YouTube Shit

If you don't know about YouTube you're fucking up. This is great. It's like Flickr but with videos. I can embed videos from there over here, and maybe I will someday, but for now, I'm just gonna do some links here.

Mac Mall "Sic Wit Tis"

Video for the classic off of "Illegal Business?". Nothing too special, just another early 90's video in a pool hall. If you don't have this album, you really should. I think dude over at Pacific Standard did a post about this album not too long ago.

N2Deep "Back 2 Da Hotel"

Ahh yes. Bay Area Chicano rap doesn't get better than this.

Go Dumb USA Trailer

This is really great.

Cam'ron, Hell Rell "Get Em Daddy Remix"

A rough cut of the video, not even that great. Cam is rapping with his injured arm in a sling, though.

Jin vs. Mistah FAB Battle

Okay, so Jin kinda wins this one. I can admit that. Fabby didn't do himself any favors by dissing the mostly Asian audience (it was at an import auto show). That was a poor choice. I really don't know how I feel about Jin though. I mean, he clearly likes the Bay Area. He shouts out 40 and Mac Dre in that "Top 5 Dead or Alive" single, he collaborated with Ya Boy, and he was sporting that shirt during the battle. However, he is a square who might be able to battle, but can't write a song for shit. In short, fuck Jin.

A Very 2-TOOK Christmas

This one time in SF, on a Monday night cheap drink special at El Rio, I started choppin it up with this random ass dude about Bay rap and whatnot. Anyway, at some point in this conversation, he showed me that he had none other than Cellski's number on his 2-Way. He called the number and handed me the phone, cause like, why not drunk dial Cellski? He didn't pick up, so I left a detailed voicemail, left him my phone number, I think I even offered to design an album cover for him.

Cellski never called me.

Well, when I finally remembered about this little incident, I was kinda impressed that I had actually called Cellski. I mean, how many people do you run into with Cellski's phone number? What I didn't know is that if you own a Cellski album, you probably also have his phone number. His number is the booking number for his label or some shit.

Well, to accompany that rather uninteresting Cellski story, I have some Cellski mixtape shit that has been slowed and thowed a bit. It's off his third Freestyle Mixtape, which I missed. Here they are (these are .m4a's so, if you don't use iTunes, sorry):

Cellski - I Get Higher (Chopped & Screwed)

Cellski's brilliant take on Styles P's "I Get High". Apparently, Cellski gets higher.

Cellski - West Coast is an Army (Chopped & Screwed)

Cellski, Killa Keise, and Baldhead Rick's remake of B.G.'s "Cash Money is an Army".

And, in the holiday spirit, here's a couple "why-nots":

Haji Springer f/ J-Diggs and Bavgate "Showin Out"

I'm way to into this song right now. Say what you will about Haji, he's hella funny.

Jayo Felony "Trued Up Remix"

Jayo Felony on some gang-bangin shit. Don't wear your rag in the wrong pocket in Southeast San Diego.

It's Really Fucking Cold Out Here

For those who don't know, the entire Northeast has been hit by a huge cold front, or system, or whatever. I saw an icicle hanging off the side of a brick building today. Not on a window or overhang, just straight up on a wall. According to MSN's weather page, it "feels like" 5 degrees. The real temperature is 18 degrees, but the point is that it's cold out. I have been keeping warm with some Southern FIRE:

Bubba Sparxx- Pocket Full Of Mid

Mid as in midgrade weed. This is no carrot top, folks. One thing these white rappers do pretty well is self-deprecation. Bubba talks about coming up in the game selling shitty weed, driving around in a car without a system (so he uses his boombox), and all sorts of shenanigans. Basically he didn't make all that much money. And yes, this is based on the UGK song, or at least the chorus is. Some other guy raps, too, but you don't care about that.

