According to a quick little recap of a Common listening session on VIBE.com, Common has Lily Allen featured on a cut from his new album (Finding Forever, out Jul 10) that'll be produced by Kanye West. That's three URB cover stars on one track, yao ming? Referencing the late-great and never-forgotten J Dilla, Finding Forever puts forth the idea that certain people's music will live on till the end of time. We couldn't agree more. And since you've already clicked on VIBE link, we'll ask ya', how isn't Kanye's production already an homage to Dilla's?
What do Run-DMC and tennis legend Stan Smith have in common? Both have had their Adidas signature shoes updated. Following the DMC Cadillac re-issues, Adidas has commissioned graffiti artist-entrepreneurs to tag-up Smith’s all-white perennial favorites.
While everybody and their urban marketing consultants have used graffiti to give their products flavor, it makes sense that Adidas, whose shell-toe Superstar remains an icon from hip-hop’s early '80s transition into a global culture, would re-visit one of their shoes—the perennial favorite, Stan Smith, with a graffiti treatment. Efforts to contact the retired Mr. Smith in his Hilton Head, South Carolina home have been unsuccessful this Saturday afternoon, but we’ll post our conversation with him about his shoes being bombed, …
Peanut Butter Wolf and his Stones Throw crew are giving away the store starting today. A second installment of the Chrome Children comp is downloadable from the label starting today.
The first comp featured tracks from J Dilla (RIP) and while he is not an artist on this one, there's material from Madlib and the rest of the expected Stones Throw artists.
1. Madlib the Beat Konducta – Chrome Dreams 2. MED & Dabrye – Rhymes With An L 3. Roc C – Living For The City 4. Chocolate Star – Stay With Me 5. Percee P & Koushik – Reverse Part Two 6. Oh No – Gitback 7. Guilty Simpson & Four Tet – Money Motivated Movements 8. Madlib the Beat Konducta – Selah’s Children 9. Baron Zen – Theme (Danny Breaks Remix)…
It ain't like Tupac, but there is a lot of Jay Dee music coming to the surface. Fortunately, the good folk at Stones Throw still aren't scraping the barrell, keeping the quality high with the reissue of Ruff Draft , the Dilla joint released in Germany only round 2003. Hell, we didn't even know about this stuff (well, Skinny B probably did.) But we stick by the idea that more Dilla is always better Dilla.
This nearly-seven minute opus begins with the re-saving of a J Dilla voice mail explaining his love for music and if there was one thing we knew about the man, it was just that. Hi-Tek, however, does a great job paying tribute to the man behind the sound-getting a great guest spot from Nas and some gorgeous woodwinds. It's not the type of beat that normally gets Mr. Kelis making an effort but here he does, and it's because of this that when Common gets on (and remains in ...
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