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[mode107]

This is a mashup of Biggie's Party and Bullshit, and Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA. This shit is good 
Biggie Smalls(Party and Bullshit) Hannah Montana (party in the usa) Remix by andrew hathaway

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^ LOLWUT!!

FREE MEF!!

Peep this shit with GZA and connection aka Feist producer



Mocky featuring GZA
"Birds of a Feather"
10/9/2009 By Josiah Hughes

From King Khan and Fucked Up to Devendra Banhart and Black Lips, OG Wu-Tang rapper the GZA has been all over the indie rock world as of late. So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the MC recorded a guest verse for funky Berlin-via-Saskatchewan producer Mocky.

DOWNLOAD
http://usershare.net/1nqjzj7ibacr

[MochaNutz]

So, i really slept on this Rapper right here until like, a month ago when i got the Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens album.
A westcoast rapper who got signed under a major label recently, so he's probably gonna blow up in the next few years.

The search isn't working for me, so i dunno if these are a repost.  But here's Blu's mixtapes


So(ul) Amazing pt 1

01 Blu – Piece
02 Blu – Git It Now f. Move.Meant & Trek Life
03 Blu – City of Los(t) Ang(e)les f. Co$$
04 Sene – Dope 4 Gold f. Blu
05 Blu – Spanish Winter
06 Blu – My Boy Blu
07 It’s Ok (Part One) f. Myth & Definite
08 Blu – Local Legend (prod. Flying Lotus)
09 Blu – Respect
10 J Dilla – Sun In My Face f. Blu & Jontel
11 Mumbles – Never Ending f. Flora Purim & Blu
12 Blu – Top 5 N Luv (Taking a Little Break)
13 Talib Kweli – Hostile Gospel (rmx) f. Joell Ortiz & Blu
14 Blu – Bad News Barnes
15 Blu & Sene are… A Day Late A Dollar Short – Stoopid (prod. Blu)
16 Blu – Mars (rmx)
17 Blu – Fly (Song of Liberation) (prod. Exile)
18 Blu – Maintain f. Donel Smokes, Co$$ & Jontel (prod. Exile)

http://www.zshare.net/download/54345337a4d67831/



So(ul) Amazing pt 2

1. Blu – Wake Up
2. Blu – Never Be Another Me
3. Blu – For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ft. Evidence, Phonte & Will.i.am) (Prod. By Khrysis)
4. Blu – The Classy Man
5. Blu – We Got You (Prod. By Sene)
6. Blu – I’m Gonna Need You
7. Blu – Change (Ya World)
8. Blu – Lear Jet (Feat. Folk & Stress) (Prod. By Folk & Stress)
9. Blu – On Mars (Feat. Sene)
10. Blu – Vibrate (Feat. Dela) (Prod. By Dela)
11. Blu – The Times (Feat. Keelay & Zaire, Fortilive & Nino Moschella)
12. Blu – All The Kings Men (Feat. Tiron)
13. Blu – Gone
14. Blu – Therapy (Feat. The Alchemist, Evidence, Talib & Kid CuDi)
15. Blu – Baby Don’t Leave Me Now (Feat. Mainframe)
16. Blu – Angelic (Feat. Co$$) (Prod. By Alphabet 4)
17. Blu – Nuts Hang
18. Blu – Hard Times (Feat. DJ Cadik) (Prod. By DJ Cadik)
19. Blu – Mars (Original) (Prod. By Dela)

http://sharebee.com/7b83c25b


S0(ul) Amazing pt 3

01-Blu-Til_We_Die
02-Blu-JB’s_(Gone)
03-Blu-Vanity_(Death_Of_A_Star)_(Pt._1)_(Prod_By_ GODleeBarnes)
04-Blu-Love_Line(s)_(Prod_By_Exile)
05-Blu_Ft_The_Grouch_&_Eligh-Old_Souls_(Prod_By_Flying_Lotus)
06-Blu_Ft_Big_Tone-A_Song_Called_Triumph
07-Blu_Ft_Tanya_Morgan-Morgan_Blu
08-Blu-Smoke_(Prod_By_J-Dilla)
09-Blu_Ft_Flying_Lotus-GNG_BNG
10-Blu-Nino_Brown_(Prod_By_The_RZA)_(Unrelased)
11-Blu-Just_Relax_(Prod_By_Noah)
12-Blu_Ft_Miss_Jack_Davey-IFeel_(Prod_By_Lausd)
13-Blu-Amnesia
14-Blu_Ft_Deep_Rooted-From_The_Heart
15-Blu-Untitled_(Loved_U_2)
16-Blu_Ft_MAG- Laminated_Looseleafs_(Prod_By_DistantStarr)_(Bouns_Track)
17-Blu-Radical_2_(Instrumental)_(Bonus)

