The Audacity of Dope

As I mentioned on this week’s SNSS recap, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour came through Seattle this weekend and pretty much shut down the city.  Along with Hov, J. Cole, Wale, and N.E.R.D. performed and all the opening acts came through our station (KUBE 93) to chop it up before the show.

In these clips, peep the homies Karen Wild and Producer L talk with Pharrell, Shay, and N.E.R.D.’s newest member, Rhea, all about their upcoming Instant Gratification album.  They also revealed some secrets behind their creative process in the studio and gave lots of insight to the motivation behind their art.  Some lucky listeners also got to ask the group a few questions as well.

Check out all 4 parts of the interview…P kicks knowledge throughout.

If you listen to Sound Session at all, you know that we give out tickets all the time on the air.  Well today we’ve got a little present for our loyal TAOD readers as well, courtesy of the homies at Obese Productions.

If you want to go check out the Ghostface Killah show this Saturday night at the Showbox Market, I’ve got one pair for the reader that can email me at DJHyphen@gmail.com with the best reason why you should get to go see Ghost.

Contest ends at 5pm (PST) Friday the 23rd.  Let’s go!

In case you want a little video to go with the audio from this week’s SNSS, here’s some footage of the homey Sol sitting in with us.  We talked about his new EP (download here!), his upcoming trip to Brazil, and more.

ahhhh, the homies!  Good times y’all…

Weekends like these don’t come along too often.

This past Saturday, Jay-Z performed in Seattle for the first time in 10 years (apparently Bill Gates needs to remind Hov about our lovely city) and pretty much shut down the city.  Aside from a few Blueprint 3 songs that really have no business being performed at a Jay-Z show, the concert was epic from start to finish.  Call me old fashioned, but I’d like to see at least one song from Reasonable Doubt (“Dead Presidents”!?!?!) or In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (“A Million and One Questions”!?!?!?) rather than “On To The Next One.”  Maybe that’s just me.  *Kanye shrug*

That said, in front of a sold out Key Arena, Jay killed it from beginning to end and the opening lineup of J. Cole, Wale, and N.E.R.D. was excellent.  Big shout to all those artists for coming through the studio before the show.  We’ll have interviews with them coming soon…

Meanwhile, on this week’s SNSS, we played new joints from (who else) Hov, N.E.R.D., J. Cole, Big Boi, Slick Rick, the CunninLynguists, Ghostface Killah, Fashawn, and more.  Local artist Sol joined us in studio and we played a snippet of our interview with Royce Da 5’9″.  Cop Street Hop in stores now!  Last but not least, we world premiered a new track from the one and only YZ featuring Slug and Brother Ali.  If you don’t know, now you know.

Show #229 (10-18-09)

1. Jay-Z ft. Pharrell – “So Ambitious”
2. N.E.R.D. ft. Santigold – “Soldier”
3. Janelle Monae – “Come Alive (The War Of The Roses)”
4. Lupe Fiasco – “Fire”
5. Dynas ft. Slick Rick – “Family Jewels”
6. Keelay & Zaire ft. Tunji, Thurzday, Kam Moye, Ragen Fykes, & the Park – “Addicts For Real (Remix)”
7. **INTERVIEW WITH SOL, PT. 1**
8. Sol ft. Grynch – “No Sleep” (Local Music)
9. **INTERVIEW WITH SOL, PT. 2**
10. Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane – “Shine Blockas”
11. J. Cole – “World Is Empty”
12. **INTERVIEW WITH ROYCE DA 5’9” (SNIPPET)**
13. Royce Da 5’9” ft. Phonte – “Something 2 Ride 2”
14. Yoshi ft. Buff1 & Darien Brockington – “Magnetic”
15. Jay Rush ft. D-Black – “I Ain’t Even Mad (Khrysis Real Sh*t Remix)”
16. BK-One ft. Murs – “Eighteen To Twenty-One”
17. YZ ft. Slug & Brother Ali – “Did I Ever Tell You” (WORLD PREMIERE)
18. CunninLynguists ft. E-40 & Evidence – “Running Wild”
19. Macklemore ft. Geologic – “Church” (Local Music)
20. Debaser ft. Phat Kat & Rasco – “Out Front” (Local Music)
21. Ghostface Killah – “Stay”
22. Sene – “WonLover”
23. Fashawn ft. Exile – “Bo Jackson”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?jjmocwngna4
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/6721777347ecef6a/ )

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.

