The first place I heard Thundercat was on Flying Lotus’s MmmHmm   from the album Cosmogramma
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The Golden Age of Apocalypse

I know for some listeners this release might be to far out, but I think Thundercat does a good job of mixing new production styles with an old sound.  I don’t think the the bass has gotten any  love since Bootsy so
it’s  good to hear the bass as the featured instrument.

As the weather is starting to get a little cooler  the Golden Age of Apocalypse is going to be nice accompanied by a glass of merlot at the end of the day or a nice hot coffee on a lazy Saturday morning.

Most of the listining comunity picked sides, either you ran with he East Coast or the West Coast, until the South started making noise.

Up until about 1997 I continued to listen to everything but I started leaning more twoards the East Coast, and when the hood took over, I went straight Underground.

When Kanye West came on the scene, I felt like he was the bridge for underground and mainstream hip hop working with artists like Talib Kweli and Jay Z.

On the album Death of a Pop Star 9th Wonder becomes the musical bridge collaborating with David Banner.

This album has the potential to be a slept on classic. 9th’s beats have his signature bass line style and David Banner was free to tackle his own demons and lyrically explore subjects that would often be off limits on a normal Down South album.

The overall length o the album is pretty short, but I’d rather an album leave me wanting more than skipping over filler tracks.

In 2000 everyone in the Hip Hop community was surprised to see Chi Ali featured on Americas Most Wanted in an extensive manhunt stemmed from second-degree murder charge. After evading the Police for a little over a year Chi Ali was arrested and convected of shooting his victim.

Chi Ali was sentenced to a fourteen years in a maximum security prison, and thats where John Walsh would love to end the story, but thanks to Harold Budd, Keith Lowe and Espi we get a view into the current world of Chi Ali.

Hopefully this is a warning shot for to all the DJ’s who haven’t paid there dues.

Well done kid!

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I found this dope beat tape on one of my recent web travels. The concept for the album impressed me as much as the music itself .

Most great music is made as an effort to expand oneself, and this Hayling’s effort as a seasoned keyboard player to do more then sample the greats .  He has deconstructed the music and recreated the colors of Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonius Monk, then he looped and chopped the samples on his MPC and added a good dose of the BoomBap.

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The Documentary is peppered with interviews and commentary from Hip Hop greats and there is an original score by Madlib.

A Tribe Called Quest is one of my favorite groups of all time. They changed the way people people listen to and make music. I always wondered why what seemed to be such a tight knit group had so many problems. Although I’ve seen and read a ton of interviews, I never feel like any of them ever got to any real issues.

Mike Rapaport is a long time Hip Hop fan and probably a friend of the group ,so I think he will be able to capture the real essence Tribe in a way we haven’t seen before.

Check out more at

www.atribecalledquestmovie.com

Update

A couple of hours after I originally posted this Q-Tip denounced the new Tribe documentary on Twitter. It sounds like the group requested changes that were not made.

I’m still going to check the flick when it drops next year, but man, I would almost like a more in depth explanation of why Tribe doesn’t approve.

Sometimes controversy is the best promotion.

Q-Tip on Twitter

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The Sounds of VTech / Roc Raida Tribute Final

A tribute to Grand Master Roc Raida!

Flying Lotus – Kill Your Co-Workers from beeple on Vimeo.

This is a new track off of Flying Lotus’s new EP Pattern and Grid World.

Fly-Lo hooked up with visual artist Beelple to make this new vid., and its a perfect match of 8-bit music and random robot violence.

Overall Infamous Quotes is a decent mixtape, but you know if Skillz is involved the major focus is on lyrics. I’m sure I’ll be listening to this for some time pealing back the layers of dudes punch lines and metaphors.

This one is good candidate for the headphones.