I was being forced to listen to Waka Flocka today...
Can someone please explain why one song on Flockavelli has some 12 year old screaming "I'M BABY BOMB!" (I swear he was saying Baby Bump, but apparently I was wrong) 50 times?
^ Oh shit. Another Diemon tape. The beats bangin?
that's his verse.
Wale – Slight Work (rmx) f. French Montana, Diddy & Ma$e
Kode is about to have a heart attack. Oh yeah it's tagged by Flex lol
shit this is smooth. aw man some of these tracks make me feel nostalgic for some reason.Apollo Brown & OC - Trophies
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http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/trophies
El-P? what?Why is nobody else listening to the new El-P? It's not what I was expecting, but dayum does Danny Brown kill it on his guest spot. Last album was definitely better, but this is still excellent.
FUUUUUCKKKK YESSSSSSS. hopefully we see more of old cudi.Scott Mescudi ‏ @wizardcud
Ahh sh-t, found my old lap top with a gang of unfinished songs from MOTM1 and MOTM2. And so it begins....
2:33 PM - 24 Apr 12 via web
HHHRRNGHScott Mescudi ‏ @wizardcud
Ahh sh-t, found my old lap top with a gang of unfinished songs from MOTM1 and MOTM2. And so it begins....
2:33 PM - 24 Apr 12 via web
edit: yo kampsy I know you're getting Max Payne 3 day one right? PC?
rabbit. that way you could keep the foot.Already paid in full.
Gotta test that 680 GTX on something.
Question for GAF HOP. Theoretical, of course.
If you knew a guy who was getting a EVGA 680 GTX SuperClocked and wanted to sacrifice a small forest mammal to Based Jen-Hsun Huang, which animal would it be?
Theoretically, of course.
Ab-Soul dropping wack track after wack track. Not even Q could save this. Gonna comfortably skip his next effort.
What an.. odd combination. Kinda works though. Ace Hood hella underrated. Damn this beat reminds me of another though. Can't put my finger on it right now and it's bothering me I can't remember.
HEAT ROCKS. The sad thing is this is one of the best actual freestyles I've seen from any artist in a long time. WAYNE BRADY BITCH.
OH MAH GAWD. I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE.Scott Mescudi ‏ @wizardcud
Ahh sh-t, found my old lap top with a gang of unfinished songs from MOTM1 and MOTM2. And so it begins....
2:33 PM - 24 Apr 12 via web
Trophies is the Daily Bread of 2012. Just a really good listen.
What an.. odd combination. Kinda works though. Ace Hood hella underrated. Damn this beat reminds me of another though. Can't put my finger on it right now and it's bothering me I can't remember.
Finally figured it out, Red Cafe - Hottest In The Hood. That prominent sound kinda pops up in the beat for Let 'Em In.you might be thinking of 50 cent - I get money, atleast that's what it reminds me of
A longtime Bay Area rap label, long linked by East Bay law enforcement to armed robberies, drug dealing and murder, has been implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking distribution network after a four-year federal drug investigation, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Twenty-five individuals - including the CEO and numerous rappers associated with "Thizz Entertainment," the label founded by slain Vallejo rapper Mac Dre - have been charged on multiple drug counts of distributing Ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and codeine cough syrup across the East Bay and the country, according to a federal prosecutor. The head of the organization, Michael Lott, 47, of Vallejo, who raps under the name "Miami the Most," remains on the lam, along with nine others.
Thizz Entertainment's business model was simple - sell drugs to finance its record label, said Vallejo police Lt. Ken Weaver.
For many in law enforcement, Thursday's bust marks the end of a dangerous few decades in Vallejo involving the rap label, which started as a street gang committing robberies and selling drugs to finance its fledgling rap careers and turned into a nationwide criminal enterprise, authorities said.
"The main players that belong with Thizz Entertainment now have warrants for their arrest for the drug trafficking trade," Weaver said. "The streets of Vallejo will be a little safer this summer because of this."
The bust also spotlighted the controversial history of Thizz Entertainment, including the murder of Mac Dre, who was shot to death in 2004 after a performance in Kansas City, sparking a brief Vallejo-Kansas City rap war.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of young men in a small Vallejo neighborhood called the Country Club Crest, or The Crest, across Highway 37 from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, began knocking off pizza parlors. The Romper Room Gang moved on to hitting banks, slinging dope and committing murder, police and DEA officials said, to raise money to fund "Romper Records."
"It was an explosion of rap music and rock cocaine," Weaver said. "That was a huge deal to us because it was the first time we saw such organization by this culture and it was new to us. We learned from them and they learned from us."
Many members were put behind bars, as police locked in on rap lyrics detailing and glorifying their robberies, including Mac Dre, who in 1992 got a seven-year prison sentence.
Upon his release, Mac Dre formed Thizz Entertainment. The word "thizz" derived from the feeling one feels while on MDMA, or Ecstasy.
The label blew up and put the Bay Area on a nationwide rap spotlight.
