Camel Face crosses the pond

Jay-Z - Live at Glastonbury

The whole live set. You love me. I know.

Now that I'm successful, you pull this...?

Is There Any Love - Kid Cudi ft. Wale

New ish from Kid Cudi with a verse from Wale. It's sposed to be on Cudi's upcoming mixtape.

I'm quietly considering retiring my Wale posts. Some of yall know, but I've scaled back a lot on Wale posts recently. There are plenty of other spots to catch his new joints now. Not to mention, he's now officially signed, and has been featured in numerous print and online publications. For those of you that have been riding with You Hype! Sike Nah... back when I first put yall onto homey, yall know the deal. Back when homeboy was riding with Kenny Burns, a google search for "Wale" would ask "Do you mean 'whale'?" and don't even try to holler at google images. That's all changed now, and I'm happy to claim snob points by saying that I was on the bandwagon way before it was a bandwagon... It was more like a one of them chinese acrobat bicycles where they fit a whole family of immigrants onto one bike--don't ask me, I saw it at the UniverSoul Circus...

But anyways, I digress.

There are plenty other artists who deserve to be hyped, so now that Mr. Folarin is finally getting the respect he deserves by the underground overground, I think I'ma spend more time pubbing folks like Jazmine Sullivan and The Paxtons. That doesn't mean you won't hear about Wale anymore over here. Trust, I'll still drop the ish that needs to be dropped, but don't expect to hear about every time he coughs sneezes or gets caught schmoozing with Hollywood glitterati.

Besides, I got enough people blocking my links nowadays anyway.

and PS, for those who've asked about the kicks: sz. 8.5-10.5, you'll definitely have choice pickings if you're in the 9-10 range.

3,378,902

Apparently we're the 3,378,902 most trafficked site on all seven internets. In the states we're #711,476. Read all about it joe

It ain't tricking if you got it

Our economy sucks right now.

Like a true gentleman

If you didn't know, Jay was booked for this indie-hippie-rock festival in Britain. News of a rapper as the headliner didn't go over well with the old school festival goers. Even supposed heavyweights, like Oasis's Noah Gallagher, had a few well publicized hissy fits about bringing a rapper to the festival. So what does Jay do to answer the critics?

He gives them what they want.

On the sneaktip

I'm thinking about selling off some of my sneaks. I got sizes ranging from 8 to 10.5. (Might have an 11 or 12 somewhere.) I got a good number of SB's I'm willing to get rid of at reasonable prices--Vanilla Ice Blazers anyone?--so holler if you're interested. Lemme know what you want, I'll let you know if I got it.

youhypesikenah@gmail.com

Chuckie Cheese will never be the same

Do not scroll down without watching this.

From my blog to yours

Download

This was released a few months back on some ole "we putting the link up for 4 hours and then we taking it down, get it while you can" type ish. I've had it since then and was sitting on it quietly but after seeing some of yall swagger jacking, I decided to up this. It was part of Lupe's promo for his tour and since he was taking Nikki with him, they went ahead and dropped this to help promote. In case you don't know who Nikki Jean is, she sang the hook to Wasalu's "Hip Hop Saved My Life." Her band, Nouveau Riche, is based outta Philly and we posted their Longtail EP back in February. (Black History Month was kinda heavy over here). And yeah, she's some kinda cute. Youtube and Myspace could fill you in on the rest. Anyway, click the album cover.

It's yours.

Significant Gains

One of my students told me to look him up on youtube. I did. This is him. He freestyled for me once and I battled him on the last day of school. It was fun and he's actually a decent rapper. Southwest stand up!

Edit: found my youngbols Myspace music page. Ha. I luv my kids, yo.

Favorite line? "You sleeping on me? I'll put you under the bed!" My youngbol be spittin!

Maybe yall want this

cuz I know I don't. Link is stolen from the den, sue me. Not interested enough to download and re-up. Click the album cover.

