GMK is one of the dopest cats from the Northwest doing it right now. If you need proof, cop his new project, Songs For Bloggers, right now on iTunes. It’s worth it, trust.
Ok…Steve is having entirely too much fun. And it’s for a good cause.
I’m sure there were all sorts of races involved with this, but this is still such a white thing to do. Some random crazy dude starts a dance party at Sasquatch at the Gorge during Santigold’s set. I love it.
While at Rhymesayers’ epic Soundset Festival in Minnesota, the homey Peter Parker linked up with the other homies Jake One & Freeway for a quick chat about their upcoming album, The Stimulus Package. If you thought White Van Music was a big record for Jake and for Seattle, wait till this one drops. It’s gonna be a big moment for the merging of the commercial & underground scenes nationwide.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go destroy some folks on the soccer pitch in this lovely 80 degree Seattle weather. [Jada] ah-HAAAAA [/Kiss]
By now, I hope you’ve all seen Lebron’s incredible game winning three from last night, but if not, see above. While this was clearly a great shot and an insta-classic NBA moment (Mo Williams = 2009 Thomas Hill), I’m still wondering one thing: what the hell was Rashard Lewis doing?
If you’re guarding the inbounder, you have a couple different options:
Instead, Rashard got caught in two minds and did neither. He was worried about the lob to the rim (which only would have tied anyway) so he inexplicably backed up in the direction of the basket. That doesn’t prevent the lob at all, and in fact, makes it easier. If he really wanted to take away the lob, he should have been pressuring the ball. Then when Mo went to make an overhead pass to the top of the key, Rashard’s hands should have made that a difficult pass.
LOOOOL @ that halfhearted attempt to challenge Lebron’s shot too. He got caught in no man’s land and then gave a fake effort to challenge the shot. GTFOH.
But um, anyway. WE ARE ALL WITNESSES!
Generally speaking, projects with this level of corporate organization/sponsorship turn out extra corny, but thanks to the talent assembled for the latest Pepsi Mic Pass video, this one came out dope. All the live stuff was shot down in Austin at SXSW and you can see all sorts of folks in the background. Town homies will recognize Dow Jones and Jake One especially…
This dude is freaking killing it. Nice shot at the folks who took issue with his use of the Blackberry on the Funk Flex freestyle video. Anyway, whoever brings him to the Northwest first will get major props. Promoters, festivals, radio stations…hmmm…who will it be?
Courtesy of NahRight.
The two dopest artists in the game to me right now both hail from our friendly neighbor to the north, Canada. Yeah, yeah, I still love all the usual folks I listen to, but in the past few months, I’ve been bumping nothing but Drake’s So Far Gone and Shad’s The Old Prince Still Lives At Home. Even though it’s been available up north for a minute, Shad’s album is finally dropping here in the States on June 30th. I really can’t recommend it enough…and those songs are like 2-4 years old now. Wait till you hear the new ish.
And if you need any convincing that SK is dope, peep this…possibly the illest freeverse ever:
I’m sorry…WHAT?!!?!? Incredible every time.
Hahaha MP & Tor are fools for this one. Seeing Tor get his Rocky on is hyping me up for their upcoming album, Double Barrel, which drops on June 2nd on Duck Down (what up to the brothers ‘Ha!). For all those complaining about a lack of that classic NYC boom-bap griminess in today’s music scene, this LP is gonna smack the ish out you.
If you missed the Wale/Colin Munroe show at Neumos here in Seattle from the end of last month, never fear, Hugh from BlogsIsWatching has your back. He linked up with Jason Hakala, Same Bae, James Chong, and Cahn Solo to produce this excellent clip of Wale’s introduction and the first track, “Breakdown.” More clips will be coming soon…