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The Hood Internet “How Purple Can You Go” Ludacris vs Joker & Ginz
Major Lazer ft. Busy Signal & M.I.A. “Sound of Siren”
Lupe Fiasco “What U Want”

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Yesterday M.I.A. leaked her latest track “Theres Space For Ol Dat I See” which will appear on the forthcoming third album, currently no name yet, but apparently schedule for some time in the Spring. Also based on the tweets, it would appear that Rusko is responsible for the production work on this new jam. Expect to hear production work from BlaqStarr, Diplo & Switch and off course we already mentioned Rusko.

Enjoy.

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The Twelves Essential Mix

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Track listing:

Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix)
The Rapture – Sister Saviour (DFA dub)
Phoenix – Fences (accapella)
Cerrone – Look for Love
Kraftwerk – Music Non Stop (vocoder)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Glass Candy – Last Night I Met a Costume
LCD Soundsystem – Nike Run (excerpt)
Yelle – Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix)
Chemical Brothers – Music-Response
Mr. Oizo – Two Takes It
D Train – You’re the One for Me
Metric – Help I’m Alive (The Twelves Remix)
Roger Sanchez – Computabank
Chilly – For Your Love
Dynasty – I Don’t Wanna be a Freak
Radiohead – Reckoner (The Twelves Remix)
Siriusmo – Last Dear
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (accapella)
Zeigeist – Humanitarianism (The Twelves Remix)
Eddie Tour – Up the Glitter
Gaz Nevada – IC Love Affair
Phoenix – Lisztomania (accapella)
Groove Armada – Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
Methusalem – Robotism
Gossip – Standind in the Way of Control (accapella)
Chromatics – I Want Your Love (The Twelves Remix)
Laid Back – White Horse
Metronomy – Radio Ladio
Sparks – Tryouts for the Human Race
M.I.A. – Boyz (The Twelves Remix)
Daft Punk – Voyager
Indeep – Last Night a DJ Saved my Life (accapella)
The Virgins – Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix)
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (The Twelves Remix)
In Flagranti – Just Gazing
Alan Parsons Project – Be Like You (The Twelves Remix)
B.W.H. – Stop
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
Karen O & The Kids – All is Love (The Twelves Remix)
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos (The Twelves Remix)
Patrick Alavi – Power
Michael Jackson – Thriller (Instrumental)
Justice – Stress (siren)
Kano – Ahjia
Mr. Oizo – Gay Dentists
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Cerrone – Give Me Love
Mr. Oizo – Hun
Chic – Everybody Dance
Coldcut – Timber
Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vous
Les Rhythmes Digitales – From Disco to Disco
Alex Gopher – Motorcycle
Nirvana – All Apologies (The Twelves Remix)
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
The Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
Boyz Noize – Arcade Robot
Basement Jaxx – Good Luck (accapella)
The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (The Twelves Remix)
The Twelves – Nightvision (Daft Punk)
La Roux – In For The Kill (The Twelves Remix)

Last night out in the Hollywood Hill, H&M held the launch event for their collaboration line with Jimmy Choo. The event saw a ton of celebrity support, folks like Rasida Jones, Hayden Panettiere, Olivia Wilde, Sheryl Crow, Cat Deeley, Angela Lindvall, Maggie Grace and Mini Andén. In addition to this M.I.A. gave a guest performance for all the guests in attendance. It’s no question that this is one of the most anticipated fashion collaborations, all 200 pieces from the collection will be available in H&M stores globally on November 14th. Why this collection is unique, it’s because for the first time Jimmy Choo has also designed women’s clothing to complement the accessories as well as men’s clothing, shoes, bags and accessories.

Image: H&M Press

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The xx “Basic Space” Sampha Remix
Madonna “Hung Up” Diplo Remix
M.I.A. “Boyz” The Twelves Remix

Pitchfork has recently taken on the dubious task of listing the top 500 tracks of the 2000s, something definitely easier said than done. Their list starts off with N.E.R.D’s “Run To The Sun” and works up to Kid Cudi vs Crookers “Day N Nite”, which honestly I thought might’ve ranked higher, but this remix was just a huge personal favorite of mine.

