"Hey Yo I'm slippin, I'm fallin, I can't get up..."

Yooo, just watched this again (didn't really like it that much the first time i saw it about 10 years ago) and i was feeeeeeeelin it. Although the plot may have had a few loose ends, the style and the cinematography blew me away. There was also some interesting Marcus Garvey/Nation of Islam discussion within it, really didn't expect the film to attempt to delve that deeply intellectually. Loved how darkly a lot of it was shot, especially in contrast with the super bright whites. Hype Williams defintiely managed to cross over from music videos successfully. On top of that, how could a hip-hop head not like a movie starring DMX (who unfortunately has had a rough couple of years...), NaS, Method Man, and T-Boz (from long lost TLC!)...the soundtrack is also really dope, i highly recommmend if if you miss some old school Earl Simmons and late 90's hip-hop. Check out a few of them below!



Opening scene of the movie, siiiiiiick. The song is PERFECT for the scene.




Probably my favorite D'Angelo song of all time, gotta love the Premo beat. Mr. "How Does it Feel" has not graced us with an album for 9 years now, what happened?




Brownsville!!!

Check the flava...

Lil somethin bout Toddla T - "Weaned on the teat of bashment from a young age Mr T rolled through his early years on his hands and knees with ears glued to the speakers of his folks’ hi fi. Making beats, bass, blunts and girls filled his adolescence until he was crowned as inhouse studio boff at Sheffield’s Kenwood Studios at the grand old age of 19." -Last.FM

Seeed - Rise and Shine

Another slow flow impeccable track by those Dubby Conquerers Seeed straight outta Berlin. Its the English version, enjoy C-Low, peace to all from icy cold Jahmeny.

"Sign of the times, her Emilio Pucci sneakers, ghetto literature..."

What's good peoples? H-Man presentin y'all with a little post, after this last two very looong ones. Hope you guys enjoyed the show, been gettin really positive responses and im already preparing the next one... Props to Knutz on comin back to postin game, he's hittin y'all up from Germany right now after a brief stint in the Congo (post them pics KNUTZZZZZ!). So, in case y'all had no idea, I've had a wee bit of a sneaker fever since 6th grade, and it's no secret that a lot of rapper seem be afflicted with the same conditions. The publicity Kanye's been gettin for his Air Yeezy's with Nike and his line with LV (I'm a huge fan of both...) got me thinking about my favorite songs about sneakers. Here they are, and i appeal to all of you with nice sneakers that i wish i had, PLEASE take care of them. Saw a dude with Jordan V Laney Highs the other day that were TRASHED, fuckin made me sick...



Wale - Kicks



The Cool Kids - Colors



Oddisee- Propa

Seeed - Double Soul

First off Big it UP !!! to my man H for bumpin the radio show #1 out there. Hiphop on the pulse! (That Stunntastic sample ... takes me back to the sunrise in Human Traffic... fresh!)

This one hear is going out to my Lady LéLaLuv. Goin through a lot of struggle and trife right now, but we a make it!

one love

"Guerilla Radio, turn that shit up!"

YOOOOOO. The time has finally arrived! I Introduce you the first episode of Fresh Like Green Tea Radio! I've been working on this project for a little while, this is the surprise i had promised for you guys for the new year. Had some problems with distance as my sound engineer, none other than Dragon himself (whom I highly recommend contacting if you are looking for an engineer for a project, michael.freyer@gmail.com) who lives in NYC, my other engineer is in LA, so as you can imagine its hard to get shit done fast. Just as a precursor to your imminent listening pleasure, this show was recorded around 5 a.m on January 19th, hours before the inauguration, and you should be able to tell at some point, but i happened to be pretty smashed...Soo now i'll cut the chit-chat and let you download this baby!

