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Basic Rap...

Royce Da 5'9" - Basic Rap

You, you, you
nothin' about your....flow, flow, flow
Can't make my mouth go....down, down, down
Or my eyebrow go....up, up
You suck, suck!

Basic rapper, I hate you
Go back to the dates you came from (You, you, you)
N**** rhymes done changed (You, you, you)
Styles done advanced
RUN DMC is a classic (You, you, you)
N**** get back in your time machine
(You, you, you).....

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I agree.

Rising Up

"Yesterday I saw a big girl cry and I walked up and asked what's wrong and she said the radio's been playin' the same song all day long... So, I told her I got something you've been waiting for..." This track is almost a year old but still a high quality offering from the Legendary Roots Crew! A year after its release, how many times have you heard this track on the radio? I haven't listened to every station every day but I can guess that this track isn't "playlist worthy". (Click to Check it Out)

MF Doom Fan Club President: Mos Def

You know how sometimes you wonder who an artist listens to in their car or at home? I guess we know who Mos is listening to - it's Doom. Mos is obviously blasting Doom while chilling in the studio or on the set of a film or television show in between shooting scenes. Mos, definitely not paralyzed like he was on a recent episode of "House", spends seven minutes of this video spitting verses from Doom tracks like he wrote 'em and then analyzing them like a professor in a college classroom for his students to digest. Guess he's a true fan of another real emcee, showing that he's definitely a humble dude.

Best line, "I bet a million dollars on Doom against Lil Wayne." Wow!

DOOM's album, Born Like This, is in stores now.

Simple. Yet so hilarious.

Best I Ever Had

So Far Gone Review
Category: Hip Hop

I laughed when I read the line "'So Far Gone' suggests what '808s & Heartbreak' would have sound like if Kanye West could sing." Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Kanye fan and appreciated the efforts of "808s & Heartbreak" but "So Far Gone", a mix tape from relatively unknown Aubrey "Drake" Graham, is fire from beginning to end.

Graham, a Canadian actor by day, has three self-published mix tapes to his credit under the name Drake but through some work with Lil Wayne, his latest "So Far Gone" has created quite the buzz and allowed him to reintroduce himself. "So Far Gone" features Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, Omarion, Bun B, Lykke Li and Peter Bjorn and seventeen quality tracks.

It's a mix tape you don't want to miss out on. Had O not sent me a text telling me about "A Night Off" featuring Lloyd (which I immediately listened to on YouTube) and requested more info (which was followed by a link to the download) I would have missed one of the best hip hop releases of this year. Yes, I said it - one of the best releases of the year! "So Far Gone" reminded me of the days of being able to listen to albums from beginning to end and with seventeen tracks, you get more than you get when you pay for an album (which is maybe 10 songs).

"So Far Gone" has what many albums are missing - originality and talent. Every track will quickly become a favorite. The album is smooth, rich and well produced. Drake mellows things out with tracks like "Bria's Interlude" and "A Night Off". Then he keeps it real with tracks like "Little Bit", "Best I Ever Had", "Lust for Life" and "Say What's Real". There's also club friendly tracks (however, trust me you'll never hear them in a club) "Unstoppable" and "Uptown".

Because of the robots that run the radio stations, you'll never hear these tracks on air but word is Drake, also known on his records as Drizzy, is in the beginning stages of working on his major label debut (due out at some point this year or early 2010) so perhaps that will lend some headway to providing a mainstream outlet.

For more info on Drake:
http://www.octobersveryown.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thisisdrake

To download:
http://www.octobersveryown.net/mixtapes/drake_sofargone.zip

"So Far Gone" tracklisting...


















# 1. Lust For Life
# 2. Houstatlantavegas
# 3. Successful (feat. Trey Songz & Lil' Wayne)
# 4. Let's Call It Off (feat. Peter Bjorn & John)
# 5. November 18th
# 6. Ignant Shit (feat. Lil' Wayne)
# 7. A Night Off (feat. Lloyd)
# 8. Say What's Real
# 9. Little Bit (feat. Lykke Li)
# 10. Best I Ever Had
# 11. Unstoppable (feat. Santo Gold & Lil' Wayne)
# 12. Uptown (feat. Bun B & Lil' Wayne)
# 13. Sooner Than Later
# 14. Bria's Interlude (feat. Omarion)
# 15. The Calm
# 16. Outro
# 17. Brand New

What I'm Watching ... Ryan Leslie - "Gibberish"

He's more talented than most song writers and "Gibberish" doesn't even have real words. Listen closely.



