Blogger blocked in China...and more youtube

Oh GOD! Blogger is now blocked in China as well. Oh well, that's VPN for you all :)

Anyways. I decided to post up another youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1mo26TKuSE

This is Lupe Fiasco's American Terrorist feat. Matthew Santos taken from Lupe's debut Food and Liquor.

Overall a very nice track, one of the better lyrical ones on the album.

Peace

Phew i haven't been on lately.

Wow i realized i haven't blogged in about 4 days! School's been really busy lately so meh...
Anyways i just realized, The Cool Kids recently released yet another mixtape, Gone Fishing.
Download link here...

http://coolxkids.com/

Peace.

My "Mixtape"

As i said before i spend a lot of time on Yahoo! Answers, especially on the Rap Hip Hop section. Most newcomers or strangers to the section think that this section is where we can questions like, "When is Eminem's New CD droppin?", or "What is the name of this song?". Instead, it's more like questions like "Rap Hip Hop Game?" or "Most annoying Troll in this section?" or "Low End Theory > Midnight Marauders, Buy Or Sell?" For most regs the RHH section, we use this question to play games or test each other's knowledge or hip hop and sometimes just to debate topics.

My question that caught my eye was, "RHH Mixtape?" and it was a game. You had too just put iTunes on shuffle and choose the first 15 songs that would be your mixtape.
Anyways here is mine...
1. Slick Rick- Adults Only
2. Jim Jones- We Fly High (Ballin')
3. Kanye West- Breathe In Breathe Out
4. Lupe Fiasco- Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)
5. Atmosphere- Glasshouse
6. Nas- Hate Me Now
7. Immortal Technique- Freedom of Speech
8. KRS-One- The Eye Opener
9. Ghostface Killah- Dogs of War
10. Pete Rock- Let's Go
11. Talib Kweli- Hip Hop is...
12. Papoose- Stylin'
12. T.I - Live Your Life
13. Q-Tip- Shaka
14. Jedi Mind Tricks- Godflesh
15. Nas- The World Is Yours

Yeah i just thought that was pretty cool...

Peace

Yahoo! Answers

Bloggin is pretty dope shit but if you really wanta catch me go here. http://answers.yahoo.com/my/my;_ylt=Am.VmCnoYejKIla7wdLsst7py6IX;_ylv=3
Yahoo! Answers is like the friggen best website ever guys!!


Peace

More youtube!

Wow yes! I finally got my Hotspot Shield to work so i might as well post up a bunch of Youtube links while i can! :D

Okay... Down here we have Cunninlynguists- The Gates (feat. Tonedeff) from one of my all-time fav albums, A Piece of Strange. Kno's production on this track is amazing. He uses several loops, strings (guitars i think) and a mysterious backdrop of a girl singing/wailing. Lyrically this song is deep, as it deals with a man meeting God at "The Gates" and talking about his life, raising his baby girl alone, his inner struggles etc... Also guest Tonedeff who plays the man does so superbly with matchless flow and emotion.
My favourite track from A Piece of Strange and one of my favourite Cunninlynguists songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0AKTjs5Z0


Peace

Youtube of the week

Yeah i know youtube's not working in China, except at school so here we have it for youtube of the week. Hopefully all you international cats can catch this.
Kool G Rap- Fast Life feat. Nas
One of my favourite G Rap's songs of all-time, Nas verse is also delicious.
Off the album 4,5,6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6E1jHc6hM

Peace.

More upcoming releases

Aight guys looks like May's going to pretty awesome! In addition to Blackout! 2 we've got Eminem's Relapse 1, Busta Rhymes, Back on my BS. Also we've got Guru (of Gangstarr) back with yet another solo album, 8.0:Lost and Found, and finally my personal favourite, AZ with another solo album, Legendary. This is going to be a great month!

Peace

May 19th 2009

May 19th is the day to be excited for! After 10 years of hiatus, Redman and Method Man return for the long-awaited sequel to their acclaimed album Blackout! from 1999, amazingly this album went platinum after only 3 months of release. Get ready to for Blackout 2!

