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NEW (RAP) SONGS FOR YOUR iPOD
BEASTIE BOYS
“TOO MANY RAPPERS (FEAT. NAS)”
Welcome back MCA, Mike D, and Ad Rock. It’s been too long. The Beastie Boys officially have their ill licenses back and have returned with the first single from their first (non-instrumental) album since 2004. “Too Many Rappers” calls back to late-80s and early-90s Beastie hip-hop. A simple drum beat that feels like it was transplanted from 1994’s Ill Communication supplements the back-and-forth MCing that we have grown to love from the BBoys. Their new album is titled Hot Sauce Commitee P. 1 and hits stores September 15.
KID CUDI
“MAKE HER SAY (FEAT. KANYE WEST & COMMON”
Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Kid Cudi’s debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, doesn’t drop until September, but the first two singles released make it one of the most anticipated albums of the year. Paired with Kanye West, Kid Cudi has released two solid hip-hop songs in the smash hit “Day ‘N Nite” and now “Make Her Say”, a track that features Kanye and Common with some “Pokerface” GaGa samples. Kanye thankfully drops the whole vocoder phase and actually raps, as Cudi further solidifies himself as a mainstay in modern rap.
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BEASTIE BOYS PERFORM ON JIMMY FALLON
The best rap group of all time - yes, the Beastie Boys - performed last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon … and it was magical. Mike D, MCA, and Ad Rock hit the stage to perform “So What’cha Want” from 1992’s Check Your Head, one of the best rap albums ever recorded. Check out “Professor Booty” as well, one of the better unknown Beastie songs.
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MEGAN FOX IN A CORSET
The above picture is not Photoshopped, it’s from Megan Fox’s new movie Jonah Hex - see the rest of the pictures.
Which New Yorker has the hotter girlfriend: Jets QB Mark Sanchez or Yankees Pitcher Joba Chamberlain?
Just because you de-tag your embarrassing pictures on Facebook, doesn’t mean they’re gone forever.
3 amazing bands, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, and Kings of Leon will be headlining Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas in October. Road trip.
The Boeing 747 Intercontinental looks interesting.
Tailgating is half the fun of attending a sporting event - and Dodger stadium has killed it.
No commentsPAUL’S BOUTIQUE 20th ANNIVERSARY
In 1989, the greatest hip hop group of all time released one of the most influential albums ever recorded. Paul’s Boutique was the second album released by rap trio Beastie Boys and features some of the most intricate production qualities of any album ever recorded. With over 105 total songs and sounds sampled for Paul’s Boutique, it is one of the most musically diverse and well-respected urban albums the genre has ever seen. Along with 1986’s License To Ill, Paul’s Boutique was widely known as one of the most secretly respected rap albums in the black community. Public Enemy’s own Chuck D admitted in an interview with Vibe magazine that Paul’s Boutique was a “dirty secret” in the hip hop community for having “the best beats”.
The album has gained more respect with age and is ironically very popular in the “indie/hipster” community. You know - those people who don’t like sports and shop exclusively at Whole Foods. Paul’s Boutique has settled into the realm of “cool” for hipsters and is universally known as the “only good rap album” by Radiohead and Of Montreal fans everywhere.
Now, twenty years after its release, this album is still as fresh as it was in the summer of ‘89. If you’ve never listened to Beastie Boys, here’s your chance to make it up to yourself. Go buy the remastered, 20th Anniversary Edition of Paul’s Boutique.
No party is complete without the dance track, “Hey Ladies” - a song that was way before its time and still has one of the best beats of any hip hop song:
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Top 10 Hip Hop Songs You Haven’t Heard
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TOP 10 DEBUT ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
I was under the impression that this list would be easy. I was wrong. A band’s first CD usually isn’t amazing. For example, the best band of all time, The Beatles, didn’t even make the list. Please Please Me is a good album, but not great. Each album on this list is either great from start to finish, highly influential to its genre, or both.
