Damn. Following “Survival” and “Berzerk“, Eminem gives free how-to-kill-shit classes in “Rap God.” The song is six minutes and seven seconds of “I’m divine, stop rapping and put your career down.” He’s spitting double time, triple time, all kinds of polyrhythmic patterns. Here’s the album cover and tracklisting for The Marshall Mathers LP 2, out November 5th. Check the Survival video in case you missed it. …
Author: Tracy Jones
Black Milk’s latest effort “No Poison No Paradise (Fat Beats/Computer Ugly Records)” is streaming at Pitchfork. The album features Black Thought, Quelle Chris, Robert Glasper, Ab, Dwele, Mel, and Tone Trezure. About the album, “I wanted to focus more on storytelling and having a collection of songs with subject matters that tie into one another,” said Black Milk, according to Hip-hop DX. “Just like a dream, the scenes are always changing and sometimes feel random and inconsistent.” He continued, “It’s a mixture. Some songs …
Nabil Elderkin just directed a music video for James Blake‘s “Life Around Here” remix featuring Chance The Rapper. The video was shot in Hertfordshire, England. It’s an incredible black and white visual with a long simple take that pans high into tree branches. Blake and Chance ride along a two lane road in a low top hooptie passing shadow characters. The track is off Blake’s Overgrown album. Along with Elderkin’s newest video, here’s some of his past work. …
The East New York brothers on their block sipping brew charging visitors $20 to take a picture of a Banksy stenciled rat were just charging a tax. Can’t knock the hustle. When Banksy announced on his website that he was selling his stencil painted canvases in Central Park, it seemed like everyone knew except New Yorkers. He was selling original signed canvases. He himself (or they) calls his stencil paintings cheating. Graf writers aren’t exactly loving this dude, but he …
The World Famous “Wake Up Show” went unplugged on September 21st with a live band in the basement. Co-founders and hosts Tech, Sway and DJ Revolution curated a unique showcase of talented spitters that included Crooked I(Slaughterhouse), Audible Doctor (Brown Allstars), J Terrible, Bishop Lamont, Chris Young, Gilligan Gatsby, Jasiri X, Nessasary, Thesarus, Mitch Littlez, Senica Da Misfit, Roqy Tyraid, R-Mean, and Bishop Lamont. According to the Wack Up Show site, the event was improvised. Allhiphop.com said the grammy award …
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