God damn man, had to get four wisdom teeth pulled out…Had no idea that I would be laid the fuck out like this…A brother can barely speak or get his mind right..

Dentist are straight up scum bags that get paid extremely well for doing barely anything…I should have known by the way my dentist was chuckling that I was going to be in big trouble…FUCK EM…

This is not a diary so let me get into this…

The ” Hip Hop Killerz ” crew put this compilation together that features all original sample source material….I edited a few things in the tracklisting so nobody would come looking for me to blow my head off..( It’s not a game )..

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01 – ann peebles – you’ve got the papers i’ve got the man (sample du wu-tang clan – )
02 – Ecstacy, Passion & Pain – Born To Lose You (sample de mobb deep -)
03 – millie jackson y’oure the joy of my life (sample de saigon – )
04 – hodge james and smith – if you wanna love me (sample de infamous mobb -)
05 – quiet elegance – i’m afraid of losing you (sample de cilvaringz -)
06 – syl johnson – im talkin bout freedom (AZ -)
07 – jr. walker & the all-stars & thelma houston – i need you here right now (sample de gang starr -)
08 – James Gilstrap – Move Me (sample de Big L – )
09 – helene smith – true_love_don_t_grown_on_trees (sample de raze – )
10the supremes ( sing holland dozier – remove this doubt (sample de afu-ra -)
11 – jeannie reynolds – i’m hooked on you (sample de prodigy – )
12 – Helene Smith – A Woman Will Do Wrong (sample de MOD the black marvel – )
13 – black heat – street of tears (sample de murs -)
14 – lamont dozier – the picture will never change (sample de pharoahe monch )
15 – Sidney Joe Quails – How Can You Say Goodbye (sample defari – )
16 – jean plum – here i go again (sample de mobb deep – )
17 – gwen MCcrae – he keeps something groovy going on (sample de AZ -)
18 – Ted taylor-I Can’t Take It Anymore (sample de dilated peoples – )
19 – the independents – our love has got to come together (sample de sean price – )
20 – the montclairs do i stand a chance (sample de prodigy – )
21 – Lamont Dozier – Peddlin’ Music On The Side (sample de afu-ra )

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Just checked out this ” Kool G.Rap ” remix project by a cat that goes by the name, ” G-Building “…Below are three joints that should perk your ears up….POW,POW…..

” Let Em Live “- featuring Chino X.L.
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” It’s A Shame “- I could never figure out why ” G ” included singing on the hook, would of sounded much better without it..
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” When Your A Thug “- featuring Prodigy..FREE-P
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FLYIN’ CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film’s co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders’ families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as “families”, but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. In fact, the “families” had a stabilizing effect, enabling the youths to cope with their troubled environment. The political climate at the time, movements of national liberation and such organizations as the Black Panthers and Young Lords Party influenced the young gang leaders to aspire to be more than warriors and to become, to some degree, a positive force in their communities. When Rita Fecher returned after twenty years to see what had become of her old friends, she found that they had stayed in the community of their youth, that they were deeply committed to improving conditions there and that they were engaged in helping their own children survive in the hazardous street environment. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.

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This podcast from the ” Heavy Listening Crew ” is just out of control…I put this up a couple months back, but heads keep asking me about it; so it’s only right that I hit you off with it again…

When it comes to that good old fashioned ski-mask rap, ” Money Boss Players ” are in a hardcore league of their own…I could listen to this type of shit on repeat all day…

Big shout to my manz ” Hektek ” in the South Bronx…

Tracklist:
EDDIE CHEEBA & BAG-O (BOSS MONEY) Intro
MBP : Bronx Niggas
MBP : Games
MBP : Players Pinnacle
MBP : Area Code 212
P BROTHERS, SADAT X, EDDIE CHEEBA & G.S. : Come On Down
BOSS MONEY, SADAT X & BIG MEGA : If You Thuging
MINNESOTA, BOSS MONEY & JUNIOR M.A.F.I.A. : Guap
P BROTHERS & BOSS MONEY : Blam Blam For Nottingham
MBP : Crap Game
MBP : Gunplay
BOSS MONEY & MINNESOTA : Dat Shit
MBP : Walk With A Limp
SADAT X, MBP & SHA SHA : Games’s Sober
MBP : Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
P BROTHERS & BOSS MONEY : Boss Money Gangsters
SADAT X, BOSS MONEY & GS : Shine
BAG-O Outro

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I spotted this over at “Pure Hip Hop” and I thought it was worthy of sharing with ya’ll..

” D.J. Shadow ” really goes in on the state of the music industry, internet, the decline of artistic compensation, etc…Finally someone has the balls to speak the truth…

WARNING: RAMBLING TIRADE FROM A 37-YEAR OLD TECHNOPHOBE BELOW

Well, here we are again, another year, another decade. Optimism about the future is tempered with a nagging sense that underlying factors causing most of the misery in the world still exist. Lucky, then, that I’m a musician and not a politician.

Specifically, when it comes to the wallet, everyone’s suffering…of that there can be no doubt. And what of the financial prospects for musicians and recording artists in the years to come? Shaky, at best. Unless you’re one of the grotesque ‘Idol’-type pop disasters in the top 5, you’re looking at getting a day job or finding other sources of income. Conventional wisdom amongst my peers has been remarkably short-sided over the last decade: “Yeah, CD sales are down, but all the money is in licensing.” Not anymore. “Yeah, licensing money is down, but the video game industry is killing it.” Less so these days, according to recent data. “Well, the real money is in touring.” Really? When was the last time you saw a ‘new,’ post-record company artist headline a major music festival? At this rate, we’ll be stuck with Coldplay for decades (no offense intended).

