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On Saturday May 31st, Cmonwealth x Wale x 10.Deep will be releasing a limited edition t-shirt to commemorate the Mixtape About Nothing at their DC store. Store opens at 11AM but the shirts (which come with a free copy of the mixtape) won’t go on sale until 1PM or whenever Wale decides to show up for work as he will be an honorary Cmonwealth employee for the day. DJ Alizay will be there holding it down.
Cmonwealth
1781 Florida Avenue NW
DC 20009
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Big ups to Ye and Don C. for showing us love
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Daily Dose: Daily MP3 Blog coming June 1st
Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.
The ATTIGO: TT is the brainchild of Dundee University student Scott Hobbs and is basically two digital turntables (with waveforms displayed) that allows DJ’s to “loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record.” Scott is currently looking for manufacturers interested in producing the ATTIGO
I can’t help but think they weren’t inspired by the recent South Park episode discussed here on Elitaste
‘Nothing’: Something Special
Wale Deftly Riffs on ‘Seinfeld’ Themes
By Sarah Godfrey
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, May 27, 2008; C05
Leave it to Wale — tight MC and unabashed “Seinfeld” fanatic — to successfully mine a sitcom about a neurotic comedian fond of tight jeans and white sneakers for nuggets relevant to hip-hop music and culture. “The Mixtape About Nothing” can be appreciated by “Seinfeld” admirers who aren’t so big on the hip-hop music and by heads unfamiliar with the term “shrinkage,” but for those who are fans of both the music and the television show, the album’s arrival is like Christmas, Hanukkah and Festivus all rolled into one.
D.C. native Wale (who is signed to Mark Ronson’s Interscope imprint, Allido Records) doesn’t just rehash the most ubiquitous jokes and sayings of the show for laughs. The project, a freebie for download at Elitaste.com beginning Friday, is a tribute to a series as well as a look at mainstream hip-hop’s struggle to overcome vacuity.
The rapper lays out the mix-tape’s basic premise on “The Opening Title Sequence”: “If you love substance, you love Wale/But most [expletive] love nothing, so I made this tape.”
The intro also has Wale posing questions in Jerry Seinfeld stand-up fashion (”What’s the deal with . . . ?”), examining everything from ring tones to Eddie Murphy’s love life. Wale’s queries are set to the show’s bubbling, gassy theme song, and D.C.-area beatmakers Best Kept Secret, who skillfully handle production duties for most of the project, manage to tease out the previously unnoticed funkiness of a TV theme seared into our collective brain, thanks to nine seasons of shows and reruns that live on in perpetuity.
Elsewhere, Wale uses slices of the series’s hilariously inane dialogue about the minutiae of life as a jumping-off point to dig into serious business. “The Perfect Plan” begins with a snippet from an episode in which Jerry and his foil, George Constanza, devise a scheme to swap Jerry’s current girlfriend for her roommate — but Wale, over a go-go pocket beat, moves on to talk about the sinister plot to water down rap music. Soulja Boy features prominently, natch.
Even the show’s cast gamely gets in on the fun: Julia Louis-Dreyfus stops by and does a funny little drop, during which she curses and says she’s Wale’s “biggest fan.” But not every “Seinfeld” player is treated as well. “The Kramer” rightfully skewers actor Michael Richards by rehashing his infamous comedy club rant as Wale riffs on racism and self-hatred.
“The Mixtape About Nothing” sports tracks that aren’t exclusive to the project. “Rising Up,” Wale’s collaboration with the Roots from their album “Rising Down,” along with a remix of Wale’s single “Nike Boots,” featuring Lil Wayne, and the Ronson-produced “The Remake of a Remake (All I Need)” provide a break from thematic material. There is also fresh music not obviously tied to the “Seinfeld” premise, including Wale’s shout-out to Baltimore club music, “The B-More Club Slam,” produced by one of the genre’s pioneers, Scottie B, and “The Star,” a rip on e’erybody who expects a free ride on Wale’s coattails.
Even when “The Mixtape About Nothing” strays from its overall premise, it’s gold.
Wale is scheduled to perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion on July 27 (as part of the Rock the Bells tour).
This stuff is great. I’m a huge ginger beer fan; the spicier the better. This is a perfect balance between sweet and spicy. It kinda makes you cough a little but to me that’s the sign of a good ginger beer.
I’m all about trying new beverages when I leave the US. Foreign sodas are usually pretty interesting. If you’ve ever been to Coca Cola headquarters in Atlanta, at the end of the tour, there is a room with almost every soda Coke makes from around the world. Like Japanese Lychee nut soda. Or South African Ginger Cola. Before I moved from Atlanta after college, I made a special trip to the Coke museum just to experience this room as I’d heard about it from many people. (more…)
