A couple weeks ago Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison shared Sendspace and Mediafire links. It was in celebration of reaching 300k followers, “thanks for everything .. im feelin all emo about this…,” he tweeted. The links contained 24-tracks, all outtakes and a remix of Kanye West’s “Black Skinhead” featuring Thundercat on bass. Ellison labeled the outtakes Ideas+drafts+loops (2013) and that’s exactly what the downloaders got. They were scraps that fell into what one could easily imagined to be his bottomless pit …
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In this week’s TMG track picks, Sa-Roc shows off battle wounds from her throne. Singer and rapper Lizzo caught a buzz off of her latest single, “Juice.” On “Lose No Time” J-Live hates haters. Curly Castro shoots his walking dead son. On the podcast Nothing’s Really Real, a woman talks about escaping a cult. Rapper and producer Davu Flint just came out with some soulful “Boom Science.” Blastmaster Baker fights a human being lawnmower. And I loves me some Jungle …
Last Friday Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Teebs, Taylor McFerrin and Mono/Poly played Tokyo, Skinkiba at ageHa. No cameras were allowed. Foreigners were spotted throughout the crowd. When I walked into the venue Simi Lab, a Japanese hip-hop group was on stage. Man, they tried, but their music and performance didn’t offer anything original. It just wasn’t interesting, but at least they weren’t embarrassing. I wasn’t cringing, put it that way. Artist and producer Teebs greeted the crowd with a Japanese thank …
If you haven’t heard Thundercat’s 2013 opus album Apocalypse, press play, it’s an “unskippable” listen. Virtuoso bassist and singer songwriter Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat just relaesed a double video for “Evangelion” and “We’ll Die” off Apocalypse. The video was directed by legendary photographer B+. He also shot the album cover art and has apparently been hanging out with the Brainfeeder crew in the studio while they crank out ill crafted gems one after another. The video shows a daper dressed Thundercat walking around …
Actor, rapper and overall polymath Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino (CG) released the follow up to his debut Camp (2012), with because the internet on December 6, 2013. The aptly named album title reflects the influences the internet plays on the popular culture and in peoples’ every day lives. The internet for one has played an important role in birthing Donald’s rapper alter ego Childish Gambino, so it’s only right that it reflects in his songs. CG lyrics on because the internet moves beyond the witty …
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