THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST POST OF 2008!!! SO BETTER MAKE SURE YOU DONT MISS OUT!!!
In part 01 I said nothing...but on here...well.. its because I didnt have anything then to say... I do now!!!
This two part series is actually a short view of what this year was all about. Having to work with a whole lot of talented artists and compromising on prici
ng..... It was honestly a roller-coaster of TIMELESS STUDIO hours... LOVE ... HATE and mixed emotions...
What I have now .... and what I will explain piece by piece might give a small insight of who TROMPIE (aka Bleksperm) is....
I met Mokotjo in 2004, a friend of my cousin from which they have a group called BASIX (look-out for my production there).... he just did a whole lot of what I called "Kassie gedagte" (township mentality) rap....still does.... but he's playful when comes to mics...
And the gentle man who likes me on boom bap and keeping things awkward so he could do his smooth rhyme slaying.... DAMOLA... I see you kid... Thanx for that first critic on my first project....
HHHers gather around, we present to you 5 years (2004-2008) of Cap City lyrical and musical ingenuity crammed into 60 minutes by none other than super producer/ DJ Trompie for your listening pleasure. For those who’ve been with us since day one, we’d like to say thank you for your continued support and if you’re just getting introduced, welcome, where have you been? Uh oh, and be sure to play it in numerical order (from track 1-30) for maximum satisfaction. Happy Holidays! Relax, but don’t sleep coz we guarantee that 2009 is going to be even crazier!
Tracklist:
Ondaground – Women
Ba4za –Tha Joint
Thir[13]teen Freestyle
Ba4za feat. Optical Illusion – The Realest
AQ& Thir[13]teen – Five Minutes
Maliq – African Express
Ondaground – Figured Out
Maliq – Gimme Gimme
Hakeem feat. Ras & Ondaground – Push Up Ya Lighter
Poet the Sonnett – The Hustler
Thir[13]teen – My Place
Ba4za – Let Go
Hakeem feat. Maliq – BLACK
Ba4za – The Deal
AQ& Thir[13]teen feat. The Anvils – Malcolm X
Hakeem feat. Ras & Ondaground – Hotboxx
Ba4za – Sho
Maliq – Strange World
AQ& Thir[13]teen – Where You At
Ondaground – Brand New
Hakeem – Not In Love
AQ – Son Of Man
AQ& Thir[13]teen – Trouble In The Water
Ba4za – Soul Search
Ondaground – Back It Up
Hakeem feat. Nombongo – Mafulo
Ba4za feat. Tumi & Fifi – Falling
Maliq – Get Luice
AQ& Thir[13]teen feat. Ras, Hakeem, Maliq, Killa M, Blaklez, Damola, NuLegendz – Last Piece
Wyclef Jean is down on our home soil to promote the Motorola's World wide Talent Competition
Aspiring artists can enter this competition by uploading their audition clips on www.motorokrstar.com or www.motorokrstar.mobi which has to be a rendition of one of the following songs: • True Colours by Cyndi Lauper • Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie • Alone by Celine Dion • Hit Me with your Best Shot by Pat Benatar • So Emotional by Whitney Houston • You Really Got Me by Wyclef Jean • Gone ‘till November by Wyclef Jean • Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley • Stand By Me by Ben E
The public can vote for their favourite audition clip by logging onto www.motorokrstar.com
The winner of the SA leg of the competition will get to fly to New York and join the global finalists as they embark on recording sessions with Wyclef and Fergie in February next year.
His first trip to the “Motherland” kicked off with a visit to Soweto on the 10th of December where he was hosted by the Tomorrow Trust which is an organisation aimed at spreading awareness over the issue of child headed households and other challenges faced by the youth. This was of no surprise since Haiti born Wyclef is an activist and humanitarian of note.
Aside from a private invites only gig at The Bassline in Newtown tonight, Jozi, unfortunately there are no scheduled gigs lined up for Wyclef during this visit, “I wanted my first visit to SA to be a learning experience and not be about Wyclef the superstar. I really wanted people to learn about Wyclef the person first and it is something that I usually do with places that I feel supernaturally connected to” he commented. But there is wind of a private performance tonight somewhere in Jozi.
He brought a fitting gift with during his trip, a song he composed to celebrate the life of late legend Lucky Dube, which he played for the assembled press. “Lucky Dube was one of the warmest people I knew” he said as he spoke about the legend. “I did a song for him which is not a song of mourning but a celebration of his life which I wanted to only release after my first visit to South Africa”.
People who do feature on his latest album Carnival Volume II: Memoirs of an Immigrant include Lil Wayne, Akon, Chamillionaire, Paul Simon, Shakira and T.I. let’s hope some SA talent features on the next one!
Like I mentioned a somewhere at the begining of the week that Imma send you goodies to amend my absence...
Okay... heres a little story I have...
Back early 2006 I had the pleasure of meeting with these two chics...wait... they rocked up at my spot with a nicc I was busy producing. They were per say impressed with my production and asked if they could work with me... So after some time stalling, I ended up doing a track with them late 2007... although girl groups are unreliable, you know a split is eminent...
