DOWNLOAD MP3 ThePaxtons-MoneyRight.mp3 Summary: Another Paxtons song About Artist: The Paxtons are a duo from Chicago recently moved to New York. They are very underground. They are very creative musically and super unique and authentic. About Song:This song borrows melodies from Can’t Tell Me Nothing by Kanye West (listen). This song is also off of The Paxtons awesome mixture The Manhattan Project (download here) Favorite Part: 2:20 to the end. Just the music of it Other The Paxtons Website
DOWNLOAD MP3 Wale-TheCloud.mp3 Summary: More of a song than a rap from Wale’s summer 2010 mixture “More About Nothing” About Artist: Wale is one of my top rappers. He’s from DC I’ve posted a ton of his shit in the past. If you don’t know him get to it. His album pretty much flopped but his mixtape game is tight. Definitely one of the top rapper out now. About Song: This song has a real nice melody (not sure who sings it) and its just something nice to kick back to. Favorite Part: Just the vibe of the song Other Wale Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 KendrickLamar-Celebration.mp3 Summary: This is the first of two Kendrick Lamar Songs that I’m planning on posting About Artist: Sorry don’t know anything about him. Do your own research About Song: I love the horns and feel of the track as well as the rap. Favorite Part: I don’t know if there is a favorite verse it’s just a funny song Other Kendrick Lamar MySpace Kendrick Lamar EP Website
DOWNLOAD MP3 Jay-Z-PimpStrollprodbyGreenLanternftLilWayne.mp3 Summary: Remix trackis PIMP About Artist: Jay-Z and Lil Wayne, world famous etc. DJ Green Latern is a long time well respected DJ. About Song: This song is off a DJ Green Lantern mixtape entitled “Creative Control”. There is another tight track on the tape that I’ll probably post. Jay-Z’s verse is from “Nigga Please” off of “Blueprint 2” but I don’t know where Wayne’s verse is from Favorite Verse: Both versus are money but the first verse isn’t until 1:50 Favorite Part: “Nigga please, this is me, this is real as it be
My videos is like real TV
That chick, that’s me, that six, that’s me
That boat, I had it on the Mediterranean Sea” (2:24)
DOWNLOAD MP3 Paxtons-BeaminftOscarWao.mp3 Summary: This song is a remake of Lupe Fiasco’s Beamin. Lyricism Alert! About Artist: The Paxtons are a duo from Chicago recently moved to New York. They are very underground. They are very creative musically and super unique and authentic. About Song: This song borrows pieces from Lupe Fiasco’s Beamin. I do like the musicality of it but it is the killer first verse that made me post this. Favorite Verse: The first first (0:20-1:35) is NUTS Favorite Line: “Nigga stick to script.
We gon keep on manufacture crack and bag it brick to nick.
Get used to it Knicks to bricks. Chris Duhon like six assists.
Clip coupons to spending chips.
Bitch I’m ballin, they madison square like Lupe.
We Madison Square Garden.
They mad he’s in there hoopin. We baddest in here, pardon.
JV let him in ther shootin. We are lettermen year, startin. You girl lerterman late night. I late text. She talkin bout she ain’t gettin laid right.
I latex, then layed pipe.
She talkin bout you gon stay right. Unh unh I got to leave.
She on that letterman jacket wear emotions on her sleeve”
(0:41-1:10)
DOWNLOAD MP3 CaliSwagDistict-TeachEmHowToDougieremixftBoBSeanKingston.mp3 Summary: B.o.B KILLS IT! About Artist: I just posted a Cali Swag District song a couple days ago. They are nothing special you probably won’t see any more Cali Swag songs up here. About Song: The original song is Cali Swag District’s debut single. The beat is super catchy but it’s B.o.B that makes me post this track. If nothing else just LISTEN TO BOB’S VERSE. Favorite Verse: B.o.B has an amazing verse (2:14) Other: LISTEN TO BOB’S VERSE AT 2:14!!!
