MP3: Mobb Deep- Conquer

I like Houston rap as much as the next guy. But sometimes a man enjoys Henroc out of a stryofoam cup instead of lean and sprite. Prodigy is home, and he is voting for Ron Paul like some sort of Q-Boro Vince Gallo. While I am not voting for Ron Paul this EP knocks.

29.Clams Casino- Instrumental Mixtape

Lil B is truely a great artist. A producer that makes music for the #basedgod is blessed, and an asset to humanity.

28.Bon Iver-Bon Iver

MP3: Holocene

Bon Iver is the new Thom Yorke/Phill Collins/Bill Clinton. Not bad for a fucking beardo.

27.Mr. Muthafuckin’ Exquire- Lost In Translation

MishkaNYC – Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Lost In Translation – 01 Triple F -prod. by Charli Brown Beatz-

I had a DJ Three tape I bought one of the first times I went to New York. MF Grimm had this great song about Emotions on it. His team had shoes made of ostrarich. The primary emotion was “fuck you”. This Lost In Translations tape reminds me of that song. More “Razerblade under the tongue” then “Hey, wait Bladerunner is kinda like living in NY.” The dystopia in the music was a product of the experience. Just because you have cancer you don’t have to tell me that radiation comes from machines. Sometimes your suffering, and alcoholism will suffice.
26.Prurient- Bermuda Drain

Until there is a PillowTalk full-lenghth this will do.

25.Big K.R.I.T.-The Return of 4eva

MP3: Dreamin’

B. Rabbit meets Devin The Dude. Who doesn’t love B. Rabbit and Devin the Dude as people?

24.Drake-Take Care

MP3: Drake- Over My Dead Body (Star Slinger Remix)

This is a really good album. I am just really mad at this album because of hearing “She Will” on the radio too many times.
I do not not hold “She Will” against Lil Wayne and it was on the Carter IV not Take Care. For some reason the idea of a sensitive artist reflecting on if a woman will jiggle her butt for him because he is famous creeps me the fuck out. Maybe it’s just makes me realize I am the only person male or female that doesn’t like strip clubs, or how women don’t mind combining money and sex. I bet whomever bought the most Steel Reserve at Occupy Wall Street was a polyamorous crust punk.

“She Will” is not on Take Care, which is a good album. I also like the Carter IV.

23.Envelope-This Could Go Either Way

MP3: Zip Zero ft N.P.

Envelope and Jacoti Sommes set-out to make a stripped-down, raw Hip Hop record inspired by early Wu-Tang’s zig-zag offness and analog warmness. Envelope’s skillset, and taste accidently caused This Could Go Either Way be sorta like if Heems worked with Clams Casino. Plus he is the only rapper from Columbus that was reviewed by Doug Mosurock or would even care to be.

22.Young Jeezy= Thug Motivation 103

This would be my album of the year if it had no R+B on it.

21.Random Axe-Random Axe

Hex Murda

20.The Roots-Undun

Conceptual and Musical album?!. And also think of the classic moments on LNWJFOFWKTA

19.Zola Jesus-Conatus

MP3: Zola Jesus -Hikikomori

People always tune me out when I tell them what my Goth album of the year is at the barber shop.

18.Vile Gash-Deluded

MP3: every day

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17.Unknown Mortal Orchestra

MP3: Ffunny Ffrends

Psychedelic and break heavy.

16.Curren$y-Covert Coup

MP3: Curren$y – Covert Coup – 09 Success Is My Cologne

Good production and flow will always be welcome.

15.Danny Brown & Black Milk- Black & Brown

Every real and active graffiti writer wants to be in Detroit right now.

14.Balam Acab-Wander/Wonder

MP3: Balam Acab- Oh, Why

This album is very soothing, and my enjoyment of it showed me that I was maturing.

13.Fly Union- The Greater Than Club

MP3: Fly Union- “Friends.Women.Money ft. Dom Kennedy”

Polished and smooth summer album.

