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Foreign Exchange feat. Darien Brockington - “Take Off The Blues”
Mixtape Madness…early…
Last March we posted Mixtape Madness sharing some of the hottest mixtapes of the year which seem to all drop around march. For some reason 2009 has been on fire with heat dropping from many different places, so we must share the goodness a few weeks early…. Download and get familiar.
Drake: So Far Gone | we knew back in November 07.
Sean G: The Lever 2009 Mixtape | Pictured above
J. Period: The Abstract Best Mixtape | Q Tip Remix Project
U.N.I. & Mick Boogie: Before There Was Love Mixtape | Check the video below for some insight on the group, and peep the DJ JunkFood cameo in the first few seconds.
True School Radio… LIVE RIGHT NOW
Broadcasting right now 9th Wonder and the True School Family way out in NC. We got the line stream, something perfect to close out the work with… Check out the stream every friday 4pm…
Heat: 88 Keys - The Death of Adam
Who cares about auto tune, everyone is doing it now, it is fresh, but I figured I heard it all, until I heard an album where a voice is muffled throughout the record. 88 Keys touches genius with his new album The Death of Adam. An album that is vocally and sonically appealing, and even targets one’s intellect, not through a scholarly topic but the story of a man who meet his demise by a woman, more specifically her P*****. The album takes us on the full journey, narrated by gossip, beginning with the song Morning Wood and Ending with Another Victim. The album features Kanye West, Kid Cudi, J*Davey, Redman, Bilal, Phonte of Little Brother, and alternative rock group Shitake Monkey. Far from a new comer, 88-Keys has left his mark on many classic albums from Black Star to Musiq. Listen close to the story so history doesn’t repeat its self.
Southern Cali Live…
In 2006, Nas became a musical generations Ebenezer Scrooge when he declared, “Hip Hop is dead”. And with ring-tone artist breaking records and making millions, it’s a tough case to argue against. Thankfully for you residents of Southern Cali it’s been resurrected, along with R&B who was on a deathbed of its own.
Check out the list below for dates and take a trip through Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul and Funk – Past, Present and Future– just in times for the holidays. Visit Tickemaster for more information regarding tickets and showtimes.
Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant | Greek Theater | 11.9
Method Man/Redman and Guests | HoB – Sunset | 11.11
Lupe Fiasco | Club Nokia | 11.12
Q-Tip w/ Special Guests | HoB – Sunset | 11.15
Usher | Club Nokia | 11.19
Maze ft. Frankie Beverly| Riverside Municipal Auditorium | 11.21
Ludacris | Claremont Colleges | 11.22
Shwazy | Roxy Theater | 11.24
Eric Benet | HoB – Sunset | 11.26
Nas | Club Nokia | 11.26
Bell Biv Devoe | HoB – Sunset | 11.28
The Temptations | Gibson Amphitheater | 11.28
Bone Thugs N Harmony | Club Nokia | 11.30
Jeffrey Osborne | Grove of Anaheim | 12.3
Wu Tang Clan | HoB – Sunset | 12.4
Meshell Ndegeocello/The Coup | HoB – Sunset | 12.8
Anthony Hamilton | Hob – Anaheim | 12.11
Murs | El Rey Theater | 12.11
Keith Sweat, Guy, Toni Tony Tone | Gibson Amphitheater | 12.20
George Clinton and Parliament | Club Nokia | 1.2
Good Music: Chris Focus
Somethings to think about…
And for your ride to work in the morning..
It aint ground breaking Hip-Hip…but it KNOCKS!
One of my biggest problems with this SoCal relocation is the lack of good ‘ole fashion dirty south music. The songs you hear in the club before the radio or video. The songs you hear in the strip club before the club. The heavy hitting bass lines that you feel in your chest (pause), that make cats riding with factory turn it up like they got beat in their trunks.
Enter the “Aint I” remix by Yung L.A. ft Young Dro and T.I., a song that I will personally lobby to get played in Hollywood. With my cultural connections to home fading like McCain in the polls, this video was the highlight of my week – depressing I know.
It aint ground breaking Hip-Hop…Yung Leland Austin (despite the Mohawk, Yung L.A. indeed has no affiliation with Los Angeles) raps about what he has and what he does. Young Dro raps about what he has, what he does, and who is on the song. T.I. raps about what he has, what he does, who he is, where he is, where he’s going and community service.
AND IT KNOCKS!
