The Audacity of Dope

It’s moving week, so I’ll keep this short:

• If you missed the video of our recent interviews with Bilal and Yelawolf, be sure to check ’em out on the blog.  Two very different, but very dope, artists.
• If you’re in Seattle, come check out U-N-I performing live at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Theater on Wednesday, Dec. 8th (aka…TONIGHT!).  I’ll be DJ’ing and you should remember how live it was last time.  More details here.
• Enjoy the episode of SNSS for new music from T.I., Lloyd Banks, Spragga Benz, Cee Lo, Kendrick Lamar, The Kid Daytona, Curren$y, and many more, plus Neema and Latin Rose joining us live in studio.  A good time was had by all…

Show #288 (12-5-10)

1. Yelawolf – “Daddy’s Lambo”
2. T.I. – “Salute”
3. Kendrick Lamar ft. School Boy Q – “Michael Jordan”
4. The Kid Daytona – “Padma (So Buttery)”
5. Lloyd Banks – “Reach Out”
6. The Left – “One Day”
7. JR & PH7 ft. Elzhi & Frank-N-Dank – “The City”
8. Fashawn ft. Night & Dirty Money – “Ride & Smokin’”
9. **INTERVIEW WITH NEEMA, PT. 1**
10. Neema ft. Latin Rose – “4 AM Phone Calls” (Local Music)
11. No One (Noni Spitz & Dae One) ft. AP – “Unfaithful”
12. **INTERVIEW WITH NEEMA, PT. 2**
13. Kanye West ft. Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Fergie, Elton John, & more – “All Of The Lights”
14. Curren$y – “Famous”
15. Avatar Young Blaze ft. Isabella du Graf – “Wishing On A Dream” (Local Music)
16. J. Cole ft. Drake – “In The Morning”
17. Spragga Benz ft. Marcia Griffiths – “No Way, No How”
18. Bambu – “The Rock Rock On”
19. Head Like A Kite ft. Tilson (of the Saturday Knights) & Asy (of Smoosh) – “Diamond Paint” (Local Music)
20. Kid Cudi – “Mojo So Dope”
21. 2Pac ft. Stretch – “Pain” (Throwback of the Week)
22. Cee Lo Green – “Satisfied”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?8ma8cp3a9wndn5q
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/8363867698caf22e/)
(2nd back up – http://usershare.net/d0lxn4qdpxz0)

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.

In a cooooooooold Seattle winter, this makes me want to get to the islands so bad.  Shout to the girl getting her Shawn Wayans “DJ SW-1” on.  I see you ma.

This joint gooooooooooes.  Kendrick is easily the 2010 Rookie Of The Year.

Don’t wowwy!

A certain Seattle DJ/blogger/all around cool guy might be featured in one of these in the near future…gasp.  From Jon Jon:

This is the first installment in a series I’ve entitled “Good Times.” The basic idea is to do more than just shoot music videos with hip-hop artists. I wanted to get a story out of them and keep it simple. For my first effort I linked up with Chicago area, DC-born rhymesayer Dave Coresh (no relation to infamous Waco man Dave Koresh). DC takes time out to drop a couple of freestyle snippets and explain his amazing teeth all whilst riding the L.

Dave Coresh is a dope MC for sure. Peep some samples here.

Awesome.  Chapter One here if you missed it.

My favorite record off Cudi’s new album gets the video treatment from Jason Goldwatch’s short film, “The Journey of Mr. Rager,” which comes packaged with the deluxe edition of Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager.  Don’t do drugs kids.

More dopeness from Seattle, why not?  I wasn’t familiar with Head Like A Kite before this clip, nor Asy from Smoosh (who reminds me of my main college girlfriend in this clip, *thumbs up*), but everyone in the Seattle scene should already be a fan of Tilson from The Saturday Knights.  Great video too, Stephan Gray killed it.  Be on the lookout for his upcoming project with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, which might be the PacNW video of the year…

The homey Blaze teamed up with the other homey, Jon Augustavo, to whip up a video for “Wishing On A Dream” featuring Isabella du Graf.  While this one wasn’t shot up here in Seattle like the previous video I posted, or most of Jon Jon’s work, it looks great and it’s another example of the talent here in the 6.

Parker (formerly known as Eclipse), aka one half of the Parker Brothaz, might just have one of my favorite records from the NW here in 2010.  We played this joint on SNSS a while back and Tha Bizness have just released some visuals for it this past week.  The beauty of this track is the simplicity: dope beat, good hook, and heartfelt rhymes.  Shout to Stretch, hope he gets out soon.  And shout to my city too, we’re filthy.

The same day that I chopped it up with Wiz Khalifa, his co-star for the Waken Baken Tour, Yelawolf, stopped by the studio to kick it as well.  We discussed his official debut album Trunk Muzik 0-60, how it continues where his last mixtape left off, his nervousness/excitement during the BET Awards Cipher, his history working every odd job imaginable, being homeless in Seattle, and more.

Not only is Wolf a cool, down to Earth dude…but his album and style are both really fresh.  Hip-hop needs his presence and music right now, so do yourself a favor and check out the project if you haven’t already.

If you prefer to just listen to the audio, here you go:

Yelawolf on Sound Session – http://www.mediafire.com/?qyc22m5pgyba2e4
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/833551839dcab9c5/)
(2nd back up – http://usershare.net/y9ipbtzo96yw)

Shout to the whole Ghet-O-Vision & Interscope fam too.