12.Frank Ocean-Nostalgia, Ultra

MP3: Songs For Women

R. Kelly and Kid Cudi did wonders bringing cusswords and drugs into R+B.  Frank Ocean is the next step in “real talk”.

11.P.Blackk-Blackk Friday

MP3: They Know Me (Ft. Fly Union)

20-Year old Columbus rapper adds depression and disenchantment to being fresh. SWAG.

10.Twin Sister-In Heaven

Sometimes dream-pop. Sometimes R+B.

9.Ice Age- New Brigade

Take Joy Division out of tune and then make a louder Warsaw then you can get away with it.

8.Common- The Dreamer/The Believer

MP3:Common-Sweet

Common linking up with Obama and getting defended by Jon Stewart, and N.O. ID being Kanye’s Mentor gave the Chicago pair the freedom to reunite and make a strong Hip Hop album.

7.Prosanctus Iferi- Red Streams of Flesh

MP3: Prosanctus Inferi -Bent In Genuflexion

Beastial Black Metal from Columbus that is completely straight-forward, and uncompromising in it’s filth.

6.A$ap Rocky- LoveliveA$ap

MP3: ASAP Rocky- Palace (Prod By Clams Casino)

This shit is dope. Can we get Clams Casino to produce the next BONE album?

5.Kendrick Lamar-Section 80

Can we get Kendrick Lamar to produce the next Bone album?

4.Danny Brown-XXX

MP3: Scrap Or Die

Danny Brown said “fuck it I am about to hit 30. I can rock a grime accent and flow that will get me drugs and laid at the party then stop and bring it to some straight Detroit copper-stripping working class crime shit.”

3.Kanye West/Jay-Z-Watch the Throne

Super-refined artistic record that was both absurd and important.

2.The Black Keys-El Camino

Man, I wish I was in 7th grade rocking a jean-jacket and trying to meet a lady with this as my soundtrack.

1.Tyler,the Creator-Goblin

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What..if you frequented this blog then you had to see this coming?! Fear at Saturday Night Live. The Marshall Mathers LP. Waka Flocka Flame. Crass Banned From Roxburry.

But Jazzy.

MP3: Young Jeezy ft. Jay-Z & Andre 3000 – I Do (No Tags)

MP3:  50 – What Up Gangsta pt 2

Do you remember when rap was pure?

I am talking about the golden days when Jeezy was the proper role model for mental health, and 50 Cent was the new Nirvana?
Well, both these songs will take you back the the golden-era of crack music.

Well, The Jeezy song is about getting married or something and guests Andre, and Jay. But it’s still cool to have a powerful new Jeezy cut.  This is kinda like International Players Anthem 2012.  TM03 December 20th.

And Fif. Love you and thank you for not making a soft song. A wise man once said, ‘you can lose a lot of money chasing women. But you will never lose women chasing money’.

Don’t ask me why. But every now and again, I look around the internet to see what Anticon is up to. Well, Sole from Anticon has recorded perhaps the worst rap song in history, or the ballsiest song since ahem, “Makeshift Patriot” by Sage Francis.

“My President is Black, and that don’t mean jack” . Sole says on the hook of the first anti-Obama Hip Hop song, that sends up Young Jeezy’s Black Nationalist anthem. He makes a good point every now and again. Then fucks it up by either making fun of how black people talk or saying some shit about how spicy the food he found in the trash prolly is.

MP3:Sole (feat Jared Paul)-My President Is Black

For those not familar, Anticon was a bunch of people that would’ve never been allowed to rap in public, but due to technology, they were able to start a movement that dominated cyberspace because Gucci Mane didn”t have a twitter yet.

Sole was the guy who owned Anticon. He basically alienated everyone by calling EL-P a wigger who then called him and recorded Sole being scurred on the telephone.

They were exiled for for being nerds. Which in retrospect, the rest of underground Hip Hop like Def Jux and Eastern Conferance shoulda let Anticon stick around because as soon as Sole’s label was blackballed, all the rest of underground rap became the nerds.

Some Anticon guys did ok. Buck 65 made out with Tom Waits and got a gig dejaying Tim Hortons private parties. Why? stopped rapping, picked up a ukelelee and became a hearthrob for Jewish Art School girls. Dose One joined TV on the Radio or something like that.