Smitty ft. Lil Wayne & Twista- Diamonds on My Neck (Remix)

This has a really tight beat with a sample of Biggie's voice chopped up for the chorus, and it sounds fantastic. That being said, Smitty and Twista really don't do much here. I have nothing to say about Smitty, and Twista has slowed down his flow, so now you can notice that he isn't saying anything at all. Well, you could tell that before, but he had the gimmick factor. I think the slowness is because he's freestyling, which he shouldn't do anymore. Wayne has the first verse and steals the show. He supposedly disses B.G., but all he says is "I made Bling-Bling," which Big Mike assures you is a big deal by yelling "OH...DAMN!!" right afterwards. I'll upload B.G.'s response, over the "Fireman" beat, in a few days if the people ask for it.

Oh yeah, I should probably mention that these songs come from Bike Mike and Evil Empire's Be South Pt. 7. Anyways, I hope they can warm you guys up. Happy Hanukkah. And you'll notice I said "Hanukkah," not "Holidays," because this blog refuses to capitulate to the radical secularists who want to kill religion. Fuck those New York media-controlling Jews on their high horsies.

Edit: The streets (one person) have (has) spoken!!! Here is B-Gizzle's response:
BG- Triggaman
I would have put it in the original post, but I hadn't imported it yet and I am lazy. Blaow!

Serve Chilled. Get Hyphy

That's the design for the Hyphy Energy Drink can right there. I guess it's kinda stupid, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't kinda excited about this(cherry-lime flavor though?). Now, obviously, this shit needs to be mixed with alcohol to be truly hyphy. So, The Nation of Thizzlam wants YOUR input on this. What drinks should we make with this drink? Keep in mind, your drink better be hella Bayish. Also, each can of Hyphy is only 8 ounces, and I'm sure it costs a few bucks, so make sure your shit is strong AND creative.

I thought of a couple, here they are:

The 3XKrazy
1 Shot Bacardi 151
1 Shot Bacardi Limon
1 Shot Heem
1 Can Hyphy

I'm pretty flexible as far as what three shots go into that one. If anyone has any better ideas, throw 'em out there. It just has to be three shots cause, like, the name and all.

The Cougnut
1 Small Bottle Cisco (flavor of your choice!)
1 Can Hyphy

This one, of course, dedicated to the late, great CougeRebel. That man liked his Cisco, and who could blame him? That stuff is magical. I mean, it comes in every color of the rainbow, and it makes your whole body tingle! (Whoa! No homo!) One can only imagine what might happen when that shit gets mixed with an energy drink. For further reading on Cisco, go here. Also, if you want to locate Cisco at a quality retailer near you, click here. You probably won't regret it.

So, you kids out there on the internets, do you have any ideas for a Hyphy drink? Let us know! If I like the idea of your drink (and if it sounds hella cheap), I'll fuck with it once Hyphy comes out, and follow up on this post. Post recipes on the comments board.

And, while you're brainstorming your brilliant Hyphy drink, why not listen to some new Yuk?

"Get Bay Wit It" Yukmouth, Haji Springer, Young Dru

That's right, it's like David Banner's "Play", but super duper hyphy. Mr. Haji Springer really takes the going dumb to the next level. Check out his Myspace. He's Indian.

Compare and Contrast

Bun B ft. Scarface & Young Jeezy- Pushin'

J.R. Writer- Pushing

Nuff said.

The Five Boroughs of the Bay?

So Jayo over at Get Stoopid recently posted a remix of some Zion I song with a buncha dudes from the bay on it. Casual finishes with a reference to the "five boroughs of the Bay." This got me thinking: does the Bay have five boroughs? And what are they? Some of the similarities are pretty obvious:

San Francisco=Manhattan
The central, densely populated area. Gentrified, and basically the cultural center of the area. But not necessarily for rap. Residents tend to ignore the other boroughs, unless they are pretentious hipster types seeking "authentic" outer boroughs.

Oakland=Brooklyn
Southeastern "outer borough." Berkeley can be Williamsburg.