Time for a little straight talk, from one reasonably intelligent human being to YOU, the reasonably intelligent reader. As distasteful as it may sound, the fact is that so many of our heroes: Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, The Beatles, whoever you care to name; generated much of their best art in return for financial compensation. If you take away the compensation, guess what…the art stops. For example, how many young rap artists are grinding away these days in New York, trying to get a deal? Not too many, certainly compared to the ‘80s and ‘90s. There’s no allure, no pot at the end of the rainbow. People have been asking for years now, “Where’s the next Nas, the next Jay-Z?” Be prepared to keep waiting…and for music, overall, to keep sucking. Why? Because only bottom-of-the-barrel, embarrassing pop tripe generates enough income to feed the machine. Anything unproven or risky? Nobody’s going to bankroll that kind of ‘experiment.’

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Good to see Rob still wrecking the decks..R.I.P. ” Grand Master Roc Raida “, gone but not forgotten…

Next time you are floating around in cyber-space, make sure to stop by ” M.F. Grimm’s ” blog to see what he has poppin off over there..

Comics, rants, Hip Hop, and a whole lot more..Make sure you tell him that the grimy kid from HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD sent you JACK.

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It’s not often that I can listen to a instrumental project from front to back…I usually get bored unless I hear some real firepower..

” X-Ray ” ( Monster Island Czars/ Darc Mind ) managed to hold my attention with a relentless dose of rugged drums, bugged movie snippets, and a good ear for choice samples…I’m very surprised that I don’t hear more people talking about this.

” Ear Hustler ” has to be my top pick of 2010 so far…Tell your peoples that the kid ” X-Ray: The Mind Bender ” is not fucking around when it comes to those beats homeboy…….Two thumbs up..

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If your in the bay area on January 9th you already know what time it is…

Peace to my posse on Mission street..

Awww man, this record brings me back to my wanna-be, Hip Hop Billy Dee Williams, school yard womanizer days…I really thought I was god’s gift to women when this record first hit the scene…

For some reason, ” Antexx’s ” only album, ” Suburban Ettiquette ” doesn’t get the shines it deserves…It wasn’t exactly a classic, but it did contain moments of brilliance, not to mention ” Havoc’s ” ( Mobb Deep ) first rhymes on wax ( yeah, even before Juvenile Hell )…

” Understand Me Vanessa ” got a little burn on Yo M.T.V. Raps when it dropped..I was instantly hooked to the sampled four-chord melody on the break….Memories….
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” As The World Turns ” features a teenage ” Havoc ” on the first verse…Wow….Anttex if your out there get at me, I have some questions for you..
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I posted up part one of this series a few months back…If you dug that one, part two is going to put you in a Brazilian trance..So turn on your oscillating fan, turn the volume up, and prepare for take off ya’ll..

Year Of Release: 1/18/2008
Label: Adventures In Paradise Records
Genre: Latin, Latin Funk, Compilation Disco, Brazil

PLAYLIST..

01. Nonato E Seu Conjunto — Tereco (3:15)
02. Banda Erotica — Flash (2:40)
03. Dom Salvanini — St Tropez (2:35)
04. Zito Righi — Poema Ritmico Do Malandro (2:36)
05. Os Trememdoes — Nome Do Jogo (3:26)
06. Dona Maria — Solidao (2:40)
07. Coutinho E Seu Conjunto — Papa Jimmy (3:57)
08. Dilla — Festa Para Um Rei Negro (3:14)
09. A Ponte — Nos (3:33)
10. Seu Guilherme — Tributo A Mim Mesmo (3:45)
11. Freesom Orquestra — Rush (4:13)
12. Banda Brasil Feliz — Africa (3:04)

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This is the trailer for “The Documentary Of Lawrence L.G. Goodman”..I’m not quite sure sure if the finished version ever saw the light of day, but I am definitely checking for it …..

You gotta give it to ” K.R.S. ” for continuing to drop heavy jewels in the 21st century…Sure his music isn’t as explosive as it once was, ( due mainly to production choices ) but you have to admit that the brother possesses one of the most intelligent minds of this time…

I recently caught his latest book, ” The Gospel Of Hip Hop “….Damn where do I begin…

First of all, the book isn’t one of those Hip Hop books that will only take you forty eight hours to read…It’s packed with over 800 pages of theology, philosophy, science, metaphysics, history, and of course, HIP HOP….

Even the front cover looks like a holy book…

Salute to you ” K ” for doing what has never been done before….If you want to scoop up a copy for yourself,

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Another fuckin year just disappeared..Crazy….HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD will continue to bless ya’ll with nonstop Hip Hop goodness throughout 2010 and beyond…

I have some crazy things in store..Mr.Funk What Ya Heard & I will most likely clique up and form one monster blog (BATTLEFIELD FUNK)…It’s not 100% official, but I would say it’s about 80 % official…

My massive record collection is getting fatter on the daily; so expect to hear more of my beats, mixes, songs throughout 2010..I’m also attempting to drag my rhyme partner out of self imposed exile….He is one of the illest motherfuckers that you have never heard of….My goal is to force him to wreck 45 minutes worth of my beats ( Be on the lookout for that )….

We will continue to do the BATTLEFIELD FUNK RADIO show, but with more guest D.J.’s, interviews, reviews, etc….Big shout out to everyone that has tuned in…We see you and it is definitely appreciated….

I just returned from a long flight so there will be no post until tomorrow morning…..Happy New Year, stay focused, stay true, stay up, stay chisel…….Peace…

D.J. Relz AKA ” Madlib “, released only one album ” Theme For A Broken Soul ” a couple years back….It featured instrumental broken-beat madness, with odd textures, and some very interesting time signatures…

” Relz ” makes a triumphant return with a couple bonus tracks to end off 09 with a BANG,BANG….

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