Nukey...

UK Hip Hop heads Rewd Adams and DJ/Producer The Last Skeptik release the first leak from their stupendously anticipated forthcoming album ‘How Not To Make A Living’.

'Nukey' is an ode to the real shit. Heavy drum break and synths from Skep, and Rewd channeling his inner Big Daddy Kane via the hardcore ferocity of Blade. It’s the opener of the album, and a perfect introduction of the two lads and their bi-polar tendencies.

'Nukey' will be released as a B-Side of the single 'Everything's OK', out on iTunes, and all good digital music outlets on May 7th, 2012.

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Be Inspired

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2011 the world saw the loss of a great Hip-Hop legend “Heavy D” The life of the rapper and music producer who gained the respect of the entire HipHop scene throughout his career has now been recollected by artists who have been influenced by him in their career in a new documentary Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D.

A sufferer of deep leg vein thrombosis, Heavy D died on November 8, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, aged 44, from a blood clot in his lung, after collapsing outside his home in Beverley Hills. His final words on Twitter: “Be Inspired.”

In the documentary, aired by Centric, we see the likes of Queen Latifah, Big Boy, Al B. Sure!, Mary J. Blige, Will Smith, Nia Long, Cee-Lo Green, Russell Simmons and more reflecting on the life of the inspirational artist narrated by MC Lyte.

The film also includes coverage of his funeral services in his native Mount Vernon, NY, with original score by acclaimed musician and composer George Duke..

Props to Soul Culture for the Video

Swang 2

Volume 2 of a series of 60 minute mixes by BobaFatt, looking back at the time when Hip Hop and R&B first hooked up and formed that "Swang".

New Jack Swing. Swingbeat. Hip Hop R&B Soul. Call it what you will..

Haircuts were high, slanted, faded and cut with 163 tramlines minimum, clothes were hella baggy, trainers were extra extra fly, and everyone knew how to do the running man. Everyone.

Teddy Riley pretty much ran everything, LA & Babyface had a good punt, and producers like Jam & Lewis occasionally dipped their toe in too.

Snares were tough, preset orchestra hit noises were compulsory and the vibes were lovely.

Yep yep.

It went a lil' sum'n like this. Swang it!...

Swang | Vol. 02 by Bobafatt on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
DJ BobaFatt - Swang Intro
Guy – Teddy’s Jam 2

Guy – Gotta Be A Leader

Guy – My Fantasy (Soundtrack Version)

Bobby Brown – My Prerogative

Bobby Brown – Two Can Play That Game

Bell Biv Devoe – Poison

Another Bad Creation – Iesha

Heavy D & The Boyz – We Got Our Own Thang (12” Remix)

James Ingram – It’s Real

Johnny Kemp – Just Got Paid

Alexander O’Neal ft Pete Rock & CL Smooth – In The Middle (Brown Surround Mix)

Faith Evans vs Jones Girls - Can’t Complain (Aaron Jerome Edit)

Faith Evans – I Don’t Need It

Christopher Williams – I’m Dreamin’

Quincy Jones ft Ray Charles & Chaka Khan – I’ll Be Good To You (Extended Remix)

Babyface – It’s No Crime

Pebbles – Girlfriend

The Good Girls – Just Call Me

Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson ft Bell Biv Devoe – Best Things In Life Are Free

Mase – Feels So Good

LL Cool J ft Total – Loungin’

Wreckx N Effect – Ez Come Ez Go (What Goes Up Must Come Down)

Wreckx N Effect – New Jack Swing (12” Mix)

Wreckx N Effect – Rump Shaker (Ragga Remix)
Joe – I’m In Luv

LaRue – Serious (Club Mix)
Riff – Judy Had A Boyfriend (Mucho Radio Edit)

Bubba – I Like Your Style

Father MC – Treat Em Like They Want To Be Treated

Groove B. Chill – Swingin’ Single (Swingers Club Mix)

MC Lyte – Ice Cream Dream

CeCe Peniston – Keep On Walkin’

Karyn White – The Way You Love Me

Bobby Brown – On Our Own (Remix)
Guy – I Like

Force One Network – Spirit (Does Anybody Care?)

Sounds Of Blackness – Optimistic

Download link HERE.

Volume 1 is HERE!

Boiler Doom...

So, I was privileged enough the other night to be one of a few to witness something pretty special.

The Boiler Room crew have found themselves a new home, and for their first event there, they brought in the Lex Records crew to do their thing. Buddy Peace (rocking CDJ's like an MPC.. badman!..) & Boom Bip (on an unexpected 4/4 tip) got the spot popping nicely, then the one like DOOM turned up and laced his 60 minute selection on us.

Public Enemy, Shabazz Palaces, Gza, KMD, curveballs like Dirty Beaches and a whole heap of other shit. Quick as he came into the building, he left soon as the set was done. Only other DJ set I've heard of him doing he apparently played one joint and left. I dunno if that's true or not..
Either way, seriously seriously dope night.

You can listen back to the set HERE or go to the link below.
Visuals to follow soon (I think)...

Shout to my Rough Trade family, Thristian & the BR crew and all the heads I saw up inside.

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Hanging On A String...

One of the greatest UK Soul tracks ever gets revisited. 
Sick acoustic version from Mr Loose Ends himself, Carl Mcintosh.


Recorded 17th February 2012 at Arc Theatre, The Malthouse Studios, Barking. 

Serato Projection Mapping

Shout to my boy Scutler for discovering this one. Potential for this idea is pretty crazy...



"This is a projection mapping project we've been working on for about a month as of uploading. 
It's a user interface for Serato Scratch Live that is vinyl rotation reactive, as well as sound reactive, and makes it possible to mix using Serato without having to look at your computer screen whatsoever. We Have Real time Waveforms Streaming across our mixers, or our vinyl platters, and we have started to incorporate video effects that are controlled by wii remotes. We are also working on controlling effects with motion capturing using a camera."

Running...

I'm in love with Jessie Ware a bit. This track, produced by Brizzle producer Julio Bashmore, is not helping change this any. Bad...

Rella...

Fucked..

HNIC3

As promised... Prodigy drops his new mixtape...

Grew Up Fast

While the music world is awaiting a new project from J. Cole, the North Carolina-native has taken things to Twitter and liberated a brand new track, titled “Grew Up Fast.” In true Cole fashion, tgood  eats and lyrics...

N****s in Poorest

Yaasin Bey AKA Mos Def takes on Jay-Z & Kanye's - N****s in Paris

What Type Of Drug?...

“Following on from his incredible ‘Digmund Freud’ & ‘F.D.T’ EPs in 2010, UK Hip-Hop legend Mystro is back with ‘What Type Of Drug Is Mystrogen?’, which is being given out for free in line with the release of his highly anticipated full-length debut LP ‘Mystrogen’, that is set to drop later this year. The EP sees MysDiggi at his lyrical best, with a witty thought-provoking concept, backed by flawless production from the likes of Black Einstein, DJ Thor & Mark de Clive-Lowe. During a time where watered down Hip-Hop (minus Wretch) is what’s accepted as the norm in the mainstream, this EP is the genre in its purest form and something that all music lovers will truly appreciate – hypnotic neck-breaking beats, real rhymes from the heart and a flow that is simply untouchable. After the jump you can catch ‘That There’, which is produced by Twisted Roots, but if you’re wondering what type of drug Mystrogen is, you should probably just click and find out for yourself. Happy listening…”

What Type Of Drug Is Mystrogen - Mystro - DOWNLOAD HERE

Aint No Love...

A lil treat from The Milk. In the ages of bands shining thru in the hip hop world, The Milk thought it would only be right to do a lil ditty covering Jay-Z's - Aint No Love (Heart Of The City) And a sterling job they did...

Shouts to The Milk and Big Man Baloo... You know know how we do.

The Tight Face

Main Squeeze via Big Man Duppy over @ProgPorn are extremely proud to present the new immaculately well crafted beat tape from One Handed Music affiliate and younger brother of Mo Kolours, Tightface. Previously on Squeeze we repped TightFace's first beat tape, 'Treasure's Of The Five Boroughs' which you can cop HERE. MPC Tomfoolery at its best....

Tightface hails from the Saaaauuuuffff East of LDN and has been honing his silky MPC skills for many years now. His latest offering is complete FYA. Heavy heavy heavy drums with mind boggling sample trickery all bring this slice of fried gold together for an extremely delectable listening experience. Crisply mixed together and fully produced by the man himself. Listen out for some of his bro's (Mo Kolours) vocals on a couple of joints as well. 

Family since back in the day, when we went school and shit.......It's a pleasure to get round 2 from TightFace. In my opinon its been along time since last year, and we always want to hear more from the Mauritian crusaders...

Remember you heard it hear second....

Big Love & Props to Tight Face, Mo Kolours and Duppy... Each & Every!

Peep Prog Porn Here

Lootpack - Pieces of Soundpieces

To celebrate Stones Throw’s 50th podcast, they put together a special mix to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Lootpack’s first album, Soundpieces. The mix was put together by Madlib, and features tracks from earlier Lootpack singles, tracks from Soundpieces, and various Madlib beats; some unreleased, and some that would later get worked into tracks like Madvillain’s ‘Rainbows’.

STONES THROIW PODCAST 50 - Lootpack DOWNLOAD HERE

Kings & Queens

Fresh new sound from Tyga feat Nas & Wale... straight off the new mixtape/album - Careless World / Rise of the Last King... Lovin Tyga's flow.. Reminiscent of a young Curren$y..

Cop the album HERE

Tyga feat Wale & Nas - Kings & Queens DOWNLOAD HERE

The Main Attraction

Yungun AKA Essa, UK's favourite pon the microphone is back, presenting the brand new video for "The Main Attraction", collaborating with Andy H of First Word Records.

We are mad looking forward to hearing a new Yungun Album for sure. So as an extra you can  cop the 'Jack The World' Mixtape with badman DJ Mr Thing HERE

#seriousmixtapemalarchy

Bad Girls

Quaranteam in the house once again.... This time spitting hard over M.I.A's new bumper Bad Girls.

Pyro Barz, Loudmouth Melvin & Postman P - Bad Girls (Quint Anthem) DOWNLOAD HERE

99 Problems In Video

99 Problems In Film (EM) from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.


Wicked...

Hello Brooklyn...

This one is an oldie. Total gem too. Spanish producers Cookin Soul laced this one together... Quincy Jones, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne on the same track. Summer in the city..  Beautiful..

Summer in Brookyn - Jay-Z, Lil Wayne & Quincy Jones DOWNLOAD HERE

Prodigy Returns...

New mixtape from Mobb Deep's Prodigy drops 2/20/12. Check the teaser...

Teedra...

Maybach Music's R&B first lady drops off the official video for the remix of “Another LuvR” which appeared on her Luxurious Undergrind mixtape and features her MMG label mate the DC repping rapper Wale. Peep the Video and cop the tune

Teedra Moses feat Wale - Another LuvR (Remix) DOWNLOAD HERE

A Day In The Life

A Day In The Life of A$AP Rocky and the A$AP mob hit Atlanta for a afternoon full of interviews and a sold out Show at Masquerade.

The Motto

Drizzy, Weezy and Tyga.... Young Money on this new 808 shit. 'The Motto' dropped before xmas and I missed it, However loving the vibes on it.... Even if it is for Lil Wayne wearing green wellies in thr video.. Nuff Said

The Motto (Remix) - Drake, Lil Wayne and Tyga DOWNLOAD HERE

DāM-FunK - Prince Mix

For Wax Poetics magazine's ten-year anniversary, and to coincide with their 50th Issue (heavily featuring the short purple obsessed one), 
DāM-FunK (Stones Throw) created an exclusive Prince DJ mix, also throwing in a brand new DāM-FunK track.