Peace

Del The Funky Homosapien

Del, a very underrated yet mature emcee has released another album. However, with great innovation Del takes a leap and releases it to the public completely free!
No spam, no nothing.

http://delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com/

Peace

Best Albums of the 1st Quarter

For those of you who don't know, K'Naan is a one of a kind rapper, born in Somalia he later immigrated to New York before settling down in Toronto, Canada. Troubadour is his 2nd studio album, in his 2nd album, K'Naan again deals with a wide range of topics from his childhood to Somalian Pirates. That said, his sound moves more from rap to alternative rap, or more popish. Guests include Kirk Hammett (of Metallica), Chubb Rock, Mos Def, Chali 2Na, Damian Marley and Adam Levine (of Maroon 5). Production was also pretty solid from Track and Field. 8.5/10

CunninLynguist's first concept album A Piece of Strange is an amazing piece of work, and the emcees from the south again live up to expectations. This albums deals with a man's struggles with raising a baby girl alone, right and wrong in addition to quoting multiple bibical references. Guests include Immortal Technique, Tonedeff and Cee-Lo, in addition the production by Kno is amazing. He's use of loops, horns and keyboards add to the albums depth. 9/10.

Nas and Kelis filing for divorce!!

It's official! Nas and Kelis are officially filing for divorce! After 2 years of dating and about 4 years of marriage its officially over. Right now Kelis is 7 months pregnent with a baby boy. And Nas is stuck with a Kelis tatoo on his arm... maybe he should ask Pharrell for a professional tat remover.
http://rapgodfathers.com/news/8681-kelis-files-for-divorce-from-nas

Peace

Rock the Bells 09

Yeah anyways, i just found out something awesome! Apparently Busta Rhymes, GZA and the Knux have been added to the annual Rock The Bells concert! All the more reason to come check it out.

Also, for T&F Day my times were...
400m: 1:02
800m: 2:39
I'm still not sure about my 100m times, i think i got about 13:30 though.


Peace

T&F Day

Woohoo! Tomorrow is Track and Field Day! Another day of school wasted HAHA.
This year the events i'm doing are the 100m ,400m, 800m, and also the long jump, i dropped the 1500 last minute...
Anyways yeah i'm timings for this year (not all my best) are: 100m: 13.8, 400: 1:05, 800: 2:40, all my running events are pretty good for a 14 year old freshmen, but my long jump is measly 3.6 metres! Meh

Also i'm representing my "region" (kinda like houses) for the 4x100m relay. Today in our first practice we got 55 seconds which is pretty bad. Hopefully we'll improve it tomorrow!


Peace

Roots 2nd annual picnic

http://www.okayplayer.com/rootspicnic/

Aight okay to keep along with this whole "rap hip hop concert" theme, i have just found the lineup for the 2nd annual Roots picnic. This year it features Public Enemy, Asher Roth, Black Keys, Tv on the Radio, Antibalas, Kid Cudi and more. This years lineup doesn't really impress me, i guess the only real point of going would be to see The Roots or Public Enemy, also having Kid Cudi is also another good way of attracting more people.

http://rapgodfathers.com/news/8287-rare-public-enemy-performance-highlights-roots-2nd-annual-picnic

Lasts years lineup was pretty solid overall too, Gnarls Barkley, The Cool Kids, Jazzy Jeff, Sharon Jones and more etc. If you guys are in Philly around early June go check it out!

Peace

Rock The Bells 2009

Alright guys, i'm still getting used to using this blog tool/thing/whatever but from what i've seen of other blogger's pages, this shit is pretty cool. Anyways, as usual i got off task in Chinese class and started looking at other things, NBA scores, facebook etc. when i came across Guerilla Union's Rock The Bells 2009 Lineup.

http://guerillaunion.com/ scroll down for the poster.
At first glance i thought it would be weaker than last years lineup
http://consequenceofsound.net/2008/04/22/rock-the-bells-reveals-2008-lineup/
with artists like Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, De La Soul, Ghostface, Immortal Technique, Murs, Dead Prez, Raekwon etc. last years hosts were B-Real, Supernatural and Scratch
A lineup like that is pretty damn hard to beat, but thats when i checked out the 2009 lineup, Nas, The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, Damian Marley, Talib Kweli, RZA, Raekwon, and of course... K'Naan! Anyways this years host are pretty spectacular too: Pete Rock, Murs, Supernatural...and KRS-One!

Anyways check it out guys! Hopefully Rock The Bells 09 will come to a city near you! Unfortunately for me however, i haven't heard of any other Rap concerts down in Beijing, China so i guess i'll just have to watch the concert online or download a video of it.

Peace.

School

Today in Chinese class, i watches this boring ass video on Blogging. This in turn made me want to write my own blog, but the weird thing is in the video, it was an interview. And the "famous" blogger interviewed turned out to be a 4 year old girl... So yeah, whatever she can do, i can do better :D