Fresh Like Green Tea Radio Episode 1 - 1/25/09

PLAYLIST

1. Blaqstarr - Stuntastic (Diplo Mix)

2. Alchemist - Therapy (ft. Kid Cudi & Blu)

3. Mr. Hudson - There Will be Tears

3. Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak (ft. Kid Cudi

4. Jake One - The Truth (ft. Brother Ali & Freeway)

5. Geto Boys - Mind Playin Tricks

6. Lil' Wayne - What Else Is There to Do (skit)

7. Icon The Mic King - Love is Love

8. Booba - Nouvelle Ecole (ft. Mobb Deep)

9. Wale - Pot of Gold (ft. Daniel Merriweather)

10. Jedi Mind Tricks - Heavy Metal Kings (remix. ft. Ill Bill)

11. Busta Rhymes - No War (ft. Barrington Levy & Kardinal Offishall)

12. Foreign Beggars vs. Rouge a Levres - Hit That Gash

LATE INAUGURATION (Wake up Mr. Turner?)

Hey hey my fellow children of the beat, H-Man somehow made it back into the building after yet another eave of absence...i promise to try to stop doing this, but sometimes i feel like my life gets a little out of hand, when left to my own devices and alcohol i seem to shirk away from my responisibiities a bit. In case y'all don't know, i do live in Washington D.C, and last weekend was a great weekend indeed (hence the no H-Man entries...) so i thought id give you the inauguration play by play from Sunday onwards...

SUNDAY

After a day of rest preparing for the festivities, Sona and I headed for the URB Magazine Pharoahe Monch Inauguration concert. After some venue location confusion (which did allow us to meet Chuck Brown, the godfather of go-go!) be finally made it to Bohemian Caverns. The first surprise was the Charles Hamilton was in the building, and he gave us a few track to open for the main event, looooooved hearing "Brooklyn Girls" live from about a foot away (you knooooow I was front row baby!). Pharoahe came onstage around 1 am, he ROCKED THAT SHIT. He played everything i wanted to hear, my favorite song "Desire", his chorus from his collaboration with Styles P ('The Life") and even his verse from "Oh No" featuring Mos and Nate Dogg. Of course he closed with "Simon Says", which sent the crowd into a complete frenzy. Ended up chatting with him a bit at the end and i have to say that the man is truly a hip-hop God (or perhaps a "poetical pastor"?) My partner in crime and fellow RIDAH Mike a.k.a MJ a.k.a Dragon made it to DC that night from NYC, so the night definitely ended up extremely drunkenly after some serious drinking at Marvin ,so much so that an impromptu dance party between Mike and I defintely happened in front of Rashizzle's apartment complex. By dance party i mean that we pumped the system in the car as loud as it would go and opened all the doors and danced outside it...woooo...


















MONDAY

After some well deserved sleep and home-cooked omelet, i headed to the city to attend the Stussy x Commonwealth inauguration party at the Stussy flagship store with special guests Wale and Bun-B. OPen bar, 9th Wonder ended up spinning for the whole event, and David Banner and Sonic the Hamilton made brief appearances. After 6 or 7 red bull vodkas, Sona and I and our new homie Bryan decided to head out drinkin, before meeting up with Mike and Rashizzle. We ended up bar hopping our way to the rendezvous and meeting up at this place called the Russia House, which lived up to its name cuz i got tanked on vodka. ended up back at Rashid's, recording a little surprise for y'all that will be dropping tomorrow night and drinking whiskey. Went to sleep facedown on the caret around 5:45...








TUESDAY

Wake up facedown on the carpet to people's alarms going off about the room at 6:15...grand totaly of MAYBE 30 minutes of alchol induced sleep. The first thing i did was try to pull myself off the floor to get going to inauguration, which i failed to do miserably, as my arms somehow failed me and i smashed my face on the coffee table in front of everyone. Then we headed out, me, still wasted wearing sunglasses even though it was dark. We tried to take the metro, but it was too full, so we WALKED 5 MILES to the national mall, separating ourselves from the group. We stayed throgh Obama's speech at which point the partying and drining and no sleeping finally caught up, so Mike and i hiked back to VA, where we went to sleep and ate Thai food, and wondered where everyone else was. Ridin has its toll my friends...big ups to Mike, who I will be going back to NYC to ride with in the very near future...

