good hip hop

[gfunkdocta]

at the record store today, the best thing happened. i didnt know fat beats was rereleasing kurios' constipated monkey lp. but when i went in there it was, vinyl and cd. this album is fucking beautiful. on the level of kmd or aceys first album as far as forgotten 90s era classics that somehow havnt been co-opted by the true school revival set. everyone should find this album right away because its easily better than your favorite record of the moment and will blow your fucking face off. must cop status.

this dude got me on that. and what he's sayin is the truth. the beats is crazy and gettin me all sentimental.

and un-... yea, i think 50 put a hit on cam. dude got money. anyway i hope cam gets his shit together. dipset all day.

[ouss]

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=15046

FUCK I BETTED HE WOULDNT SHOW UP BEFORE DECEMBER!

[un-]

NEW YORK — Nas says you shouldn't believe anything you've heard about Def Jam putting the kibosh on his next studio album. In fact, he insists he hasn't come across any resistance from the label.

The name of the album has changed slightly, though. He's going all the way there: It's now called Nigger, and it is set to hit stores December 11.

"I don't know where that [report] came from and neither does Def Jam," Nas said early Thursday morning (October 18) in a Manhattan recording studio when asked about a Fox News article published earlier this week. The story quoted a "source close to" label head L.A. Reid, who scoffed at the thought of the company supporting an album with such a title, and also claimed the album was not on the label's release schedule. "None of us knows where that came from."

(At press time, Def Jam representatives had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment.)

The MC said he's just two weeks from completing the LP and has done most of the work with his friend and constant collaborator, Salaam Remi. Diddy, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Toomp are also expected to get in the lab with Nas before he closes out production.

"Salaam — me and him have some real chemistry," Nas explained. "He can go from Amy Winehouse to Spragga Benz to come f--- with Nas. The other cats, some of us have somewhat of chemistry, some of us don't. ... [People] shouldn't trip off the [album's] title; the songs are crazier than the title."

Nigger has caused some strong reaction from civil-rights activists since news of the name hit the masses. The Fox News Web site quoted Reverend Jesse Jackson and representatives from the NAACP, who admonished Nas for using the N-word as his LP's name.

"I'm a street disciple," Nas responded, quoting one of his earlier album titles. "I'm talking to the streets. Stay out of our business. You ain't got no business worrying about what the word 'nigger' is or acting like you know what my album is about without talking to me. Whether you in the NAACP or you Jesse Jackson. I respect all of them ... I just want them to know: Never fall victim to Fox. Never fall victim to the sh-- they do. What they do is try to hurry up and get you on the phone and try to get you to talk about something you might not know about yet.

"If Cornell West was making an album called Nigger, they would know he's got something intellectual to say," Nas continued. "To think I'm gonna say something that's not intellectual is calling me a nigger, and to be called a nigger by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary."

Nas said he hasn't talked to anyone outside his camp about the title, so he was upset to see that people are up in arms without knowing the story behind him choosing the name.

"I wanna make the word easy on mutha----as' ears," he explained. "You see how white boys ain't mad at 'cracker' 'cause it don't have the same [sting] as 'nigger'? I want 'nigger' to have less meaning [than] 'cracker.' With all the bullsh-- that's going on in the world, racism is at its peak. I wanna do the sh-- that's not being done. I wanna be the artist who ain't out. I wanna make the music I wanna hear.

"We're taking power from the word," he added. "No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my n---as in the streets don't know who [civil-rights activist] Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the n---as in the streets don't know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don't now who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha----in' conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're taking power from that word."

Earlier this year, Nas told MTV News that he wanted to "have fun with the radio" while making his next LP. That was before he settled on the title, though. The album includes ideas and feelings he wanted to express for years that aren't exactly meant to make you dance or sing along in the club.

"Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun," he said. "My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me. [Radio-friendly songs], that's easy work. My daughter could do that. My daughter could do the sh-- that's out. I wanna do me and hopefully some mutha----as would like it. At this point, I'm looking at the whole world differently. I'm looking at how politics could really be effective for people today, how me as an artist could be more effective. ... I listen to the radio sometime and I like the vibe of that. I go to a club, and my favorite sh-- is Soulja Boy ['Crank That']. I wanna get down with them joints, but ... [my records] do not come out like that."

