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Chart Stalker 8/11/11: Spirit of ’75

by MJ on Aug 11, 2011 • 2 Comments

Yet another boring week on the Billboard album charts. Adele spends a 12th week at the top of the charts with 21, although she only needed to sell 70,000 albums to do it. Country star Trace Adkins and singer/songwriter type Mat Kearney debut in the Top Five. The biggest news comes from hipster-pop band Foster the People, as their debut album, Torches, jumps into the Top 20 and “Pumped Up Kicks” looks to be one of the year’s surprise hits. […]

New Release Report 8/9/11: The Throne Has Arrived

by MJ on Aug 9, 2011 • 3 Comments

Country Music / hip-hop / Metal Monday / music / New Release Report / New Releases / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music

Actually, it arrived yesterday, and I’m late. The highly anticipated full-length collaboration between mega-rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne, arrived at 12:01 Monday morning, and is already generating copious amounts of buzz around the internets. With guest appearances from Frank Ocean and Beyonce and production shots from Q-Tip and Pete Rock (not to mention Yeezy himself), Throne has hip-hop album of the year written all over it. It’s currently only available digitally, but a physical edition arrives at […]

WTFF: DMX & Busta Rhymes “Otis” Freestyle

by MJ on Aug 8, 2011 • No Comments

hip-hop / music / New Releases / The Singles Bar

No question that Kanye and Jigga’s “Otis” is one of the hottest joints out right now. Also no question that the beat, which chops up one of the soul singer referenced in the title’s biggest hits (“Try a Little Tenderness”), is sick. Of course, that has emcees everywhere jumping on top of the beat for their own freestyles. The most noteworthy-actually, newsworthy makes better sense-is a version by Busta Rhymes & DMX. Dark Man X has been in and out […]

“Watch the Throne” Album Coming Soon! Documentary Now!! And Tour Dates!

by MJ on Jul 25, 2011 • No Comments

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Got 10 minutes to spare? If you’re a Kanye West or a Jay-Z fan, you might want to have a look at the short film that was recently released, documenting their collaborative effort, Watch the Throne (out in one week). Of course, 10 minutes is nowhere near long enough to provide anything in-depth, but the mini-doc is pretty entertaining. Jay does much of the talking, and it’s cool to catch them (along with Jay’s wife Beyonce) in relatively unguarded moments-especially […]

The Singles Bar: Kanye West & Jay-Z’s “Otis”

by MJ on Jul 21, 2011 • 2 Comments

hip-hop / music / New Releases / Pop Music / The Singles Bar

Now THIS is more like it. The release date for Kanye West & Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne (August 1) is official. Similar to this song. “Otis” is 3 1/2 minutes of solid shit-talking by some of the best shit talkers in hip-hop history. It doesn’t scream “pop hit” but it definitely has that raw, head-nod groove to it. Jay’s in his pocket here and Kanye (knowing full well he can’t try to outflow Jiggaman) quotes Audio Two and drops a […]

“Watch the Throne”: It’s Coming, But When?

by MJ on Jul 4, 2011 • 5 Comments

hip-hop / music / New Releases / pop culture / Pop Music

The arrival of one of hip-hop’s most anticipated albums is imminent, but there’s still not an official release date. There was a significant amount of buzz on the internet surrounding Kanye West & jay’Z’s Watch the Throne recently. Many reports suggested that the album might even see a surprise release today. Well, the album’s not out, but it appears that it has been completed. A preorder page has been set up for the album, with standard and deluxe versions available. The cover […]

Blerd Briefs: Kanye, NKOTB & “Glee”

by MJ on Jan 26, 2011 • 2 Comments

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Y’all know how much I love Kanye West, but I fear he might be burning the candle at both ends and trying to put out too much product at once. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has barely been out for two months, and there’s the Watch the Throne project with Jay-Z coming out. Now, reports are saying that Kanye’s got yet another album almost in the can that he plans to have out in the summer? Maybe it’s just because […]

Hear Here!: Kanye & Jay-Z’s “H.A.M.”

by MJ on Jan 11, 2011 • 3 Comments

hip-hop / music / New Releases / news / Pop Music

Let’s talk about ham for a second. Lots of things come to mind when I think of that word, most of which are not hip-hop related, unless you count that one time in Big Daddy Kane’s “Smooth Operator” when he says “here I am” so fast that it sounds like “ham”. More often, I think of the tasty parts of a pig-as I’m sure you do. (and yes, I know in this case “H.A.M.” serves as an acronym for hard […]