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So now you're an R&B artist?

Roger Troutman. Teddy Riley. T-Pain. And now whoever else. Weezy, Yung Berg, Yeezy....? So many amazing r&b artists in this field still, extremely great vocal talents, yet these guys and others rather do it all on their record. Never mind maintaining the quality of the music. It's like throwing a party for yourself and you are the host, DJ, caterer, MC, rapper, singer, etc. It get annoying. Irritating. Narcissistic. And sometimes unproductive. It's bad enough there are so called R&B artists coming out with albums with borderline vocal ability. Now I have to deal with this? Great. I'm sticking to my old faithfuls. My reliables. My legendary singers. Some of them might not have released an album in some time, in some years, but still. I blame fans and record labels. Rarely the artists. Never settling for B.S. Not with my music. Ever.

Jingle Jam '07 Biggest Ever? Guess not...

So I hear earlier today that CT's radio station's Jingle Jam still had tickets. Still wasn't sold out. Even had some discounted. Really? Not sold out hours before showtime?

Expert from the radio station's website:(Year after year HOT 93.7 Hartford’s #1 for Hip Hop & R&B has brought you the biggest names in the game like Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Chris Brown, Akon, Ciara, Ludacris & more and THIS YEAR THE GIFTS ARE COMING A LITTLE EARLY WITH THE RETURN OF THE HOTTEST CONCERT OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON...HOT 93.7’S "JINGLE JAM 07" AND IT WILL BE even BIGGER THAN EVER - LIVE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH AT THE HARTFORD CIVIC CENTER!!!)

Bigger than ever? You kidding me?

B5, T-Pain, Hurricane Chris, Bow Wow, Trey Songz, The Dream, Cassidy, Mr. Vegas and last but not least Souljah Boy....

Now I don't dislike every single person in that line up. But........I can see why that show didn't sell out. Amazing considering how much of their music I'm force fed by "alledged" radio and tv requests. Makes me wonder if the artists' labels are just involved in the payola routine. Jay-Z can sell out a show in minutes just him alone. 9 artists plus surprise guests according to the radio station, over a month of promoting and still.......tickets available.

Some on that list can actually sing. Some...can't. Some can actually rap. Most on that list.....can't. Don't see many classics from those artists. But I can admit, I see some one hit wonder puppets on there. Goes to show you that not even hollering at A Bay Bay, falling in love with Bartenders, or Super Soaking that Hoe is enough to sell tickets. You got fans who aren't even that committed to spend $3 an artist, according to the radio station. Seriously? These are fans. Not even good ones. LOL!

Come on people. Get with the program. Cut the bullshit. Ban the wack cats. Stop supporting stupid music that just puts your brain cells to sleep. I can't, at 29, honestly like some shit that sounds like it was written by Dr. Suess nor can I listen to songs sung by what sounds like some kareoke 3rd place winner. Stop settling. I need quality music. I want quality music. I demand that shit. Cause yes...I still buy cds. I'm not making wack "rhymers" (cause most of them can't rap) and greedy money grubbing labels rich like I'm some ignorant, can't think for self, uneducated, middle school drop out who takes what they give me. Too smart for that. Music means too much to me to let that happen. Real music is out there. Just gotta wake your hinbernated brain up to look for it. I mean, it ain't like you don't spend 19 outta 24 hours online anyway. Be useful. Be proactive. Be in love with real music again!

I'm out..........

Cosby Speaks

This piece was sent to me by a friend and I thought it was important to share. Bill Cosby has spent the last few years creating quite a stir in the black community. Many have called America's favorite dad a bit reckless with his statements about black males in particular. Some claim that Bill Cosby hates black people. Does he really? What's wrong with saying that they control their own destiny? What's wrong with saying that they shouldn't blame others for their misfortune when there are opportunities available? What's wrong with saying that minorities have very little role models to look up to except for rappers and athletes? The article, but more importantly the book he has co-written, may make you think.

