Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truth Speaker and Headnodic watched quite a few zombie movies this year…many of which were not made in 08. For hip-hop supercrew The Mighty Underdogs, 2008 was the year of the zombie movie. Be sure to check out Droppin Science Fiction out now on Definitive Jux.
I'm alive. I didn't get robbed or raped and I still have my equipment. It could have been a lot worse.
The suite I woke in was dope. I didn't know Days Inn had rooms like this. I didn't feel groggy or hungover, I just had a blank area of memory and that shit is worse than a hangover, kinda. I went down to the lobby to get some coffee and I saw Onry. I gave him my story and he was like Daaaamn dude.
We had a two hour drive ahead of us so we were taking our own sweet time. Finally one by one we poured out of the hotel into the Heathen mobile. Time to bounce…we headed out on our way to church aka Best Buys. Best Buys is church because they …
The first single off of Saigon's new album The Greatest Story Never Told, “C'mon Baby” (produced by none other than Just Blaze) is a certifiable banger. I truly thought this would be the record to shift the tides away from ringtone rap, but rather appropriately and unsurprisingly, everytime I turn the dial to the local hip-hop stations, I just keep getting more (and more) T-Pain. But that's beside the point. Word is Sai's got a special guest for the album version of the new cut.
And it's none other than El Presidente himself, Jay-Z. Sai recently told Scratch magazine about working with Hov on the record: “The album version has Jay-Z on it. Jay didn’t clear it for a single, but he cleared it for the album. I might do a new verse 'cause Jay's verse is stupid. …
Yorkshire, England, 2006: A young up-and-coming producer on a small-but-cool label readies his debut album for release but needs a big single to give it that little extra boost towards the big time. So, he reaches out to Lateef, and the Truth Speaker responds, choosing a tune and laying down something truly memorable (with a little help from Vadim muse Yarah Bravo and some mighty flute action from the aforementioned studio wiz).
The latter is Kid Kanevil, aka Gerard Roberts, whose single 5th Gear is one of the fresher UK hip-hop records you’ll ever hear. As indeed is that album, Problems and Solutions, which emerges on the highly-regarded First Word Records later this …
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