DOWNLOAD MP3 Wale-TheBlackNGold.mp3 Summary: This is one of many awesome tracks on Wale’s “More About Nothin” About Artist: Wale is from DC. A real lyricist, with a fun attitude. One of the realest out there and one of my personal favs. About Song: This song is just one of a bunch of great songs from his most recent mixtape “More About Nothing” which came out over the summer. There will definitely be more tracks from that tape in the future. Favorite Line: “Y’all Mario Brothers I’m Metal Gear” (1:09) Other Wale Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 CaliSwagDistrict-WhereYouAre.mp3 Summary: I just love the MJ sample in this song. About Artist: Cali Swag District is a Soulja Boy type group, simple rap catchy beats. Best known for “Teach Me How to Dougie” (the remix of which I will definitely be posting) About Song: The rap isn’t very good but I just love the sample. Favorite Verse: Nothing really stands out. Other: Cali Swag District Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 KanyeWest-MonsterftRickRossJay-ZNicki MinajBonIverprodbyKanyeWest.mp3 Summary: This is a remix of I Am Blessed About Artist: There are a ton of artists here so just read their wikipedia pages if you’re interested. Only interesting thing to note here is 1)Rick Ross says like one sentence on the whole tack and 2) Bon Iver traditionally a folk sing. About Song: Kanye announced a few weeks ago on Twitter that he would release one random song from either him or his gang G.O.O.D. music calling it “Good Fridays”. The fist five songs of which would be on an EP by the name of “Watch the Throne” by Kanye West and Jay-Z. So this song is the first Good Friday song release and it BANGS. Favorite Verse: Nicki Minaj absolutly kills it (3:35). Hands down has the best verse and that’s saying a lot because I love Ye and Jay and their verses are money on this song as well. Other Kanye West Wikipedia Jay-Z Wikipedia Nicki Minaj Wikipedia Bon Iver Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 Rocko-MaybeRemixftRickRoss.mp3 Summary: Rick Ross “freestyles” on Rocko’s Maybe About Artist: Don’t know much about Rocko except that he has kids with his once fiance Monica (a la Angel of Mine). Rick Ross on the other hand is blowin up right now. Recently signed with Roc Nation (aka the Jay-Z Kanye crew), Rick Ross should be a household name right now. I’m actually not a huge fan (I actually don’t like “The Boss”) but this song it tight. About Song: Never heard the original but I like what I hear here. I also know there is a Soulja Boy / Gucci Mane remix of the song if you’re into that kind of thing. Favorite Verse: Third Verse (2:54). I don’t know who is rapping there but I like the way autotune is used in the verse (fyi I believe autotune has a time and a place but I do not general condone its use) Other: This song isn’t super special. At first I really wanted to pick an awesome song to bring the blog back from vacation but there are so many songs lined up that I just chose this one randomly from my playlists. Rocko Wikipedia Rick Ross Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 Kanye-PowerftDweleprodbySymbolicOne.mp3 Summary: The blog had really gone to shit, I felt bad and after I heard this song I just couldn’t NOT post any longer. Here it is off of his fifth and upcoming album Good Ass Job due out this fall, Kanye’s Power About Artist: Everyone “knows” who Kanye is. He’s a world famous star. But before Heartless, before Love Lockdown, before 808’s and Autotune, before Stronger, before Good Life and Can’t Tell Me Nothing, before Touch the Sky and before Goldigger, before Jesus Walks, All Fall Down, and before The New Workout Plan Kanye was famous makin beats for Jay-Z (before he was King). This is just to say that Kanye has been around now for a long time now and his career and talents is more than a drunk evening with Taylor Swift. So get it right. About Song: It called Power.
First the beat is crazy. The west African vocals with the clapping with the King Crimson guitar and screaming it’s just great. The second part of the song features vocals from Dwele and the song really progresses from beginning to end. Favorite Parts
“The system broken, the schools closed, the prisons open
We ain’t got nothin’ to lose, ma’fucka, we rollin’
Huh? Ma’fucka, we rollin’
With some light-skinned girls and some Kelly Rowlands” -(0:37)
“Now I embody every characteristic of the egotistic
He know, he so, fuckin’ gifted
I just needed time alone, with my own thoughts
Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault
My childlike creativity, purity and honesty
Is honestly being prodded by these grown thoughts
Reality is catchin’ up with me
Takin’ my inner child, I’m fighting for it, custody” -(1:47)
“Colin, Powers, Austin, Powers
Lost in translation with a whole fuckin’ nation
They say I was the obamanation of Obama’s nation
Well, that’s a pretty bad way to start the conversation
At the end of day, goddammit, I’m killin’ this shit
I know damn well y’all feelin’ this shit
I don’t need yo’ pussy, bitch, I’m on my own dick
I ain’t gotta power trip, who you goin’ home with?
