We teased y’all with my freestyle last week, but here’s the full interview from our trip up to Seattle a couple of weeks ago. We talked to Hyphen about our backgrounds, the So Far and So True projects, how the internet and blog explosion has affected our careers as independent artists, and of course the freestyle closes out the show. You can catch some clips from our performance at Chop Suey in this video as well. Shouts to Hyphen and Spiel for the incredible footage!
As promised, here’s a clip from Saturday night at the Palmer Room. Shawn Jack’s outta town, so Vince spit his first verse from the original version of the song to start the song off. Man, this shit was fun. The music video for this joint is coming soon, and click here to grab the song if you’re still sleepin.
A CunninLynguists song about herb is pretty much a lock to be fantastic, and this new joint doesn’t disappoint at all. The CL’s are readying TWO new projects, Strange Journey Volume One and Volume Two, featuring Killer Mike, J-Zone, Khujo Goodie and more (including Inverse), and this is the first single. A video for this joint will be dropping later this month as well, and the song will also be included on the forthcoming VIMBY New Classics mixtape.
Yo I swear my life is weird sometimes. I spent nearly a year working on the marketing of Ms. Solange Knowles album at Geffen, and now we’re opening up for her and her band the Hadley Street Dreams on Wednesday at the Viper Room. This is extra weird because Anjulie, who is managed by Blacksmith (who I also work with), is performing as well. People still sleep on Solange, but her album last year was CRAZY, and Anjulie will be making a lot of noise this year (check out her single “Boom”). Anyways, it should be dope as hell to share the stage with these two talented women. Viper Room is one of my favorite venues to perform at in LA…the stage is tiny, but the energy of the club is dope. We’ll have Adam and Brandon with us on keys and guitar, so it should be extrafresh.
Shouts to Gregthedude on the flyer action.
Yesterday was definitely one of the busiest and most fun I’ve had in awhile. We shot the video for “Mass Appeal 09,” at Venice Beach on some guerilla-style shit, even managing to film some scenes in a classic Cadillac and attracting a sizeable crowd of on-lookers and random spectators. We wrapped around 3PM and all met back up for the FCC Liftfoff show at The Palmer Room in Culver City. Not the gulliest venue, but we managed to pack the place and everybody killed their sets. Shoutout to El Prez, Convinced, Chris Focus, and all the homeys who were in the house last night (U-N-I, E-Dub, J Dex, Slav, 310, Dale Danja, Sin, C-San, Eazee…I’m forgetting people). Also got to meet a lot of new faces whose names I’ve been seeing around for a minute (DNEZ, H.O.P.E., Shawn Chrystopher, PCASO, Bananaclipse, Kev from HipHopOfficial and hella more). There were a number of cameras at both events, so I’m sure video and photos from the shoot and the show will start popping up in the blogosphere tonight and tomorrow.
It really seems like everybody is putting out dope free music to open up the year. Here’s some new freshness from the homeys El Prez and Dale Danja, featuring appearances from yours truly, Convinced, Shawn Chrystopher, Chris Focus, C-San and DNEZ. Just laid my verse last night son!!! Click either of the covers to download. Oh yeah, I accidentally named this project.
Come check us out along with the homeys Convinced, Chris Focus and El Prez at some spot called The Palmer Room…Never been there myself, but apparently there’s a bit of a dress code, so rock some fancy shit. We’ll have Adam and Brandon with us on keys and guitar and we’ll be playing a bunch of new songs from the EP for the first time in LA. Hope to see y’all out there.
Man, I know I gotta update this thing more! Back to work though….Peep my freestyle from a couple of weeks ago in Seattle. Shoutout to my boy Hyphen, and Spiel for the footage. There’s a lot more Seattle video coming soon, this is just a quick taste.
New heat from the homey Vince, featuring Shawn Jackson, Prezzo and myself, channeling the CLASSIC Gangstarr joint. Had a LOT of fun recording this joint, and we’re actually shooting the video in Venice tomorrow before the FCC Liftoff show. Download the track below, and peep a clip of Prez speaking on the song below.
I’ve never actually met this cat but I saw him rock with the 87 Stickup Kids at the Echo last year and he impressed me. Dude can definitely rap and the tape sounds dope and creative so far. Click the cover to download, tracklist below.
01. The Day’s Breadth (Bottom Fly – “Riverside Crates”)
02. Making My Way produced by Bombay
03. Free Speech produced by Bombay
04. Curls (Madvillain – “Curls”)
05. Drink One More Feat. Bobby (Ludacris – “One More Drink” Feat. T-Pain)
06. Underage Girls Make The World Go Round (KMD – “Peachfuzz”)
07. MacDope Pro (Aphex Twin – “Bbydhyonchord”)
08. All Cats Are Grey (The Cure – “All Cats Are Grey”)
09. Refitted Fragments (Madlib – “Another Batch (Play It Again)”)
10. Lightskinneded (Jay Dee – “African Rhythms”)
11. Little Brother (Black Star – “Little Brother”)
12. Dream Feat. Bobby & Free Speech produced by Ro Blvd.
13. Searching produced by Bombay
14. There’s Something Against Us (The Smiths – “Miserable Lie”)
15. Agoraphobia produced by Micah James
16. The Rain produced by Ro Blvd.
17. Rainy Dayz (Remix) (Remix) (Raekwon – Rainy Dayz (Remix) Feat.
Ghostface Killah)
