J. Cole is a master of the sneak attack. As Hip-Hop releases in 2024 are quietly ramping up in March, Cole raised the stakes with a 10-minute video promoting The Fall Off. Cole’s long-anticipated tome that he first unveiled with the 2018 release of KOD is unescapable fast. “Might Delete Later, Vol. 1” shows Cole on the move—from congratulating Lil Durk on their recent Grammy Ribbon win for 2023’s “All My Life” collaboration, to check-ins from Drake and Bas, the video is fresh. It shows lighter moments in the superstar’s life, from Jamaican supplies stops to singing patriotic songs with friends.
In between, Cole delivers a song (starting at 3:46 in the video below) in stride with his most confident proclamations. The verse begins with a reminder that Jermaine is playing for legacy: “I said I was finished but I’m on flipside two summers / Hall of Famer, but I’m hungrier than all the newcomers / N____as swear they compare, but the truth humbles / They could f__k 112; they couldn’t do numbers,” J. Cole says Cole near the top of the verse. He then points to his hunger, and alludes to dropping his most minion verse increasingly than a decade without his debut album. “‘Benjamin Button,’ gettin’ younger as the hours pass / Should do the ‘Freshmen’ imbricate twice, I’m never out-classed / There’s not a Rap n___a breathin’ that can outlast / The Fall Off is like Hov droppin’ Reasonable Doubt last,” he touts.
J. Cole Explains Why His New Tome Is Called The Fall Off
Cole is checking peers and insisting that he stands alone. “I’m the one that n___as fear on the low-ski / Heard ’em talkin’ like we peers, but they grossly / Mistaken, and it’s blatant, crocodile tears, n___as know I’m on the tier that they don’t see,” he raps in a recipe rhyme display. The versifier moreover appears to undeniability out folks that are aiming to collect on his glory: “How dare a n___a rub his hands on this trophy / I vividly remember who was there / N___as hit my line when they want somethin’ / That’s a dub, it ain’t love if it forfeit somethin’ / N___as hit my phone up when they need somethin’ / I can’t recall a time when you gave me somethin’ / Chopped off the top, n___a, I achieved somethin’”
The song ends abruptly, and finds Cole sitting at his work station and proclaiming that he misses production. While praising longtime collaborator T-Minus, the MC/producer speaks well-nigh the headspace in which he makes beats. Whether that is hinting at a resurgence will remain to be seen. Meanwhile, J. Cole is unmistakably staying in dominance with the pen and the microphone.
J. Cole Says He Is The Weightier Rapper Alive & He’s Proving It
Cole often makes artistry fun for fans. Perhaps “Might Delete Later, Vol. 1” lives up to its name. Or, increasingly volumes may suddenly pop up at any minute.
#BonusBeat: Several songs featuring J. Cole are currently on the official AFH Playlist (follow here):
J. Cole is a master of the sneak attack. As Hip-Hop releases in 2024 are quietly ramping up in March, Cole raised the stakes with a 10-minute video promoting The Fall Off. Cole’s long-anticipated tome that he first unveiled with the 2018 release of KOD is unescapable fast. “Might Delete Later, Vol. 1” shows Cole on the move—from congratulating Lil Durk on their recent Grammy Ribbon win for 2023’s “All My Life” collaboration, to check-ins from Drake and Bas, the video is fresh. It shows lighter moments in the superstar’s life, from Jamaican supplies stops to singing patriotic songs with friends.
In between, Cole delivers a song (starting at 3:46 in the video below) in stride with his most confident proclamations. The verse begins with a reminder that Jermaine is playing for legacy: “I said I was finished but I’m on flipside two summers / Hall of Famer, but I’m hungrier than all the newcomers / N____as swear they compare, but the truth humbles / They could f__k 112; they couldn’t do numbers,” J. Cole says Cole near the top of the verse. He then points to his hunger, and alludes to dropping his most minion verse increasingly than a decade without his debut album. “‘Benjamin Button,’ gettin’ younger as the hours pass / Should do the ‘Freshmen’ imbricate twice, I’m never out-classed / There’s not a Rap n___a breathin’ that can outlast / The Fall Off is like Hov droppin’ Reasonable Doubt last,” he touts.
J. Cole Explains Why His New Tome Is Called The Fall Off
Cole is checking peers and insisting that he stands alone. “I’m the one that n___as fear on the low-ski / Heard ’em talkin’ like we peers, but they grossly / Mistaken, and it’s blatant, crocodile tears, n___as know I’m on the tier that they don’t see,” he raps in a recipe rhyme display. The versifier moreover appears to undeniability out folks that are aiming to collect on his glory: “How dare a n___a rub his hands on this trophy / I vividly remember who was there / N___as hit my line when they want somethin’ / That’s a dub, it ain’t love if it forfeit somethin’ / N___as hit my phone up when they need somethin’ / I can’t recall a time when you gave me somethin’ / Chopped off the top, n___a, I achieved somethin’”
The song ends abruptly, and finds Cole sitting at his work station and proclaiming that he misses production. While praising longtime collaborator T-Minus, the MC/producer speaks well-nigh the headspace in which he makes beats. Whether that is hinting at a resurgence will remain to be seen. Meanwhile, J. Cole is unmistakably staying in dominance with the pen and the microphone.
J. Cole Says He Is The Weightier Rapper Alive & He’s Proving It
Cole often makes artistry fun for fans. Perhaps “Might Delete Later, Vol. 1” lives up to its name. Or, increasingly volumes may suddenly pop up at any minute.
#BonusBeat: Several songs featuring J. Cole are currently on the official AFH Playlist (follow here):
Three artists who all made their start during the 2010s are manifesting their greatness. Last year, Mick Jenkins’ latest album, The Patience and IDK’s most recent, F65, were each named among Ambrosia For Heads‘ weightier LPs of 2023. Chicago, Illinois’ Saba is no stranger to that list, expressly without 2018’s CARE FOR ME. Now, the two Windy Municipality rappers and the London-to-PG County MC link together for a beautifully-produced Red Bull 1520 cypher in the round.
Saba kicks things off. The self-proclaimed “West Side Wizard” wears a fitting hat, and works his magic. “All I wanted in this life was a few thou’ a month / Just unbearable to get by, feed two mouths and a son / To move somewhere with the views of African sun / And not have to squint over my shoulder like showering drunk / But the reality is, I was asking too much,” he begins, with finance of his life and tested wisdom. The Pivot Gang leader raises his voice for accent as he describes going from a polite dreamer to an unruly achiever.
Here’s The Story Overdue The All-Star Cypher That Ended The Arsenio Hall Show
Mick Jenkins seamlessly follows. The MC stays moving while rapping well-nigh aspects of nature he sees in himself and the weft of others. “What’s the tea? No Queen Latifah / Got no savor / Herbal Essence, since n___as Happy and highly favored / When in my Jansport, see mad men, no ‘Draper’ / ‘Nuff paper, no stapler,” he spits in a verse filled with double and triple meanings.
IDK raps last, and for nearly twice as long as his cohorts. “I’m on my catch-a-case s__t, dodgin’ fake s__t / I’m runnin’ into buildings, I’d really rather take s__t / I’m smokin’ everybody, got me trippin’ like I laced it / They say I ain’t the one, yet nobody replaced him / I been through many eras of this Rap s__t / 2015, I was on my Sub-Trap s__t / 2016, they was on they Trap Soul s__t / They wanted my soul, but b___h, I never sold it / Never got the deal, but still I got to own it,” raps the versifier who has previously worked with MF DOOM, Jay Electronica, and Westside Gunn.
Souls Of Mischief Freestyle New Verses To 93 Til Infinity
The self-confident MC goes on to tout his greatness with a tweedle on his shoulder. IDK holds the mic with a rhinestone glove and a sizable ring. He carries himself with star power, while whereas that his numbers do not equate his skill-set. “That’s G.O.A.T. status / I requite a n___a smoke from the static / Like the wire unprotected fire in the attic,” surpassing demonstrating a sharp spritz while referencing Tupac and Eminem, and whereas that critics say he say sounds like Kanye West and recalling whinge with Logic. He then weaves in peers such as JID, Cordae, and Smino to his lyrics—while boldly showing why IDK stands alone.
While Mick and IDK happy 2023, Saba’s most recent tome was 2022’s Few Good Things.
IDK’s Freestyle Delivers Knowledge With Some Humor & Ignorance Too (Video)
#BonusBeat: New music from Mick Jenkins is currently on the official AFH Playlist (follow here):
Three artists who all made their start during the 2010s are manifesting their greatness. Last year, Mick Jenkins’ latest album, The Patience and IDK’s most recent, F65, were each named among Ambrosia For Heads‘ weightier LPs of 2023. Chicago, Illinois’ Saba is no stranger to that list, expressly without 2018’s CARE FOR ME. Now, the two Windy Municipality rappers and the London-to-PG County MC link together for a beautifully-produced Red Bull 1520 cypher in the round.
Saba kicks things off. The self-proclaimed “West Side Wizard” wears a fitting hat, and works his magic. “All I wanted in this life was a few thou’ a month / Just unbearable to get by, feed two mouths and a son / To move somewhere with the views of African sun / And not have to squint over my shoulder like showering drunk / But the reality is, I was asking too much,” he begins, with finance of his life and tested wisdom. The Pivot Gang leader raises his voice for accent as he describes going from a polite dreamer to an unruly achiever.
