Your dreams of rapping superstardom are stymied by your Scottish sound, so what do you do? Simple: reinvent yourself as a West Coast wild boy, with American accent and history to match.
Before watching the video read the Guardian Story
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Time for Plan B
Plan B (aka Ben Drew) has proven he can tell a good story with his music career. He is now about to make his acting debut in Adulthood (the follow up to 2006's Kidulthood).
On his Myspace blog Ben says, "I thought acting would be easy and it is... but it's hard to do it well and I guess time will tell whether I did or not". I am sure he will be great but if not he can get back to making music. His next album sounds like it will be interesting with the story revolving around a single character. As Ben put it "The trials and tribulations of a fucking smackhead"
On his Myspace blog Ben says, "I thought acting would be easy and it is... but it's hard to do it well and I guess time will tell whether I did or not". I am sure he will be great but if not he can get back to making music. His next album sounds like it will be interesting with the story revolving around a single character. As Ben put it "The trials and tribulations of a fucking smackhead"
Noah 23 on Waynes Milli Beat
Here is the original from Lil Waynes - Carter 3
Lil Wayne - A Milli
here is Noah 23 having some fun with the beat
Noah 23
Lil Wayne - A Milli
here is Noah 23 having some fun with the beat
Noah 23
Monday, June 2, 2008
Give us free
A couple of more free albums.
There is this sampler from Hand'Solo Record that I am yet to check out but the track listing looks good. I am looking forward to hearing more Wordburlar, his songs on the Motherboard compilations are good.
New music from Bleubird! There are some killer songs on this album.
Also checkout that Bleubird link for more free music.
There is this sampler from Hand'Solo Record that I am yet to check out but the track listing looks good. I am looking forward to hearing more Wordburlar, his songs on the Motherboard compilations are good.
New music from Bleubird! There are some killer songs on this album.
Also checkout that Bleubird link for more free music.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
new in 2008
I've spent most of this year checking out hip hop I missed from the previous couple of years until about two weeks ago. Suddenly I have been blessed with several new quality releases.
Straight outta the Bay Area we have Lyrics Born with Everywhere at Once. From Minnesota Ant & Slug aka Atmosphere have given us Sad Clown Bad Dub 12 & 13 (don't sleep on these) and their magnum opus When Life gives you Lemons Paint that Shit Gold which probably has the highest quality CD packaging I have ever seen. Representing for Europe, Looptroop Rockers (devious gee!) with Good Things and finally an Australian release of Promoes Standard Bearer.
Did you catch all them links? I'm going to keep them coming so keep up.
So I said I have been checking out some hip hop from the last couple of years and now maybe you're asking, did you hear any thing good? Well yeah, thanks for asking. I have found a bunch of albums I am loving which all happen to be produced by the same guy Factor. He's from Saskatoon Canada and apparently he makes beats for ALL the emcees there, well maybe not all of them but he has produced most of the music from Side Road Records. I titled this post "new in 2008" so I better keep it real and let you in on some insight, Factor's new album is going to be the album of the year! Chandelier has the who's who of hip hop Myka 9, Sadat X and Noah 23 over Factor beats, like I said album of the year.
The other exciting release that is due later this year is Dez and Nobs with their follow up to Bohemoth. In anticipation and appreciation I have added Nobs regularly updated blog Big Guy Bigger Beats to my blog roll.
Straight outta the Bay Area we have Lyrics Born with Everywhere at Once. From Minnesota Ant & Slug aka Atmosphere have given us Sad Clown Bad Dub 12 & 13 (don't sleep on these) and their magnum opus When Life gives you Lemons Paint that Shit Gold which probably has the highest quality CD packaging I have ever seen. Representing for Europe, Looptroop Rockers (devious gee!) with Good Things and finally an Australian release of Promoes Standard Bearer.
Did you catch all them links? I'm going to keep them coming so keep up.
So I said I have been checking out some hip hop from the last couple of years and now maybe you're asking, did you hear any thing good? Well yeah, thanks for asking. I have found a bunch of albums I am loving which all happen to be produced by the same guy Factor. He's from Saskatoon Canada and apparently he makes beats for ALL the emcees there, well maybe not all of them but he has produced most of the music from Side Road Records. I titled this post "new in 2008" so I better keep it real and let you in on some insight, Factor's new album is going to be the album of the year! Chandelier has the who's who of hip hop Myka 9, Sadat X and Noah 23 over Factor beats, like I said album of the year.
The other exciting release that is due later this year is Dez and Nobs with their follow up to Bohemoth. In anticipation and appreciation I have added Nobs regularly updated blog Big Guy Bigger Beats to my blog roll.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Straight Outta Compton 20 years on
Wow has it really been 20 years. Pedestrian from Anticon has written a review of Straight Outta Compton 20 years on.
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