This reeks of nasty sleazy dirty soiled Funk bad. 
I need to go have a shower or something now. 
I can't go outside stanking like this. 
...Too much?...

Questlove - Dilla Mix

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the death of a true hip-hop legend, James "J Dilla/Jay Dee" Yancey. And as some of y'all might be aware, he was very close friends with Questlove, of The Roots. They worked together on numerous projects, many times as part of the Soulquarians collective that also features Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and other supreme talents. So to show his love for his late friend, Questo took to Hot97 studios to perform a live DJ set dedicated to Dilla. It's more than an hour's worth of Dilla-related material

Rest In Beats J Dilla

Questlove - Tribute to JDilla Mixtape on Hot97 DOWNLOAD HERE

Safe.

Remember kids, wear a hat, it's cold outside...



Happy Valentines Day.

Salute To Whitney...

No long ting. There's been enough chat on the internet about this.

Tragic she went before her time, no doubt.
One of the iconic voices of a generation, no doubt.

I saw her at Wembley Arena when I was a yout in the late 80's.
She was real good.

Despite whatever "they" say, I still like Bobby Brown. Who knows what's really good unless you're sat in a room with them for 15 years, right?...

Plenty of joints I could've posted, 'My Love Is Your Love', 'I'm Your Baby Tonight', 'It's Not Right But It's Ok'...

I did a mash-up of 'Wanna Dance With Somebody' a few years ago.


I could put up the 'Sexual Chocolate' cover of 'Greatest Love Of All' from 'Coming To America'.

Or a little Japanese dude singing 'I Will Always Love You' note perfect.

I could tell you about the family connects with Cissie, Dionne and Aretha..

But yo. You know where Wikipedia's at. You know where YouTube's at.

This is the first joint I remember hearing from Whitney when I was a kid.
It's still one of my favourites.

Happy Valentines Day.

Rest in peace Miss Houston x

Video Reel Feb 2012

I been meaning to blog some isht for a minute, but for whatever reason it hasn't happened.

So here's a bunch of things that've floated past my grill the past few weeks.

TEN videos to be exact.
Hip Hop, Soul, Bass and beyond...

De La Soul - Life Is Great (teaser)

De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 present First Serve - Must B The Music

Bonobo ft Andreya Triana - Eyesdown (Machinedrum Remix) (Ninja Tune)


Tokimonsta (Brainfeeder)


Ifan Dafydd - Treehouse

The Stepkids (Stones Throw)

Shabazz Palaces

M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Schoolboy Q ft A$AP Rocky - Hands On The Wheel (sampling Lana Del Rey)


A$AP Rocky - Wassup

Here...

After a highly productive 2011, one month into 2012, Curren$y has already churned out a brand-new 5 track EP entitled "Here".

Curren$y - Here EP DOWNLOAD HERE

Mo Kolours - Banana Wine

Old skool family from back dem a way, Mo Kolours, our talented half-Mauritian percussionist, singer, and producer, is getting ready to drop his second set: EP2: Banana Wine. Here's a teaser video showing glimpses of the man at work and soundtracked by EP cut Temi, an excursion into hard-as-nails hip-hop with a Mo Kolours twist.

Main Squeeze - Saturday 12th Feb

The Main Squeeze crew are back once again at their regular home, The Big Chill Bar, for their first official jam of 2012 - Another night of beats, bass and booze, put together with lots of lovin' for the Valentines weekend.

DJ's Mo Fingaz & BobaFatt have had a hectic past few months around the big smoke, spinning at nights such as Three:Style, Sampled, On The Real, Sessions, Talking At Me, Social Meltdown, Je Ne Sais Quoi and Soundcrash respectively, as well as hosting Room 3 at 'Hospitality', Brixton Academy and Room 2 at the 'J Dilla Changed My Life' event, at the Scala, alongside the Classic Material crew.

Plenty more big tings a'gwan in 2012, with more mixtapes, radio spots and blog heat rolling, as a daily operation.

For now, it's business as usual at The Big Chill Bar...

