Beanie Sigel – Feel it in the Air

Now that Entertainment Weekly has told us the 25 best, a lot of that shit on there was weak. Here are some overrated shit IMO.

1) Marshal Mathers LP. Eminem is Jesus to wiggaz. This guy is their savior, thats why you see Christgau and white people who should know better jock him. Armond White had him right. He was invented by MTV and Jimmy Iovine to perform a coup on hip hop. Dre stole his worst beats on this album. He should have found a better ghost producer to bite. As a matter of fact, this concluded The Good Dr’s comeback. He hasn’t done shit since, save one or two ghostwritten beats for 50. Also, Eminem’s alleged wit and humor are nowhere to be found on this shock jock album. I might as well listen to Howard Stern. This was the 7000th “The world Is Against Me” album. That might turn on your average moronic teenager from the burbs and loony lefty’s in The Village Voice, but it doesn’t cut it on any other level.

2) Illmatic-The New Rakim? How you gonna be the new Rakim when for the past 10 yrs you been using the same one dimensional mechanic flow? When was the last time Nas switched up his flow? Maybe it’s because he can’t do it. That’s why Jay Z buried him in 2001 in any sane persons opinion except for those TRL teenyboppers pretending Nas won to sound credible. I know what Nas is gonna say before he says it. Yep, we are all Zombies in a white man’s world, except for Nas, the biggest hypocrite in hip hop history. Nas tried to be Jay Z-like on It Was Written and I Am but flopped, now he’s pretending he some underground crusader. He wanted that mainstream love and success but lacks charisma or personality. Have you seen this guy interviewed? Might as well be talking to a statue. Illmatic is the Raging Bull of hip hop. Too obvios in its aspirations to be great, and Nas posturing as some street corner intellectual lets it down.

3) The Love Below- Middle America’s favorite type of black people. Nice and Wholsome. Even if they haven’t caught on to Andre 3000′s Prince routine, I can’t believe people are going around calling this lame album The best of 2003 and one of the best in history. Oliver Wang was right to give EW props for pointing out Aquemini is their best shit. What was Andre saying on The Love Below. “You are the prototype”. WTF does that mean? Personally, I think standards for lyricism are dropping with that kind of weak shit getting play. I’m still confused by that shit. Oh I get it, Andre 3000 plays a guitar, he must be a genius.

4) Black On Both Sides- Rappers like Mos Def get a free ride for being wack because of the popularity of neo-black power movements. MosDef is obviosly a fan of Malcolm X and probably watched Panther a few times too often. He has gone to the Emmyss to prove how revolutionary he is. All these freedom fighter MC’s want the good shit in life, they want the bling, the cars, the girls, they can’t get it, so this is their Get Out Of Unemployment Free Card. They can always go underground and fight the system as a career even though Mos Def is more Hollywood than Will Smith. OK, anyone who wants to be called landmark, revolutionary, doing “real music”., do like Mos Def do and start phony rebellion against I don’t know what. Jay Z has left these conscious clowns in the dust with his practical attitude to music and life.

EDIT: Due to bandwith issues, I’m taking these mp3s down a little early. Sorry! I’ll probably be using YouSendIt in the future, at least until these issues are cleared up. I hope everyone enjoyed The Jaz mp3s. Any questions to the comments section. The Shrimp is ad-free, so don’t bitch. thnx.

Ya Don’t Stop

So I can’t claim credit for this discovery, this came about thanks to Michael aka “Bulbs” from ILM. Dude is from Australia but he managed to send me a copy of this unfortunately forgotten should-be classic (Your CD is in the mail, by the way.) Production on this 6-track EP comes from Mark the 45 King, Large Professor, and Prince Paul, according to AllMusic.

Yes, this is that Jaz of “Hawaiian Sophie” fame. Well, dude was holding it down, its too bad his recent stuff is so uneven. I doubt he realized at the time he was recording this that his disciple Jay-Z (er…”Jay Zee”) would go on to be the biggest rapper in the world.

Anyway I’ve uploaded three tracks from Ya Don’t Stop, check all three, they’re great.

