Hip Hop '11

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crackerjack

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dd528 said:
Anyone catch the Black Star/Rakim/De La Soul gig at the Hammersmith Apollo last week? I made the gig up here at the Academy in Manchester, but De La Soul got held up down south so never made it. Was just curious to know what anyone who saw them thought of their performance.

For my money Rakim was pretty good (his skill as an MC can't ever really be in question can it?), but seemed a little..unpractised..live? Maybe he's just getting on a bit. And talented though his DJ clearly was, he was no Eric B.

Black Star on the other hand were everything I was hoping for and more. They were energetic, very charismatic (Mos Def especially), and played a great range of songs..stuff off the Black Star album and new and old solo stuff from both of them. Great energy in the crowd too, especially for the call and response stuff. When the beat for Respiration dropped and the crowd went mental you'd have struggled to prise the ear-to-ear grin off my face!

Gutted to have missed out on De La Soul though. Some other time, hopefully.
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I didn't go to the London one. I've seen all of them before – though Rakim so far back he was actually above Public Enemy on the bill – and De La are the only ones who didn't disappoint. Mos Def is a repeat culprit – I've seen buttocks less half-arsed than him – while Kweli is a tryer, but fundamentally unexciting.

edit: God I sound surly above. Glad they ripped it.
 
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DannyL

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luka said:
not realy interestd in death grips or tyler. quite like this tho.

this one is good too but im mostly posting it becasu of how much i love the video. its the video of the year in my humble.

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Anyone know who's producing Tony Yayo? The beat on that is awesome, and the one he did with Lil B was also fiyah.
 
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dd528

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DannyL said:
Anyone know who's producing Tony Yayo? The beat on that is awesome, and the one he did with Lil B was also fiyah.
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'Based' which he did with Lil B is produced by Frank Dukes I think, who's done beats for 50 Cent and A.Z. in the past.

Speaking of Lil B I got Clams Casino's instrumental mixtape a couple of weeks ago and it's been on pretty constant rotation ever since. Some of the most interesting beats I've heard in a good while. Quality could be a bit better, but I think he has some label-based stuff coming out later in the year, which should hopefully address that problem.



 
luka

luka

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i might do a big fetid boosie dump here if you dont mind, not now, but in about half hour or something....
 
luka

luka

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produced by 808 mafia which is compirised of lex luger and southside on da track!
space age hustl got a supa villain interview. i like the guy a lot.
 
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luka

luka

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plenty of interesting stuff on dirty glove bastard at the moment. i was going to just nick a few more things from there but its easier if you just hav a look yourself today.
 
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luka

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do check the richboy mixtape tho, if youree into that sort of thing. my mate was a t the black star/rakim thing and said mos def stole the show actually. said he is probably the best live performer in hiphop and he watches evryone that comes to london pretty much.
 
luka

luka

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thats just a novelty to me tho. i dont care about chopped and screwed covert coup.

to be honest. this is good tho.
i wasnt gonna bother listneing to that deezy d/clams thing but then i did cos im at a loose end and its good. i like it.
 
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luka

luka

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this is good, got it off rnt



this got those strings the verve nicked off the stones..... its just a bittersweet hahahhahahah

this is something great i got of ilx
 
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