Kids in a grocery store pop lockin and other random Micheal Jackson moves in this one! Nice little tune to chill to or just make it some background noise, if your like myself (which you're probably not)
"ABSOLUT(R) VODKA, the world's most iconic vodka, announces a creative collaboration with Madison Square Garden that will offer music fans an unparalleled series of high-profile concerts at the iconic venue. Showcasing performances ranging from rock-and-roll heavyweights to country crooners, these two legendary brands will work together to bring music lovers of all kinds the ultimate concert experience as only The Garden can offer. To kick off the series, ABSOLUT and Madison Square Garden will host a once-in-a-lifetime benefit show featuring hip-hop impresario JAY-Z on September 11, 2009, to aid the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund. The highly-anticipated performance will air live and commercial-free on Fuse TV at 9pm..."
Last night, I received a message that said "HOLY S**T! Are you at home?!" from one of my best friends back in Iowa.
My natural reaction to something like this at 1am on a Saturday is.....damn, something is going on back in my hometown that was tragic. So, i fall into a state of mind where Im going to hear bad news and this and that and turns out to be.....very, very great news.
Seems that Feadz from the Ed Bangers Records collective based out of Paris, France had played my "Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor" remix at this music festival in the Netherlands a couple of months ago.
If you could've seen the look on my face after being forwarded this footage....needless to say, it was priceless.
All in all, the best part about this whole thing is that it was documented and I have NO CLUE how he got it. So, props to one of the few blogs that even had that remix and put it up on their site.
Endless thank yous.
Check out the footage below (my tune comes in around 23 seconds of it)
September is sizing up to be an excellent month for hip-hop releases with new albums coming out from Jay-Z and Blueprint 3 (this album has grown on me some) to Raekwon and the long awaited Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 (whoa) and numerous others including Brother Ali's amazing album Us. This post is about something else though....
Q-Tip
After A Tribe Called Quest broke up in 1999 Q-Tip released a solo album called Amplified which at the time I must admit I was unhappy it sounded so mainstream, being quite the underground rap nerd then, but was won over by Dilla's fresh production. Q-Tip then prepared to release what he describes as the hip-hop version of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, as in a hip-hop fusion album. Well a long story short the album was shelved by Arista Records 9 years ago because they didn't think it would sell, so it was never going to be released until now. Q-Tip's Kamaal The Abstract is being properly released on September 15th. Here's one of the singles "Damn You're Cool"
I jacked these from Mr. Gerricks blog(Typoscura.) Sadly, I couldn't make it to the show but judging from these pictures, it looked pretty official. I really like how Tucker decided to make a collage of pictures for the background for the bigger prints. Well done, Tucker. The last photo is one Tucker sent me while he was hanging and features yours truly.
I personally think it's not the greatest but that's just my opinion. Too many guest appearances & production that's lacking but who knows maybe it'll grow on me after a few listens. That being said, it is still better than a lot of albums coming out right now.
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