I always appreciate new ways of introducing music. From the old fashioned way of DJs introducing the latest songs in clubs or radio to Trent Reznor leaving flash drives in bathrooms of South America for one of the last NIN albums. And then you have hip-hop moguls renting out planetariums. While that might be more suited for a Kenny Loggins light show, you understand we have many ways of being brought to new music and sounds.
Bruce Springsteen has a new single out. It’s making its rounds on radio, the internet and what have you. For hip-hop songs, Funkmaster Flex is usually the guy people like to play new music. Between the teasing of the record, bomb drops, the yelling, the multiple times he “brings it back”, it becomes an event in itself. Funk Flex wishes he knew “Mad Dog” Chris Russo. The perennial Bruce fan listened to the new single and enjoyed it thoroughly. He makes the event of listening enjoyable. Just to know a single song provides such a jovial response is enough to keep me interested. That’s the new way (which I think has been done on Youtube at times with fans of artists like The Weeknd). If Mad Dog could do a listening event, I’d throw down $20 just for the excitement factor.
Rozay kind of killed his verse. “Lickin’ shots at you pussies, my stocks done shot through the roof [quarter-grunt]/As I shoot for the stars, I’m shootin’, buyin’ the coupe.”
The Gotti album is skrong at 11 tracks deep, although I’ll never forgive him (or the label? who is the label? RCA?) for putting out “We Can Get It On”, let alone as a single. For someone who had good-to-promising radio singles with “5 Star Chick” and “Bricks” in a two year span, you hoped for a better result in how the album was handled. “Single” and “Cases” (Mike Will Made It putting out a Mortal Kombat song is great) keep the trap sound going, no matter how one-dimensional Gotti can be in his raps. The same way Webbie still sold 50k on an indie, I’d expect Gotti to do something similar, although on a major by classification only, with that North Memphis fanbase.
When the Hawks visited Newark to play the Nets the other night, ‘Nique had this hilarious story how when Mike Fratello (now a broadcaster for the YES Network) was the Hawks coach, they would put Spud Webb’s clothes in coach’s locker and vice versa. God bless the Human Highlight Reel. I was too young to remember the Wilkens-Bird and Wilkens-Jordan battles, but there hasn’t been anything close to those type of match-ups since then.
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Talk about being blind sided by a name I haven’t heard in at least ten full years.
She did a club gig in my city in South Florida, which is a good 20 minute drive from any decent club. It was at an old (emphasis on old) country club turned nightclub that’s only a nightclub for 1-2 weekends a month. That was the biggest thing to happen in my city since Buju Banton got arrested for cocaine charges. We’ll have an All-Star game soon.
I am looking forward to playing this at a loud volume throughout the week of my birthday.
When I was an intern in 2006, I was walking past the old TVT offices and saw the duo from afar. Very enthused, I let out a loud “HANH!” They didn’t hear me and walked into the building, as I continued on looking slightly embarrassed. If I would have known they were probably being screwed out of royalties in that building, I would have done more to intervene and also get a new prosthetic left hand for D-Roc.
When working with the program director of Elvis Radio, he’ll tell you thank you, but he will also thank you on behalf of Elvis Presley. I’m not sure if that’s a resume builder, but I’m really appreciative to know someone who can channel Elvis’ spirit in Graceland.
I’m torn though. Because about a year ago, Jay Electronica decided to rip the Elvis Presley cardboard cut-out we had in our lobby in two. On some, “This is for Chuck Berry!” (not confirmed quote). Do I tell the guy to pass along the news to Elvis, or does Elvis already know this happened and is currently haunting Jay Elect? Is the only way to please the friendly ghost of Elvis Presley to record a covers album of The King’s hits? I want Elvis to thank me more than once in this life.
Here’s a bunch of live tracks from the last twelve months that were recorded at my place of employment. No labels, but track 1 is Gaga, 2 is Foster the People and 15 is Lana Del Rey Romano. There’s a Florence + The Machine song somewhere there, too. Consider it a Hanukkah gift to you and you and even you. I’m having steak for lunch tomorrow and then heading to Baltimore, so it all works out for everyone involved.
Waka Foghorn Leghorn.
(via J Grand’s Twitter @j_grand)
The album is pretty much 97% done. He’s just finishing his lyrics now. He needs somebody to smack him and take the record away from him because it’s pretty much finished. For all intents and purposes, this album is the black version of [The Beach Boys’] Smile— at best, it will go down in the Smile/There’s a Riot Goin’ On/Miles Davis’ On the Corner category.