Here’s The Story Overdue The All-Star Cypher That Ended The Arsenio Hall Show
Mick Jenkins seamlessly follows. The MC stays moving while rapping well-nigh aspects of nature he sees in himself and the weft of others. “What’s the tea? No Queen Latifah / Got no savor / Herbal Essence, since n___as Happy and highly favored / When in my Jansport, see mad men, no ‘Draper’ / ‘Nuff paper, no stapler,” he spits in a verse filled with double and triple meanings.
IDK raps last, and for nearly twice as long as his cohorts. “I’m on my catch-a-case s__t, dodgin’ fake s__t / I’m runnin’ into buildings, I’d really rather take s__t / I’m smokin’ everybody, got me trippin’ like I laced it / They say I ain’t the one, yet nobody replaced him / I been through many eras of this Rap s__t / 2015, I was on my Sub-Trap s__t / 2016, they was on they Trap Soul s__t / They wanted my soul, but b___h, I never sold it / Never got the deal, but still I got to own it,” raps the versifier who has previously worked with MF DOOM, Jay Electronica, and Westside Gunn.
Souls Of Mischief Freestyle New Verses To 93 Til Infinity
The self-confident MC goes on to tout his greatness with a tweedle on his shoulder. IDK holds the mic with a rhinestone glove and a sizable ring. He carries himself with star power, while whereas that his numbers do not equate his skill-set. “That’s G.O.A.T. status / I requite a n___a smoke from the static / Like the wire unprotected fire in the attic,” surpassing demonstrating a sharp spritz while referencing Tupac and Eminem, and whereas that critics say he say sounds like Kanye West and recalling whinge with Logic. He then weaves in peers such as JID, Cordae, and Smino to his lyrics—while boldly showing why IDK stands alone.
While Mick and IDK happy 2023, Saba’s most recent tome was 2022’s Few Good Things.
IDK’s Freestyle Delivers Knowledge With Some Humor & Ignorance Too (Video)
#BonusBeat: New music from Mick Jenkins is currently on the official AFH Playlist (follow here):
In the late 1980s, Dr. Dre and N.W.A. led a movement that put Compton, California on the map for Rap fans. Dre and his hairdo described a place with vivid detail—from its hard-nosed reputation to the perils of life in the street. That movement ultimately propped the door for artists like DJ Quik, The Game, and some years later—Kendrick Lamar. Thirty years later, Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, and Benny The Butcher brought Buffalo, New York into new perspective. Three talented MCs from Western New York rapped finance of life in the unprepossessed streets where hustling comes with taking life-or-death chances. This Griselda Records movement gave shine to a plethora of deserving MCs from the region, who got recognition from powerful association.
Despite bilateral connections to Eminem, the Grisela hairdo has yet to release music produced by Dre. However, their longtime unite Big Ghost Ltd imagined a world where Conway and his cohorts can rap over G-Funk production. Speshal Machinery: The Gronic Edition (Big Ghost Ltd. Version) takes 2023’s collaboration EP by Conway and Rochester, New York MC/producer 38 Spesh, and gives it a 1990s West Coast makeover. Several of these new songs are currently on the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow it here).
Benny, Conway & 38 Spesh Rewrite A Page Out Of Scarface’s Diary (Audio Premiere)
“Goodfellas,” the first song on the playlist, features Conway, Benny, and 38 Spesh. The distorted sounds heard on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (which the new project moreover pays homage to in its artwork) make a return here. Notably, Spesh’s verse works in Snoop Dogg’s zone code: “I had to work s__t when from the 213 / No losses, I had a 22-month streak / When I took my first L, I ain’t lose much sleep / Disappeared and came when like two front teeth / Now who wanna see the switch on my big weapon? / When I ask, ‘Who want beef?’ It’s a trick question.” Conway raps next, surpassing Benny closes up shop with lines like: “You really gotta know the difference from suckers and real steppers / And ones who handle that whinge first like a meal prepper / My beats harder, my whip newer, my deal largest / And my wall statements six pages long like a jail letter.”
“Been Through” has that early ’90s G-Funk sound, expressly in the nonflexible drums and synthesizers. This song features longtime Black Soprano Family unite Elcamino. Conway raps, “Look, so far, it’s been a solid year / I told my n___as, ‘Let’s alimony doin’ s__t that got us here’ / Yeah, VVS, the big solitaires / Twenty bands for one earring and I got the pair / Neck lookin’ like I sell a lot of squares / These other n___as’ jewelry kit cannot compare / They say, ‘Machine, since you got in, s__t has not been fair’ / Said, ‘I’ma run this s__t until I’m in my rocking chair’ / I’m from Buffalo, New York, ain’t had too many options there / Trap house kitchens, just a couple dirty pots in there / N___as get out of pocket, then you shot the pearly / And if you lose, you come when later and the woodcut get aired.”
Conway The Machine Gives Funkmaster Flex 2023’s Weightier Freestyle
The “Gronic” remix to the title track has a laid when finger to it, increasingly in step with the G-Funk heard on Masta Ace Incorporated than perhaps what some would socialize with early Death Row. Nevertheless, this song flaunts razor sharp lyricism from Spesh and Conway.
Previously Big Ghost Ltd. made 2015’s Griselda Ghost project, withal with collaboration albums with Ransom, CRIMEAPPLE, Che Noi, and others.
Ghostface & Big Daddy Kane Have United To Take Hip-Hop When (Audio)
The AFH playlist (follow it here) moreover includes selections from Benny’s Everybody Can’t Go, Conway and Conductor Williams’ CONDUCTOR MACHINE, Elcamino’s They Spit On Jesus, and Westside Gunn’s And They You Pray For Me.
#BonusBeat: AFH‘s 2019 interview with Griselda:
In the late 1980s, Dr. Dre and N.W.A. led a movement that put Compton, California on the map for Rap fans. Dre and his hairdo described a place with vivid detail—from its hard-nosed reputation to the perils of life in the street. That movement ultimately propped the door for artists like DJ Quik, The Game, and some years later—Kendrick Lamar. Thirty years later, Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, and Benny The Butcher brought Buffalo, New York into new perspective. Three talented MCs from Western New York rapped finance of life in the unprepossessed streets where hustling comes with taking life-or-death chances. This Griselda Records movement gave shine to a plethora of deserving MCs from the region, who got recognition from powerful association.
Despite bilateral connections to Eminem, the Grisela hairdo has yet to release music produced by Dre. However, their longtime unite Big Ghost Ltd imagined a world where Conway and his cohorts can rap over G-Funk production. Speshal Machinery: The Gronic Edition (Big Ghost Ltd. Version) takes 2023’s collaboration EP by Conway and Rochester, New York MC/producer 38 Spesh, and gives it a 1990s West Coast makeover. Several of these new songs are currently on the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow it here).
Benny, Conway & 38 Spesh Rewrite A Page Out Of Scarface’s Diary (Audio Premiere)
“Goodfellas,” the first song on the playlist, features Conway, Benny, and 38 Spesh. The distorted sounds heard on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (which the new project moreover pays homage to in its artwork) make a return here. Notably, Spesh’s verse works in Snoop Dogg’s zone code: “I had to work s__t when from the 213 / No losses, I had a 22-month streak / When I took my first L, I ain’t lose much sleep / Disappeared and came when like two front teeth / Now who wanna see the switch on my big weapon? / When I ask, ‘Who want beef?’ It’s a trick question.” Conway raps next, surpassing Benny closes up shop with lines like: “You really gotta know the difference from suckers and real steppers / And ones who handle that whinge first like a meal prepper / My beats harder, my whip newer, my deal largest / And my wall statements six pages long like a jail letter.”
“Been Through” has that early ’90s G-Funk sound, expressly in the nonflexible drums and synthesizers. This song features longtime Black Soprano Family unite Elcamino. Conway raps, “Look, so far, it’s been a solid year / I told my n___as, ‘Let’s alimony doin’ s__t that got us here’ / Yeah, VVS, the big solitaires / Twenty bands for one earring and I got the pair / Neck lookin’ like I sell a lot of squares / These other n___as’ jewelry kit cannot compare / They say, ‘Machine, since you got in, s__t has not been fair’ / Said, ‘I’ma run this s__t until I’m in my rocking chair’ / I’m from Buffalo, New York, ain’t had too many options there / Trap house kitchens, just a couple dirty pots in there / N___as get out of pocket, then you shot the pearly / And if you lose, you come when later and the woodcut get aired.”
Conway The Machine Gives Funkmaster Flex 2023’s Weightier Freestyle
The “Gronic” remix to the title track has a laid when finger to it, increasingly in step with the G-Funk heard on Masta Ace Incorporated than perhaps what some would socialize with early Death Row. Nevertheless, this song flaunts razor sharp lyricism from Spesh and Conway.
Previously Big Ghost Ltd. made 2015’s Griselda Ghost project, withal with collaboration albums with Ransom, CRIMEAPPLE, Che Noi, and others.
Ghostface & Big Daddy Kane Have United To Take Hip-Hop When (Audio)
The AFH playlist (follow it here) moreover includes selections from Benny’s Everybody Can’t Go, Conway and Conductor Williams’ CONDUCTOR MACHINE, Elcamino’s They Spit On Jesus, and Westside Gunn’s And They You Pray For Me.
#BonusBeat: AFH‘s 2019 interview with Griselda:
Kevin Durant is an NBA MVP who does increasingly than just ball. The two-time champion and current Phoenix Suns forward has publicly shared his music before. In 2012, KD appeared on “Some Winners” slantingly Taylor Gang versifier Chevy Woods and Philly MC Privaledge. A dozen years later, he teams with Rap veteran Stalley for a new song that goes nonflexible in the paint. “Scared Money” is currently featured atop the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow it here).
