Jadakiss - Letter To Big

download here

TOP 10 George W Moments

no words, just watch. 

The Tunnel Documentary

Just caught this looking back over some festive posts. 

Everyones heard the stories but seeing the footage it appears that it was indeed worthy of its rep. Rowdiness. Watch out for a cameo from a young Jimmy Jones. 

The Tunnel was closed in 2000 after someone in wheelchair let off a shot whilst The Lox were performing 'Wild Out'

Fabolous - Brooklyn We Go Hard

download here

Jimmy Jones and Funk Flex

Only posted this because Funk Flex said "gingerbread moves"

Plenty of other nonsense talk to waste 8 mins on that you'll never see again. 

PANEL DISCUSSION OF 'ARAB MONEY' ON HOT97

Rosenberg and friends discuss busta and ron browz ignorance, plus the price of plantanos. (2for$5 in washington heights, bloody credit crunch)

AND HERE ARE THE OFFENDING TRACKS:

ARAB MONEY:



ARAB MONEY REMIX:



REMIX PT 2:

Dj Premier day

because i decided it was

recent 'inside the actors studio' style interview with primo. the best part, lord finesse telling puffy he didnt know sh*t about hip-hop. ha

Best of Premier '93-'97 download here

Jay-Z - A million and one questions

MOP - Stick to ya gunz

Biggie - Kick in the door

Nas - Memory Lane

Brand Nubian - Future

Jay-Z - D'evils

O.C. - My world

Rakim -When i be on the mic

Nas - Nas is like

KRS-One - MC's act like they dont know

Biggie - Unbelievable

KRS-One -Rappers r in dainjah

Jermain Dupri - 1472

Rakim -Its been a long time

Crooklyn dodgers - Return of the crooklyn dodgers

Janet Jackson - Together again

Big Daddy Kane -Show and prove

Show & ag - Next level

D&D all stars - 1,2 pass it

a little old school primo jam, BDK, ODB, Shyheim and pre 'who shot ya' fast rapping Jay-Z

UK FREENESS - Wretch 32 In a di ghetto video

Wretch 32 has dropped his INA DI GHETTO VIDEO ft Ghetto n Badness - straight Hard Barz! Check it out below, you can also download Badness's Reggae Flavoured Uncalled IV EP HERE:

Wiley's Cash in My pocket Remix ft Frisco, P.Money & Daniel Merryweather is here:


LOADSA OTHER UK STUFF OUT THERE AT THE MOMENT , CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW:

Alwayz Recordingz ft Black the Ripper
Wretch 32 - Deja Vu Rmx
Sway - What you know about
Hot Chip ft Wiley - Step by Step
Tinchy Stryder, Fuda Guy, Dillusion, Soljah - Nah Fam
Kyza Smirnoff - Night in
Kyza Smirnoff - Don't Make you Heft
Kyza Smirnoff - The way
Jme - Scotland
Bashy - Man at home (Love lockdown cover)
Wiley ft Nasty Jack - Complete Remix
Lady Sovereign - I got you Dancing
Frisco - Ignorant
Frisco - Skeng Man Mode
Mr Snowman - Untitled
Kid Bass ft Sincere - Good girls like rudeboys


And finally an old gem that I'm feeling:

The Strokes vs Dizzee Rascal aka The Reptilian

----FRIDAY FREENESS-----

some good shit this week thnaks to the usual suspects u know who they are. check the links


Souls Of Mischief-Tour Stories

The Game-Show Is Over

SHOW IS OVER - THE GAME

LET'S GET IT - YOUNG CHRIS & PAPOOSE

JINGLE BELLZ - JUELZ SANTANA FEAT. STARR

LISTEN UP - EPMD FEAT. TEDDY RILEY

 Oh Oh, Yeah Yeah - Keyshia Cole feat Nas

Day N Nite (rmx) - KiD CuDi feat Collie Buddz

DICK PLEASER - LIL WAYNE FEAT. JAE MILLZ (NO DJ)

MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNMENT - T.I.

Gifted - N.A.S.A. feat Kanye West, Santogold & Lyyke Li

Kilo (rmx) - Ghostface feat Malice & Raekwon

Slept On Tony - Ghostface

Run (rmx) - Ghostface ft Jadakiss, Lil Wayne, Raekwon & Freeway

WE ROLLIN - BUSTA RHYMES FEAT T.I. & REEK DA VILLAIN

Shooters For Hire - Tony Yayo feat Uncle Murda

4 DA FAM FREESTYLE - JADAKISS

BK ANTHEM - JAY Z (DJ)

 SO SPECIAL (RMX) - MAVADO FEAT. FOXY BROWN

Ghetto Youth Rocks - Jr. Reid feat Lil Wayne (Dirty)

PRINCE crashes Q-TIP concert and grabs the guittar

Jimmy Jones goin in for the holidays

"i believe in santa, im waiting for him to come down my chimney because i been a good boy"

THAT, JUST, HAPPENED!!! (c will ferrell)

looking to take over the underground scene, jim gets the jansport on with kid cudi, the capo gets love in any arena!