On November 6, Nas releases his Greatest Hits LP and plans to put out Nigger's first single a day or two after that. Despite the absence of a strong marketing push for the upcoming album (you can partially explain that because he's been working on his own and under the radar), Nas isn't stressing. He said he can't wait for some big plans to sell the album. He just wants to get it out there.

"If you feel like doing a record," he started to say about the freedom he has in his career right now, "you can't wait till everybody is ready. I used to wait. Now I have that sh-- in me — where it is, what it is, buy it or don't buy it, it's cool. Whoever likes it, cool. Whoever don't like it, cool — but it's gotta come out now.

"Everybody is caught up on that first-week thing," he continued. "That was cool. In the beginning, you want n---as to know what time it is on the beginning of your sh--. I'm past that. I had humongous first weeks before, gold in the first week, that's not important with me. When you have a record that's out there, people are going to gravitate towards it at some point in time if they like that type of music. My albums will move units, but it ain't based on what type of units they move. I'm thankful I sell records, but it's not about that.

"This Nigger album is bigger than an album. This is for my daughter, when she looks back and sees all the chump n---as in the game, she'll say, 'My pops was a man.' When I have more kids, they'll see, 'He was a man.' That will inspire them to be real in their life. Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper — it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572287/20071018/nas.jhtml

I think I'm going to laugh @ some of the thoughts on this.

[RAISED BY WOLVES]

I THINK PPL CALL THE STUDIO-DONE STUFF BAD

BECAUSE IT IS BAD. ITS NOT EVN GRMIE HALF TIME ITSJ UST BAD HIP HOP

TERRIBLE HIP HOP SOMETIMES.

WHAT YOU MAN KNOW BOUT 2 SHANKS IN DA CREPS/MAN NEVA PUT ON NONE A DEM SHUUZ!

GRIMINAL IS ABSOLUTELY FUCKED RIGHT NOW....

HYPE TING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ProfMonnitoff]

the cam video doesnt work does anyone have another link?

[ouss]

NEW YORK — Nas says you shouldn't believe anything you've heard about Def Jam putting the kibosh on his next studio album. In fact, he insists he hasn't come across any resistance from the label.

The name of the album has changed slightly, though. He's going all the way there: It's now called Nigger, and it is set to hit stores December 11.

"I don't know where that [report] came from and neither does Def Jam," Nas said early Thursday morning (October 18) in a Manhattan recording studio when asked about a Fox News article published earlier this week. The story quoted a "source close to" label head L.A. Reid, who scoffed at the thought of the company supporting an album with such a title, and also claimed the album was not on the label's release schedule. "None of us knows where that came from."

(At press time, Def Jam representatives had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment.)

The MC said he's just two weeks from completing the LP and has done most of the work with his friend and constant collaborator, Salaam Remi. Diddy, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Toomp are also expected to get in the lab with Nas before he closes out production.

"Salaam — me and him have some real chemistry," Nas explained. "He can go from Amy Winehouse to Spragga Benz to come f--- with Nas. The other cats, some of us have somewhat of chemistry, some of us don't. ... [People] shouldn't trip off the [album's] title; the songs are crazier than the title."

Nigger has caused some strong reaction from civil-rights activists since news of the name hit the masses. The Fox News Web site quoted Reverend Jesse Jackson and representatives from the NAACP, who admonished Nas for using the N-word as his LP's name.

"I'm a street disciple," Nas responded, quoting one of his earlier album titles. "I'm talking to the streets. Stay out of our business. You ain't got no business worrying about what the word 'nigger' is or acting like you know what my album is about without talking to me. Whether you in the NAACP or you Jesse Jackson. I respect all of them ... I just want them to know: Never fall victim to Fox. Never fall victim to the sh-- they do. What they do is try to hurry up and get you on the phone and try to get you to talk about something you might not know about yet.

"If Cornell West was making an album called Nigger, they would know he's got something intellectual to say," Nas continued. "To think I'm gonna say something that's not intellectual is calling me a nigger, and to be called a nigger by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary."

Nas said he hasn't talked to anyone outside his camp about the title, so he was upset to see that people are up in arms without knowing the story behind him choosing the name.

"I wanna make the word easy on mutha----as' ears," he explained. "You see how white boys ain't mad at 'cracker' 'cause it don't have the same [sting] as 'nigger'? I want 'nigger' to have less meaning [than] 'cracker.' With all the bullsh-- that's going on in the world, racism is at its peak. I wanna do the sh-- that's not being done. I wanna be the artist who ain't out. I wanna make the music I wanna hear.