Following Stalley’s first verse, Durant raps his life. “I finger like Randy Moss when he was on the Raiders / Man, they love to hate us / This woman so fine, I requite her mazuma payments / Baby, I’m just so glued to the nuts / I wanted increasingly room, so I copped a crib sittin’ adjacent, uh / In this hoop world, I’m ‘Freddy,’ ‘Jason’ / I’m sittin’ in the places of great, but never smug / Yeah, baby, I’m a stoner / Yeah, I took that long walk up the hill that made me a loner / And nah, baby, I don’t like bein’ humble, I hang with mongrels / Gotta pay attention, it’s a god sittin’ amongst you and you know it.”
Kevin Durant Has Inspired His Roc Nation Brother Jay Electronica To Release Music (Audio)
The football comparison to Randy Moss is interesting, given the six-time Pro Bowler’s public displeasure with the then-Oakland-based team. Moss is largest remembered for lengthier tenures with the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots. Durant joined the Suns last year without storied runs with Seattle/Oklahoma City, Golden State, and Brooklyn.
For his part, Stalley raps well-nigh taking chances and earning. “The hustle don’t stop, it’s ’round the clock here / When it comes to gettin’ paper, we denounce fear / I know that’s a big word, very cavalier / Big wheels on the curb, we park it right there / Spark the tree in front of NYPD / It’s legal now, f__k they gon’ do to me?”
Lil Dicky Has Made An Epic Music Video…That Forfeit Almost No Money (Video)
In 2021, Stalley & Apollo Brown released Blacklight. That Mello Music Group tome was named among AFH‘s weightier that year. The Ohio native has dropped a series of singles over the last year. This weekend, Kevin Durant will participate in his 14th NBA All-Star game selection in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The AFH playlist (follow it here) moreover includes new music by Apollo Brown, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA, among many others.
#BonusBeat: A recent AFH IG post asking fans who the weightier rapping NBA player of all time is:
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Kevin Durant is an NBA MVP who does increasingly than just ball. The two-time champion and current Phoenix Suns forward has publicly shared his music before. In 2012, KD appeared on “Some Winners” slantingly Taylor Gang versifier Chevy Woods and Philly MC Privaledge. A dozen years later, he teams with Rap veteran Stalley for a new song that goes nonflexible in the paint. “Scared Money” is currently featured atop the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow it here).
Following Stalley’s first verse, Durant raps his life. “I finger like Randy Moss when he was on the Raiders / Man, they love to hate us / This woman so fine, I requite her mazuma payments / Baby, I’m just so glued to the nuts / I wanted increasingly room, so I copped a crib sittin’ adjacent, uh / In this hoop world, I’m ‘Freddy,’ ‘Jason’ / I’m sittin’ in the places of great, but never smug / Yeah, baby, I’m a stoner / Yeah, I took that long walk up the hill that made me a loner / And nah, baby, I don’t like bein’ humble, I hang with mongrels / Gotta pay attention, it’s a god sittin’ amongst you and you know it.”
Kevin Durant Has Inspired His Roc Nation Brother Jay Electronica To Release Music (Audio)
The football comparison to Randy Moss is interesting, given the six-time Pro Bowler’s public displeasure with the then-Oakland-based team. Moss is largest remembered for lengthier tenures with the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots. Durant joined the Suns last year without storied runs with Seattle/Oklahoma City, Golden State, and Brooklyn.
For his part, Stalley raps well-nigh taking chances and earning. “The hustle don’t stop, it’s ’round the clock here / When it comes to gettin’ paper, we denounce fear / I know that’s a big word, very cavalier / Big wheels on the curb, we park it right there / Spark the tree in front of NYPD / It’s legal now, f__k they gon’ do to me?”
Lil Dicky Has Made An Epic Music Video…That Forfeit Almost No Money (Video)
In 2021, Stalley & Apollo Brown released Blacklight. That Mello Music Group tome was named among AFH‘s weightier that year. The Ohio native has dropped a series of singles over the last year. This weekend, Kevin Durant will participate in his 14th NBA All-Star game selection in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The AFH playlist (follow it here) moreover includes new music by Apollo Brown, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA, among many others.
#BonusBeat: A recent AFH IG post asking fans who the weightier rapping NBA player of all time is:
View this post on Instagram
A quarter-century ago, Slum Village was in the process of pursuit up their Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1) debut. That underground tome became a calling vellum for a new sound coming out of Detroit, Michigan — and three artists bringing the change. T3, J Dilla, and Baatin were in the process of pursuit up and making good on flipside tome worthy of its name, Fan-Tas-Tic, Volume 2.
A year before Volume 2, Slum supplied The Office Space soundtrack with a banger. 1999’s “Get Dis Money” became a hit for the trio—even without a music video. The 20th Century Fox/Interscope Records 12″ single is much worthier than a song well-nigh counting cash. The record, which later landed on 2000’s sophomore LP, showed three men on their creative ascent and holding one flipside to a higher standard artistically. It is the first song of a new Ambrosia For Heads throwback playlist (follow here) that currently celebrates indelible Hip-Hop from the end of the 1990s into the mid-2000s.
Slum Village, J Dilla & Bilal Know What Love Is…It’s Hip-Hop (Video)
This week, AFH spoke to Slum Village’s co-founder T3 as well as Young RJ‚ who evolved and blossomed from a J Dilla production pupil to an SV producer in the early 2000s to a full-fledged group member and Grammy-nominated versifier over the last 15-plus years. In an audio montage from the conversation, Young RJ recalls sifting through a stack of DAT tapes on the SV manager’s sedentary without school. He was astonished when he heard the megacosm that became “Get Dis Money.” “I was like, ‘This is crazy; this definitely gotta go on the album—[and] this was surpassing there was three verses to the song. Just seeing it go from the demo process to the completed version was wondrous to me. It’s a archetype song, plane to this day.”
Following their self-made debut, T3 describes a new process for Slum Village. “We had to well-spoken that sample,” he begins. “Even surpassing that—when we heard [the beat], we thought it was incredible, with the vocoder and all of that. And then Dilla made a archetype write-up out of it.” RJ adds, “Not only that, Herbie Hancock didn’t plane know that was his sample.” T3 picks up, “So when we went to go well-spoken it, Herbie Hancock said, ‘Where is the sample at?’ We was like, ‘It’s the whole damn record; what is you talkin’ about?’ It didn’t make no sense; that ways we could’ve gotten yonder with it,” T3 says with a laugh.
Celebrate Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Reconstructed Take On Herbie Hancock (Mix)
“Get Dis Money” samples the Jazz legend’s 1978 song “Come Running To Me.” However, the Grammy Ribbon winner could not place his sonnet within the Slum Village creation, considering of how creatively Dilla flipped it.
Slum Village’s surviving co-founder moreover describes the environment. “We was definitely in the vault at Dilla’s crib. And usually, with records, the set-off was either me or Dilla settin’ it off,” says the versifier with the song’s first verse. “Then we’d end up goin’ to get Baatin and finish it up. That’s usually how we did record—I’d say a good 70% of the joints.” He adds, “Something well-nigh ‘Get Dis Money’ that a lot of people don’t know is Baatin had to write his verse over like three times. So it’s at least two versions of two variegated verses of Baatin’s [part in the song]. Considering here’s the thing: we had a thing when we did songs, that Baatin would start off talking well-nigh the topic, and then he’ll go somewhere else. And that used to frustrate Dilla sometimes. And he was like, ‘Nah man, you gonna have to write something else; you’re gonna have to write flipside one. [Laughs] So Baatin ended up writing like two or three verses to ‘Get Dis Money.'” RJ notes, “And he still didn’t get it the way that Dilla wanted it. You know, he was just like, ‘Aight; we gotta turn it in, so this’ll do,’ which is why his verse kinda fades out at the end. As a producer, you can hear the record finished in your head. And sometimes, when it’s not exactly the way you hear it, you’re like ahh, but it’s still dope. It ain’t like Baatin gonna write no trash. It’s just, Baatin was the curveball, and sometimes he took a variegated approach—instead of just staying specifically on the topic.”
Common & Pete Rock Are Working On A Joint Album
In an era when the lines of demarcation between “commercial” and “underground” seemed like rigid boundaries, Slum Village deliberately voiceless the lines. “When people first heard us [and realized] that Dilla was doin’ the beats, they [were going to be reminded] of A Tribe Tabbed Quest. But our lyrics—we was like the gangsta version or the hood version of A Tribe Tabbed Quest. So, talking well-nigh money, yes—we was talkin’ well-nigh money. We talkin’ well-nigh women. We were talkin’ well-nigh what we had in our lives or what we wanted to strive to get at that time.”
The AFH Throwback Playlist (follow here) moreover features archetype songs by Madvillain, Prodigy, Common and Sadat X, Ghosttface Killah, sufferer prez, Little Brother, Twista, Da Eastsidaz, Devin The Dude, J-Live, and many, many more.
Also, to stay up on current Hip-Hop in the tradition of those unconfined artists, follow our weekly updated new music playlist. That playlist currently features recent releases from Masta Ace & Marco Polo, J. Cole, Evidence, Busta Rhymes, Rapsody, Coast Contra, Griselda, Big K.R.I.T., Che Noir, AZ, Joell Ortiz and many more.
Illa J Welcomes Listeners Into His & J Dilla’s Diaper Home (Video)
#BonusBeat: Over the last month, Slum Village released its latest single, “Request,” featuring Earlly Mac and Abstract Orchestra:
A quarter-century ago, Slum Village was in the process of pursuit up their Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1) debut. That underground tome became a calling vellum for a new sound coming out of Detroit, Michigan — and three artists bringing the change. T3, J Dilla, and Baatin were in the process of pursuit up and making good on flipside tome worthy of its name, Fan-Tas-Tic, Volume 2.