http://www.filedropper.com/djheatblupresent-soulamazingthree-getrightmusiccom


and here's a few videoss

So(ul) Amazing
Krystof Andres- "So(ul) amazing" by Blu & Exile

Blu Coller Workers
Blu & Exile "Blu Collar Workers" Video

Johnson & Jonson - Bout it Bout it
Johnson&Jonson "Bout it Bout it" HI-Res Version

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^ yeah the blu & exile album is heat. there's a lot of incredible underground emcee's and producers thats been overlooked or yet to be heard. it's a shame, but they are out there.

[Masa]

Blu

RZA: Wu-Tang a drive-by away from never existing

(CNN)  -- The Wu-Tang Clan -- the New York hip-hop supergroup that spawned millions of album sales, nine solo acts and a few acting careers -- almost never was. Method Man, the group's most recognizable voice, was nearly killed before the band formed, Wu-Tang's chief producer, RZA, writes in his forthcoming memoir. Meth was walking to buy marijuana at 160 Park Hill Avenue in Staten Island -- the house in Wu-Tang's "Protect Ya Neck" video -- when RZA saw him across the street, he writes in the book.

"Come over here, yo!" RZA beckoned, according to "The Tao of Wu" (Riverhead). "He stopped and came running over. A few seconds later -- pow-pow-pow-pow-pow! -- a guy started shooting up the front of 160. A buddy of ours, Poppy, an innocent, school-going, nice guy -- he was shot and killed right there." It wasn't the only close call RZA said could have snuffed the band that rewrote the rule book for hip-hop acts. The year before the group formed in 1993, RZA was acquitted on an attempted murder charge that could have put him behind bars for eight years, he writes in "The Tao of Wu," out Thursday.

Expanding on the book's anecdotes in an interview with CNN, RZA explained that if he had been imprisoned or if Method Man, aka Clifford Smith, had been killed, the band never would have come to fruition. RZA, whose real name is Robert Diggs and whose stage name is pronounced "Rizza," also talked about his role in the death of his cousin, Russell Jones, better known as Ol' Dirty Bastard or ODB. Two days before his 36th birthday in 2004, ODB died in a New York recording studio from an overdose of cocaine and painkillers. RZA writes in the book that he once witnessed ODB force his own son to watch him do drugs. RZA tried to leave, he writes, but ODB wouldn't let him. Now, RZA told CNN, he wishes he would've been tougher with ODB about his drug problem.

Following are excerpts from the interview, which has been edited for language, flow and length:

CNN: Could your imprisonment or Method Man's death have derailed Wu-Tang's formation?

RZA: Either one of those incidents could definitely have derailed it. Of course, myself being the abbot, the one who came with the idea, if I wouldn't have made it out of that tumultuous time -- it seemed like I wasn't going to make it out of it; there was a lot of odds against me -- but we stood strong, and self-defense made sense to the jury. We beat that ...

It was the victory over that incident that made me change my whole direction. In a way, it's double-edged in that incident. One, if I would've lost that, yeah, Wu-Tang wouldn't have happened, but also it's the victory of it that inspired me and gave me the drive also to go and really get serious about Wu-Tang and the things I was dealing with.

Same thing with Meth, he always brings it up ... that that day saved his life. He actually said, if it was anybody else calling him, he wouldn't have came.

CNN: In the book, you cite lessons from Eastern religions, Christianity, Islam, [Nation of Islam offshoot] Five Percent, numerology, comic books, kung fu, chess. What would you say to someone who says it's difficult to reconcile these dogmas?

RZA: Like it says in the Bible, "In the beginning was the word, and the word became flesh" -- if we go to the root of the word, we will find that, yeah, everything is similar. Everything is teaching us all the same path.

