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Universal Mind Control

chriscds — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:03:47 +0000

Common has done it again. This guy keeps churning out amazingness after amazingness after brilliance after perfection after fucking mind-blowing music. And he won’t stop, because he can’t stop. I have seen him live, he is awesome.

And he has a new album, ‘Universal Mind Control’ which is definently his best since ‘Be’

You need to get these songs NOW, and then you need to go out a buy the album because owning a copy of this would be so damn rewarding.

Common Feat Cee-Lo – Make My Day

Common – Sex 4 Suga

Common Feat Pharrel – Universal Mind Control

While I’m at it. Here’s Jay-Z’s latest which samples Santogold’s ‘Shove It’ and if off the soundtrack for the upcoming Notorious B.I.G biopic ‘Notorious‘

Jay-Z Feat Santogold – Brooklyn (We Go Hard)

And here’s something cool by Modeselektor

Modeselektor Feat Siriusmo – Deboutonner

Hova Hova Hova Hova

chriscds — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:31:11 +0000

This is one post dedicated to one song.

The latest offering from Jay-Z’s upcoming ‘Blueprint 3‘

It’s amazing. The song uses the same sample as ‘Can’t Knock The Hustle’ used.

So damn chilled. Reminds me why Jigga is the best rapper there ever has been and ever will be.

Please note that this track does have a bit of a DJ on it, and it is not the full track, but it is great quality.

Rest assured that the full track will be posted here once it drops.

Jay-Z – Dreaming Again

The Return

chriscds — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:28:32 +0000

So, I haven’t updated this blog in awhile, I apologise to my legions of fans *cough*. Well, I have now finished exams and am on holidays. So, without further ado, allow me to re-introduce myself. Well, fuck that, I’ll just post music.

A good lyricist is hard to find in hip-hop nowadays. However, a new generation is on the come up. Just as Lupe Fiasco impressed the fuck out of everyone a few years ago these new guys have been making quite a name for themselves in the U.S hip-hop underground scene. Three of them: Charles Hamilton, Mickey Factz and Cory Gunz spaz out over Mobb Deep’s ‘Quiet Storm’ and holy shit, it blew me the fuck away, these dudes are CRAZY.

Cory Gunz, Mickey Factz & Charles Hamilton – Quiet Storm Freestyle

Joe Budden, the favourite rapper of many hip-hop bloggers worldwide is finally bringing out his second album ‘Padded Room’ very soon. It’s a shame the guy didn’t find much mainstream success, he is definently one of the most emotionally-charged rappers out. Anyway, he has a new song with once-rival Game, who rarely impresses me, I mean, Game is ok sometimes, but his image is tarnished by his dickhead fans (ie, the fully sick pseduo-’thugs’ riding around Parramatta blasting some radio track that everyone’s sick to death of). Onto the track though, The beat is HOT, and I mean HOT. Mr Budden seems to like cheesy hooks though, No idea why, he seems like an intelligent guy.

Joe Budden Feat Game – The Future

Death From Above 1979, everybody who knows them loves them and wishes they’d re-unite. Oh well, if you haven’t this, get it now. Indie Rock at its finest.

Death From Above 1979 – Black History Month

Oh my god, have you heard the new live Justice album. Insane, in-fucking-sane. ‘A Cross The Universe’ is a must. Here’s a little sample, it’s them banging out some fucking Metallica and mixing it with ‘tthhee party.’ It’s short, but fuck, you HAVE to hear this:

Justice – Final (Metallica)

Kanye West‘s album is out, hit and miss in my opinion, definently not his best album so far, but of course he tried coming from left field, but the album is better than I expected it to be. The best song from it is definently ‘Paranoid’ soooooo:

Kanye West Feat Mr Hudson – Paranoid

Kool Keith is so strange, I love it. Here’s a little gem he did awhile ago with none other than The Prodigy. You will love this:

Kool Keith Feat The Prodigy – Diesel Power

And because I’m generous here’s ‘Citizen Erased’ by Muse, which everyone should already have, but in case you like living under rocks, here you go:

Muse – Citizen Erased

Kanye West 2nd Single – “Heartless”

chriscds — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:37:21 +0000

So alot of bloggers have put up the snippet of “Heartless,” West’s apparent 2nd single of ’808s & Heartbreak.‘ Well without further fucking ado, I give to you, the full.

You’re welcome.

In other news, I purchased myself 2 tickets to his Sydney show on the 6th, hooray. However, Homebake is on the day same day, which really, really, really fucking sucks, because I love Homebake and am going to said event, and will have to leave early to be at Acer Arena by 7pm in order to get a decent spot on the dancefloor. I thought about not getting tickets, but then I saw that NAS is supporting, and Nas is fucking god. I hope he drops mostly Illmatic stuff to alienate the undeniably shit kiddies that will crowd Acer that night.

Back to the single, ‘Heartless,’ this is the Kanye you love, If “Love Lockdown” put you off, this will turn you back on. He is still using that kind-of-annoying-but-sometimes-okay auto-tune effect, but at least he is rapping on this one.

Kanye West – Heartless (zshare)

T.I, Kid Cudi, Weird Al Yankovic, M.I.A

chriscds — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:03:08 +0000

It’s been a week and a bit since I made a post, I’ve been quite sick and lazy. Hm. Well, T.I’s “Paper Trail” debuted at number 1 in the U.S, selling almost 600,000 copies in it’s first week, and on the Hot 100 singles charts ‘Live Your Life’ jumped from 80 to number 1, breaking the record that T.I already held for biggest single jump on the chart.

So he’s album is much, much sought after at the moment, and it deserves all the attention, rapreviews.com gave it 9/10, and they are mostly on point with their reviews.

So it makes sense to post up some tracks from ‘Paper Trail‘ that didn’t exactly make the cut, but it’s new T.I, so go nuts.

T.I – I Know You Miss Me (CD Quality)

T.I – Collect Call (CD Quality)

T.I – Get Dat (has a DJ talking at the start)

T.I Feat B.O.B & Ludacris – On Top Of The World (Remix) (Added verse from B.O.B)

Weird Al Yankovic is set to do for T.I what he did for Chamillionaire, ie, not much. Weird Al‘ is bringing out a new album and his first single is a parody for T.I’s ‘Whatever You Like.’ I’m not a fan, but you might be.

Weird Al Yankovic – Whatever You Like

The Crookers remix of Kid Cudi’s ‘Day N Nite’ is HUGE, at least in the Sydney electro scene. So I thought you hipsters might like to hear this. It’s the original remixed with an additional verse from everybody’s least favourite, but entertaining, ex-dipset crybaby Jim Jones.

Kid Cudi Feat Jim Jones – Day N Nite (Remix)

Everybody loves M.I.A. Lately, the U.S have been going crazy over her, rappers sampling her voice for major tracks, ‘paper planes’ blowing up on the charts, and now Jay-Z has hopped on a ‘Boyz’ to make a remix. So…

M.I.A Feat Jay-Z – Boyz (Remix) (there is an annoying website-promoter trying to sell his website throughout the song, but he doesn’t really detract much from the track’

I Know You Got Soul

chriscds — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:03:11 +0000

Ah, so recently I have had a few of my mates asking me about Hip Hop infused with jazz. You know, that hip hop that you show people who say they ‘hate rap’ and after hearing it they are like ‘hm I guess rap is ok then!

So I decided to put up a few of my favourite hippity hop tracks which have that jazzy feel about them, that real soulful feel. Download these, you won’t regret it.

If you liked the Kanye West song I posted in an earlier post (‘We Can Make It Better’) then you will LOVE these:

Pete Rock & CL Smooth – T.R.O.Y (They Reminisce Over You)

Little Brother – So Fabulous (samples ‘Wild & Peaceful’ By Kool & The Gang, amazing, amazing beat. The sample was used so well)

Slum Village Feat D’ Angelo – Tell Me

Souls Of Mischief – ’93 Till Infinity

The Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By

A Tribe Called Quest – Jazz (We Got)

The Roots – Mellow My Man (one of the best songs, ever.)

Miles Davis Feat Nas & Olu Dara – Freedom Dance Jazz

Now, I have all of Guru’s Jazzamattaz album series, unfortunately though, I don’t have them on computer, but you should definently check those albums out. They are perfect if you are looking for that jazz-hip hop fusion music.

Enjoy.

The Killers, The Cool Kids, Death From Above 1979

chriscds — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:49:59 +0000

The Killers are much-loved, much much much loved. So it makes sense that their first single, “Human,” from their upcoming album ‘Day & Age.,’ will be much blogged about in the coming days. It is said that fans of ‘Mr Brightside’ (ie, everyone) will love this song. Personally I prefer ‘When You Were Young’ over ‘Mr Brightside,’ and while I love this track, I do not see it being as loved as Brightside is. That being said, it’s still a fucking cool song:
The Killers – Human (Fixed Link)

Fuck! The Cool Kids are so damn fucking cool. Mickey and Chuck rocked the fuck out of the stage at this years St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, without a doubt the best set of the day (and the likes of Broken Social Scene, The Presets and The Panics delivered awesome sets that day as well). New tracks by The Cool Kids leak all the damn fucking time, and I can’t resist collecting them all, every track is just as cool as the other, these are no exception.

