Dope video from CL’s performance at the 2009 QN5 Megashow from NYC a few weeks back. Deacon, Natti, and Kno performed their entire A Piece of Strange album (which is a certified hip-hop classic) with Club Dub backing them up.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe the band will be joining them on their upcoming tour, but regardless, you won’t want to miss this show when it rolls through your town.
Seattle folks: you can catch CL performing with Looptroop Rockers, the homey Tunji, and some of our hometown heroes, Grieves & Budo, on November 25th at Neumos. Be there.
As I mentioned, Malice and Pusha T recently made their second appearance on Sound Session, dropping by last month to chop it up with yours truly. We talked extensively about their upcoming Till The Casket Drops album, including breakdowns of their singles with Kanye West, Cam’ron, and Pharrell. They also looked back on their past work, detailed the success of their Play Cloths fashion line, doled out advice to younger artists, and much more.
To listen to the entire interview, including a lot of topics we didn’t include in the video above, peep:
Posted in Sports, Videos on October 26th, 2009 by Hyphen
Shout to Smoking Section for reminding me of this play from the last NFL weekend. I still remember the first time seeing high school footage of AP and realizing he just ran differently than anyone I had ever seen. Wow.
Sidenote, I believe “Gay” is one of the “potentially offensive” words that’s banned from being used in customized NFL jerseys. Laughable really, especially if you’re William and you want to press up some jerseys for your family. WTF.
That said, pause @ William Gay and “maybe this guy can play both ways” in the same sentence. Just sayin’.
The Clipse rolled through the Sound Session studio last month and spoke with me all about their upcoming album, Till The Casket Drops. I’ll be posting up the full interview soon, but in the interim, seeing as how their “Popular Demand (Popeyes)” track with Cam’ron leaked last week and set the net ablaze, I thought I would toss up this part for y’all.
In the clip, Pusha and Malice discuss how the track came together, their motivation behind the record, and how Cam dissed them in 2002 by declining their offer to be on the “Grindin'” remix. Download the track here:
As I was saying, the talent in the 206 is immense right now. I meant to put this on TAOD when Ryan first sent it to me, but I failed. Thankfully, 2DopeBoyz posted it up and reminded me about it.
In Ryan’s own words:
All summer I’ve been working on my thesis project to graduate from the UW. It’s another still-image motion picture like the 2Pac Vs. Franz Ferdinand mash-up I made last year. It features Macklemore and a few other people you may know (list below). Take in mind this is version one. Between limited access, finances, etc I couldn’t really pursue a lot of the ideas I originally envisioned in efforts to make it epic. I feel like the music got there more than the storyline. However, we may do an improved remix of it for the VS. (Macklemore/RyanLewis) EP featuring Mack rapping and a revised production more like a music video, shot with actual video.
It was shot entirely with regular still-image cameras (Canon 5D, Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D300 and a Nikon D3), batch-edited in Photoshop and produced in Final Cut Pro. The music was probably the biggest Pro-Tools session I’ve ever ran. Although it samples the original Fake Empire’s piano and backing vocals, everything else was recorded live over numerous sessions.
Thanks a ton to everyone who helped:
The National – Fake Empire (Sample)
JkoePhoto.com (Jason Koenig) – Photographer
MazagranPhoto.com (Johnny Valencia) – Photographer
Myspace.com/Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) – Main Actor
Tricia Davis – Actor
Kevin Veatch – Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Engineer
Andrew Joslyn – Violins and plucking
Zach Fleury – Main Drums, Percussion
Jonah Peters – Percussion
Ryan Lewis – Music Production, Photography, Film Production, Drums, Key Strings, Organ
We shot 100 + strangers portraits who choose a sticker that pertained to an organization/company that has either consumed them or acted as an alternative means of communication to operate with society.
Group Vocals –
P Smoov (Mad Rad)
Rosanna Veatch
Zach Fleury
Sol
Xperience
Macklemore
Anna Clausen
Isabella Du Graf
and more.
Also, Ryan has been working with a dope MC/vocalist named Symmetry for about 3 years now and I believe they’re just about to drop their full project for the masses. Here’s a taste:
Posted in Comedy, Videos on October 24th, 2009 by Hyphen
I’ve been working like crazy this week and finally have a little time to catch up with everything that went down. So far, it seems like the highlight was that the world’s funniest human, Dave Chappelle, performed an impromptu set at the Laugh Factory in NYC. I’ve only seen this Flip Cam footage, but we need more to leak. This is hilarious, especially at the end…
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.
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.