Shots fux’n fired on this new Jay-Z project.
While Black TWiter is incessantly ranting about the album, the exec producer Samsung’s real gangsta move is the web TV properties they just acquired.
I don’t even have a cellphone, but U.O.E.N.O.
Get this joint before its gone…
I’m giving the new El-P and Killer Mike project the same treatment I gave Yeezus
Yeah, I’m making fanboy videos to every song.
Did you download this album yet?
Why not? Because it’s FREE!
RUN THE JEWELS: 36inch CHAIN from dallas penn on Vimeo.
Riggs and Murtagh for the mother loving win.
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I put together a few clips while listening to the Yeezus album. Shit had me hype and inspired. This is what I want to do. I mean, not just on this lo-fi level, but yeah, I wanna make movies.
The first clip uses scenes from Godzilla versus Gamera to complement the song ‘Hold My Liquor’ which features Chief Keef
KanYe West aka YeeZus aka YeeZilla: Hold My Liquor from dallas penn on Vimeo.
The next clip was culled from the movie T’Shaka Zulu. The obvious sonic bed was ‘Black Skinheads’.
KanYe West aka YeeZus aka T’shaka YeeZulu: Black Skinhead from dallas penn on Vimeo.
The final clip I produced was taken from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. KanYe becomes Darth Yeezius and destroys the Jedi temple and anyone who gets in his way on sight. ON SIGHTTTTT!
KanYe West: On Sight from dallas penn on Vimeo.
I always think about the first time I met Timeless Truth in the NYC streets. We was all catching the subway at the 2/3 14th St station and these dudes called me “Diamond Dallas Paige”. Classic. LOL, nah, but they fuxed with me and I fuxed with them.
They were ‘LO dipped with a grip of I.T.’s on like I hadn’t seen since 1992. Mind you this was 2007 tho’ and their pieces were 15 years old. Damned if these dudes weren’t 15yrs old. How could these young niggas have so much OG flavor? I felt like they had come from a time machine. I especially loved the Hi-Tech pieces.
What I learned then about Timeless is that they are old souls and students of the art of being fresh in NYC. Shouts to the whole planet Earth, but NYC is one of the hubs of the aspirational lifestyle. Polo defines that lifestyle in their clothing because of the people in NYC who rock it while they earn their stripes. However they earn their stripes. And whatever you do to defend those stripes. People that rock Polo manifest their dreams.
Timeless Truth let me play a part in their album release with my official fanboy of Hi-Tech. The video was actually a message to the brothers about where we come from in the galaxy of Queens. I used Queens landmarks, but these brothers need no reminding to remain centered. They have their Hip-Hop GPS locked in. Listen to the melody of RTNC respecting the power of the 88 keys.
The video below is for the track which I think represents Timeless Truth’s aspirational values in rap form. Family first, love and loyalty always. It won’t be an easy road, but what a life…
By now you have listened to the new KanYe West album. If you haven’t I really don’t want to talk to you on this drop so please don’t leave me a comment. As it is I don’t think I can talk about this album with most people since rap fans nowadays aren’t particularly versed in Black music.
The Yeezus album is a tour de force in Black music that has been technofied. Acid Blues. Has anyone ever used that moniker for a musical genre? But it’s not just Blues music on this album. There’s mad Funk going on in this composition. Of course Soul and Rock are getting burn on this disk.
The album is sequenced so that it shakes off the timid Hip-Hop heads early with the experimental soundscape. If you can make it to the end you get the rewards of Kid Cudi and Charlie Wilson’s stirring soulsanging. Most people won’t make it to that point tho’. You’ll be frightened by the frankness of Kanye’s promiscuous content.
My first listens to this album made me reopen my 808s and H3artbr38k files and it was stark to my ears how raw 808s really is. I still love that album but Yeezus is on another level. Another level of production. Another level of sonic sensibility. KanYe West is the GOAT. Hip-Hop is dead like the strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Long live Hip-Hop.
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