Gil Scott & Jamie XX

This was one of my fav albums of last year, I don't think I ever posted this on here. It's basically Jamie XX of the XX remixing Gil Scott-Heron the majority from I'm New Here. Maybe not everybodys thing but I like it. JR enjoyed your previous two posts.

Lil Fame & Termanology (Fizzyology) "After Midnight"

Yes & see said mirked Lil' Flame would Mirk the shit out of Rio

John Dankworth - Return from the ashes

Al green I wish you were here

mos def & massive attack - I against I

Reks - I Could Have Done More

Guy from JMT produced this also.

Guru - War Tactics

Proof bof two facts - the guy from Jedi Mind doesn't only produce tracks for bad rappers, and not everything that GURU has done with out Premo sucks.

The O'Jays - The Big Gangster

Clear Soul Forces - Get No Better

New Blood Brothers mix!

They're back with a third mix. Awesome as always.

Pretty Lights

Freddie Gibbs - "BFK"

Damn I can't wait, Damn I can't wait, Damn i can't wait to make my next LP

The other tunes that you can see on the label of this record are great too, can't believe I've never heard of this dude before, he's very famous...an I'm out like a trout.....

NSFW - By any means..

And that is not the acronym of a band playing homage to Malcolm X. Well he made a video to it, and it certainly exists..

http://vimeo.com/29896825

Really want an insrumental of this

sorry just putting this here for later

Barbican -Black Motor + Rakka + Kuara + Anna-Mari Kähärän Orkesteri

Love this guys flow

Grover Washington Jr. - Black Frost

Cypress Hill, Rusko - Can't Keep Me Down ft. Damian Marley

This is strange

Method Man / Freddie Gibbs / StreetLife "Built For This" [The Man With The Iron Fists OST]

This made me laugh

Isaac Hayes - The Look Of Love

Full length long version.. I love this track. Was listening to Compton's Most Wanted Music to Driveby earlier.. so many great samples on that album made me want to stick on the original of this.

Here's a better Premo beat and a better woman rapping on it

One of my favourite tunes at the moment.. very disco

The Fatback Band - Wicky Wacky (Jamie 3:26 Edit)

Kendrick Lamar - The Recipe (Lyric Video) ft. Dr. Dre

Everybody talking about Kendrick Lamar at the minute. I'm just getting the album now, and will give some thoughts later, but for now, I really like this beat.

Also thought I'd give Schoolboy Q another go.. still pretty not great and that Hands on the Wheel track is still the best thing I've heard by him.

Think I've posted this before but is a tune

Dj Premier and Dynasty -Epic Dynasty

Diana

See what you mean about comments..

What I mean is that he doesn't really seem to know how to construct a song.. it's just a wall of rapping - he doesn't really give you time to appreciate what he's doing by switching it up and changing the tone.

I think that's actually why he's so good over the 93 and papparazzi beat - because the original has come before so he's got those parameters to work in. Not saying everything should just follow the standard rap track structure, but man, he has a lot of songs that are either a wall of rap, just have purely terrible hooks and choruses, or a combination of the two (and inevitably then bloated and overlong).

So that's something I felt came across when watching him live - I get fatigued with it. Although it's good, it's a lot of the same..

He was saying of the way he worked with Madlib - they would send each other stuff back and forth, but like, he'd rap over something Madlib sent him and what he'd then get back from Madlib was something completely different, changing the beat, changing the whole arrangement of the track and they go back and forth kinda moulding something that ends up completely different.

Thinking about, I think it's a lot like what Madlib accomplished with Percee P. I think he's a guy with a lot of the same talents and flaws, and Madlib absolutely brought the best out of him... whereas other rappers can just straight take a beat off a Beat Konducta album and make a nice track of it, they really benefit from his concentrated attention actually as a producer in the most traditional sense of it.

As regards his flow - could you give me distinct examples of slow and fast? I'm struggling to hear it. Sure, sometimes it's got a bit of a more laid back sound to it and sometimes more stacatto - I think he responds to the vibe of the beat to that extent; I don't think he's just spitting to a metronome totally regardless of the track. But could do with an assist to totally comprehend what you're getting at!

Ultimately I do think it's hard to say though, because he does just rap over a lot of really shitty beats.

Here is Freddie again, making an absoultely belting track over a beat from an original that I would say is definitely a classic (Tupac - Bury me a G):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztt5Phhizc

(youtube fucked at the minute.. will replace with an embed later I guess)

thoughts on Maddie

it wouldn't format in the comments;

What did you read about the stuff he did with Madlib, and how is he live?

 I enjoyed those tracks, especially the paparazzi one. I think he's exceptionally talented at making any beat his own. The fact that he can do it with paparazzi ( a song I heard a bazillion times smoking weed playing Tony Hawkes with James) is impressive enough, but to make 93 till infinity his own, is really something.

   I think he has two flows though (fast and slow) and I'm not so enamored with his fast rapping. I think he's more than just a nice rapper, he is incredibly charismatic and (most importantly) that shines through on his records. He speaks with an authenticity that literally thousands of rappers spend their careers trying to manufacture. I think it's those two factors that make him stand out, but as 90 percent of Nas's career shows, it doesn't matter if you're the best rapper alive if you are doing it over a shitty beat. Madlib gets the best out of him for sure, the beauty of the soul samples is a simple juxtaposition for Freddie's flows. It's a formula that has been done before but rarely so well. I think Madlib too is at his best when working with an artist to craft a whole album (unless it’s Wildchild or Dudley Perkins) For me Madlib is always quality, but he’s on to returning to a Madvilliany consistency with this

Freddie really didn't need to have a pussy fight with the last ho in his video, that was lame, and was the first really forced and clearly manufactured thing I’ve seen him do.

Still here’s hoping Freddie keeps keeping it real and Madlib keeps on keeping  it right.

Eugene McDaniels - Supermarket Blues

Sean Price Reporting Live From Hurricane Sandy

Gibbs (again)

Some thoughts on Freddie Gibbs based on recent discussion of his patchy output, having seen him live twice and reading about the way in which he works with Madlib -

He's a bit of a rapping robot, best as I can tell. He only really has the one flow - it's nice and all. He can definitely tell a good story, but I don't think he has any idea how to put a song together, if that makes sense..?

My guess is that he's very much reliant on his producers and collaborators to steer him in the right direction.

How did you get on with those tracks of his I posted, Jody?

And because nobody goes home empty-handed, here's Sean P impersonating Bob Ross with what ends up being a surprisingly decent painting: