Now that Madden finally dropped I think it’s worth talking about this song since it’s featured on it. This song is over 2 years old but has made quite the journey from DC to 100 MILES & RUNNING to a Redskins playoffs remix to Madden09. Does it have life beyond this? I think so. Is the country ready for the Huck-a-Bucks sample, HitterQuitter’s production and Wale’s flow on this record? I tink so. Peep the DJ Infamous remix for the Levi’s Unbutton Me campaign.

Some people might know Truck Turner as a 1974 blaxploitation film starring Isaac Hayes. Others might remember Truck Turner as an NY rapper signed to Jive in the late 90s. I don’t think he ever dropped an album but I was going thru my external hard drive with all my old music and found his “Symphony 2000″ remix featuring Pun, Kool G Rap and KRS. It was pretty good. He was also on that “5 Boroughs” joint from the Corruptor soundtrack

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Somehow Truck Turner got on a track with Alicia Keyes like RIGHT before she blew up. I mean, this song sucks straight up.

Remember when Dilla was JD and he was in a group known as SV and it just so happened he had produced a lot of classic hip hop including ATCQ? I am all about him being memorialized but back in the late 90’s, Dilla was nowhere near the God he is now. Kinda unfortunate.
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Nike essentially created another type of shoe we needed to have

But remember how sick Barry Sanders was? And Bo Jackson (really sad he never got to realize his potential). You can’t sell a lot of football cleats to people who don’t play football. But you can sell CROSSTRAINERS!

And PRO STARS!

Just got this for my desk. One of my favorite movies of all time.

Saw this post over at Nah Right where Just Blaze talks about his first placement which was this. I totally forgot about this record but looking back, this beat is fire! And yo, Ma$e dancing? Was that acceptable back then? Why don’t we see more dancing rappers now? Discuss.

Edit: Wil May is quick to point out this album included some of The Neptunes earlier placements. Thanks Wil, we knew that.

Here it is, a few days early, The Rock The Bells Mixtape from DJ Alizay.

Please download it and spread it around!

This is one of my favorite Jigga songs ever. His first verse is so fire:
Who be, in a Jappy restaurant, eating sushi
Drinking saki, it’s me, and my mami with the doobie
Cutie, smellin like Miyake, half-Phillipine thing
For now, let’s call her Suki, got me, booty bangin
Properly, in Versace pants, cocky bow-legged stance
A thing of beauty, watch me, body crazy
Tits Firm like Nature, Foxy, Nas and AZ
Truly reason to bug the toolie and keep laced in jewelry watch me
Girlie tried to lure me and lock me you gotta get up early
Cause who’s gettin played is not me
“Surely you jest,” she said, “if you thought I was purely
out for the bucks you woulda fucked stuck and dropped me”
I said maturely, “You right
but better safe than sorry, but for the lovebirds
can move to the suburbs, I need to double check your story
To make sure that you one of a kind
And you deserve to be my Sunshine”

Off Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1

And speaking of Lyricist Lounge…remember Lyricist Lounge show?