Nova Scotia WHAT!

The Phrase “Canadian Rapper” will immediately force about all of you to stop reading right now. Good. Get the fuck outta my blog.

Buck 65′s been in the game for longer than half of you have been alive. He was radio DJing everything from Camp Lo to Spice 1 before you realized your discman had a bass boost, and he was doing it in fucking Nova Scotia. You thought it was hard back in the day for you gto get the latest Hip-Hop tapes in whatever podunk town you were from? Yea, consider that.

He’s pretty much the Tom Waits of this Hip-Hop shit, both in timbre and content. He’s released a steady and solid collection of albums, and the man is easily one of the best performers in teh game. While most emcees will hop on a stage with a hype man or three, regurgitate lyrics with little to no energy and walk off like their mere presence was enough to be worth your 20, 30 dollars, my man Buck will rock the microphone with ferocity, DJ during the break, bust some B-Boy moves and maybe even hand out cookies. I saw the wodie in a neck brace the last time and he rocked that shit harder than any of your favorite emcees.

That being said, this is a really mediocre Buck track. The beat is nothign more than status quo, the lyrics are everything you’d expect, I mean…at least the video quality’s good. But so the fuck what? I know at this point in time kids’ll eat this shit up (OMFG Zombies lolwut!?!?!) but fuck that. Buck, you have so much better in you. I await your next release, but it better not be some vampire or werewolf shit or I’ll knock on your igloo door and duff you in the melon for perspective. M’mon neh.

-Andus T.

MF DOOM is your father.

ALL CAPS SON! Actually, apparently he just DOOM now, who knew?

But also apparently, and hold on to your hipster hats kids cause they bout to blow off. Apparently the man has been talkin’ with Thom Yorke-of uber-cracker Radiohead fame-about droppin’ a fuckin full length studio album. What? Where the fuck did this come from. Who knows. But good ol’ Thom (i like to call him Thumb, personally) has been workin’ with Electronic gangstas like Burial, Four Tet and the man Flying Lotus (none of which any of you know, I know, but they can be on some O-fficial shit which I will break down at a later date, especially Fly Lo who’s been dabblin’ in this Hip-Hop shit for a while and has done some bangin’ ass remixes, serously, I wish a fraction of Hip-Hop producers could manipulate sound the way Fly Lo does; throw on some good headphones or commandeer a club PA system and listen to “Tea Leaf Dancers”; if you don’t appreciate then you don’t have working ears.)

All told, this has the potential to be on some Deltron3030 type shit, really. It took me a long fuckin’ time to be able to appreciate Radiohead, and MF DOOM been killin’ it for years and years, even with impersonators playing his shows (beauty of wearin’ a mask, you can do shows on both coasts on the same day, marketing for the win?), but we’ll see if this 3030 or if it’s finna be 3031. (Surrisouly Del, I remember LAST FUCKING SUMMER Kid Koala posting “finally finished the scratches for Deltron3031″ so what the fuck man? Put down the got-damn joint and release the album that you know cats’ll jump on like a more small box.) Fucking potheads.

-Andus Tea Leaf Dancin’

p.s. I will not post the video referenced with the “more small box” phrase, because fuck cats and FUCK videos of cats. Get the fuck over it internet. Damn I’m in a good mood.

HRSMN: The End Is Near (Official Trailer)

Iiiiiiii, can’t be faaaded.

Through the transformation of Hip-Hop’s sound from boom-bap to gangsta, and then from gangsta to backpack and from backpack to crunk, etc. etc., Nate Dogg consistently maintained his smooth crooning; constantly mellowing out even the hardest of the hard (fuck that no homo shit, get ya head right). I fuckin’ hate that Rap and Bullshit bullshit, but the “Luther Vandross of the ghetto” was always welcome in my headphones.

Here’s a mix of the O.G. by Doc Adam.

And here’s an interview from Vice where Nate Dogg cruises some spots and reveals the history of his 213.

Now everybody put “Regulate” on repeat and pour out somma that 40 for ya homie.

“They can come closer than close, but original they never will be.” R.I.P.

-Andus T.

“LEGACY” ft. DREA and YASIN

Directed & Edited by: Frank G
Music produced by: Frank G/ISH Productions
Artist(s): DREA ft. Yasin

Big Krit-American Rapstar

http://hulkshare.com/lnonuhgnbmp8

Return Of 4Eva dropping March 22nd

80 Blocks From Tiffanys (Camp Lo & Pete Rock) Mic Check

http://hulkshare.com/oj3f6xpjxikr