rolling ringtone thread 2008

cap'n save'n hoes

Glad To Stoke Your Love Bring Hip Hop to HD Quality
The Oakland trio combines the riffs of the Blues guitar with the energy and fun reminiscent of late 80's Beastie Boys on their debut album.

Nas put it bluntly: Hip Hop is dead. And whether it's truly dead or just severely ill, critics and fans alike have been steadily bemoaning hip hop's artistic tailspin.
Enter Glad To Stoke Your Love, a veritable musical Molotov cocktail that mixes hip hop, old school rock, and superfunky blues. Featuring two MCs and a crackerjack live band, the group slides easily between classic rap and rock styles bringing a brash, adventurous spirit back to a genre that sorely lacks it.
Frontman Duke Johnson, an East Oakland native, started freestyling at the age of 12 in the schoolyard with some friends, including his current GTSYL partner, hypeman Chief. His first live performance was at a talent show at a local high school. Mid-performance, his backing CD started skipping, and the audience booed him offstage.
The humiliation scared Duke off of rap, but he still felt compelled to rhyme and perform, and decided to try poetry and spoken word. Equipped with plenty of subject matter from his experiences living in Oakland, he gathered his confidence and entered a few slam events. Transfixing audiences with real life depictions of struggles, sufferings and shootings (one he witnessed at the age of 8), Duke soon became a top ranked slam poet in the Bay Area.
It was at a slam event in Berkeley where Duke caught the interest of a successful rock/funk producer and guitarist KC Booker, who was looking to collaborate with some hip hop artists. Seeing Duke onstage got KC's wheels turning and he invited the poet to come by his studio. Duke agreed to give rap one more try, and when they recorded their first tracks -- a potent mix of authentic hip hop and hard, funky blues -- the chemistry was undeniable.
Bringing Duke's childhood buddy Chief into the mix as a hypeman was the final essential ingredient. Coupled with a live band and Chief's raw, kinetic energy onstage, Glad To Stoke Your Love's shows are an exhilarating experience. Their genre-crossing musical style, a sort of rock hop blues, has helped them appeal to all ages and races . With live instrumentation, palpable subject matter, plus a broad fanbase, Glad To Stoke Your Love have assured that hip hop is still alive and well.

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sargnt88: lolol
ETHANP23: dunk'n
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i lol'd @ lolcat

Klondike Kat is a great rapper name!

Ringtone Krew Q: Who was the last rapper to sample (either for remix, streettape, whatever) The O'Jays 'For the Love of Money'?

I'm specifically wondering if anyone's ever lifted the "do thangs, do thangs, do thangs" bit.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=EA2C35E930BB6B7381445E8A52C093E6?contentId=7037077&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Entertainer Trae tha Truth is the first rapper to be honored with his very own day by the city of Houston. Mayor White will read the proclamation Tuesday at the City Council meeting. Trae explains why he was given this honor on FOX 26 Morning News.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/Xaiex/Gifs/281y2xz.gif

New David Banner liner notes written by Juno apparantly

"THANK you so much NEW MEDIA (blog blog blog)"

lol rick ross
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/0721081rickross2.jpg

seriously he looks older in that picture than he does now

So no go on that Ojays Q, eh?

http://i33.tinypic.com/nowo6r.jpg

oh shi- http://videos.onsmash.com/v/RlVF4URi5mu5Tbae&res=800

seriously in tears @ boosie fireball escape

too bad khaled didn't fall off that ledge

Ross released a statement last week denying that the photos were real, saying, in part, “My life is 100 percent real. These online hackers putting a picture of my face when I was a teenager in high school on other people’s body. If this was real don’t you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything else?”

So no go on that Ojays Q, eh?

-- forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:09 (10 hours ago) Link

i can't think of any offhand

if DJ Khaled didn't exist we would have to invent him. wow.

seriously in tears @ boosie fireball escape

-- r|t|c, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:45 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

perhaps the fireball is the fury of mos def finding out boosie jacked i-n-d-e-p-e-d-e-n-t from 'b-boy document 99'

perhaps not though

yeah the preview videos had him running on a treadmill which was promising but fireball escape certainly exceeded my expectations. khaled doing serious acting in videos is my favorite running thing nowadays.

why isn't jeezy in the video :(

This song originally featured Lil Wayne in place of Young Jeezy. The version with Young Jeezy in place of Lil Wayne is the official single version. Plies' verse has been moved to Lil Wayne's part. The version with Jeezy's verse was recently released on Jeezy's mixtape "The Prime Minister". The reason for Lil Wayne's verse being removed is allegedly because of him not being able to attend the music video shoot, however, Plies did not attend the shoot either, yet his verse was maintained.

The original version features Akon, Rick Ross, Plies, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood and Lil Wayne, while the single version features all previously listed adding Young Jeezy and removing Lil Wayne.

Music video
A music video was made and features all the guest artists working with green screens. Cameos will be made by Tyga & Travis of Gym Class Heroes, Young Dro, Fat Joe, Red Cafe, Brisco, Lil Mama, Flo-Rida, Kardinal Offishall, T-Pain. The video premiered on BET's 106 & Park on July 22nd 2008. The video doesn't include either Lil Wayne or Young Jeezy. The video version has Akon, Rick Ross, Plies, Lil Boosie, Ace Hood and Trick Daddy.

you'd think with that much green screen they could just shoot anyone's part of the video whenever.

at 12 seconds in: more proof that the black guy from the Runners is actually funnier than the white guy from the Runners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZcKetdRFCM
New Beef? Trick Daddy @ DJ Khaled video shoot. Watch as he shouts out everyone then gets at Plies for not showing up

that p-fork nas review is kinda bunk...but...was right about one thing...i DL'd the nigger tape/green lantern thing after reading it and DAMN this is way better....so awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfVte5nfg0

^^^consigned to the ashheap of history

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/07/23/we-depressed-dj-khaleds-most-annoying-moments/

we need a Khaled soundboard, for fuck sake..

Comment by Dell — July 23, 2008 #

I was wondering if Khaled cameos were contractually obligated to appear in the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok3THyod3IU

^^^^^ all day

perhaps the fireball is the fury of mos def finding out boosie jacked i-n-d-e-p-e-d-e-n-t from 'b-boy document 99'

perhaps not though

-- r|t|c, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

They both spell a word. They sound nothing alike.

duhh really? stfu retard

I don't trust anyone who's too old for dj khaled

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/07/state-of-the-un.html#more

thats great

yeah definitely one of the most interesting things i read lately

yeah good

really liking "whatever you like"

ugh I hate that song, was feeling every new T.I. song right up until that one. dude should not fuck around with the sing-song shit.

cuz theez goonz ouut LURQEN

Big Mike's "Hard to Hit" is a great fuckin record
'99 rap-a-lot/priority joint

cory gunz is really on wayne's dick right now.

or vice versa?

haha yeah maybe

some dude named "butta verses" jumps on the rick ross/CO scandal:

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.5324/title.butta-verses-officer-ross-biggest-fraud

http://bp1.blogger.com/_4S5wP2Uf5q0/SH-8xqruTOI/AAAAAAAAAMc/xituchcPblU/s320/Sin-A-Matic+80s+front+cover.jpg

^^^Passantino and Padgett interest only section

i am a long time louis logic supporter

altho i was also a fan of his corny kevin smith sampling joints ^___^

"Diablos" plus RA the Rugged Man plus Cutting Crew sample = hot like summer

i have an old louis logic 12 inch somewhere. dude is pretty tight.

I love the original version of that album. But the jpeg doesn't tell me what this version is, The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics.