All I do is Winamp

Ayo $tarlito - can you plz put Step Brothers 2 on Amazon or even Bandcamp for doz dat don't do iTunes but still wanna chuck a few quid your way? Consider it a personal favour to me for riding for your music during those couple of dark, dark years when most of these feckless bloggers were swearin' that Main Attraktionz and SpaceGhostPurp had next in the Rap-de-Rap game.

$tarlito & Don Trip - Paper, Rock, Scissors
(From Step Brothers 2 album; 2013)


Is it just me or has Don Trip finally stopped RAPPIN' WITH SO MUCH EMPHASIIIIIS this year? His flow is so much easier on the ear on this, Caesar and Brutus, and No Rear View from Cold Turkey.

Gringo Bangz

Is Kap G & Jeezy's Jose Got Them Tacos remix the greatest song to stereotype our Mexican brothers since Illegal Alien by Phil Collins? The man from Del Martorialist he say YES!

Kap G ft. Young Jeezy - Jose Got Them Tacos remix
(From Jose Got Them Tacos remix single; 2013)



Props to Kap G for being out chea droppin' jams after South Park Mexican ruined the reputation of all vato rappers a decade ago. Song is far more effective and menacing than its original incarnation now Drumma Boy has slowed the tempo down a touch and added a Jeezy verse slap dab in the middle. I'm assuming this one's officially "a thing" now it's being sold on iTunes and Amazon?

"If you find a 50 in here, I'm pussy!"

Johnny Cinco's manager really shouldn't bother shooting an official video for his client's song that's already surpassed Wayne & 2 Chainz's Rich As Fuck at its own concept at a fraction of the cost and is now beginning to usurp My N*ggas from its spot as 2013's best jam that whte ppl can't ever sing along to in public; why eat into your own profit margin with an expensive official promo for They Gave The Wrong N*gga Money when the lyrics/montage clip your team uploaded to YouTube in august has already captured the song's essence in a way that a generic Rap video with Johnny faux-flossin' in rented cars and hired models never could?

"Yeah, I can pull up in that Phantom, might turn your hoe to a chauffeur
They gave the wrong young n*gga money, spend 60 thou' on my sofa"

Johnny Cinco - They Gave The Wrong N*gga Money
(From the internet; 2013)


Song sounds like what Future might've come up with had he been asked to contribute a song to the Djanjo Unchained soundtrack which has got me thinking : you know how Cam'Ron was talking about his movie deal with Netflix on The Breakfast Club last week? He should direct a Spaghetti Western called They Gave The Wrong Young N*gga Money with Johnny Cinco's song as its main theme. The plot would involve Cam accidentally driving his Lamborghini into a time wormhole on the Jersey turnpike which ends up in a dusty wild west town full of pilgrims being besieged by Mexican bandits in 1780. Cam could ride around on a horse wearing a True Religion Canadaian tuxedo making it rain on the town's folk, would fend off the bandits by doing drive-bys at noon on them with his Lambo, and the movie would combine elements of Killa Season, the original Django, Back To The Future, Boss N*gger and The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Sound good? Hold your horses because it gets even better : Hell Rell could come out of thespian retirement to play the Doc Emmett Brown nutty professor character who eventually finds a loophole in the 4th dimension to bring Cam back home to 2013. Greenlight this shit now plz!

We worldwide, we never heard you bloggers

It was inevitable my favourite song on Freeway & The Jacka's mixtape-before-the-album would be a RobLo production, what's slightly unexpected is that the aforementioned RobLo production would sound like a great lost Ayatollah instrumental recorded especially for Tragedy Khadafi sometime around the mid noughties. So bizarre to hear the words "it's The Roc-Mob Figaz, we sure to deliver!" on a song :

Freeway & The Jacka - They Don't Know
(From Write My Wrongs mixtape; 2013)


Ya boy Shipley NonStop right chea was just looking at the track listing for Freeway & Jacka's forthcoming Highway Robbery album on Amazon and noticed that Husalah and Paul Wall are both featured on a song called One; could it be that the slap from their 2010 studio session footage is finally getting a release? Snippet sez not (-_-;).

