Saturday, 29 November 2008

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)


Thursday, 27 November 2008

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 :)


Wednesday, 26 November 2008

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:

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Jimmy Kimmel gets "racial"

Hilarious


DMX laying it down.

Monday, 24 November 2008

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.
http://blackcelebritykids.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/large_mc_breed.jpg

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
Link


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

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

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:

Monday, 17 November 2008

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:

Kyzawebphoto.jpg

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

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Lil Wayne jumps the shark '08?



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.

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

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"

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

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. 


Monday, 3 November 2008

Slaughterhouse - Onslaught

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

  
 


Heres the new track (download here)

Joell wins?

Sunday, 2 November 2008

The Visual Pause

You get a pause for watching this.