Their top 20 looks like this:

1. Outkast “B.O.B”
2. LCD Soundsystem “All My Friends”
3. M.I.A. [ft. Bun B and Rich Boy] “Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)”
4. Beyoncé [ft. Jay-Z] “Crazy in Love”
5. Daft Punk “One More Time”
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
7. Missy Elliott “Get Ur Freak On”
8. Radiohead “Idioteque”
9. Animal Collective “My Girls”
10. Arcade Fire”Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”
11. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
12. OutKast “Hey Ya!”
13. LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge”
14. Jay-Z “99 Problems”
15. The Knife “Heartbeats”
16. The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers”
17. Annie “Heartbeat”
18. Hercules and Love Affair “Blind”
19. R. Kelly “Ignition (Remix)”
20. The Walkmen “The Rat”

The top 20 I gotta say is pretty dope with the exception of a few tracks, such as R. Kelly’s “Ignition”, that was some hometown love right there no doubt. But Outkast “B.O.B”, I couldn’t agree more. Think of a track that hits you harder and leaves more of resonating feeling…can’t can ya, cus you’re thinking about how dope this track really is and you’re probably looking it right now…here lemme help you.

Our homies, The Eh! Team Djs, have released a bunch of remixes and edits for downloads and these are not to be slept on.

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Drake vs. Grandtheft “Best I Ever Had” Grandtheft Remix
Amanda Blank “Might Like You Better” Hedspin Remix
Major Lazer vs DJ Illo “Pon De Floor” Illo Daggering M.I.A. Remix
Chester French vs Grandtheft “She Loves Everybody” Grandtheft 7 inch Club Remix

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Of Montreal “Jimmy” M.I.A. Cover
Fred Falke “Back To Stay”
Major Lazer “Pon De Floor” R!M!E Remix

As I was scanning through photos from Time’s World Most Influential People Party, I came across a photo of Oprah and M.I.A. I thought it was great to see these two individuals photographed together. The list also includes President Obama and the First Lady, moot.com founder – Christopher Poole, the founders of twitter.com, Secretary of Energy – Steven Chu, John Legend, Jay Leno, philanthropist - Somamly Mam, the President’s speech writer – Jon Favreau, Brad Pitt and many more. To see the entire list, which actually contains 107 people, click here.

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For this week’s Mixtape Monday, I came across Dj Loveboat mix, ‘Cotonete’.  Not much is known about Dj Loveboat and it may safe to assume his alias has nothing to do with Aaron Spelling’s show.  I did, however, find out that this mixtape was originally dropped on March 23rd in support of Breaklda’s 4th year as a record label.   The playlist consists of bangers, electro pop hits along with a few reworks by Mr. Loveboat himself.  Have a listen and dl the mix here.  Truthfully, I was intrigued as to how Appaloosa’s single, ‘The Day We fell In Love‘  fits into the equation.

01. Messinian – Magic
02. Soulwax – Another Excuse (DFA “Funkytown” Remix)
03. Sidechains – Can’t Love You Babe
04. Ladyhawke – Back of the Van (DJ Loveboat Remix)
05. Walter Jones – Deuteronomy Brown (L-F Edit)
06. Justin Timberlake – Love Stoned (Justice Remix)
07. Kris Menace and Alan Braxe – Lumberjack
08. Britney Spears – Radar (Hot Pink Delorean Remix)
09. Guns and Bombs – Riddle Of Steel (Classixx Version)
10. Messinian – Cant Hide Her
11. Jape – Floating (D.I.M. Remix)
12. Amanda Blank – Get It Now (DJ Loveboat Remix)
13. Drop The Lime – Hear Me (Buraka Som Sistema- DJLVBT Edit)
14. Electric Youth – Lying Still (DJLVBT Edit)
15. Kylie Minogue – Boombox (Revolte Remix)
16. AC Slater – Party Like Us
17. A-Trak – Say Whoa (Boys Noize Remix)
18. Streetlife DJs – We Love the Disco Sound (CutnRub Dub Mix)
19. N.A.S.A – Whatchadoin ft. MIA, Santogold & Spank Rock (Villains rmx)
20. Pase Rock – Get Money Kids (Malente Re-Dub II)
21. Feist – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)
22. Appaloosa – The Day We Fell In Love
23. Dj Loveboat – Outro

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Tons of jams available for download here. Nothing more to say.

