Archive for October, 2008
Mos Def as president
Oct 26th
In an effort to encourage more Americans to vote, Mos Def explains what he would do if he was the president of the Unites States. With universal health care education and housing, free breakfast for all kids, National Jam-Master Jay Day, and a 100-year ban on the phrases “in the club” and “that’s hot”, you know he’s got our vote.
heads up producers – remix the roots
Oct 24th
Competition:
Want a chance to showcase your skills and rock with The Legendary Roots crew? Well here is your chance, thanks to Indaba’s The Roots “Criminal Remix” contest. You have until November 12th to submit your round one remix to The Roots‘ “Criminal” off of their latest album Rising Down. Provided are separate tracks from the song including bass, drums, keys, guitar, and vocal, so you can really get busy (no pun intended). The Top 25 finalists from round 1 will receive autographed copies of Rising Down and move on to Round 2 where they will have another week to remix a second track by The Roots. The winner of round 2 (as selected by Black Thought, ?uestlove and Indaba resident Mantis Evar) will have an opportunity to record an original song with members of The Roots. Hit up Indaba for further details and to get the stems and go to work. In the mean time check this new joint from Von Pea, Donwill, Spec Boogie, and Che Grand (aka The Lessondary) to see how to at least rip new vocals over a track by The Roots
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I will beat that ass.
Oct 23rd
Xpizzle’s Bitch Slap
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I will beat that ass.
How funny are artists from any country who fake ‘hardness’ in a blatant attempt to sell CDs and merchandise. Whether you are an Australian act overusing the word cunt in the hope your rubbish CD appeals to kids who like swearing or a US act making up an entire past life of crime. If you aren’t to be fucked with or live a life of crime chances are you don’t walk around telling people about it. Shit if you are going to talk up drug deals on record you may as well wander around the club with a massive sign reading ‘pills here’. Countless US acts have been caught out as fakes and I’m sure many from Australia face the same fate in the not to distant future. Who knows what psychological damage it will cause on the clueless fans spending their days online championing sub par music as ‘revolutionary’ and ‘too gangsta for a gay like you’. Its like a kung fu movie, you only worry about the one guy who isn’t saying or doing anything, because in the end he will kick your ass. The only fear acting hard instils is that I will have to listen to your rubbish CD more than once.
Rappers acting hard, you have been pimp slapped.
What’s the 411?
Oct 22nd
Today, Crumpet presses rewind on our dusty old VHS recorder to share a classic performance we found on the Meaning of Dope, our favourite source for vintage hip hop music videos. This clip features a supa-fly Mary J Blige (dressed in Cross Colors gear) kicking it alongside Grand Puba and crew. So sit back, relax and enjoy.
Download or Die Mix Series
Oct 20th
Crumpet resident A Fish Named Stargazer is always dig’in deep to bring you only the freshest headnod’n beats and treats from around the globe, dont trip……download or die!
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crème of da crop – syndrome studios
Oct 17th
Let me paint the picture: rapper pulls up to a flashy nightclub in his flashy new Bentley. He’s escorted to the “V.I.P” room where a platter of half-naked females fight for air time in front of the camera, while his entourage hang back throwing gangsta hand signs in the air…
Ring any bells?
Yep, we’ve all seen our fair share of stock-standard, lame-ass, bling-bang hip hop videos. The industry has been pumping out these cringe-worthy clips for years, even from guys like Dre, Biggie, Pac, and my personal favourites – De la. But every now and then, when the stars align, a good hip hop clip can make us go ooh ooh ooh… like these ones made by LA-based Syndrome Studios:
With a mad mix of lush design, special effects, awesome cinematography, beat-timed editing and sick motion graphics, Syndrome creates music videos that are dope as.
Check’em – www.syndromestudio.com
droppin science fiction
Oct 17th
Hip-hop super-group, The Mighty Underdogs, comprised of Lateef the Truth Speaker(Latyrx), The Gift of Gab (Blackalicious) and producer Headnodic drop their fresh off the press new jazz infused album Droppin Science Fiction
Featuring Damian Marley, Julian Marley, Lyrics Born, Chali 2na, DJ Shadow, Zumbi from Zion I, Tash from the Liks, Casual, Raashan Ahmad, and more. Don’t sleep on Droppin Science Fiction.
***crumpet review coming soon***
butter 3.1 for your ears
Oct 13th
There are times within life where more 90s isn’t a good things. For instance if you have just stumbled across your new partners porn collection and it features people aged 90 and above. Hip hop however flourished in the 90s and with that in mind crumpet provides version 3.1 of this excellent series.
