Happy belated birthday to
Jesus Murphy,
Haslam,
DJ Critical, Uncle Climax (NSFW audio),
Stinkin' Rich (NSFW audio),
Dirk Thornton,
Buck 65, or as his mom called him,
Richard Terfry.
Born in the year of the rat, and he's a Pisces, which makes him a rat fish, but by trade, he's a turntablist/ MC/ producer/
broadcaster. Generally he makes
some form of hip-hop (some NSFW lyrics), though as of late, he's been broadening his style, as heard in his cover of Leonard Cohen's
Who By Fire (
previously) and
Paper Airplane (official "lyric" video). In tribute to his 41st birthday, there's a lot more music inside.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 8, 2013 -
19 comments
Back in 1993, the hip hop group
Digital Underground needed to release a single to promote their 4th album,
the Body-Hat Syndrome, in the hopes they could recapture the magic of their two biggest hits,
Humpty Dance and
Doowutchyalike. Frontman Greg
"Shock G" Davis (aka Humpty Hump) needed a gimmick to promote the new single,
Return of the Crazy One, so he hired
FM Productions in San Francisco (who had also designed
flying pigs for Pink Floyd concerts) to create a 12-foot high sculpture of his own head, which would allow him to emerge from a trap door in the nostrils. Fast forward almost twenty years later, until a guy with the web handle
johnny payphone finds the giant head abandoned and covered in dust in an Oakland warehouse after a homeless man attempted to
live in it for several weeks. No museums have yet expressed interest in the head, but if you have the money, and you can take good care of it, the giant Humpty Hump head
could be yours.
posted by jonp72
on Aug 24, 2012 -
47 comments
OkayAfrica keeps up to date with pop culture and news from across the continent. Africa In Your Earbuds gives DJs and musicians from across the diaspora the chance to curate a playlist or mixtape of their favorite African and African diaspora music. Chief Boima of
Dutty Artz starts off
Africa In Your Earbuds.
[more inside]
posted by ChuraChura
on May 1, 2012 -
8 comments
If you've browsed
some of the
many year-end Best Album Lists, you might have seen
AraabMUZIK's Electronic Dream rank highly. If his name means nothing to you, check
an interview with the then 19 year old Hispanic kid from Rhode Island, who had recently graduated high school and connected with
Dipset, or
the 20 year old drummer-turned-producer whose performance was copied by Kanye (and other information on his life and times). Or maybe you follow producers, and knew he made the beat for
Cam'ron's track I Used To Get It In Ohio, or cuts on the
Dipset Trance Party mixes (
DatPiff has volume 1,
2, and
3). If you want to know more, you can check
a mini AraabMUZIK documentary (6:38 on YouTube), or just
watch him
work the
MPC.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 26, 2011 -
12 comments
In the tradition of Marcus Aurelius and Montaigne, Ghostface Killah (a.k.a. Pretty Toney) has set down his thoughts
on living.
(audio nsfw) (previously)
posted by Trurl
on Nov 19, 2011 -
41 comments
So you come across
the free IamOmni album, and you'll probably think one of two things: hey, it's a new direction from
underground L.A. MC, Omni; or wow, it's an album produced by
UK musician Tricky. Both are true!
Omni tells his story of connecting with Tricky in a few minutes, and
Rap Reviews ties Omni and Tricky together through other routes, going back to
the 2002 album, Sunch Punch, by
Gershwin B.L.X. (Bassline Xcursionists). Lo and behold,
that album is also free on Bandcamp.
posted by filthy light thief
on Aug 26, 2011 -
11 comments
Music fans have known for a long time that Ian MacKaye's post-hardcore group
Fugazi and the members of Shaolin-based hip-hop collective
The Wu-tang Clan were really just two sides of the same awesome-sauce coin. So enter the mash-ups of -- wait for it --
WUGAZI! [more inside]
posted by bardic
on Jul 6, 2011 -
27 comments
"
Hackers of the world are uniting and taking direct action against our common oppressors - the government, corporations, police, and militaries of the world" says LulzSec
(previously) in their latest release,
Chinga La Migra. "
We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 (previously) and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona."
#antisec is a new track from nerdcore rapper
ytcracker (previously)
posted by finite
on Jun 23, 2011 -
47 comments
