Video: Rock The Bells Press Conference

Rock The Bells 2009 Press Conference


Chang Weisberg gives all the info (as of yet) on the Rock The Bells lineup. It's gonna be hosted by KRS-1, Supernat, Murs, and Pete Rock. Hopefully Supernatural will actually stay on stage for minutes at a time this year...

Up-coming: Green Day- 21st Century Breakdown

Woah. I just got word via their myspace, that Green Day is going to release it's new album, 21st Century Breakdown, in May of this year, I'm definitely looking forward to that.

You can pre-order it here if you're into awesome ass rock

That makes two sick ass albums I can't wait to get. And I'm not talking bootleg, I'm talking going to Best Buy and purchasing them.

Info on DOOM's 'Born Like This'

I was over at DJ Spyder'd blog, and I found this:



"Here it is folks. The revised sell sheet (which looks a lot more finalized than the previous one I posted from the label back in September of last year) on the first new solo album from DOOM in five years. Yes, I tagged the image because I know peeps gonna be jacking this image without giving me credit.

DOOM, a/k/a MF DOOM will release his new album, now re-titled, "Born Like This" (as opposed to "Born Into This" as originally titled) on March 24, 2009 through Lex Records.

TRACKLISTING:
1. SUPERVILLAIN INTRO
2. GAZZILLION EAR
3. BALLSKIN
4. YESSIR feat. RAEKWON
5. ABOLUTELY
6. RAP AMBUSH
7. LIGHTWORKS
8. BATTY BOYZ
9. COSTUME FOOLERY
10. ANGELZ feat. TONY STARKS (a/k/a Ghostface Killah)
11. CELLZ
12. STILL DOPE
13. BETTER THAN BEER feat. KURIOUS
14. MICROWAVE MAYO
15. MORE RHYMIN'
16. THAT'S THAT
17. IN YA DREAMS
18. THANK YA

The CD will be packaged in a deluxe soft pack digi CD case and the vinyl LP will be a 2 LP set on heavyweight vinyl.

Producers include Madlib, Dilla, Jake One, and DOOM.

DOOM will be featured on the cover of Wax Poetics issue #31 and featured in magazines GQ, Spin, New Yorker, URB and XXL.

New video coming in the spring."

Props to Spyder for the info, I'll definitely keep you guys updated, and post anything I find out about this.

*SUPER MEGA UPDATE*

I'm sorry guys, I feel like I've neglected you guys for the past week, but i'm gonna try to be back (3 AP classes make time stretch pretty thin). Anyhoo, here's a little update.

I really don't like posting in this format, but i'd rather get this stuff out of the way and make way for fresh post's ASAP.

Articulate- "Pop Champagne Freestyle"
Articulate- "32 Bar Spazz"
Articulate- "Stop It (Splash Freestyle)"

GLC- "Can't Tell G Nothin"

Fabolous Speaks On Future Projext


Thanks to Fake Shore Drive, BoBo for the links
Shouts to Optimus for holding down the fort in my absense

Video: B.o.B. and T.I. in the studio

B.o.B. and T.I. working in the studio

Video: Kanye West Attack

So I know that you guys have been hearing all about how Kanye attacked the paparazzi, well here's the video, truthfully, I can't tell which is Kanye, I see two black dudes, in hoody's, with backpacks on, It could be either, if you guys can tell, please let me know

Video: Nas "Make the World Go Round" Video Shoot

On the set for the video shoot for Nas' "Make the World Go Round", featuring Game and Chris Brown. Nas is on set with The Game, and Cool & Dre talking about, well nothing really, but whatever.

Thanks to BoBo for the vid

Video: XXL Photo Shoot

A flurry of bangin' artist's show up. Ace Hood, Wale, B.O.B., Currency, Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth and Many more at the XXL Photo Shoot.

Wale talks about working with Khaled (ew) and Ace Hood, and maybe even one featuring all of them, that would be an awesome collabo (not feeling B.O.B. too much, but artist's been known to spit when surrounded by good company)

Props to BoBo

TMT and The Trolley Stop Present: The Cool Kids- "Track 14 (Dreamin')" x "Track 12 (Gold Chain)"

So here's week two of our little joint effort to bring you guys unreleased tracks by the mighty marvelous Cool Kids. This track is hands down my favorite. You never hear Mikey rap like this, and it's pretty good if you ask me. I love hearing my favorite rappers getting a little deeper than usual, think first verse of "Action Figures", only deeper. Well, enough of my rambling, enjoy.

"I tryed to open my eyes but my vision is mad blurry,
I'm laying on the stretcher and i see her next to me,
I grab her hand and tell her to please forgive me,
I look in her eyes, tears lye on her cheeks,
As we layed there silent, she speaks,
We could be together if you follow me.
I think you're dreamin'
Just keep running
don't you let me go again"

The Cool Kids- "Track 14 (Dreamin')"

for "Track 12 (Gold Chain)", head over to The Trolley Stop

P.S. If ya'll post up the songs, please give props where they're due. Or maybe it was a coincidence that they put it up same day as us, hey who knows? It is a small world after all

Tyga got jacked

So it seems that Tyga got robbed....again. "No street cred!"

And then he call's them asking for it back....I'm not saying this is real, but if it is, it's pretty damn funny

Props to On Rap Radio

Video: LL Cool J Talks about Mr. Prez

LL talks about Mr. Prez being released September 9th.

