Monday, December 27, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sweet Tee - Let the Jingle Bells Rock
Man...I grew up listening to that Christmas Rap album on Christmas. Everybody knows "Christmas in Hollis" but here's a forgotten gem:
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tarhiry walks around half naked
No idea what the purpose of this video is (other than the obvious)...
Shout to Tahiry, who I had the pleasure of hanging out with back when we were recording "Fight Klub" and a few other times...Haven't seen her in a minute, but she's mad cool...
Ke$ha Taylor Swift Katy Perry Nicki Minaj Christmas song "Jingle Jangle" [Comedy Thunder] (Prod. by Anna Yvette & Frequency for FNA)
Shout to Shamikah and Candy Slice!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Candy Slice - "My Chick Bad" Glee Audition
Still don't really know what Glee is, but this is hilarious. Candy Slice's X-Mas song is supposed to drop today, produced by FNA, but it hasn't arrived yet. Watch this to hold you over. Shout to Shamikah and the crew.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Joell Ortiz - "So Hard" feat. Anna Yvette (Prod. by Anna Yvette & Frequency)
Camilo's playing it, so I'm posting it.
Anna Yvette & Frequency are FNA. Remember that.
Friday, December 17, 2010
NYT covers the seizure of OnSMASH
#FreeOnSMASH
Piracy Fight Shuts Down Music Blogs
By BEN SISARIO
Thanksgiving Day had barely begun when Kevin Hofman’s BlackBerry buzzed. It was one of the technical operators of OnSmash.com, Mr. Hofman’s popular hip-hop blog, telling him that the site had gone mysteriously blank just after midnight.
“At first I thought it was hackers,” Mr. Hofman said. But within hours a notice went up on the site saying that its domain name had been seized by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit of the Department of Homeland Security; it was one of dozens of sites shut down, accused of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods.
But Mr. Hofman, a brawny Long Islander in his early 30s who formerly worked for a major record label, does not think of himself as a pirate.
OnSmash.com and the handful of other music blogs shut down by the government post brand-new songs and videos without licenses, but much of that material is often leaked to them by managers, music labels and even the artists themselves.
As a result, these sites have a complex symbiosis with the music business. While the Recording Industry Association of America wants to shut them down, the rank and file of the record labels — particularly in hip-hop circles — uses them as marketing tools and publicity outlets.
“To Joe Q. Public, ‘leak’ sounds like a bad word,” Mr. Hofman said in an interview at a pizzeria on the Lower East Side, his lawyer by his side. “But if you’ve ever been in a marketing meeting at a record label, it’s ‘Hey, can you leak this to the blogs?’ Leak is now a marketing verb.”
In addition to OnSmash.com, the music sites shut down included Dajaz1.com, RapGodFathers.com and rmx4u.com; another, torrent-finder.com, is a search engine for users of BitTorrent, a file-sharing system that can be used for any kind of data. (READ MORE)
Piracy Fight Shuts Down Music Blogs
By BEN SISARIO
Thanksgiving Day had barely begun when Kevin Hofman’s BlackBerry buzzed. It was one of the technical operators of OnSmash.com, Mr. Hofman’s popular hip-hop blog, telling him that the site had gone mysteriously blank just after midnight.
“At first I thought it was hackers,” Mr. Hofman said. But within hours a notice went up on the site saying that its domain name had been seized by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit of the Department of Homeland Security; it was one of dozens of sites shut down, accused of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods.
But Mr. Hofman, a brawny Long Islander in his early 30s who formerly worked for a major record label, does not think of himself as a pirate.
OnSmash.com and the handful of other music blogs shut down by the government post brand-new songs and videos without licenses, but much of that material is often leaked to them by managers, music labels and even the artists themselves.
As a result, these sites have a complex symbiosis with the music business. While the Recording Industry Association of America wants to shut them down, the rank and file of the record labels — particularly in hip-hop circles — uses them as marketing tools and publicity outlets.
“To Joe Q. Public, ‘leak’ sounds like a bad word,” Mr. Hofman said in an interview at a pizzeria on the Lower East Side, his lawyer by his side. “But if you’ve ever been in a marketing meeting at a record label, it’s ‘Hey, can you leak this to the blogs?’ Leak is now a marketing verb.”
In addition to OnSmash.com, the music sites shut down included Dajaz1.com, RapGodFathers.com and rmx4u.com; another, torrent-finder.com, is a search engine for users of BitTorrent, a file-sharing system that can be used for any kind of data. (READ MORE)
Alchemist & Oh No (Gangrene) - Overdose
I'm not entirely sure if this video is brilliant or if it's just plain weird.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Adair on Oxygen's House of Glam [Outtake]
Shout to Crystal Isaacs for finding the clip...
Shout to Charles, Zenep, Michiko & the whole B. Lynn group for the opportunity.
Freq I see you!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Dip Set in NYT
Survivors Celebrate A Family Reunion
By Jon Caramanica
“We paying respect to the dead right now,” Juelz Santana told the Hammerstein Ballroom crowd Friday night, urging a moment of silence for the friends he had lost in recent months. “We gotta get this right.”
Moments before, the screens above him onstage were displaying their photos — G-Baby, D-Train, Classik, Johnny Jerajian, Huddy 6 — while D.R.S.’s threnody “Gangsta Lean” played over the speakers.
The crowd mostly kept quiet, then the D.J. broke the mood with the sound of gunshots. Juelz Santana was not amused.
“I need some better gunshots!” he screamed.
With the Diplomats — Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey — the tragic never gets in the way of the theatrical, and vice versa. This was the reunion show of this Harlem rap crew, torn asunder a few years ago by petty animus and financial accusations back and forth, survivors of arrests and family struggles, but now brought back together for another chance at harmony, if not quite world domination. (READ MORE)
By Jon Caramanica
“We paying respect to the dead right now,” Juelz Santana told the Hammerstein Ballroom crowd Friday night, urging a moment of silence for the friends he had lost in recent months. “We gotta get this right.”
Moments before, the screens above him onstage were displaying their photos — G-Baby, D-Train, Classik, Johnny Jerajian, Huddy 6 — while D.R.S.’s threnody “Gangsta Lean” played over the speakers.
The crowd mostly kept quiet, then the D.J. broke the mood with the sound of gunshots. Juelz Santana was not amused.
“I need some better gunshots!” he screamed.
With the Diplomats — Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey — the tragic never gets in the way of the theatrical, and vice versa. This was the reunion show of this Harlem rap crew, torn asunder a few years ago by petty animus and financial accusations back and forth, survivors of arrests and family struggles, but now brought back together for another chance at harmony, if not quite world domination. (READ MORE)
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