Posts for category ‘Dirty South’

This mixtape is just what I needed.  Bored with a lot of the shit that’s been coming out recently, Yelawolf’s southern slang’d project breaths life back into my ears.  If you’re looking for something new and are bored with a lot of the rap that’s out, download this mixtape and listen to the whole thing.  This dude could blow up to be a big deal.  Good way to start off 2010.

Trunk Muzik Mixtape Download

Wow….this is incredible.  I have my doubts about Rebirth, but this track is pretty amazing.  Wayne is ill and Em is crazy.  People on all the blogs are viewing this like a competition when it simply is just a dope artistic collaboration.  If you don’t like this song and you’re a fan of either of these guys’z previous music you need to fix your ears.  This makes me more excited for Rebirth, showing us that dopeness can still be a product of Wayne’s rock experiment.  In other news Wayne is rumored to be on Relapse 2. UPDATE: Just heard the whole album from the leak, a couple good tracks, but overall the CD is a disappointment.  I”m lookin forward to Carter 4 Wayne and for this rock phase to be put to the side.

Lil’ Wayne ~ “Drop The World” (Feat. Eminem)

In Hip-Hop, success is short lived, a relentless genre where you can suddenly become “hot” or “not”.  Every once in a while a new sound infiltrates the system and defines a new form of “hot”.  Past trends of new sounds have been from Tribe, to Wu-tang, to Biggie, to Jay, to Em, to Mos Def and Talib, to 50, to The Clipse, To Wayne, to Drake.  An evolving escalator of artists representing trends that not only influences the genre, but popular culture as well.  Yelawolf could be the next dude to step on this escalator.  He’s from that dirty region south of the mason dixon, and spits hot fiyaa.  It sounds corny, but his lyrical style can kinda be described as a southern Eminem.  His flow is a mixture of a new type or approach to swagger and the typical southern mentality.  Dude is ill, and spits fast raps without taking any dopeness out of each line by how quick he goes in at all.  Yelawolf’s distinct style if it caught on could be a new step in Hip-hop.  30 years ago who would’ve thought that in the future white dudes from the south would be nice on the mic like this haha.  If you haven’t heard of this skrilla I suggest checkin out the cut I posted to the right in the “crisp new cuts” section.  Enjoy the music and be ready to hear this dude’s name a lot more in the future…o yeah, he was just featured in a juelz video…makin moves:

Wow…my favorite underground producer has reached into the mainstream of the trap and pulled out this Young Jeezy gem.  That’s right people, El-p and Jeezy, this shit is ridiculous, off a new compilation being put together by adult swim.  If you like mainstream dirty south music: you’ll like this shit.  If you like underground indie hip-hop, you’ll like this shit.  If you’re a fan of experimental music: you’ll like this shit.  Click the link below to experience this unlikely fusion.

Young Jeezy ~ “I Got This” (El-P Remix)

Props to 2dbz

Curren$y parted ways from the Ca$h Money Click a long time ago, probably based on creative differences, corporate offices constantly delaying his project, and / or not being able to put up with Wayne’s ridiculousness.  I was cruisin through YouTube last night blunted looking for some Curren$y clips and came across this vid of him, Wayne, and a whole bunch of drunken drugged out mufuckers chillin on the Weezy tour bus. Check it out below:

This reminds me of a different time in Wayne’s career, a time with just as much siuzzurp, but a little less rock haha.  So the question is: Where would Curren$y be if he was still signed to Young Money?  How would this have affected the now mainstream Young Money machine? Who knows…all I know is that I love what Curren$y is doing and love a lot of the stuff Wayne’s involved in too.  It’s a combo that i wish was still in existence.  Hopefully one day they will join forces again and produce some dope New Orleans music.  Below is Curren$y’s single off his never released Cash Money effort featuring Weezy and Remy Ma.

Curren$y ~ “Where Tha Cash At” (Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Remy Ma)

This documentary looks oh so epic.  Wayne tried to block it’s release, but it’s coming out next week. This is some real art right here; The chronicles of the Kurt Cobain of Hip-Hop.  Check out an excerpt of the review and preview clip below:

Hipsters, thugs, and assorted hangers on all crammed into L.A.’s Silent Movie Theater last night for a private screening of The Carter, the Lil’ Wayne documentary that’s had the Internet goin’ nuts for months – first because Wayne yanked his support from it, and next because there’s a dope trailer floating around that suggests the movie might, in fact, be amazing. Well, for once, trailers don’t lie – The Carter is a masterpiece, an incredibly vivid and detailed look into the life and process of a great artist.