Youtube: Reloaded

I don't know if any of yall remember them "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books from back in the day. I useta love them jawns. Well, tell me why they got the same thing, except it's via youtube. And it features the venerable classic movie The Godfather as the plot basis.

I'm a fan.

I don't think it works right when you embed it, so you might have to watch it directly from youtube.

The Love Below

While becoming re-acquainted with the treasures of my newly-restored hard drive, I came across this joint and after a drunken night at 1223's Wipe Me Wednesdays... I was compelled to share. Sure, Whats Going On is Marvin Gaye's Reasonable Doubt, but if so, I Want You is his Blueprint. An immaculate reinvention of his troubled persona, finding Marvin seemingly desperate to make us identify with his lustful nature despite already resting upon iconic status.

For the samples from Mr. Carter, Sr.'s American Dreamin & G-Unit's I Wanna Get To Know You, see Soon I'll Be Loving You Again & Come Live With Me Angel. Without this classic record, there is no D'Angelo, Maxwell, and most recently, Robin Thicke. If you didn't know, now you do. Enjoy.


Marvin Gaye - I Want You

This is the show and we're not gonna change it...

Pray That Don Imus Never Reads This Blog

So, I'm at the gig being a complete social loafer (word to olin school of biz) via myspace and I stumble across this.


Being that I dont speak spanish, a la Ron Burgundy, I have no idea what this nigga's page, music, or adoring wall of fans are saying, but I hope Mr. Garr can give me some clue. According to wiki, homeboy is from Panama, but I need to know how this nigga managed to stay under the radar and dodge Mr. Sharpton. Lets hope Don "what color is he?" Imus and Mr. O'Reilly dont get a hold of this nigga's myspace page.

Treated Sauce

If you were at my 06' bday party at Bar Italia in the Lou, hosted by southshoresocialclub x BlindI, you might remember this lil nigga on the 1's & 2's



At the time homie was Shawnna of DTP's tour DJ, now he's traveling the world with MIA. Either way, if you haven't heard of Million $ Mano up and down the 7 internets, ur sleep joe. Catch up with these remixes...

Poison (Million $ Mano Remix)
Stronger (Million $ Mano Remix)
Matt & Kim - Its A Fact Remix (feat. Hollywood Holt)
Modjo - Lady (Million $ Mano Remix)
Dey Know (Million $ Mano Remix)
Digitalism - Pogo (Million $ Mano Remix)
Rehab (Million $ Mano Remix)

And if you're still not sold upon downloading these joints... holla at my lil man Woni Choi

Players Rock

So, shame on you if you slept on The In Crowd especially after you heard it here first. Kidz In The Hall are on their A-game as far as mixtapes go, Naledge repping to be the "only rapper that can say he turned down Harvard", and Double-O doing his best College Dropout impersonation with the Make It Last Forever and Dreaming samples. Dont hate on the cover, the concept of flipping early 90's jams into lover's music in time for its release earlier this vday.
Click the cover, joe.


Kidz In The Hall - Geniuses Need Love Too

Snap yo fingers

I love this song because it sounds like folk snap music. The video is equally quirky. I'll post the entire album later.

Jack Bauer

If you know, you know. Thanks ppl.

The Crazy

As strange as it is to watch some of the ish they put on Adult Swim, its even stranger to see a nigga you use to rock poetry nights and hip hop sets with back in high school on Adult Swim. Meet Hollywood Holt.



You might remember him from this joint...

Nonetheless, click the cover for Adult Swim's latest foray into hip hop featuring none other than Holt & The Cool Kids.


Adult Swim - World Wide Renewal Program

Pardon my French

This is the first in a series of off-beat bangers that I hinted about dropping. I'll not make promises that you'll like 'em, cuz honestly, it ain't for everybody, but suffice it to say, this and the other forthcoming drops have my personal seal of approval.

Seeing as many of my most recent album drops have been blocked not long after dropping them, I'll refrain from posting artist and album names, cuz google shuts down the game like Zaphod. Click the album cover to download.