Click above for a treasure trove of free music from Denmark's totally incredible SYG NOK RECORDS camp + Watch the video for Kid Kishore's "Ska vi slås":
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Erykah Badu's new video, and album, are SO AWESOME.
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I hear the next installment in her "New Amerykah" series is going to be called "Return of the Ankh." I'm ridiculously excited.
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I just read this on beattrend.com:
"Lil Wayne was supposed to perform at a North Carolina high school a few nights ago but the rapper failed to show up which left an auditorium of kids without a promised show. The concert was originally set last month but was canceled after the New Hanover County School Board pulled the plug due to safety concerns.It may be due to the chaos at a 2006 Morgan State University show where the rapper rained money on the crowd which resulted in two lawsuits from injuries sustained when people scrambled for the cash."
...And I'm definitely feeling summertime cook-out boom-box vibez a la:
and OF COURSE:
I'll take the honies in high top jellies, Moet, Alize, fruit vendorz and Steely Dan samplez over the slush any day. (Damn slush is fuckin' up my classics.) And to be honest, I'm getting pretty tired of the red and black lumberjacks.
Look at those mic skillz. You know you know she's fly. She might even eclipse the ultra-positivity of Nomad (see CLOUDZ). There may be a little mud being slung, but it's laced with so much h o p e.
OMG MICHELLE live @ the annex nyc (Jan. 08)
If you don't know these ladiez yet, you're slippin'. They might argue that no one knows them. My theory is that this tune (produced by KINGDOM) is, IN FACT, a diss to Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Plz, stop the hate, Hilz...
Two of my fav. peoplez, the venerable DJ RUPTURE and the vicious LEIF have been kickin' k-nowledge of South Africa's Sweat X crew, and I can't help but join in:
Posting this video might be slightly irrelevant at this point, but it's no less hilarious. And completely baffling.
Mitt is so street. Unfortunately, he is the opposite of what I would consider a good presidential candidate. So, with that, let's all savor the new irrelevance of this video as a propaganda tool.
My friend "Jefferson Mayday Mayday" (Quotes necessary due to the multiplicity of names by which he''s known) is a truly illuminated individual, repping hard for the land of my birth, the deep dirty. Here's a beautiful video he made at the world famous South of the Border, located in luscious Dillon, SC, with sounds to stain your eardrums by a distinguished cast of southern gentlemen.
SOUTH OF THE BORDER (Pure Enjoyment Archives 2007)
[SOUTH OF THE BORDER was intended to be a second Disney~World* In 2001 visionare Alan Schaefer passed away & threats to tear down a relic from yesteryear is at constant bay* South of the Border in its hay day had become self contained, having its own fire department & police station* One could even buy a car at BORDER automotive* Schaefer went into secrecy & kept unknown apartments in back his shops and diners, and began building interconnected houses just outside Dillon South Scarolina where Border is located* Dillon is just "South of the Border" to North Carolina* Many think there should be only one Carolina and it should be its capital* Video document features many stores, such as an "African Store", as South of the Border has a world theme, yet its central theme is Western Mexico* Document also features sights from an elevator ride up to a giant sombrero, which is what one first sees from an interstate, similar to how one sees a Mickey Mouse water tower on their way to Disney~World* Yet roughly 40 miles prior, there are phenomenal bill boards to hype one up roughly every half mile which have everything one could fit on a bill board, even an old beat up car which is frequently hit up by local graffiti artests* Soundtrack features much early 80's world olympics peace inspiring sounds which one may sense in South of the Border's forgotten age invoking powers, but it also features a local Scarolina group LARb, from their LARb/FLUME 12 inch split* LARb was a group which featured moog/theramin/sax/& samplers and played in Columbia Scarolina from early 90's til just after millenium* Song is taken from a telephone recording where a man was trying to convince sax player he had "control over his mental state" Often people who can no longer "take it", meaning Scarolina government's backwards ways due to its confederacy pride have to leave to a great fantasy just upstate so they can regain control over their mental state* A place where you can buy an American flag where an eagle is shattering through it like glass* A flag you wash after it touches ground* For all whom go on tour up and down eastern coasts, it is imperative to take I~95, becuase "you never sausage a place!"] - JMM
I recently bought the Skull Disco "Soundboy Punishments" album, and Shackleton's "Blood On My Hands" is on my brain. It's an interesting track. The lyrics are cryptic in the way they build the identity of the speaker, who seems to be either a terrorist or someone slowly coming to terms with the realities of a violent world. Almost a resignation, it feels like a deeply personal experience. The music to me somehow represents a quieting of the mind, with occasional bursts like the volcanic tension below the surface. It's beautiful... a little bit evil. One of the only songs I've heard that explores this subject matter in a mature and thoughtful way.
SHACKLETON - BLOOD ON MY HANDS (2007, Skull Disco)
Recently I've looked to Nomad's mic skills to act as that little flicker of hope we all seek in our lives. This is in an effort to extract all formsof negativity from my life. And, of course, Horsemouth's soliloquy tacked onto the end is an endless well of righteousness. 2008NOTIME2H8 / CONSTANTLYPOSITIVEVIBEZ /
I feel a NEXTLEVEL sort of kinship with BOK BOK & MANARA (linked to your right) out of London (SE, duh). There's something about these London kids that is CONTINUOUSLY BLOWING MY MIND. Check their myspace page and mek friends, respect, one blood. Here's their latest offering, the newest in new WHAT'S A NICHE? mix for Mad Decent, bubblin' right now.
"Jumpoff323: you play sumthin like this in da club da ladies will goes crazy.shout out to whoever c&s this.time 2 pop them patron bottles 2 this" + "Saxman23: I could sooooo fuck the shit out my girl to this...."