The Jaz – Sign of the Crimes

This song is one of those great early 90s tracks that manages to be both a burner and a banger; tempo is hella fast and the drums are really hard too. The filtered bass fades out real quickly in the middle of the bar with sudden horn hits and the Jaz ripping over the beat until the chorus when Mark the 45 king brings in this weird distorted instrumental sample. I like when everything drops out but the drums and Jaz just rips some crime stories over it. This is the part where I say I can’t believe this came out in 1991.

The Jaz – A Groove (This is what U Rap 2)

I disagree with our friends at AllMusic about this track. They diss it but I think its a great example of that chill breakbeat funk. Its in that sorta corny early 90s braggadocious style, like “When I get a brainstorm, I start housing like a school dorm,” etc. but its endearing and allmusic claims its self-produced. The beat starts out sorta straightforward with soothing flutes on the chorus but about halfway through this sample of some smooth disco strings or barry white strings or love boat strings come in and it sounds all orchestrated and awesome – it hits this cool groove and Jaz sings “Who made the funky break so BAAAAD….” This song is really awesome.

The Jaz – It’s That Simple feat. Jay-Z

This song has a great wurlitzer-sampling funk groove produced by Prince Paul, but its also got some early Jay-Z. (yes…Jay-Z over Prince Paul!) I think its really interesting to see how far he’s come; consider this the companion piece to Original Flavor’s “Can I Get Open” and of course “Hawaiian Sophie.”

“Freestyle rhymes are easy to come by!” Jay had to drop the lighthearted steez and grab for the edgier street stuff to make it big. Biggie and Puffy made that possible, I guess. Guys like Jay thought they had to be all positive to get cash. Times change. This is a great track.

DJ Butterr breaks it down

THE REAL DJ SEVEN DUECE

I’ve been knowing Mountain Climbaz for years now. They also gave me Free studio time to complete my albums, Kill The DJ and Shithappens. Mountain Climbaz’s Disc Jockey, DJ King David has been down with me since he worked for Modern Tribe Records in the late 90′s. 8 Mile movie star, Strike a.k.a Lycety Split of the group Mounatin Climbaz went to prison for a year when the film was completed. I (DJ Butter) kept writing Strike in prison telling him to stay focus and tried helping the Mounatin Climbaz franchise while Proof (D12) was giving him the image that he was going to sign him to his newly formed label, Iron Fist Records. Reminding you D-12 or Purple Gang didn’t even write the homeboy.During this time, I was telling to group (Mountain Climbaz) that I was suing the group D-12 (Shady Records) for not getting any credit on the song, “Shit Can Happen” (Devil’s Night) or even a check on the co-producing and the studio time I paid for to complete this track along with Denuan Porter (KonArtis-D-12). Reminding fans that I WON (my legal situation—for joint authorship). This is the same problem–DJ head has faced, Bird (50 cent P.I.M.P. producer) among others. At The time, KonArtis was living with my former best friend and D-12 ex-manager, Mark Hicks. KonArtis was broke and was waiting for Shady Records to cut him a check over the songs they took credit for. My label, Crazy Noise Productions kept the whole Shady Records crew in the studio, while Eminem was only thinking about Royce Da 5’9′s future. Bizarre actually cried about this to me (DJ Butter) saying fuck Eminem and that he was only thinking about Royce. Bizzy also told me that Eminem invited him to come to L.A. to his new apartment and when he got there, Paul (Em’s manager) slammed the door in his face. Strike was told this before he came home from prison, so I did’nt want D-12 to fuck up my relationship with the Mounatin Climbaz crew. Strike also wanted me to keep his group name in the streets by doing a mix-tape on his crew— titled, “Underground Hood Legends.” When he was released from prison after missing all of the hype from the 8mile movie, Proof was making the Mountain Climbaz a bunch of fake promises. When it was time for D-12 to release their latest LP, D12world—They promised, Mountain Climbaz to open up their shows. When they got to the tour, they had T-Shirts and Mix-Tapes (Unnecessary Roughness) completed that they paid for without —Proof’s Iron Fist label. So Proof was jealous of their progress from the start and sent his so-called homeboy, First Born (Ex-Mounatin Climbaz member) to tell them to pack up all their merchandise–If they did’nt come back to Detroit to smash on Detroit’s #1 (DJ Butter). The Mounatin Climbaz crew kept it real with me–and told me how GAY that shit was and we went to the studio to record new music. Recently, The beef has leaked on to, Purple Gang members, T-Flame and Famous (New Jacks To Detroit Hip-Hop) tried to rush me (DJ Butter) at a local Flea Market (Eastside of Detroit), while I was by myself. Proof and First Born has geeked these rookies up to jump me and they didn’t do shit. I (DJ Butter) went back up to the Flea Market and held it down for (PURITAN AVENUE). So know you have Proof (D12) hires Ass Kissers like DJ Exclusive (Who you will never see his face on any cd cover—-cause he’s a nerd—Trying to get involved in our beef). Remining fans that Iron Fist did some Suge Knight shit to him (Worst then Drinking Piss).DJ Butter has been here from the start. There was NO–DJ Download Exclusives, DJ Salaam Wack or Greenlantern..

