Two Days Till I Explode...

Not much goin' on today. Just preppin' the ol' belly for TURKEY DAY '09. Wish me luck.

Tales From The Shuffle:


1. "Da Bomb" - Gravediggaz - After being unjustly mislabled as part of the extremely short "horrorcore" rap movement of the mid-90's, hip-hop "super group", Gravediggaz (Producer extraordinaire Prince Paul, Too Poetic, the late Frukwan of Stetsasonic & Wu-mastermind, RZA) dropped a lot of the hard, abrasive, piercing beats of their debut album, "6 Feet Deep", and came with a slightly more "polished" sound on this second album, but without losing any of the impact of the lyrical content that made the first cd a standout.


2. "Legendary Street Team" - Kool G. Rap feat. M.O.P. - This is off of the "Lyricist Lounge 2" album. Kool G. Rap is the original East Coast gangster. His flow is still one of the sickest today. Peep that old joint, "Fast Life" with him and Nas for proof of that. And M.O.P. are the ultimate confrontation rappers. Why are they yelling all of time?


3. "Hell On Earth" - Mobb Deep - Ahh. When they were hungry and had something to proove. What happened fellas?

4. "Yegelle Tezeta" - Mulatu Astatke - Awesome track from this Ethopian jazz composer. I discovered this on the "Broken Flowers" (A kick ass lil' flick from Indie god, Jim Jarmusch and starring the always brilliant Bill Murray, a frequent Jarmusch collaborator.) soundtrack. Like Tarantino, Guy Ritchie (Swept Away, excluded) & Wes Anderson, a soundtrack to a Jarmusch film is always going to be just as interesting an experience as the films themselves.

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5. "Gratis" - Prefuse 73 - A quick lil' beat off of beatmaker, Prefuse 73 (aka Scott Herren) collabo album, "Surrounded By Silence". Most of the track features guest vocalists (including Wu-Tangers GZA & Masta Killah, and Ghostface with El-P, Aesop Rock and others.), but others are straight up sick beats, what the man is best known for. If you like the beats of DJ's Shadow, Krush or Lucian, you'll definitely dig this shit.

Art Gallery: "A Magic Trick". Just more effin' around from the sketchbook.

Bye-bye.

B


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