Childish Gambino talks his music with Hard Knock TV. The actor turned rapper dishes on how he got his stage name from a Wu Tang name generator, his recently released album, what sets him apart from his Drake comparisons and much more.
EPISODE 38: Radio personality Angela Yee joins the Hype Men to discuss working for Wu-Tang Corporation directly out of college + Ol’ Dirty stories + managing D’Angelo + knowing Eminem during The Outsidaz days + getting the Shade 45 job without any radio experience + introducing Jay Electronica to Jay-Z + Murs eating out on Lip Service + her special email address where people send her naked pics + much more!
Bonus Links: Drunk Saigon on Lip Service. The Rosenthals stand awkwardly behind Max B. Check out TeamYee.tv.
EPISODE 30: Comedian Joe Mande joins the Hype Men to discuss Rhymesayers and the Minnesota hip-hop scene + albino rappers + Chet Haze and the shitty keg-rap movement + WINNING + Scientology pamphlets + the NBA dunk contests + Joe’s run-ins on twitter with Cam’Ron, Chamillionaire, Jesse Camp and White Castle + Wu Tang’s mathematics + the “I Need a Doctor” video + much more!
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“Yalls aint cut from the same cloth as niggas. Niggas is cut from divine fabrics namsayin. Yalls is cut from Burundi flannel n shit. Yalls niggas need to step yalls thread counts up if you gon step in a nigga square like that. You dealin wit a 900 thread count nigga.” — Big Ghostface
“Niggas is coonin the fuck out like coonin gon get played out tomorrow n shit. Niggas is worried that they coonin coupons is gon expire before they can cash that shit in namsayin. Niggas is takin ignorance to the next levels n shit. These niggas is like the X-Men of ignorant niggas.” — Big Ghostface
“Ayo I’m sayin tho, niggas was tryin to get they littlle questions in but the nigga wasn’t lettin niggas get they little words in, niggas ain’t have they little snacks.” — Raekwon
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With Year Round Records’ upcoming compilation on the horizon, HipHopDX’s decade-long veteran music-master looks at what we hope to get in the future from one of our favorite producers.
After DJ Premier revealed that he’ll be working with GZA on the upcoming DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock album, it got me thinking, who hasn’t Premo worked with that I’d love to hear? The legendary producer has been around the block a few times, and has most of the major artists covered. But there are some big holes, and certainly some opportunities missed with the passing of 2Pac and Big Pun.
Since none of the following will appear on December 7th’s DJ Premier Presents…Year Round Record: Get Used To Us, here are 10 artists or groups I want Premier to get in the lab with. I’m not talking a remix to a song they’ve already appeared on, or some DJ blend, but the real deal.
Wu-Tang Clan
Other than Inspectah Deck’s appearance on Gang Starr’s “Above The Clouds,” Method Man’s appearances on Biggie’s posthumous “Rap Phenomenon,” and Limp Bizkit’s “N 2 Gether Now,” and Ol’ Dirty Bastards’s “Pop Shots,” there isn’t much in the way of Wu-Tang/DJ Premier collaborations. Which is shocking considering their long career overlap and their similar fan-bases. I want the whole Clan over Premier’s vintage boom bap .
Chino XL
Raekwon is on fire. Since the release of Only Built For Cuban Linx II last September, the sequel to his classic 1995 debut, the Wu-Tang Clan member has been enjoying a late-career resurgence rarely seen in hip-hop. His most recent power-move, a collaborative remix of Justin Bieber’s “Runaway Love” instigated by Kanye West on Twitter, left hardcore Wu-Tang fans and a nation of tweens equally confounded. But with more Kanye-affiliated music, his next solo album, and a feature film on the way, the Chef is just getting warmed up. The rapper spoke with Vulture about all that and more.
You’ve had one hell of a year.
It’s been prosperous, difficult, and definitely refreshing. I say “prosperous” because we’ve gained so many points in so many different ways in the industry, as well as with our fans, and they give you the motivation. I know that the key to really being relevant in the game is just being prosperous. Difficult, meaning it’s a new industry, so you definitely have to see how things
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The Roots held their 3rd Annual Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier in Philly this past Saturday.
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Nas doesn’t take himself too seriously. Phoning in to VIBE the day after Malcolm X’s convicted assassin was released, the Brooklyn-born, Queensbridge-bred MC constructs elaborate theories about the Mayan prophecies of 2012, stacking on facts like a deliberate construction worker. Moments later, he’s plowing down his thesis with a counterpoint, leaving you to sort out the rubble yourself. It’s an unexpected demeanor for a rapper steadfastly championing Africa for the full-length album Distant Relatives, a collaborative opus with Damian Marley. With the afrocentric disc hitting stores next week (May 18), Nas opens up for a seriously loose chat about Africa jokes, Knight, Rakim, and that Kelis tattoo. —John Kennedy
VIBE: Some might consider Distant Relatives a preachy record. Were you conscious of that while recording, or do you even care?
Nas: That’s never a thought, you don’t want nobody thinking that you’re being preachy—I don’t like people being that way to me. I cant explain what it is, something else takes over when we in the studio. When I hear [Damian Marley] mention Shaka Zulu, Incan warriors, I can see them rising up from the dead. I feel like we’re speaking to our ancestors with our music. I don’t have time to know what somebody [else] is getting out of the song.
You’ve had a longstanding relationship with Africa, as many chuckled at your afro-centric role in Belly, and you’ve even made light of your “Back-to-Africa” praise on “Black Girl Lost” from It Was Written. Do you feel like your audience rejects Africa?
Yeah, it’s multiple reasons for it. We’re in the greatest country ever, in America, so any country that’s foreign to us is gonna not seem homely, especially a place that’s been so fucked over by other governments. Especially a place that seems so poor. The family tree root has been cut here in America. So when you’re talking about going back, you’re talking about a place that people don’t know as their home, and Africans who don’t see us as their people. But we’re their long lost brothers and sisters. There could be so much truth told about that continent that would encourage young people. (more…)
Dame speaks to the.LIFE Files about making his return to music, for now. He talks about not being in it for the money anymore, brags and boasts about people who have money but no “swag.” He also says that Roc-A-Fella should have worked with Bad Boy, Cash Money and Wu-Tang, and that’s what Spitta is doing now.
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