Houston So Real

So now Matt Sonzala has a blog. Matt hosts a radio show on 90.1 KPFT in Houston. It’s called Damage Control (the one I keep uploading). He also writes for MurderDog and some assorted magazines. Surprising that he’s just getting into this blog game since every other goddamn hiphop music writer has a fucking blog. Dude has been grinding for Texas hiphop for quite sometime. His blog should get real cute when he starts posting up music. So yeah, check that shit fools.

I hate this motherfucking blog

sweet crap it is the stupidest wshit on the fucking internet, I might be drunk but I don[‘t fucking care. That fudcking dickface asshole Sergdun is the worst fudcking bloger ever, anf motherfucker David he suck,s and done’snlknow shit ahbout tthe internet fuckk this place so fucking hard I had fucking mac’s and there soft ass keyboards made for lady fingers fuck the inspot

wow toph’s mom just asked me why I was on the internet, I feel bad, she asked me if I was writing a letter to my mother, and now I wish i was

I’m sorry mom

I’m a stupid drunk and the internet knows but she doesn’t

I should delete this posty but I[‘m too drunk to care

Yeah another 75 Girls release, this time its Kimmie Fresh. She was a young lady from Oakland who released a record in 1988 as a rebuttal to Too Short’s Freaky Tales. I guess the fucking ladies wanted to check the dudes for thinking they could get their dick sucked at the drop of a dime. She never released anything after this record dropped so who knows what the fuck happened to her. I don’t really know who the fuck produced this record either. The back says its produced by Dean Hodges, Jerry Hodges, Kimmie Fresh and Kenneth Hollywood Houston. But then in the liner notes she shouts out some dude Verndell Dodson as her “number one Beat Master.” There doesn’t seem to be much info on her and I don’t know anyone who knows anything about her besides that she released this record so yeah if you want more info on her you’re fucked.

“Cold buggin in the place to be ’88 style!”
That is the last line in Kimmie’s liner notes and that pretty much sums up her whole sound. This shit is about tight as fuck acid wash jeans, custom leather jackets, 15″s in the back of your Suzuki Sidekick, and rocking your new pair of British Knights with some brand new fatty hoop earings on the way to some fucking mobile dj party.

mp3′s for that ass.

I Love My Microphone
The Crowd Be Loving Me
The Real Freaky Tales The Girl Story
Don’t Let That Be The Reason

Readers of The Shrimp,

Myself and members of The Mindset Army have drafted a petition to have Kanye West’s name removed from consideration in the 10 categories in which he was nominated. Please read the petition and, if you agree, sign it. If you’re a blogger, I’d also appreciate it if you linked to the petition. But either way, let as many people know about it as possible. This is our chance to finally take that ass clown down a notch.

Sincerely,

Byron Crawford

Click This Shit

After playing “On Fondren” Matt gives a shout out to CocaineBlunts for posting up about M.U.C.H. Posse. The Shrimp also gets a shout.

In 1985 Todd Shaw released a record called Don’t Stop Rapping. It was a 5 song EP on 75 Girls, a label out of Oakland, under the moniker Too Short. 75 Girls didn’t last very long but they did last long enough to put out a few records and bank off the hype that Too Short had built by slanging tapes out the trunk with Freddy D. As far as I know the extent of 75 Girls releases were mostly Too Short releases but they also put out records by Kimmie Fresh and Cassadine. I don’t know much about the history of 75 girls but when the deal folded Too Short left the label and started putting out music through his own label and then later Jive. I don’t think 75 Girls ever released anything after 1988, but I could be wrong.

Anyways here’s some mp3s off that EP

Don’t Stop Rapping
Short Rap

Ten years later Too Short released Cocktails. I use to listen to this album rolling in my friend Erik’s mom’s Toyota Camry. We put some 15″ in cerwin vegas in the trunk and use to bump the fuck out of this shit as we drove around the streets of Phoenix trying to act hard. One of my favorite songs off that album is Paystyle but for some reason most people don’t even fucking remember this goddamn song. Shit the song proves just how much a prophet Too Short was talking shit about rappers who roll with their backpacks tight.