Annie “Anthonio” Fred Falke Remix [MP3]
Amanda Blank ft. M.I.A. “Take It Easy” [MP3]
Green Day “Know Your Enemy” [MP3]
La Roux “Quicksand” Mad Decent Remix [MP3]
Private “My Secret Lover” Lifelike Remix [MP3]

Still burnt out from the last few days. Golden Filter, The Presets, Sebastien Tellier, parts of Chairlift (more on this in the review in the coming days). New songs from M.I.A., The Crystal Method (Stream only), Great Northern and a cat by the name of FM Attack from Vancouver producing some disco joints.

Metric “Help I’m Alive” The Twelves Remix
M.I.A. ft. KOVAS “Hit That”
Great Northern “Houses”
FM Attack “Disco Attack”
FM Attack “Take Me Away”

Brooklyn DJ, DJ Jayceeoh, is back with volume 2 of his Super 7 mixtape series. Like the previous, this one is banging and features DJ’s Fashen (PHX), Spider (LA), Bladerunners (BOS), Illo (Ottawa), Excel (PHI), and Vin Sol (SF). If this is the first time your ears have been blessed with this series, the way it works is there’s 7 DJs, each dropping a 10 minute set of their original remixes, edits, blends, etc and fuses the world of hip-hop with electro and an array of other goodness. Too many favorite edits on this to name, the whole damn thing is RIDICULOUS!

Full Track List Below.

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DJ Jayceeoh (NYC)

1. SUPER 7 – Intro
2. My Sweet Summer / Pitbull – Crazy Killer (JayCeeOh Edit)
3. Mann Parish – Boogie Down Bronx (JayCeeOh Edit)
4. Pass That Dutch – Missy Elliot (JayCeeOh Edit)
5. Jackson sisters – Believe in Miracles / Manboogie – Leave your Fears (JayCeeOh Edit)
6. Swizz beats / Diana Ross – My Hero Is a gun / Rob Base – Joy and Pain (JayCeeOh Edit)
7. Midfielf General – Disco Direns / B-beat Girls – For the Same Man (JayCeeOh Edit)
8. Diplo Alt Clown Inst / Twista – Wetter (JayCeeOh Edit)
9. PQ – Jack Yo BFs G (JayCeeOh Edit)
10. Goody! Goody! (JayCeeOh + PQ) – Leggo a Dis One
(myspace.com/jayceeoh, jayceeoh.booking@gmail.com)

DJ Fashen (PHX)

11. Fashen Intro
12. Champion (Catchdubs Jeep Mix) – Kanye West
13. Sunshowers Blend – M.I.A.
14. Wrath Of My Swagger – TI vs. Queen Latifah
15. Gimme The Loot Blend – Notorious BIG
16. Arab Money vs. Shook Ones II Re-Fix – Busta Rhymes vs. Mobb Deep
17. Shook – Fashen
18. Im The Shit Remix – Dj Class Feat. Lil Jon
19. Donna Pops Champagne – Knish Hit Squad
20. Step Into vs. Juicy – Trap House vs. Notorious BIG
21. On The Bugged Tip Blend – Big Daddy Kane vs. G-Dep
22. MVP Blend – Big L vs. Santogold and Jay-Z
23. My President Is Black (DC Remix) – Jay-Z
(myspace.com/djfashen, djfashen.com)

DJ Illo (Ottawa (Canada))