The Cool Kids – Fresher Than You

The Cool Kids – Wasting Time

Before he joined MSTRKRFT, JFK used to be part of an amazing band which you have heard of called ‘Death From Above 1979′ and if you haven’t gotten into these guys yet, do it, now. Fans of any genre from hip hop to metal will LOVVVVVVVVVVVVE this, and if you don’t you obviously have three 21st chromosomes (no offense to anyone who actually does)

Death From Above 1979 – Losing Friends

Death From Above 1979 – Blood On Our Hands

And as an extra, fall in love with this classic Bjork track:

Bjork – Army of Me

from Tom Morello to OutKast

chriscds — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:27:04 +0000

And the song of the day goes to a little gem off The Fabled City, a recent album by none other than Tom Morello, posing as a Nightwatchman and sounding completely different to what you would expect if you know the name ‘Nightwatchman’ purely by the fact that Mr Morello is a member of Rage Against The Machine.

This album is much more mellow than your typical RATM track. You will like this.

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman – Whatever It Takes

Now, onto Cold War Kids second effort, Loyalty to Loyalty, which is just as good if not better than their debut Robbers & Cowards. There is no song here as catchy and loveable as ‘Hang Me Up To Dry’ but, well, that song is hard to live up to. This song is great.

Cold War Kids – Mexican Dogs

Now, Weezer released their latest album ‘The Red Album‘ quite some time ago to alot of critical acclaim. However, just in case no one has checked it out I shall give you a song which is, for the lack of a better word, perfect. Rivers Cuomo has not sounded this good in awhile. Seriously, in my opinion, this is definently in the top 10 songs I have heard this year.

Weezer – The Angel & The One

Not much is heard about Wiley, aside from ‘Wearing my Rolex’ and the fact that he tried to rap over a badly done Daft Punk sample, and while he is in no way on Dizzee Rascal’s level, he is definently a good grime MC. While this track has a bit of a cringe-worthy hook, the beat is BANGING, if you love grime beats, which you do, you will love this beat.

Wiley – Local Lad

Now, two of my favourite songs ever are by the absolutely fucking amazing duo of Big Boi and Andre 3000, collectively known as OutKast. If you don’t know much about OutKast, then you are really missing out on some good fucking brilliant, genius music. Forget all that wanky wannabe-elitist narrow-minded bullshit about ‘all rap is not real music’ that you usually hear from people who are too scared to let their minds venture outside of the box they stuffed it in back when they did music for their HSC – this is some real fucking music.

OutKast – ATLiens

OutKast – 13th Floor/Growing Old

Paper Trail

chriscds — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:35:21 +0000

Woke up late this morning (well, actually, early for me) and missed one of my tutorials. Oh well. Let’s see what’s on the internet shall we? It’s only just over a week until T.I’s 6th studio album “Paper Trail” hits stores all over the U.S. So it only makes sense that it should hit the internet early right? RIGHT.

Now without a doubt I will go to the store as soon as Hum records gets this, so should you. If you’re one of those casual mainstream rap fans who had fun to Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter III‘ then you are going to completely forget that album even existed after you hear “Paper Trail”.

Because “Paper Trail” is FUCKING AWESOME.

Want proof?

T.I Feat B.O.B & Ludacris – On Top Of The World

T.I – I’m Illy

T.I – Ready For Whatever (explains why he did what he did, ie, purchase all those guns that will see him go to prison next year)

Get “Paper Trail” when it comes out!

Tracklist (with arbitrary personal scores):

1. 56 Bars (Intro) (8/10)
2. I’m Illy (7/10)
3. Ready For Whatever (7.5/10)
4. On Top Of The World Feat B.O.B & Ludacris (8/10)
5. Live Your Life Feat Rhianna (8/10)
6. Whatever You Like (7/10)
7. No Matter What (10/10)
8. My Life, Your Entertainment Feat Usher (8/10)
9. Porn Star (7/10)
10. Swing Ya Rag Feat Swizz Beatz (6.5/10)
11. What’s Up (What’s Happening) (7/10)
12. Every Chance I Get (8/10)
13. Swagga Like Us Feat Jay-Z, Kanye West & Lil’ Wayne (9/10)
14. Slide Show Feat John Legend (7/10)
15. You Ain’t Missing Nothin’ (10/10)
16. Dead & Gone Feat Justin Timberlake & Timbaland (10/10)

Love Lockdown

chriscds — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:55:10 +0000

So we got our first taste of the first single from Kanye’s upcoming ’808s and Heartbreak’ album. A few hipsters got on their music blogs, got trigger-happy and started posting up the UNMASTERED version of ‘Love Lockdown’ everywhere (the unmastered version features a hook which, well, sounds very amateurish and has heaps of undefined claps throughout the song).

Not this hipster, nooooooooooooo. I waited patiently until the MASTERED version leaked. And low and behold, it just did exactly that.

So here you go, you can now delete that unmastered, sucky version which made you think ‘what the hell!!!??’

This may still make you think ‘what the hell’ I personally think Kanye could have improved the verses. It sounds alot better though because the hook is mastered, he has added some more effects throughout the song as well.

Enjoy

Kanye West – Love Lockdown