This is crazy.

I don’t think anyone is on the same level as Kanye these days – musically, artistically, personally, etc..  There are a lot of different interpretations that you could pull from this short film, but I’d be interested in hearing your take.  Keep in mind, this was filmed before the MTV VMA incident and his decision to step out of the spotlight a bit.  What do you think?

Sidenote: peep the Mayer Hawthorne track playing during the “love” scene.  A-Side FTW!

If for some ungodly reason you don’t…peep this dope piece put together by the Ruby Hornet team for a nice recap.  Shout to the homies Buff, KT, and the whole Athletic Mic League.  They’re one of my favorite crews of all time and it’s great to see all the success that Drew/Haircut/Mayer is having these days.  Great music from great people!

If you aren’t familiar with Sene, you really need to get hip.  Luckily for you, he’s about to drop his full project with Blu handling all the production (you didn’t know Blu got beats?), ADayLate&ADollarShort, and here’s the first bit of visuals for it.  I’ve been bumping the album recently and it’s great throughout.  Blu did a great job crafting a consistent sound and Sene’s style is actually real similar to Blu’s on the mic.  Highly recommend y’all cop it…

Back again with another edition of SNSS, highlighting the latest and greatest music out there each week.  This time around, we ran new cuts from folks like J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Keelay & Zaire, BK-One, Shad, Janelle Monae, J*Davey, Yoshi, and many more.  We also gave out some tickets for an upcoming Ghostface Killah show here in Seattle, but if you missed it, don’t fret: we’ll have more tix in the coming weeks.

Yep.  Pretty much what we do.

Show #228 (10-11-09)

1. Sean Price & Buckshot – “Can’t Fight The Feeling”
2. Skyzoo – “Under Pressure”
3. Raekwon ft. Cappadonna & Ghostface Killah – “10 Bricks”
4. Ghostface Killah ft. Fabolous & Shareefa – “Guest House”
5. They Live – “Meth Heads” (Local Music)
6. J. Cole – “Welcome”
7. Strong Arm Steady ft. Talib Kweli – “Okay (Get Started)”
8. KRS-One & Buckshot ft. Mary J. Blige – “The Way I Live”
9. Lupe Fiasco – “Fire”
10. Debaser (Sapient & Ethic) ft. Phat Kat & Rasco – “Out Front” (Local Music)
11. Crown City Rockers – “Make It Hotter”
12. Keelay & Zaire ft. Tunji, Thurzday, Kam Moye, Ragen Fykes, & the Park – “Addicts For Real (Remix)
13. Big Boi ft. Too $hort & George Clinton – “For Yo’ Sorrows”
14. BK-One ft. Brother Ali & Scarface – “American Nightmare”
15. Shad ft. Jermiside & Destruments – “The Calling”
16. Grynch ft. RA Scion & Illa J – “You Know Me (Remix)” (Local Music)
17. Yoshi ft. Buff1 & Darien Brockington – “Magnetic”
18. Peter, Bjorn, & John ft. Drake – “Let’s Call It Off (Remix)”
19. Janelle Monae – “Come Alive (The War Of The Roses)”
20. J*Davey – “End Of Your World (Mama’s Back)”
21. Joss Stone ft. Nas – “Governmentalist”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?xmymyiyukym
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/66879242614734ab/)

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.

Really feeling the the two tracks I’ve heard from Yoshi so far…here’s a video my man Gerard directed featuring Buff1 and D-Brock.  Real smooth.