THE TOP 10 DEBUT ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I (1969)
This is a great album, but not Led Zeppelin’s best. But, it is the Zep, and it has ranked in at #10 on the list.
9. Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)
This album ushered in Dr. Dre as the best Hip-Hop producer of all time. With guest spots from Snoop, this album is great from beginning to end and contains two of the best songs in the history of Hip Hop, “Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)” and “Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang”.
8. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (1997)
As one of the best rock albums of all-time, this album will live the test of time and be listened to by generations to come. This album is one of the best of the 90s and every single song is outstanding.
7. Guns ‘n Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)
“Welcome To The Jungle”, “Paradise City”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” …. enough said.
6. Weezer - Weezer (1994)
This album means a lot to us kids born in the 80s. This album is a soundtrack of the early 90s and every last song is a classic. This album is alternative rock perfection.
5. Boston - Boston (1976)
8 tracks of outstanding rock music. Every single track on this album could be a single, and most were. Each one of these songs you have probably heard at some point in your life - even if you’ve never actually sit down and listened to it all the way through.
4. Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
The best album to come out of the Seattle Grunge movement in the early 90s. Pearl Jam is what everything Nirvana wishes they were. Nirvana gets more attention because Kurt Cobain killed himself - but slowly people are starting to realize that Nirvana was good and Pearl Jam was great.
3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)
I remember when I first bought this album in 1995 and popped it in the CD player - I was blown away. Never had I heard so much emotion through a female pop record. The entire album works and flows amazingly.
2. The Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (1986)
The best hip hop album of all time. Also, the first platinum selling hip hop album ever - and it’s members are all white. From start to finish, this album delivers.
1. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1991)
Rage Against The Machine’s first album is the best hard rock album of all time. Not only did Rage start Rap-Rock, Rage defines Rap/Rock. There have been many imitators, but this 4 piece, pissed-off-politically-driven group made a statement that they are the best band to come out of the 1990s.
THE TOP 10 HIP-HOP SONGS YOU HAVEN’T HEARD
Soulja Boy sucks. He killed hip-hop and unknowingly officially introduced the world to what I like to call “hip-pop.” You know, what 16-year-old, suburbanite soccer players play in their ‘98 Accords with the windows down.
“HEY SCOOTER, MAKE ME ONE OF YOUR TIGHT RAP MIXES.” Do people under 20 even know what a full length album is? Or that music isn’t free to create, therefore shouldn’t be downloaded for free on the internet? That’s a conversation for a rainy day. Moving on…
Luckily, there is still good hip-hop out there being made. And no, I’m not one of those “Nas is the best ever, his lyrics are so deep, OMG Nas…” I really think I know over 3 people who would turn gay for Nas. Just because of those people, he’s not making this list. Since hip-hop has become one of the most impressionable and brain-washing forms of entertainment, I bring you a list of gems that “keep it real”. A keepin’ it real list. Is that still cool to say? Shit, it’s almost 2010, who knows what’s cool anymore.
I tried my damnedest to find 10 songs you haven’t heard. The only exception to that are my close friends, because I’ve probably played them all for you at some point. But, if you don’t know me, I hope you haven’t heard any of these songs. Listen to them. You won’t be disappointed. It’s a mix of rock/hip-hop, raggae rap, old school, new school, white, black, etc…
THE TOP 10 HIP-HOP SONGS
YOU HAVEN’T HEARD:
10. Mickey Avalon
“Waiting To Die”
Mickey Avalon, born Yeshe Perl, is a descedent of Holocaust survivors and before becoming a hip-hop artist in Hollywood, he was a male prostitute in Oregon. That alone should make you want to listen to this song.