Busy Signal fucked your girl

And she liked it!

Download mp3 here:

Video below - vixens courtesy of Black Jack Skanz

Thanks to Hattie for the heads up on this

Vinnie Jones - US Bar Brawl

Vinnie Jones is renowned in the UK for a series of punch ups (both on and off the pitch) and other headline grabbing, violence related issues. He has been quiet for a few years whilst he has been in Hollywood - However it seems the old Vinnie is back with a bang.

Bar brawl, punch up and a glassing!

I doubt the US press will take as kindly to this kind of behaviour as the Brits have in the past.

Full video CLICK HERE - hell at least the guy is real!

Caught Out Mr. West

Kanye recently did an interview where he said his single Heartless sounded "like something RZA would do". After thinking about it I realised, it was in fact, something RZA HAD done already. 

Just have a listen to the sample on Heartless here. (the great people at GE wont allow me to embed the video)

Then listen to this. 

GZA - Liquid Swords 

FRIDAY FREENESS!

IT WAS JAY-Z'S BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY
SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIGGA!! 39 years old NOW and clocking on, hes as old as your favourite old school rapper, kool g rap the godfather! So young hov we salute you as 40 is the new 20 LOL

so on that note he goes hard at 40 i mean 39 !

Brooklyn (We Go Hard) - Jay Z



AS FOR THE REST OF THIS WEEK, THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD SHIT INCLUDING NEW EMINEM AND NEW SHIT FROM THE CLIPSE ON HERE THANKS TO THE USUAL SUSPECTS

DAJAZ1, MR EXCLUSIVE, LOWKEY AND DIGITALUNDAGROUND AND SOME OF MY OWN LINKS!

Busta ft. Ron Browz, Diddy, Swizzy, Akon, T-Pain & Lil Wayne - Arab Money (Remix)
HEAVYWEIGHT - LIL WAYNE
B.o.B. ft. T.I. - I'm That Nigga
Nas - Something Foul (DJ)
Q-Tip ft. Al Kapone - Evolution Of A Man
LISTEN UP - EPMD
Busta Rhymes ft. T-Pain & DJ Khaled - Blown
CAN'T GET RIGHT - SCARFACE FEAT. BILAL
SET IT ON FIRE - EVE
Blown - Busta Rhymes feat T-Pain & DJ Khaled
PROBLEMS - JADAKISS
JUST KNOW DAT (FREESTYLE) - RICK ROSS
Bitch I Need That - Gucci Mane feat Yung Joc (DJ)
Digital Girl - Jamie Foxx feat Kanye West & The Dream
On Smash - Camp Lo feat Styles P & Pete Rock
WHERE YOU FROM - THE GAME & FABOLOUS
NUMBER ONE - EMINEM
Supplier - Lil Wayne feat Shawty Lo & Trey Songz
Bang Bang - Lil Wayne feat Jae Millz & Gudda Gudda (No DJ)
IN DA CLUB - LIL WAYNE FEAT. SWIZZ
MISUNDERSTOOD - CASSIDY
WHERE IS CASS AT ? - CASSIDY
CADDY - GORILLA ZOE FEAT. TRAE
YO - EPMD FEAT. REDMAN

clipse - road to till the casket drops

WESTWOOD CIRCA '96

More nostalgia, heres an mp3 of the rap show with dj riz in the mix. Dj Riz is one of the best, you should not be disappointed with this mix, as a bonus you also get to enjoy westwoods hilarious amercian accent "kicking phat flavas ... aaaaaiiiiight!!" haha

 

download all 3 hours here

WU-TANG CLAN - M.E.T.H.O.D. MAN REMIXES

Courtesy of cipha sounds. If your old enough you would of heard the 'westcoast' remix on the radio back in the good ol' nineties. Well now you can have it on mp3. 

download here

NEW YORK SPORTS TALK

Ny Mayor Bloomberg "gunning!" (get it) for Plaxico Burress 

Bloomberg is not happy that Plaxico decided to take securities advice to remove the bullets from his gun literally and wants no more shots busting off in LQ or any other nightclub. 

Heres some quotables as well as more details of shady business attempted by the Giants to cover it up. Oops

"Our children are getting killed with guns in the street. Our police are getting killed," the furious mayor said in demanding Burress get no special treatment for his alleged crime and coverup.

"I think it would be an outrage if we didn't prosecute to the fullest extent of the law."