"Thizz, when Mac Dre was on the label, were a major factor. They were coming out of a transformative time in the Bay Area," said Davey D, Bay Area journalist and hip-hop expert. "It was a resurgence of having national attention refocusing on the Bay."
As Mac Dre and his label's popularity soared, he went on tour and played a show at a Kansas City club Nov. 1, 2004. As he left the club in a van, he was killed in a hail of gunfire.
Kansas City police named Kansas City rapper Fat Tone as a person of interest in Mac Dre's death, but by May 2005 Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins and Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, were found shot to death at a construction site near the Palms Casino. Bay Area rapper Andre "Mac Minister" Dow was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their murders, and authorities said his motive was to avenge Mac Dre's murder. He is also accused of killing a prostitute who was a witness in Fairfield.
Lott, who was with Mac Dre when he died, took over Thizz Entertainment after his friend's death and produced albums for more than 60 artists, some who were arrested in the drug probe, including Gaylord Franklin, 32, who raps under the name "Geezy," Bruce Thurmon, 41, aka "Little Bruce," and Major Norton, aka "Dubee."
In July 2008, DEA agents found a confidential informant who led them to Lott, and an undercover agent made his first buy of 200 Ecstasy pills in a Vallejo gas station parking lot.
The agent gained the trust of Lott, who introduced him to the large distribution ring, focusing on Ecstasy with Transformers, Batman and Lexus emblems, but dealing in just about any drug, the DEA said.
After numerous undercover drug buys and hours of surveillance and recorded phone calls, the DEA pulled the agent in December 2010. During the year and half, members of Thizz Entertainment and its associates were slain and one was shot at by police in drug related activities, according to the DEA.
They began to spread the enterprise to other states where they made music connections while on tour, Weaver said. Drug shipments were sent from the Vallejo area to Oklahoma City, New York, Atlanta and Milwaukee, the DEA said.
The drug money is used to finance the rap label, he said, a strategy not uncommon to many young men trying to leave tough urban neighborhoods, Davey D said.
"Do my dirt and invest it into something legitimate and graduate," Davey D said. "It's a longtime formula that doesn't hold the stigma because it's looked at as bettering yourself and getting yourself out of danger. This is not an unusual story. I've heard that story lots and lots of times."
The story ended Thursday, as agents cascaded into Vallejo and other East Bay cities to serve arrest warrants on 25 Thizz Entertainment associates.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for May 4 in Sacramento federal court.
this needs to be its own thread.
new El-P LP is "out" and Danny Brown is still crazy if you were wondering.
Scott Mescudi ‏ @wizardcud
Ahh sh-t, found my old lap top with a gang of unfinished songs from MOTM1 and MOTM2. And so it begins....
2:33 PM - 24 Apr 12 via web
Scott Mescudi ‏ @wizardcud
Ahh sh-t, found my old lap top with a gang of unfinished songs from MOTM1 and MOTM2. And so it begins....
2:33 PM - 24 Apr 12 via web
this needs to be its own thread.
This El-P...
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I'm just happy the first song on the album exists.
Now no backpacker can ever criticize Kanye or any other producer for overproducing shit. It cut like half the GAF HOP conversation off the vine. But yeah, the rest the album is flame. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
EDIT: OH SHIT DANNY FUCKING BROWN OUT OF NO WHERE!!!!! @_@ SPOILER ALERT!
EDIT 2: OH SHIT KILLER FUCKING MIKE OUT OF NO WHERE!!!!
Kenn, who declined to give his real name for this article, is originally from the Yamagata Prefecture of Japan. He produced the beat for Bang, as well as several of Keefs other songs. He told me that he discovered hip-hop as a teenager living in Japan. In 2005, after he turned 18, Kenn moved to Tokyo, and within two years followed a friend to New York City. The United States completely changed Kenns perceptions of hip-hop.
In Japan, its different, he explained in a thick accent. People get older and they start to listen to it. Right here, its like babies listen to hip-hop, they grow up with the rhythm.
Kenn had planned to spend just a year in the United States, but within ten months of moving to New York, he flew to Chicago. He spoke little-to-no English, and knew nobody in the city; he just knew he wanted to make music. Chief Keefs uncle Keith discovered him walking down the street in Woodlawn (a neighborhood that is 98 percent African American), and found him a place to stay. He took me to an apartment right there across the streetKenn gestures out the front windowand I stayed over there and started to do music. Keef came through, [Fredo] Santana came through, and we started recording.
First time I came to the studio, I didnt fuck with a lot of people. But when Keef came to my studio, I was like, this boy he trails off, gesturing, as if to gather thoughts he hadnt put into words before. Hes different. [He] always comes with something new. Everybody is trying to do somebody [else] no disrespect to anybodybut Keef, each song he comes with something new, just him.
Sudden success has caught Kenn off guard. He clearly felt swept up in the emotion and energy of the past few months: Its a whole new feeling Ive never had before. Its just crazy. Ive been [wearing] the same jeans for almost a year. I couldnt buy shit, I was broke as hell. And now theyre saying, yall are going to make it.