It's just that one religion was good for these people because of their living conditions. In the Quran, they mention paradise being filled with wells, wells of water, and if you're in the desert and you've got a chance to get water and gardens -- as they describe paradise in the holy Quran -- if you're going to get gardens, that's the paradise that fits your situation. ... Everything they're saying relates to the people they're talking to. ...

You remove the messenger and take the message.

CNN: You say in the book that your penchant for violent lyrics in your younger years "was a product of my history and environment" and that it no longer represents you. But you also say you won't repudiate violence. Why not?

RZA: One reason I haven't repudiated it is because when it's necessary, it's necessary. [The Bible's] Ecclesiastes tell us there's a time for everything -- a time for war, a time for peace -- so in times for war, there's time for violence.

Then in [the Hindu scripture] Bhagavad Gita, it says Arjuna was talking, Arjuna didn't want to commit violent acts against an army that was attacking him. He couldn't find it in his heart to do it. It was people he loved. He didn't want to get into violence, but Krishna had to point out to him, "Your duty is your duty." ...

So, to me, violence in the light of justice is still violent, but I don't see it the same. It's because of justice that I don't repudiate violence because justice must be served somehow.

CNN: ODB was a product of his environment as well. To what degree were you and other Wu-Tang members responsible for his death?

RZA: The guys would say it's more me than them because they say that's my cousin and I was right there. If you let a man that you love or anybody -- man, woman or child that you love -- sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them ...

Everybody let him do what he wanted to do. ... There were times when I took his drugs and threw them down the toilet. When I do that, he would get so pissed off I don't see him for weeks after that. ...

So it got to a point, I was like, "[expletive] it, let him do his drugs" just to have him around me, just to keep him there. ... But it's still neglect, yo.

CNN: You say you ran Wu-Tang like a dictatorship in its first five years. I know you and Raekwon have had creative differences and Ghostface Killah is suing you over royalties. Ever regret the dictatorship approach?

RZA: I don't regret it because it got us to the power we are. ...

To me, in the beginning, the dictatorship led us to such a strong foundation that even though Wu-Tang seemed to be crumbling, it didn't fall because of the root foundation of one man's idea. But now as it's coming back together -- we're living in the twilight age of it right now -- it's still surviving because of the democracy of it.

CNN: Wu-Tang is still around, but nothing like the heyday of the 1990s. Will we ever see a renaissance?

RZA: Well, to me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan. ... It's just like hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. ...

The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure.

CNN: Have you accomplished everything you've set out to accomplish?

RZA: I'm me and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, "Well he did this; he did that." I'm proud to be accepted, but I feel like I've just scratched the surface for some weird reason.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/12/rza.tao.wu.tang/index.html

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DOPE!! Tao of Wu is gonna be the blue print to any organization. The first 5 years of Wu was the most amazing period. What's Ghost and Rae complaining now.

And Props Mocha!! EXILE and Blu giving new west coast a new name. Unlike Dre. WOO DETOX.

[Masa]

Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter The Dubstep…


Frank Radio and iHipHop Distribution are proud to announce the highly anticipated follow-up to 2005’s “Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol. 1″ On November 10th, the newest and freshest sounds in underground electronic music encounter the grimiest and most hardcore hip-hop click in this one-of-a-kind album: “Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter The Dubstep.” As Vol. 1 sought to introduce hip-hop fans in general, and specifically, the famously large, loyal and diverse fan-base of the Wu-Tang to the burgeoning world of underground hip-hop, so Vol. 2 seeks to expose another untapped resource of underground talent, skill and artistry to this very same avid and intrepid fan-base.

The project serves a double purpose as well: many of the pioneers and practitioners (DJ’s and producers) in the Dubstep world came up in a time when Wu-Tang ruled the international airwaves. Unlike much commercial hip-hop, the immediacy of Wu-Tang’s sound spoke to many outside of the scope of the typical hip-hop fan, across oceans and at home. Their music and style helped to shape an emerging artform that hadn’t yet defined itself. Now, in 2009, as dubstep continues to grow, expand and encompass more styles and subgenres, the Wu-Tang sound is reintroduced into the mix, to spawn a new and unique musical crossbreeding, that is greater than the sum of its constituent parts.

