more free music...

found this mixtape from the guy WALE. thru one listen its pretty sweet. so either listen to it or download it and listen to it on at your leisure.

so far the best line is from bun b on track 3: "i lay you down, you only getting up if your name is kevin everett"

peace peace peace

kanye flashing lights

'ye has done three versions of the video for his song flashing lights, personally i like this one



of the other two the i like this one the most (sorry for bad sound quality)



i am really feeling the stop motion action. but i am so not down with the third one (link). the last one i think might actually be the official one - but that would be a waste of the other two.

nice songs...

some rapper i never have heard of mixed with justices song d.a.n.c.e., i am definitely a fan of the mix. enjoy!

free music

as of late, i have been finding all kinds of cool dj sets/mixtapes online. there are som really nice mixes out there and the best part of it is that they are free. some i found through searching for podcasts on iTunes. the one i will link to, i have found through formatmag.com (an online magazine that looks at music, art and clothing).



i dont know much about the djs, but their names are dj vibe & max barbaria, they have a few mixtapes up, but so far my favorite is their newest "love your family" (link). its a good mixture of mashup, rap & hip-hop and electronic. generally pretty good.


another thing is the remake of jay-z american gangster. its pretty sweet with some nice smooth beats and the tight flows from american gangster. there has been added a few appearances to each song. the name of the cd is black caesar. you can download the whole album here (link)


in other news i am pretty hyped for the new n*e*r*d cd, they have a new single out "everyone nose". its not the best song, i do enjoy the video, but the remix is mad. the remix has lupe fiasco, pharell and kanye west spitting hot verses. you can find it on pharells blog (link). here is the video

gnarls barkley video

quite amazing music video by gnarls barkley from their new cd. i like.



i love the african dancers, its nice to see the use of that in pop culture. sorry for the link post alone. i have been very busy with my bachelors project the last couple of weeks. it is unfortunately not moving forward at the speed which i would prefer it to, but it is moving forward. i hope to be done with it in the beginning of june. after that all i have is one exam in a course about india and then i have summer break. thats going to be really nice. anyways enjoy the music...

boom tho!

one of my favorite sports columnists bill simmons works for espn and while espn is trying to expand its reach they have made these short clips online. here he is meeting rod benson, a blogger and basketball player. i really like rods stuff, i once had his boom tho girl song stuck in my head for a day (link skip forward to the song part). anyways here is simmons and benson in north dakota, actually a good clip.




check out rod bensons stuff on yahoo.com, thats some good stuff as well (link)

new roots song

i remember reading ?uestlove from the roots, talking about that he was unhappy that andre from outkast had beat him to making the first black modern pop rock song, when 'dre made "hey ya!". now i think the roots finally managed to make a pop rock song that topped "the seed 2.0":



i hope that their new cd which will be released on april 29, which i plan to buy, will be as good as all their other cds. for my opinion on the roots check this [link].

snoops crazy

snoop dogg has always been eccentric, now he has made a video themed in the 70s. well made, even looks like they filmed it back then.



in other news italian players are going to be forced to show good sportsmanship (danish and english). i wonder if it should be necessary to make it a rule. it should actually just come naturally after game that you show respect to your opponents. anyways, dont forget to give some rice to people as you help your vocabulary grow (freerice.com).

Cee-lo dropping some knowledge and Fallin'

jump forward to about where there is 3 mins left and enjoy his magnificent flow...

next song. a new favorite song from my favorite rapper:

links

I have decided to introduce a simple new feature on this blog, where I post links to thing i feel need to share with people. Basically its all the site I have enjoyed visiting since last time I posted a collection. Any way here comes the first installment:

FreeRice.com No its another site that tries to free a basketball player from the bench, to be able to unleash his potential. But its a site the gives 10 grains of rice to "hungry human beings" for every word you get correct. It seems legit, they will help the UN, through the sponsors on the site. So you can take a vocab quiz and give something to other people by knowing the words. So start giving HERE

(heard about it on the radio, but a hat-tip to afshin for the link)

