Sampled is a new series of posts I’ll be doing that takes my favorite hip-hop songs and compares them to the original song they sampled. Growing up listening to rap I was curious about where producers got their records and what genres they’d dig through to make their tracks. This opened up a door for me to a whole bunch of other forms of music, soul, rock, jazz, even obscure international stuff. For this first edition, I picked Gang Starr’s Just To Get A Rep. Who else could I have started with besides DJ Premier? In 1991 Primo somehow got his …read more

Preeeetty stoked on this one. Yep. Off the off the upcoming album Rise Up dropping April 16th. Directed by Matt Alonzo.
Here’s the video for It Ain’t Nothin’. New Cypress Hill!

Got a new video here from Brooklyn’s battle MC OG, Poison Pen. The Money Shot is Pen’s 2009 release featuring the guest stylings of Immortal Technique, M.O.P., Silkk Da Shocker and others. Check out the album artwork below.

Image: Amazon.com
Brand spanking new, here’s the video for My Dude, check it out.

It’s no life altering discovery but I just want to draw a quick comparison:
to…
and…
to…
Cannot take either one of these dudes seriously! You can’t do the most hilarious stand-up ever and then bust out the pop/ R&B expecting us to switch over like that. I keep watching the video expecting a laugh track to come in at the end. I guess I better warm up to it, Jamie Foxx has been in the music game for a minute now. Eight years to be exact and he’s stockpiling awards. This year he’s up for three Grammy nominations. Let’s see how he does …read more

I was listening to more Juan Epstein podcasts yesterday, a second one with Pete Rock. I really like nerding out to these because it makes me go back and listen to tunes I haven’t pulled out in a while. I forgot that Heavy D was Pete Rock’s cousin, and how Pete produced a lot of the songs on the Blue Funk album. Pete also talks about songs he produced, but never got credit for. He talks about how back in 1993 he was chilling with Biggie when he put on the beat for Juicy. Biggie tripped and was like “yo …read more

Found this new video over at the 10 Deep Skateboarding Blog, the song is too perfect for the video. Makes me wish I didn’t have a foot of snow on my front steps and I was hanging out with these guys. Daniel Kim, Jamal Smith and German Nieves skate the Chinatown Park in NYC.
Here’s the original music video Daylight Remix by Ninjasonik, check out their website (whhhaaat! They got Mishka collab shirts up on there!)

Here’s the new video from Diamond (formally of Crime Mob) off her upcoming solo album Black Barbie. The joints called Superbad and she’s got Cee-Lo Green on it. Check out the behind the scenes video below and hit the link for the official video.
(I wish I would have copped those Joyrich leggings when they dropped.)

While I enjoy gangsta rap, talk about rims, blunts, crunk, booty shaking and all that, I can’t help but feel nostalgic listening to the UMC’s. Even though it was 18 years ago, it’s hard to believe they didn’t get dissed for wearing crazy colorful outfits, and for being so fun and awesome. Can you believe they were from Statin Island? How they ended up so happy and positive while sharing the neighborhood with the Wu-Tang Clan beats the hell outta me. From 1991, here’s their debut single Blue Cheese.

Dres of the legendary Black Sheep is giving real hip-hop fans a little nibble of his upcoming full length, From The Black Pool of Genius (Spring 2010). The 5 song Prelude EP was released today along with the second single off the album titled, Doin’ It Wrong.
Is The Choice Is Yours too classic? Not even. Here’s a little reminder of why you fell in love with the Black Sheep in the first place; along with the first video single off the new album titled, LuvLee.

Brand new video from The Kid Daytona right here featuring Toronto rapper Kardinal Offishall. Ya dun know! If you’re a streetwear head you’ll recognize the faces, places and brands in this one. The video opens up at the Laced shop in Boston and I’m about 99% sure the girl with the tattoos is a Karmaloop model. Sneeeeeeakers!
Contact is the second single off Daytona’s Come Fly with Me album released June 30th.
The Kid Daytona – “Contact!” feat. Kardinal Offishall (Video) from The Kid Daytona on Vimeo.