Now, continueing with my story, I know you aint strangers to the name POET by now, or you gotta search on the blog for his name. This is the first ever track we did together early 2008 which was actually a remix to a crappy mastered track that he had (pardon me...if you knew or might listen to the original, you'll understand)... anyway, we done did this before I was asked to Executive Produce his project... although I was excited, there was sceptism that I had about the whole thing... so here you go... get it while its hot and get the full (clean) version by request or release of SIAMESE Midnight Remixtape project...
This is one of my fav' joints I produced cuz of the concept and the chic featured. Maybe you recognize the voice...yes... thats the same chic from Ondaground's "Brand New" joint and J2K's "Love me Love you"... she's a classic to me...she fits in perfectly... well... enough about her... POET kills it as usual... getting to the top "Takes time"
Due to unforseen and unknown circumstances, the hip hop fretirnity is about to loose one of its female soldiers to we don't know what... therefore Im urging all hip hop cadres to take part by showing support to her by signing this PETITION
Well... seeing that we gunning so seriously for '09, I thot how about I change the layout for a short period. But before I go, I will be giving yo'll a whole lot of stuff,news, interviews, downloads and more.
So, today Im gonna share something interesting... and before you know it, you will realize how precious Life is. I mean, charish the people you have no matter what their profession and status is, what they are in your eyes is just a reflection, be with them till the end to share such stories.
Well, i said enough... heres a story that ?uest Love had to share about he's mans J Dilla... so kids gather around and read carefully...
Questlove vs. Jay Dee: The “Little Brother” Beat Story
There was a small airport in detroit that had direct flights to jersey and nyc that me and com use to take so much i swear they were gonna offer us stock in the business. it was early 1999 and this was before the jet blueitization of america. matter of fact, america looked down on those small companies after one of them crashed some months before. now we take that shit like its no thing.
anywho. we got word of a blizzard that was coming to the D and com wanted to take no risks and wanted to leave asap so he could make a show. so that left me dilla and frank of frank n dank.
i decided to stick to my normal schedule and stay til monday when i was scheduled to leave.
com decides to take the sunday afternoon jawn on the fly. of course i say he’s overreacting and im proven wrong once there was about 7 inches on the floor a few hours later. frank nitty laughs at me cause now im stuck in the D. we actually make the most of it. ran to blockbuster to stock up on flicks (detroit is the only place on earth street cats will let prince get away with murder so it was nice to rent under the cherry moon without cringing in front of non prince experts. we also rented my new favorite film of all B films Hav Plenty. stocked up on food. and for the first time ever just chilled for 2 days without the prime motivation being “work”. but of course that dont mean dilla didn’t provide me with the most amazing display of workmanship ive ever seen.
i mean i knew dude was the crazy when skillz let me hear a beat tape.
and i knew dude wasn’t right when booty brown played me a precabincalifornia.
and i knew i wouldn’t be the same when dangleo and tip played me the ENTIRE fantastic cassette over the phone LONG DISTANCE to germany (my bill was $382 bucks and WORTH EVERY FUCKING CENT)
and i knew i was in for a treat the many times i came to the crib.
and i knew i was witnessing history when him and pete rock re created half of “mecca and the soul brother” in the basement the weekend “dynamite” was created.
but man…..
what i learned eavesdropping 8am the following day made me a believer. that shit made me the stan of ALL stans.
if you are on my computer and need to find dilla. go to genre, and if he had something to do with it? it will be known for its tag: DILLA is GOD.
i won’t go into reasons why….for it could be longer than this post. and at this rate its just baiting those who disagree or who refuse to see it or who just wanna be contradictory (aka okayplayers lol)
so i heard this bassline playing for like a good 30 mins
initially i was asleep on the couch upstairs so i knew the bassline from pete’s interlude. which i thought “oh he’s gonna recreate that interlude”
so i came downstairs and asked what he’s up to and he was like
(think brotherman on martin)
“…..nuttin…..just….you’know…..zonin…..tryna figure our how to freak this shit….i got an idea in my head but i have to figure out how to solve the puzzle…..its gonna come to me….but i got to figure out how….”
so then he plays a beat for like 40 mins straight.
—now this is the first straight up beat i saw him make from scratch. most of the time he just grabs the ram file and blamo the beat is up (day we first met the “got til its gone” parts were already in the machine and he just created “let’s start” for tribe so i had missed those)
first thing i notice is his patience factor….when i make beats i play the record on 45 im skipping parts i aint got time to listen to a record over and over and over and over again….
i ask him about this and he said its better to suffer for 30 mins with a record than to skim through the shit and next thing you know you hear someone else use a part you coulda freaked better but cause of lack of patience you opted not to.
hmmm novel thought.
so i asked which approach is his gonna take….and he said he wanted to see if there was another juicy part for him to take…
so now we a half hour into it i was like “well…..there are no clean parts…..roy is talking all over that shit over and over….its impossible to find a juicy spot.”
lol i wonder if he was appeasing me like “you mere mortal do you not know i created heaven and earth in 7 days? muahahahahahaah” in his head.
he just said
“yuuup….pssshhh man…..i dunno how imma freak it”
so he made a cassette copy for his range and we grabbed food before it was time to take me to the airport.
we went to greektown and came back and he decided before he was going to put the record to bed (this aint the first time he gave up on a loop….the breath and stop sample frustrated him so much he gave me the record to which he would reluctantly find something to give to tip on a last minute attempt) so before the airport he decided to record every piece of the song that had 0 talking on it.
so its like…
an hour later and he has made about 20 pads on the 3000 with samples no longer than half a second each.
he even did a “be my guest” and let me get on to see if i could make some chitterlings off the table scraps from the big house.
nothing.
he retired the thought and drove me to the airport.
i got home and he left a message on my machine.