A year before Volume 2, Slum supplied The Office Space soundtrack with a banger. 1999’s “Get Dis Money” became a hit for the trio—even without a music video. The 20th Century Fox/Interscope Records 12″ single is much worthier than a song well-nigh counting cash. The record, which later landed on 2000’s sophomore LP, showed three men on their creative ascent and holding one flipside to a higher standard artistically. It is the first song of a new Ambrosia For Heads throwback playlist (follow here) that currently celebrates indelible Hip-Hop from the end of the 1990s into the mid-2000s.
Slum Village, J Dilla & Bilal Know What Love Is…It’s Hip-Hop (Video)
This week, AFH spoke to Slum Village’s co-founder T3 as well as Young RJ‚ who evolved and blossomed from a J Dilla production pupil to an SV producer in the early 2000s to a full-fledged group member and Grammy-nominated versifier over the last 15-plus years. In an audio montage from the conversation, Young RJ recalls sifting through a stack of DAT tapes on the SV manager’s sedentary without school. He was astonished when he heard the megacosm that became “Get Dis Money.” “I was like, ‘This is crazy; this definitely gotta go on the album—[and] this was surpassing there was three verses to the song. Just seeing it go from the demo process to the completed version was wondrous to me. It’s a archetype song, plane to this day.”
Following their self-made debut, T3 describes a new process for Slum Village. “We had to well-spoken that sample,” he begins. “Even surpassing that—when we heard [the beat], we thought it was incredible, with the vocoder and all of that. And then Dilla made a archetype write-up out of it.” RJ adds, “Not only that, Herbie Hancock didn’t plane know that was his sample.” T3 picks up, “So when we went to go well-spoken it, Herbie Hancock said, ‘Where is the sample at?’ We was like, ‘It’s the whole damn record; what is you talkin’ about?’ It didn’t make no sense; that ways we could’ve gotten yonder with it,” T3 says with a laugh.
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“Get Dis Money” samples the Jazz legend’s 1978 song “Come Running To Me.” However, the Grammy Ribbon winner could not place his sonnet within the Slum Village creation, considering of how creatively Dilla flipped it.
Slum Village’s surviving co-founder moreover describes the environment. “We was definitely in the vault at Dilla’s crib. And usually, with records, the set-off was either me or Dilla settin’ it off,” says the versifier with the song’s first verse. “Then we’d end up goin’ to get Baatin and finish it up. That’s usually how we did record—I’d say a good 70% of the joints.” He adds, “Something well-nigh ‘Get Dis Money’ that a lot of people don’t know is Baatin had to write his verse over like three times. So it’s at least two versions of two variegated verses of Baatin’s [part in the song]. Considering here’s the thing: we had a thing when we did songs, that Baatin would start off talking well-nigh the topic, and then he’ll go somewhere else. And that used to frustrate Dilla sometimes. And he was like, ‘Nah man, you gonna have to write something else; you’re gonna have to write flipside one. [Laughs] So Baatin ended up writing like two or three verses to ‘Get Dis Money.'” RJ notes, “And he still didn’t get it the way that Dilla wanted it. You know, he was just like, ‘Aight; we gotta turn it in, so this’ll do,’ which is why his verse kinda fades out at the end. As a producer, you can hear the record finished in your head. And sometimes, when it’s not exactly the way you hear it, you’re like ahh, but it’s still dope. It ain’t like Baatin gonna write no trash. It’s just, Baatin was the curveball, and sometimes he took a variegated approach—instead of just staying specifically on the topic.”
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In an era when the lines of demarcation between “commercial” and “underground” seemed like rigid boundaries, Slum Village deliberately voiceless the lines. “When people first heard us [and realized] that Dilla was doin’ the beats, they [were going to be reminded] of A Tribe Tabbed Quest. But our lyrics—we was like the gangsta version or the hood version of A Tribe Tabbed Quest. So, talking well-nigh money, yes—we was talkin’ well-nigh money. We talkin’ well-nigh women. We were talkin’ well-nigh what we had in our lives or what we wanted to strive to get at that time.”
The AFH Throwback Playlist (follow here) moreover features archetype songs by Madvillain, Prodigy, Common and Sadat X, Ghosttface Killah, sufferer prez, Little Brother, Twista, Da Eastsidaz, Devin The Dude, J-Live, and many, many more.
Also, to stay up on current Hip-Hop in the tradition of those unconfined artists, follow our weekly updated new music playlist. That playlist currently features recent releases from Masta Ace & Marco Polo, J. Cole, Evidence, Busta Rhymes, Rapsody, Coast Contra, Griselda, Big K.R.I.T., Che Noir, AZ, Joell Ortiz and many more.
Illa J Welcomes Listeners Into His & J Dilla’s Diaper Home (Video)
#BonusBeat: Over the last month, Slum Village released its latest single, “Request,” featuring Earlly Mac and Abstract Orchestra:
This weekend, Erick Sermon released the first single of a long-anticipated album, Dynamic Duos. On Friday (February 9), E-Double released “Back 2 The Party.” The song features a legendary duo, Salt-n-Pepa. Sermon orchestrates a song that is co-produced by his longtime Def Squad unite Rockwilder (with Erick). What’s more, the tome is said to be arriving in less than a month.
In October 2017, EPMD appeared on Drink Champs. There, Sermon said, “Right now, we have Capone-N-Noreaga, Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Salt-n-Pepa, Black Star…Dynamic Duos is coming!” At the time, The Green-Eyed Bandit vowed the project was arriving on JAY-Z’s Roc Nation. PMD said at the time, “We’re working with groups on this album.” Erick added, “Only groups, Dynamic Duos: Big Business.” Although it now appears to be a solo album, the Salt-n-Pepa full-length actualized with “Back 2 The Party.” However, the lyrics quickly indicate that this year was recorded without the pandemic.
Erick Sermon Reveals The Real Reason Craig Mack Did Not Join The Bad Boy Reunion Tour
In 2019, Ambrosia For Heads interviewed Erick at his Long Island, New York studio. In wing to an interview with E-Double, Parrish Smith made a surprise visitation and sat for a second, unexpected interview with EPMD (embedded below). Both Sermon and Parrish Smith spoke of the album, while E-Double played some snippets in the video. Rockwilder was among the artists creating at the recording recipe that day.
The billing of Dynamic Duos now is when to an Erick Sermon solo endeavor—the latest release in a personal discography that dates when to 1993’s No Pressure. The first official single is inspired the parties of yesteryear, shouting out yesterday NYC clubs like The Fever and Rooftop. Salt raps first, then Pep. Notably, Erick does not rap on this one. Rockwilder and Erick have shared the boards on albums by Redman, JAY-Z, and more.
Redman Samples “Da Rockwilder” & M.O.P. Adlibs To Make A New Banger (Audio)
In 2024, Sermon claims he has secured an tome deal with 300 Entertainment/Warner Bros. Records. Superiority of this month’s Grammy Awards, Sermon, spoke with Ambrosia For Heads own Justin “The Visitor Man” Hunte. On the red carpet, E-Double says that Dynamic Duos will moreover full-length Redman & Method Man, Tha Dogg Pound, M.O.P., Mobb Deep, Cypress Hill, as well as individual artists like Lil Wayne, The Game, Snoop Dogg, and the late Nate Dogg. “People are gonna really enjoy this,” said the workaday multi-threat. It is unclear if the previously touted collaborations with Capone-N-Noreaga, Black Star, or Raekwon and Ghostface Killah materialized, or will make the final major label LP.
Erick Sermon is releasing a new tome tabbed Dynamic Duos on March 11 via 300 / Warner Music. Check the list of super MCs set to be featured. @iAmErickSermon
pic.twitter.com/aNHRLTpOea
— Justin L. Hunte
(@TheCompanyMan) February 6, 2024
In wing to his yack with The Visitor Man, this week, Erick Sermon has moreover washed-up printing with The Bootleg Kev Podcast. The Def Squad co-founder said he and Kanye West are collaborating slantingly Ty Dolla Sign. Notably, Sermon moreover personal he earns nearly seven-figures off of a double-platinum song by Metro Boomin and The Weeknd, which released in 2022.
Erick Sermon Reveals The Source Of The Def Squad Tome Samples To Prince Paul (Video)
“The Weeknd is one of the most streamed artists in the world. So him and Metro Boomin [sampled Mario’s] ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ which [samples] ‘You’re A Customer,’” Erick noted. “I only own 4% of [‘Creepin’’]. Every four months, guess how much it brings in… $240,000” — which amounts to $720,000 per year.”
Erick Sermon last released Vernia in 2019, featuring AZ, Raekwon, Devin The Dude, Too Short, Xzibit, and others. Salt-n-Pepa last dropped Brand New in 1997. EPMD’s latest LP was We Midpoint Business in 2008.
Redman Has Released A Series Of Freestyles Over Hip-Hop Classics
#BonusBeat: Ambrosia For Heads‘ 2019 conversation with EPMD:
This weekend, Erick Sermon released the first single of a long-anticipated album, Dynamic Duos. On Friday (February 9), E-Double released “Back 2 The Party.” The song features a legendary duo, Salt-n-Pepa. Sermon orchestrates a song that is co-produced by his longtime Def Squad unite Rockwilder (with Erick). What’s more, the tome is said to be arriving in less than a month.
