The Audacity of Dope

While I’m standing by my earlier pick for song of the year, this has to be right up there. Toss in a black and white video shot in Paris that complements the song nicely (letting it star on its own) and I’m all in.

Instant classic from arguably the best voice we have in music right now.

Chewey lets the camera tag along as he hangs out with Sean Price, Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, and Roc Marciano at Rock The Bells: San Francisco. Just an every day thing for the Axe.

A little quick hitter from the homey M.anifest for “Motion Picture” off his recently released album, Immigrant Chronicles: Coming To America.  Get the full song (and album) right here!

While J. Moore is across the pond spending pounds and euros with Shabazz Palaces, I held it down (Hope) solo.  Enjoy the show and go buy the following today:

• Phonte – Charity Starts At Home
• J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story (check the liner notes for a nice SNSS shout since we were the first station Cole visited back in ’09!)
• FIFA Soccer 12

I’ll be adding the French Rosetta Stone collection to my shopping cart as I’ve decided to take my remedial ability up to semi-fluent status this fall/winter.  If any of you speak French, holler @ a Hyphen and help me out!  Merci.

Show #329 (9-25-11)

1. Evidence ft. Raekwon & Ras Kass – “The Red Carpet”
2. Big K.R.I.T. ft. 2 Chainz, 8Ball, & MJG – “Money On The Floor”
3. G-Side – “I’m Sorry (Jake One Remix)”
4. David Banner – “Swag”
5. M.O.P. – “Anybody Can Get It”
6. Freddie Gibbs – “187 Proof”
7. Apathy ft. Celph Titled – “Stop What Ya Doin’”
8. Childish Gambino – “Bonfire”
9. Jay-Z & Kanye West ft. Elly Jackson – “That’s My B*tch”
10. Outkast – “Prototype” (Throwback of the Week)
11. The Weeknd – “Thursday”
12. GMK – “Up Up Down Down Left Left” (Local Music)
13. TiRon & Ayomari ft. Yummy Bingham – “All My Love”
14. J. Cole – “Breakdown”
15. Phonte ft. Jeanne Jolly – “Everything Is Falling Down”
16. Maffew Ragazino – “Slumlord”
17. Add-2 – “Introspective of a Young Black Male”
18. Nitty Scott, MC – “Auntie Maria’s Crib”
19. Dom Kennedy & Curren$y – “Hennessey Beach”
20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Make The Money” (Local Music)
21. JayKin – “Japan Love” (Local Music)
22. 9th Wonder ft. Talib Kweli & Terrace Martin – “Never Stop Loving You”
23. Goapele – “Play”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?4pwqw7hoa9yc0o7
(back up / streaming link – http://hulkshare.com/5cb90taq7c5f)
(2nd back up – http://www.zshare.net/audio/94615005fb3c135d/)

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.

GSP teaches some tricks to the Princeton Tiger and UCONN Husky at ESPN HQ.  I love that this is my company.

Landon Donovan takes on (Bellevue’s own) Tim Lincecum above and (Richland’s own) Hope Solo takes on (British Columbia’s own) Steve Nash in these hilarious ads for the new FIFA Soccer game from EA Sports.  Kind of a NW feel to these ads, eh?  I guess that’s to be expected with EA’s FIFA headquarters in Burnaby and soccer being more popular in the Pacific Northwest than pretty much every other area of North America.

Nash’s dry sense of humo(u)r is awesome. “That’s a low blow…I worked hard for that degree.” That dude is the man.

In fact, when FIFA drops on Tuesday, I’m kind of tempted to cop a system just to play it whenever I can’t get on the pitch in real life. Looks crazy!

In case you need a little motivation to download Maffew’s album in my last post, here are the new visuals for “Black Sheep.”  While the video takes about 2 minutes to get in to the song, this track is worth it.  NYC summer banger and I must admit, I have an instant crush on one of these video girls…

The wait is over!  Here’s the new album from Maffew Ragazino, who is almost single-handedly providing me with everything I need from good ol’ NYC boom bap right now.  If you’ve been listening to SNSS at all the past few months, you’ve probably heard us spin a few of his records.  I highly recommend you grab this ASAP since Rhyme Pays, but thanks to Cash In Cash Out, Boundless NY, and Rosenberg, you don’t have to.  Download link below!

Download here.

The irony of just venting on Twitter that I was getting tired of all these R&B records at 130 BPMS’s and then posting up my dude GMK’s “Up Up Down Down Left Left” is not lost on me, but this isn’t what I was referring to at all.

This is dope.

GMK’s delivery is great on this record and visually, the simple shot of him rapping to his girl in the park during a sunset is one of my favorites that I’ve seen recently.  You don’t need a big budget or some Hype Williams screen effects.  Just shoot something real with a dope soundtrack and there you have it.

Cop it on iTunes and support my guy!