“It’s Mickey Avalon, all up in your prom
Pissing in the fruit punch with a baby blue tuxedo on,
The dopest rapper this century,
I sodomized your father in the federal penitentiary”
9. Pomeroy
“Roboflow”
Pomeroy is a rock/rap/fusion band from Manhattan, Kansas. I have been to and partied in Manhattan twice (don’t ask me why). I met a guy there who had heard of them. That’s about all I’ve got. This song is badass though…
“We fat like bacon and butter over Teflon
so slippery when we get it on point like aloisius,
very viscous like omegatron bliss pump this,
through your stereo now, don’t miss the gist”
Listen to this song here.
8. Afroman
“Tall Cans”
This song is infectious. Forget what you know about Afroman. I hate that “Because I got high” song. He has so much better material than that.
“Now these women be actin all bad and rude
Always gotta bad attitude
You see I just wanna dance, why can’t you get the picture
Act like a brother wanna move in wit’cha”
7. Quarashi
“Malone Lives”
Mmm Icelandic rap. Four skinny, pale, white guys who can flow. This song is sweet and the most hip-hip at its core, but honestly the best song of this record is “Baseline“.
“Periodic fake divines, these times as we see ‘em are
packed with cons that can’t wait to see him. The cave the
cathedral, the peasant the pope, the hope of the people is
a prayer for dope”
6. Devin The Dude
“What A Job”
This song has Snoop in it. And Andre 3000. So it’s not like “super undergound” or anything. Devin The Dude is amazing though. Often referred to as “Your Favorite Rapper’s Favorite Rapper“, he’s a great lyricist and has a great sense of humor. OK this is starting to sound like an eHarmony ad.
“He’s standing with his baby momma Kiki and she cryin’ talkin’ bout
That they used to get high to me in high school
And they used to make love to me in college
Then they told me ’bout they first date, listenin’ to my tunes
And how he, like to finger nail polish
I say hate to cut you off but I gotta go
I wish you could tell me mo’ but I’m off to the studio, gotta write tonight
Hey, can you put us in your raps? I don’t see why not
Devin it’s the Dude you gon’ probably hear him talking ’bout”
5. Aesop Rock
“None Shall Pass“
I honestly don’t listen to much Aesop … but this song is exceptional. Some of the most elaborate lyrics you will hear in hip-hop today.
“If you never had a day a snow cone couldn’t fix
you wouldn’t relate to the rogue vocoder blitz
how he spoke through a no-doz motor on the fritz
cause he wouldn’t play roll over fetch like a bitch”
4. E-40
“Sideways”
Old school at its best. E-40 defines the hyphy movement in northern California. This is real hip-hip, the type of shit your grandmother reminisces about. OK maybe that’s a stretch.
“Heavy ass shit for the mob
When I make a zillion I resign
I’m realer than a hundred dollar bill with the line across
When Christmas come around ask Santa Claus,
‘Santa do you know E-40?’
Bet you that ni**a say ‘That’s my homey!’ “
3. Andre Nickatina
“Lost Hawks”
Great beat. Great flow. Great lyrics. Thanks to Robyn from Sac-town for introducing me to this incredible MC.
“I’m so hot, the track meltin’
Please the degrees that I kick his black belt in
Freeze MC’s into a gas, I blows mixed Purp with Hash
Do the math, young Queezy workin’ the map”
2. Beastie Boys
“Professor Booty”
My favorite Beastie Boys song. And that’s saying a lot, ’cause they’re the best rappers of all time. Professor, what’s another word for pirate treasure? Well, I think it’s booty. That’s what it is.
“With your headphones strapped you’re rockin’ rewind pause
Tryin’ to figure out what you can do to go for yours
But like the pencil to the paper I got more to come
One after another you can all get some”
1. Self
“Trunk Fulla Amps”
Self is an independent rock band from Murfreesboro, TN. Matt Mahaffey, the vocalist and brainchild of Self, wrote the Expedia.com jingle as well as songs for the Shrek soundtrack and various other movies and TV shows. This song is his best. I didn’t post any lyrics because the song is just a repeat of … well, you’ll see …
Listen to a clip of the song here. If you want the full version, email me. (stone@thatssofetch.com)
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