This groundbreaking album is trail-blazing the collaboration between Dubstep and Hip-Hop, with stomach-pounding, bass-thumping guttural beats, and gully, gritty and grimy lyrics that break into the next decade in the chapters of each respective genre’s history. With Scuba, Parson, Trillbass, Dakimh, DZ, Rogue Star, Stenchman, Datsik & many more producing not remixes, but complex re-interpollations that include a veritable goldmine of Wu-Tang verses from the vaults that feature Raekwon, Ghostface Killa, RZA, GZA, Method Man, U-God & Masta Killa, Wu affiliates Killah Priest, Bronze Nazareth, Prodigal Sunn, Solomon Childs, Son One & more, and guest spots from Busta Rhymes, MF Doom, Pimp C, Three 6 Mafia, Ras Kass, Vast Aire, Canibus, Lord Jamar & many more, this one of a kind compilation is at the forefront of an emerging cultural and musical blend that is taking place on the margins of the mainstream, but will be talked about for years to come….

http://www.ihiphop.com/?p=32507

“Deep Space” Featuring RZA & Lord Jamar (Jay Da Flex & Yoof Remix)
http://burnupload.ihiphop.com/download.php?id=649E86C41

“Love Don’t Cost (A Thing) / Still Grimey” Featuring Icewater, Method Man, U-God & Prodigal Sunn (Nebulla & Dore Remixes)
http://burnupload.ihiphop.com/download.php?id=D6F7206D1

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That SHIT IS DOPE!!!!! Unlike what Del dropped with Deltron 3030 ....just thumping thumping thumping WUTANG!!

[Masa]

Raekwon In Berlin
Raekwon In Amsterdam
Raekwon in Philly part 1 O D B

[Masa]

Killah Priest "The 7 Crowns Of God"
Killah Priest - Truth
Killah Priest ft Ras Kass - Milli Vanilli (Elizabeth)

[thatonezombie]

One hour special Mos Def in Japan

Current Music Presents: Embedded with Mos Def in Japan // Current

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RZA was signing shit at Barnes & Noble. lol I wonder if Ping made it when I txt'd him at 3pm





COP DAT TAO OF WU!!!  

Srsly. Rika Ishikawa and Wu-Tang are the celebs I would most like to meet.

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The Presser. (ETA: Featuring shaky cameraman and gangsta MC lady!!)

RZA THE TAO OF WU - Book Signing Tour (NYC)

This is fuckin dope quote...

"We all travel a way or path in life. What I did in this book, we broke it down to seven pillars of wisdom of different things that happened in my life that brought me to the fruition of the man I am. I think all of us are striving to be better men, and sometimes we don't have a map. Going to the 'hood, we just know the 'hood talk and the 'hood mentality or the American video game mentality. As the great, late Mr. Magic — rest in peace, Mr. Magic — would say, when his show would go off, he would say, 'A fool can learn from his own mistakes, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.' That's what this book is."

[Masa]

RZA

XXL presents Def Jam's entire rap discography

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diggin' this album


1. Intro
2. Freedom
3. Hey Young World feat. Aloe Blacc & Devoya
4. Stars
5. Life As A Shorty feat. J. Mitchell
6. The Ecology
7. Our Way feat. Evidence
8. Why
9. Samsonite Man
10. Father
11. Sunny CA. feat. Coss & Mistah Fab
12. Bo Jackson feat. Exile
13. Lupita
14. When She Calls
15. Boy Meets World

Bonus Tracks:
-The Score feat. Planet Asia
-Breathe feat. Bravo

*edit Here's my rip

http://www.twitter.com/?d=DEGIDFET

preview:
Fashawn feat. Blu - Samsonite Man
Fashawn - "Day In Sunny CA"

[Masa]

^ Good stuff. I even played a couple of Fashawn joints on HHH yesterday



Sean Price - Slum Shady Skit (Kimbo Price 27th October)

[thatonezombie]

Travis Barker Remix Slaughterhouse "The One"

[Masa]

RZA Produces 'On The House' For Wu-Tang Members
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/447554/rza-produces-on-the-house-for-wu-tang-members.jhtml

[thatonezombie]

KARDINAL OFFISHALL 'CLEAR!' (Official Video-HD)

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Masta Ace & Edo G - Little Young | Official HD Music Video

the new masta ace & edo g is kinda funny lol