On the radio in 1989. Two forty-odd minute segments. Click here, scroll down, grab that shit.

So I recorded the entire Dj Screw Tribute Show off DamageControl last night and I decided to upload it for all you soft motherfuckers that missed it. At the very end you can hear The Shrimp get a shout out and also my own fucking site get a shoutout. Right now is KPFT’s pledge drive so the whole show you get to hear Matt tell people about how they need to give them money. I called in and pledged some money cause they need it. Last time I pledge some money I never actually paid it but this time things will be different I will actually mail that shit rather than letting the envelope sit on my desk for months. As the internet as my witness I promise to donate money to rap music. But yeah they had a whole gang of motherfuckers up in the studio trying to spit some shit. Originally I was only going to upload them talking about “swishaland” and a few songs but fuck it I’ll decided to upload the whole fucking thing so peep this shit cause its healthy as fuck for your fat ass.

Click One or Click Two

RIP ODB

RIP Screw

RIP Soulja Slim

my friend matt has a radio show in houston and its on every wednesday night at 12pm central until 3am(it dun started already motherfucker). Tonight he’s having a Dj Screw Tribute show, some of the Screwed Up Click guys are suppose to roll though. ESG will probably be in the spot dropping some dope freestyles and Dj big baby is going to spin, c note should be up in there. Who knows who else might roll though, fools are always mobbing up to the station.

Tomorrow I’ll probably post up some music and interviews from tonights show

anyways if you want to hear click away

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Jacked from some other kid’s site. The Shrimp is gully like that.

Cam’ron Feat. Kanye West & Syleena Johnson – Down & Out

Some people might know of Smooth the weakass “urban songstress” or whatever the fuck you want to call her ass. Her fans seems to like the r&b with a hiphop touch bullshit but I don’t. For fuck sakes the bonus track on her album, Reality, is a song featuring Shaquille O’neal. She also put out an album in 1995 titled Smooth which features Rakim and Tupac on two separate songs that suck at almost the exact same level of shittiness. But before that shitty album she also dropped an album in 1993 and that one sucks too. All those joints were made for people who listen to Shai, like David.

Now you might be wondering just why in the fuck am I even bothering to post up about this woman at all if I think all her albums suck. Well the reason is that because in 1990 she hooked up with the Arabian Prince and dropped a dope 12″ titled Smooth And Legit.

She has that low female voice that makes her sound like a poorman’s MC Lyte and at the time she was even being pushed that way. From the name to her whole look. Another comparison to Lyte can be her whole style on this 12″. Smooth is very aggressive with her rapping to the point I would say she is like a mix between Roxanne Shante and MC Lyte. But unfortunately the whole MC Lyte thing just didn’t seem to help her career at all. Maybe she needed Lyte’s linebacker profile and an even more boyish haircut. Either way they should have kept trying that shit because everything she did after that failed miserably. They kept trying to sex her up and make her more appealing to people who like to masturbate but it failed every goddamn time. Well except with Reality which I guess gained some kind of recognition with in the softer circles.

Well enough of that shit listen to some fucking mp3′s. These mp3s sound muffled and totally shitty. I probably should have checked the levels on the mixer but whatever that’s your fucking problem, just download this shit because its fucking good.

MC Smooth – Smooth And Legit

MC Smooth – You Think You Want Some