The Audacity of Dope

As I mentioned, I’ve been having massive computer problems recently, so this post is about a week too late.  That said, I’m a completist and definitely feel the need to archive every SNSS episode that I can.  If you missed it live, here you go!

Show #236 (12-6-09)

1. Kardinal Offishall – “We Gon’ Go”
2. Gift of Gab – “Richman, Poorman”
3. Felt – “Bass For Your Truck”
4. Wale ft. J. Cole & Melanie Fiona – “Beautiful Bliss”
5. Lupe Fiasco – “Fireman Freestyle (Yoga Flame)”
6. Statik Selektah ft. Bahamadia – “Do What I Believe”
7. Freeway & Jake One – “Know What I Mean” (Local Music)
8. D-Black – “No Ordinary Love”
9. James Pants ft. Mayer Hawthorne – “Thin Moon (Remix)”
10. Idle Warship – “Bedroom Lites”
11. RJD2 ft. Kenna – “Games You Can Win”
12. B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars – “Nothing On You”
13. Eminem – “Drop The Bomb On ‘Em”
14. Royce Da 5’9″ ft. Bun B & Joell Ortiz – “Hood Love”
15. The Niceguys – “Supreme Team”
16. El Michels Affair ft. Diamond District – “The PJ’s (Remix)”
17. CunninLynguists ft. Grieves, Geologic, & Macklemore – “Close Your Eyes” (Local Music)
18. Budo & Krukid – “HalfPastHell” (Local Music)
19. Chikaramanga ft. Big Tone – “Cool”
20. Louwop ft. Shad – “One 2 Check”
21. Paten Locke – “Ventilation P. Locke”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?3kmzezmk3zz
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/69696177daef5dc4/)

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.

Hmmm.  I love this record…well, like 75% of it (sorry Tim)…but this video doesn’t do much for me.  Seeing Timbaland lip sync Drake’s lines just reiterates the fact that Drizzy completely carries the song.  I believe this is what they call “pulling a Birdman.”  I.e., riding Drake’s coattails for dear life to remain relevant in hip-hop.  Shrug.

If you’d like an alternative, be sure to peep the mix I did including Lupe…

I’ve never done a single drug in my life (no, seriously…I’ve only taken Aspirin like 5 times…ever), but I’m pretty sure I’d take whatever Rosa Acosta wanted to give me.  And for the record, I like Posner, though I feel like he’s about to start getting hated as much as his fellow Duke grad, JJ Redick.  Wait, doesn’t JJ fancy himself a rapper?  Why hasn’t a collab been commissioned?

Anyway, something tells me that even if you’re not a fan of Mike Posner, you’ll probably enjoy these visuals…

This makes no kind of sense whatsoever.  I love tricks like these.

If Lu didn’t just remind everyone that he might be the dopest MC in the game, I’d be slightly worried that he’s headed in this direction with his music.  While it’s not bad, I’d much rather he continue to murder the mic like we all know he can.  Thankfully, it looks like this is a one-off for the Twilight* soundtrack.

*I will never see this movie.  In a million years.  No.

As I mentioned when the “Whiplash” video dropped and previewed this track at the end, “Young Black Male” is one of the illest records of the year, hands down.  Even though the Pac Div homies haven’t shot an official video for it, this fan made project using clips from Boyz N The Hood works quite well.

“Rickyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” 🙁

BOOOOOOOOOGIEMAAAAAAAAAAAN.

Ahem, excuse me.  Nabil is a beast.

Long story short: my PC caught a virus, the virus hacked this site, and then my Mac had issues all last week as well.  It’s taken me since then to finally get things back up and running, so apologies on the lack of updates for TAOD, but I think we might be back in business.  You’ll notice a slight redesign of the site too.  Looks a bit sleeker, eh?  “All black everything…”

Anyway, one of the few things keeping me sane throughout the madness has been Robin Thicke’s new album, Sex Therapy.  Despite some corny lyrics here and there, it’s a strong effort throughout and there are some really dope standouts.  Peep the video for the title track above, “produced” by Polow Da Don…not mad at this at all, especially @ the scene starting around 1:22. Hello.

I’m kind of on a string of posting Seattle related ish, but how can you blame me when we make songs and videos like this?  Great job by Stephan Gray on the direction as well.

For the record, Rik Rude and P-Smoov’s collab album as Fresh Espresso was one of my favorite LP’s of the year, from any region.  If you haven’t checked the record, you’re losing.

Type (aka, Jeff from my middle school days) is about to drop the video for his newest batch of hilarity, “Man Crush,” but before it’s released at the end of the month, he’s releasing this teaser.  Peep the video to see reactions from some of the dopest folks around town, including yours truly, as we watch the clip for the first time.  It’s so wrong, it’s right.

And if you’ve never seen it, here’s the video for Type & Grieves’ “My Girlfriend Beats Me” from a few years back.  I make another cameo in this one too hahah: