We’re going to try to do this Loose Links more regularly this year. We like spreading the love, and so many people are doing great things online. Here’s today’s freshness:
HipHopDX loves/loved Jurassic 5. At the height of the underground movement, the six-men collective caught an Interscope deal that had backpackers like us celebratin’. One of the things that made J5 so dope was it’s one-two production punch of DJ Nu-Mark and Cut Chemist. Both have gone on to great some things, but Grand Good put us onto two fresh mixes (Disco Is Dead 1973-1979 and Hip-Hop Lives 1985-1996) from Cut Chemist, who’s always been good to the site. The Disco mix is amazing, as is the Hip Hop mix. If you’re caught in a post-holiday lull, let Luke on the cut change that up.
Check Cut Chemist – Disco is Dead (1973-1979) / Hip Hop Lives (1985-1996) here.
Since Miss Cleo ain’t on TV anymore, we have to make our own predictions. Maino made his, and Complex.com has theirs. What we like most about this prediction list (all music-related) is the notion that Wiz Khalifa will sell 300,000 first-week units of his upcoming Rostrum/Atlantic Records debut. Wiz, his management and team and some of our sites’ editors go way, way back, and we’d love to see that too. The playoffs are upon us, #BlackandYellow!
Read “Crystal Ballin’: 11 Musical Predictions For ’11” here.
I just writing this to express my displeasure with some of the albums y’all left off the top 20 best albums of 2010, One in particular was Slum Village: Villa Manifesto LP that album is slam & the EP that was released in 09 is just as dope. My reasoning for this opinion are Young RJ really stepped his beat game up, the rhymes were cold, and it was just a complete album from start to finish. Everyone knows Elzhi is probably 1 of the to 10 MC’s in the game right now, T3 came with strong lyrics, Baatin added his usual spice to the mix and Ill J is cold too. I have been a big SV fan since Fantastic Vol.2 and have coped SV, Dilla cd’s I could get my hands, Phat Kat, Elzhi and there whole click. So just dropping this so SV can get some consider.
Point taken, but we did give it a 4/5… when few other media outlets covered. We had features from T3 and eLZHi too.
It was a great album, but 25 albums out of 300+ we reviewed is difficult.
Appreciate your opinion all the same.
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REAL MUSIC! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxEtfs36qpg