24. Yay Let’s Dance Intro – Dj Illo
25. Don’t Touch Me (Illo Disco Edit) – Busta Rhymes
26. Don’t Touch Me (U-Tern Disco Edit) – Busta Rhymes
27. Shove It (Grandtheft Disco Edit) – Santigold
28. Domino (Illo Remix) – Van Morrison
29. I Go To Work (Illo Remix) – Kool Moe Dee
30. Tribe Vibes (Illo Edit) – Jungle Brothers vs Sinden
(myspace.com/djillo , djillo@djillo.com)

DJ Spider (LA)

31. A-Skillz – Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix)
32. Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe so, Maybe no
33. The New Holidays – Maybe so, maybe no
34. Mountaineers – Apart from This vs. Brand Nubian – Don’t Let It (DJ Spider Remix)
35. Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds Break
36. DJ Spider’s Super 7 Saturday Sample Mix (bunch of songs)
37. Mr Magic – Rappin with Mr. Magic vs. Cherrelle – Saturday Love (DJ Spider Remix)
38. Architecture In Helsinki – Heart it Races (Trizzy’s Tin Can Mix)
39. The Virgins – Rich Girls (Remix by The Beatards, The Twelves & XXXchange) vs Super Lover Cee & Cassanova Rud – I got a good thing (DJ Spider Edit)
40. Roxanne Shante – Wiggle it (DJ Steve1der Remix)
41. LMFAO – I’m In Miami Bitch (Smash Bros Remix – DJs Spider, Steve1der & Mr. Best)
(myspace.com/djspider , djspider1@gmail.com)

DJ Excel (PHI)

42. Cookie Monsterz f. Tyree Cooper – Hip Housin’ (Kid Massive Remix)
43. Eric B & Rakim/Cookie Monsterz – I Know You Got Soul (Excel Edit)
44. Jokers Of The Scene – Baggy Bottom Boys
45. Diplo & Laidback Luke – Hey! (V.01)
46. Shinichi Osawa vs. Salt n Pepa – Push It (Tronik Youth Remix/Excel Says Push It Edit)
47. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler (Jesse Rose Remix)
48. Peter, Bjorn & John – Nothing To Worry About (Steven Bloodbath Remix)
49. Excelara8or – Shake’em Down
(djexcel.com, djexcel@gmail.com)

Bladerunners (BOS)

50. Biggie – Party and BS (BLADERUNNER ReMix)
51. Wu Tang – Mystery of ESG (BLADERUNNER ReMix)
52. Big Daddy Kane – Warm it up Edits (BLADERUNNER EDIT)
53. BLADERUNNERS – Brazilion Edits
54. Herbie Hancock – Rockit (BLADERUNNER EDIT)
55. SoHo – Hot Music (BLADERUNNER EDIT)
(myspace.com/bladerunnerbiz, bladerunnerbooking@gmail.com)

Vin Sol (SF)

56. Vin Sol -Pass the Peas Intro
57. Traxamillion -808 (Vin Sol refix)
58. San Quinn – Blue Dolphin
59. Turf Talk – We All Getting Paid (Vin Sol Remix)
60. Keak da Sneak – Blurpt
61. Trackademicks- Enjoy What You Do
62. Sergio Mendes Brasil ‘88- I’ll Tell U (Vin Sol re-edit)
63. The Jacka,Lee Majors ft.Mistah F.A.B -I’m a Gobot
64. Born and Raised- Bammer Weed
(myspace.com/vinsol , info@vin-sol.com)

On Saturday February 21st, Canada’s very own Kardinal Offishall rolled into town with opening MC Shaun Boothe, also a fellow Canadian. We were fortunate enough to be invited by Live Nation to attend the event. The night started off a slightly delayed, but the venue was definitely getting packed in and there was a semi-Caribbean vibe to it all.

Shaun Boothe kicked things off by welcoming everybody with his rendition of the Canadian National Anthem, which starts off in the manner that we’re all familiar with but quickly changes to a hip-hop version with bangin’ beats. For those not familiar with Shaun Boothe, he’s best known as a dope freestyler, as well he’s known for his “Unauthorized Biography” series, which not only Killahbeez, but thousands of hip-hop blogs out there have given love to as it is one of the most creative things out there, if you’ve never seen it, then check it here. On this night we were treated to him doing the “Unauthorized biography of Bob Marley”, which is the second one in the series. He also dropped his joint “The Reporter” on all the heads out there, check out the music video for the song. His set would end on that note.

