Give a man a sampler and he thinks he’s a king. Give a man two samplers and he thinks he’s Jason Statham.
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Note: bizarre vocal is illegally sampled from Statham/Li vehicle “War” - what is it good for? absolutely nothing.
I finally got round to picking up Jay-Z’s American Gangster on CD, as pictured. What you can’t quite read on that picture is the little sticker, which states:
Jay-Z
American Gangster
New Album
Conceptual Body Of Genius Work
Emphasis mine.
Behind the times as usual, I just got round to listening to Sway’s new mixtape (available from the big link on his myspace). It’s big like largeness. This is on top of We Got It 4 Cheap 3, which is also fully embiggened. I am in a happy mixtape place.
I think my near non-existent internet deejay skillz are actually degrading. Sketchiness aside, here’s another (almost) half hour of fresh sounds (some of which are over 15 years old).
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Rather than simply doing a Nimmo satisfying tracklist, I’ve added some directors commentary:
1. NYGz - Gz & Hustlaz: I heard this on Preem’s excellent [...]
I was browsing through my home directory on our much abused torrentmachine when I discovered a track of my own creating, from some time in the past. Entitled “A Letter To My MP”, from what I recall it’s creation was prompted by three things: Mr Stanyer and my feeling that “The General Concern Society” was [...]
I just happened to stumble on the 2007 Best of Booty - haven’t actually finished downloading it yet, but based on previous years I’m sure it will be top notch mashy goodness. El Nim points out that this year it’s continuously mixed, in the popular DJ style.
To round out the new year period, a few poorly mixed minutes of some hip hop tracks that banged last year - with plenty of notable absences - Brother Ali, Turf Talk and UGK aren’t in there for example, despite being great, primarily because I didn’t have them to hand when I decided to do [...]
Product demos with a guy bustin’ out are festive, right?