The Official Rap Thread

[daigong]

FUCKING DOPE VIDEO!! The acting was hilarious but shit good to see Deck, RZA, Cappadonna holding it down too. Here's Rae in a new message:
WORDS FROM THE CHEF

[Masa]

U-God - Train Trussle feat. Ghostface Killah & Scotty Wotty
http://sharebee.com/9e298eac

Dope!

[daigong]

Dope = U-God??

EPIC!! Time to spit some rhymes/remix my rants. 



Twenty-two instrumentals from the mighty RZA. 2007 release.
Track List
01. Samples
02. Wu Tang 7th Chamber
03. Black Mamba
04. Diesel
05. Ya'll Been Warned
06. Knowledge God
07. Child's Play
08. Chamber Music
09. Severe Punishment
10. 7th Chamber
11. For Heaven's Sake
12. Camay
13. Ice Cream
14. Triumph
15. State Of Grace
16. Run
17. Brutality (The Grindz)
18. Hollow Bones
19. Reunited
20. Domestic Violence
21. My GOD
22. Duck Season

DOWNLOAD
http://lix.in/-425c0c

[thatonezombie]

YEAH SON! TIME TO DROP BOMBS!

[thatonezombie]

DOUBLE POST FTW!!!!

I know this is kinda old, and I cant find the first 2 eps anywhere and they used to be on his youtube (WHAT THE HELL KWELI???!!!) but there is a video series out there that follows Talib and his adventures

[Masa]

Eminem 3 AM Official Music Video HD

[Masa]

Don Johnson, bitches! The most interesting hip hop album of the year is here!



Don Johnson Big Band is a Finnish hip hop group from Helsinki, formed in the late 1990s. Their music blends influences from a variety of genres such as jazz and electronic music. Don Johnson Big Band consists of four people: Tommy Lindgren (vocals), Kari Saarilahti (guitar), Johannes Laiho (keyboards) and Pekka Mikkonen (horns). Despite their name, they are not a big band, but instead a mix between rap, hip hop, techno, jazz, blues and rock. Regular featuring artists on DJBB gigs and albums are Juuso Hannukainen (percussion), Tero Rantanen (percussion), Emma Salokoski (vocals), and Teppo Mäkynen (turntables). The name "Don Johnson Big Band" comes from the actor Don Johnson in the series Miami Vice. It was invented as a joke when the band couldn't think of any other name.

Links
Official Site
Record Are Forever
Official MySpace

Don Johnson Big Band - Records Are Forever (2009/05/06)


Tracklist
01. L.L.H.
02. Check The Record
03. Get It Right
04. Dirt
05. Take You Home
06. Rush feat. Anna Abreu
07. Dead Men's Hand
08. Time Machine
09. Running Men
10. Dey Don't (Don't Dey)
11. Tugboat's Call
12. These Walls
13. All Hope

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Don Johnson Big Band: L.L.H. w/ Tero Saarinen (HD)

[iacus]

De La Soul - Nike Running Mix
01. Mornin’ Rise ft. Raheem DeVaughn
02. Good Morning
03. Big Mouf
04. Attack of the Stet
05. Pick Up the Pace (Run)
06. Poetic Greed ft. Gina Loring
07. Greedy Man ft. Billy Ray
08. Victory Laps
09. We O.D.
10. Forever

http://rapidshare.com/files/229057337/De_La_Soul_-_Are_You_In_Nike___Original_Run__2009_.zip

[aKaoNi]

I read a making of Liquid Swords article, didn't realize a classic was from a classic! They flipped the Stevie Wonder Rocket Love hook for the Cold World hook!

Stevie Wonder - Rocket Love

GZA - Cold World

 

Ahh the good ol days. 

[Za_Wolf]

I know this is old but i came across it again.. still <3ing it.

NOTORIOUS BIG, 2PAC & JOHNNY CASH - ODDZ.N.ENDZ MASH-UP

[thatonezombie]

Time to push the loot:

Go get Northwest Fresh!


