Music

Check Out: Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, M.A.A.D City



This is serious people.

I kind of started listening to Kendrick Lamar as kind of a joke. Moops had made me listen to my first song starring him, The Recipe with a beat by Dre. I thought it was kind of wack, yea the beat was good but I wasn't really feeling the lyrics. But then, kind of to break Moops balls, we looked up a bunch of his shit, expecting it to be wack, but it wasn't. Two tracks really caught my eye, A.D.H.D, and A1 Everything with Meek Mill. Meek has always one of the few artist I still like in the rapid decreasingly talented rap game, but on the real Kendrick went harder...The kid had my attenion.


So, I got got Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, I was blown away. Believe me when I say there isn't a bad track on the CD. He's got many different kinds of song, none of which sound the same, you can literally listen to it from begining to end. I dare say I would consider this shit a classic. Even the Pre-Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Mixtape that dropped right before the CD, so basically the songs that didn't make the CD were still pretty great. So to name a couple a song you should probably check out from the mixtape and CD: Backseat Freestyle, The Art of Peer Pressure, good kid, Swimming Pools, and Black Boy Fly on the album - The Spiteful Chant, Cartoon and Cereal, Cloud 10, and Dumb it Down on the mixtape, and many more on both CDs. So, take my advice, check some out on YouTube and get the album, if you are a fan of innovative rap that is. Trust me you will not be disappointed.

Seriously.

 

-Blackfyre
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No More Snoop Dogg?

Snoop Dogg has now changed his name to Snoop Lion...

Snoop Lion

It's official, Snoop Doggy Dogg, the rapper that we've all come to know and love has changed his name to Snoop Lion.  On Tuesday at a press release in New York Snoop broke the news to reporters and industry reps that he was losing the Dog and adding the Lion.  

So why the change?  It was a bit of a spiritual experience one might say.  On a trip to Jamaica Snoop said he had an epiphany and came to the realization that he was bored with rap and that it was time to start making music that his grandparents and grandkids could listen to.

While on his journey in Jamaica Snoop took a visit to one of the holiest Rastafarian temples where he was blessed with the title of Lion.  Unlike dogs, Lions hold a place of pride in the Rasta theology and Rastafarians would indicate you calling yourself a dog as having a lack of self knowledge.  The symbolism of the Lion runs deep in Rastarfarian theology being that it's a symbol for Solomon's tribe of Judah (Christians see Christ as the Lion of Judah).  The most famous Rastafarian of all time, Bob Marley often sang about the "Lion of Zion".

So what does this mean for all the Snopp fans across the globe?  Well the Lion sees himself as a reincarnation of the late Bob Marley and wishes to keep the fire of his spirit burning.  In the late fall we can expect to see Snoop's first reggae album released.

At the end of the conference Snoop told reporters "I feel like I've always been Rastafari, I just didn't have my third eye open".

 

-Moops

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Life is Good

The newest album from Nas.

The same man that declared that hip hop was dead is the same man breathing life back into the art.  With his newest studio album release Life is Good, Nas brings back the sounds and styles reminiscent of a golden era that made the east coast a power house.  With guest appearances by Mary J. Blidge and Rick Ross coupled with production by Swiss Beats and Large Professor, Life is Good recaptures an era of history in hip hop that now seems lost in todays' modern trend of ass slapping, money tossing, non conscience rap music.  Nas has always been well known for his gritty street intellectual lyrics with a delivery that can only be matched by few.  Tracks such as Loco Motive, Accident Murderer, and Daughters almost sound as if they could be lost tracks from Illmatic, It was Written, or I am.  For those of the older generation this will be a welcomed breath of fresh air and for the younger cats it'll serve as a lesson and tribute to the true soul of hip hop.

-Moops