In October 2017, EPMD appeared on Drink Champs. There, Sermon said, “Right now, we have Capone-N-Noreaga, Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Salt-n-Pepa, Black Star…Dynamic Duos is coming!” At the time, The Green-Eyed Bandit vowed the project was arriving on JAY-Z’s Roc Nation. PMD said at the time, “We’re working with groups on this album.” Erick added, “Only groups, Dynamic Duos: Big Business.” Although it now appears to be a solo album, the Salt-n-Pepa full-length actualized with “Back 2 The Party.” However, the lyrics quickly indicate that this year was recorded without the pandemic.
Erick Sermon Reveals The Real Reason Craig Mack Did Not Join The Bad Boy Reunion Tour
In 2019, Ambrosia For Heads interviewed Erick at his Long Island, New York studio. In wing to an interview with E-Double, Parrish Smith made a surprise visitation and sat for a second, unexpected interview with EPMD (embedded below). Both Sermon and Parrish Smith spoke of the album, while E-Double played some snippets in the video. Rockwilder was among the artists creating at the recording recipe that day.
The billing of Dynamic Duos now is when to an Erick Sermon solo endeavor—the latest release in a personal discography that dates when to 1993’s No Pressure. The first official single is inspired the parties of yesteryear, shouting out yesterday NYC clubs like The Fever and Rooftop. Salt raps first, then Pep. Notably, Erick does not rap on this one. Rockwilder and Erick have shared the boards on albums by Redman, JAY-Z, and more.
Redman Samples “Da Rockwilder” & M.O.P. Adlibs To Make A New Banger (Audio)
In 2024, Sermon claims he has secured an tome deal with 300 Entertainment/Warner Bros. Records. Superiority of this month’s Grammy Awards, Sermon, spoke with Ambrosia For Heads own Justin “The Visitor Man” Hunte. On the red carpet, E-Double says that Dynamic Duos will moreover full-length Redman & Method Man, Tha Dogg Pound, M.O.P., Mobb Deep, Cypress Hill, as well as individual artists like Lil Wayne, The Game, Snoop Dogg, and the late Nate Dogg. “People are gonna really enjoy this,” said the workaday multi-threat. It is unclear if the previously touted collaborations with Capone-N-Noreaga, Black Star, or Raekwon and Ghostface Killah materialized, or will make the final major label LP.
Erick Sermon is releasing a new tome tabbed Dynamic Duos on March 11 via 300 / Warner Music. Check the list of super MCs set to be featured. @iAmErickSermon
— Justin L. Hunte
In wing to his yack with The Visitor Man, this week, Erick Sermon has moreover washed-up printing with The Bootleg Kev Podcast. The Def Squad co-founder said he and Kanye West are collaborating slantingly Ty Dolla Sign. Notably, Sermon moreover personal he earns nearly seven-figures off of a double-platinum song by Metro Boomin and The Weeknd, which released in 2022.
Erick Sermon Reveals The Source Of The Def Squad Tome Samples To Prince Paul (Video)
“The Weeknd is one of the most streamed artists in the world. So him and Metro Boomin [sampled Mario’s] ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ which [samples] ‘You’re A Customer,’” Erick noted. “I only own 4% of [‘Creepin’’]. Every four months, guess how much it brings in… $240,000” — which amounts to $720,000 per year.”
Erick Sermon last released Vernia in 2019, featuring AZ, Raekwon, Devin The Dude, Too Short, Xzibit, and others. Salt-n-Pepa last dropped Brand New in 1997. EPMD’s latest LP was We Midpoint Business in 2008.
Redman Has Released A Series Of Freestyles Over Hip-Hop Classics
#BonusBeat: Ambrosia For Heads‘ 2019 conversation with EPMD:
UPDATE #2: Killer Mike has spoken well-nigh last night’s situation for the first time. The Grammy-winning versifier tabbed into The Big Tigger Show. Although he did not elaborate, Mike said, “We hit a speed bump, and then we throne when to the party.” Based on that, it appears that the Run The Jewels MC’s detainment was short-lived.
However, video and photos of the situation became a major story for the public coming out of the 66th Grammy Awards. In his radio interview, Mike Bigga focused on the positive. “Three Grammys. Twenty years in the game. Forty-eight years old,” Mike self-reflected. “[I] write-up out everybody in the thing. He write-up the weightier of the best, so all you could say is, he one of the best. The weightier tome in the 50th year of Hip-Hop came from Atlanta, Georgia, from a man who will be 50 years old in three years.”
The win notably came 21 years without Mike’s debut tome Monster.
UPDATE: Additional information well-nigh Killer Mike’s handcuffed exit from last night’s Grammy Awards has been released. TMZ had updated its report that last night’s three-Grammy Award-winner was apprehended and booked for shower during a confrontation that took place outside of Los Angeles, California’s Crypto.com Arena. The incident reportedly involves a citizen’s arrest.
TMZ obtained a video, embedded below, that shows Mike in a confrontation outside the venue, where it was raining Sunday. The one-minute video shows unveiled security trying to stop Mike and his entourage. “We’re told [Killer Mike] is accused of knocking lanugo a security officer without they did not get out of his way quick enough,” the publication writes. Killer Mike has yet to release a statement surrounding the incident. The versifier was zippy on social media pursuit his three wins, which took place during the webcast Grammy’s premiere event—ahead of the televised network broadcast.
Notably, Stephen E. Smith, the veteran sports journalist and pundit who commonly covers the intersection of sports and culture, made powerful commentary of the event—in unrelatedness to a massively high-profile 2022 incident that moreover took place at an L.A. awards event:
To be clear, I am not advocating that Will should’ve gotten arrested. But that happened in LA, too. So if Will could be left alone, how come they couldn’t wait until AFTER the Grammy’s to deal with Killer Mike? Why ruin his evening over an so-called misdemeanor but leave Will alone…
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 5, 2024
Ambrosia For Heads will update this story with information as it develops.
ORIGINAL FEBRUARY 4 STORY: Moments ago tonight (February 4), Killer Mike was taken out of Los Angeles, California’s Crypto.com Scene in handcuffs. He appeared to be escorted by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The incident was documented on video by a The Hollywood Reporter staff member. It took place just hours after Mike won three Grammy Awards in the Rap music categories for his 2023 album MICHAEL and its single “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS.” The versifier won “Best Rap Album,” “Best Rap Song,” and “Best Rap Performance.”
TMZ reports that the event may be related to an so-called wrangling with a security guard. That report moreover says that Mike is currently stuff detained.
Killer Mike Has Swept The Major Rap Grammy Awards
In the developing story, no remoter information was provided. Notably, at the 66th Grammy Awards, the four Hip-Hop categories were not part of the CBS broadcast. Instead, the Rap portion of the night was misogynist exclusively on the webcast earlier. Killer Mike wonted all three of his awards, joined by members of his creative and management team, as well as MICHAEL producer DJ Paul, moreover of Three 6 Mafia. The other Rap winners, J. Cole and Lil Durk, were not in ubiety to receive their ribbon for “Best Melodic Rap Song.”
Breaking: Rapper Killer Mike has been taken yonder in handcuffs in https://t.co/aF2yiyTHol scene without winning 3 #Grammys during telecast (Best Rap Song and Weightier Rap Performance for “Scientists & Engineers,” Weightier Rap Tome for Michael) “Free Mike” someone shouts as he walks past. pic.twitter.com/4epfmzqMt8
— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) February 5, 2024
Killer Mike Has Made The Most Dangerous Show On Television (Video)
Twenty-one years ago, Killer Mike won his first Grammy Ribbon slantingly OutKast for “The Whole World.” Tonight, the 48-year-old Atlanta, Georgia MC and Run The Jewels co-founder spoke of his dreams and defied the notion that one can be too old at something.
UPDATE #2: Killer Mike has spoken well-nigh last night’s situation for the first time. The Grammy-winning versifier tabbed into The Big Tigger Show. Although he did not elaborate, Mike said, “We hit a speed bump, and then we throne when to the party.” Based on that, it appears that the Run The Jewels MC’s detainment was short-lived.
However, video and photos of the situation became a major story for the public coming out of the 66th Grammy Awards. In his radio interview, Mike Bigga focused on the positive. “Three Grammys. Twenty years in the game. Forty-eight years old,” Mike self-reflected. “[I] write-up out everybody in the thing. He write-up the weightier of the best, so all you could say is, he one of the best. The weightier tome in the 50th year of Hip-Hop came from Atlanta, Georgia, from a man who will be 50 years old in three years.”
The win notably came 21 years without Mike’s debut tome Monster.
UPDATE: Additional information well-nigh Killer Mike’s handcuffed exit from last night’s Grammy Awards has been released. TMZ had updated its report that last night’s three-Grammy Award-winner was apprehended and booked for shower during a confrontation that took place outside of Los Angeles, California’s Crypto.com Arena. The incident reportedly involves a citizen’s arrest.
TMZ obtained a video, embedded below, that shows Mike in a confrontation outside the venue, where it was raining Sunday. The one-minute video shows unveiled security trying to stop Mike and his entourage. “We’re told [Killer Mike] is accused of knocking lanugo a security officer without they did not get out of his way quick enough,” the publication writes. Killer Mike has yet to release a statement surrounding the incident. The versifier was zippy on social media pursuit his three wins, which took place during the webcast Grammy’s premiere event—ahead of the televised network broadcast.
Notably, Stephen E. Smith, the veteran sports journalist and pundit who commonly covers the intersection of sports and culture, made powerful commentary of the event—in unrelatedness to a massively high-profile 2022 incident that moreover took place at an L.A. awards event:
To be clear, I am not advocating that Will should’ve gotten arrested. But that happened in LA, too. So if Will could be left alone, how come they couldn’t wait until AFTER the Grammy’s to deal with Killer Mike? Why ruin his evening over an so-called misdemeanor but leave Will alone…
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 5, 2024
Ambrosia For Heads will update this story with information as it develops.