HipHop from the Rhyme Main

"Its the, N-O, T-O, R-I, O U-S, you just, lay down, slow..."

Yo yo, wuzzup peoples? Just walked through my door, went and saw "Notorious", just walked through the door, and all i can say is that Biggie is already BUMPIN from my speakers right now. I really enjoyed the film. I went prepared (and sort of expecting) to walk out really disappointed, but it wasn't the case at all. Despite the overglossed look of the film ( i would have preferred a much rawer and grainier style), they stayed true to his story (although the Pac element coulda been a bit more developped, as well as his North Carolina connect...) MAJOR ups to Jamal Woolard for playing Biggie TO A T. Facial expressions, swagger, and changes in intonation were perfect. Even though we ALL know the end of the story, the end still had me almost choking up, the scene really brought the emotion out. I advise any Biggie fan to go the a movie theater immediately and check it out. Peace y'all...and Biggie; we miss you.

Sound of Istanbul - Crossing the Bridge

This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie Sound of Istanbul, by the acclaimed director Fatih Akin. The movie contains hiphop punk classic gypsy and all the other sounds that fill the streets of the city on the Bosporus, the border between the Asian and European continent. These are real street musicians, and the voice of the city street, just like biggie in the heyday.
Speakin of which:

"Straight up weed no angel dust, label us NOTORIOUS"

As many of you hip-hop fanatics already know, it is now officially t minus 2 days until the release of the long awaited Biggie biopic. Though it will in no way be as gritty as the subject, whom we all love and miss so dearly, it is definitely showing some signs of promise. I personally am going to see it on release day, and urge all of you to do the same. Let's just hope it lives up to the lofty expectations we all have...Anywhose, heres an interesting article my homegirl Pantera sent me, about finding the REAL Brooklyn that remains from BIGs time.

Biggie's Brooklyn

"N.Y State of Mind" (or lack thereof...)

Happy New Year my faithful followers (like all 6 of you...ha)! I apologize that I had to take a leave of absence for such an extended time, but its been a hell of an almost month. Got back from New York last Tuesday after a full 6 days of serious drunken and disorderly behavior. Somehow got 3 nose bleeds in the last 2 days i was there, despite not having snorted anything up my nasal cavity. I guess too much drinking makes the blood seriously thin! My visit to the MoMa was the only cultural event of my stay, a most enjoyable afternoon (Pashy!), especially the Miro exhibit. I was supposed to have been spending the entire holiday in sunny Miami, but after some heartbreak (sans the 808s...) ended up in mile high Colorado for Christmas, and in NYC for New Years. Notice that this time there is some photo documentation of me (though i do look rather like i belong to some kind of terrorist cell...) so no Ghostface pic needed as adornment. I also post the short recap of my trip on Fresh Like Green Tea instead of on Attack The Wakk because even though i definitely ingested a minimum of 20 drinks a day, a sum far superior to my last visit, there were no embarrassing misuses of the Spanish language or rat chasing in the streets (though i do recall kicking trash bins over for a couple blocks...) Even went to a brunch place called the Sunburnt Cow, and Australian joint where one pays $18 for one choice of dish and ALL YOU CAN DRINK. Let's just say that i ended up being there for over 5 hours. So, now the H-Man is back, and the surprise he promised for the new year will be comin soon...) Big thanks to my Fam for flying me out for holidays, and to Dragon, Pantera, and Cok De Ridah for ridin so hard! And lastly, my three albums for 2009 that i am awaiting with impatience: Wale, Kid Cudi, and of course the return (relapse?) of Eminem!

Eric Sermon feat. Marvin Gaye

druff druff druff

Swoon Units

just a lil somethin to keep you lyricly warm during these crispy cold days