Badu & Weezy!!! Powers Combine

So just like a second ago, OKSG wrote me to tell me that somewhere there was a new Erykah Badu & Lil Wayne track floating around somewhere. A bit of quick sleuthing proved that there was a very rough rough bit of this awesomeness. It's called "Jump in the Air and Stay There" and there are (according to the ever-reliable Okayplayer crew) ten different versions featuring ten different MCs and it's uncertain whether the track will make the album. Well, I, for one, can't wait to hear all ten, but a muffled version of one works for me for now. Hope it makes the cut.



This news comes on the heels of the glorious news (via Pinboard blog)that Miz Badu's album is pretty much "in the can" and will be dropping early next year. 2010 is already looking like fi-yah!

Flying Lotus x Lil Wayne x Muhsinah

FlyLo doing the damn thing right now. Here are a couple of remixes/ collabos that are sounding dope.
First is a remix of Lil Wayne's "I Feel Like Dying"



which you can download over at XLR8R along with the heavy HEAVY instrumental which you can freestyle over while feeling like dying...

and second is this great track "Lose My Fuse" that he produced for the lovely Muhsinah



which you can download here

enjoy!

Edan - Echo Party

Edan is back at it again with a forthcoming album on Stones Throw, check out this new awesome video snippet from the project called "Echo Party" created by Tom Fitzgerald (a film archivist for the The Silent Theatre in Los Angeles).

Unreleased Jackson 5 x Stevie Wonder

An unreleased Jackson 5 track written by Stevie Wonder, from a forthcoming unreleased J5 masters album...gotta love the unreleased treats.

Buttercup (via pinboardblog.com)

Chauffeur - Soles on Fire

For some reason, I had been silently avoiding the debaucherous word jumble that is Mark Ronson's "Authentic Shit" East Village Radio show. But the other day,with nothing else to do, I revisited the show and was pleased to hear it was as shambolic as ever while still serving up the hot exclusive tracks -- like the one below.

I'd heard that Mark Ronson was creating a supergroup with indie faves Theodophilus London and Sam Sparro, but hadn't heard whether anything had come of it. Well something did and here it is. Like the show and indeed Mark himself, the track is kind of a mess, but I still love it and can't stop going back for more. Looking forward to more tracks from this act.

Jay Electronica "exhibit C' radio rip

Admittedly, its a bit difficult to get excited about new hip hop in 2009. The genre which I once was so impassioned about (and still am to a certain degree) has suffered immeasurably in the last decade (decade and a half?)for various reasons. Still despite all of this and the tempting assertion that 'hip hop is dead,' I still do get excited when I hear a great verse over a hot beat, delivered oh so well, as only a handful of rappers, I feel can still pull off today. But lets face it, hip hop isn't dead. While the proclaimation that it is, was an interesting, perhaps necessary and thought provoking marketing strategy, it can't die. It simply can't. Why you may ask? As long as a new hip hop song is still maintaining those aforementioned and rather simple characteristics that make a hip hop song good, as well as staying creative by experimenting with and trying new things, it remains alive- not necessarily in the best shape overall, but alive nonetheless.

Jay Electronica is an emcee who I feel is staying true to the core elements of hip hop as well as being creative and new with it. 

"Exhibit C" (produced by Just Blaze) is exhibit a of  new hip hop today in 2009 still being able to produce songs that are alive....and well! 

"Exhibit C" - Jay Electronica

Douster "Triassic" Video

Triassic from natilu on Vimeo.

This is the teaser video for Douster's new album out today on the homeboys ZZK Records. Im really loving this video, I think it was executed sublimely with the track a great offering from the Frenchman who puts forth his mix of funky, tropical, and fidget house into a delicious mixture. I believe the video was done by his wife Natilu.

A-Trak + Armand Van Helden = Duck Sauce

I am loving these two videos for the new Duck Sauce (collabo between A-Trak and AVH) track "Anyway". The second half of 2009 has been a little slow on the jams, but this tasty track definitely gets the seal of approval as a 2009 classic!

Duck Sauce "aNYway" (Surface To Air version) from A-Trak on Vimeo.

La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy

Y'all know me. I am sucker for super slick stylized ish, and so I could not resist the charms of La Roux's "I'm Not Your Toy" video. However, the music itself did leave bit to be desired. I figured a little remixing would probably make it work for me, so I proceeded to seek them out.

The dubsteppy Nero remix below does not disappoint.

ArtDontSleep : Skid Row Sessions

ArtDontSleep: Skid Row Sessions w/ Pharoahe Monch, Shafiq Husayn, Om'Mas Keith, and more.... from Plug Research on Vimeo.

Here is some footage from a recent jam session put on by ArtDontSleep featuring some of my favorite (LA) musicians including members of Sa Ra(Om Mas and Shafiq), Brook D Leau of J Davey, the super awesome Thundercat, and he legendary Pharaohe Monch(of Organized Konfusion). This are some accomplished cats who are really getting down in a free form environment, gotta love that!

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Viola
Gene Coye - Drums
Mark De Clive Lowe- Keys
Om'Mas Keith - Drums, Keys
Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner - Bass
Shafiq Husayn - Keys, Ambient
Alla Koi - Percussion
AinJoy - Sax
Brook D'leau - Keys

special guest - Pharaohe Monch

Download audio here