Sometimes talent plus more talent can just equal shit (theres so much wrong in this pic, peep Barkley in the Jordans and the worst uniform of all-time *smh). As I was talking with D Dot Dalle’ today, we realized Hip-Hop also has a long running history of bad connections that seemed good at the time. And like the under-achieving Rockets of whenever those guys were together, heres some not so classic cuts in my 10 Good On Paper, Bad On Wax Collabos…

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Slow day on the net, but I thought this was a cool interview with Jimmy Iovine regarding the music industry. He’s the man - and on a sidenote is there any exec in history who is mentioned in as many songs as he is ?

DJ Drama & Fabolous - Gangsta Grillz: There Is No Competition is my early pick for mixtape of the year and probably the best in the Grillz series since Dedication 2. Fabolous has always been ill, but also stuck in that Luda, Busta box of great rappers who never made great L.P.’s. Yeah its not a real album, but its his best work to date.

Swaggerin’ off the charts, Loso breathes (”oh!) new life into “5000 Ones”, “Roc Boys”, “Get Buck” and “Barry Bonds”. Like most Grillz tapes, its a good mix of borrowed and brand new, with the original production being dark-slow-synth driven beats fitting him to perfection. Its not only Fab that kills tho, as one of the standout tracks is the posse cut “Takin’ Pictures” with Red Cafe, Paul Cain and Freck Billionaire. This dude Freck is someone to keep an eye out for…

“To keep it real, I’m just glad to be here
y’all frown on the ground, we laugh in the Lear’
niggas throw shade at us cause they made at the glare
you’ll hear clappin’ like the Hova show at Madison Square
yeah, thats how I eat now, see they got to pay homes
I make my change in the booth, I’m like a pay phone
I’m a slim thug, the boss-man fellas
y’all niggas like L.A., ya *Los An’ Geles*”

Yup, this is that ignorant shit you need. Top notch money-clothes-hoes-n-blow-rap. Street F-d-d-d-damn!

Link: DJ Drama & Fabolous - Gangsta Grillz: There Is No Competition

Straight jacked from Nah Right, but I’m Stanley for anything involving studio/production insight.*SMH @ Diddy getting all the love and Sean C and LV getting one lil mention though.

I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with this website but I thought I should at least give it a plug considering how much time I spend on there myself. It’s basically an internet TV channel. It has a bunch of original shows made specifically for it which you can stream. Kinda like MTV Overdrive - but good. As you can imagine, the benefits of not having to adhere to TV broadcasting standards are numerous(swearing is good for you - true story).

I religiously watch a show called Epicly Later’d which is intended to be a show for skate-nerds, but I’ve found most people I’ve showed it to are fascinated by the personalities they profile on it. It’s just a really interesting show, which apparently MTV now want to pick up. That’ll probably turn it to shit but it’s good that it gets a chance to be seen by the masses.

What I thought might be of particular interest to you guys though would be the ‘Spike spends Saturday with‘ series which is a show that’s basically Spike Jonze(of video director, Being john malkovich fame) spending a day with a person/artist of his choice. Chatting about whatever he feels like. There’s currently a 5 part episode with Kanye West, and a 6 part one with M.I.A. I just watched the Kanye one and it’s the shit. Check out the first episode below.

Last night’s episode of South Park reminded of a doco I’d seen earlier this year, King Of Kong. King Of Kong is about Steve Weibe’s quest to gain the world record for highest score on Donkey Kong and all the resistance he faces along the way, it has all the elements of a classic showdown - the underdog versus the villain and all his disciples, I know it sounds really lame but it is one of the best films I’ve seen in the past year or so. I think it’s coming out on DVD soon and I’d highly recommend that you check it out. Check out www.billyvssteve.com and the trailer below for more info about it…

*interestingly this doco shares some of the same soundtrack music as one of my other favourite doco’s Scratch.

Unbelievably late, but I thought this was funny none the less. Music for dogs… I don’t suppose there’s a human remix floating around out there?

Spotted on Idolator.

Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah

Following on from our last post on this topic, the aforementioned Wiz Khalifa track now has a video. That song still cracks me up, and I half expected NZ’s own Misfits of Science to pop up in that vid. Also, almost as if it was prophecised - a track called Rollin by Hood Headlinaz has sampled Robert Miles - Children which was one of the ‘greats’ we linked to in our last post. The sample actually works rather well I reckon. Check.

Hood Headlinaz - Rollin (props to Duncan Grieve)

p.s We’ve got a mate James Beatz who you might have seen lurking around the comments section that was on this Euro electronica tip in 2005, true story. Some of that stuff needs to come to the light James, link it up.

Saw this on the Muckmouth forum courtesy of Surly Robb. It looks a bit EX-ish for my liking, but I’ll reserve judgement till i see how it plays. Not feeling the facials. No parrys, but theres a revenge bar ? Out of it.

I’m prepared to cop some flak for this, but I like Jim Jones‘ music of recent times. I thought 06’s Hustler’s P.O.M.E was mean, with songs like Bright Lights, Big City, the Intro, Reppin’ Time and Weatherman getting lotsa iPod spins round these ways.

And now just over a year later I’m continuously playing the remix of his latest single Love Me No More featuring The Game. Something about the beat is mean to me and I like the singing too (courtesy of Cobe). Anyway, there’s a video out for it now (the o.g, not the remix) and yeah I’m fillin’ it. The second track, Byrdgang Money, is also cool, but I dunno what they were up to getting that NOE guy to sing on it. Is he the new Max B? Sounds like it.