— Sheefy McFly, on the legacy of Motown, Detroit hip hop and garage rock. Yeah, I feel you about the hand.
Danny Brown - Monopoly (Official Video)
New Danny Brown video.
This video put me in such a good mood today. Fun fun fun.
(Source: blain0)
“I got a Detroit state of mind. Coleman Young, ‘89.”
Warning, this song is lyrical, imaginative and *hard.* Not safe for the workplace or the sensitive.
http://fuckchips.bandcamp.com or, to get the album free, http://fuckchips.com
(This was the kid who was featured on a couple tracks on Danny Brown’s XXX, and the two of them are 2/3 of the “Bruiser Brigade” MCs)
Doc Waffles Interview
I recently conducted an email interview with Doc Waffles about his new EP, “Seizure Suit Farms” (click it, it’s free!). As you’ll see, he’s definitely one of the most unique emcees in all of Detroit. You can catch him performing live with yours truly and many others on Saturday, July 30 at Schoolin’ Y’all: A Hip Hop Benefit to Build a School in Nicaragua.
This’ll be worth seeing, and worth having contributed to if you can afford it … Doc Waffles is the sort of Das Racist-esque (sorry, no better comparison comes to mind) absurdist of Detroit hip hop. Detroit CYDI and Midcoast Most are good, too.
(via docwaffles)
Dr. Nick Lewis might be a young physician now, but back in 2004 in Ann Arbor, he was just an undergrad and a deep-underground rapper who went by Piegonface. He was a member of 511 Hustlaz, the crew that operated out of two neighboring apartments in our 2nd-story walkup on Hoover.
This track, Sonic and Bush Turkeys, is a remix of Pigeonface and DJ Dunnbri’s Sonic and Knuckles, arguably the Hustlaz’ best recorded work, with a feature by Andrew Klieger, a.k.a. AKangaroo. Kangaroo was studying abroad in Australia at the time, and when asked to drop 16 for this song, he was so excited he literally took a tape recorder into the outback in the middle of the night to record himself whispering his verse over a backdrop of some weird, loud Aussie birds.
Pigeonface’s verses definitely hold up to time; you will not hear iller rhymes about Sega games, ever.
Another recent rap video I can’t stop watching. This one is kinda stupid, but it may be the hardest and also the funniest video I’ve seen in a while. I usually skip the absurdly long intro (the first 2:30 or so); the main attraction is Trick Trick’s verse, as well as the very NSFW chorus, and especially all the scary faces and gestures Trick and Atlanta’s Parlae throw off in an effort to be as intimidating as possible. Trick Trick really is the most terrifying mother-effer in Detroit rap.
I keep coming back to this one … still one of the best rap videos from the past couple years. Deadly Medley is an apt name for this Black Milk song, because this really does present a Murderer’s Row of Detroit rappers, all in their prime. No chorus, just three really ill verses over a killer beat. Royce and Elzhi seldom record a subpar guest verse. Here they’re great without looking like they broke a sweat. And the backdrop — mainly Detroit from a rooftop in daylight — is simple but beautiful.
Big Sean kills it freestyling on some radio show, then delivers a few bars off the (long-awaited) upcoming album. Sounds great, now release the thing already
Big Sean: ‘Supa Dupa.’
New remix of a two-year-old mixtape release that’ll be remembered as an influencer if not a classic; Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music pulled a slick move in beefing up the production and banging out a legit video for this one.
The song’s impact may be a bit diminished since errrryone ripped this rhyme scheme the past couple years (see every Drake song, Rick Ross, Luda et al) but if you haven’t heard, I guarantee it’s still far fresher than anything today’s radio rappers or Wayne’s skeleton crew are putting out.