Jeezy’s “My President” was one of my favorite songs last year because I thought it really captured the magnitude of the moment.

What do you think of Sole’s version?

for more info on Sole,… hit up his website, www.soleone.org

Jeezy is three for three. You hear me. Three for Three. The most consistant Def Jam artist since iono, Public Enemy or EPMD.
Jeezy has also written the only political song worth a shit in the whole 8 years of Bush regime, “My President”.
Not bad for a gothic-sounding, near-fascist, master of hood-dianetics Trap-Star.

I saw him and Jim Jones lat year at Vets. Jeezy goes hard.
Jeezy, Boosie & Ron Browz are playing at the Newport tonight.

Get to know him if you don’t already.

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(Watching this Vice interview has made me decide to get a fade, and stop looking like a weirdo. Ironic nerd is still nerd to Jeezy.)
afterparty with the superfriends @ the legion of doom

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Never mind…

Just watch the the Ray Lee video. It has the Sound artist and composer explaining an experience availble to you. sooooooooooo….Buy some qualudes and go get a brain massage at the Wexner Feb 26-28th. More info here:Wexartsblog.

(disclosure: duffy works there)

Salute. Black Nationalism is the new Patriot Act.

 Today marks the official beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency.  The above video is of Young Jeezy’s “My President is Black”  being performed live in  Washington, DC on the eve of this historic day. The album verison of “My President” has Nas. But once again Nas lost; Nasir  didn’t make it DC, I guess. Jay-z raps instead,  jokingly saying “My president is black but he is infact  half-white. So even in a racist’s mind he is alright.” I still love Jeezy’s verse though for the line, “Be all that you can be. Don’t that sound like some dumb shit.”

 Congrats America. You can look at yourself in the mirror for the first time in awhile.

All photos by Johnny Cashola on a crappy disposable camera.

Me and a few friends went and watched Gucci Mane perform at Club Ice last Friday. Gucci is a man that has sold 500,000 records independently with a label that he has left and is fueding with, a man that sent a friend of Young Jeezy’s to his grave, and has the streets on smash right now with his hit “Freaky Girl”. The night was a spectacle of great porportions complete with a member of the SwatTeam rocking a bullet proof vest and carrying a Machine Gun looking in a manner that resembled a StormTrooper walking up and down Long street, a news crew from godknows where, a two-hour line wait which resulted in the door prices being jacked up to 300 dollars on a 20 dollar ticket. Then there was the actual show.

For those that don’t know who Gucci Mane is, please allow me to get you up to speed. Gucci Mane first broke on the Trap-Rap scene with his collab with Young Jeezy, “So Icey” in 2005. There was a dispute over that song in some capacity, either Jeezy claims he wasn’t paid for it, or Gucci Mane’s former label Big Cat Entertainment argues that Jeezy wanted to buy the song for his own use and didn’t come up with the bread. The song came out on Gucci’s album “Trap House”, and eventually led to diss songs back and forth.

Young Jeezy offered 10 Thousand Dollars up to anyone that could present Gucci Mane’s chain to him. A stripper tried to set Gucci up by having four men show up to her house who pistol whipped him and tried to rob him. Gucci Mane wasn’t having it, and he shot and killed one of the men. Gucci went up for trial, and was acquited on grounds of self-defense.

In 2006 Gucci followed up “Traphouse” with the aptly titled “Hard to Kill” which featured the song “Pillz” which detailed Gucci taking xtc and getting annoyed by females that are killing his high. It was an anthem whether you were geeked up or just a little bit drunk. The album also had a song called “Go Head” discussing the idea that big bottomed girls make the world go round. Between the whole murdering Jeezy’s friend thing and having street hits, Asylum/Warner came knocking and gave young Gucci a major label deal.

His former label Big Cat still has a back catalog of music and despite getting a large chunk of money for Gucci’s rights felt like the “crackers” at the majors deserve to be milked. So last month they put out “Trap-A-Thon” a collection of Gucci’s songs. This release is hilarious cause between Gucci’s songs it has Big Cat’s owners counting the money they are making off of Gucci, and saying how they are gonna let him live cause the millions of dollars he is earning for them.