This mixtape is kinda old, and if you have been keeping up with your Seattle hip hop (Ill admit, I havent) you would know at least some of these songs (Home I know was played during HHH cuz I made that playlist), but download for some dope shit
http://www.mediafire.com/?um5f2kl5itm



B.o.B & Lupe
Ummmm Bobby Ray & Lupe Fiasco...... HELL YES!

[Masa]

Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Blood On Chef's Apron Freestyle
03. Cake Baking
04. Interlude Part 1
05. Dedication Freestyle
06. Beauty feat. Noreaga & Joell Ortiz
07. The General
08. Interlude Part 2
09. Cocaine Blunts
10. Whips & Kicks feat. AZ
11. Stick Up Music feat. Busta Rhymes & Uncle Murda
12. Interlude Part 3
13. Fortune & Fame
14. A Bigger Gun feat. Twista
15. Bird Chirp
16. Gutterman Music feat. Jadakiss
17. Interlude Part 4
18. What Do I Do?
19. Letter To B.I.G.
20. Trenchmen
21. Interlude Part 5
22. On The Fly Note
23. Interlude Part 6
24. Flashback Memories feat. The Game
25. R.I.P. feat. B-Real

DOWNLOAD

[electric mole]

this is pretty tite.

[MochaNutz]

Eminem's relapse got ripped, but links are being taken down quick.

http://jpop.com/dl/1663384/ead51b0/E-R-09.zip.html

dang its fucking sickening, literally.  First time i heard a song about gay stepdad molestation, haha. But the album is a trip to listen to =)

edit:
Em vs Nick Cannon!
http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/20090508-cannon.jpg

well, NC is sticking up for his wife, so i respect that. The track is Bagpipes from Baghdad, btw

[Masa]

All In Together Now Raw, A Tribute to Ol' Dirty Bastard


Whether you know him by Ol' Dirty Bastard, Big Baby Jesus, Dirt McGirt, Osirus, or his birth name, Russell Jones, there was no other entertainer / personality like ODB.  On November 13, 2004 (just two days shy of his 36th birthday), hip-hop lost one of its most charismatic and outspoken entertainers when ODB's passed away, ironically while recording in the 36th Chamber Recording Studio.  When ODB passed his cousin, Raison Allah, of Wu Tang affiliated rap group, Brooklyn Zu, promised to keep Ol' Dirty's legacy alive. Raison Allah Iceman, and 12 O'Clock, have executive-produced a 10 track music tribute disc, All In Together Now Raw, A Tribute to Ol' Dirty Bastard," to be released May 2009 which features The Rza, 4th Disciple, Brooklyn Zu, Raison Allah, Masta Killah, Killah Army, Free Murder and more.

"Years ago I promised to keep Dirty's legacy alive, so we formed Zu Films and starting filming a documentary which tells his life story. But with all the footage and interviews, I still felt like something was missing; Dirty was all about the music. When word got out that we were working on a documentary, Wu fam started sending me so many tracks. We had so many dope tracks that we didn't want to wait until the soundtrack to the DVD to put them out.  We decided to put out a tribute album every other month until the documentary, Dirty. One Word Can Change The World, is released in November.  Each tribute disc will include a short trailer to promote the upcoming DVD Documentary."

The documentary directed by Raison Allah for Zu Films, took three years to produce/edit and features many fascinating untold stories and includes interviews from ODB's immediate family, friends, and musical collaborators who reveal the true story of a man who defied the world for his own freedom of expression.  It's the story about a highly intelligent and complex entertainer, whose mission was to be free from all rules; to speak his mind whether considered appropriate or not.

His bizarre on-stage/off-stage antics were widely reported in the mainstream media. Raison Allah and his Zu Films camera crew take viewers to places no outsider has access to.  He revisits the Brooklyn's hood where ODB used to hang out and where he lived, including the home where ODB, profiled for an MTV biography took two of his thirteen children by limousine to a New York State Family Services office to pick up his welfare check while his latest album was still in the top ten of the US charts. The entire incident was filmed by an MTV camera crew and was broadcast nationwide. Thereafter MTV named OBD, the most newsworthy person of 2003.

