Sunday, October 23, 2011

A$AP Rocky in the NYT

Forgot to post this last week...Crazy...

THINKING GLOBALLY, RAPPING LOCALLY
BY JON CARAMANICA



“I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper,” ASAP Rocky said in an interview last month. “I don’t even like New York rappers.”

In hip-hop only New York, cocky and accomplished and obstinate, casts a shadow this long. The burden of history is especially heavy here, in rap’s birthplace, which is why generations of rappers have done their part to protect the fort. Old styles become sacred texts used for indoctrination. Progress is acceptable, within the lines.

Into that morass comes ASAP Rocky, child of Harlem, with a new idea about how to be a New York rapper. “Live Love ASAP,” his forthcoming debut mixtape, is placeless and universal, an album that sounds as if it has ingested the last 20 years of hip-hop’s travels and would be comfortable anywhere. There’s chewy, slowed-down homages to Houston, flow patterns reminiscent of Cleveland’s Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, nods to New Orleans and Atlanta and the Bay Area and everywhere else hip-hop is made. Almost everywhere but New York, it seems.

The old New York, that is. On “Live Love ASAP,” New York has a new role. Once the universal donor, it’s now the universal recipient.(READ MORE)

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

inkDREAMING - NAIRA feat. Young Scolla & D. Julien



...and if you haven't checked out D. Julien's latest project, Ready for Tomorrow, download it free here

Friday, October 14, 2011

BTS: Slaughterhosue recording "The Illest" at Tree Sound

Slaughter House - In ATL PART2 from Novel on Vimeo.



Shout to Novel for the footage. Cameos by Justice League, Yelawolf, Green Lantern, Mike H. & me (lol)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Slaughterhouse - The Illest (Prod. by The Klassix)



Had the honor of sitting in the Tree Sound lounge watching the Jets lose to the Ravens while they recorded this...PS - this beat is so hard!!!

Monday, October 10, 2011

NEW VIDEO: Dajuan Ruffin performs "Do You?" by iFFY the Bad Man (Prod. by Freqeuency)



Choreographed and everything.

Slaughterhouse in Atlanta at Tree Sound

Slaughter House - In ATL Studio PART1 from Novel on Vimeo.



Instead of watching the Jets lose to the Ravens at the crib last Sunday night, I went to Tree Sound to check Slaughterhouse. This is some of the footage that Novel shot (check my cameo).

Shout to Joe, Joell, Crook, Royce, Mike, Kino, Kim, Riggs, Groove, Mali, Just, Novel, Justice League, Laws, Tha Bizness, Green Lantern, V12, Willie the Kid, LA the Darkman, Sean C, Range, KP, Yelawolf, Jah Spice, Willpower, Jazze Pha and everyone else. Yep. They were all there. Crazy.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher #1 (Feat. French Montana, Rico Staxx, Wais P, Termanology, Sean Cross & Mike Epps)



Wais couldn't make the awards, and they wouldn't let me use his tickets, but he still tore this down. Shout to Term too.