BRB

Just wanted to let y'all know that the blog isnt dead.. we're just taking a break.
Check back sometime near the middle of august for a ton of new shit and probably some new authors.
Until then, Peace.

Truth

Two of my favorite up and coming groups Chiddy Bang and Passion Pit. Uses "Better Things" by Passion Pit as a sample and it works out pretty nicely.  I love these two artists too much to criticize this song so here you go..

Chiddy Bang - Truth (feat. Passion Pit)  by  PTKilla

Mashup Mondays: Easter Egg

Recently i found a mashup artist who goes by Easter Egg. His newest mashup album is called "Jackin' For Beats" (Download). This guys pretty good and at times he even surpasses Girl Talk. The quality of the mashups steadily increases as the album develops, the really good ones starting at about "House Head". The ones before that are just ok but still pretty good. Its a well developed and organized album and i love that it starts really up beat and the last song ends with a chill beat and a Biggie verse. Here are the last three songs on the album.

And I shouldnt have to tell you to play them in order.

The West

For The Ladies

That's The Way

PB&J

So recently alot of rappers have tested the waters of "hipster" music and with the exception of Jim Jones' freestyle over MGMT's "Electric Feel", most artists have come up with some pretty good collaborations. One group in particular has gotten notable attention, as Peter, Bjorn and John have even gone on tour with Kanye, playing as his back up band at times. Their newish song "Nothing to Worry About" has also gotten a fair amount of attention from DJs. Their album Living Thing came out on March 31 and is availiable on iTunes.

Young Folks (Freestyle) - Kanye West and Peter, Bjorn & John

Lets Call It Off (Feat. Peter, Bjorn & John) - Drake    

Nothing to Worry About (Troublemakers Remix)

Party and Bullshit (Dave Wrangler Remix) - Notorious B.I.G. vs Peter, Bjorn & John

The Best and The Whitest (Pt. 3)

...Last One

Mickey Avalon

Mickey Avalon is a filthy rapper with a filthy past. He was literally a manwhore at one point in his career. His sordid history is obvious in his lyrics, the cleanest of which could make the dirtiest of hookers cringe. I love this guy. Check him out.

Jane Fona - Mickey Avalon

Asher Roth

The inevitable product of hip-hop's infiltration of the suburbs, Asher Roth has made every rich white kid's dream come true. I maintain that he's really not a bad rapper if you take him for what he is. He's a rich suburban white kid who doesn't pretend to be anything else. Love him or hate him, Asher Roth is one of a kind. Aside from the fact that he sounds like Eminem.

Roth Boys - Asher Roth

Be By Myself - Asher Roth

Mashup Mondays: Ludachrist

This guys got a few cool mashups. He has his own series of mashup albums called Bangfest, but at times he gets a little too electronic for my taste. Here are two of the best songs from the album. Ludachrist's website-->

Soul on Ice - This is really really good. Basically uses "Cold as Ice" as a sample for "Soul Survivor"

 

The Legend of Curtis - This is a pretty cool mashup of Zelda and 50 Cent's "Little Bit". Let The Beat Build on this one

The Best and The Whitest (Pt. 2)

A couple more crackers out there grindin...

Aesop Rock

Long Island Native Aesop Rock is not only white, but jewish. However, he's managed to overcome these natural disadvantages to become a respected member of the indie-rap scene. His rhymes don't always make sense, and a little tough to follow with his rapid-fire delivery. It sounds good though, and the more I listen to him, the more I like him. 

None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock

Brother Ali

Brother Ali is as white as they come. He's an albino. On the subject of his race, he's said that, though he is genetically white, it is from black people that he learned his most valuable life lessons, and with whom he most often identifies. Despite this, he claims that he is neither black nor white, but a freak in a league all his own. 

Uncle Sam Goddamn - Brother Ali

Inevitable

This collaboration was Inevitable.
... I like Lil Wayne's verse. Cover the name and the rest of it could be a Britney Spears song, but i have a feeling that this ones gona grow on me...  The only question is whether it will be before or after this hits the radio with avengence

Revolver - Madonna Feat Lil Wayne

bonus: another recent rnb weezy collabo [waynes on point in this one]

Down (Feat Lil Wayne) - Jay Sean

The Best And the Whitest (Pt. 1)

Eminem's not doing it for me anymore, and I've had to do some searching for causcasion representation in Hip-hop. As a general rule, white people shouldn't rap, but here's my list of the best and the whitest out there anyway.

Madchild

One half of duo Swollen Members, Madchild, along with counterpart Prevail, has become one of the best-selling artists of his native Canada. That may 

not sound particularly cool, but I assure you, this dude can rap. Counter-intuitive though it may sound, these guys are some gangster Canadians.

Pressure - Swollen Members

Slug

Though not technically a hundred percent white, any list without slug would be incomplete. He, along with producer Ant make up the renowned independent group Atmosphere. His lyrics are clever, and he's got some nice flow for a (partially) white dude.

Yesterday - Atmosphere

Full Moon

Armand van Helden feat. Common

pretty good, kick-back beat. Cool video. Common naturally tears up the track.

