Friday, February 20, 2009
Kid Cudi - Day N Nite (video)
Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite from Leak Jones on Vimeo.
Not to hate, I loved the mixtape, but this video is kinda meh...I feel it was trying to be too experimental, a la "Good Morning" video by brethren Kanye...Both tracks, amazing...Both video's, a whole lot of cute animation...
VA Legislature Approves Smoking Ban
The Virginia General Assembly today voted to approve a smoking ban in most of the state's bars and restaurants. The Virginia Senate approved the measure 27-13 on Thursday morning, and a few hours later, the House passed it as well, 60 to 39, without debate.
This is a big deal, since the home state of Philip Morris has failed to pass a smoking ban numerous times over the course of a decade that saw bans enacted across the rest of the country. But it's also not as big of a deal, since, as we've written before, the bill was weakened to allow smoking in "private clubs" and in establishments that have separately ventilated enclosed smoking rooms. Language in the bill that would have allowed smoking in establishments that don't permit minors was removed, however. The smoking ban would take effect Dec. 1.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Classified New Video and Album...
Canadien-rapper-vanguard Classified, is finally back with a new album on April 7th...Check out the radio single, "Is Anybody Listening?" that will have Banksy and Shepard Fairey in search of royalties...
Album cover and tracklisting...
1. Self Explanatory
2. Get Out The Way
3. Choose Your Own Adventure 1
4. Up All Night
5. Quit While You’re Ahead w/ Choclair, Maestro and Moka Only
6 .Inspiration
7. CYOA 2
8. Anybody Listening
9. They Call This (Hip Hop) w/ Royce 5′9″ and B.o.B
10. Oh… Canada
11. CYOA 3
12. Where Are You w/ Saukrates
13. Trouble
14. Use to Be w/ Mic Boyd
15. Breaking Up
16. One Track Mind w/ Joel Plaskett
17. CYOA 4
18. Things Are Looking Up w/ Chad Hatcher
19. Still Got it
20. Loonie w/ D-sisive, Shad, DL Incognito and Buck 65
21. CYOA 5
22. CYOA 6
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Seanniessentials Vol. I The Lions - Jungle Struttin'
Stumbled across this gem on a forum I was on the other day, take a listen for yourself...If the link dies, message me and I'll send you another one...
http://www.zshare.net/download/557292360fdc0bdc/
Like their brethren from the Los Angeles basin The Culver City Dub Collective, the San Fernando Valley's The Lions have crafted an exceptionally enjoyable and listenable old school reggae record that wears its influences on its sleeves. But they are just that - influences, not mimicry. At the core, The Lions have crafted full songs - ten originals and one cover - many in preparation for deconstructing them dubwise (unlike many of their predecessors who didn't complete the song construction, leaving the dubs uninspired and plodding).
In this album's stew are dashes of Bunny Lee and Augustus Pablo production values, King Tubby mixing techniques, and Aggrovators and Black Disciples instrumentation.
"Thin Man Skank" is an instru-dub with a horn melody that sounds like what would have happened if Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk" was a Bunny Lee/King Tubby affair. "Hot No Ho" is an infectious meld of Jamaican & Cuban styles. "Fluglin' at Dave's" is, like "Thin Man," an instru-dub with a Flugel Horn lead, not the typical instrumentation that one would hear in proto-roots reggae from the early '70s, and it's captivating because of it. So, too, is "Tuesday Roots"'s screaming Hammond organ lead, a far better road-tested sound than the roller-rink organ sound that was popular back in the day. Elsewhere there are splashes of spring reverb that was common in King Tubby mixes, the drum sound that was popularized by Jamaican drummer Tin Leg Allen, and the 'dread' minor key horn arrangements that would back up Burning Spear.
On a couple of occasions The Lions do lose the plot: the chorus of "Sweet Soul Music" (an original, not a cover of the Arthur Conley tune) is lackluster compared to the body of the tune, and the cover of Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)" is disjointed. The bulk of the original James Brown rhythm remains, but the change from James' on-the-one beat to a Jamaican one-drop rhythm (on the third beat) doesn't jell. It may have been better to take the composition in a thunderous steppers arrangement like Yabby You used to direct. (That said, Noelle Scaggs' lead vocals on the track are magnificent; keep an eye on her.)
Overall, a highly recommended debut from a collective that knows how to deftly interpret the past and bring it into the future.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Historic
WASHINGTON DC - It was a historical day in D.C., especially at the Stussy store where 100 Historic shirts were made, 200 people inside the store, and another 400 people outside trying to get in. Bun B, 9th Wonder, Wale, and many more were there to keep the crowd entertained.
www.stussy.com
www.cmonwealth.com
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