DAMMMN! Had to start this post off with that. My mans AJK sent this through to me and I didn’t think too much of it initially, mostly because my time has been strapped this week with lots going on and thus the reason for me not being able to check this out. But get this, Shaun Boothe is picking up where Nas left off with his “Unauthorized Biography of Rakim” and is attempting to do a bio series which will consist of 12 video bios of 12 icons in 12 months.
The first one Boothe is hitting you folks with is “Unauthorized Biography of James Brown”, yes the God Father of soul and let me tell you all right now, Boothe kills it. He strategically rhymes about Brown’s life in chronological order and tells a great story while he’s at it. There’s also a video that goes along with the song. So check it out for yourself and get learned and while you’re at it, the next chapter will be on Bob Marley, so hit up Shaun Boothe’s MySpace page and stay tuned to the rest of this series dropping.
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”
Alright, so most of ya’ll know I was just down in NYC for some r & r and to catch the Rock the Bells concert. The trip overall was fairly relaxing and chilled, so mission accomplished there. I also wanted to holla at some of the shop owners about this blog, again mission accomplished there. Although I was only able to hit a handful of shops, but hey the vibe was positive.
So for a recap of the actual concert click on the jump below and have a read. Pictures attached as well and trust me, you gonna wanna see these bitches.
