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Skillz – Rap Up 2008 (Audio)

Well, it’s the last day of 2008. Every year since 2002, Skillz drops what he called “The Rap Up”, recapping all of the year’s events.
So, I might as well introduce “The Thought Remixer’s Bin“, a place where I’ll store files for y’all to enjoy. The best part about it? I get to control what stays there and for how long. :) Anywayz, here’s the first file now part of the Bin… Skillz’s Rap Up for 2008. And NOT the Radio Rip that was posted on other websites. Enjoy!
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Shanice Vs. Beyoncé – If I Were A Boy

Ever since Shanice broke out with “I Love Your Smile”, it’s been nothing but love for this woman. However, I feel that Shanice is one of the most underrated singers in the US today. Put her side by side with Beyoncé, I bet she can sing loops around her. Well, by accident, I ran into this little clip by Shanice. Shanice decided to do some videos covering her favorite songs. One of them happen to be a Beyoncé song, “If I Were A Boy”.

So I thought… wouldn’t it be great to put these two side by side?

Well, I decided to do just that. Watch both videos and let me know who you think is the better of the two. I place the live version of Beyoncé performance just to keep things fair. Let the battle begin!

By the way, I love MTV’s new video website. Almost every possible music video. It will make it easy to blog about Rewind classics… well, somewhat. I’ll have to go between MTV and Blastro for music videos now. :) YouTube… a distant third.

The Last.Fm Chart Exchange

What’s up people?

Doing something different this post around. I decided to partake in a “Last.Fm Chart Exchange”. Every week, my weekly plays from not only my own Last.FM profile, but from other profiles that are included in the exchange. The idea of course is to cross promote our own blogs and charts.

Of course, some of you may not know what Last.Fm is, so I’ll make a brief introduction:

Last.Fm is a social media site that saves your music plays. By plugging your media player with a plugin called an “AudioScrobbler”, it "scrobbles” the music you playing. Last.Fm tracks all your music plays, giving you a feedback of what you played in the last 7 days, months or even years. You can organize your data, tag artists and tracks, even making custom radio stations. I used to subscribed to Last.Fm so I can have it play new music for me and at $3/month, it was worth it! :)

Well, enough with that. If you want to partake in the chart exchange, you simply need a Last.Fm account and a (public) blog.

Now, for the charts.

Nukirk Digi.tal’s Chart (Thought Remixer)
Oct. 20-26

It was an Alien Ant Farm week for me. :) You might noticed that I’m the least active of the Last.Fm charts. The reason being is because I don’t have the software to chart my MP3 player’s chart. While iTunes can track it very well, I don’t use Apple products other than Quicktime. I have my own reasons for it, which I will blog about one day.

Another thing… I’ve been using Blip.fm’s that also scobbles to my last.fm chart as well as alert my Twitter account with what I’m thinking of about the piece about to play. I am all up in the internets. Influencing de peeples! lol

Write For Freedom’s chart
Oct. 20-26

This is the newest person on my blogroll. Aspiring writer. "Genius" level. Jealous? Maybe.

She’s got a John Legend thing going on this week.

Laya’s Chart
Oct 20 – 26

Tha 4.0 Show’s Chart
Oct. 20-26

So, I got a lot to talk about this week. So stay tuned!

Lauryn Hill’s Leaked Track: World Is A Hustle

Surfing around facebook, you are bound to get surprises. The latest one is an unreleased track by Ms. Hill. Not really sure how this one “leaked” out, for the user did not post a lot of information. But one thing is for sure, it got the sound that I loved before L. Boogie went AWOL.

So, I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I did. :)

Rhymefest’s Latest and Most Daring Freestyle… A Conversation With His Son

Hip-Hop got some G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Times) moments. I know I had a few of them. I remembered when Nas dropped Ether and got his swagger as an emcee back. I also remembered when was the first time I heard “Juicy” by Notorious B.I.G. However, not all G.O.A.T. moments happens with song. Some happens with actions. Like Snoop Dogg performing “Murder Was The Case” at the MTV Awards. Ol’ Dirty Bastard declared that Wu-Tang love the kids at the Grammys. And this moment deserves to be plugged in as much as possible.

On June 2nd, at a release party/townhall meeting in Brooklyn, Rhymefest had a G.O.A.T. moment. Davey D was in attendance to capture this one. He covered this moment in his myspace blog.

Be A Father is a book project put together by a New York activist and publicist named April Silver Lauren Harris of the Ford Foundation where they gathered up Hip Hop scholars, activists and artists to submit essays and poems dealing with fatherhood and manhood within the African American community.

Some of the participants include artists like rapper Talib Kweli, author, former Real World participant and now Congressional candidate Kevin Powell, Public Enemy co-founder and former Def Jam President Bill Stephaney, filmaker Byron Hurt, author Bakari Kitwana and San Jose based writer Adisa Banjoko,along with myself are just a few of the many featured in the book.

Initially, Chicago based rapper Rhymefest who and is a contributor to BAF and co-author of the Grammy winning song Jesus Walks by Kanye West, was scheduled to do a freestyle so he could help lighten up the mood a bit.

Much of the evening was spent with the capacity crowd that squeezed into the basement of Brown Memorial Church in Brooklyn, listening to heartfelt, searing testimonies and heavy readings from the book on rarely openly discussed topics like; defining manhood, Father, son relationships, child support and custody battles, homosexuality and what to do when your son comes out, healing from the abandonment of our dads. All these topics and more were on the table for all of us to hear and examine.

As you can see, there were a lot of deep, yet heavy topics, especially for fathers of this day and age. Instead of freestyling and lighten up the mood, he got serious.

Rhymefest noted that before coming to the floor he had asked his 10 year old son named Solomon to write down 5 questions that he would like answered that he had never asked before and would be hearing for the first time in front of the audience. Rhymefest promised that he would answer them truthfully. He also noted that he would do the same and ask his son 5 questions to answer. All this was to take place in front of this large audience. Before proceeding Rhymefest told the audience that he got his girlfriend pregnant and as a result got married at age 20. He stayed with her for 5 years before his music career among other problems dissolved the union. He talked about how his busy career prevented him from always seeing his son, and his recent move from Chicago to California to work on a TV project with Kanye West made it even more difficult.

So, I took a listen to the audio clip and needless to say… I was choked up. The audio started off innocently… and then, the second question from his son was asked. And I had to stop what I was doing to listen to the answer. The question?

Daddy do you feel I am holding you back from doing what you want? Daddy do you feel I am holding you back from doing what you want?

I can’t go any further. You need to experience this for yourself. Check out the audio clip (17 minutes, work friendly safe) and comment. I personally feel that this moment deserves to be rank up there as a G.O.A.T. moment for Hip-Hop. Think of it as an early Father’s Day present.

Thanks to Davey D for the hook up.


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