The Audacity of Dope

(watch in HD on HyphenTV here)

As I mentioned in the show recap, we had the longtime Inverse homies, Tunji and Toby, come through Sound Session this past week.  You can peep that post for the audio of the entire interview, but I’ll be posting the video for it soon.  In the meantime, here’s a clip of the end of the interview, where Tunj spit a (real) freestyle to help close out the show.

Download Inverse’s So True EP right here if you haven’t already.  Oh, and you should probably remember the name too.  2009 is gonna be a big year y’all.

I just started the (year long) process of digitizing all my CD’s and I’ve already run into a few older forgotten gems from years past.  Remember this one?

Sunshine Anderson – “Lunch or Dinner”

It was the follow up single to “Heard It All Before,” but didn’t catch on for some reason.  Definitely a nice jawn though.  More random throwbacks to come this year…

Hmm…not sure how I feel about this.  On one hand, Lykke Li is the ish and I love this chick.  On the other hand, I hate the whole “haha let’s have white people do something hip-hop and let’s all laugh” schtick.  I mean, we’ve seen her do covers of A Tribe Called Quest before, and those were dope, but I don’t think I needed to see her and Bjorn from Peter, Bjorn, and John remake Ricky Rawwwwwwss.  Yeah…I’m good (I’m gone).

Seattle people: Lykke will be back in town at the Showbox in February.  I’ll see y’all there.

Swiped from IllRoots.

Here’s Kanye’s performance from one of the inaugural balls last night in DC.  ‘Ye kinda killed it, mullet and all.  This was the same ball that after Barack and Michelle shared the dance, he told the crowd…”we call that ‘old school’.”

Coolest. President. Ever.

Tunji and GregTheDude linked up with one of my favorite groups out right now, the Knux, down at USC for this OkayplayerTV piece.  In case you’re sleeping, you need to peep the Knux’s Remind Me In 3 Days album…one of the illest projects of last year.

More true words from Jay Smooth.  Like I said in my last post, we have to “be the change” we want to see.  That means we have to get to work and take pride in what everything do.

I’m making 2009 a huge year for myself and I hope y’all do the same.  Live better in every aspect of your life and get things moving in the right direction.  Do your best to really experience life.  Remember what Jimmy V said?

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.

In spite of this picture, the most important thing to remember today is that Obama is not alone. We cannot expect him to solve all our problems and make the world a better place without buying into his vision ourselves. As he’s mentioned numerous times, “be the change you want to see in the world.”

If you want things to be better in your life, in your family, in your neighborhood, in your country, or in the world, you have to take responsibility. Be smart. Be positive. Be caring and be there for other people. We can do this, but we have to pull together and demand the best from ourselves and each other.

Let’s go.

Y-O, Thurz, and Cook Classics appear to be cooking up a little something sampling one of the greatest songs of all time, Gregory Isaacs’ “Night Nurse,” for the upcoming VIMBY mixtape.  I remember Thurz singing this randomly last time U-N-I was up here and I commented on how much I love that track.  I had no idea they were working on a remake of sorts.  I can’t wait to hear the final version.

And in case you’re sleeping, vibe out to the original.  Flawless…

This past Sound Session was about 8 years in the making.  Finally, after all these years, we were able to have the longtime Inverse homies, Tunji and Toby, come through and kick it in the studio.  Sure, when I DJ’d for Inverse in college, they appeared on my KSPC show plenty of times, but it was great to finally get them on the big 100K-watt show.  Between the interview and their concert at Chop Suey the night before, I think we’re on our way to establishing Seattle as a second home for the fellas.  I’m already looking forward to the next time we’ll have them on.

Along with chopping it up with Inverse and having Tunji kill a (legit) freestyle, I ran new songs from artists like Jadakiss, Strong Arm Steady, Blu, the Blue Scholars, and more.  Plus, Johnny Polygon, Kenichiro Nishihara, Anjulie, and Passion Pit all made their Sound Session debuts and the homey Convinced dropped an exclusive freestyle for y’all.  Enjoy the audio now, and be on the lookout for video from the Inverse interview coming soon.

Show #190 (1-18-09)

1. B.o.B. – “I’ll Be In The Sky”
2. Asher Roth – “I Love College”
3. Shawn Jackson & Co$$ – “Here We Go Again”
4. Termanology – “Circulate Freestyle (100 Bars)”
5. **Convinced – “Sound Session Freestyle” (EXCLUSIVE)**
6. **INTERVIEW WITH NEEMA (of UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL)**
7. Blue Scholars – “Coffee & Snow” (Local Artist)
8. Blu – “Vanity (DeathOfAStar) pt.One”
9. Strong Arm Steady ft. Mistah F.A.B., Bishop Lamont, & Planet Asia – “Sunny CA”
10. **INTERVIEW WITH INVERSE, PT. 1**
11. Jadakiss – “Can’t Stop Me”
12. Statik Selektah ft. Bun B & Cory Mo – “Get Out The Way”
13. Johnny Polygon – “I Been Runnin’”
14. El Prez – “Hammerman”
15. Avriel Epps ft. Knox – “Don’t Tell Me To Go”
16. **INTERVIEW WITH INVERSE, PT. 2**
17. Inverse – “Rise & Shine”
18. Kenichiro Nishihara ft. Substantial – “Heart”
19. **INTERVIEW WITH INVERSE, PT. 3**
20. Snowgoons ft. Boom Bap Project – “The Storm” (Local Artist)
21. Grieves & Budo – “Guenevieve” (Local Artist)
22. Anjulie – “Boom”
23. Passion Pit – “Sleepyhead”
24. Adele ft. Big Pooh (of Little Brother) – “Melt My Heart To Stone (Kickdrums Remix)”
25. **INTERVIEW WITH INVERSE, PT. 4**
26. **Tunji (of Inverse) – “Live Freestyle”**

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?iwnnzmrczkt
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/54351869cfe4acb1/ )

If there are any problems with the links or 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.

While chilling at the Inverse show last night, a few of the homies reminded me that I haven’t been posting much on TAOD.  My bad y’all, but my time is stretched so tight that it’s tough to handle all the biz and also [Unk] blog it out [/Unk] consistently.  Also, to be blunt, there wasn’t a whole lot of stuff that I saw this past week that seemed dope enough to post.

However, this new video from B.o.B. was one notable exception.  “I’ll Be In The Sky” is one of my favorite joints of the past year or so and I really hope programmers realize how catchy the hook is.  I would love to see a joint like this catch on, because if you pay attention to the verses, Bobby Ray is actually speaking on some real ish.  Look out for cameos from Playboy Tre and B. Rich, and then be sure to peep the interview I did with all three from a little while back.

Be sure to tune in to Sound Session tonight.  I’ll have a whole bunch of new music plus the Inverse homies will be live in studio…