The Audacity of Dope

(best stillframe image ever)

While on tour in Asia, Bobby Ray decided to team up with Motion Family, some local Singapore ladies, and the most baller pool/view combo you’ve ever seen for some quick visuals to his mixtape track, “High Life.”

This is how you stunt.

While J. Moore repped Seattle to the fullest with Shabazz Palaces at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, I held down the SNSS fort with the intern, Young Nick (aka Beeba) back here in the 6.  Another week, another fun show full of great music.  This time, we highlighted work from folks like Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Don Trip, Purple HeArts, The Black Opera, Nikki Jean, The Weeknd, Tall Black Guy, and more.  Of course we also played the underground hero, Big K.R.I.T., who I got the honor of choppin’ it up with at our Summer Jam on Saturday.  Peace to his crew (Dutch, Wally, & Sant) and shout to the other homies we ran into, B.o.B, Playboy Tre, B. Rich, and TJ!

All that said, I think another artist we played, TiRon, summed it up the nicest at the end of his verse on the show:

“thinkin’ too much…enjoy the moment.”

Show #320 (7-17-11)

1. Big Sean ft. Kanye West & Roscoe Dash – “Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay”
2. Jay Rock ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Hood Gone Love It”
3. Don Trip – “Letter 2 My Son”
4. Pusha T ft. Tyler, The Creator – “Trouble On My Mind”
5. Neema ft. Sol & Lace Cadence – “Black Roses (It’s Over)” (Local Music)
6. Sol – “This Sh*t” (Local Music)
7. Common ft. Nas – “Ghetto Dreams”
8. Freeway – “Listen”
9. Kendrick Lamar ft. Colin Munroe – “No Make Up (Her Vice)”
10. N.E.R.D. – “Run To The Sun” (Throwback of the Week)
11. Frank Ocean – “Nature Feels”
12. Purple HeArts – “Know Go”
13. The Black Opera – “Timeline”
14. Big K.R.I.T. – “Highs & Lows”
15. Dom Kennedy & Curren$y – “Hennessy Beach”
16. CyHi Da Prynce ft. Big Sean – “Woopty Doo”
17. Nikki Jean ft. Lupe Fiasco & Black Thought – “Million Star Motel”
18. The Weeknd – “High For This”
19. Serge Severe ft. Theory Hazit & Illmaculate – “Combinations Like This” (Local Music)
20. Random Axe – “Understand This”
21. Rapsody ft. Tab One, Charlie Smarts, & Phonte – “One Time”
22. TiRon & Ayomari – “Midsommar Dream”
23. Tall Black Guy ft. Primeridian – “Love Hurts”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?6c9bfa3ttk1f39n
(back up / streaming link – http://hulkshare.com/dtfcfdyuins6)
(2nd back up – http://www.zshare.net/audio/92760309e4dbaefd/)

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.

A cookie goes to the first person who can name Emilio’s last rap moniker…if you know it, you’ve been listening to him for at least a few years and you already know this tape is fire.  For the rest of you slowpokes, peep game:

Download here.

The homeboy Jon Jon is currently down in Los Angeles learning all sorts of incredible film-making techniques to take his productions to the next level, so I think he’s falling back from music videos for a little while.  That said, he’s got a few more in the stash, starting with the debut video for B.o.B’s right hand man, and all around funny guy/dope MC/crazy hook writer, Playboy Tre.  What up fellas?!

Mitch: Back in April we found out by a tweet from Lupe that himself, along with a few other notable emcees, would join forces to create the All City Chess Club, the first “Super Group” since Wu-Tang that has people really talking. Well here we have the first official drop from the group minus/plus a few members. Indulge…

All City Chess Club – Beamin’ Remix

Not only did Ms. Monae hook up a dope remix to her “Tightrope” record, but she also got the crew together for a quick video.  Just for the record, has anyone seen her guitar player, Kellindo, and Andre3000 in the same room at the same time?

This is actually one of my favorite songs from Bobby Ray and while I was disappointed to see it not make the album, at least they shot some quick viral visuals for it.  As for the topic at hand, you could write an interesting psychological analysis of girls that become models.  That’s gotta be a weird life decision to reconcile with yourself as you get older.  But for the rest of us, at least they’re fun to look at…

Interview coming soon…

Friday!  See y’all there…

Oh, and I believe we’ll be interviewing Lu and B.o.B…let me know if you have any questions we should ask ’em.

Visually, I’m not sure the video is up to par with “I’ll Be In The Sky,” or as creative as “Autotune,” but can you really go wrong when you just cast a million cute girls?  Nope!  I’m really glad this record is proving to be Bobby Ray’s first hit.  We played it early on Sound Session and to see it get added to rotation on stations across the country is a beautiful thing.