(via exiledpoetssociety)
about a week ago I wrote about James Blake’s Overgrown excellence, go read it or not
Overgrown video
Retrograde video (my song of the year so far, tied with “Life Round Here” and Bilal’s cover of “Sister” w/ the Roots & Wendy)
Beautiful visuals once again from this super team: Peep the short film Wildcat, directed by Khalil Joseph w/ soundtrack by Flying Lotus.
CLICK THE LINK. Beauty, Khalil Joseph is KING.
15 YEARS AGO TODAY |4/28/98| Big Pun released his debut album, Capital Punishment, on Loud Records.
Masterpiece. I love this album. I use the C word when speaking of it.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/26/94| Outkast released their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, on LaFace Records.
BACK IN THE DAY |4/25/94| The First Annual Source Awards took place at the Paramount Theater in New York.
Dope
Loud, 1999
One of my favorite campaigns
Here’s How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work
Less than a quarter of employees do any calculations more complicated than basic fractions, and blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends.
Read more. [Data: Michael Handel]
Fuck Math
Pusha T - ”Numbers On The Board” (GOOD, 2013)
And on the subject of beats that seriously fuck shit the fuck up here is Don Cannon scratching all of the old Neptunes itches with a Roc Marcy box cutter. It’s just too bad he went and wasted it on Pusha’s sad bag handler second childhood.
It helps if you imagine that Push is reciting all of his taunts into a mirror.
well how did i miss this… ohh yeah ‘cause outside of JB and Bilal, and about a dozen of the Tyler’s songs, music has bored me to death in ‘13. Haven’t been bothering to click on links, rap or otherwise. This beat is nasty tho and Pusha is Pusha, even tho white boys keep telling me he fell off cause they mad he rolls with Kanye or sum shit.
25 YEARS AGO TODAY |4/15/88| The movie, Colors, was released in theaters.
Death after death cause the colors I choose / red or blue, cuz or blood it just doesn’t matter
Bilal - West Side Girl (by BilalVEVO)
Back in late February Bilal released his 4th album, A Love Surreal, I wrote about it here.
This is a little mini-movie that incorporates two of the albums stronger cuts within the hilarious shitty acting and strange narrative of crooked cops trying to take down a drug dealer or some shit. its worth the 12min of your time.
Bilal continues to be my favorite R&B artist of the last 15 years and art products like this are why
lastly, here is the excellent video for the lead single “Back to Love”