Gucci has denounced this release, and asks his fans to support his official release in November on Asylum called “Back the Traphouse”. Both “Trap-A-thon” and “Back to the Traphouse” feature versions Gucci’s current hit “Freaky Girl” which has been gettin a lot of burn on 107.5 recently. I listen to it every day while I pour my vanilla soymilk onto my Puffins.

So when I heard Gucci was coming to town I headed straight to Kroger’s to cop a ticket. We got to Club Ice, and there was a line around the block. We headed towards the back. We had a squad of English girls from A+F with us cause they have nothing better to do.

Because our squad was melanin challenged some camera crew ran up on us. I told the crew that these girls flew in from England just to see the Gucci Mane. The camera crew asked them all kinds of questions, and then queryed if they were very “Freaky Girls”. The Brits had no idea what that was Gucci’s hit right now, cause they listen to like Indie Rock ,Weed Steeler, and dance music. So the camera crew asked me if I was looking for a very freaky girl. I was like hell yeah I am. The song plays off of Rick James likes this:

“She is a very Freaky Girl, the type you don’t bring home to mother. First you get her name. Then you get her number. Then you get some brain in the front seat of the hummer.”

I tried to explain to the lady that if I don’t own a Hummer, so if I met a girl that owned a Hummer, and fullfilled the other criterias mentioned in the song, I would in fact bring her home to my mother. That would be wife material. I don’t know if she got my point or not. I just hope I end up on You tube or a DVD.

After this was done we waited. Word got out that if you didn’t have a ticket, it was 100 at the door. So everyone in my entourage but Cashola and M. dipped. I noticed the crowd was 60 percent women. Given the fact that Gucci Mane’s hit “Freaky Girl” hook is what I previously mentioned, I thought it was funny that a bunch of females were about to pay 100 dollars to hear a man demand oral sex in an enviromentally unfriendly automobile. Oh Oh, Young Gucci Mane.

The girls were nice to us, and kept asking us to rap Gucci Mane songs cause they found some sort of humor/cuteness about it. They weren’t feeling any white girls that walked by, though. The main idea is the white girls have not the backside to provide Gucci Mane with what he needs. I was fine with this cause all the white girls looked either like Trannies or smelled like public school lunch. Like a really gross ravoli or something. Definately something with a red sauce that looked orange.

The Columbus Police were in full effect mode. Like I said before there was a mane, not a Gucci Mane, but a large white mane excuse me Man that had was brandishing some sort of automatic rifle. I wonder what security package that is. Perhaps we will get one for the Daymon Day Parade next year. The Stormtrooper would keep people off the sidewalks, which also helped the valet who parked several absurd cars. Including two soda themed Chevy’s one was patterned after Sprite, the other was Pepsi. Both cars were up on really big Spinners, and had the afformentioned soda logos on them.

Eventually they let ticket holders in. Which caused lots of arguements by people that claimed to professional football players and the club’s security. The doorman’s conflict resolution was that if they truely possess the capital that is usually involved with such a vocation then a 300 dollar admission wouldn’t be that outlandish. My 20 dollar ticket got me in, and it was off to the show.

Right when we got into the mainroon, Gucci took the stage. He did a couple new songs. Then he did “Street N’s”, and “Go Head”.

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Like I said. The crowd was at least 60 percent female.

Gucci called his former label “Big Cat” Big Pussy. The crowd cheered. He urged them to pick up “Back to the Traphouse” and not “Trap-a Thon”.

The original version of “Traphouse” got the biggest response.

When he did “Freaky Girl” some girl got on stage and tried to be a very freaky girl with someone for Gucci’s team. If you look close at this photo you can see her getting yanked off stage by security.

Pillz is still my favorite.

All and all the show was great. The crowd was mad energetic. There were pushpits. And the only skirmish were between females that wanted to get close to Gucci.

At the end of the day, all the people were happy. I mean lets put this in perspective. Arcade Fire played an outdoor show at Promowest Pavillion a few weeks ago. AF and Gucci Mane sold about the same amount of records last time there were out. Imagine how fun it would’ve been to see that show at a venue the size of the frontroom of Skullys.

Goodtimes.