Been really sick today so I haven’t had much motivation to post, here is a classic track from the one and only J. Dilla.
Jay Electronica is an up-and-coming emcee and producer from New Orleans. He is widely praised for his lyrical style and music which sometimes use samples from film soundtracks, such as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Although he hasn’t released a full-length album, his library of songs is already growing, with some of his most popular songs being “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (The Pledge)”“, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”. Active in large online communities, Jay somehow seems to stay below the radar while still staying on everyones minds. There are a number of projects with his name attached to them such as a 9th Wonder collabo called “Big Brother”, as well as music with Just Blaze, Guilty Simpson and more. If you are sleeping on this cat, you are missing out tremendously.
Here’s a little hip-hop quotable from the man himself, from the track Exibit A:
I spit that, wonder rhymer shit, me and my conglomerates /
shall remain anonymous, caught up in the finest shit /
get that type of media coverage Obama get /
spit that Kurt Vonnegut, that blow your brain, Kurt Cobain, that Nirvana shit/
who gone bring the game back? who gone spit that Remo on the train tracks?
that gold rope, that 5 finger ring rap/
runnin with my same pack, you can find the Christ
where the lepers and the lames at.
Look out for more from Jay Electronica coming very soon. Act II is due to drop any day!
RECAP:
Download:New Beginning (Forever) [I named this myself...]
Download: Victory (Mixtape)
Listen: Act 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (The Pledge)
Listen: Exhibit A (Produced by Just Blaze)
Buy: Exhibit C EP (iTunes)
Check it out!: Jay Electronica’s Myspace, Twitter, Facebook
Madvillain, as I’m sure you know, is the combination of MF DOOM and Madlib. Their debut album in March of 2004 took Hip-Hop heads on a journey of sound unlike any other. DOOM’s lyrics are constantly on the top of his game, his flow is remarkable. Madlib on the other hand is a beatsmith that uses sounds from every possible source, from oldies music to saturday morning cartoons. They followed up that release with Madvillainy 2: The Remixes, which was, in my opinion, not as ill, but a super dope spin on the original songs that I had grown to love. Madvillainy (the original) is easily one of the the top 5 albums of the decade. This here is a preview of their upcoming release with J.Rocc on the wheels of steel. Keep your head up for the next Madvillain album, dropping (supposedly) 2010.
Source: Stones Throw.com
Another track off that Slum Village digital EP. Slum Village’s full length release is set to drop January 12th, 2010.
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