ORIGINAL FEBRUARY 4 STORY: Moments ago tonight (February 4), Killer Mike was taken out of Los Angeles, California’s Crypto.com Scene in handcuffs. He appeared to be escorted by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The incident was documented on video by a The Hollywood Reporter staff member. It took place just hours after Mike won three Grammy Awards in the Rap music categories for his 2023 album MICHAEL and its single “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS.” The versifier won “Best Rap Album,” “Best Rap Song,” and “Best Rap Performance.”
TMZ reports that the event may be related to an so-called wrangling with a security guard. That report moreover says that Mike is currently stuff detained.
Killer Mike Has Swept The Major Rap Grammy Awards
In the developing story, no remoter information was provided. Notably, at the 66th Grammy Awards, the four Hip-Hop categories were not part of the CBS broadcast. Instead, the Rap portion of the night was misogynist exclusively on the webcast earlier. Killer Mike wonted all three of his awards, joined by members of his creative and management team, as well as MICHAEL producer DJ Paul, moreover of Three 6 Mafia. The other Rap winners, J. Cole and Lil Durk, were not in ubiety to receive their ribbon for “Best Melodic Rap Song.”
Breaking: Rapper Killer Mike has been taken yonder in handcuffs in https://t.co/aF2yiyTHol scene without winning 3 #Grammys during telecast (Best Rap Song and Weightier Rap Performance for “Scientists & Engineers,” Weightier Rap Tome for Michael) “Free Mike” someone shouts as he walks past. pic.twitter.com/4epfmzqMt8
— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) February 5, 2024
Killer Mike Has Made The Most Dangerous Show On Television (Video)
Twenty-one years ago, Killer Mike won his first Grammy Ribbon slantingly OutKast for “The Whole World.” Tonight, the 48-year-old Atlanta, Georgia MC and Run The Jewels co-founder spoke of his dreams and defied the notion that one can be too old at something.
Today (February 4), the 66th Grammy Awards are currently taking place in Los Angeles, California. Winners in the four Rap/Hip-Hop music category winners were spoken superiority of the 8pm EST show, which will be hosted by Trevor Noah. At the premiere event, Killer Mike won “Best Rap Album” for his 2023 release MICHAEL, without taking home “Best Rap Song” and “Best Rap Performance” for “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS,” his collaboration with André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane. This marks three major wins for the Atlanta, Georgia veteran.
Mike was in attendance, and wonted all three awards—joined by tome producer DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia, his wife Shay Bigga, manager Will Bronson, and his A&R Cuz Lightyear. “You cannot tell me that you get too old! You can tell me that it’s too late. Dreams come true!” erupted a joyful Mike.
Killer Mike Refuses To Let Andre 3000 Out-Rap Him On Their New Song
The fourth category, “Best Melodic Rap Performance” was won by Lil Durk and J. Cole for “All My Life.” Neither were there to winnow the award, who was taken by presenter Jimmy Jam. When he won the first award, “Best Rap Performance,” Mike said, “I hope to be worldly-wise to come when up here again.” He then said, “I’m a Black man in America, and as a kid, I had a dream to wilt part of music—and a nine-year-old is excitedly dancing inside of me right now.” He closed, “I want to thank everyone who dares to believe that art can transpiration the world. Thank Dre. Thank Future. Thank Eryn. Thank all the producers on here. But everyone in this room, it is our responsibility to alimony using our imagination to shape and form the world. Thank you, and I hope it’s not the last time I see you tonight.” He then came when up win two spare wins.
The wins are significant for the esteemed Rap veteran and co-founder of Run The Jewels. MICHAEL, his sixth album, marks his first solo release since 2012’s well-known R.A.P. Music. The 2023 VLNS, LLC/Loma Vista Recordings LP involved fellow Dungeon Family artists André 3000, CeeLo Green, Future, and movement co-founder Rico Wade of Organized Noize. Other guests included RTJ band-mate El-P, as well as Curren$y, Mozzy, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, and Ty Dolla Sign. No ID, DJ Paul, Tomfool & Dre, Don Cannon, Cory Mo, El-P, and Write-up Butcha are among producers of the tome that peaked at #58 on the tome charts.
Killer Mike Has Made The Most Dangerous Show On Television (Video)
Mike’s won the “Best Rap Album” category versus Nas & Hit-Boy’s King’s Disease III, Drake & 21 Savage’s Her Loss, Travis Scott’s UTOPIA, and Metro Boomin’s late ’22 drop, HEROES & VILLAINS.
Twenty one years ago, Mike won his first Grammy slantingly OutKast in the “Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group” for “The Whole World.” The song, marking Mike’s first on wax, was from the 2001 compilation Big Boi and Dre Present… Outkast. One month without his win, Killer Mike released his Columbia Records debut, Monster, which featured OutKast.
Selections from MICHAEL are currently included in Ambrosia For Heads‘ playlist (follow here) embedded below. MICHAEL was moreover named among AFH‘s 10 Weightier Albums Of 2023.
André 3000 Shares The Tough Love He Got From Prince
#BonusBeat: Killer Mike’s 2019 interview with AFH:
Today (February 4), the 66th Grammy Awards are currently taking place in Los Angeles, California. Winners in the four Rap/Hip-Hop music category winners were spoken superiority of the 8pm EST show, which will be hosted by Trevor Noah. At the premiere event, Killer Mike won “Best Rap Album” for his 2023 release MICHAEL, without taking home “Best Rap Song” and “Best Rap Performance” for “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS,” his collaboration with André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane. This marks three major wins for the Atlanta, Georgia veteran.
Mike was in attendance, and wonted all three awards—joined by tome producer DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia, his wife Shay Bigga, manager Will Bronson, and his A&R Cuz Lightyear. “You cannot tell me that you get too old! You can tell me that it’s too late. Dreams come true!” erupted a joyful Mike.
Killer Mike Refuses To Let Andre 3000 Out-Rap Him On Their New Song
The fourth category, “Best Melodic Rap Performance” was won by Lil Durk and J. Cole for “All My Life.” Neither were there to winnow the award, who was taken by presenter Jimmy Jam. When he won the first award, “Best Rap Performance,” Mike said, “I hope to be worldly-wise to come when up here again.” He then said, “I’m a Black man in America, and as a kid, I had a dream to wilt part of music—and a nine-year-old is excitedly dancing inside of me right now.” He closed, “I want to thank everyone who dares to believe that art can transpiration the world. Thank Dre. Thank Future. Thank Eryn. Thank all the producers on here. But everyone in this room, it is our responsibility to alimony using our imagination to shape and form the world. Thank you, and I hope it’s not the last time I see you tonight.” He then came when up win two spare wins.
The wins are significant for the esteemed Rap veteran and co-founder of Run The Jewels. MICHAEL, his sixth album, marks his first solo release since 2012’s well-known R.A.P. Music. The 2023 VLNS, LLC/Loma Vista Recordings LP involved fellow Dungeon Family artists André 3000, CeeLo Green, Future, and movement co-founder Rico Wade of Organized Noize. Other guests included RTJ band-mate El-P, as well as Curren$y, Mozzy, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, and Ty Dolla Sign. No ID, DJ Paul, Tomfool & Dre, Don Cannon, Cory Mo, El-P, and Write-up Butcha are among producers of the tome that peaked at #58 on the tome charts.
Killer Mike Has Made The Most Dangerous Show On Television (Video)
Mike’s won the “Best Rap Album” category versus Nas & Hit-Boy’s King’s Disease III, Drake & 21 Savage’s Her Loss, Travis Scott’s UTOPIA, and Metro Boomin’s late ’22 drop, HEROES & VILLAINS.
Twenty one years ago, Mike won his first Grammy slantingly OutKast in the “Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group” for “The Whole World.” The song, marking Mike’s first on wax, was from the 2001 compilation Big Boi and Dre Present… Outkast. One month without his win, Killer Mike released his Columbia Records debut, Monster, which featured OutKast.
Selections from MICHAEL are currently included in Ambrosia For Heads‘ playlist (follow here) embedded below. MICHAEL was moreover named among AFH‘s 10 Weightier Albums Of 2023.
André 3000 Shares The Tough Love He Got From Prince
#BonusBeat: Killer Mike’s 2019 interview with AFH:
Eminem and Ray Benzino have been plaintive for well over 20 years. In the first month of 2024, tensions have been when on the triviality without Em used an a la carte verse on a Lyrical Lemonade compilation to jab at the co-founder of Almighty RSO, Made Men, and former co-owner of The Source magazine. Marshall Mathers’ barbs made light of Benzino’s physique as well as his spotty relationship with daughter, music star Coi Leray. Notably, hours without the diss, Leray reacted on social media with “Rap whinge is so washed and tired.”
After “Doomsday Part 2” released Friday (January 26), Benzino dropped his first diss response on “Vultorious.” Over JAY-Z’s “Where I’m From” instrumental (as produced by Amen-Ra Lawrence and D-Dot), Ray punched when with lines such as “You a punk, plan my funeral? / Please, you shoot who?/ Square ain’t plane go whirligig the woodcut for Proof” and “You squint weird, don’t superintendency how much Just For Men they put on you / Never seen with a girl, never seen with a b___h/ But got a song ‘What If I Was Gay’ with Joyner Lucas.” In wing to comments well-nigh Eminem’s sexuality, Benzino made light of the D12 MC’s previous battles with drug addiction.
