By Euge | February 12, 2010
I guess I’m on a Southern rap kick this week. This is easily one of the best videos uhh EVER? If only b/c of Andre 3000′s verse bleeding alien blue blood in the back of the car, Reservoir Dogs style. The beat is also sickness. Too bad this Cool Breeze album was weak as hell [...]
By Euge | January 29, 2010
Speaking of co-option of hip hop, I’ve always enjoyed this track from Space Jam, “Hit ‘Em High” featuruing B-Real, Coolio, Method Man, LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes. No, that grouping of rappers doesn’t really make any sense. Yes, everyone is on this track for a dollar bill. But who cares, it still bumps. Just [...]
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By Euge | January 22, 2010
That’s enough of Peace Week. Here’s a disgusting diss track from Columbus, OH emcee Copywrite dissing the holy hell out of Esoteric (from 7L & Esoteric).
“Your song’s lame, but if you want games? Let’s go
It’s like Vin Baker vs. Lebron James.”
Every line is vicious. This is my favorite diss track ever.
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By Euge | January 15, 2010
In the vein of this week’s theme (I have weekly themes, have YOU noticed?), I give you Lyrics Born’s “I Like It, I Love It.” Lyrics Born is Japanese-American, formerly one half of the seminal indie group Latyrx under the Solesides/Quannum Collective from California (which includes Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, and more).
I don’t have much [...]
By Euge | January 8, 2010
Killa Mike is one of those beautifully disjointed amalgams of post-modern Southern rap. A highly educated, deeply philosophical man who raps in the Southern grind-style that never truly fit in with Outkast’s other-worldly persona, he was both too smart for Outkast’s dalliances in social commentary, while at the same time too brutal for their alien, [...]
By Euge | January 1, 2010
La the Darkman was always my favorite extended fam member of the Wu-Tang. And yet, I barely ever saw him appear on ANYONE’S album. What is up with that, Wu?
Anyway, this song first appeared on DJ Muggs’ (from Cypress HIll) Soul Assassins compilation, as evidenced by the sinister production. One of my favorite forgotten songs [...]
By Euge | December 25, 2009
J-Live used to be a middle school teacher in Brooklyn, before he left his job to pursue hip hop full time. Can you imagine this guy being your MIDDLE SCHOOL teacher? J’s been known to perform this song both on the mic and on the turntables doing the scratches at the same time at live [...]
By Euge | December 18, 2009
Look, I’m not going to sit and act like I am a huge fan of Antipop Consortium. They are a legendary “alternative hip hop” group that broke up in 2003, and reunited recently; and some of the emcees in the group (most notably, Beans) are legends in the underground. And some of their tracks are [...]
By Euge | December 11, 2009
I don’t love Atmosphere’s Seven’s Travels as much as I did the Lucy Ford or even the subsequent album, You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having. But it has some insane highlights, including the opener “Trying to Find a Balance.” I listen to this song again and again, and every time I marvel at [...]
By Euge | December 4, 2009
Cocoa Brovaz f/ Raekwon “Black Trump”
Hey! Thanks for the great responses to this blog for the first week. Every Friday, I’m gonna just throw up a video and talk about the song.
Today’s is a call back to some Duck Down ish, a song that I think is woefully underappreciated in that weird late 90’s era, [...]