Bahaullah.org

Ever wanted a site that explain the life of Bahá'u'lláh through pictures. Well here it is. The Bahá'í World News Service describes it like this: "Rather than providing a comprehensive history or literary presentation of the Baha'i Faith, the new Web site aims rather to be impressionistic" So enjoy the presentation HERE

Musik Nu! and Angora By Night A good radio program about music - in danish. Who recommend new music and try keep people up on the newest music. I was fully enthralled last time I listened to it. Especially the interview they had with the singer from Bloc Party. So either listen to it online or as a podcast. Website HERE

While I'm recommending danish stuff, there is the danish satire show Angora By Night. Great for laughs, but sometimes a little too much. You can view all their shows HERE


This pretty much concludes the first batch, I hope to post more links regularly.

Before I end I just want to give a link to a great resource if you need to look thing up on the nets: schoolr.com. Another link is to a review of the new Jay-Z CD, holla! (link)

Enjoy

the 'ye on youtube

here are some vids of my man kanye on youtube:

good life - one of my faves from the new cd:



and him recently on snl - gotta love the freestyle at the end:



story behind the first video: last year at the european music awards, kanye got on the scene and made a fool of himself cause he lost to justice with the video for their song d.a.n.c.e.. i guess he saw the video (link) and decided to get the directors of the video to make cool video for him.

new fav song

yesterday i was surfing the internets and i was alerted to the song "crank dat". i think it was pretty popular in the us this summer. but being a european we get everything a little late. so i heard the song, downloaded it within few minutes and the songs has now has become my ringtone. the sound of "yoooouuuuuuuuu" cracks me up everytime my phone rings.



and here is a link for instructions to the dance (l.i.n.k.)

now i am gonna back to doing the superman...

cassette?

i saw a link about this amazingly old school mp3 player, its pretty simple: 1. insert sd card w. music on it. 2a. plug headphones in and jam, or 2.b put it in cassette player and jam.


i would invest in one if i had a cassette player or knew someone who owned one. i might actually have to get one. you can get your cassette to play kanyes newest hits on here (link)

enjoy


thanks to formatmag for making me aware of this

new favorite summer song...

gotta love andre 3000 fokus vs. everyother rapper. love vs. pimpin... andre is everything that is right with rap today and the others, on the other hand they personify everything bad... interesting combo.

"keep your heart three stacks"

link from format mag

one more song..

this one is for tia grace, sorry about the akon remix: india aire - i'm not my hair



love you tia

good songs on youtube

i am a lover of good rap, which is especially the roots, mos def, talib kweli, common, a tribe called quest and nas. you have to love kanye for his producing skills, eventhough you sometimes are in doubt if he actually has morals. but anyway, please enjoy these videos:

1:Song produced by DJ Premier, with rappers Rakim, Kanye, Nas and KRS-One on the mic. it is a song made for the 25th anniversary of air force ones. gotta love the Nas and KRS-One verses, plus DJ Premier producing the track.



2:Common - the light. one of the best rap love songs... i hope that more people make songs like this...



3: Well here is another one, almost as good. Roots with Erykah Badu and Eve - you got me...



4: nas - it aint hard to tell...




5: Mos Def and Talib Kweli - definition



6: Mos Def and Talib Kweli - whats beef? on Dave Chapelles Show




I hope you enjoy just a few of these songs - i enjoyed finding them... peace

these guys are really good

If you have never listened to or heard of Black Star, you need to pull yourself together and make sure you check these guys out. Black Star is the combination of Mos Def (now rapper turned actor - I think many black folks should thank Will Smith for breaking a major barrier, I wanna compare him to Jackie Robinson) and Talib Kweli. Mos and Kweli started out underground and have become major, they made Black Star after doing some Soundbombing. After some Soundbombing for Rawkus, they got together and made their only official CD together. Check out their apperance on the Chappelle Show and their great classic song "Respiration" featuring another great rapper Common. It is always nice to hear rappers who have something decent to tell the world.