Moments went by, when the lights dimmed and the heads in the house knew that Kardinal was about to hit the stage. For all of you that don’t know or have never seen Kardinal Offishall live, well then, let me just tell you this ain’t your average hip-hop concert, as Kardi is known to get live and keep the energy up throughout the whole show. Tonight was no different. He came out hitting folks from all sorts of angles with his energy and quickly going through his rhymes only to switch it up briefly to M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”, and members of the Black Jays, Ro Dolla and Solitaire, joining him on stage as his hypemen. From there they went into CLASSIC Kardi joints such as “Money Jane”, which the original track featured Sean Paul, and doing his chorus on the hood anthem by the Clipse “Grindin’”.

From there he would hit the crowd with tracks from his current album Not 4 Sale. Pretty much getting the crowd wildin’ as he dropped “Burnt” and “Numba 1″. He would honestly keep the crowd live all night, as he once again changed it up and had his DJ change up the pace and play a medley of hip-hop joints such as DMX’s “Party Up”, Bell Biv Devo’s “Poison”, Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” and a few other tracks.

There was no doubt fans of Kardi were leaving the concert satisfied this evening, because like always he brought an energy that is generally lacking at live hip-hop shows. As usual Live Nation does a great job in producing the concert so be sure to hit up www.livenation.com for a list of upcoming shows in your city. Check out some of the songs that were referenced below.

Pictures can all be found on our flickr page.

Kardinal Offishall ft. Keri Hilson “Numba 1″

Shaun Boothe “The Reporter”

DT posted a re-cap of the Grammy Awards Show.  My favorite performance during the evening was “Swagger Like Us”.  Despite a fleet of hip hop heavy weights on stage, nine month pregnant mommy to be M.I.A. held her own and out shined the other artists during the performance.  The lyrics should be replaced with:

“No one got swagger like M.I.A.”

Here’s the my brief re-cap of this years Grammy awards ceremony.

Performances:

• U2 kicks the show off with their newest single “Get On Your Boots” off of the new album No Line on the Horizon.
• Al Green, Keith Urban, Justin Timberlake and Boyz II Men perform together. Boyz II Men playing backup? WTF? Didn’t Boyz II Men release a Motown revival type record this year? Just sayin’ why have them do vocal backing when they did an album of these jams this year. Wack. I was actually watching the pre-Grammy show and it was reported that Chris Brown and Rihanna were no longer atttending, seems that Chris Breezy got himself into a little trouble the night before and is under investigation for an alleged assault. So to fill the time slot I believe this performance was slotted in place last second.
• Coldplay performed “Lost+”. Set starts off with Chris Martin at piano solo and later joined by Jay-Z to spit his verse. Chris cuts that song and goes to the stage and the rest of the band appears and they perform “Viva La Vida”.
• Carrie Underwood performs and to be quite honest I couldn’t hear a thing because all I could do was stare at her incredible legs. Straight up them shits was plain breathtaking.
• Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus perform together. Taylor Swift, clearly has talent. Miley on the other hand not so much. I pretty much thought she was horrible and is it me or does anybody else think she sounds like a man?
• Jonas Brothers perform with…Stevie Wonder??? WTF? This was probably the second worst performance of the night for me coming in right behind Miley.
• One of the performances of the night for me was “Swagger Like Us” with T.I., Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z and a very pregnant M.I.A. The performance started off with M.I.A. doing a verse of “Paper Planes”, the sample of which “Swagger Like Us” came from. When she hit the words “…swagger like us”, out appeared the four gentlemen above. M.I.A.’s outfit choice was really really weird, but I guess her style has alway been out there that and add to the fact that she was due to give birth that very day.
• Paul McCartney featuring Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters on the drums. Performing The Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There”, but Ringo Starr was not to be found on stage.
• Radiohead performance with the USC Trojans Marching band backing, probably one of the better performances of the night for sure.
• T.I. and Justin Timberlake perform “Dead and Gone”
• The Grammys honor and remember Motown legends The Four Tops, doing a medley of songs were Smokie Robinson, Ne-Yo, Jamie Foxx and remaining member of The Four Tops, Duke Fakir.

