Really?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
AML - Sweats & Kicks
Profiting off the slight success of Ann Arbor based Binary Star, the Athletic Mic League was an Ann Arbor rap group circa 2003ish- the DJ is now somewhat famously known as Mayer Hawthorne and is signed to Stones Throw Records. How this happened, I'm not really sure because these guys sucked - and exploited all the gayisms of your typical "real hip hop head." The album was called "Sweats & Kicks" which is by definition, gay. And the beats sucked and the rhymes were lame. The group broke up.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Mercedes - Rear End
Critics lauded the cover as a Pen & Pixel masterpiece, noting how, by facing the car forwards instead of backwards, the viewer would have no doubt that the "rear end" (cleverly put in all lower case letters) of the title refers to Mercedes' rump, and not the rear end of a bright blue car, license plate "NO LIMIT records"
"After releasing the album, Mercedes reportedly retired from music business less than a year later to attend law school"
- Wikipedia
Smilez and Southstar
Note: the caption to the above photo says "Mix Master Ice and Smilez and Southstar;" the author does not note which two are Smilez and/or Southstar, or if this is in fact a picture of Reggie Bush, DJ Quik's brother, and Paul Wall after losing a bet.
"Smilez talks about the death of his mother and Southstar speaks about the death of his son, Malik, however, it did poorly on the charts, and the group was considered a one-hit wonder. But, the group still followed on with a tour with reggae artist Beenie Man. They also were considered "different" because they didn't talk about using or selling drugs in their music[citation needed]."
T"Smilez talks about the death of his mother and Southstar speaks about the death of his son, Malik, however, it did poorly on the charts, and the group was considered a one-hit wonder. But, the group still followed on with a tour with reggae artist Beenie Man. They also were considered "different" because they didn't talk about using or selling drugs in their music[citation needed]."
Mixtapes
- Mixtape Vol. 1
- F*$% Wit Us Now
Keith Murray - Rap-Murr-Phobia (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop) (2007)
Title: Rap-Murr-Phobia (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop)
The Brain McKnight Show
Me and my sister were skimming thru channels and saw that this dude straight has a TV show. It could be tight for all I know, just a little random...
Loon - "Loon" (2003)
His second album was called No Friends.
| Studio album by Loon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Released | October 21, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2001 - 2003 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Label | Bad Boy Records | |||
| Producer | Diddy, Loon, Fredwreck Nassar,Scott Storch, Ryan Leslie, Mario Winans | |||
| Professional reviews | ||||
| Loon chronology | ||||
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Doggy's Angels - "Pleezbaleevit!" (2000)
Pleezbaleevit!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Studio album by Doggy's Angels | |
|---|---|
| Released | 2000 |
| Recorded | 2000 |
| Genre | West Coast hip hop, G-funk,Gangsta rap |
| Label | TVT, Doggystyle |
| Producer | Battlecat Fredwreck Meech Wells Jelly Roll Marc 'N Tha Dark D. Black |
Pleezbaleevit!, frequently misspelled Pleezbalevit,is the only album by Doggy's Angels, released in 2000 on TVT Records...
The release of the album led to a lawsuit by Columbia Pictures, claiming infringement of the Charlie's Angels franchise. The label responded by withdrawing the cover image and promotional artwork and renaming the band "Tha Angels", but in spite its efforts the group disbanded in 2002 with no further releases.
Da Hood (2002)
Mack 10 Presents da Hood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Professional reviews | |
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Da Hood is a collaboration album by American rappers Mack 10, Deviossi, Skoop Delania, K-Mac, Cousteau and Techniec (together known as Da Hood). It was released July 23, 2002 on Hoo-Bangin' Records. The album was produced by Leslie Brathwaite, Lil Jon, R. Coes, Timbaland and Young Trey. It peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200, at number 2 on the BillboardIndependent Albums chart and at number 9 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.[3] The album features guest performances by Ice Cube, Lil Jon, TQ, Baby, Big Tymers and Timbaland.
Along with a single, a music video was released for the song "Hittin' Switches"[4] and features cameo appearances by Stacey Dash and Layzie Bone.
Juice - All Bets Off (2005)
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wyclef Jean - Welcome to Haiti (Creole 101)
Featuring Haitian legends Sweet Mickey, T Vice and Foxy Brown.
Friday, March 26, 2010
B.O.N.E. Enterprise - Faces of Death (1993, 95)
| Biography | by Jason Birchmeier |
Before they were known as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the Cleveland rappers were known as B.O.N.E. Enterprise. Though the group had little to no success under this moniker, besides their unlikely encounter with Eazy-E (who signed them to his label), they did produce a recording as B.O.N.E. Enterprise, Faces of Death, that  "In 1989 they formed, and by 1991 the attentions of making music had been priority number one for Bone Thugs. At the time they had changed the name of the group once again to B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e. They also adopted new rapping names; Steve Howse was now Layzie Bone the #1 Assassin and Anthony Henderson changed his name to Krayzie Bone a.k.a Leather Face. Stan wasn't in Cleveland to take part in B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, but the Howse brothers cousin Charles Scruggs was still around and changed his name to Wi$h Bone the Strate Jacket. Bryon McCane the newist addition was now Bizzy Bone a.k.a. Rest In Peace. When Steve a.k.a. Layzie Bone started this group he was using the name Bizzy but gave it to his new best friend Bryon when he realized how intense Bryon can be at times, where Steve is more laidback and chill."  I hear fall in East Cleveland is just delightful. I know you're in a graveyard but i can barely tell dude. That just looks like a test picture on the way to somewhere else.  This is the cover of the one I actually owned, have no clue where it is but I loved it even tho it wasnt amazing. was just so hype about it. Don't remember much about it except that Dr. Wax had like 10 of em in the 1.99 bin. That doubled the hype. | |
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