At the beginning of the film, a title card apologizes for the fact that the filmmakers were never able to sit down and have a formal interview with Weezy, and that he withdrew his support from the film. Well, they shouldn’t have bothered. Number one, they have enough footage of other people interviewing Lil’ Wayne, not to mention in-depth Q&As with everyone from Birdman to Wayne’s best friend to Wayne’s adorable twelve-year-old daughter (who busts a startling good freestyle). Secondly, and more importantly, the fimmakers had an all-access pass to Weezy’s life for six months, shooting as a fly on the wall in all manner of intimate situations. You see Wayne dump a wad of money the size of a cement block into his suitcase. You see Wayne in concert. You see Wayne’s birthplace, Hollygrove, in New Orleans. You see Wayne on drugs, pounding sizzurp and smoking copious weed. There’s tons of comedy, intentional and otherwise (mostly intentional), and Wayne drops incredible science throughout; the best is one interview where he lists everything he’ll legalize, from prostitution to “putting cocaine back in Coke.” But the cinéma verité approach serves us best by showing the audience Wayne’s non-stop work ethic and endless creativity. In the hotel room, on the tour bus, wherever he lays his hat, Wayne is recording, pushing himself to new creative heights. You see him lay down his part for T.I.’s all-star posse jam “Swagga Like Us,” along with countless verses that may never even see the light of day – and they are all masterpieces: the guy simply sweats art. And a subtle, in-depth look into Wayne’s addictions – contrasting his public persona with how he addresses them in his songs – proves one of the most affecting sequences in the film. Best of all is when Weezy busts an impromptu speech to the camera in the midst of recording a song that could’ve come straight from Brian Eno: “All knowledge comes from repetition,” he states, and he’s right – certainly, as his work ethic makes clear, it’s at the core of his fame. Yet while he repeats his process over and over again – play live show, record, go to hotel, record, get on bus, record, repeat as necessary – everything that comes out of his mouth seems jarringly new. That’s what’s most awe-inspiring about this film’s depiction – despite everything that could hold Wayne back, from addiction to hangers on to the challenges of his environment, at this point, he seems incapable of making anything wack.

props to KSPACETV

This tape is fuckin dope.  Best mixtape Wayne since Drought 3. I also heard there are 8 more tracks that are gonna be released on Halloween.  I know it’s easy to hate on Wayne, but it’s hard to hate on this mixtape, every track is epic:

Lil’ Wayne ~ “No Ceilings” zip

UPDATE:

I don’t even know what the status of the I Can’t feel My Face LP is anymore from Wayne and Juelz.  This shit was supposed to come out years ago.  A little while back they put out the My face Can’t Be Felt mixtape, which I thought was a concoction of the songs that were gonna be on the CD that seems to be never coming out.  However, hip-hop heads on the web are convinced that those songs were just extras, and that there is still a lot of material from the two that hasn’t been released.  I guess we’re just going to have to wait and see if this music will be leaked or an official album will be dropped.  Either way, I love when these two work together.  When spitting on the same track they weave in and out of the beat, pushing their flows into your ears in a rhythmic pattern.  They overlap and synchronize their wordplay into a ghetto duet of similes and metaphors that make your facial expressions twist positions and change after every line.  I hope they work it out to put a full LP together and pitch it to the public.  This is the Lil’ Wayne that many hardcore hip-hop fans want to hear, so if you’re baggin on the new autotune-rock Wayne, definitely check this out.  I have a feeling the dam is about to break and there’s gonna be a flow of music leaked from these two.  Rebirth is out next month and Juelz’s LP is probably coming out at the end of the year or sooner. Here’s two new tracks from these styrofoam cup leanin muhhhfuckers: Juelz Santana & Lil’ Wayne ~ “After Disaster” Juelz Santana & Lil’ Wayne ~ “Rollers & Riders”

Every day the momentum for this young talent grows and grows.  Dude’s had like 20 radio interviews in the past 2 weeks, and his performances are showcased on almost every hip-hop blog site on the net.  Drake is the one to watch out for my friends…not Cudi, not Wale, not Charles Hamilton, not Mickey facts.  Don’t get me wrong, all of the artists I just mentioned are very talented.  However, there’s something about Drake that puts him above them all.  Whether it’s his lyrical content, the sound of his voice, or the swagger that he injects into the track; Drizzy is killin the game right now.  He’s in the studio workin on his album, touring around the world,  and enjoying the women and the caviar.  The coolest thing about the man is that he’s in no rush.  He is on point with his music, but doesn’t seem to be caving in from all the hype that surrounds him these days.  Here’s an excerpt from an MTV interview that he did recently:

“Me and [Kid] Cudi were talking at the [mtvU] Spring Break, just about so many people asking me ‘When’s that Cudi record coming? You and Cudi?’ Me and Cudi gonna make it work,” Drake promised. “Other than that, I got a song with ‘Ye and Wayne. I got a song: me, Wayne and Jeezy. I got some stuff coming to just keep the people entertained until that album hits the shelves, and hopefully my work on So Far Gone will allow me to at least break into the industry in an impressive way.”

So amped for his future projects; Kanyeezy, Jeezy, and Weezy, he makes it sound oh so easy.  If you haven’t been following Drake make sure to check him out; ‘09 is his year.

There is so much excitement and anticipation in the air you can smell it.  Slim Shady and Weezy both dropped some snippets this morning of some of their upcoming projects.  I have to say that Eminem hasn’t been delivering the heat with these album leaks, but this track’s beat sent chills down my spine.  Besides being amped for that, Wayne comes through with a pretty sick pizza slice of a track that’s probably off of rebirth. Enjoy the food: Eminem ~ “Underground” [Snippet] Lil’ Wayne ~ “Trigger Man” [Snippet] (feat. Madonna…lol) UPDATE: Eminem ~ “Bagpipes from Baghdad”