The beat is pretty simple just a rolling bass, short bits of synth and like one or two hits of a piano key that drops every once in a while. Short just rides this shit dropping knowledge that even though these newjacks want to hate he understands because he’s been in their situation before. Too Short knows what its like to day dream about being great so don’t hate on him because you are more like him than you’d like to believe. But just because you have some similarities he doesn’t want you to think you can front on his grind. He’s a true blue westcoast pioneer and he wants you to remember that the west didn’t create rap but when we made it we made it phat.

Paystyle

Yeah when I saw the link I just thought “HOW IN THE FUCK”

but yeah click this shit before it’s gone because its hot as fuck.

El-P and Ghostface Killah- H.Y.F. – The el-p mix version

word on the street is that the original was a Prefuse73 version and it will appear on his album. I guess El-p recorded this version. You’ll have to excuse the sound quality the song was recorded off an internet radio stream.

editted for Anonymous Correctness

So my friend E hooked me up with some songs from this ridiculous album that apparently someone he knows got from a truckstop. It came out in 1990 and it is some of the most badass christmas jams you’ve ever heard. Shit is fucking off the wall.

Crew X – Deck the Halls

OK “Deck the Halls” is pretty much a completely straight-ahead rendition of – guess which song – deck the halls. Except, you know, rapped over what passed for a “beat” back when they dreamed this shit up. Oh yeah and he raps about his “gay apparel,” how neat is that.

Even better yet -

Crew X – Santa Rap

Then E sent me this track and I was amazed – I heard this song back when I was a kid because we had this tape that had all kinds of weird-ass christmas music on it and I remember banging this when I was like 7 and i thought it was sort of dorky but it was the closest thing i had to rap back then. Until I bought my Kris Kross tape but thats a post for another time. Anyway this song is fucking fantastic and if you get one christmas song this year make it this one.

BREAKING NEWS
I have it on good confidence from my Indianapolis Bureau Chief chiseven that Kanye West’s Grammy-nominated hit single "Jesus Walks" was actually written by an Indianapolis MC (originally from Chicago) back in the mid ’90s, who then sold it to Kanye. Now obviously, there are all kinds of implications with regards to Kanye’s Grammy eligibility if this turns out to be true, but, of course, my main concern is with the integrity of the music business. If Milli Vanilli had to give theirs back (admit it, you liked that song), then Kanye shouldn’t get one in the first place. My next step in this investigation will be to contact Kanye’s mother, whom I correspond with on a regular basis, for a statement, and also to try and track down the guy who’s the actual writer. If the information I have turns out to be true, then I guess my next step would be to contact the American Society of Recording Arts and Sciences to have Kanye’s name removed from eligibility, perhaps even permanently, and to get in touch with Suge Knight about getting our buddy in Indianapolis his fair compensation for his work and, of course, a little bit for myself.

DEVELOPING

You could’ve read this yesterday on my site.

I’m gonna rock the mike till you can’t resist

Best MCs and rappers of 2004

A lot of MCs told us they were the best this year and they can’t all be right. Before any fights broke out, the Shrimp volunteered to determine the winner by asking the true voice of hip-hop – Internet blog readers – to name the 10 best.

Any MC or rapper who was active this year – singles, albums, mixtapes, whatever – is eligible. All genres – Grime, reggaeton, dancehall and of course hip-hop. Send your votes to: MCPoll2004@gmail.com

If you have any questions about how this works, post them in the comments area below.

We’ll send a gold-plated shrimp to the winning MC. Well, not really, but we totally would if we had the cash.

making beats, getting high, chasing freaks

Best producers of 2004

It would be a shame to recognize the MCs and ignore all the hot beats that paved their road to success. So while you’re at it, let us know who the top five producers of 2004 were. Best beats, best remixes, best trademark exclamation over the intro – however you wanna throw it.

If it isn’t put in any particular order, we’ll just number it 1-10 (or 1-5 for producers) from top to bottom.

Just send it all to MCPoll2004@gmail.com

DEADLINE: DEC 31