What I'm Watching: Andy Suzuki & The Method "Take Care" (Drake Cover)

Fresh off of their trip to SXSW Andy Suzuki & The Method drop off their cover of Drake's Take Care. These are good dudes that have a dope collection of covers and original material. Their new project, The Ghost Stories EP, is available on iTunes. There might also be a covers EP in the works with TMB Music. Maybe. Ha! In the meantime enjoy and Take Care. Chea!

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Ludacris "Bada Boom"

 
"Ya'll some duplicate, rap cloning niggas. I manufacture you hoes, put on your make-up bitch ..."

Definitely not my style to post beef tracks but Ludacris got my hyped. Remember how Common went off in Sweet? Yeah, that's what Luda did on Bada Boom. Sheesh. Off of his new mixtape 1.21 Gigawatts: Back To The First Time, word is the track takes aim at some backhanded comments from Drake and Big Sean. Yeah, good luck with coming for Luda. Ha!



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Check It ... @TheRealTank - "Celebration featuring Drake"

Here's another track off Tank's upcoming album. This one, Celebration, features Drake spitting a few bars on this head nodding R&B track that I find very chill. Played it a few times already. Check it out, tell me what you think about it.

Tank - Celebration featuring Drake by OCSupreme

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Drake ... My BlackBerry, Part 2 (spoof)

www.youtube.com/MurderSeason

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J. Holiday - Drake Diss?

Is J. Holiday going at Drake? Or is he going at all R&B cats using auto-tune to do what vocally talented R&B artists should be doing? Either way, kinda sounds like maybe he should've tweaked his voice using some kind of effect. I think dude missed some notes. Haha.



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BEP Presents: Birdman & Lil Wayne 8

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What I'm Watching...Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem - Forever

Video's here. What do ya think?




(Ya catch Slaughterhouse in back of Em? Word? Hmmmmmm... I guess real recognize real.)


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Best I Ever Had (Spoof)

Yep, Affion Crockett does it again. Check out the Best I Ever Had spoof.




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Drake - The Winner

Drake's "The Winner" isn't a new track. It's been out for a few weeks. But I figure it doesn't hurt to spread the word. Figuring this doesn't have any features, which can be a good or bad thing considering his associations, I decided to post it.




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Drake - The Search featuring Saukrates (Produced by Rich Kidd)

I have to thank SoulSupreme from Potholes In My Blog who got this via The Real Frequency for this track of Drake flowing over a refreshingly dope hip hop beat which features another up and coming talented MC by the name of Saukrates. A breath of fresh air in all regards compared to with who the public sees him collaborating with and the style of songs he's on. In my opinion, this track is so dope, I had to re-post it to get it out to the world so they can know what Drake is capable of in the essence of the kind of Hip Hop that I'm a big fan of. Track is called The Search. Check for yourself...





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Best Fall I Ever Had

Is the homie Drake's stock falling? Is he the AIG of the music industry right now? It seems like in the last few months after riding quite the buzz, the dude is mismanaging some of his steps (literally). He had that shady moment at the BET awards with the underage girls on stage and his Best I Ever Had video was a major fail in many eyes. Now he's laid up again? Dude isn't even doing hard dance steps. What's really good?

What's your thoughts on Drake right now, compared to a few months ago.

David Sides - "Best I Ever Had" on Piano

I was told about this guy sometime last year being that the piano is my favorite musical instrument. I've seen a ton of this guy's youtube videos where he covers various genres of music and does it so effortlessly. This time, David Sides tackles Drake's Best I Ever Had. Check out the video and tell us what you think.




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Drake - "Think Good Thoughts" ft Phonte & Elzhi

Drake featuring Phonte and Elzhi???? Wow. Track's called Think Good Thoughts produced by none other that 9th Wonder himself sampling Anita Baker's Sweet Love. Check it.


Drake - Think Good Thoughts ft Phonte & Elzhi



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Jay-Z - Run This Town ft Rihanna and Kanye West

Jay-Z returns with another single off his highly anticipated album Blueprint 3. This track was released today everywhere and tons of websites are getting their hands on. Track is hot. Despite the controversy about Drake being replaced on this track, it doesn't change the fact that this track is ill. Personally, of course. Check it out.

Jay-Z - Run This Town ft Rihanna & Kanye West



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Affion Crockett spoofs Drake's Hot 97.1 Appearance

Um, waaaaaaaaaaaay too many bombs! Waaaaaaaaay too many! Check Affion Crockett spoofs the Drake "Blackberry freestyle" on the Flex Show. Affion is a funny dude.