Turns out this came out 2 years ago but whatever

Download

Mashup Mondays: Triple Threat

This week I have 3 mashup albums: Adrian Champion's relatively new Stars and Stripes featuring The White Stripes, and oldies but goodies - Viva La Hova featuring Jay-Z and Coldplay, and A Rhyming Ape featuring Lupe Fiasco and Gorillaz.

Stars and Stripes  -  Some posers posted this last week drooling over it as though it was the soundtrack to the second coming but honestly it isnt all that. This being said there are still some pretty good tracks that make this album worth checking out.

Ante Up Every Way - Featuring M.O.P.

Stars Stripes - Featuring Adrian Champion and Brian Jacobs

Tha Countdown Blues - Featuring Red Man

Viva La Hova - Terry Urban came out with this album this winter. The Jay-Z Coldplay mix works well for the most part, much like MTV's Collision Course that put his rhymes to Linkin Park, but there are one or two beats that just dont sound good at all. Never the less, this buried treasure is now availiable again for anyone who missed it. (What if we cry?, X-Y-Z, and Lost Part 1 are 3 of my favs)

A Rhyming Ape - Lupe Fiasco + Gorillaz= gold. Short but sweet, the three-year-old A Rhyming Ape is a great album from head to toe. Preview

WU-TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN

Raise your Iron Flags.

Mr. Hudson Follow Up

Hudson Mix

As a quick follow up to PT's post, here's a 5 minute preview of  hudson's upcoming Album "Straight No Chaser". I'm still not sure how I feel about this guy.

Let Me Be Your Supernova

New music from the silver fox, Mr. Hudson. More Kanye on autotune. You make youre own judgement.

Personally I like this song the more I listen to it. And Kanye is welcome to support and showboat his newly discovered talent(Mr. Hudson) as long as he actually sounds decent doing it.

"Supernova" - Mr. Hudson feat. Kanye

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N.A.S.A.

N.A.S.A. (North America South America) is a collaboration between American DJ Squeak E. Clean, and Brazillian DJ Zegon. They got together everyone from E-40 to Tom Waits, and threw them all together on one album. The result sounds a little bit like someone recorded a mashup in the studio. The clash of musical styles gets to be too much on some tracks, but overall I think they pulled it off. The album is called The Spirit of Apollo. Give it a listen.

"Gifted" - Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li

You've Probably heard this one. Some of Kanye's best.

"Spacious Thoughts" - Kool Keith, Tom Waits

Waits on a hip hop track, while completely unexpected, works surprisingly well.

The Mayor - The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface, & DJ AM

Good shit from everybody, but I wish they'd let DJ AM scratch a little bit more. 

Whachadoin? - Spank Rock, M.I.A, Nick Zinner, Santogold

I have no idea who the fuck Nick Zinner is, and I'm not a big fan of M.I.A. Otherwise a pretty high quality song with an interesting beat. 

Not Bad...

But kinda gay. Asher Roth and his college cohorts have a nice little jam sesh over BEP's "Boom Boom Pow".

Mashup Mondays

Still Fly Like a Dragon (Big Tymers vs yeah yeah yeahs)  by  PTKilla

Got some more quality mashups this week. Big Tymers vs. the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (i didnt make this), Bloody Beetroots vs. Lil Wayne, Radiohead vs. Eve, and Ghostface vs. Spoon.

We Are From Venice (Lil-Weezy-Ana) - ignore the static at the beginning, its part of the beat

Tambourine Reckoning - i really like this one (1:55)

The Ghostface of You Still Lingers - weird but good

Passion Pit Comes to DC

Recently I've been helplessly hooked on Passion Pit, so when I heard that they were coming to DC I almost fell off my dinosaur. But yeah, they are coming to the Black Cat in DC on June 9th.

...And yeah, that is the day we get out of school..

more info-->

Heres a song from their album Manners

Moth's Wings - it gets good

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We Own The Sky

M83 - We Own the Sky from Mute Records on Vimeo.

Educate yourself about M83. Great electronica group from France with a unique shoegazing touch. Imagine flying over a colorfully lit Tokyo cityscape at 2 in the morning... yeah.

Gone Fishing

Easily one of the best mixtapes of the year. Trademark Cool Kids steez with Don Cannon drops and samples. Get the whole thing for free below:

http://www.zshare.net/download/597235278c9eb5ae/

I'd nail that midget

Light Show

Yar found this video of a electronica concert. This gets really trippy.

Mashup Mondays: E-603

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This week I got a really good mashup album by this guy named E-603. Even though this guy looks like he belongs at Hogwarts his beats are actually sick and Girl Talk-esque. You can download the entire album here.

other stuff:

Lil Wayne vs Buffalo Springfeild

Thinking of What it's Worth

Daft Punk vs. Ghostface Killa

Daft Ghost 500

Justice vs. Kevin Rudolf

Just Let Us Rock

Murs - The Science

Directed by Erick Peyton and Chris Conine.

Interesting Story.

Pow

Rap Saviors - K-Sparks & Angelous (Z-share)

- Great rap song with a Jay-Z sample on it.  Upbeat electronic beat to it.

 

Balla - Flo-Rida, Billy Blue, Brisco (Z-share)

- Also very upbeat.  Feel good rap.

Hot Like Sauce - Pretty Lights (Z-share) 

- Epic.