Richmond=Queens
Northeastern "outer borough." Not really as big as Queens, though.

Vallejo=Bronx
Northern "outer borough." Obviously more separated from San Francisco than the Bronx is from Manhattan. But it must be the parallel because the importance of the rap from there.

San Jose=Staten Island
The distant southern "outer borough." This is probably the least convincing parallel, because San Jose is the biggest city in the area. But they are similar in that they are kinda ignored. Although I would say that Staten Island deserves it, while San Jose doesn't.

Obviously, Marin is Westchester County. That is, a really wealthy, really liberal suburban county North of the metro area. All in all, I think Casual has a pretty good point. Feel free to add your own parallels/differences.

PS- I tried for half an hour to fix the picture formatting (which is why I used the lame, blank map of the Bay- it was small) but it turns out that Blogger is a FUCKING JOKE and I couldn't do anything about it. It is impossible to put two pictures next to each other.

Finals Week Mixtape

It's finals week down here in La Jolla-didimean, and yer boy-boy has some studying to do. That doesn't mean I don't have anything for you. Here's my finals week mixtape

Lil Wayne "Fireman"

Bun B "Draped Up"

These aren't new, but they're new to me. Some good shit from the South.

Lil' Jon, E-40, Sean Paul "Snap Ya Fingers"

This is some new Lil' Jon (don't worry, it has E-40 on it). It's about that ridiculous dance you've probably seen in the D4L and Franchize Boyz videos. E-40 has a pretty good verse about figuring out how the whole dance works.

Sky Balla "Gonna Get It"

Sky Balla over a Scott Storch beat. I'm not even really convinced that Sky Balla's from San Francisco. Anyone know how the guy got all those guest appearances (Juelz, Game, Mac Dre) on his mixtape, even if he's a nobody in the Bay Area?

Lee Majors "Scrape Thirsty"

If this one doesn't make you thirsty for some scrapin, I don't know what will.

Cold World Hustlers "Nasty Lyrics"

Perfect. Everything about this song is fucking perfect.

Mack 10 "Foe Life"

For some reason, when I was younger, I was all about Mack 10. Like, I owned most of his albums. For some reason, all I'm left with today is "The Paper Route" which fucking sucks. But whatever. Most people hate on Mack 10, and now I can see why, but I'll be damned if this song isn't a classic.

Alright, well that's the mixtape. Hope you like some of these. And, you should check out my radio show on Thursday from 12AM-2AM. I will have just finished finals, and a long day of work. Long story short, I'm gonna be too took. You can download the stream here.

Edit- found some new Yukmouth. You can download his whole new mixtape at The Smoking Section. I kinda like this one. He flipped Young Jeezy's "Air Forces", and made it "Air Jordans". I know, not much of a stretch. All Yuk really does here is take all of Jeezy's rhymes (and adlibs), and kinda change them a little bit.

Yukmouth f/ Young Jeezy (but not really) "Air Jordans".

Yukmouth link should work now. Download that shit!

Wherefore Art Thou, Crakk?

Has anyone heard anything from Philly's second* finest, Mr. Crakk? Last I heard, his surname went the way of the "Killa" of Cam'Ron, the "Murda" of Mase, and the "Killah" of Ghostface. That is, he will continue to call himself that, but thinks that "Peedi Peedi" will sell better to the MTV/BET execs, or something. At any rate I thought he was working on an album, or something. And he was talking shit about Dame Dash. He is still signed to Roc-a-Fella, apparently. Anyone who knows anything, let me know. In the meantime, some Crakk fire:

Meth Beat

This is from some mixtape he put out this last spring. It features him spitting heaters over the "Method Man" beat.

Temporary Relief

"Crakk in the kitchen positioned with hot agua/ caliente, yay bubble like hot lava"
This is from State Property's Chain Gang Vol. 2. Don't even bother listening to Sparks' verse.

*Or third, depending on your opinion of Freeway. The Roots don't count.