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Britney Spears WILL be appearing on the new Ying Yang Twins album.

The first State Property record is easily one of my favorite records to come out in the last 5 years. Of course, the movie is atrocious, but this is some knockin’ headphone music that really made me fall in love with these Philly dudes– especially Freeway. Of course Beans is killing it, but Oschino and Amilio Sparks also have some moments where they show a great deal of potential. That being said, nobody really knows what’s next for any of these dudes and what’s gonna end up materializing since all this DefJam and Rocafella wierdness and reshuffling has been popping off. I suspect “State Property” as we know it isn’t really gonna be “State Property” as we know it once Beans gets out of jail and everybody signs and resigns or does what they gwan do. But, that’s not really worth speculating about right now. These songs below are great and if you don’t have this album, you should most certainly pick it up.

- State Property “Got Nowhere…” featuring Beanie Sigel and Freeway

- Miracles “Nowhere To Go” (original sample for the Kanye produced “Got Nowhere…”

- State Property “Hood I Know” featuring Oschino, Beans, Amilio Sparks, Freeway

- State Property “It’s Not Right” featuring Freeway, Chris, Amilio Sparks, Beans

And, as an added bonus, here’s the fucking hardest song in the world by Mr. Pretty Lips above. It ain’t on either of the State Prop albums and is only out on white label right now (and has been for at least a year) but this shit is really that fucking crack.

- Peedi Crack “Fall Back”

Amen.

-e

“I’m true to the dope that I smoke no joke, Check me right now there’s a gram in my coat, Cocaine blunts and hip hop tapes, Rubber car keys and ID that’s fake”

Andre Nickatina – Smoke Dope Rap
Skinny six five motherfucker Nickatina aka Dre Dog aka The New Jim Jones can’t fake it when he’s high. Dre brings those blown out introspective cocaine raps straight out the Fillmore. Although none of these tracks I’m posting get all that deep with it he does have songs about his personal issues like getting rapped in jail and losing his wife. Nickatina has sort of a strange following, it’s like a fucking cult of rap fiends. I like the dude but there are kids out there who live and die by his music. They are very similar to those horrorcore kids who worship dudes like X-Raided and Brother Lynch; shit even Insane Clown Posse has that kind of fanatic following even though ICP having fans makes no goddamn sense. Nickatina’s fan’s aren’t white kids with face paint though, it’s more just people who never wanted to let go of that westcoast gangster shit even after Short left and things simmered down in the bay.

Andre Nickatina – AYO feat San Quinn
Simple bass with a little guitar picks sprinkled over some of that tick tick in the trunk. San Quinn just rides this fast beat inforcing that cocaine on your mind as Andre does his yayo chants. Fucking the day before New Years I saw Andre perform this song and shit was live as fuck. Club full of people screaming “Ayo for Yayo” and my little brother is drunk as shit telling me he can’t move because he’s going to fall over, shit was good times.

Andre Nickatina – My Rap World remix
In Dre’s rap world he bumps 75 girls, Playboy Short right before court. Some casio keyboard tones to match the “laaalalalalalalaaaaa” that he’s got going through the chorus over a simple steady drum with some stabs of some synths to give it some scary nintendo beat tones. There really isn’t much to this song but I that’s what I like about it. Shit is low budget but you can’t stop his rhyme so shit works, although you’ll have to excuse the shitty mp3. My cd drive is a piece of shit and likes to insert gliches in the shit I rip but fuck it, this shit is free so don’t bitch you sissies.

March 14, 2005

The Trackboys give the “We Will Rock You” drums from “Tipsy” the riddem treatment and holler at some girl to spit some of that ol’ sex shit on top. Basically, if this shit doesn’t tear the club down when you play it out, you DJ somewhere wack.

Ebony Eyez “In Ya Face”

-e

March 13, 2005

It’s my first post in quite a while and I thought I’d come with some shit that would remind Serg exactly how soft I am. So, here goes.

So, my main man Tom Servo from my crew Doomtree out in Minneapolis put me up on this record on my recent trip out there. Trusty old allmusic.com describes Miss Bonnie Dobson as “a minor performer of the 1960s folk revival, [who] will be forever known (if she’s even known at all) as the author of ‘Morning Dew,’ a moving ballad about the threat of nuclear devastation.” I’m not up on “Morning Dew” and it’s not my mission to put any of you up on it but, instead, I’ve posted a couple song from her “Good Morning Rain” album that came out in 1970. Some of you record nerds might recognize it as some shit that Dan the Automator sampled several times, but fuck it, who cares? To me, it’s just some pretty ass music. She’s got a lofty voice that really doesn’t seem to have much range, but the record is produced quite well with the basslines bumping real loud and her rather limited voice still fits in nicely and seems to sit well in the mix. Yeah, of course, the lyrics are terrible, corny, lovey-dubby crap, Miss Dobson has a bit of an obsession with songs about honey (see titles below), and these tracks are obviously not very drum driven, but all that shit aside, these songs still get banged regularly.

