Best Foot Forward

“Can you do that to a classic?” Pete Tong asks… Leo Zero can.

(Source: leozero.com)

This just played on the oh-so-ace-and-oh-so-hipster @NTSLive. Hip hop how it should be.

Big boogie business mixed by Francois K. Well into this.

Here’s a list of everything I love about this:

• Tight bass
• Warm keys
• Cover art
• Future noises
• Imagining a smoke-filled jazz bar filled with cartoon musicians…
• *Puts down jazz fag, steps away from cyberspace.*

(Source: brainfeedersite.com)

Really nice take on a classic. Props (or whatever hip hop word is superfly these days) to @NuNorthernSoul & @phil_cooper for the heads up!

Had these lyrics stuck on some looped earworm setting for the past 3.46 hours. 

”..I used to have the trey-deuce, And the deuce-deuce in my bubblegoose…”

I had to know what they mean.

After some intensive internet forum research I now feel like an OG*:

Biggie had a deuce deuce and a trey deuce; (.22- and .32-caliber handguns), which he concealed in his puffy down jacket (the bubblegoose).

*Original Gangsta/Gangster

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y.

But with a big bad Dilla beat. And that clap - sweet jesus. 

RIP Jay Dee. Simply the greatest.

New MF Doom collaboration with Ghostface Killah of Wu Tang. Here’s the original, and a Madvillainz remix at 01:26. 

Ghostface is even going to show during MF Doom’s UK tour at a one-off gig in The Roundhouse, tickets released today over here.

I like the way MF Doom just compounds the names of whoever he’s working with, and look forward to the day we get to hear RadioDoom, Doom Doggy Dogg and Mumford & Dooms. 

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This caught my attention this morning, it was like strong coffee administered directly to the ears.

“One great singer covers another. And as an a capella? I couldn’t resist it. This will be the last free thing I’ll do for a while as I concentrate on getting the album done.”

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