Tracklist
01. Butter Intro
02. Mix Tapes – The Nonce
03. Follow The Funk – Casual
04. C’Mon Wit Da Git Down – Artifacts
05. Pass It Around – I-Cue
06. Freaky Flow – Special Ed
07. Kikit – DJ Smash
08. Flava In Ya Ear (Original/Remix) – Craig Mack
09. Nobody – Consequence
10. Recognize & Realize – Big Noyd
11. Humm Deez Nuts – King Sun
12. Maximizer – Hustletron
13. First Sermon – Extra Prolific
14. Likwit Fusion – Lootpack
15. The Nod Factor – Mad Skillz
16. In The Ghetto – Eric B. & Rakim
17. I Got To Have It – Ed O.G & Da Bulldogs
18. God Lives Through – A Tribe Called Quest
19. Rashaan – The Prunes
20. Throw Ya Gunz – Onyx
21. Ruff Rhyme (Back Again) – King Tee
22. Fat Pockets (Remix) – Showbiz & A.G.
23. Who Got Da Props – Black Moon
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Oct 13th
With Diesel’s Dirty Thirty party now over, we Crumpeters gotta say throwing a big three-oh party for the rest of the world is a mad major marketing ploy to get masses back on the Diesel bandwagon which, in our circles at least, had been dying in the a-hole.
We’re taking a look at the mashups that happened as part of Diesel’s artist lineup.
London’s lineup included Soul Jazz Soundsystem, Mark Ronson, and DNB heavies DJ Fresh & MC Dynamite.
Stockholm sported Swedish hip hop superstar Lazee, while in Zurich the Cuban Brothers smashed it up.
Tokyo got a sweet deal with Soulwax and the venerably talented A-Trak
and of the more current commercially viable known artists Chaka Khan vs Hot Chip performing at the New York event also a pregnant M.I.A (coming out of retirement) vs N.E.R.D live mashup. Insane!! Check the clips here
Common, Pharrell, Hype – Universal Mind Control
Oct 8th
Ingredients
1 kilo of Common Sense
Table spoon of Skateboard P
Pinch of black and white
1 Rosie – the robot maid from the Jetsons
Mixed together with a Hype Williams egg beater from the future, bake on 200 for an hour and what comes out of the oven? Common’s UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL music video. The lead single to his upcoming album of the same name (originally titled “Invincible Summer”). Keep your taste buds buzzin for the toasty fresh album to drop around Nov/Dec this year.`
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I will beat that ass.
Oct 8th
xpizzle’s bitch slap
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I will beat that ass.
The Wu-Tang Clan are hip hop legends, but in the year 2008 they are barely relevant releasing shit that is less entertaining than a Bert Newton hair piece. Raekwon sounds like he is asleep, RZA doesn’t seem to give a shit about the crew, whilst his solo work sees his head squarely up his experimental ass. GZA’s latest works best as a coaster, Method Man works more as an actor or on being a Snoop like personality, his music only leading to beefs with his label, and pretty much the remainder of the Clan must be begging for quarters out the front of their local Starbucks. Ghostface is the only member who can comfortably hold his head up some fifteen years on. Talent doesn’t vanish into thin air like virginity in a housing trust estate, it has to still be there. RZA needs to stop hanging with fucking Russell Crowe and take it back to the murky samples before the W thrown up at shows stands for waste of a career.
The Wu Tang Clan, you have been pimp slapped.
Nike Halloween Pack
Oct 8th
With halloween creeping up on all of us, its almost certain that some of you are looking to rock out with some freaky (yet original) outfits. And what better way to start from the bottom up. Nike releases the halloween pack – The Dunk Low, Dunk High, Vandal High and Air Force 1. Each sneak comes equipped with its own GLO-IN-THE-DARK goodness. Example, the Dunk Low’s consist of a ghost print that glows-in-the dark, the Dunk High’s feature glow-in-the-dark bat eyes and the Air Force 1’s out-sole glows-in-the-dark.
Restless by Crown City Rockers
Oct 7th
We’re always down with Crown City Rockers. For one, they have a slick crown logo and the other, they’re a dope crew with our flavoured hip hop. They have a new single you can check on crowncityrockers.com We won’t brag no more, body rock over to their dot com. chicky check it.
Don’t call it a comeback…
Oct 7th
Crumpet’s lovin the vibe coming from Brooklyn based tshirt company Watch Your Back NYC. With comical genius fit for anyone with a larger than pea sized noggin and a flavour for ad type humour you’d be quick to step to these tees. We did! We’re rockin Burt and also this genius tee
C’mon anyone with a younger brother knows how to do a figure 4 leg lock. Shameful if you tried it on your younger Sis!
