Toby: I loved Michael Jackson! My dad listened to country and blues while my mom listened to more classic rock, Beatles, etc. I listened to radio rap growing up, until i was about 12--some kid from my school (he was 17 so i looked up to him) made a copy for me of Resurrection by Common and Illmatic by Nas...and man that shit blew my mind. I was always a fan of words and writing stories and poems and shit like that...but it wasn't until I heard that stuff then it all came together. Those two albums opened the door to a LOT of dope stuff...94 was a great year for discovering hip hop....Nas, Common, Outkast, Wu-Tang, Dr. Dre, Goodie Mob, etc. All kinds of stuff came out that year and I was obsessed. You know, I actually started trying to write like Common.
Descry: Haha, I bet those early tapes are dope. Your inspirations have taken you both a long way. Now, you're a part of the new reformed LA Hip-Hop scene--how do you feel about all the new talent emerging out of LA?
Tunji: It's amazing, man. I feel lucky, because there is so much talent here...I feel like we're in the middle of something huge. The world is gonna see in the next few years, and it's already starting to happen. I feel like a lot of the people around us are really going to be a part of hip hop's future. You've got artists like Blu, Exile, Aloe Blacc, Pacific Division, TiRon, U-N-I, J Davey, Noah King...all young, hungry and creative. All making honest music, and unafraid to have fun with it. Also, there are lots of transplants from Detroit [Ta'raach...House Shoes...etc.] who are really putting some life into the local scene as well. Then you've got the new generation of Project Blowed cats who are ridiculous [Nocando...Dumbfoundead...etc.]. LA is too dope right now.
Click to read the rest of the interview.
Inverse's album, 'So Far' drops on 1/1/08.
Album Of The Year?
The year is almost over, and it was definately one of the finest years hip hop has seen in a long time. Even though Dre didn't release Botox, there were a lot of exciting releases that almost made you forget about it. Kanye released the highly anticipated 'Graduation'
, Little Brother proved they can hold it down pretty well without 9th Wonder on board, extra'd out ass Amy Winehouse made her debut, even Jay Z dusted off the cape and blessed us with American Gangster.
So the question that remains on everyone's mind is, which album was the best album of the year? The answer to this question seemed so set in stone a few months ago, but then Alicia Keys dropped, Radiohead shocked the industry
and even Lupe Fiasco dropped a pretty nice one. In your opinion, what do you think was the best album of the year, and why? And heres a bonus question: Did anyone drop a classic album this year?
Also check out what Spin Magazine had to say about the best albums of the year.
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Pictures With Words: Lupe Fiasco - Streets On Fire
Disease the virus is spreading in all directions
No safe zone no cure and no protection
No sense of surviving or signs of an infection
No vaccines remedies and no corrections
Quarantines the dreams and cut off our connections
Don't let em in not a friend not a reflection
Everybody's got it and want you to have it next and
Don't accept em if you wanna stay that's an exception
Appeal
The Heal
The I'll of this
Sickness some are still in doubt of it's existence
Some call it forgiveness and some call it the vengeance
Some say it's an exit and some say it's an entrance
The poor say the rich have the cure
The rich say the poor aren't the source
Revolutionaries say it's psychological war
Invented by the press
Just to have something to report
Some say the first case came from a maternity war
Some say a morgue some say the skies some say the floor
Whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores
And everybody is sure
The scientists said it only infects the mind
The little boy said it only infects the girls
The Preacher said it's gonna kill off the soul
A bum said it's gonna kill off the world
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
LMAO!: Bow Wow Demands His Respect!
Wow, of all people to "BOSS UP" on, he's gonna try to boss up on Toure. LOL@his bodyguard eating food talking about "handle what?" Toure was just laughing at him..
Toure was sorta being overly disrespectful though, but that just may be the editing...
Comedy.
UPDATE: Apparently this was supposed to be an episode of Punk'd. If you pay attention, Toure says something along the lines of "didn't anyone tell them what this was"? Which leads me to believe that Punk'd is scripted also, and that makes sense considering those episodes that never made it because of the "punkee" wildin' out, e.g. The Black Eyed Peas actually getting into a fist fight with the Punk'd crew.
Britney Spears' Sister Jamie Preggo @ 16!
Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's Sister, Is Pregnant
'Zoey 101' star is 12 weeks along in her pregnancy, she told OK! magazine.
By Kurt Orzeck
Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's sister, is pregnant, the 16-year-old told OK! magazine. The father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, she said. "It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," Jamie Lynn Spears, who is 12 weeks along in her pregnancy, told the magazine for its new issue, which hits stands this week.
"I was in complete and total shock, and so was he," she said. "As soon as I found out for sure from the doctor, I took two weeks to myself where I didn't tell anybody. Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone's opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me."
According to the interview, Jamie Lynn confirmed the pregnancy through a home test. She later paid a visit to the doctor, who corroborated the news. She said she revealed the news to her parents shortly before Thanksgiving.
Read rest of article @ MTV.com
Wednesday Laugh: Husband walks in on wife having threesome
*Shakes head* mmmmmHmMmmm
What would Jesus do?
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
THE DROP: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
I strongly recommend that you go out and get this album, wether its ITunes or your local record spot.
Fuck it, here's a sample....
Now get fly....
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
WTF: Whopper Freakout
The experiment of what happens when you take an incredible burger taken away for a day.
TALKIES: The Dark Knight
At first, I didn't really dig the idea of Heath Ledger playing The Joker. I'm a big fan of the first Batman with the Prince soundtrack, and Jack Nickelson always held the illest Joker title to me. But now, I'm kind of intrigued by this new Joker, seems like he's gonna be real disturbing. I'm waiting for the day they quit bullshitting and make a Batman movie that's Rated R.
NEW JOINT: Miguel - Away
Bridgetown affiliate, Miguel, back with another crazy joint....what else is new?
PARTY LIFE: Crash Mansion w/ DJ Premier
DJ Premier came out to bless a set at Crash Mansion last night, but most of my attention was locked in another room. Next door was this small room with its own little bar inside called the Lunchbox, the homie Diz helps throw it. The only reason I left the room DJ Premier was spinning in was because of a random performance that went down, unexpectedly non entertaining. A lotta familiar faces graced the spot, Pac Div came out, Rozzi Dame, DJ Gomez(who was spinning in the Lunchbox), Fonzworth Bentley and a lot of females.
The sound went out right when Gomez was about to start spinning, and the room turned into a bar for a minute. A lotta folks shook out and went into the Primo room, but like 10 minutes into the set, everything got live again. Shouts to the female bartender with the crazy mohawk hair, brilliant Long Island Ice Teas ma'am. The night was definately blessed with different grooves, I found myself with a drink and a two step at one point. By 1:45, I was steppin it out chitown style to the R Kelly joint...
All in all, it was a good Saturday night.
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