In one of his most famous public moments, ODB stormed the Grammy stage and made an impromptu speech on live TV.  He grabbed the mic from Shawn Colvin who was in the midst of giving her acceptance speech for song of the year and surprised the world on live TV.  ODB was upset he'd purchased expensive clothes in anticipation of Wu Tang winning the "Best Rap Album," only for Puff Daddy win.  He announced to a stunned audience, "I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children!"

Indeed ODB definitely loved the kids.  He and a friend witnessed a car accident from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio, ran to the accident scene, and organized a dozen onlookers who rescued the 4 year old from a car wreck by lifting the Ford Mustang off of her.  She was taken to the hospital and treated for second and third degree burns.  Under a false name, Jones visited the girl in the hospital frequently until members of the media began to camp out at the hospital anticipating his visits. In the documentary, Raison Allah interviewed the little girl now 13 who ODB rescued from a car wreck. Although she was 4 at the time, she remembers the accident and her hero.

"For our family, Dirt is very much alive," expresses Raison.  "He was more than an entertainer, he was my blood and we miss him!  I know the tribute album and documentary would have touched his heart." All In Together Now Raw, A Tribute to Ol' Dirty Bastard is available May 2009

Zu Films' Dirty One Word Can Change The World documentary will be available nationwide starting November 2009. (Press Release)

http://www.thecryptonline.com/v3/index.php/all-in-together-now-raw-a-tribute-to-ol-dirty-bastard.html

[iacus]

That car crash story is awesome.

Nick Cannon is so full of shit.

[Masa]

Don Johnson Big Band

Today's musical closer comes from Finland, by way of Tinseltown. As the World's Patrick Cox reports, strange things happen when you name your band after a Hollywood star. The group's name is Don Johnson Big Band. “We have really nothing to do with Don Johnson, nor are we a big band.” That's singer Tommy Lindgren. More on the Don Johnson non-connection later.

Lindgren and three Helsinski high school buddies formed Don Johnson Big Band a decade ago. They've cut three albums, all of them strong sellers in Finland. The songs are at times message-laden…at others whimsical. “That's one of the elements that's been missing from Finnish bands - and from finnish music in general. It's traditionally been very very serious. And we try not to be that serious.”

This kind of laidback hip-hop is quite revolutionary in Finland, where heavy metal is dominant. The members of Don Johnson Big Band aren't huge metal fans, but singer Tommy Lindgren says he understands why so many of his countrymen are. “The only conclusion that you can come to is that it's so terribly depressing and dark and cold here that heavy metal is for a lot of young Finns who pick up an instrument and start playing, it's kind of a natural channel of the angst, the aggression that builds up in them as they try to survive in this dark, cold climate.”

Don Johnson Big Band survives by escaping - they recorded parts of their last album in Nashville and Portugal…and they've also performed in China. Just like when the Rolling Stones played in China, the authorities there wanted to check the lyrics of Don Johnson Big Band's songs. For some reason this song - whose title I can't repeat on the air - made it past the censor.

“At the time when I actually did the lyrics, the Iraq war had just begun and it actually has quite a lot to do with that. For example, the third verse of the song begins "we will kill your leaders and bring you democracy." The band performed the song in China without incident. And has been doing so, in Finland, ever since.

And that is where the Don Johnson Big Band story might have ended - were is not for a phone call their manager received last Spring. The call came from an associate of as, singer Tommy Lindgren puts it, the man himself. The man, it turns out, was tickled pink that a group of Finnish musicians had named themselves after him. And so Don Johnson invited the Big Band to Canada, where he was shooting a movie.

“We flew to Calgary for 3 days and met with him, spent a couple of days have lunch, dinner with him, going out with him, and - and talked about the possibility of maybe working on some things together in the future.” Nothing yet has come of that talk. These days, the Miami Vice icon is starring in "Guys and Dolls" on a London stage. That's where we nearly caught up with him…but he was too busy to talk.

