The 45 King, Swedish TV and a bit of history.

The 45 King is dope.

He is perhaps one of the best producers in the history of hip-hop, from being the brain behind big hits, to pushing the envelope of nearly everything quite successfully.  If you are a proper old school fan and vinyl collector, then you more then likely know this, if you aren't I strongly suggest that you read up on him.  I was inspired to put this up by nahright.com (big respect!) who featured this video and a couple of others.  I added my own two cents because I am a zombie and blog cribbing from color schemes to ideas isn't our style.  I also own some 45 king records so I'm a fan.  This video is about the making of Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life" (a song he produced) and you can watch the full version here.  Peace Swedish TV.  Mer information ;P

Big L Tribute! R.I.P. sir... May you never be forgotten.

 If you haven't heard of Big L, then go cry in the corner.  Seriously, he is one of the best mc's from New York ever.  Sadly he was taken from us fans, eleven years ago and far too soon.  Biggie and him are sorely missed and skills like theirs won't be found for quite a long time.  In my never ending hip-hop blog wandering / time wasting*  I found something that is very very cool, apparently Tony Touch did an entire show dedicated to Big L, he let DJ Premier (!!!) take over too, NICE and the nahmean.com article on it includes a radio rip. I met Big L's mom a few years ago and she was really cool, out of respect for her well-being and due to the simple facts about the music industry I hope everyone out there will purchase Big L's stuff rather then download it.

I'd suggest grabbing the rip I mentioned without the two different hour break downs off of DJ Premiers blog but the link died.  Folks gotta' grab things quick out there huh?  Either way the good stuff is up on nahmeans thing.  Also, I love listening to what DJ's all over the country are up to, especially in markets where I can't listen...  Or satellite, you know, whatever's clever.  If you work for a dope station from San Fran to Montreal to Atl. or outer space please take note of this.  You've got an untapped market, leave the ads in and please feed me.



classic..

Thank me later.. 

-schmootzie

African Hip-Hop gets Zeffed up? The Crumbville Times:

The Crumbville Times: 

Hip-Hop music is certainly respected world-wide, from Russia, to Japan, to Australia to basically everywhere else (seriously) there are beats and lyricists galore.  We zombies aren't exactly annoyed by this, in fact we have Canadian, British, American (and Asian-Asiafile? wtf?) voices going into our posts so...  Its good to always have at least the beats rhymes and our lives to talk about.  Right?  Well, we have that and of course discussing zombie life...  That gets boring though. The music stuff is much better.

Anyway, a couple weeks ago I came across a link (provided by 바나나) to a video by a South African group called Die Antwoord (or "The Answer" in Afrikaans) called Enter the Ninja.