"We're taking power from the word," he added. "No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my n---as in the streets don't know who [civil-rights activist] Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the n---as in the streets don't know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don't now who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha----in' conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're taking power from that word."

Earlier this year, Nas told MTV News that he wanted to "have fun with the radio" while making his next LP. That was before he settled on the title, though. The album includes ideas and feelings he wanted to express for years that aren't exactly meant to make you dance or sing along in the club.

"Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun," he said. "My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me. [Radio-friendly songs], that's easy work. My daughter could do that. My daughter could do the sh-- that's out. I wanna do me and hopefully some mutha----as would like it. At this point, I'm looking at the whole world differently. I'm looking at how politics could really be effective for people today, how me as an artist could be more effective. ... I listen to the radio sometime and I like the vibe of that. I go to a club, and my favorite sh-- is Soulja Boy ['Crank That']. I wanna get down with them joints, but ... [my records] do not come out like that."

On November 6, Nas releases his Greatest Hits LP and plans to put out Nigger's first single a day or two after that. Despite the absence of a strong marketing push for the upcoming album (you can partially explain that because he's been working on his own and under the radar), Nas isn't stressing. He said he can't wait for some big plans to sell the album. He just wants to get it out there.

"If you feel like doing a record," he started to say about the freedom he has in his career right now, "you can't wait till everybody is ready. I used to wait. Now I have that sh-- in me — where it is, what it is, buy it or don't buy it, it's cool. Whoever likes it, cool. Whoever don't like it, cool — but it's gotta come out now.

"Everybody is caught up on that first-week thing," he continued. "That was cool. In the beginning, you want n---as to know what time it is on the beginning of your sh--. I'm past that. I had humongous first weeks before, gold in the first week, that's not important with me. When you have a record that's out there, people are going to gravitate towards it at some point in time if they like that type of music. My albums will move units, but it ain't based on what type of units they move. I'm thankful I sell records, but it's not about that.

"This Nigger album is bigger than an album. This is for my daughter, when she looks back and sees all the chump n---as in the game, she'll say, 'My pops was a man.' When I have more kids, they'll see, 'He was a man.' That will inspire them to be real in their life. Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper — it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572287/20071018/nas.jhtml

I think I'm going to laugh @ some of the thoughts on this.

slightly?! they don't know shit

[Guest DUM]

Posted up Camp Lo's "Short Eyes" EP. Released only to Japan in 2001.

http://plusrep.wordpress.com/

[soundbomber]

Watch Your Mouth off their new album 8 Diagrams.

DKmdO17u_Ic

[Guest DUM]

Oh, thought this was a video. Already have this song. Good job though or whatever, late ass nigga.

[soundbomber]

Has the rest of it been leaked yet? Not to my knowledge.

[Guest DUM]

Oh, do I have a snippet? I don't pay attention.

[NESK]

whats up with the sound quality on that track? sounds beyond shitty.

[mike lowrey]

"If Cornell West or WaisTSiDe was making an album called Nigger, they would know he's got something intellectual to say," Nas continued. "To think I'm gonna say something that's not intellectual is calling me a nigger, and to be called a nigger by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary."

snaaap :eek:

[cheep]

percee p. shit is dope.

[mrjuby]

maybe a bit too dope... i've been wanting to hear from him since his feature in champion sound.

[soundbomber]

whats up with the sound quality on that track? sounds beyond shitty.

It's the unfinished version. The final will be slightly different.

[NESK]

hope so cause thatr shit sounds rugged but not in the trademark rza sense. just shitty.

[ouss]

where the fuck is gfunkdocta?

[un-]

Snippets for every song on American Gangster were released...and for those who wanted to know the status of the next N.E.R.D. album:

Pharrell Williams Hopes To Reclaim N.E.R.D. Debut's Chaotic Sound On Their Next LP

'I'm known for being all over the place,' super-producer says — and he doesn't think group's second album reflected that.

By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Tim Kash

NEW YORK — For a producer as dexterous as Pharrell Williams — he effortlessly moves between the worlds of pop, R&B and hip-hop — you'd think he'd have an easy time coming up with a way to describe the sound of the new N.E.R.D. album due next year.

"It's a red bull with growth hormones in it," he told MTV News a couple of weeks ago of the album, N*R*3*D, which is tentatively set to be released in the spring on Interscope Records, according to a rep for Pharrell. "You know how artists do interviews, and they'll be like [he impersonates an indie-rocker], 'It's, like, weird, really crazy.' I wish I could really go there and do that, but I can't.

