Check out my interview with the awesome Porcelain Black—one of the newest signees to Red One’s 2101/Universal Republic—about her start, her style, and her Red One-produced album.
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Here is a Wayne track that has popped up on the web recently with a lot of speculation as to where it will be featured. Will it be on an album, or mixtape? For now enjoy, and hopefully there is more to come!
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We take the plunge and start listing our favorite things of 2010. Don’t forget to vote for your faves at the URB.com 2010 Readers Poll.
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For Fatlip, the females that reside under Los Angeles’ nostalgic sun have always been on some Great-White-Whale steez. It began with the Pharcyde’s legendary “Passin Me By”, an anthem oozing with hopeless romanticism; Then, on Labcabincalifornia’s “She Said”, Fatlip continued to find himself stranded on a lonely island where the forecast was always platonic; Fatlip’s solo venture yielded Lip’s jarringly candid “What’s Up Fatlip?”, where he admitted that he possessed virtually none of his rap-music prerequisites. Now, alongside versatile producer/wingman Yeti Beats, the Pharcyde alum is again on the trail of the almighty and elusive L.A. tigress.
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The most interesting thing about the video for this collaboration between Eminem and Lil Wayne isn’t the fairly mundane storyline of a kid who get’s bullied, then get’s psyched by listening to Marshall Mathers, then (spoiler alert) punches back. What’s interesting is the dynamic between Em and Wayne, who most certainly were never in the same room. Wayne is depicted rapping in some sort of ether region—black and smokey and likely all they could shoot on Rikers. And his rapping matches, passing ethereally by with only the occasional zinger (”semi-cartermatic“) to grab on to.
Em on the other hand steps up to the mic in the studio, notepad in hand, and lays down one of his fiercest verses. His patented manic flow build and build and builds, all concentration and determination, as opposed to immaculate inspiration. Good stuff …
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