Here’s a new collaboration between two Vancouver ventures, Finale Design and The Urban Renewal Project. Together they’ve put together a t-shirt and mixtape package for all you hip-hop heads out there as it shows love to the culture. As mentioned the package also includes a mixtape which is mixted by DJ Sage of the Urban Renewal Project. The front of the shirt (pictured above) features some of the dopest DJs in the history and if you didn’t know who the four DJs are, they are DJ Premier, Eric B, Pete Rock and DJ Jazzy Jeff. The back of the shirt (pictured below) features the MCs that worked in tandem with these DJs and they include Guru, Rakim, C.L. Smooth and Will Smith. Pretty fresh design. To cop the shirt hit up www.urbanrenewalproject.net.
New video for Lloyd’s single “Girls Around The World”. The song features some raps by Weezy aka Lil Wayne and is off of the upcoming album from Lloyd called Lessons in Love. Video directed by Hype Williams, if you don’t know who dude is then you need to hit wikipedia and get your learn on. Gotta say Lloyd with long straightened hair, kinda scary. Just puttin’ that shit out there. This song definitely has a feel and cross between Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” beat with 112’s “Dance With Me” melodies. Listen to Slim’s melodics on that 112 song and tell me Lloyd ain’t copying it. But yo this song is pretty hot so I gotta give it up.
So a bit of a change up to our Throwback Thursday. In the past we would post a current Hip Hop or RnB song and post the sample after the jump. We’ll continue to do that here and there, but we decided it was time to update the format a bit and post old song joints that we enjoyed back in the day on the Throwback Thursday posts. With that said the format will be intro’d this week.
The early ’90s brought us some great movies, New Jack City, Menace II Society and Juice to name a few. With these great movies came great soundtracks, unlike today, movie soundtracks were actually really good. My favorite all time soundtrack was and still is Juice. Personal favorites off that soundtrack included Naughty by Nature’s “Uptown Anthem”, Eric B & Rakim’s “Juice”, Cypress Hill’s “Shoot’em Up” and Teddy Riley & Tammy Lucas “Is It Good To You”. That song is still one of my favorites to this day. The New Jack Swing era…ahhhh those were the days. Check the video and go back in a time warp to 1992. This version is actually different then the soundtrack version as the beat is slightly switched up and this version also features Wreckx-N-Effect
New music from Big Boi featuring Andre 3000 and Raekwon, song is called “Royal Flush”. The last time these three hooked up they banged out a pretty hard track “Skew It on the Bar-B” off of the ‘98 album Aquemini.
The second track we have posted is collab between RnB singer Lloyd with Lil’ Wayne for the new track “Girls All Around The World”. This track samples Eric B and Rakim’s classic joint “Paid in Full”. The last time these two got together they dropped the smash single “You” off of Lloyd’s Street Love album.
Big Boi featuring Andre 3000 and Raekwon “Royal Flush”
Lloyd featuring Lil’ Wayne “Girls All Around the World”
