Stones Throw Sundays

This August Amoeba in Hollywood brings you Stones Throw Sundays. Every Sunday from 1-2PM a different Stones Throw artist will be providing tunes to enhance your shopping experience.

Throwback: Mos Def In “If I Were President”

Mos Def reminds me of my drunken uncle. Well minus the steez.

C to the O Double M, O, N

Fuck man, you know hip-hop & the economy are truly dead when rappers like Common work as part-time actors. Ja Rule making movies with Steven Segal was interesting… at least he got to pretend to be tough and have a few people buy that for a change. Ludacris in 2 Fast 2 Furious made sense in the other hand, you needed a lanky black guy for comic relief.

Common, in my opinion one of the classiest man in hip hop & let alone the best lyricist in the game. Probably one of my favorite MC’s no doubt. Well I read somewhere that he is in the upcoming movie, Terminator: Salvation. I’m pretty damn excited. Have you seen Wanted? Common was raw and hard as hell… no pun intended but he flat out sold his character as his own. I have no problem with artists such as Common expanding his Wikipedia page just as long as he sticks to his roots and comes back with deaf defying tracks. Ja Rule in the other hand, the hell if I care if you come back to the music industry. What ever happened to him anyway?

Thoughts of Hip Hop Today

I ran into this post by “Oooiviooo” of wordpress titled “Hip Hop Is Dead” and i thought you should take a peep.

“It’s true. Hip hop has become so mainstream and commercialized that what most people call hip hop is so far from the true spirit and culture of hip hop. Nas said it last summer, and has reemphasized his point with his album that came out at the beginning of 2007. Hip hop has become more geared towards a white audience that never had any connection to hip hop culture, and less geared towards the communities that created it. The only exceptions that stand out in my memory is Kanye West’s “Bush don’t like black people” and anything by the Coup. How many young people listening to hip hop today take an interest or get involved in graffiti art? How many are living in abject poverty forced upon them by the imbalance of power and social structures of this society? How many are in college? The worst effect of the commercialization of hip hop, in my opinion, has been the ill protrayal of women. Mainstream hip hop treats women HORRIBLY. Calling them bitches and hoes (and not affectionately like “my nigger”), talking about their roles as sexual satisfaction for the rappers, and never giving them the respect and glory that they deserve for supporting the family, the community, the culture, let alone giving them props for all the roles that they fill simultaneously as mother, wife, working woman, and artist.”

Okay, let me tell you folks my input to all this bickering between true hip hop heads and your boy Soulja Boy. Like many commercialized media, or anything in life for that matter, things change as time passes, it is what it is. Hip hop is not dead, Nas, it has simply just been revolutionized. I’m not going to say that them cats with ‘em grillz and all eighty “Lil”s out there are wassuh but I think an unbiased nobody such as myself is what this industry needs… ahahahahah! Relax, I’m just kidding. Humor aside, no love lost for Nas but as ill as the tracks of the early 90′s were, its a new generation and let “the hip hopness” find its way back to society. Basically, let the garbage of todays music clean itself up. And although, the reality is, that as long as an unsuspecting white kid has $10 burning a hole in his puffy jacket pocket, it will continue to survive on hype.

Get your mind right.

Freddie Joachim: Remixes Volume 1, 2, & 3

THE JOACHIM REMIXES VOL.1

01 – Mos Def – Travellin Man (Freddie Joachim remix)
02 – Mobb Deep – Quiet Storm (Freddie Joachim remix)
03 – Talib Kweli – Get By (Freddie Joachim Remix)
04 – Common – The Corner (Freddie Joachim remix)
05 – Erykah Badu – On & On (Freddie Joachim Remix)
06 – Mos Def – Work it Out (Freddie Joachim Remix)
07 – Scarface feat. 2 Pac – Smile (Freddie Joachim remix)
08 – Reflection Eternal – Good Mourning (Freddie Joachim Remix)
09 – Common – The Light (Freddie Joachim Remix)
10 – Homeliss Derilex – Cash Money (Freddie Joachim Remix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/139999739/TheJoachimRemixesVol1.zip

THE JOACHIM REMIXES VOL.2

02 – Mos Def – Mathematics (Freddie Joachim Remix)
03 – Reflection Eternal – Move Somethin (Freddie Joachim Remix)
04 – Cypher Optics – Stimutax (Freddie Joachim Remix)
05 – Method Man & Redman – How High (Freddie Joachim Remix)
06 – Beatjunkies feat. LMNO – Sick Days (Freddie Joachim Remix)
07 – Little Brother – The Way You Do It (Freddie Joachim Remix)
08 – Mos Def – Ms Fat Booty (Freddie Joachim Remix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/140001471/TheJoachimRemixesVol2.zip

THE JOACHIM REMIXES VOL.3

01.Common – Resurrection (Joachim Remix)
02.Common – The Light (Freddie Joachim Remix)
03.Freddie Joachim – Brown Crayon
04.Freddie Joachim – The Generations
05.Jill Scott feat. Mos Def – Love Rain (Head Nod Joachim Remix)
06.Nas – If I Ruled The World (Freddie Joachim Remix)
07.Nice & Smooth – Blazing Hot (Freddie Joachim Remix)
08.Talib Kweli – Get By (Joachim Remix)
09.Talib Kweli – Rock On (Joachim Remix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/140003337/TheJoachimRemixesVol3.zip