The Audacity of Dope

New visuals for the lead single from Term’s upcoming Politics As Usual album featuring Bun B and DJ Premier.  I’m not sure what that little digital/touch turntable contraption was, but that thing looked dope as hell.  Not so dope?  The contortionists at the end.  That was slightly offputting.  Good stuff regardless, be on the lookout for Term’s new mixtape, 50 Bodies 2, dropping soon on TermanologyMusic.com.

Last minute WLotD for Wednesday:

“I’m f*ckin’ nuts…cashews/
But I’m so DC, like fat shoes”
–Lil’ Wayne, “About All That”

(if you prefer YouTube, go here. Part 2 will be up in a few days)

Here’s the footage of T.I.’s Bumbershoot performance that I grabbed from the stage a few weeks back. The festival’s “Hip-Hop 101” main stage at Memorial Stadium is always one of my favorite events of the year. We’ve been lucky enough to introduce people like Lupe, Wu-Tang, Kanye, Atmosphere, Pharcyde, Common, Talib, and A Tribe Called Quest and watch these artists deliver incredible shows from just a few feet away. It’s really dope to watch ’em rock a huge venue like this and although T.I.’s crowd was a bit smaller than past years, this was another great experience. I’m not a huge Tip fan, but he killed it.

My favorite moment was definitely at 18:40, when he talked to the crowd about voting and then, with phenomenal swag, told Drama to drop “What You Know.” That might be my favorite T.I. record, [Kanye] Toomp killed that ish [/Kanye].

(if you prefer Vimeo, click here)

I’ve been meaning to post up the footage I grabbed from our Bumbershoot Festival here in Seattle a few weeks ago, but I’ve been slacking. Once I saw Eskay toss up my T.I. video, I figured I should get on it haha. Here’s the first clip, where Keyshia Cole runs through some hits from her catalog on the main stage at Memorial Stadium. I can’t say I’m a huge Keyshia fan, but she has some joints I really dig (namely “(I Just Want It) To Be Over” and her hook on Diddy’s “Last Night”).

I’ll make a separate post with the T.I. footage, which is better quality and far more interesting, imo.

“And they say they loooove it.” I do actually, this is my jam.  When are we going to get Pacific Division up here in Seattle?  I think we need to make that happen, somebody holler @ me.

Spotted on 2DopeBoyz.

If for some reason you didn’t download the 2 Dope Boyz mixtape last week, slap yourself and grab the no-DJ version of one of the best tracks on there, Tunji‘s “Still Risin’.”  Sound Session listeners will recognize him from his Inverse material we’ve played over the last year, plus he’s the dude ripping our show intro every week.  Astute heads will also remember this beat originally being used for Kno’s “Get Buck” remix, but he shot it to Tunj to do it justice.

Tunj on the mic and Kno on the beat?  It’s a wrap…

Tunji (of Inverse) – “Still Risin'”

All Wayne WLotD month seems like it’s going to fly by.  Let’s stick with The Drought 3 from yesterday:

“Money controls where I go, it is the sail to my boat/
And it’s goin’ down, it’s goin’ down, like there’s a whale in the boat”
–Lil’ Wayne, “Live From The 504”

smh.

I was thinking about skipping today’s WLotD, but Wayne just makes it too easy.

“Ba-rum-pum-pum pum/
And I’m so young, but I’m a giant like fe-fi-fo-fum”
–Lil’ Wayne, “Back On My Grizzly”

As the Ying Yang Twins have repeatedly proven, anytime you drop some nursery rhyme ish, it’s wack.

Here’s another dope new joint that we ran on Sound Session last night.  It’s off Madlib‘s upcoming album, WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip, and features Defari on the mic.  Another b-side, since “Go!” with Guilty Simpson has already been floating around the net.  Enjoy:

Madlib ft. Defari – “Gamble On Ya Boy”

Madlib ft. Guilty Simpson – “Go!”

“hollahollaholla like that dude on Chappelle.”

Anyone who reads TAOD knows how excited I am for the upcoming Foreign Exchange album, Leave It All Behind.  Well this weekend at Rock The Bells, the big homey Phonte was kind enough to play the album for me and I was floored.  It picks up where Connected left off and takes it to the next level -  musically (Nic KILLED this album), lyrically, and emotionally.  I’ll have an interview with Tay about the album (and his other projects) coming later this week, but in the meantime, they just leaked the first single, “Daykeeper” with Muhsinah.

Download it at the new Foreign Exchange site right here and be sure to subscribe to their blog as well!