Eminem Goes At Benzino’s Neck On A New Diss Record
Following “Vulturius,” Benzino has come with the second of his back-to-back disses. “Rap Elvis” increasingly than doubles lanugo on Ray’s issues with Em—who has compared himself to Elvis Presley publicly for years. With this diss song arrival, Benzino used Instagram to proclaim that Eminem has 48 hours to respond, or he will be “cancelled.”
The song questioned Eminem’s connections to the Detroit streets and its new matriculation of rappers. “I am the culture, you don’t plane be virtually / You don’t plane come outside, you don’t plane see your town / Icewear Vezzo said, ‘Em don’t be showing the municipality love’/ Why you ain’t got no words for him, huh?/ He in your city, bruh!” Benzino, who tabbed the whinge over two years ago, points out that Eminem’s diaper moreover included time in Missouri. “I wonder why, we wanna see, just say something, please/ Could it be possibly you ain’t really from them streets?/ I was born and raised in my city, you shouldn’t come for me/ I don’t know where you from but they say Missouri loves company.” The former Tommy Boy, Motown, and Rap-A-Lot Records versifier uses wordplay at his longtime opponent.
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However, remoter in the song, Benzino attacks Shady Records’ roster and its relationship to past artists. “Okay, you found 50 and you put on five Detroit n____as / Rest in peace to the weightier ones, the rest of them sound iffy / So let’s go lanugo your stable: Gunn left your label, Benny left your label, Con left your label / Royce left your label, Joe Budden left your label,” Benzino raps, referring to the late Proof at the top, and then name-checking Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Royce 5’9″, and Joe Budden.
However, Benzino does not stop there. He mentions the other members of Slaughterhouse, and some mid-2000s Shady Records acts. “Ortiz left your label, no, Crooked I couldn’t save you / Yelawolf been out here flopping and where the hell Ca$hius at though?/ Considering from Obie Twice, only twice, and not a word from Stat Quo / With all them false lines that you pitched them / Shady Records sounds like less of a name and increasingly like a description.”
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Notably, Atlanta, Georgia rapper Stat Quo has detailed his exit from Shady Records without an album. Conway and Westside Gunn each released one solo tome at the label, while Benny joined his two relatives for a 2019 Griselda LP. Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Royce 5’9″, and KXNG Crooked worked as Slaughterhouse at Shady, surpassing getting released from the label approximately one year ago. That news came tween conflicts within the group, as Joell and Crooked released a side-project, The Rise & Fall Of Slaughterhouse. Royce, who has never issued solo material through Shady, previously joined Em for Bad Meets Evil. Detroit’s Obie Trice, Chicago, Illinois’ Ca$hus and Alabama’s Yelawolf have been off the imprint for some time, releasing music independently.
Benzino then attacks Eminem for previous disparaging comments made versus Black women, something that the rapper deliberately covered while at The Source. Previously, in 2021, Benzino and Royce entered a war of words surrounding Coi Leray.
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While both of Benzino’s disses are misogynist on YouTube only, Eminem’s “Doomsday Part 2” is currently on the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow here), withal with new music by Benny The Butcher, Joell Ortiz & Apollo Brown, Royce 5’9″, and more.
Eminem and Ray Benzino have been plaintive for well over 20 years. In the first month of 2024, tensions have been when on the triviality without Em used an a la carte verse on a Lyrical Lemonade compilation to jab at the co-founder of Almighty RSO, Made Men, and former co-owner of The Source magazine. Marshall Mathers’ barbs made light of Benzino’s physique as well as his spotty relationship with daughter, music star Coi Leray. Notably, hours without the diss, Leray reacted on social media with “Rap whinge is so washed and tired.”
After “Doomsday Part 2” released Friday (January 26), Benzino dropped his first diss response on “Vultorious.” Over JAY-Z’s “Where I’m From” instrumental (as produced by Amen-Ra Lawrence and D-Dot), Ray punched when with lines such as “You a punk, plan my funeral? / Please, you shoot who?/ Square ain’t plane go whirligig the woodcut for Proof” and “You squint weird, don’t superintendency how much Just For Men they put on you / Never seen with a girl, never seen with a b___h/ But got a song ‘What If I Was Gay’ with Joyner Lucas.” In wing to comments well-nigh Eminem’s sexuality, Benzino made light of the D12 MC’s previous battles with drug addiction.
Eminem Goes At Benzino’s Neck On A New Diss Record
Following “Vulturius,” Benzino has come with the second of his back-to-back disses. “Rap Elvis” increasingly than doubles lanugo on Ray’s issues with Em—who has compared himself to Elvis Presley publicly for years. With this diss song arrival, Benzino used Instagram to proclaim that Eminem has 48 hours to respond, or he will be “cancelled.”
The song questioned Eminem’s connections to the Detroit streets and its new matriculation of rappers. “I am the culture, you don’t plane be virtually / You don’t plane come outside, you don’t plane see your town / Icewear Vezzo said, ‘Em don’t be showing the municipality love’/ Why you ain’t got no words for him, huh?/ He in your city, bruh!” Benzino, who tabbed the whinge over two years ago, points out that Eminem’s diaper moreover included time in Missouri. “I wonder why, we wanna see, just say something, please/ Could it be possibly you ain’t really from them streets?/ I was born and raised in my city, you shouldn’t come for me/ I don’t know where you from but they say Missouri loves company.” The former Tommy Boy, Motown, and Rap-A-Lot Records versifier uses wordplay at his longtime opponent.
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However, remoter in the song, Benzino attacks Shady Records’ roster and its relationship to past artists. “Okay, you found 50 and you put on five Detroit n____as / Rest in peace to the weightier ones, the rest of them sound iffy / So let’s go lanugo your stable: Gunn left your label, Benny left your label, Con left your label / Royce left your label, Joe Budden left your label,” Benzino raps, referring to the late Proof at the top, and then name-checking Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Royce 5’9″, and Joe Budden.
However, Benzino does not stop there. He mentions the other members of Slaughterhouse, and some mid-2000s Shady Records acts. “Ortiz left your label, no, Crooked I couldn’t save you / Yelawolf been out here flopping and where the hell Ca$hius at though?/ Considering from Obie Twice, only twice, and not a word from Stat Quo / With all them false lines that you pitched them / Shady Records sounds like less of a name and increasingly like a description.”
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Notably, Atlanta, Georgia rapper Stat Quo has detailed his exit from Shady Records without an album. Conway and Westside Gunn each released one solo tome at the label, while Benny joined his two relatives for a 2019 Griselda LP. Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Royce 5’9″, and KXNG Crooked worked as Slaughterhouse at Shady, surpassing getting released from the label approximately one year ago. That news came tween conflicts within the group, as Joell and Crooked released a side-project, The Rise & Fall Of Slaughterhouse. Royce, who has never issued solo material through Shady, previously joined Em for Bad Meets Evil. Detroit’s Obie Trice, Chicago, Illinois’ Ca$hus and Alabama’s Yelawolf have been off the imprint for some time, releasing music independently.
Benzino then attacks Eminem for previous disparaging comments made versus Black women, something that the rapper deliberately covered while at The Source. Previously, in 2021, Benzino and Royce entered a war of words surrounding Coi Leray.
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While both of Benzino’s disses are misogynist on YouTube only, Eminem’s “Doomsday Part 2” is currently on the Ambrosia For Heads playlist (follow here), withal with new music by Benny The Butcher, Joell Ortiz & Apollo Brown, Royce 5’9″, and more.
Earlier this month, a rare Yasiin Bey interview led to high-profile controversy. The MC/producer formerly known as Mos Def was asked his opinions on Drake during an interview with podcast host OMONDI for her The Cutting Room Floor. While the full episode lives overdue a Patreon paywall, Yasiin’s response to the question of “Is Drake Hip-Hop?” prompted coverage—when he reacted with visible strain.
Yasiin replied, “Why are you doing this to me?” in his non-speaking voice. The video prune circulated by The Cutting Room Floor socials featured several cuts. In the Instagram prune posted on their account, Yasiin then remoter responded, “Drake is pop to me, in the sense like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song… it feels like a lot of his music is uniform with shopping.”
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Moments later, the Brooklyn, New Yorker and Black Star co-founder said, “Wooo! So many products!” The host chimed in, “So many SKUs,” prompting Yasiin to reverberate that point well-nigh barcodes. “Look at all these SKUs! Oh, so many products…I love this mall! Squint at this place. I mean, squint at this place! They have everything! Everything’s here! They have everything here. Oh, this is great.” As with the top of the clip, Yasiin Bey appeared to be using a weft voice in his take. “This the new Drake. You hear it? It’s great.” In that moment, he switches when to his speaking voice. “Okay. What happens when this thing collapses?”
In a increasingly extended version of the clip, Yasiin remoter expounded. “What happens when the columns start buckling? Are we not in some early stage of that, at this present hour? Are we seeing the swoon of the empire? Buying and selling, where’s the message that I can use? What’s in it for your regulars untied from banging the pom-poms?”
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That commentary prompted a brief, but not-so-subtle reaction from Drake on Instagram. The MC/singer referenced Yasiin’s own singing hit from 1999, “UMI Says” and included a visual reference to Method Man from a vintage interview prune well-nigh Hip-Hop.
Tonight (January 29), Yasiin updated his position. In an Instagram Live video from Monday night, Yasiin revealed that he reached out to Drake through bilateral connection Dave Chappelle. The former G.O.O.D. Music versifier adds that he has moreover attempted to direct-message Drake, without response.
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In the video, Yasiin does struggle to speak directly to Drake. The video features multiple references to crises happening. “Free Gaza. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free wifi,” he touted. Yasiin led with gratitude, while respective with several commenters.