Awards:

• Jennifer Hudson wins Best R&B album of the year. Raphael Saadiq could’ve won this as well in my opinion, but she deserves it as well.
• Song of the year went to Coldplay for their song “Viva La Vida”.
• This was kind of a “WTF?” moment for me. Best Pop collaboration went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Although the nominees for the category did seem a bit weak.
• Blink 182 members come out together to announce they’re coming back to do work as well as presenting the Best Rock album, which went to Coldplay.
• Best New Artist award went to Adele.
• In another “WTF?” moment, Record of the year went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. On the real, it beat out some deep competition.
• Best Rap Album went to Lil Wayne for Tha Carter III.

One of my favorite moments was during the interview stage on the red carpet. Not sure how many of you caught the E! interviews, but there was a moment where they caught up with T-Pain and he more or less admitted how wack his rhymes are. That was pretty awesome.

See a complete list of winners on www.grammy.com, the actual TV airing didn’t show that many.

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A few days ago Allicia hit y’all with the bop gun and dropped the track listing and cover art for the upcoming N.A.S.A. album release, The Spirit of Apollo, currently scheduled to drop on February 17th. Well today I’m dropping a few more tracks from that album that have been leaked. I have to say these three joints are bangers and am looking forward to this release as I have yet to hear one bad song. Stream or download below. Pre-order The Spirit of Apollo over at Amazon.

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N.A.S.A. ft. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner “Whatchadoin?”

N.A.S.A. ft. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM “The Mayor”

N.A.S.A. ft. Karen O’, Ol’ Dirty Bastard & Fatlip “Strange Enough”

The February 17th release of N.A.S.A.’s The Spirit of Apollo has five interchangeable covers featuring art by Sage Vaughn, The Date Farmers, Marcel Dzama, Shepard Fairey and Mark Gonzales.  The Spirit of Apollo has cameo vocals by Lykke Li, Kanye West, Santogold, Karen O., Tom Waits, George Clinton, M.I.A. and other artists.  Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel) and DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales) teamed up for this collaborative effort to provide their love of Brazalian funk and soul.

This is going to be a great album, I can’t wait to hear all of the tracks!  Check out the artwork and tracklist below:

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. The People Tree (feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab & Z-Trip)
3. Money (feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip)
4. N.A.S.A. Music (feat. Method Man, E-40 & DJ Swamp)
5. Way Down (feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch & John Frusciante)
6. Hip Hop (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip & Slim Kid Tre)
7. Four Rooms, Earth View
8. Strange Enough (feat. Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard & Fatlip)
9. Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
10. Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li)
11. A Volta (feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Lovefoxxx)
12. There’s A Party (feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na)
13. Whachadoin? (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner)
14. O Pato (feat. Kool Kojak & DJ Babão)
15. Samba Soul (feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert)
16. The Mayor (feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM)
17. N.A.S.A. Anthem

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Mick Boogie recently released a remix that he did where he took Jay-Z’s and Kanye Wests verses from “Swagger Like Us” and flipped it onto the original beat by M.I.A. and her “Paper Planes”. The result, hotness. Give it a listen below and download away.

Download Jay-Z, Kanye West & M.I.A. “Swagger Like Paper” (Mick Boogie Mix)

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Lady GaGa aka Stefania Gabriella Germanotta has dazzled the dance music scene with her new album ‘The Fame’ with its booty shaking hits like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.”  Hustling the streets of NYC her whole life, it’s no surprise this blonde bombshell has brought major grit and glamour to her dance floor friendly songs.  If you haven’t heard of her yet, check her out now as I predict she is here to stay alongside the best.  And apparently I’m not alone:  The New York Post called her the “Future of Pop” and Us Weekly called her “Pop’s New Dance Diva” while comparing her to Madonna.  Throughout all this hype, Lady GaGa remained refreshingly grateful and honest during our candid interview.  I hope you enjoy her answers as much as I did conducting the interview.