The state Health Department and NYPD launched investigations into New York-Cornell Hospital, which finally admitted it broke the law by hiding the fact that Burress - under the alias Harris Smith - was treated for a gunshot wound.

Bloomberg trashed the Giants after it was revealed that cops learned about the shooting only from television reports hours later, despite the team's apparent knowledge of the events. The mayor added that anything short of the mandatory 3½-year minimum for Burress, if convicted, would be "a sham, a mockery of the law." (ny post)

Burress charged with two counts of felony posession of a weapon in the second degree.

Stephon Marbury banished from the Knicks 

After some brooklyn stubbornness from Stephon, the Knicks tell him to stay away whilst they think of a way to not pay him $20 million for doing so. 

Marbury not happy, expressed this with another crazy quotable

"it’s like we’re in a foxhole and I’m facing the other way. If I got shot in the head, at least you want to get shot by the enemy. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn’t even give me an honorable death.” What!?

As Charles Barkley said "If Lebron wants to come to New York, he better win the championship because if he doesn't they gonna kill him!" Indeed.

Colbert has some words for kanye

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Operation Humble Kanye

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Bonus: colbert sons o'reilly (a classic)

Production Corner: Kanye, Dilla, Evidence & Alchemist

Over at kevnottingham.com it's Kanye week, take a look. Heres a couple of highlights pre autotune.

Complete discography of the Kanye/Jay-Z collabo (here)

Complete mixtape catalogue (here)

From this week, Kanye's thoughts on Dj Premier.

Heres a story from questlove? about j-dilla and pete rock. So you can judge from the excerpt below whether that interests you or not.

dilla: NONONONONONONONONO!! naw man….you can’t let him (pete rock) hear this man i cant afford that!
?uest: afford what? this shit is a miracle!!
dilla: nah man….like i dont want no tension. that’s my idol (pete rock)i dont wanna give off the impression that im trying to outshine him….

Read full story (here)

New Evidence ep The Layover leading up to full album coming soon, pretty hot.

download (here)

friday freeness- this weeks links for the best hip hop from accross the pond.

Drought Is Over Pt. 6 - The Reincarnation (Mixtape Link)

Joe Budden ft. The Game - The Future

I FEEL ME - LIL WAYNE (NO DJ)

HEARTLESS (RMX) - RICK ROSS

One More Drink (rmx) - Rick Ross feat Blake

DEATH WISH - JADAKISS FEAT. LIL WAYNE (DJ)

SOMETHING FOUL - NAS (DJ)

Young Jeezy ft. Pharrell- Rumor Has It (Prod. By The Neptunes)

Common Ft Cee-Lo-Make My Day

Bust Your Windows (rmx) - Jazmine Sullivan feat Jim Jones

ARAB MONEY (RMX) - BUSTA RHYMES FEAT. V/A

No War - Barrington Levy feat Busta & Kardinal Offishall

Just Blaze ft. Lil Wayne- Get Dumb (Number One) |Prod. By Just Blaze|

Lil Wayne ft. The Game- Red Magic |DJ|

And now Giggs..

Has recorded 'The Last Straw', it's a beef track.
Who is the target?
Two Industry execs @ MTV and BBC Radio.
I won't name and shame them but if you watch the video...

Giggs will :)

WILEY - LABEL COMMENTS

Only Wiley could drop it like this, the comments on his Manager are below

Im Saying This To Every1 Who Likes Cash In My Pocket There Is A Problem Since I Done The Track Some Idiot From The Label Decided He Would Take A Grime Lyric From Another Tune And Slow It Right Down And Try To Fit It In The Tune It Sounds So Shit Ive Jus Heard It Now Im Goin On Every Radio Station To Talk About That Is A Disrespect To Me And My Musical Style We Dont Do Shit Like This It Sounds Rediculous And Im Very Angry That Some1 Has Done This Even If I Go High In The Charts I Will Wipe This Shit Version Of Cash In My Pocket Out Of My Mind And See You In The New Year When I Will Be Back With My Own Creative Control Instead Of Ben Cook Or John Woolf Or Any Prick Who Does Silly Things Like Adding A 145 Bpm Lyric Down To A Band Played Tune With A Much Slower Tempo I Cant Even Listen To It I Will Never Accept This Ever John Woolf You Are The Worse Manager On Earth Nick Detnon Would Piss On You I Advise Artists To Stay Away From John Woolf He Does Shit That You Would Want To Kill Him For Believe Me I Want To Kill Him Amongst Others If He Was Infront Of Me Now I Would Empty A Whole Clip At Him For Doin This Stupid Cash In My Pocket 3rd Verse Mockery Please God Save Me Realtalk I Said It

THEN THE RANT ABOUT CASH IN MY POCKET REMIX:

.... and another pop at his manager, the tramp.. lol

Mark Ronson Must Of Felt How I Felt Thats Why He Didnt Wanna Do The Video

Now You See What Type Of Idiots This Label Are Making Me Sound Incapable Please Forget This Tune As Quick As Poss If You Can I Cant Hear That Version With A Fake 3rd Verse And I Will Never As Long As Im Alive Perform This Song With That 3rd Verse Init Trust Me Ahhh If You Knew How Mad I Am Right Now Watch The Video For The 1st Time And Its That Shit Version Of The Tune John Woolf I Am Gonna Get You I Promise 1 Day You Will Pay For This You Tramp I Hate You

Im Too Good On The Mic For Some1 To Do That To Me Bruv Too Good That Sloppy Sounding Refix Is Killing Me I Jus Wanna Die Now Im Goin Mad You Know What Im Goin On Holiday And When That Tunes Done Its Course I Will Come Back Dont Even Talk To Me About That Tune Ever I Will Smash Up Ur Car If You Even Say To Me Wiley I Love That Cash In My Pocket Tune John Woolf Is .............

YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Wiley we salute you


Thanks to FIRSTUP.SE for the heads up on this - hilarious, full text is here:

Jimmy Kimmel gets "racial"

Hilarious

DMX laying it down.

Kano 48 Bars All video and audio

Kano recently recorded a 6 part '48 bar' series of videos to promote his album 140 Grime st, the audio has now been made available as a mixtape: 48 Bars - Vol 1.

click the image to download the audio plus check the full series of vids below.

48 BARS PART 1- 2 Much Bars

48 BARS PART 1- 2 Much Bars

48 BARS PART 1- 2 Much Bars

48 BARS PART 2- A Lot

48 BARS PART 3- I Hit The Roads

48 BARS PART 4- THE ONE

R.I.P MC BREED

The Michigan veteran rapper  died this weekend just gone.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends this week.

UK FREENESS - Bethnal Green, Butterz Old school set, Street Soldier, Tenchuassassin, Kyza Smirnoff, Bashy.com n more..

BETHNAL GREEN:

Dirty Danger and Slix's new video offering Bethnal Green is below. A dose of weird, wonderful, off the wall, cheeky chappy humour from the Ruff Sqwad boys - it's different, it's catchy and hugely tongue in cheek (We hope) - luvin it.



Doctor and Ny's new video Street Soldier is below - standard UK fare, decent beat, strong bars from Doctor, ok vocals from NY. Overall an uber cliche 'hood video' with Ny sporting some of the worst makeup work we have yet seen - look out for the snazzy FX on Doctor's stunners - blink n u miss it!:



Butterz has just uploaded a banging old school mix set cop it here:

Tenchuassassin has been on stuff with his ukk hh/grime vs manga mash ups on youtube - check em out here:




Kyza Smirnoff's new freestyle Vibe-Rater is here:

Click the image below for Bashy's new cynically titled mixtape Bashy.com



And the rest:

As promised the BE COOL REMIX ft Wretch 32, Sway, Bashy, Tinie Tempah, is here:
Too Many Man ft Jme, Wiley, Frisco and Skepta is here:
I slapped Your girl - Jme ft Skepta is here:
Do you Mind Remix - Cousins Ft Wiley, Bashy and Kyla is here:
She's Glowing Remix - Wiley, Ghetto, Kano is here:
Touch Me - DMT is here:

Despite having the gayest title of the year the Chase n Status album 'More than a lot' is actually pretty fucking good - click the image to buy the album and support the lads. Or click track titles below to cop a couple of freebies off the LP.



Against All Odds - Chase n Status ft Kano
Pieces - Chase n Status ft Plan B

friday freeness! YA DIG?

NORE ft. Busta Rhymes & Ron Browz - Rotate

Chamillionaire ft. Ludacris - Creepin'

BEST THING - LIL WAYNE (DJ)

Welcome To The World - Kevin Rudolf feat Rick Ross

Nyce ft. Mobb Deep - Who The Fuck Is This

FREESTYLE - RICK ROSS

Sandman - Nasty (prod. by Pete Rock)

DJ Drama ft. Nas, June Summers & Smoke DZA- Yacht Music

TURNIN ME ON - KERI HILSON FEAT. LIL WAYNE


DJ Drama ft. Snoop Dogg & Akon - Day Dreaming

Swagger From Us - Jim Jones, Lil Wayne, Twista & Noe

Back On My Bullshit - Uncle Murder

KNOWLEDGE IS FREEDOM - AZ FEAT. CASSIDY

Dedication 3

Lil waynes D3 is out there baby!
And now its right here in the www.ainthardtotell.com baby!

