Well I did manage to get a new computer. I wound up getting the computer like 3 weeks ago. Only thing bad about it so far is the internet connection can be buggy at times. But other than that I love it. Anywho, I haven't update the blog because Im really busy (school, work, and work at school) shit I hardly got time to make beats. Also I'm sick of rap. Seriously this shit is getting lame. I mean seriously rappers dissing basketball players? 50 out to get Lil Bow Wow? NYOIL bitching about Nas' song "Be A Nigger Too"? Whats wrong with the game? Especially since we are in a time of importance right now. Shit it feels like the 1960's all over again. The blatant police brutality (they let them pigs walk? wtf!) and no one is doing shit about it. These fucking musicians/rappers that we look up too are not saying shit about it. They too busy trying to go platinum or trying to so called "change the game" which is just another ploy to go platinum (I see you niggas). So right now I'm saying fuck rap (although I'm listening to Ghostface right now) or fuck rappers rather. Theres a genocide going on in Darfur but niggas not rapping about that. What happened to the issues? This felt like a good year for rap but with so much going on, it feels like just another year. I wanna get excited again, I wanna break shit, I want to feel like I'm supposed to be a better person. Now as a rapper (sort of) if someone would tell me that I would tell them "Fuck you looking at me for directions for?". But now I understand the (semi) responsiblity rappers have to the community. I'm not saying all of them should be kicking knowledge, I'm just saying I miss the golden era of rap 87-98 and we'll never get that back. I just got to face it rappers are cowards.
-Millionaire

I heard about this cd about late last year. All the heads on Sohh.com were bragging about how great of an album this was. Usually the niggas on Sohh.com are either too much into the music to give a decent reveiw or they don't really listen enough to give a good review. With that being said, fuck "The Cool" this shit was album of the year, I really need to change my chart.
Now Exile has been around for sometime, I've heard about doing doing a beat battle at Beat Society (speaking of beat battles, I got some shit to tell you guys) and he did the infamous "Pearly Gates" song for Mobb Deep (best song on that garbage ass cd). Blu on the other hand is a rapper from Cali. Normally I wouldn't fuck with it because dudes on the West Coast don't really appeal to me and its not because they are from the west coast, its usually in the flow, choice of beats, and delivery. But I heard him rap like once and I thought he was cool, but I really didn't pay attention.
Dude is a beast! His flow is kinda like Lupe on "The Instrumental". Throughout the whole cd as I was paying attention to his words I was just like, "Wow", "Damn", and (insert "oooohhhhh shit" face), especially on the introduction "My World". Don't even get me started on Exile's beats. If you like "Pearly Gates" then pop in this cd and sit back and kick it. All of the beats are diverse (I know samples for two of them, I sampled them before) and the drums are so so crisp. Niggas always talk about how hip hop is dead. Well if you believe that shit you havent heard this shit. This shit got me more excited than sir Jay Electronica and you mofos know how excited I am about him. With that said go cop "Below The Heavens" by Blu and Exile and keep real hip hop alive or grown folks hip hop rather.

Jay Electronica is on Nas' "Nigger" album. Read it here

Madlib, Madlib, Madlib
He's actually the reason I make beats today, well not make beats but he had a HEAVY influence on what the machine I picked.
I remember when I first heard about Madlib it was in a Scratch Magazine article. After reading the article, I quickly went out and bought The Further Adventures of Lord Quas. I bumped that shit on the regular (can't do it so much, my disc is scratched now; isn't that ironic?).
I had knowledge of him before that article though because I went and bought Madvillany. After finding out he produced it, my favorite joint on there "Raid", I really wanted to know more about him. In the article he said that he used a Boss Sp 303 to make most of the beats. I was like damn, I wanna be like this guy.
Now lets not forget, I'm a total Wu-Stan. So when I heard that shit he did with Ghostface, the "Block Rocks" joint, I went nuts. I'm still trying to figure out what is he sampling. Which will bring me to another point I will make in another blog. But Madlib, that dude, don't forget, loop digga. He even outshined, J Dilla on the beats on the Jaylib joint in my opinion (Dilla got him on rhymes though). He just flips so many styles and it seems like he's not even trying. He even laced Erykah Badu something terrible. God. Madlib, top 10 producer, fuck your favorite.

You guys should have saw this coming, I've been talking about sir Jay Electronica for a minute. To go on some Act 1 or Eardrum type shit, I first heard of Jay Electronica back in 2004 I believe. Ghostface is my favorite emcee of all time so I have the Source magazine where he is on the cover. After looking through the articles I went to the unsigned hype column and guess who was there.

I was reading about dude through this article and was like "damn dude must be hot". I spent the longest time trying to figure out how to get a hold of this cd that the source got a change to listen to. I never did get a chance to get that cd.

But as the future would have it, Mr. Electronica would emerge on the internet. I was doing my usual readings of the posts at Sohh.com and saw someone post the name, Jay Electronica. I then thought back to my old source magazine, read it again real quick and downloaded that shit. Since then I've been sucked in. Theres nothing I haven't heard from dude, with the exception of the infamous "War With The Dragon" mixtape. But dude is fire, if you haven't checked him, what the fuck are you waiting for?

I don't know what to say. I will say that I am very intune with Miss Erykah. I think that she is a wonderful artist. With that said, who has listened to New AmErykah? Well I did and I'm already looking forward to the second disc coming out in June.
Basically this album is straight, straight, straight hip hop. I personally think that this is the most hip hop album to come out in the last couple of months or this year at least. She got Madlib, Sa-Ra, 9th Wonder and someone else (i forgot whom) on the boards. Personally after hearing her and Madlib I think that they should do an album together on some Liberation type shit. This album reminds me of Baduizm and Madvillian all messed together. Picture Erykah singing over shit like "Fancy Clown" or "All Caps" and thats what you get from this. I will say that if you don't buy this album you should at least hear "The Healer", "Me", "Soldier", "Master Teacher" (nice Curtis Mayfield flip), and "That Hump".

Ummm I haven't updated in a month. It was done intentionally, sorry. Actually if you noticed hip hop has kinda been on a stand still for the last month. I know the blog is about the beats and rhymes of my life but hasn't been any beating or rhyming in a while lol. But We Got It For Cheap Vol 3 has came out maybe I should review that. So now I'll start reviewinig cds and such. Also I have this idea of like artist of the week and I already know my first one. Thats for viewing!

PS: I won't go on hiatus like that again without giving some type of conformation that I haven't died or something tragic.

This dude is a problem for the rap game and I found some of his newest work called A Prayer For Michael Vick and T.I.. He is so dope!