Killahbeez: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
Lady GaGa: I’ve been working on this album for over two years now and am grateful that it has finally gotten to this point.

KB: What got you into singing and song writing at such an early age?
LG: Well I started piano at the age of 4 and started writing at the age of 13.  At 16 my mom would help me so I could get into certain clubs to play and I just hustled you know.  I dropped out of college early and started sending out my demos that I made out of my room.  From there I started go-go dancing and really working the club scene to get out there.

KB: You have a keen fashion sense.  Do you feel that fashion is an integral aspect of your music or music in general?
LG: For sure.  The fashion, the technology and just being innovative with what people are hearing and seeing are a big aspect of my music.  I want people to go to my show going “What the fuck was that!?”  In other words it’s like a pop show fit for a museum.  Everything we do is completely spur of the moment.  I don’t usually know what I’m wearing until it gets delivered an hour before the show and it’s usually stuff you can’t just get anywhere.

KB: What are your top 3 clothing and shoe designers?
LG: For clothing I would say Chanel,  Maison Martin Margiela and Thierry Mugler. For shoes I would pick Christian Louboutin, Marni and I have to say again, Chanel.

KB: Where do you get your inspiration for your music?
LG: For music pretty much New York, parties, pop culture. I’m really inspired by all the energy they give.

KB: How did the NYC scene influence your music growing up?
LG: Oh it totally did.  Everything about my music is attitude and lifestyle.  I would be a completely different artist if I didn’t have New York.

KB: It’s been rumored that you have collaborated on Britney Spears’s track “Quicksand” from her upcoming album Circus, can you confirm that?
LG: Wow, how did you find that out already (laughter)?  I can confirm that I worked on a track but not which one.

KB: What was it like working with Britney Spears for you?
LG: I never got to work with her directly in the studio because I was in Europe.  I would have loved to produced the vocals for her but I wasn’t in the studio.  I’m excited to work with her more closely in the future though.

KB: Your upcoming tour is with New Kids on The Block.  Were you a big fan like most of us in the Nineties? How does it feel to be touring with them at this point in your life going almost full circle in a way?
LG: Oh my god, I was HUGE fan!  I mean I had the “I love Johnny” t-shirt and everything.  It feels amazing.  It really, really was hard not to be star struck even though I know them as friends now, to see them on stage still gets me super excited.

KB: Who would you like to collaborate with in the future?
LG: I would love to work with Marilyn Manson.  He is such a visionary and his work is really artistic in the same vain as what I do.  I would love to work with someone who has the same philosophy as I do.

KB: What would you advise to your fans who are interested in singing and song writing?  Any words of wisdom?
LG: Two pieces of advice: 1)  Go buy the book “Letter to a Young Poet”.  Read it 100 times and in the deepest hour of the night, ask yourself if you would die if you were forbidden to write.  2)  Live your life within quote that book unquote, since it has strong philosophies I agree with about art.  Everything in there is true, you will find your dreams.

KB: Do you find it any different getting into the music scene as a female?
LG: Well when you are female and you are blonde and pretty, people assume you don’t know shit.  It takes a minute to earn your intellectual space as an artist, especially when you’re a woman like me who likes to do it in her underwear.

KB: What’s the worst trend in music these days?  Favorite trend?
LG: Least favorite is the “I don’t care trend.”  Like “I don’t care how I dress at award shows and I don’t do interviews” type attitude.  I’m enjoying seeing artists that work really hard and are doing something really serious in their arena.

KB: Can you name a few of those artists that you enjoy right now?
LG: I really like M.I.A. and Britney.  In some ways, she (Britney) has to fight harder right now to get people to take her seriously but I have a feeling she will be making a comeback in the next year with some serious pop music.

KB: Any last words to your fans?
LG: Thank you to my fans and I love you!  You are so loyal to me and I will stay loyal to you.  Keep your eyes and ears open because I will be making a lot of things happen soon!!!