Be Cool REMIX - Wretch 32, Sway, Scorcher, Chipmunk, Bashy, Tinie Tempah - EXCLUSIVE

EVERYONE ON THIS REMIX - COP A COPY OF WRETCH'S ALBUM BY CLICKING THE IMAGE OF THE MC's IN STUDIO BELOW.

IF U WANT US TO UPLOAD THE HIGH RES MP3, THEN WE WANNA SEE SOME COMMENTS ON THE YOUTUBE VIDEO!!

HERE IS THE YOUTUBE UP OF THE TRACK AS A TASTER:


CLICK THE MTV LOGO TO VOTE FOR THIS TRACK ON THE BASE CHART:

Ludacris (feat. Nas & Jay-Z) - Do it for Hip-Hop

download here

This Luda album looks to be gearing up to be quite the event.

Tying in with above title. Below are a bunch of people that prove love and respect for the essence and being a fan of the music will do alot for your longevity in the game. 

SEMTEX TV: DELA SOUL, MOS DEF, NAS, WILL I AM, KANYE WEST, DAMON ALBARN ROC THE MIC @ THE G.O.O.D. MUSIC AFTER PARTY, LONDON, UK from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.

Uk Freeness - Baaaarrreee tunes

Right Peeps, a whole bag of trax for u this week:

Bit late with this one but below is the BET UK Cypher featuring Skepta, Ghetto, Chipmunk and Giggs - I was pretty shocked to see how shit some of the UK's supposed leading lights really are when put on the spot. Ghetto and Skepta are laughably bad, Giggs and Chipmunk do ok and aren't awful but Jesus guys, you are reppin your homeland, put some effort in! As far I'm concerned this was another embarrassing day for UK MC's. Make your own minds up by checking the vid below:



Chipmunk is back with his newest track 'The Beast' ft Loick Essien, it's pretty good so no hatred from us today, download it here:

And here is the video:


Kyza Smirnoff has been keeping us entertained over the past 11 weeks with his weekly freestyles, a real mixed bag but you can cop all 11 here:

Click the image below to sign up to receive all future freestyles:



Now for the rest:

Mr Scruff has an album 'Ninja Tuna' out now, Nice up the function ft Roots manuva is here:
Kid Cudi - Day n Nite - nebulla Dubstep Remix
Slakah ft Drake - Enjoy Your self
Express Train - Skreintax ft Stig of the dump
Sway - out now
Natty - Bedroom Eyes - Roots Manuva RMX
Dem na like me - Wiley ft Qemists
Paper Planes - Diplo RMX ft Bun B, Poor Boy
Put That Pussy on me - Diplo Rmx
Reload it - Kano, diplo RMX
Giggs - Talking The Hardest Freestyle
Trim - Say It Aint So
Mesheck Ft. Nasty Jack and Stormin - Axe FM (15/11/08) - Live Set

Friday FREEness

Not a lot of good shit this week but here you go !


FREESTYLE - STYLES P & MAX B (NO DJ)

Joell Ortiz- Air Ya'll

SHOOTERS FOR HIRE - TONY YAYO FEAT. UNCLE MURDA

Styles P - Bloodshed


Lil Wayne ft. Gutta Gutta- Get Silly Freestyle |NO DJ|


See You In My Nightmares - Kanye West feat Lil Wayne

ARAB MONEY - BUSTA RHYMES FEAT. RON BROWZ
AMAZIN - KANYE WEST FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY


Styles P - Canadian Kush

Lil Wayne jumps the shark '08?

Kanye West ft. Lil Wayne - Tell everybody that you know

Entourage may of not been the only thing to jump the shark this year then.

Film Review: Role Models

I have no idea about this film but I just wanted to post the opening paragraph of this review found at slamonline because it was quite amusing (National Guard = T.A. in the UK I'm guessing) Here it is:

by Omar Mazariego

Before I get into the movie itself, what’s really good with that National Guard “Citizen Soldier” recruitment music video they play before every movie these days? They even got Kid Rock to do his own National Guard recruitment video. I’m not surprised though. He risked his life by hittin’ those Pamela Anderson skins. Who’s to say he wouldn’t risk his life for America?

