The Audacity of Dope

Damn, right after Tim Russert passes, we lose another great figure in the media world.  One of the greatest comedians of all time, George Carlin, died on Sunday night due to heart failure.  He was an inspiration to virtually every contemporary comedian we have today and the world just got a lot less funny after his passing.  Here’s one of my favorite bits of his, the classic “baseball vs. football” routine:

Greatness. Back in college, I was lucky enough to take a course called “History of Laughter,” taught by the illustrious Barry Sanders (no, not that one…this one).  He focused a lot of the class around his experiences growing up and idolizing one of Carlin’s heroes, Lenny Bruce.  Anyone who understands the importance of laughter to the human condition knows how impactful Bruce and Carlin were to both comedy and popular culture.  True geniuses.  RIP George.

“If the truth is in the puddin’/Your Jello Pops are Cosby”
–Dwele, “A Few Reasons (Truth, Pt. 2)”

The Jello line rarely works man.  Dope album though.  Dwele’s really consistent, though I’ve heard complaints that he doesn’t stray out of his comfort zone enough.  I agree he could be more experimental and vary his sound, but then again, we just saw what happened when Musiq tried that.  I’ll take that signature Dwele sound all day if that’s what he’s comfortable with, even if there’s a wack lyric here and there…

I’m posting this for a couple reasons.  First, it’s a dope track.  Second, a lower quality mp3 of it has been floating around the net for the past week, but this is the fully mastered version.  Third, who doesn’t remember their teenage love?  Talk about timeless…those were the days.  Life was so simple then, before this whole “job” thing got in the way.  Lastly, I just wanted an excuse to Google image search Alicia, easily one of the hottest women on the planet.  I picked an older shot of her, back when she came on the scene with the braids, hat, and all.  I remember seeing the video for “Fallin’” and being mesmerized by her eyes.  And I don’t even notice eyes like that.  She was just ridiculous, and still is.

Alicia Keys ft. LL Cool J – “Teenage Love Affair (Remix)”

Props to Swizz Beatz for actually making a nice track too…though the original beat is still the ish.

I finally got a chance to peep the new Coldplay album, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, and the ish is super dope.  Aside from the title track that you’ve seen all over TV in that iTunes commercial, my favorite joint has to be “Lost.”  Apparently it was inspired by Blur’s “Sing,” but check it out and listen for yourself.  Plus I tossed in the alternate acoustic version.  Mood music.

Coldplay – “Lost”
Coldplay – “Lost (Alternate Acoustic Version)”

That acoustic version is made for a movie soundtrack…

Before we get to the info for last night’s Sound Session, it appears that the links for the last 2 shows have been acting up.  Here are new links for them:

Show #159 (6-8-08): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WN593WXZ
Show #160 (6-15-08): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G62H03S2

And as for this week, here’s the playlist and download link(s):

Show #161 (6-22-08)

1. The Clipse – “Fast Life”
2. LL Cool J – “Rocking With The G.O.A.T.”
3. Buff1 (of Athletic Mic League) ft. Black Milk – “Never Fall”
4. eMC (Masta Ace, Punchline, Wordsworth, & Stricklin) – “Leak It Out”
5. Dyme Def ft. One Be Lo – “Bring It Back” (Local Artist)
6. DJ K.O. ft. Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, & Median – “Start It All Over”
7. Dwele – “Workin’ On It”
8. Kam Moye (aka Supastition) – “Welcome To My Life”
9. Jelani ft. 6th Sense & Wildabeast – “The Proposal”
10. MC Lyte ft. KRS-One & Sleepy Brown – “Love”
11. Nas ft. Keri Hilson – “Hero”
12. Nappy Roots – “No Static”
13. Freddie Joachim ft. Blu – “Mars (Remix)”
14. Liquid Spirits ft. Phonte (of Little Brother) – “If You Don’t Love Me”
15. Erykah Badu ft. Pharoahe Monch – “The Healer (Remix)”
16. The Saturday Knights – “Patches” (Local Artist)
17. RZA – “No Regrets”
18. Black ELement – “Human”
19. Wizdom ft. Thig Natural (of the Physics) & Octane – “Ever Since” (Local Artist)
20. Alpha – “Obama ’08 (Do The Knowledge)”
21. Blu – “The Classy Man”
22. N.E.R.D. – “You Know What”
23. John Legend ft. Andre3000 – “Green Light”

Link to download Show #161 – http://www.mediafire.com/?v2mwlgyxdmz
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/14071073c78ef603/ )

If you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.

A new Cam’Ron track hit the net last week, and sure enough, Cam promptly shows up with 2 nice lines for WLotD.

“Your girl a no-no/call her Joe, her ass is sloppy”
“All these boogers on my ass, yeah, I’m rather snotty”
–Cam’Ron, “My Aura”

If you’d like to check the new joint, here you go:

Cam’Ron – “My Aura”

You’ve seen the video, now you get the studio quality mp3. I smell a workout classic.  So dope.

Busta Rhymes – “Don’t Touch Me (Throw Da Water On ‘Em) (Travis Barker Remix)”

M-Pain & T(ammi)-Pain – “Ain’t Nothin’ Like Auto-Tune”

Blasphemy, I know.  But hilarious.  Shout to the homey 6th for sending this over

For those of y’all who know me personally, I’m sure I’ve talked your ears off about CrossFit workouts.  My man Dru put me on to them recently, and basically, they’re high intensity, short duration workouts that really kick your ass.  It takes a minute to describe in detail, but if you enjoy working out, I can’t recommend em enough.  They’re way more efficient and rewarding than normal lifting.  If you’re in Seattle, come check out the free Saturday workouts at Foundation Fitness every week at 11 AM.  Just check their blog for more info.

For my fellow crossfitters, I’m going to try to put my results up as much as possible.  Today’s workout was “Kettlebell Hell”:

5 minutes max kb swings
waiter’s walk to stoplight and back (approx. 400m)
2 minutes max kb swings
waiter’s walk to stoplight and back

I got 172/74 with the 16kb bell (~35lbs).  Pretty good effort for the first time doing this one, though the left arm portion of the waiter’s walk was killin me.  Great workout though, try it!

I saw that this joint made its way all around the best blogs out there, but DJ K.O. decided to leak out the official version instead of the unfinished demo that popped up on a mixtape.  This song will be on K.O.’s highly anticipated album, Picture This, due out Sept. 23rd on Shaman Work Recordings.  The artists involved with this project are incredible, and this particular song features the homey Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, and Median ripping up a Black Milk beat.  Heat.

DJ K.O. ft. Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, and Median – “Start It All Over”

Random Hyphen related trivia: Sky mentioned to me a while back that he first heard of Black Milk from one of my old mixtapes and reached out to MK off the strength of that joint (“Duck” for those who know about the knowabout).  Now they’ve done several classic joints together…gotta love it!