How ‘Ye doin’? I’m survivin’
I was drinkin’ earlier, now I’m drivin’
Where the bad bitches, huh? Where ya hidin’?
I got the power, make yo’ life so excitin’ (So excitin’)” (2:42 third verse, 2:54 has a piano part almost identical to parts in Jesus Walks) Other LINK TO LYRICS Reviews By Others! Power by Kanye Wikipedia Kanye Wikipedia Dwele Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 Eminem-NotAfraid.mp3 Summary: Eminem single from Recovery About Artist: Eminem is the highly regarded rapper from Detroit. Despite being known for his explicit lyrics, the violent and crazy content of his songs, as well has his just don’t give a fck attitude, he sold more albums from 2000-2010 than anyone else, anyone. He released an awesome freestyle called Despicable, which you can listen to HERE in promotion of Not Afraid. About Song: This track is the first single off of his next, and 7th, album “Recovery”Favorite Verse:. Originally called Relapse 2, Eminem suddenly decided to take it in a different direction, scrap the old tracks, and create the new album “Recovery”. Favorite Lines:
“And to the fans, I’ll never let you down again, I’m back
I promise to never go back on that promise, in fact
Let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was “ehhhh”
Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground
Relax, I ain’t going back to that now
All I’m tryna say is get back, click-clack BLAOW”
(1:42-1:57) In this line he admits that Relapse was not up to his own standards Other: It is interesting to see how Eminem changes with the times while maintaining his style. I don’t know what to think about his singing, but it does get in your head Eminem Wikipedia Recovery Wikipedia Not Afraid Wikipedia
DOWNLOAD MP3 Estelle-PrettyPleaseLoveMeftCee-LoprodbyJackSplash.mp3 Summary: Hardly Hip Hop. For the mainstream (and the girls). Not New. About Artist: Estelle is a British R&B singer possibly most famous for her single American Boy (ft. Kanye West) from her 2008 album Shine. Cee-Lo is probably known most for being half of Gnarls Barkey with DJ Danger Mouse. Cee-Lo is a super creative funk, hip hop, R&B, artist with a unique voice and an even more unique musical sound. Jack Splash mainly works on production for pop music like this song and is releasing his debut album “Technology and Love Might Save us all…” sometime this summer. About Song: This is a 2008 song off of Estelle’s Shine. I hadn’t heard it in a long time but it came on my iTunes and I remember how, despite being kinda girly, I really liked it. The song was the 4th single off her album and despite not receiving much airplay appeared on the second volume of the Sex and the City movie soundtrack. Favorite Lines:
I mainly like the song for its choruses but I also like Cee-Lo’s verse at 1:23 Other Estelle Wikipedia Cee-Lo Wikipedia Jack Splash Official Website
DOWNLOAD MP3 PacDiv-BirdsftPill.mp3 Summary: Something Hard. Westcoast. Good Speakers Required! About Artist: PacDiv is a young west coast, L.A. area, trio who were friends in high school. While very young (they describe themselves as big kids) there sound is very traditional modled after early 90s rap. They are full of engergy (GREAT LIVE), and have beats that just BUMP! If you don’t have nice speakers this song and others aren’t worth listening to. While PacDiv doesn’t do a lot of different styles they have really perfected their sound and if you got something to bump this on I would highly recommend downloading both their mixtapes Church League Champions and Don’t Mention It. Pill is and ATL rapper who was featured in the XXL Freshman 2010 among Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa and J. Cole. About Song: This song if off of their third mixtape Don’t Mention It. If this song isn’t for you but you like this genre download the tape and check the rest out. Pac Div has a strong L.A. sound and is worth checking out even if you don’t like this song specifically. Favorite Lines:
“They wanna flock now…” -(0:06-0:08) with the bird sounds on the beat and the hooting at 0:31
“They tryin work they way up from the rock bottom, and they’ll slurp it all up like it’s top ramen…” -(0:20-0:04)
“…she fucking ball players, rap stars, entertainers, got 2 baby daddies and 3 twitter pages,
this is outrageous, this is absurd, she call herself a diva I call that bitch a bird” -(1:57-2:08) Misogynist? probably. Good Rap? definitely Other Pac Div Wikipedia Pill Wikipedia