But in the Citizen Soldier video it’s crazy dramatic: A bunch of soldiers go and rescue a P.O.W. who’s laid up in an empty house with absolutely no security, just him in a corner looking like a sauced-up David Hasselhoff when his daughter TMZed his ass. Can that be accurate? If it’s that easy to save a P.O.W., how come Rage McCain spent half a clip with 10 fingers stuck in five finger traps? Also, in the music video they show a soldier pick up a deflated football on some battlefield and then he just stares into the nothing with a look of grief that I’ve seen on the faces of people who just found out they’ve contracted an STD. Is a deflated football that serious? Who is this guy, Joe Namath? I guess that could drive a “Joe the Plumber” soldier to the brink of insanity, but I find deflated things in my hood all the time. Deflated footballs, basketballs, baseballs (I’m still trying to figure that one out), tires, birthday balloons, wigs, booties, dreams — everything you can think of. But you didn’t see me jumping out of a helicopter trying to rescue my barber when he was kidnapped by Colombians when he didn’t pay them what he owed. Nah, I let my hair grow for damn near a year till they let him go. I was straight wolfing that whole time cause I’m a ghetto soldier, but a citizen soldier I am not. And I have no intentions on becoming one.

FRIDAY FREENESS------ YA DIG!

LIL WAYNE THE LEAK V

Styles P Ft Snyp Life-Fly Like An Eagle

Jay-Z-History

ELECTION NIGHT - NAS

Jadakiss Ft Max B - When I Grow Up

WHEN I GROW UP - JADAKISS FEAT. MAX B

SUNSHINE - CROOKED I

ONSLAUGHT - SLAUGHTERHOUSE

COME FOLLOW ME - SHEEK LOUCH & STYLES P (NO DJ)

Pop Champagne - Ron Browz & Jim Jones feat Juelz Sanatana

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

VIVA LA HOVA


TIME FOR CHANGE DJ PREMIER

THANKS TO ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS- DAJAZ1, JV @ DIGITAL UNDAGROUND, AND LOWKEY AND XCLUSIVEZONE

Obama Commentary - Dizzee for Primeminister?

JOKES interview!!

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

"This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people"

CRaziest Man In England!!

This has nothing to do with Hip HOp, its culture, politics or any of our usual topics

But it's fucking funny

So here we go - enjoy:

This guy is a Total Nutcase

Jay Electonica - Exhibit A

Just Blaze back in the game is much needed. 

This s**t is hot. 

download here

Tonight we also need this. Lets see if a dream becomes reality or the nightmare continues. 

Slaughterhouse - Onslaught

Royce, Budden, Crooked and Joell got a name now. 

  

 

Heres the new track (download here)

Joell wins?

The Visual Pause

You get a pause for watching this.

THE NO HOMO REPORT AND JIM JONES ENJOYING JAY-Z "PAUSE!"

JIM JONES LOVES JAY-Z (NO HOMO) from Urban News Network on Vimeo.



the best use of pause ever @22 seconds

friday goodies!

Last week the internet police took down my post and threatened to close down the great "aint hard to tell" blog. As a hater I gotta say fuck em!!!! So im carrying on the friday freeness tradition.


So first things first! i know a lot of people been waiting for this Budden Street album. having had a listen i couldnt help but think it wasnt as good as mood musik or the latest set of freestyles. Budden still a beast doe!!!

JOE BUDDEN - HALFWAY HOUSE


JOE BUDDEN - HALFWAY HOUSE
01. Intro
02. On My Grind
03. Overkill (Feat. Heartbreak)
04. Check Me Out
05. Sidetracked
06. Slaughterhouse (Feat. Joell Ortiz, Nino Bless, Crooked I & Royce Da 5′9″)
07. Under The Sun
08. The Soul
09. Anything Goes
10. Go To Hell
11. Just To Be Different
12. Touch & Go
(shouts to JV @ Digitalundaground)

These next two lil jems thanks to LOWKEY @ xclusivezone

Joe Budden Ft Coldplay-Those That Are Dead

Joe Budden Ft Coldplay-Back Against The Wall

Now for the rest of the free shit!

Royce Da 59 Ft Talib Kweli & Raekwon - Give Up Your Guns

King Phaze ft. Styles P, Sheek Louch & DMX - Yonkers Anthem

Kanye West - What It Is

Kanye West - Coldest Winter (Full/CDQ)
Kanye West - Robocop
Mos Def - Life In Marvelous Times
COMPUTER LOVE - GHOSTFACE
Listen Up - EPMD
Give Up Your Guns - Royce Da 5'9 feat Talib Kweli & Raekwon
LIVE YOUR LIFE - T.I. FEAT. RIHANNA
I DONE DID IT - MIKE JONES FEAT. LIL WAYNE
SHINE THROUGH - LLOYD BANKS
GO HARDER - VIC DAMONE FEAT. RICK ROSS & REDMAN
FIGHT SONG (JAY E RMX) - GOOD CHARLOTTE FEAT. THE GAME
I'M SO PAID - AKON FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY & LIL WAYNE
Juelz Santana, Fabolous, Jadakiss + Ace Hood - BET Awards Cypher 1

AINTHARDTOTELL EXCLUSIVE DJ PREMIER INTERVIEW

Yes, yes Peeps,

We have an exclusive for all you Primo fans out there. Below is the full uncut transcript of a recent interview with the Production great, he covered his production methods, views on the current scene, touring plans and a load more. The published article appeared in last Tuesday's Metro. You can also read it here:

Big Shout to Raving Rahul on the hook up.