With Clifford’s “Countdown to Lockdown” already begun, be on the lookout for Yung L.A. to fill the PSC/Grand Hustle void that Young Dro has had trouble with.
U.N.I. - Soul Hop Video & Beautiful Day Remix
“…we elevated at the center of the galaxy, don’t get sonned…”
“…we elevated at the center of the galaxy, don’t get sonned…”
A while back Thurzday told that MTV would be debuting their new music video for Soul Hop, and while over on Eazee St., I saw a post that the video would drop 6am Wednesday morning on MTV2. Of course I wouldn’t be up at 6am, but I was able to catch the video before I left the house, and I was impressed. A great video that matches with the song perfectly, I felt it only appropriate to quote the line above from the song. I also was able to grab the remix to Beautiful Day with has an all star cast and new verses from U.N.I. Check the new video Soul Hop from MTV Break Out Artist of the Year U.N.I.
UNI - Beautiful Day Remix
UNI - Soul Hop
“I bust the windows out your car…”
I would be devastated if I walked up to my car and saw something similar to what is pictured above on the ground near my vehicle, but I can’t really front on Jazmine Sullivan’s newest single, its pretty entertaining. A song describing her actions after catching her man doing some un-champion lover type activity and a video to match showing her doing some damage of her own. Something that you have to see for your self, so I posted it below. Hopefully I never get to hear of any of my boys getting their windows busted, but now that there is a song about it, I am sure people will be sharing stories.
In addition Jazmine Sullivan will be in concert opening for Maxwell on November 1st at the Shrine. I earlier reported that he would be dropping an album soon, but that proved to be erroneous. He did pop up in a surprise performance during the BET Awards tribute to Al Green. Check them both out, promises to be a great show.
Live Shows: Roots & & UNI | Little Brother Talib Kweli
The Southern California concert line up has been pretty serious the past couple of months, and the timing could not be worse, i mean we are in a recession right, but so what. I plan on driving the distance to see The Roots and U.N.I. at UCR on Friday, and try and push some of these White House Black T-Shirts. There is a great line up next Tuesday at the House of Blues on Sunset, David Banner, Talib Kweli and Little Brother. Each with new music to perform and old classics to show case, ill be in the House.
David Banner, Talib Kweli & Little Brother
House of Blues
Tuesday, September 30th.
Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind
Music marketing and promotion has always been a difficult task, to reach an audience who is bombarded by artist who have little talent but large budgets, the quality artist are usually overlooked. With many new internet and viral initiatives being put in place to catch attention of consumers, many go unseen and unappreciated. With a degree in the formal teaching of marketing I pay close attention to any fresh and innovative marketing efforts. Today I saw the Monday Night Football billboards with actually astroturf and chalk writing. I tried to snatch it off the wall, I will let you know if I get my hands on one, but that’s not what this is about. Phonte and Nicolay are gearing up for their second collaboration, Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind (LIAB). The first album Connected was great, nice mellow beats, fresh lyrics, something that you can play thru with out getting bored or tired. They have released tree videos of different chat conversations, leaving things very vague, and most fans sitting on the edge of their seat like when Kells dropped the first couple Trapped in the Closet songs, before it got weird. I am looking forward to this project, available for digital download on October 7th and in store on October 14th, check out the videos below, look up the Connected project to get acquainted.
Elevated Nomination Special [Non-Political]
No this is not about the presidential race, but about a few other people that need your vote, coincidentally all at the same time. Read the step by step guide on how to help.
A few weeks ago we posted on Fonzworth Bentley’s video for his new single Everbody featuring Kanye & Andre 3000, with the MTV Video Music Awards around the corner, the call has been set forth to nominate this classic for Video of the Year. Click here and scroll down Fonzworth and provide your vote.
Everybody - Mr. Bentley w/ Kanye & Andre 3000
Also on the MTV VMA Ballot is Los Angeles’s own U-N-I, whose song Supreme has been on our music player for sometime now, has been nominated as one of LA’s Best Break Out Artist. The winner will be revealed at the awards and we want to make sure they take the title. Check out the song & Click here to vote, and represent for U-N-I.
U-N-I - Supreme
Last but certainly not least, we [elevatedla.com] need your help.The 2008 Black Web Black Awards nomination process has begun and we need nominations & votes in the categories: Best Blog Design, Best Food Blog, Best Group Blog, Best Photo Blog, & Blog to Watch. Nominate for one category or ALL.
It will only take a few minutes for this and this can serve as some early practice for the big vote in November, but more on that later!