There's one instrumental track on the band's latest CD. The number is called intriguingly Don Johnson Big Band - it's very much a song in search of a singer. Could it be that occasional singer Don Johnson would lend his voice to this tune? The man after all, does like to sing. Ok, so it may take some work to do to meld the two styles. Whether or not that happens, Tommy Lindgren will always savor his weekend with Don Johnson. “It was bizarre, just like being there with this guy who has been a part of our band in a weird way from the beginning.”

http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/7725


Don Johnson Big Band One MC, One Delay

Don Johnson Big Band Road

[Masa]

Del The Funky Homosapien Delivers Free 'Stimulus Package'

May 08, 2009 06:28 AM ET

Oakland rap legend Del the Funky Homosapien, like all musicians, is coming to grips with a rapidly changing music industry. Unlike most, though, he's looking to himself for the solution, personally bankrolling his new album "Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)" and releasing it as a free download. "I just wanted people to believe in something again," Del told Billboard.com. "I know what's going on. I'm not blind. I didn't think enough people were actually going to buy it to warrant me doing a full-scale release."

To spark interest in "Funk Man," which was made available on April 7 on delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com and Funnyman Entertainment, the Oakland, Ca. rapper released a music video for "Get It Right Now," the album's first single--though he's quick to question that nomenclature. "That's the song I decided to put out and let everybody know I got something new. I don't know if you could call it a single, because I'm not really even working in that parameter." Along with the track, Del is promoting the record with an extensive club tour, which kicked off on April 8 and will visit 29 cities before it wraps in Salt Lake City on May 18. 

"I just wanted people to believe in something again," Del told Billboard.com. "I know what's going on. I'm not blind. I didn't think enough people were actually going to buy it to warrant me doing a full-scale release."

Del's first release since 2007's "The Eleventh Hour," "Funk Man" finds the MC rhyming about the perils of pop culture and putting an errant twist on classic West Coast swagger (as popularized by his own cousin, Ice Cube). But it's also a vehicle for Del's clear frustration with the current state of commercial hip-hop. "I'm waking up every day and thinking, 'Man, I'm Pops,'" he explains. "Back when my Pops was like, 'Turn that mess off, all it is is garbage, you don't know nothing about real music' -- I'm doing that now."

The album was funded in part by sponsorship deals with Skull Candy, Osirus Shoes, and Arnette but primarily by the artist himself, who also wrote and produced the album entirely on his own. "I'm almost fully self-reliant at this point," he says. While free mixtape downloads are commonplace in hip-hop, the same can't be said for full albums. But the rapper insists that for him, giving away an album was the only choice that made sense. "It was just sitting there, and nobody would've heard it ever, like the other 500,000 pieces of music I've got," says Del. "People are like, 'You're giving it away for free? What's the catch?' I'm like, 'There is no catch. You ain't gonna buy it. I know you ain't gonna buy it. But you might listen to it if I give it to you.' "

"I'm just trying to ride the wave, to tell you the truth," Del adds, "because I'm out here like everybody else. I don't really know nothing either. But I'm willing to try something."

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/del-the-funky-homosapien-delivers-free-stimulus-1003971136.story

Del the Funky Homosapien - "Get It Right Now" Music Video

Del the Funky Homosapien – Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)

Tracklist
01. Get it Right Now!
02. And They Thought That was Hell
03. Fit Like a Glove
04. Go Against the Grain
05. Hardcore Punks Can't Take It
06. I'm Smellin' Myself
07. King of Fighters
08. News Alert
09. Simple Satisfaction
10. Sometimes I Gotta Get Stupid
11. Straight From the Big Bad West Coast
12. Land of Funk
13. Young Adrenaline

DOWNLOAD

Whoa! That shit came outta nowhere

[Masa]

Ghostface Killah - She's A Killer feat. Ron Browz
http://sharebee.com/cbdf6523

WTF?!

Ghostface goes techno and his buddy Ron is a fucking T-Pain lovin' robot. Fuckin' A! Seriously, that song is so bad I didn't even wanna share it

[Masa]

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7943474