KNA Connected

Check out KNA Connected. One of the group members is Khalil, a great Bahá'í who happens to have a great flow to go along with nice rhymes - he is the tall light-skinned brotha. The three guys in KNA Connected are all residing in Denmark, they do a great live preformance to go with their music (Saw them at "Operaen" - right Chris?).



I was watching my favorite tv show (on MTV), top ten at ten, and then I saw KNA Connected. It was top ten danish bands, pretty impressing to see them there. Here is the video, the danish remix of their song "Fibs".



If you wanna hear the original in english and know more about them check out their homepage (link) or on their myspace.com site (link).

Holla!

a few artist

This whole blog post of a list of artist I like, has grown from a wish to write a review of the Roots new CD "Game Theory" - so first is a short review "Game Theory"
For some reason I have been straying away from the CD shops lately and therefore haven't picked up the real CD. Instead I downloaded "Game Theory" on iTunes Musicstore. I have downloaded multiple full CDs through the Musicstore and I love it! It is great for a instant gratificationist (is that a word?) like me. iTunes Musicstore is an awesome addition to modern consumer culture, the internet has provided and continues to provide great ways for lazy people to stay up on everything and spending money without having to leave comfort zone being their (in my case) beloved computer. Now on to the review (in unprioritized bulletform):

• The Roots mix the CD with slower tracks and seriously speedy tracks - check the songs "Game Theory" "Here I Come", where they push the speed, some what like what they did in "Rolling with Heat" off Phrenology.
• They keep the good ol' Roots sound, jazzy beats mixed with melodic singing. The return of that makes the CD worthwhile. Thats one of the things that fans (myself included) missed from Phrenology. Some people say it is the effect of not having (now superproducer) Scott Storch onboard for the CD
• Black Thought is as thoughtful as ever in his rhymes. The mixture of songs seems not to bother him, but they really enhance his rhymes skills - he has skilz! Love his flow!
  
• I appreciate the tribute to J. Dilla, but the the end of the song is too long. It is a great beat, but they should make the rest a hidden track.
• One thing I have been missing from the "new" Roots is the homogenity the old CDs had, if you want to know why the Roots are among the best hip-hop bands of all time, purchase (or borrow them from me) the following Roots CDs from me: "Things Fall Apart" and "Do You Want More?!!!??!"

All in all, the CD recieves a 4/6 from me, they did well and continue to do well. But I'm still stuck in the old school.




Next is Nas an Jay-Z, two great rappers, they have the amazing gift that they are still alive - compared to the two who stole limelight form their early careers, Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.. Their debut albums are probably my two favorite albums ever and they have continued to keep the same high standards. Jigga has gone on to being, probably, the richest and most powerful rapper ever. Nas fell off, but kept his own when he was beefing with Jigga. For Nas' best listen to "Illmatic", and check out "Reasonable Doubt","Unplugged" (with the Roots as band)"The Blueprint"(the CD that established Kanye West as a producer) for Jay-Z' best. But both have been an integral part of defining newer hip-hop and rap.


Onto rock, the Strokes! These guys are awesome. My brother Omeed says "They probably have the best bass in rock." And I agree, they have created two great CDs and one very good one. Enough said! Listen to all 3 of their CDs, chronologically, if you like the indie rock type of music (my mom doesn't). This is music to get you going, I listen to this or AC/DC if i need extra energy for my morning bike ride. Also listen to Bloc Party, the Killers and Franz Ferdinand if you like that type of music.


Some danish rock artist that are very worthwhile, Kashmir, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (and later Tim Christensen) and Mew. They are all good rock bands and I enjoy listening to them. Mew has a sound like probably no other band, so thats the one band you really should listen to. The other two are just classic bands, really thats all they are CLASSIC bands.


Listing all these artist makes me want to list more. But I will save this for another time. Hopefully this should make you want to check out some of the artist and buy their CDs or go to their shows. If this post could make you want never check my blog again, I understand you.

I will end the post with a shout-out to my former co-workers in Bahá'í World Center Kitchen, whose music has inspired me and expanded my musical universe - like Cocio, you gotta love them! Miss you Manu!