“I’d like you all to hear what I have to say, as it relates to some of the comments that I made well-nigh Drake,” he shares. “First of all, I don’t hate anyone. My opinion is mine. It’s legal in state, as far as I’m aware. It was not an opportunity to try and slander him or to clown on him. I have reached out to him; I have no responses yet. But I’m not keen to talk well-nigh people or to them through a screen; I prefer to talk to people directly. But I will say this: the young man is very talented. He’s been worldly-wise to be very successful with that talent, and I have no issue with his success, or [with] anything that he’s been worldly-wise to unzip as a result of his talent. I do finger that some of the criticism that he has received in the past has been mean-spirited and unfair. So I don’t want to participate in that. And if I was perceived to be harsh or mocking or taunting, that is not my intention. And Drake—if you’re watching or you come wideness this, that is not my intention brother. I never had no issue with you personally; I don’t know you well unbearable to plane have any sort of issue with you in that regard.”
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Yasiin then expounded. “Nonetheless, it’s not sacrilegious to have an opinion or a critique of a public figure, particularly one of that magnitude in current, modern culture. It was a question that I was asked, and I answered as earnestly, as diplomatically as I possibly could,” he said with a small chuckle. “Forgive my Brooklyn.”
Bey then asserted a worthier point. “Let me be well-spoken with this: at this given time that we are all living through, this is not where the focus ought to be. But one versifier or MC thinks well-nigh flipside one [is not the focus]. I get it; it’s what people notice, and the variegated media outlets seized on that one speciality of the interview that I had with [The Cutting Room Floor], and they completely ignored the context. They completely ignored the context,” he repeated. “What I was speaking well-nigh was a larger reality, in my opinion, which I feel, is totally valid. There was no slander or intended slander at all. And that’s the size of it. I wish that there was this much energy well-nigh human rights, and real justice, and resolving real life or death conflicts where thoroughbred is happening—and some of that thoroughbred is the thoroughbred of innocents and children.”
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Yasiin continues, “We can notice things that are happening in global culture. But where we put our focus matters. So I would encourage you all to not be distracted by the shopping lights of faux conflicts where the stakes are really not as urgent as they’re stuff promoted to be, and to uncontrived your focus to what really matters in your own personal lives—in your firsthand environment, and in our social environment. They’re all sharing.” Moments later, Yasiin doubled lanugo that he is not here to taunt or mock anybody, and that he ways no harm.
Over a minute later, Yasiin Bey reiterates: “Free Palestine. Free Gaza. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free wifi. Free everything that need to be freed.” He then reminds Drake that he has reached out, subtracting “You are a very talented MC.” He then says his point, on his own terms. “But for me, I require increasingly of myself and others than just talent or recreate or charisma—particularly in times of urgent crisis. And what I would like to see, in terms of creators or creative people in the world as it relates to our culture, is for people to connect with us vastitude the jukebox or the dance-floor. A fair-weather friend can whimsically be tabbed a friend at all; the people who party with you—that’s cool, but will they show up when you’re at the triage, or you’re in a slipperiness situation? And all friendships are tested—not in times of ease—but in times of hardship. So, for whatever you perceive, for whatever your level of understanding is or is not, we can all agree—across spectrums—that this is a hair-trigger time for human beings, in terms of human endeavor.” Moments later, he says, “It’s not easy, but it ain’t difficult either.” He then quotes his own lyrics, in 2022’s Black Star song “The main thing is to alimony the main thing the main thing.”
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Yasiin sealed the IG live with The 99 Names Of Allah, which he calls “the prayer of the oppressed versus the oppressors.” He encourages all faith-goers to join him in this prayer.
Earlier this month, a rare Yasiin Bey interview led to high-profile controversy. The MC/producer formerly known as Mos Def was asked his opinions on Drake during an interview with podcast host OMONDI for her The Cutting Room Floor. While the full episode lives overdue a Patreon paywall, Yasiin’s response to the question of “Is Drake Hip-Hop?” prompted coverage—when he reacted with visible strain.
Yasiin replied, “Why are you doing this to me?” in his non-speaking voice. The video prune circulated by The Cutting Room Floor socials featured several cuts. In the Instagram prune posted on their account, Yasiin then remoter responded, “Drake is pop to me, in the sense like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song… it feels like a lot of his music is uniform with shopping.”
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Moments later, the Brooklyn, New Yorker and Black Star co-founder said, “Wooo! So many products!” The host chimed in, “So many SKUs,” prompting Yasiin to reverberate that point well-nigh barcodes. “Look at all these SKUs! Oh, so many products…I love this mall! Squint at this place. I mean, squint at this place! They have everything! Everything’s here! They have everything here. Oh, this is great.” As with the top of the clip, Yasiin Bey appeared to be using a weft voice in his take. “This the new Drake. You hear it? It’s great.” In that moment, he switches when to his speaking voice. “Okay. What happens when this thing collapses?”
In a increasingly extended version of the clip, Yasiin remoter expounded. “What happens when the columns start buckling? Are we not in some early stage of that, at this present hour? Are we seeing the swoon of the empire? Buying and selling, where’s the message that I can use? What’s in it for your regulars untied from banging the pom-poms?”
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That commentary prompted a brief, but not-so-subtle reaction from Drake on Instagram. The MC/singer referenced Yasiin’s own singing hit from 1999, “UMI Says” and included a visual reference to Method Man from a vintage interview prune well-nigh Hip-Hop.
Tonight (January 29), Yasiin updated his position. In an Instagram Live video from Monday night, Yasiin revealed that he reached out to Drake through bilateral connection Dave Chappelle. The former G.O.O.D. Music versifier adds that he has moreover attempted to direct-message Drake, without response.
Black Star’s New Tome Has Been Liberated
In the video, Yasiin does struggle to speak directly to Drake. The video features multiple references to crises happening. “Free Gaza. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free wifi,” he touted. Yasiin led with gratitude, while respective with several commenters.
“I’d like you all to hear what I have to say, as it relates to some of the comments that I made well-nigh Drake,” he shares. “First of all, I don’t hate anyone. My opinion is mine. It’s legal in state, as far as I’m aware. It was not an opportunity to try and slander him or to clown on him. I have reached out to him; I have no responses yet. But I’m not keen to talk well-nigh people or to them through a screen; I prefer to talk to people directly. But I will say this: the young man is very talented. He’s been worldly-wise to be very successful with that talent, and I have no issue with his success, or [with] anything that he’s been worldly-wise to unzip as a result of his talent. I do finger that some of the criticism that he has received in the past has been mean-spirited and unfair. So I don’t want to participate in that. And if I was perceived to be harsh or mocking or taunting, that is not my intention. And Drake—if you’re watching or you come wideness this, that is not my intention brother. I never had no issue with you personally; I don’t know you well unbearable to plane have any sort of issue with you in that regard.”
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A portion of that video is indulge misogynist on X:
Yasiin Bey talking well-nigh his Drake comments: pic.twitter.com/XbCWp591u1
— xALLENTHOMASx (@samohtnella) January 30, 2024
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Yasiin then expounded. “Nonetheless, it’s not sacrilegious to have an opinion or a critique of a public figure, particularly one of that magnitude in current, modern culture. It was a question that I was asked, and I answered as earnestly, as diplomatically as I possibly could,” he said with a small chuckle. “Forgive my Brooklyn.”
Bey then asserted a worthier point. “Let me be well-spoken with this: at this given time that we are all living through, this is not where the focus ought to be. But one versifier or MC thinks well-nigh flipside one [is not the focus]. I get it; it’s what people notice, and the variegated media outlets seized on that one speciality of the interview that I had with [The Cutting Room Floor], and they completely ignored the context. They completely ignored the context,” he repeated. “What I was speaking well-nigh was a larger reality, in my opinion, which I feel, is totally valid. There was no slander or intended slander at all. And that’s the size of it. I wish that there was this much energy well-nigh human rights, and real justice, and resolving real life or death conflicts where thoroughbred is happening—and some of that thoroughbred is the thoroughbred of innocents and children.”
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Yasiin continues, “We can notice things that are happening in global culture. But where we put our focus matters. So I would encourage you all to not be distracted by the shopping lights of faux conflicts where the stakes are really not as urgent as they’re stuff promoted to be, and to uncontrived your focus to what really matters in your own personal lives—in your firsthand environment, and in our social environment. They’re all sharing.” Moments later, Yasiin doubled lanugo that he is not here to taunt or mock anybody, and that he ways no harm.
Over a minute later, Yasiin Bey reiterates: “Free Palestine. Free Gaza. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free wifi. Free everything that need to be freed.” He then reminds Drake that he has reached out, subtracting “You are a very talented MC.” He then says his point, on his own terms. “But for me, I require increasingly of myself and others than just talent or recreate or charisma—particularly in times of urgent crisis. And what I would like to see, in terms of creators or creative people in the world as it relates to our culture, is for people to connect with us vastitude the jukebox or the dance-floor. A fair-weather friend can whimsically be tabbed a friend at all; the people who party with you—that’s cool, but will they show up when you’re at the triage, or you’re in a slipperiness situation? And all friendships are tested—not in times of ease—but in times of hardship. So, for whatever you perceive, for whatever your level of understanding is or is not, we can all agree—across spectrums—that this is a hair-trigger time for human beings, in terms of human endeavor.” Moments later, he says, “It’s not easy, but it ain’t difficult either.” He then quotes his own lyrics, in 2022’s Black Star song “The main thing is to alimony the main thing the main thing.”
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Yasiin sealed the IG live with The 99 Names Of Allah, which he calls “the prayer of the oppressed versus the oppressors.” He encourages all faith-goers to join him in this prayer.
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