this is pretty rad, some cat from N.O. i never heard of...real laidback, conversational type flow over classic mostly west coast and east coast tracks
http://www.datpiff.com/images/tapes/Higher-Than-30000-Feet-mid13355-large.jpg
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Curren$y was one of the guys Lil Wayne signed to Young Money Ent. before he realized that noone besides Wayne and Baby were ever gonna put any records out over there and left. definitely a talented dude, outshined Wayne on some mixtape tracks, I'll have to check for that.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
don't have to check too hard; try "curren$y rapidshare"
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not Tuomas, you don't have to explain search engines to me.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I apparently do have to explain general courtesy.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
datpiff.com is a good spot for mixtapes
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i just thought it was a funny thing to think you have to point out! when i say "check for" an internet-only release it's basically because only 10% of the time I'm online am I actually at home and able to download or listen to music. but yeah, i like datpiff.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
'general courtesy' wtf is this the ritztone thread now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
The reason I pointed it out was cuz it's so readily available at the moment and I'm listening to it now. Hoos, don't you work at the Ritz?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
cosign on the 30,000 tape
― deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.hoodietees.com/tees/text/rudeboy.jpg
and yeah i am for any and all curren$y appearances
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
lol ritztone
anyway i always thought currensy was only an okay rapper, his voice is pretty monotone and emotionless iirc tho i think he had a few good verses on some of the songs off of the og carter III leak
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"Haters Wish" gets
http://www.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/prodigy5of5.jpg
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Thursday, 24 April 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
jay electronica comp works as a nice intro to dude
pretty nice
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
lololol 6 page weezy profile in rolling stone
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i o_O'd at that too but it it's only 2-3 pages in print
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
with amazing lines like "I'm with my dog like Shaggy"...Stunning.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
at least they actually wrote an article around the interview instead of a straight up Q&A. his last XXL cover story was the most incomprehensible and pointless interview I've ever read.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Guilty Simpson is prolly the second best hip-hop album of 08 so far after Webbie.
-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 12:18 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
finally heard this guy on the Morgan State radio station the other night, until he said his name a minute or two into the song I kept thinking "is this Beanie Sigel? why is he rhyming over some tinny faux-Dilla shit?". no way can a rapper with breath control as pathetic as Webbie have the best album of the year or even the past 3-4 months, though. the album has a few jams but the guy couldn't ride a beat if it had handlebars and a bucket seat.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 27 April 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:56 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
this is why i don't read rap magazines
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 April 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
neither do I generally, but I was stuck in a long checkout line at the supermarket.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 27 April 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, April 25, 2008 10:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
come to think i'm actually really liking this. dude over some of my favorite beats of the last couple years and he raps like he's a hip-hop head instead of hustler or a self-consciously insular wordy underground weirdo. it's like we grew up loving the same records and where i decided to write about it he decided to make it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
what's it called again hoos
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
a hoos isn't fucking around
Recently Listened Tracks (see more)
Jay Electronica – Uzi Weighs A Ton - wedoitright. blogspot. com just listened Jay Electronica – Abaracadabra - wedoitright. blogspot. com 4 minutes ago Jay Electronica – Extra Extra - wedoitright. blogspot. com 7 minutes ago Jay Electronica – My World (Nas Salute) - wedoitright. blogspot. com 11 minutes ago Jay Electronica – Renaissance Man - wedoitright. blogspot. com 15 minutes ago Jay Electronica – A Prayer for Michael Vick & T. - wedoitright. blogspot. com 17 minutes ago Jay Electronica – Uzi Weighs A Ton - wedoitright. blogspot. com 20 minutes ago Jay Electronica – Abaracadabra - wedoitright. blogspot. com 24 minutes ago Jay Electronica – Extra Extra - wedoitright. blogspot. com 27 minutes ago Jay Electronica – My World (Nas Salute) - wedoitright. blogspot. com
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
hoos did you get this from wedoitright.blogspot.com
rly
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link
comp called "What the F*ck is a Jay Electronica?"
asterik and all
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://dwaynehordaleski.tripod.com/dwayne/id12.html
― deej, Sunday, 27 April 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
XD XD XD
shoutout to the pizza man
and the whole staff
at the taco bell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
so jay-z has beef with Deshawn Stevenson....
― PoMXII, Sunday, 27 April 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-- PoMXII
lol rly man?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
jay-z has beef with Deshawn Stevenson....
i heard stevenson say he was 'honored' that hov "took 3 minutes of his time to write a track about me, even if it was disrespectful"
jay and lebron beefing with soulja boy and some mediocre nba player is NAGL
― PoMXII, Sunday, 27 April 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/images/2007/09/04/ltcolnagl.png ^^^^ would have something to say about this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://eighty81.com/v2/?p=1765
― PoMXII, Sunday, 27 April 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0416081akon1.html
akon more like afraud
― am0n, Sunday, 27 April 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
am0n more like akon
― The Reverend, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
am0n and young reeeevy
tryna take it easy
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i26.tinypic.com/24eazyq.jpg
― deej, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not like a huge Dilla person by any means, but this J-Rocc mix is phenomenal:
http://www.turntablelab.com/cds/178/344/40170.html
Thank You Jay Dee: Act 2
― PoMXII, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
there's something kind of distasteful about this I think...
http://www.datpiff.com/images/tapes/Codeine-Overdose-mid14229-large.jpg
― PoMXII, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
^this from a dude who loves the "make it rain" remix which makes about 8 katrina jokes
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway it is distasteful but what's the point of complaining about the cover of a comp tape from some dude named "dj envy"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway what is on that w/r/t music-- old shit i imagine. anything newish worth while?
there's no katrina reference in R. Kelly's verse
― PoMXII, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
and he is the definition of taste, as everyone knows
― PoMXII, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
that cover is Luda, Rosss and (who the fuck is that? Yung Joc?) staging and intervention for Weezy.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
and=an
um yeah it's great it's more or less new freestyles and mixtape cuts for about two thirds of it...I mean "new" as in the past couple weeks...it's a good roundup of pretty much every southern rapper that's hot right now
― PoMXII, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link