MetaFilter posts tagged with rap

Your last name is Presley. I want you to think NASCAR and pit stops.

miss lynnster — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:53:00 -0800

Meet gold-toothed Vegas rapper Thug "Money Man" Presley, cousin to The King. Real name Kristopher Presley, Thug has been serving time in jail and just pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for running over someone with an SUV in 2004. Presley has worked a variety of jobs but has dreams of following in the footsteps of his famous cousin and becoming a world-famous singer. He has focused on hip-hop and said he'll soon release his first major-label album, titled "White Gold."

So hit me, hit me, with a little chickpea

TungstenChef — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:28:01 -0800

Hummus: The Rap (SLYP) Annoying ironic hipster? Earnest hummus lover? Who cares, hummus deserves phat beats. I got my hummus from the supermarket / Don't be a Weenie / Real hummus in your stomach / It requires tahini!

Bring in 'da statistical noise...

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:52:02 -0800

The Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Countdown. The Large Hadron Rap.

Wu-Checkmate: flexin' ya mentals.

ColdChef — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:24:32 -0800

The Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthin to PLAY CHESS wit. WuChess.com is the worlds first online chess and Hip-Hop community. You can create and share profiles with your friends and triumph over enemies on the 64 squares. Not just against people in your neighborhood but from all over the world. Play live chess with people from all over the world and get your learn on. Blog.

July Madness...no really, this is madness

cashman — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:57:40 -0800

Best Rapper Alive? No Krs-1, no Rakim, but Scarface is there. No MF Doom, no Pharoahe Monche, but Lil Mama is there. [via] Voting starts July 21st.

Fugitoid on the run again

cashman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:54:19 -0800

El-P, founder of Def Jux, is not your average rap artist. His themes and style are frequently lush and apocalyptic. While Deep Space 9mm launched 'El-Producto', cleverly futuristic works like Stepfather factory, Flyentology with Trent Reznor or the darker Tasmanian Pain Coaster are his hallmark. He recently released a new mixtape free online, along with the lyrics pdf for his album. He also recently remixed a song from MTV's TRL, warping it into a chaotic police state jam, mirroring other songs of his with themes of authority and control. Because his delivery can be like listening to raw html, it's hard to appreciate the lyrical construction behind works like Poisenville Kids No Wins until the words are right there. "And I felt like a hundred bucks in the pocket of a gambling lush/ at a wondershowzen flow with the droids of destructo luck/ fugitoid on the run again/ the sky gleamed the maroonist coloring/ layered against the bluest tone from where the thunder lived/ and there I was directly under it/ like some dejected little grey they told to stay and wait for the mothership/ a cotton ball in a blizzard of mischief or brain prison/ with a thought that rode on the bus and came for conjugal visits/ and fucked its way into my grey matter the tattered territory/ stayed chattering and nagging till it demanded it yell it for me/ and I tried to hold the thing back but the meditation was otherly/ fixated on what a friend said and relating it to my struggling/ “metropoloid void so damn smothering”/ but we were children of poisenville and saw the seduction less repugnant/ and reserved the right as the triggerman with the back up plan of self destruction/ and I touched the type of chemicals that could pull me towards that function/ it’s the stuff I find hard for discussion/ how the fuck do you explain your own self-destruction and still remain trusted?" The lyrics for Tasmanian Pain Coaster are similarly, rewardingly dense. "I swagger with rats tappin’ the glass in a government lab/ pass me the gloves/ mask and a flask of the cheapest liquor you have/ in the back of the tasmanian path/ insane again laughin’/ cacklin’ at the randomness of the city and all its facts/ the dark art of interrogation agent skippin’ class/ and at last in a flash on my tip toes walkin’ on cracked glass/ gats blast and wiz by fast or just/ catch in my calves like “hold that”/ in other words: I’m trash/ glad you asked"

I know who they are. They are French people.

Artw — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:44:38 -0800

William Burroughs recites from the last words of Dutch Schultz, set to the music of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

We just like to dance in our goatskin pants.

Servo5678 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:03:48 -0800

The kids today sure do love the hip hop music, so let's be sure to cram as much of it into our movie as possible. Thrill as MC Hammer jams with the Addams family, Bobby Brown preaches the word of the Ghostbusters via bluescreen, Rodney Dangerfield cuts loose, Ronald McDonald busts a move, and Tom Hanks & Dan Aykroyd dance their way through a criminal investigation. [Previously]

Beasties Boy Made Good

Cochise — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:54:31 -0800

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (that's MCA to you) says you got to fight for your right... to make movies? Yauch has finally stepped out of Nathaniel Hornblower's shadow and started making movies for himself.

Make Em Clap To This

cashman — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:50:04 -0800

The Kanye West Beat Drop. A number of the web's best rap blogs get together to post and chronicle the best of Mr. West's impressive and extensive history of producing, ghost producing, and the stories around many of the songs. If I had to pick one: Throw Your Hands in the Air. It's like listening to surgeons operate with violins.