“whoooooooooooooooooooooooo!! yo! i figured it out!!!!”
when i heard it my jaw dropped.
i was speechless. again. to understand dilla you must first immerse yourself in the music that he uses to create beats. and only when you hear this song more than 20 times you will soon see how fucking impossible it is to make this beat as a mere person (so what is JP up to by the way?)
then i was like “yo pete is gonna be fucked up when he hears THIS shit!”
dilla: NONONONONONONONONO!! naw man….you can’t let him hear this man i cant afford that!
?uest: afford what? this shit is a miracle!!
dilla: nah man….like i dont want no tension. that’s my idol i dont wanna give off the impression that im trying to outshine him….
?uest: but dog im saying if you shine then…..
dilla: nah man….
?uest: so all this shit i got with samples he’s us—
dilla: yeah man dont let that shit get out man….i just do it for practice….
?uest: wait….so this beat is never going to see the light of day ever? you just made it and lost sweat over it for…..sport?
dilla: yeah man….i just practice……
thank god…..kweli had a cassette which had this beat on it for like 15 secs.
they looped it from the cassette, but it was too late and he shrugged it off….
but man……that humility.
if i found a way to bust somebodys ass for the world to see?
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit i be the first to be like
“oh yeah chris? but can you play with drumsticks in yo pinky toe chump?!?!!?!?!?”
I bet you are looking forward to just hear the trax to one of the most anticipated mixtapes from AG (Africasgateway.com for slow folks) ... well ... wait no more... here's a SAMPLER of whats to come...
Party Season is in full swing and MTN XPLOADED is continuing in its quest to give people a taste of what South African music has to offer. Blues Room will be playing host to an MC who's Lyrical skills can only be matched by his awe inspiring stage presence. Ondaground will give folks a taste of his stage artistry coupled with a dash of word play wizardry. Also on stage this wednesday at the Village walk is a man who's wisdom and intellect all human beings should go on their knees and pray for every night. Obita isn't just a Rapper, he is an orator of note with a stage act that brings the world of the hip-hop DJ and live music together with the ease of an orchestra conductor, his music has a modern edge that still has both it's feet firmly set in the rich history of hip-hop.
So all roads lead to Blues Room at the Village walk in Sandton this Wednesday and i promise you won't regret being a part of this.
Time and Place Start Time: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 7:30pm End Time: Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 2:30am Location: Blues Room - Village Walk Street: Maude street, Sandton City/Town: Johannesburg, South Africa
Dub MD presents the brand new exclusive mixtape project entitled "Hip Hop Renatus" with some of the most slept on and underrated emcees featuring the likes of Supastition, Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Mr. Live, 6th Sense, Sic Osyrus, Fred Knuxx, Karneige, Access Immortal, Donny Goines, Diablo Archer, Emilio Rojas, D.V. Alias Khryst, Wordsmith and many more, doing what they do best over some of the greatest producers in the Hip Hop's "New, Rare, Classic & Unreleased" instrumentals including J Dilla, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, ?uestlove, Large Professor, Oddisee, Illmind, Marley Marl, Madlib and 9th Wonder just to list a few.
Renatus in old Latin meaning Born Again/Reborn: 44 emcees over 34 handpicked beats! Thirty four tracks of that raw, authentic, no apologises Hip Hop music for the purest, 100% EXCLUSIVE from the emcee to this project, with a classic intro by the genius that is DJ Unexpected. This new mixtape is available for exclusive FREE DOWNLOAD right here, so pass it around, throw it on your iPod or burn it to CD-R, its yours! Thanks to everyone for all the continued support!
01.) The Genesis (Intro By DJ Unexpected) 02.) 6th Sense - Hip Hop Renatus (Produced By Erick Sermon) 03.) Mr. Live feat. Earl Blaize - The Bitch That You Are (Produced By Oddisee) 04.) Sic Osyrus & Donny Goines - Why Lord? (Middle Fingers Up) (Produced By Khrysis) 05.) Karniege - The Kush (Produced By Jake One) 06.) Skyzoo - Bang This (Produced By The Alchemist) 07.) Dominique Larue - Role Play (Produced By 9th Wonder) 08.) Emilio Rojas - E To The M-I-L-I-O (Produced By J Dilla) 09.) Access Immortal - Stay Strapped (Produced By DJ Premier) 10.) Melodiq feat. Nikal Fieldz - Bottom Of The 9th (Produced By 4th Disciple) 11.) Diablo Archer feat. Myk Dyaleks (of BrokN.English) - We The New Era (Produced By Domingo) 12.) Sha Stimuli - