Jammin on the 1

Ever wonder why Dubya proclaimed June to be "Black Music Month"?

As Curtis once exclaimed on Heat (personal fave from GRODT), "Its hot out in this b*tch, thats a good enough reason" Apparently ITunes feels the same way.


ITunes is inviting you to check out the following artists in an Apple Flagship Store near you for free99. First come, first serve so get there on Anglo Time!!!

6/01, 3:00 p.m., Tiffany Evans - SoHo, NYC
6/02, 7:00 p.m., Malcolm Jamal Warner - 3rd Street Promenade, LA
6/06, 7:00 p.m., Dwele - Somerset, Troy (MI)
6/09, 7:00 p.m., Wyclef Jean - SoHo, NYC
6/09, 7:00 p.m., Janelle Monae - Perimeter, Atlanta
6/12, 7:00 p.m., Marvin Sapp - Michigan Avenue, Chicago
6/13, 7:00 p.m., Mike Phillips - SoHo, NYC
6/15, 7:00 p.m., Yung Berg - North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
6/15, 3:00 p.m., Mike Phillips - Lenox Square, Atlanta
6/16, 7:00 p.m., B.o.B. - Lenox Square, Atlanta
6/17, 7:00 p.m., Anthony David - Perimeter, Atlanta
6/19, 7:00 p.m., Goapele - San Francisco
6/20, 7:00 p.m., Vaughn Anthony - SoHo, NYC
6/20, 7:00 p.m., MC Lyte - 3rd Street Promenade, LA
6/21, 7:00 p.m., David Banner - 3rd Street Promenade, LA
6/23, 7:00 p.m., Pastor Troy/Killer Mike - Lenox Square, Atlanta
6/25, 9:00 p.m., DJ Irie - Lincoln Road, Miami
6/26, 7:00 p.m., Talib Kweli - SoHo, NYC
6/26, 7:00 p.m., Mistah F.A.B. - San Francisco
6/28, 7:00 p.m., Michelle Williams - Michigan Avenue, Chicago
6/28, 7:00 p.m., David Banner - Lenox Square, Atlanta
6/30, 7:00 p.m., E-40 - San Francisco

No Wale love out in Columbia, MD!? Maybe next year...

Synesthesia

N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds

Spoke too soon. Got the group rip. Click the album cover and disfruta.

Taxation Without Representation, Pt. 3

If you aint in the city of Brotherly Love this weekend (you'd have to be on dope or dog food not to be), the District has a pretty nice lineup in-store.


solSource Presents J*DaVeY
Thursday, June 05, 2008
7:00 PM - 1:30 AM
RSVP: http://jdaveybc.eventbrite.com/?discount=fusicology for discounted tickets
$15

Bohemian Caverns
2001 11th Street NW
Washington, DC


First Class Fridays Presents WALE
Featuring DJ Premonition, DJ SNS & DJ Quiksilva
Friday, June 06, 2008
10:00 PM - 3:00 AM

FUR Nightclub
33 Patterson Street NW
Washington, DC


Hennessy Presents Kiss n Grind with DJ Rashida & Vikter Duplaix
Saturday, June 07, 2008
10:00 PM - 3:00 AM
RSVP: dc@fusicology.com for complimentary access.
Oh yeah... and complimentary Henny for all you niggas!
Vikter Duplaix - I'll Do It For U

Liv
2001 11th Street NW
above Bohemian Caverns
Washington, DC 20001


Scheme Magazine Presents Live at the Renaissance: Sneakerbox Pre-Party
Featuring The Cool Kids
Sunday, June 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
No Cover

The Space
903 North St. NW
Washington, DC


MN8 Presents The Cool Kids & Che Grand
Sunday, June 08, 2008
$15

Black Cat
1811 14th Street NW
Washington, DC

I heard you were looking for me...

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

Yeah, you have it already. At least you should. Well, this is the OFFICIAL group-rip. So it's better quality and the tracks are all correct. Real recognize real.

The new N.E.R.D. album leaked too, but it won't be put up till the group rip drops. Get it from somewhere else till then. ;-)

Since not much changed between the leaked version and this one, I gotta say, Weezy is the Salvador Dali of hip-hop. You cannot deny his greatness--actually, you could, which is why he's the Dali of rap. I'll let you wiki and youtube Dali, but the dude was an artistic visionary whose surreal work barely trumped his eccentric personality. An interview with Dali, you could expect to hear him say things that made little to no sense... like, say, Young Carter?

I mean really, "A Milli" is unbridled lunatic genius.

"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed through the pencil and leak on the sheet of the tablet in my mind, cuz I don't write ish cuz I don't got time."

Really Weezy? If you thought that was a dumb line, you sleep.

"Dr. Carter" might be one of Wayne's greatest songs ever. "Shoot Me Down" is prolly my second favorite Weezy song after "Shooter". Perhaps one of his greatest lines was

"Watch me stand on the world as I sit in the throne, and if I jump, I'ma fly and look into the eagle's eye and say 'I am looking like you, why?'"

That line goes hard. Oh yeah, then there's that song when Old Carter lyrically christens Young Carter which was kind of a big deal as far as hip-hop goes. (Sidenote: why does Hov's verse go so hard? Weezy didn't even touch Hov on that track.)

I don't wanna call this album classic. But Weezy has become an entity. Lyrically, he's become much more like Ghostface than Jigga. Years from now, when we begin to categorize rappers like we do other artists, Weezy's surreality and stream-of-consciousness flow will make scholars think more Pretty Toney than H to the Izzo. I wonder if Weezy or Ghost realize this?

You bring the basket

The Roots Picnic is this Saturday and it's got all the cool kids in a tizzy, but the pre-picnic show is Friday night and, in addition to the Roots crew, features The Randy Watson Experience (made up of ?uest, Bilal, and James Poyser), Santogold, and my future fiancee Janelle Monae.

Needless to say, I'm still deciding on whether I wanna go to the Roots Picnic, but I copped these jawns ASAP!

"Sed" is "Thirst" in Spanish.

Like I said, Tha Carter 3 leaked this weekend. We haven't put it up yet cuz I haven't come across a retail version yet, but until then, let's discuss Pitbull. I really feel like he's top 5 most slept on rappers of our time. The nigga can rap, much better than the club joints he does with Lil Jon.

Lil' Wayne ft. T-Pain and Pitbull - Got Money (Remix)

Henny & Apple Juice

The new joint from Ms. Happy Juice aka Mrs. David Kenneth.


Keri Hilson - Energy

They call it "Rave Rap"

Song and video have been out for a while, but listening to "The Skit" off Wale's latest, it reminded me of this jawn.

This ish right here...

Umm, so I'm doing internet research to see if I can find Weezy's latest wherever the dam leaks, and I happen on an (apparently) fake version of Tha Carter 3. It has 12 songs, many tracks we all know are gonna be on the album. Then there's this song called "Hello New Orleans" ft. Jay-Z. You know I jump straight to that. I got 5:50 of this:

Lil Wayne ft. Jay-Z - Hello New Orleans

After about 90 seconds, I gave up all hope of hearing anyone, much less Jay or Weezy, say anything. I then began to wonder if the beat began to change or was I just realizing that the beat was indeed Electronic Polka-HipHop. If so, this might be the greatest genre-fusion since... 2 days before never.

Umm, chris&dave?

P.S. And you don't even wanna know what the track "Grand Opening, Grand Closing" sounded like.

The Carters

Lil Wayne ft. Jay-Z - Mr. Carter

Tha Carter 3 hasn't hit any of the seven internets yet, but I'll be surprised if it doesn't leak in its entirety by Monday. Until then, enjoy the family reunion.

Pic lifted blatantly off NahRight.

Like I lost my keys

Wale hosts the DC installment of Keys 2 The City. Features all the District voices. This is a really great look. DMV stand up!

Why You Wanna Go And Do That Love, Huh?

Remember a Chicagoan I introduced you to a while back by the name of Mic Terror? I think Jeff anonymously called him a coon actually lol. But thats neither here nor there.

Apparently we've returned to the days of hater-hop a la De La's Stakes Is High, when the conscious/intellectual/neosoul underground hip hop scene reveled in 8 Mile battles and taking pot shots at Puff's shiny suits and "commercial" hip hop. I aint really clowning em cuz my backpack ass was on it too. At some point, all of those luminaries turned 30 without major label deals and either fell off (De La & Wu-Tang), found Kanye and success at 35 (Common & Talib), or started releasing better movies than albums (Mos Def). Next came the mixtape craze of '02 and suddenly the new underground, was merely unsigned replicas of mainstream artists(G-Unit & Jody Breeze). Then came new & improved Weezy, the 7 internets (myspace, youtube, itunes) and the adult contemporization of Jay-Z. The result being a new era where major labels are like casinos, the underground consists of anybody with over 10000 myspace friends and a recording setup, and the only people buying albums are those who dont have macbooks.

As the best of the internet's avant garde have become overnight sensations, and the mainstream's avant garde have become DIY icons, fossilized backpackers and irrelevant gangster rappers aint feelin it. (all the while the South is jammin on posse remixes)

In the blog-hyped WWE of hiphop, Chicago's Mic Terror and NY's (or Israel or Afghanistan or something) Mazzi are verbally (and visually) sparring over Mazzi's Lesson A which takes potshots at The Cool Kids, Jay Electronica and anyone who ever rapped in selvedge denim (10 points if its colored). Somehow this lame got Q-Tip to weigh in as well. Enjoy the saga.

Mazzi - Lesson A


Mazzi - Lesson B


Mic Terror - Previewing Lesson C to Ruby Hornet


Mic Terror - Lesson C


Mazzi - Class Dismissed


Honestly, I'm riding with Mic Terror on this joint, Chi-town support or not, the nigga killed it. After that phone call tho, I really need my man to finish it. Its bad enough that he responded to the first track in the first place but that call just aint a good way to leave things. Your thoughts?

Word to the Harding Test

Though I am a sucka for them D's from the original, the head up top is voting for version 2... Which would you rather see in retarded rotation on your favorite video outlet?

1.3


1.2


Originator '99 feat. Jaz

Like Old Folks Pissin, Guess It All Depends

Growing up in a home with a crack addicted relative, I can tell you second hand (I didnt hit the glass dick, he did) that the rock form of coke & baking soda is hands down the worst thing you can do to your career (unless you recover, smash Rocky's wife, and land a VH1 show). Musicians have been nodding on that boy (slang for heroin) for years, producing classic music, and in a number of cases (Ray Charles) recovering! But crack is a completely different beast. Just ask Whitney's vocal chords and Flavor Flav's face!!!

Anywho, when rappers begin referring to addction as being "Amy Wined-out" (see Fabolous) its clear that our favorite britsoulster of '07 is down for the count.

When you go from


to wearing adult diapers



its time to re-evaluate your addictions of choice. I discovered an 8th internet... in Germany, trying to find these pics. If you like gossip and speak das boot, I suggest you check em out. Enjoy.

Catch Me in Adams Morgan

If you're here


this weekend... you should be here as well.


need I say more?

Reggae Soul

Jazmine Sullivan - I Need You Bad

I've had this for a minute, but I read somewhere that this is now officially a single, so, since I'm not putting this on the next installment of Real Niggas Light Candles, why not spread the love and contribute to a hype-worthy artist? And yeah, that's Missy Elliot cosigning her in the beginning and at the bridge.

I really need to stop playing and finish Vol. 3 so I can let some of these extra joints out. But here's another track from her that I won't be putting onto anything.

Jazmine Sullivan - Pressure

Respect mah authoritah.

Nothing From Nothing Leaves... Something?

Click here or click the album cover. It's a big file.

Judging by the sheer volume of internet cosigners, I think it's safe to say Wale has officially arrived.

I think Pusha T said it best: Live nigga rap is back.

Live From the 410?

Kid Sister x Snoop from The Wire = Rye Rye

If B-More Club is your thing... get familiar.

These Are Our Heroes

If the Philadelphian birthplace or the Deion Sanders suits didnt establish it, Kobe Bryant is officially a nigga.

Good Answer, Keri Pt. 2

Usher's Moving Mountains is like the like only video to ever actually continue a "to be continued..." video, and probably the most expensive green screen masterpiece since this joint.