Tough, Sad and Smart

By BOB HERBERT

Published: October 16, 2007

They are a longtime odd couple, Bill Cosby and Harvard’s Dr. Alvin Poussaint, and their latest campaign is nothing less than an effort to save the soul of black America.

Mr. Cosby, of course, is the boisterous veteran comedian who has spent the last few years hammering home some brutal truths about self-destructive behavior within the African-American community.

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary,” Mr. Cosby likes to say. “It’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”

Dr. Poussaint is a quiet, elegant professor of psychiatry who, in public at least, is in no way funny. He teaches at the Harvard Medical School and is a staff member at the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston, where he sees kids struggling in some of the toughest circumstances imaginable.

I always wonder, whenever I talk to Dr. Poussaint, why he isn’t better known. He’s one of the smartest individuals in the country on issues of race, class and justice.

For three years, Mr. Cosby and Dr. Poussaint have been traveling the country, meeting with as many people as possible to explore the problems facing the black community.

There is a sense of deep sadness and loss — grief — evident in both men over the tragedy that has befallen so many blacks in America. They were on “Meet the Press” for the entire hour Sunday, talking about their new book, a cri de coeur against the forces of self-sabotage titled, “Come On, People: On the Path From Victims to Victors.”

There weren’t many laughs over the course of the hour. Speaking about the epidemic of fatherlessness in black families, Mr. Cosby imagined a young fatherless child thinking: “Somewhere in my life a person called my father has not shown up, and I feel very sad about this because I don’t know if I’m ugly — I don’t know what the reason is.”

Dr. Poussaint, referring to boys who get into trouble, added: “I think a lot of these males kind of have a father hunger and actually grieve that they don’t have a father. And I think later a lot of that turns into anger. ‘Why aren’t you with me? Why don’t you care about me?’ ”

The absence of fathers, and the resultant feelings of abandonment felt by boys and girls, inevitably affect the children’s sense of self-worth, he said.

The book lays out the difficult route black people will have to take to free the many who are still trapped in prisons of extreme violence, poverty, degradation and depression.

It’s a work with a palpable undercurrent of love throughout. And yet it pulls no punches. In a chapter titled “What’s Going on With Black Men?,” the authors (in a voice that sounds remarkably like Mr. Cosby’s) note:

“You can’t land a plane in Rome saying, ‘Whassup?’ to the control tower. You can’t be a doctor telling your nurse, ‘Dat tumor be nasty.’ ”

Racism is still a plague and neither Mr. Cosby nor Dr. Poussaint give it short shrift. But they also note that in past years blacks were able to progress despite the most malignant forms of racism and that many are succeeding today.

“Blaming white people,” they write, “can be a way for some black people to feel better about themselves, but it doesn’t pay the electric bills. There are more doors of opportunity open for black people today than ever before in the history of America.”

I couldn’t agree more. Racism disgusts me, and I think it should be fought with much greater ferocity than we see today. But that’s no reason to drop out of school, or take drugs, or refuse to care for one’s children, or shoot somebody.

The most important step toward ending the tragic cycles of violence and poverty among African-Americans also happens to be the heaviest lift — reconnecting black fathers to their children.

In an interview yesterday, Dr. Poussaint said: “You go into whole neighborhoods and there are no fathers there. What you find is apathy in a lot of the males who don’t even know that they are supposed to be a father.”

The book covers a great deal that has been talked about incessantly — the importance of family and education and hard work and mentoring and civic participation. But hand in hand with its practical advice and the undercurrent of deep love for one’s community is a stress on the absolute importance of maintaining one’s personal dignity and self-respect.

It’s a tough book. Victimhood is cast as the enemy. Defeat, failure and hopelessness are not to be tolerated.

Hard times and rough circumstances are not excuses for degrading others or allowing oneself to be degraded. In fact, they’re not excuses for anything, except to try harder.

Video of the Week

MTV Video of the Year?
Talib Kweli provides real lyrical content. Talib took that creativity a step further by creating an amazing video to compliment the lyrical content. Would MTV dare nominate it as the Video of the Year? I guess only time will tell.

Real lyrical content and creativity has no place in society, well at least that's what these commercial suckers want you to think. Support real hip hop, bootleg wack rappers!