Beats, Rhymes, Life

1. If you have a soul, you stopped listening to The Black Eyed Peas somewhere after Bridging The Gap and the release of Elephunk. Without a doubt, everyone at some point has had their fill of the global pop group. Needless to say that Will.I.Am is the braintrust and one true talent of the bunch, yet he’s been equally annoying in his existence, plus he produces for terrible acts. Well, apparently NASA disagrees with everything I just said. About half and hour ago they blasted Will.I.Am’s new single ” Reach for the Stars” via the Mars Rover to pretty much the whole galaxy I’m assuming. Here’s the official link to NASA’s press release about it all, plus some live streaming of the event. Galactic fail if you ask me. The picture, not so official.

2. Falside, a name we haven’t uttered on ZIF for a minute now. Well, that sure hasn’t stopped him from pumping out dope product quicker than your favorite burger chain. If there’s a beatsmith who has put out more quality beat tapes over the last 3 years, I have not stumbled across he/she. This track is off his “Strictly Streaming” series, nice concept, better beat.

  

3. Local dope: When you think of South LA rappers, you’re bound to get stuck on the TDE train (Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar). Skeme is a rapper from Inglewood that has been on my radar since I moved here half a decade ago, known for his knockabout rhymes with an equally smooth flow, could we looking at the next TDE addition? Perhaps, as for now, here’s a collab off his Alive & Living album out on October 16th with “LA Diddy”, Schoolboy Q. THC produced, light it up.

4.  When old music is new sounds. Sean Price is a sporadically minded artist, constantly putting out videos, interviews, and music that can be labelled random often. Needless to say when I saw that he had released a pack of “new sounds” via his SoundCloud, I had my suspicions. The music isn’t new, P explained on Twitter it’s actually old material that has been lying around. He also went on to say it has made him excited about the prospects of dropping a new LP. Sweet. After months of letting Duck Down release his music, he hooked up his own SoundCloud page, check it often for new and “new” music.

5. I’ve said this once, and I’ll say it again. The Doppelgangaz are the most underrated rap act out of NYC. Here is another video, the final one, promoting their project Beats for Brothels, Vol. 2. Stream the album, and pre-order below the video. Stop saying I don’t give you the what’s what, here it be.

Parodies Stink. Sean Price’s Rap Clinic? Not so much.

I hate parodies, be they movies, twitter accounts and/or random YouTube clips vying for the next viral highway, I despise them. That being said, this video of Sean Price running a clinic for primarily white rappers is wonderfully engaging. I’m a Mandela fan, so I love seeing P being put in positions where he has to do something other than spit gutter bars. For an obvious parody, I’d say he does a commendable job keeping the farce going. A shortened version was released via Red Bull a few days ago. This is the full version via Duck Down.

Sean Price has something to tell you…

A ’nuff said situation for sure. P!

Sean Price-Let Me Tell You (prod. by Beat Butcha)

If Sean Price took a dump, I’d write about it…

Let alone an HD video of P kicking an ill freestyle on the streets of New York. P!!!

Kimbo Price: A Rapper’s Review on a Rapper

Reviewed by lyricist Sammy G

Ascending quickly from the the militaristic Boot Camp training facility, Sean Price has demonstrated his proficient execution of the Monkey Barz, leading to a vicarious reincarnation of Jesus Christ our savior. Having mastered the crucifixion pose, or more likely, having stirred controversy amongst his winged cohorts circling the celestial expanse, Sean P resurfaced as the now publicly extinct hip hop mogul, Master P. As has been customary in the self-proclaimed Brokest Rapper’s previous two projects, Sean Price has supplied yet another installment of music utilizing a play on pseudonyms. Enter Kimbo Price, the mixed martial arts microphonist.

Any fan seeking significant evolution in P’s style or subject matter ought to stick to Darwinian principles and seasonal beak modulations. However, if, like myself, you’re anticipating, or rather hoping for, raucous gun rap interspersed with narcotic references, female slander and facetious jabs at hypothetical contenders, look no further. The Ruckness opens the mixtape/album with his usual bravado in “Ruckdown,” asserting the comical deposition of label heads at Duck Down, spitting one of the hotter verses I’ve heard from him in a minute. Continuing with that Brownsville grit, Sean P delivers some heavy artillery alongside fellow Heltah Skeltah member, Rock, and LAW on the track “Hot.” Though Rock’s verse is arguably the best of the three, Price’s bars certainly satiate the beholder, “I’m sick, iller with guns, thriller that kill ya for fun/ 9 millimeter knock centimeters off of your son/ my gun, dumb loud and short/ I will shoot up your back and fuck up your lumbar support.”