Watch First ... (original)


Spoof...

Did Drake Drop the Ball with "Best I Ever Had" vid?

Tha Lady Blogga Asks...Where's Hip Hop?

Given the recent events in the music industry, we can't help but realize that the hip-hop culture is on a rapid downward spiral. We lost the King of Pop, Vibe magazine folded, XXL featured a cover full of shiny suit rappers. What the hell is going on with hip-hop? It needs to be revived and quickly. We have been bombarded with parties and bullshit, bling and swag, titties and asses (thanks, Drake), but no talent. Where did it all go?

Pandora Internet radio has become a necessity in my Blackberry. While mainstream radio caters to the artists that pay the most for spins per day, Pandora gives you a mix of stuff you want to hear. I can't stand listening to mainstream radio anymore. Every hour, the line-up is the same...and it's a shitty line-up at that.

So, here I am jammin' to my Pandora "Nas" station, listening to Nas, Jay-Z, Tupac and then it plays Ma$e? WTF is this? Ma$e? Where did this come from? How does he fit in here? He doesn't and that's the problem. I can't deal with the shiny suit rapper. I can't do it. So then I got to thinking, where did hip-hop go wrong? When did we lose it to talentless gimmick promoters with expensive cars? First I thought it was Puffy and his shiny suit movement. But then what about Hammer? And who the hell gave Vanilla Ice a record deal?

The new age of rappers is coming equipped with everything but talent. I mean, it's one thing to have a sales pitch or a certain image but you have to have talent to back it up. I am not even knocking the use of auto-tune. I was rocking to "Computer Love" and it was all good. If artists were saying something worth listening to, it wouldn't matter if it was auto-tuned or not. Having to listen to the likes of Soulja Boy, Hurricane Chris, New Boyz and other talentless "Hip-Hop" acts makes it difficult for the real Hip-Hop acts to shine through. In my opinion, their music isn't considered "Hip-Hop", it's just noise. Soulja Boy will never live down the fact that he lyrically compared himself to Nas! Nas is a rapper, Soulja Boy is not. So for him to compare himself to a lyricist such as Nas, he deserves to be smacked.

Not for nothing, I think Drake is lyrically inclined and has potential to be something special, but he is allowing himself to be pushed in that bullshit artist direction and that isn't a good move. He is going to lose a lot of fans because of that. He really needs to think about staying true to himself and his talent and not following behind the likes of Kanye West. Honestly I think Kanye just wanted to kill his competition a little bit so he created that video to put Drake on hold for a second. Drake created a buzz without tits, ass and jewels. He can continue to make moves sans that crap in his act.

We have always had underground rappers. The underground movement in the Hip-Hop culture was real serious at one time but now all the real Hip-Hop artists are being pushed into that category. We need to start moving in a direction to bring back Hip-Hop as we knew it. Supporting bullshit music is a problem. We have to start supporting real music and stop helping these "lucky" mediocre artists who knew the right people get ahead. We have new rappers emerging with ridiculous talent and they deserve to be heard on a mainstream level. How awesome would it be to turn on the radio and hear tracks from Diamond District, or Tanya Morgan, some Marco Polo & Torae, or how about "Queens' Anthem"? That would be a revitalizing breath of fresh air. I wouldn't have to cringe every time I turned on the radio or kill my Blackberry battery listening to my Pandora Internet radio.

We need to bring it back and it's going to take a lot of work, but...it can be done.

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What I'm Watching...Drake - Best I Ever Had

Holy woooooow. Thanks illroots.com for the vid. Thanks Kanye for directing. Thanks whoever for the casting. Thanks to the basketball players. Yes. Thanks. Everyone's gonna have this on their site, I figure why not. Video's too good not to, although the lyrics do not match the video's direction whatsoever. Oh well. That's Kanye for you. Haha. Guess he knows how to increase publicity and gain fans while possibly losing other. Check it out.



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Jamie Foxx & Drake - Digital Girl (Remix) on the Conan O'Brian Show

Here's Jamie Foxx and Drake performing Digital Girl on the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.




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Drake @ Toad's Place in New Haven, CT

Just wanted to hit you up with some pictures and videos from his performance at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT a little while back. Place was packed to the walls, granted with youngn's but what can you do. Amazing for a dude with a mixtape album. Sold the spot out. Fits about 800 people. He did his thing. Nothing I was in awe about. In my opinion, he's less of a performer than an artist. Either way, check it out....






















(I apologize for the sound.)

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