December 2011
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ninetwocrew:
My debut music video for “DOPE” off the critically acclaimed L.A. RIOT album. Directed by Mister Whitmore. The record is produced by THX
really glad they didn’t stick to a black-n-white version of Spike Jonez and Pharcyde’s “Drop” 16 yrs later. This is a unique interpretation of the sound of “Dope”, one of the best songs on L.A. Riot, which is...
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Abe Beame on Lil' Kim, BIGGIE & 96's Hadcore →
hit the link to read Abe Beame, one of the more insightful and fun/ny music writers, break down ghostwriting, gender, sex and the art of the female emcee. When compiling the 1996 albums I was likely to write about on this Tumblr, I completely overlooked Hardcore. I have it dubbed on some maxwell somewhere in an old bin in my garage, maybe it’s time to dust it off. “Queen Bitch”...
November 2011
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hit to stream The Roots - Undun →
yes, it’s another great album by the group with the greatest rap discog
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The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates “more options” with...
– Brian Eno on the current state of software and hardware design (Via Wired)
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Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...
– Albert Einstein (via stellablu)
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jsmooth995:
Amy Winehouse - “Halftime”
“to the group that never was. at least we got one off the ground. thanks Salaam” -?uestlove
This makes me sad both that Amy’s not still with us and that the Soulquarian era didn’t last longer.
lush-n-lovely
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We want ‘poems that kill.’
Assassin poems, poems that shoot
guns. Poems that...
– Amiri Baraka (via howbigisyourworld)
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after the 45 sec. intro this is what i think of when i hear “cloud rap” (the sound not the content), but reading DPNS post yesterday about cloud rap i think i’m way off
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65 seconds of rap perfection
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Gangrene f/ Prodigy - Dump Truck →
mo rap music: Oh No & Alchemist (Gangrene) seem to just be gettin’ gullier with their shit. after blessin us with last year’s Gutter Water, this year’s EP with Roc Marci Greneberg, on the 24th of January they’ll be droppin’ their next deranged swamp funk opus. this is smack a nigga in his face juss for livin’ rap. P, like on the Evidence album, sounds...
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I don't want to be that guy to say we broke up... →
Mother Jones’ Aaron Ross interviewed Questluv arguably the best interviewee in “the game”.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land....
– Bishop Desmond Tutu
The sheer absurdity of being a black human being whose black body is viewed as...
– Dr. Cornel West in The Future of the Race (pg. 80)
Pretty much. Dr West you are Power
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I don’t want to spend my time worrying about how much I’m going to get. You have...
– ASAP Rocky
Dont remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain.
– Marcus Garvey (via feedmerevolution)