What are your Touring plans?

Doing Europe, Asia did the same as last year. End of year, it’s a money maker and we get to promote music we got coming out on my label yearround recs. Have a release by NYGz out last October and we’re working on new album, pros and cons, produced totally by me.

Dropping an album for Black Poet, out in January, so we’re touring now so he come back out in January to promote that. Spread it around.

Poet’s out with us. Really really good album, real hardcore, back to the traditional style of what we like, hard beats and hard rhymes.


Have you Changed your production methods?

I like to stick to tradition. Very obscure samples, where people who are fans try really hard to search for them and figure them out. There are a lot of websites right now that try to cater to what I sample, I like the fact that it makes them search, they see how deep I go. Some of them say, aw man I had this record.

Producers are like wow it’s right under my nose. So it’s kind of a challenge and fun, but also comoplicated – part of being a producer. Love the art form, of sampling, still play instruments and respect musicians, coz without them we wouldn’t have anything to sample.

So you prefer to dig crates?

OH ABSOLUTELY. I have not changed that AT ALL. I still do that the same way. I don’t go online, no that’s not my thing, I go and buy records and hope that I find something that I can twist and convert into a hip hop formatted beat. You have a lot of cats that go on online and friends of mine, do that Alchemist does it, showbiz does it, find samples and manipulate them in a way that I appreciate, but I’m used to digging on records, whether it’s dirty or clean, and let the brain go to work on looking for something unique that’s going to fit the sound I’m looking for – usually I hear a sound in my head first then I try to find the sound to match what I’m looking for.

I have plenty of drums, chop em down, extend em. Look for new drums. I’m a drum person, that’s my thing, I like to play drums, that’s my trademark – people say I know from the way the drums came out it was you, or how the beat drops, it’s me.

So really the sample can make the same drums sound different and that’s down to the ear. Some people try to copy me, it’s still competition and I want to win every time and take that first place.

For me it’s just fun, using a drum machine and sampler to make beats. I’m 42 year old, I’m proof age is no limit, if you still want to do it.

What do you think of the current obsession with autotune?

T Pain brought it back out, Kanye, doing the whole European thing, well it’s called European style but it’s not but that’s down to Cher’s Do U Believe, everyone jumps off something that becomes popular and tries to extend. Kaney is one of the best producers of the new generation. It’s really good – chosing his words quickly – that he dares to be different and I heard his whole album sounds like that. Everyone is doing it. I WILL NOT DO IT. I swear to god I will not do that. I’m gonna stick to my script.

The fact is that hip hop came from the ghetto, someone has to preserve the origins of the music, those elements, even if the mainstream goes in other directions.

I was raised on the original hip-hop style from NY, I like that traditional style to still exist. Hip hop came from the ghetto and someone has to preserve the origins, even if the mainstream goes in other directions. Artists like Jay Z are not in tune with the streets because of their success and tax bracket.

They don’t have people around them telling them what’s really, really proper because they’re not in that world anymore. They still represent hip hop to the fulluest extent, but they don’t have the same advisers, so to speak, in their circle.

Me, everyone around me is so hood and so ghetto, and at the same time, so am I. Even though I’m originally from Texas, and ride horses, I’m country but ghetto.

Oh shit the AC/DC album is out buy that! Sorry… I’m an ACDC fan and I’ve been waiting to get it

Someone has to do that style, that’s where I come in. If that style goes away then hip hop will decline. Major label department it sounds like it’s over and hip hop don’t sell like it used to it. But in the independent world, it’s fine, where we originated. Hip hop is fine. It’s not taking a slump, now we cater for our market and we don’t care about outside our market of original hip hop. We don’t count them.

Kind of like being a member of a club house. You know what it takes to have a membership if you don’t represent that membership, now you’re just people we know.

Blaq Poet brings back the rawness, like KRS One, Marly Marl, Kool Moe Dee, hardcore yet lyricist, lyrics make you go wow. Complains about things I complain about, so he’s a voice for me except I can’t rap, and he’s a voice for a whole bunch of people.

No one right now is daring to do that. Said on song we did
Poet’s coming. Remember the days of NWA, that’s real, that’s cutting edge, didn’t care about radio, didn’t care about anything – cared about making music that catered for people who didn’t have anything.

Those people need to be counted too. Poor people need to be represented not just the rich and middle class.