Enjoy.

- Bonnie Dobson “Light of Love”

- Bonnie Dobson “Milk and Honey”

- Bonnie Dobson “Taste of Honey”

And now for something completely different… This has nothing to do with Miss Dobson, but here’s a completely random blend of Ramsey Lewis “Julia” vs Ghostface and Jada’s “Run.” It’s silly and certainly not perfect, but fun anyway for those of you who are into that sorta thing.

- Ramsey Lewis “Julia” vs Ghostface “Run”

-emil

I haven’t heard this but shit looks champ so buy it

Dope Game – Town Shit
Dope Game – Baby

Both of these 12″s have been out for a while now, they dropped towards the end of last year. I lagged on picking them up because I’m lazy and also because any song that’s titled Baby I’m suspect as of. I thought Baby was going to be some bullshit love song with lame ass samples and singing. I was wrong. Shit I never even bought the 12″ my girlfriend did and then she played it at home and I asked her “who the fuck is that?” So then I got the G’s Up/Town Shit 12″. I’d heard Town Shit before but I’m dumb and didn’t realize it was this fucking 12″. Anyways both rock those buzzing synths which seems to be the latest fad in bay area production right now so blown out 6×9′s beware. Baby does get a little soft with that weak pretty baby r&b chorus shit but that synth just stomps through.

Dope Game consists of Husalah, Jacka, Keak Da Sneak, BA and Verstyle. BA use to be in 3xKrazy with Keak and apparently BA wanted to form a supergroup of rappers so he hooked up with Husalah and Jacka. After they started working together Keak wanted to get down and the group was formed. I don’t know at what point Verstyle came in but he’s from chicago so I assume he got down with them later.

buy Baby here

Messy Marv – Get On My Hype

New Messy Marv 12″ that I just picked up courtesy of B-Side in Berkeley. Marv jumping on that buzzing synth train before it’s too late. The beat definetly sounds like some shit off The Team’s album. Marv comes in riding that beat going on some shit about stones on the wrist watch, sideshows, blaze on the scraps, mouth full of gold teeth, green and blue pills with the bird in the center.
buy here

E-40 – Gasoline
b-side to a 12″ that was released in 2003 for his Breakin News album. Been meaning to buy this 12″ for the longest. 40 spitting some of that gasoline over some weird speed up cartoon horns or some shit that almost sounds like circus music. I don’t think anyone but 40 could rock this beat. It fits his delivery and anybody else would just sound corny as fuck over this shit. The song is about how he can’t retire because the game needs him. He spits gasoline because the game would be boring without him. “I wake up every morning to a shot of liquor a shoebox full of herb and some grits and turkey sausage for my liver sellin units out the trunk of my car and just think, I started with a pickle jar from a sixteenth of yowder to a quarter kick of blow to a whole thing of some of that you know.”

Pitbull, Jessy Terrero and Lil Jon on the set of the video for “Toma”

Busy production by Lil Jon, nothing minimal like his crunk’n'b singles. Ridiculous rhythmic bounce that sounds almost like “What You Gon’ Do” sped up and resyncopated. Its sweaty club grind with bastardized origins, space-age synths and textures that still manage to sound beautifully dirty and grimey. Dancehall rhythms, miami bass bounce, even a hint of bhangra melodies nitpicked from Timbaland and Pitbull’s dirty growl on top. Between Youngbloodz and Ying Yang Twins and Trillville and Lil Scrappy and Pitbull and his crunk’n'b singles and his own work, it’s amazing the depth of Lil Jon’s penetration of hip-hop right now, and how diverse his sounds and influences are. These aren’t fashionable interpretations of “world” musics; it’s as if he literally restructures bass tracks from the ground up, treating bass music as a skeleton for recreating his favorite songs.

Buy this album here.

Ying Yang Twins are reportedly recording a new album as we speak.
Check out SFJ’s review of the mixtape awards.

I’ll be gone for a couple weeks. The other boys will hold it down.

Fat Joe – Fuck 50

Hot track.

Edit: re-upped.