In keeping with tradition of all the other 2K Sports Games (Dan the Automator produced NBA 2K7) has once again enlisted underground hip-hop's finest for their latest outing All Pro Football 2k8, which was forced to the bench ever since the bullies over at Electronic Arts acquired the rights to the NFL and it's Players Association in 2005. At the helms of the disc, 2k Sports has also recruited DJ Z-Trip to produce the bulk of the compliation. For a little more info on the game's soundtrack check out the interview with former Jurassic 5 MC Chali 2na on his contribution to the soundtrack by clicking here.
Grass doesn’t grow at the Empire Polo Field. Not without the help of human hands, anyway. Yet on top of this man made lawn has sprung one of the finest music festivals in the world. What started as an ambitious, Southern California science experiment in the middle of nowhere has ballooned to a modern-day music pilgrimage whose outreach extends to all 50 states and beyond. But things weren’t always this good. There was a time when the festival teetered on the brink of extinction. Now that Coachella is in its eighth year—and increased to three days for the first time—we thought it was time for those who lived through it all to tell the story behind this generation’s greatest music festival.
Paul Tollett
* President, Goldenvoice / Southern California Concert Promoter and Coachella co-founder
It was good for Goldenvoice when the Lollapalooza …
Z-Trip & Lateef have a May release planned for their Ahead of the Curve Mixtape, but you can download a preview track here.
“Mass Hysteria” also features Chali 2na, and amidst the sparse atmospherics he and Lateef wind rapid flows around a Z-Trip's shuddering break. If this is a taste of the mixtape's flavor, it's going to be a dark ride.
While you're at Z-Trip's site to check the new song, be sure to snag some of his other mixes. The man's got the page stocked with past sets and mixtapes including his and DJ P's mash-up masterpiece Uneasy Listening and his Anti-War Mix which is now four years old and unfortunately still as relevant to what's going on as it was back then.
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