Hip Hop, Soul, Reggae, Swing, all forms of Bass music and numerous other stories will be thrown in the mix throughout the night - you know how we do.

Be prepared to put it down and shock out.

Get someone to hold your drink. Important.

FREE ENTRY, ALL NIGHT LONG.

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Super Baller

To celebrate SuperBowl in The USA.. LL Cool J and DJ Z-Trip banged this out in 30 Mins...

Grab It HERE

Jamdown

Its that time of the month again as Brixton see the Reggae Roast Family roll up to mash out another party.

The last Reggae Roast session at Plan B was a complete road block. Mungo’s Hi Fi, RSD and Onlyjoe among others played incredible sets to a full capacity club, bursting with energy and earthquake bass lines. The second Jamdown event will demonstrate the vitality and rich heritage of the UK roots and dubstep scenes with a DJ set from the godfather of sound system culture, a live performance from the mighty Shanti-ites band, plus live PAs and DJ sets from the likes of Earl 16 and Crises of Rinse FM. British dub, reggae and dubstep of the highest calibre! If you missed the last Jamdown party make sure this one is in your diary. Its rare to see this style of line-up, mixing legendary reggae live acts and DJs going back to back. Plan B acts as the perfect venue, with an increadible Funktion-one sound system, live stage, smoking area. Tasty cocktails will be provided by our firends at Wray & Nephew overproof rum. Check the FACEBOOK EVENT HERE

Nice Up! The Session

Nice Up The Session by Djshepdog on Mixcloud

Brand new mix from Mutt La Rock - DJ Shepdog. In promo for the Nice Up The Session night on Feb 10th @ Big Chill House. Featuring Daddy Freddy, LL Cool J, The Heavy, Toddla T, Ragga Twins, Vybz Kartel, Benny Page, Serial Killaz  & Cutty Ranks to name a few...  You know how Nice Up get down..

Following last years SUMMER SOUNDCLASH, DJ Shepdog & the Nice Up! racket are heading back to The Big Chill House to NICE UP! the Session. Playing a special old-school set are The Ragga Twins, as well as Monkey Mafia Soundsystem (aka Jon Carter & MC Doug'e Reuben). Keeping it as a family affair, we also have the Turntable Dubbers flying in especially from Belgium for this gig, as well as resident Shepdog keeping things bubbling. They have also confirmed a very special guest for the night too, but you'll have to come and see who that is on the night! And what's best....it's FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!

Friday 10th February. Big Chill House, Kings Cross, London, N1 9NL.

Peep this to see whats in store...

Stellar Safari

New music from Main Squeeze Fam Smitharene.
This one is a monster.....

Beautiful Music...

Check his beats HERE

Charles...

Charles Bradley: Soul of America captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard life of poverty, homelessness and tragedy and rocketed him onto Rolling Stone magazine's top 50 albums of 2011. This documentary follows Charles from his 62nd birthday through the electrifying and transformative months leading up to his unprecedented debut, world tour and ultimate triumph over an impossible dream 48 years in the making.

Salute Sir Bradley

Salute To The Don...

For those that don't know, Chicago born Don Cornelius was the host and creator of legendary US music programme 'Soul Train'.

Years before the likes of MTV were around... sheiiiiiit... years and years before MTV even considered showcasing any black artists, Soul Train was a platform for a generation, giving much needed exposure to artists such as James Brown, Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
The mere thought of not giving those artists exposure these days seems insane. But it wasn't too long ago that wasn't the case at all. Don was a real movement in changing that.

Here's a set from the great Stevie Wonder on the show from 1971, doing a Q&A and performing a few tracks. Skip to around the 8:45 mark, to check Stevie's improvised jam for Soul Train and for the Don..



In the words of Don, Peace and Soul x

Donald Cortez Cornelius (September 27th 1936 - February 1st 2012)

East Bound & Down - Season 3

Kenny Powers is back! Get ready for an all new season of "Eastbound & Down", premiering Sunday, February 19. For more information on Eastbound & Down, take yo ass HERE
Need i say any more....?
Can't Wait