Lakim Shabazz! Eminem! Eminem! Lakim Shabazz!

Hi all you racists, video game addicts, and Odd Future members who make up Eminem's fanbase in 2013. On the off chance you were wondering who that Lakim Shabazz bloke Eminem rhymes about on his new song is then you could maybe check out this 2011 post I made about his two greatest non-album cuts We Got The Funk and Your Arms Too Short To Box With God for some context and then download both songs since I've just re-upped them as a RAR file :

~~~> DOWNLOAD HERE <~~~
Bet Aaron Fuchs is cursing himself right now for never bothering to put either of Lakim's albums on iTunes, Amazon or Spotify, huh?

Reasons why I love YouTube # 48

Has there ever been a greater tragedy on the Rap-internet than the loss of Fresh Squad's legendary original "Crank Dat" In Da Hood clip which featured heavily in Soulja Boy's official Crank That video? More than just teaching us the appropriate moves for every single line and steel drum reverberation in the song, it served as important a documentation of noughties Hip Hop kulcha as any of the Rock Steady Crew's scenes in Style Wars, Wild Style and Beat Street are to the eighties.

You could also view it as a riposte to Nas' Hip Hop Is Dead publicity stunt, so while we should mourn such historic footage going A.W.O.L from YouTube hitherto to return, we should also cherish the solitary Fresh Squad "Crank Dat" routine video which remains on the 'Tube so that future generations will always understand the reason why four teenagers Superman-ing Dat Hoe in public to Soulja Boy's second classic single better embodies the spirit of Hip Hop than any of the ill-advised dogshit Nas released between Thief's Theme and his first good song in eight years Reach Out :


Say what you want about the respective merits of Soulja Boy and Nas, but at least Soulja Boy isn't responsible for Make The World Go Round's existence, nor is his infamous "Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we'd still be in Africa, we wouldn't be here to get this ice and tattoos!" comment quite as retarded as the marketing campaign surrounding Nas' Dreaded-N-Word title album which hit its zenith of tastelessness with his ham-brained explanation of the album's concept at the 2008 Grammys whilst wearing a faux-Affliction t-shirt emblazoned with an N-bomb.

Late pass

"N*ggas wanna be actors, I got a scene for 'em
Pull out the M-16 on him and call it Lean On 'Em"

Agallah ft. Ike Eyes & Ruck - N.Y.C
(From Da Mixtape Iz The Album; 2001)


Fanx to that fella who put me onto N.Y.C last week because early '00s Agallah & Sean P over Axelrod samples is so significant. How come Game Recordings didn't put this song out on 12" when Shecky's whole shtick from 1999 to 2002 was releasing Agallah's best mixtape cuts as singles?

So, this is the post where we attempt to finally exhaust ourselves of Agallah/8-Off puns. I may have peaked already since all I've got left in my arsenal is Agallah The Donald Fisher, Sergio "8-Off" Aguero, and Agallah The Dom Passantino.

And he wrote WAR next to Fat Albert!

Back in the 90s, you'd only ever hear here snippets of dialogue from Style Wars on unlistenable Bomb Records turntablist compilations or Arsonists albums. Thankfully the greatest documentary of the 80s has been reclaimed by rap artistes who Wicked22, AC Tha Program Director, and German 4 elements enthusiasts don't listen to so you can now hear Cap's most infamous quotables on songs slightly more befitting of the trifest ginger white boy in the history of Morris Park :

DB Tha General - Turnt Out
(From Motel 6 album; 2013)


Disappointing that DB didn't pay homage to Cap in the video by sporting a Lucille Ball hairdo, but I've not heard him tap into his mobb musik roots this thoroughly since Bitch Azz N*gga.