That’s the first adjective that comes to mind when describing Alicia Key’s single Like you’ll never see me again – it just sounds pretty. It makes me picture ice melting as well.. dont know why. Anyways, for my money Luda is the current king of the rap verse on an r&b song succeeding previous kings B.I.G and Hov. I dont know if he really suit’s this one as well as say that latest Usher, but nevertheless the timing and flow is impeccable.

p.s I’m positive Alicia Keys is a lesbian. Sorry fullas.

Alicia Keys feat Ludacris – Like you’ll never see me again(Remix)

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It’s been a good week for local hip hop fans, new RES video last Wednesday, new joint from David Dallas today and a new joint from Ethical’s forthcoming album ‘Ages Turn’ too. A sign of good things to come for hip hop locally? I sure hope so…

Hit up the MTC blog to peep Eth’s new joint ‘Rapper Now’.

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The new David Dallas joint ‘Get Out The Way’ is up for free download/podcast on his website now, it’s the first release from his forthcoming album ‘Something Awesome’, head over to DavidDallas.co.nz to get dat ish…

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Wow, this sorta stuff just buzzes me out. People are crazy, it’s just there’s only a select few who have the ability to actually display the madness that goes on inside their heads. Check out The best article everyday’s top 40 photoshopped images

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R.E.S – Good Times Roll

Man, this song is good as fuck. It’s also dope to finally see the R.E.S boys with their own vid. LOL @ Mawbs cameo – blue steel is it ?

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You gotta laugh at Fat Joe for this. Here’s him explaining how his album title is a metaphor for how he feels not being considered top 10 by anyone. LOL.

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Damn, I was waiting all day for this yesterday and it’s finally arrived. Here’s the video for the best song of last year. It’s out of it, definitely not what I was expecting. I was picturing a 2008 version of that George Michael video where he had all the supermodels on the catwalk.

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The same team who found Cam’ron’s rhyme book last year have deconstructed the classic Nas album Illmatic. They’ve gone through track by track breaking down the most prominent samples and discussing the composition of each track complete with audio snippets of each sample. Simultaneously educational and entertaining – edutainment if you will. Head over to Oh Word to check it out it’s a good read.

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While scabbing for cheap flights at Grabaseat today I came across this pretty lame, but novel, idea from Air New Zealand.

With Valentine’s Day just 3 days away Air NZ is putting on a singles party in Wellington this Saturday (Feb 16th) for those of you who are “sick of smug couples on Valentine’s”. If you’re single and lack the social skills to meet people under more normal circumstances this idea sounds good to you, you can log-on to the Grabaseat website on Valentine’s Day and provided you live in the right city, you can buy a cheap flight and ticket to the Singles Awareness Day party. I imagine there’ll be a whole lot of mingers there, but beggars can’t be choosers ay, haha.

Read more here.

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30 Seconds to Mars – Stronger(Kanye West cover)

This is dope, and I couldnt stand this band or that terrible/expensive video they had. I like how they’ve interpreted the song and made something moody and brooding out of it. This is how you flip a cover. Props to Nick for discovering it.

p.s LOL @ Jared Leto sounding like Batman at the end. “That was for Kate”

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