The Audacity of Dope

One of the rising stars in hip-hop, Los Angeles’ Nipsey Hussle, came through Sound Session recently to chop it up with J. Moore and myself while out here on tour with The Game.  Just like you’d expect with a dude that many see as a young Snoop, Nipsey was cool as hell.

We talked all about his background (including how he got the name), his upcoming South Central State of Mind debut album, whether he had any reservations on using the familiar Kris Kross sample on “Hussle In The House,” and more.  Plus, we delved a little deeper than most interviews I’ve seen with Nip as we talked about his East African roots, fatherhood, how he wants to change the stereotypes of gang culture, and the difficulties in walking the fine line between reporting on violence and glorifying it.  Don’t miss this one y’all…

Nipsey Hussle on Sound Session – http://www.mediafire.com/?ijmi0ynzaez
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/5924493404d4c2b2/ )

*throws up the dub with pride*

That’s riiiiiiight!  More info coming soon.

I’ve been playing the hell out of this track for ages now, ever since it was included at the end of a mixtape Mayer (as DJ Haircut) put out with his group Now On, and I’m still not tired of it.  Talk about a timeless joint.

As I mentioned, if you aren’t familiar with this dude, you’ve been sleeping for about a decade.  Haircut has been down with the Lab Techs and the almighty Athletic Mic League (peep the Buff1 cameo) for years putting out great albums and making some insane beats.  He’s now splitting his time between crafting songs for Now On, killing beat battles (shout to the Big Tune folks), and becoming a worldwide sensation as Mayer Hawthorne.  Go head homey…

“…your first good one, in a while…”

This is kind of a big deal.  Mykola Dosenko created all original graphics based on classic NES games for this unofficial video to Kanye’s “Robocop.”  Wow.

Spotted on Drop Bomb.

Another fun night in the SNSS studio as we were joined not only by Seattle legends Jake One and DV One, but by one half of the super production crew Tha Bizness, the big homey Dow Jones.  We chopped it up about all the success him and Henny have had over the past few years, what it’s like working with Lil’ Wayne and Drake on their new albums, what they respect in other producers, and much more.

Oh…and we also played some great music from artists like Royce The 5’9″, Brother Ali, U-N-I, Devin The Dude, Elzhi, the Clipse, Blu, Kanye West, and more, but you already know.  Peep another world premiere from Tanya Morgan too, as we rocked their joint, “On Our Way.”  I think the Pep Love track may also be a premiere…shout to Omid and Otayo for sending that through.  Lastly, we aired a snippet of our interview with Chester French, which I’ll be posting up in full on the blog soon.  Stay tuned.

Show #204 (4-26-09)

1. Royce The 5’9” – “Brooklyn We Go Hard Freestyle (Slaughter)”
2. Reef The Lost Cauze ft. Brother Ali – “Big Deal (Remix)”
3. KRS-One & Buckshot – “Robot”
4. Torae & Marco Polo – “But Wait”
5. Stepbrothers (Evidence & Alchemist) – “It’s Coming Down”
6. Wale ft. Lady Gaga – “Chillin’”
7. U-N-I – “The Grudge”
8. Mike Jones ft. Devin The Dude – “Give Me A Call”
9. Elzhi – “Deep”
10. Dyme Def ft. Saigon – “Pick Up Ya Flow” (Local Artist)
11. **INTERVIEW WITH DOW JONES (of THA BIZNESS), PT. 1**
12. Asher Roth ft. Busta Rhymes & New Kingdom – “Lion’s Roar”
13. **INTERVIEW WITH CHESTER FRENCH (SNIPPET)**
14. Chester French – “She Loves Everybody”
15. Trackademicks ft. MoxMore – “Topsidin’”
16. Pep Love ft. Otayo Dubb & LB – “No Doubt”
17. Grynch – “A Dream Undeferred” (Local Artist)
18. Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
19. **INTERVIEW WITH DOW JONES (of THA BIZNESS), PT. 2**
20. Lil’ Wayne ft. Young Money – “Every Girl”
21. Toni Hill – “Rose” (Local Artist)
22. Tanya Morgan – “On Our Way” (WORLD PREMIERE)
23. Clipse ft. Kanye West – “Kinda Like A Big Deal”
24. Blu & Exile – “Love Line”
25. **INTERVIEW WITH DOW JONES (of THA BIZNESS), PT. 3**

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?zuomwmiywdm
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/5929776171534798/)

Link to download just the interview parts with Dow Jones – http://www.mediafire.com/?ygwygzzdjzz
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/59298051d94e8b3f/)

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.

Man, I don’t know how I missed this video.

Daytona’s one of my favorite MC’s right now and he’s gearing up for the release of his debut, Come Fly With Me.  Before that, The Daytona 500 will be dropping on 5/5/09.  Info on the project below:

Shout to Dow for coming through Sound Session tonight.  Peace to Jake & DV in the building too of course.  I’ll post up the show later tonight for y’all…

D.A. & Max can help you out.  Interview with the Chester French boys coming soon.

The homey Playboy Tre just dropped his new mixtape, Liquor Store Mascot, as a free download for y’all.  If you’ve been sleeping, Tre rolls with B.o.B and the two work together on pretty much all those crazy hooks Bobby Ray has been singing.  Plus, Seattle folks should know him as one half of the Bona Brothers with Sonny Bonoho.   Download the tape and peep his appearance on Sound Session with B.o.B from a while back…

Download here.

I’ve never been a huge fan of this track (the “maven” line always makes me cringe), although the drums are fire.  Hype Williams’ visuals look great, but I’m not sure they add much to the record.  They really just make me want to go to Hawaii…stat.