The analogy is apt, considering his desire to be more ... inconsistent?

According to P, the last N.E.R.D. project, 2004's Fly or Die, was far too consistent, particularly given the producer's penchant for mixing it up, from sounds to choruses and bridges. He felt he abandoned a certain sense of unpredictability the group — which includes himself, Neptunes partner Chad Hugo and Shay Haley — harbored on its debut, In Search of ... . That disc garnered critical acclaim and earned a Shortlist Music Prize, awarded to what a panel of musicians, producers and journalists consider to be the best album of the year that sold fewer than 500,000 copies.

"[Fly or Die] was too consistent," explained Pharrell, who had been in town for the VH1 Hip Hop Honors festivities. "That's true. I'm known for being all over the place. This [new] album took a few years to make in terms of ... collecting the right records for it.

"I just was waiting for the right sounds," he later added. "Creating [music] at the keyboard is like going fishing. You fish for it every day. And you either get it or you don't get it. It works several different ways: sometimes I sit down and just make something and it's appropriate for it, sometimes I do that and it's not appropriate. And sometimes I have to wait. What I usually do with the N.E.R.D. albums is we wait a lot."

The project is currently the top priority for him right now, Pharrell said. The album is basically completed at this point, but P was tight-lipped regarding details, including specifics about collaborations and a possible first single. He did, however, let on just how personal the N.E.R.D. concept is for him and his bandmates — so much so that he would rather have the fans speak about the music once it's released instead of him.

"I want to leave it for the audience," Pharrell said. "So what I think about it doesn't really matter. It's feelings. So I want the thoughts in this process to come from our audience and the people who listen to my thoughts.

"It's who we are," he finished. "Because it's a real honest look in the mirror [at us]. We're different."

Source-MTV

[fadingblue]

maybe a bit too dope... i've been wanting to hear from him since his feature in champion sound.

Hes in Chrome Children Vol 2 too

[SelfEXplanatory]

percee p. shit is dope.

i second that!!!

he is actually on every stones throw compilation...chrome 1 & 2, on Wax, anni, ect.

WU IS BACK!!!

any fans of the Washington metro area hip hop cats. Oddissee, Asheru (Boondocks theme song), Kenn Starr, Kev Brown...that whole family! ill shit if you dont know..

[mrjuby]

Hes in Chrome Children Vol 2 too

how is that album anyway? i liked the first one. no $ no toke is incredible.

[vamr]

edIT's new album, Certified Air Raid Material, is seriously faptastic.

[ktothe]

Who the fuck is that? And What does faptastic mean in this sense?

[vamr]

http://www.myspace.com/edit for the mix. And ...?

[NESK]

i saw jazzy jeff tonight. it was lacking, but skillz was mc'n and his mindless adlibs were entertaining. shoulda played nod factor though.

im excited for new nerd. also, buck 65s album comes out next tuesday and im really looking forward to that. i know hes probly not everyones flavour, but im a huge fan. im gonna go cop that percee album this week. anyone check out that kurious album i recommended? even if your a sucker and download everything, get it and throw some feedback. its seriously one of the best hip hop albums ever.

[ktothe]

I just got that Cool Kids album and its pretty hot. I'll check out the Buck 65 instrumental.

11/4 = Ghostface and Brother Ali backed by The Roots Band.

[mike lowrey]

damn that sounds good, I'm a big Ali and Ghost fan

im excited for new nerd. also, buck 65s album comes out next tuesday and im really looking forward to that. i know hes probly not everyones flavour, but im a huge fan. im gonna go cop that percee album this week. anyone check out that kurious album i recommended? even if your a sucker and download everything, get it and throw some feedback. its seriously one of the best hip hop albums ever.

I'm eagerly waiting for it as well

shit I meant to post about kurious! I listened to the album a while ago and as soon as I heard the first track I realized I had heard it sometime in the late 90's, think I might've listened to the album cause I also recognized a couple of other tracks. really dope album, some solid 90's Beatnuts beats.

[xcoldricex]

wait what. kurious dropped a new album... oh no. damn. haha. apparently he wrote all those songs in the studio aside from i'm kurious

at times I think I'm nice, clutch my genitalia.... haha

[notesee]

how is that album anyway? i liked the first one. no $ no toke is incredible.

Yeah, the second one is really good too. Worth checking out.