Here’s the third installment of the Home Brew “Last Week” EP, a Wenerei night piss up at the shack with mad quotables, lolza. Feeling this shit, stay tuned for the next installment tomorrow.

Home Brew “Wednesday” [zShare]

A lot of my friends are jockin’ this track, which I give about a 6 out of 10. The video is what happens when you enlist every extra from The Air Up There to recreate “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” in your living room. Can’t tell whether I like it more or less now. Kanye’s still the mantis for doing whatever the fuck he feels like.

If your feeling this, peep Royce Da 5′9′ - “Shot Down”. Mean.

In his absolute awesomeness Tom sent me Monday’s joint from the “Last Week” EP at 11:32PM last night, lol, plus I’ve been pretty flat out today (exam season is approaching) hence the delay. But if you can use your imagination and pretend it’s still Monday this shit will make sense ha.

Home Brew “Monday” [zShare]

…and here’s Tuesday’s joint, enjoy…

Home Brew “Tuesday” [zShare]

Tom from Home Brew got at me last week and told me ’bout this cool EP he’d been working on. The basic concept is that Tom’s recorded a track for every day of the week, and taking a page outta Dave’s book is gonna release a track per day for free, all good eh! Me and Tom go back a few years and he’s a really funny cunt plus I like what he’s about so hopefully you’ll enjoy this shit too.

Now don’t get me wrong, ain’t nothing like a good old fashioned fatal stabbing or episode of Home and Away to help liven up life when all you have to look forward to is an afternoon shit. And yeah I could listen to Raekwon talk about the different things you can do with baking soda till I gotta bite my iPod to get the battery working. But sometimes, just sometimes, when I’ve heard Necro rhyme syphilis 17 different ways, all I wanna do is chill out and listen to Q-Tip tell me ’bout the day he lost his wallet. ‘Cos I can relate to that. I ain’t ever been to El Segundo, but I’ve filled out an application for a new EFTPOS card and that shit is frustrating.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is sometimes life is boring. It just is. So when you’re listening to the new EP from Home Brew (produced by Haz’ and DJ Truent), don’t be mad if the beats don’t sound like your favourite wrestlers intro music and the lyrics don’t make you head butt a bouncer. Just turn it up, grab a beer or a wine or whatever it is you prefer to drink, smoke, snort or shelve to take away from reality and relax.

And understand that ‘Last Week’ won’t give you the same adrenalin rush shop lifting will and it isn’t as exciting as that dude you know who named all his kids after X-Men characters. It’s just a normal seven track EP about everyday life. Seven tracks we wrote last week about.. well.. last week. And really bro.. That’s it.

- Home Brew

This track is bad. I haven’t had the proper version of Paper Trail long, but this track stood out straight away. It’s good to see Cliff back with DJ Toomp - that combo accounts for 5 tracks all up on Paper Trail. On that note, is Toomp one of the most consistent producers currently doing it? I like almost everything he touches: T.I - What You Know, 24s, U Don’t Know Me etc; Nas - NIGGER; Kanye - Good Life, Big Brother, Can’t Tell Me Nothing; Jigga - Say Hello; Game - House of Pain; Jeezy -  The Recession, I Luv It; Rick Ross - White House and even Mariah Carey - Lovin You Long Time. 56 Barz isn’t just about the beat though, TIP murks it. No hook, just straight up the guts. Have a listen below and when you can, check out the whole album. The King is back.

Download: T.I - 56 Barz (produced DJ Toomp)

“.. in contrast and despite the lack of legitimate evidence, i believe you to have been involved in a fair amount of homosexual activities. Activities I and my companions look down upon.”

I was a big fan of his performance of this at the VMA’s, even had it on repeat on Youtube just so I could keep hearing it. Subsequently I couldn’t wait for the recorded version to leak, but was slightly disappointed cause it sounded demo/unfinished - to me at least. I’m all for keeping things slightly unpolished if an artist feels the demo of a song has a performance or energy they couldn’t capture with future takes and more re-working, but the hook on the last version of “Love Lockdown” just sounded like he’d put down lazy guide vocals and never gone back to fix them. The hook sounds enunciated properly now, and doesn’t sound like he’s taperin off/runnin out of breath from clapping at the same time. The drums on the hook also got more oomph too, more like the VMA performance. Killer.

Kanye West - Love Lockdown version 3

Out of all my singles, this is the most comprehensive reflection of the shit I actually listen to, ha. Featuring supremely talented newcomer Mz J. Produced by the homie Forty One. Pump ya fist like its 86′ and enjoy.

PNC - Take Me Home feat. Mz J