three-twenty
You know what makes it worth it?
To watch someone progress,
To have them watch you
Someone that you respect and value and cry to
It’s something so comforting
‘cause it could bring so much truth
But that magic could be stagnant
if the relationship doesn’t move
The commitments to yourself
and that you’re always learning
To acknowledge you’re both perfect
and still wanna keep working
To progress as a person but as an individual entity
and then come together as a unit but still maintain that identiry
It sounds so elementary but it’s so complex,
it’s the most delicate balance to get away from attachments
Stand like a man, move like a legend
Talk, but with action, that’s how you’ll be remembered
The greats learned that humility is a weapon
Sever ties with the part of you too big to learn a lesson
Sit in silence, to fight the mind and try to find the present
‘cause you only get a couple chances to be EPIC
And I’m connected, like God plugged my headphones directly into heaven and told me to “Go and get ‘em”
With this mic cord, I am,
nothing you can tell me
They bark when they talk, but they walk like the lifeless
The purpose of my art is for people to respect me
I’m not a king, I’m a servant to the desires that tempt me
Only way to escape the cage from the valley of roots: Be a mirror to the people when they’re searching for truth
Only way to escape the cage from the valley of roots: Claim the mirror, my people, keep searching for you.
-Macklemore, Kings, The VS. EP
The Hard Times EP by Kids These Days was released a couple weeks ago and totally snuck under my radar I guess. Definitely a solid project by a very talented group.
Dumbfoundead - Are We There Yet?
The official Cinemetropolis release date is June 14. But everyone who pledged to get the advance digital copy on our kickstarter campaign began receiving the download links on May 15. We’re overwhelmed by the initial feedback and appreciate all the contributions and critiques. If you pledged but have not yet received your link, or if you’re having problems with the download, please send us an email describing the issue.
We’re about to roll out the first wave of video projects beginning with a music video for Fou Lee and the Slick Watts short film premiere. More to come in the summertime, followed by a national tour in the Fall. AND if you’re in Seattle June 17/18, hit up our record release party at Neumos (VIP party on June 15)!
If you got the album, let us and the world know what you think! We read it all.
Cinemetropolis is one of the greatest, most original albums I’ve ever listened to. DOPE. Buy it when it drops in June!
Get Up Yo!
5 min of 6 beats dedicated for todays hype, 4twenty.
Yee.
Dopeness. Click the picture download.
Artist: Kanye West
Album: Nike: Better Than I've Ever Been
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Who remembers this one?
Kanye West x Nas x KRS-One x Rakim x DJ Premier - Classic
Blu & Exile - Seasons
An excerpt from “Respect The Architects: All That Jazz”
Hip-Hop and jazz are so related that will need to wear your hater bifocals to separate the two. The forte of both musical forms is the space they have for unrehearsed, extemporaneous changes in direction. The deejay scratch or rapper freestyle is simply the trumpeter’s solo. John Coltrane and Black Thought are cut from the same cloth. Both reach for something higher than fame or fortune. Heaven is what I imagine. Otherwise known as the perfect beat. The beat can make a god into a mortal(see NaS) or it can transform a liar into the pied piper (see Rick Ross).
Riding the beat right is a love supreme for the best emcees. For any musician who catches the groove just right it is something special to experience. How that moment can move our bodies and our minds is something we all recognize.