Joe Budden wants some male bonding time (pause)

Joey wants 3 weeks with Royce, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I to make an album. Will this materialise, if it does happen, its likely to be the proverbial hot s**t. Joe Budden new album "Padded Room" is out now. You can go buy it from Amalgam Digital or steal it with some google searching skills.

last weeks links

THIS WEEK WE KICK OFF THE FREE SHIT WITH A LIL  VIDEO CHYPER FROM THIS WEEKS BET AWARDS  SANTANA RIPS IT AND JADA AND FABOLOUS DO AIGHT THE JURY IS STILL OUT FOR ACE HOOD!.....

CHECK THE LINKS BELLOW FOR THIS WEEKS FREE LINKS
Wale - Ridin' In That Black Joint
Saigon ft. Lil Fame - WW4
Duo Live ft. Billz, Joell Ortiz, Red Cafe, MOP, & Uncle Murda - Shootin' (Pt. 3) (Final Ver.)
Kanye West - Heartless (Final/Mastered Version)
LOST (RMX) - COLDPLAY FEAT. JAY Z
NOBODY'S FOOL - FREEWAY
LOVE 2 BALL - FREEWAY
JESUS LOVES YOU - SAM SCARFO FEAT. GHOSTFACE
I'M A BOSS - YOUNG LIFE FEAT. LIL WAYNE & PAUL WALL
U GOTTA LOVE ME - DEUCE POUND FEAT. RICK ROSS
DAY N NITE (RMX) - JIM JONES
GETTIN UP (RMX) - Q-TIP FEAT. EVE
MOVE - Q-TIP
We Don't Play That - Mista Raja feat Sheek Louch & Bully (No DJ)
Forgot About Me - Cassidy feat Fatz, G-Ali & Pheel Harmony

AND TO FINISH OFF THIS WEEK WE BRING YOU SOME CLASSIC SHIT ON THE FRIDAY FREENESS SECTION

FIRST WITH DJ JAZZY JEFF LIVE IN THE MIX BABY!!
CLICK THE PIC TO DOWNLOAD
Thanks to mick Boogie

 

AND FINNALLY THANKS TO JV AT THE DIGITAL UNDAGROUND WE HAVE 3 CLASSIC FREE MIXTAPES THAT WERE HANDED OUT IN 1994 FREE WITH THE SOURCE MAGAZINE.


The Source - Fat Tape (October 1994)
1. “Hit Me With That”-The Beatnuts
2. “Playa Playa”-Big Mike
3. “Sub Crazy”-Method Man
4. “Let’s Organize”-Organized Konfusion
5. “Escapism”-Keith Murray
6. “Give Up The Goods” (Just Step)-Mobb Deep
7. “Murder MC’s”-Black Moon
8. “Summertime” (Al’s Solo)-Ill Al Skratch
9. “Shade Business”-PMD
10. “One Love” (1L aka V.I.C. & Godfather Don) Remix-Nas
11. “Rockafella”-Redman
12. “Constables”-O.C.
13. “Paystyle”-Too Short
14. “Vapors”-Biz Markie
15. “Love’s In Need”-BlackStreet
16. “Danger Zone”-Big L



The Source - Fat Tape (October 1994)
1. “Hit Me With That”-The Beatnuts
2. “Playa Playa”-Big Mike
3. “Sub Crazy”-Method Man
4. “Let’s Organize”-Organized Konfusion
5. “Escapism”-Keith Murray
6. “Give Up The Goods” (Just Step)-Mobb Deep
7. “Murder MC’s”-Black Moon
8. “Summertime” (Al’s Solo)-Ill Al Skratch
9. “Shade Business”-PMD
10. “One Love” (1L aka V.I.C. & Godfather Don) Remix-Nas
11. “Rockafella”-Redman
12. “Constables”-O.C.
13. “Paystyle”-Too Short
14. “Vapors”-Biz Markie
15. “Love’s In Need”-BlackStreet
16. “Danger Zone”-Big L



The Source - Fat Tape (November 1994)
1. “C’mon Wit Da Git Down (Remix)”-Artifacts f. Busta Rhymes
2. “A Million And 1 Buddah Spots”-Redman
3. “Ma Duke”-O.C.
4. “Ghetto Love”-Big Mike
5. “Heaven & Hell”-Rae & Ghost
6. “Let’s Get It On”-DJ Eddie F f. Puba, Pac, B.I.G., Heavy D, etc.
7. “Come Take A Ride”-World Renown
8. “She’s A Bad Mamma Jamma”-Carl Carlton
9. “The Rhythm”-Bas Blasta
10. “The Most Beautifullest…”-Keith Murray
11. “Hard To Kill”-Spice 1 f. Method Man
12. “Hand Of The Dead Body”-Scarface f. Ice Cube
13. “Shorty’s Doin’ His Own..”-Shorty Long