Video: Travie speaks on new mixtape

Travie talks about his mixtape Death Comedy Jam v.1 said to be releasing in the "very near future".

Props to 2dopeboyz

TMT and The Trolley Stop Present: The Cool Kids- "Track 7" x "Track 10"

So me and Optimus where digging throught the crates the other day, and we found some old Cool Kids tracks that we had, the first ones that we ever heard in fact. So being the kind individuals that we are, we decided to bless you guys with some (as far as we're aware) unreleased Cool Kids tracks. I've never found these up anywhere else, but if i'm mistaken, please tell us and we will stop taking the credit for them. But as of yet, this is the first time that i know these have been posted online. The tracks all come without names, so we're just going to post them how we found them, Track 6, Track 7, etc. There are six tracks in total (6, 7, 10, 11, 14, & 12) and me and Optimus will be releasing one each on our blogs, for the next three mondays. We don't have a catchy name for it, so just bear with it as it is. So in collaboration with The Trolley Stop Ent. I now present to you:

The Cool Kids- "Track 7"

for "Track 10", head over to The Trolley Stop

Rock The Bells Coverage

So yeah, i officially got a Press Pass for Rock The Bells, giving me the best possible view of the event. I'll hit you guys up with the best possible coverage once I can. It's not till saturday, but I'm already hyped. Come back sunday for the full report.

-Jay "Shogun" Santos

Rock The Bells Coverage

Rock The Bells is this saturday, and i know that the regular tickets are sold out (V.I.P. passes are still available). So for all of those that can't go, i'm going to try to get you guys the best coverage that i can. I'm working on getting a press pass, to get the best coverage possible, so wish me luck guys.

-Shogun

The deteriorating state of a beautiful art: Hip-Hop

This one goes out to everybody who thinks that all those garbage rappers on the radio are hip-hop. As my good friend Clayton said "Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, Jim Jones, etc. THAT my friends, is not Hip Hop." This video explains that what's happened tho hip-hop is tragic, it used to be about partying, and getting your thoughts out, not "Guns, Champaigne, and Women" as the video says. Now don't get me wrong, every now and then i do listen to some of the aforementioned type of music, but that's not what this is about, this is about clarifying to everybody what real hip hop is, about letting everybody know, that there's more to it than you could have ever thought

"Violence sells, sex sells, debauchery sells"
-Lupe Fiasco

Soledad O'Brien
"White executives who own the company pick, and white executives"
Lupe Fiasco
"And black executives...everybody's responsible"

For all you who think that it's just "The White Man", no, it's everybody, everybody who promotes that shit, and everybody who helps put it out, be it white, black, asian, hispanic, this isn't about color, and thinking that it is, is just as bad as abiding to it.

If you guys have anything to say about this feel free to drop a comment.

Props to Optimus for the video

That's completely crazy...no...that's Ludacris

Well now that i'm on that Luda tip, i decided that i would post this article that i found that talks about his new album and mixtape. Check it out

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Warped Tour '08 (Miami, FL)

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So this is my first review of a live event, and only the second live event i've ever been to, so have some pitty.

Now that that's out of the way, i just want to say that Wapred '08 was S-I-C-K. It's the first Warped Tour that i got to go to, and i'll definitely be attending more. First off, you go there, and you have no damn idea where to go, me and my girlfriend(who i was lucky enough to go with) honestly didn't know where we where for a good hour or so. Once you get comfortable with where everything is, it's truly amazing.

The tents are pretty cool, they had a skullcandy(my favorite brand) tent, a trojan tent, a tent for people to play rock band(which is exactly why you go to a concert right?), and they even had a tent for all the myspace mistresses to check their myspace's. Of course, each band and label had their own tents where they sold shirts and whatnot.

Now onto the music. I'm not going to go into much detail, simply because it was two day's ago, and i just finished recovering this morning. You can just go to the website to see the entire line-up, I'm only going to talk about my two favorite performances: Gym Class Heroes, and Cobra Starship.

So when Travie came out, it was just crazy, the crowd went crazy and it was pretty intense. Disashi was looking pretty sick in some red shades and the rest of the crew was looking pretty fly aswell. As it turns out, most people only new the lyrics to Cupid's Chokehold, and i found my self the only person(along with my girlfriend) singing along to every song. When their two new tracks (Cookie Jar & Peace Sign/Index Down) everyone in the crowd was bobbing their heads and waving their hands, and once again i was the only person that knew all the words, but you could tell that everyone was feeling it. They performed a cover to some song that i've never heard, and it was pretty funny since Travie came out with what looked like a guitar, but it was really a rockband guitar(that sneaky bastard). They also performed a song from their new album that i had never heard before titled "Live A Little", it sounded very ska-ish, and i liked it quite a bit, their new album seems to be coming along pretty good.

Now Cobra Starship's performance was something different all together. We got there about an hour early, and we still only made it to (what can be considered) about the fifth row. The second that the crowd got a peek of Gabe(pictured above) they went absolutely nuts. Naturally they played "The City Is At War" to start off, and the whole crowd was just overflowing with excitement. The only time when the crowd was even moderatly quite was when gabriel started talking. But the second that they started playing, it went back to crazy. My favorite part i have to say is when they performed "Snakes on a Plane" and Travie came out to stage. Overall their performance had to be the most charged one that i've seen.

So yeah, it was pretty sick, and if you missed it this year, make sure you don't next