TAG: Paid Dues

Sep20

Lucky to be alive: Atmosphere tour rolls on

Ant wants to produce a album for me so I can tour with him and Rhymesayers for the next 2 years. I like this idea and I hope you guys like this idea, too.

Yesterday was a day off in B-more aka Baltimore, Maryland. We stayed at the Holiday Inn by the airport tucked away from downtown and pretty far away from any trouble we could get into. (Thanx ALOT Randy)

I chilled in the lobby watchin' dumbass reporters on TV chasin' OJ Simpson on the freeway (again) then used the internet, ate a good turkey wrap. I was sharing a room with Ant and Eric but I didn't use it much. Finally I went up there to read some Potter cause I've been neglecting it for that On the Road joint. Ummmm, tried catch …

Sep18

Lucky gets wise, Slug gets drunk

Good Morning!

Props to Kanye West for picking a perfect album intro. Good job buddy, I wanna work with you, give me a call or a text me doot. I swear I rap better than that Common guy.

(this is what sluggo looks like in the morning)

We made it to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Had to go straight to the venue for load-in. It seems kinda quiet in these parts. Early show, the Heathens aint around yet and Dj Skoo is actually Dj Sku and Greves is Grives, I think. Umm, Brandon from URB says they love the blogs and they want Lucky to be a guest columnist. I says yesssssssss.

Backstage I had a discussion with Nathan Collis (Atmosphere's guitar player) and Sean Daley (Atmosphere's vocal guy) about …

Sep17

Everybody Loves A Clown: Almost Day 1

Ladies, if you see this bus, stop it, Slug is inside it.

Whatupupthough?! (What I'm writing about happened yeaterday, I always did turn in my homework a little late)…

I got woken up by the sound of children playing in the hotel pool area…ahhhhhh what a wonderful way to be jolted out of a deep, refreshingly non-faded sleep. Yes, Lucky loves the kids. Bastards.

Okaay. It's like 11am and there isn't any sign of the heathens I'm rolling with today. (I hitched a ride to Duluth with Greyskul, Mac Lethal & his DJ Skoo and this kid Greves, who looks like the love child of Mick Jager and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters).

I start knockin on doors to wake foos up so we can head out to Minneapolis so I can get put on …

Aug30

Murs Tyson Punch Out, King Hippo pissed

Don't ever say that indie rap isn't hard. And we're not talking about the grind being difficult, we're talking about how motherfuckers will knock you out. Even as we wait around for Murs's major label debut to drop—at Paid Dues/RtB-San Bernardino, he told me that it ain't done yet but it's getting close—there are still gems like this newly (?) released video from Murray's Revenge (his second collab record with 9th Wonder).

Murs really nails the details in this video, but it's not like the pitfalls of 8-bit Nintendo require archaeological digging. Either way, from the uppercut punches to the training scene to blowing on the busted-ass cartridge (nullus), Murs keeps it …

Aug17

50 Cent fucks with Madlib

The big hip-hop websites are full of hateful vitrol from bloggers and commenters and sometimes we get jealous that the kids at URB.com just peruse. We know you're there, we see the numbers, so why y'all gotta be so shy? Regardless, those sites come up with some clever disparagement and from that, we're calling out you Stones Throw Stans. Known by the vinyl dust under the finger nails and earth-toned t-shirt featuring a graff'ed out illustration of a record, well, we know you haven't downloaded the new 50 Cent song, but you should.

“Southside,” feautring Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, is being billed as Fiddy's Jimmy Iovine diss, which is funny enough in itself. By pairing 50 with Eminem, Iovine put Curtis “Vitamin Water” Jackson in a position to spew silly gangsterisms and misguided mysogony over …

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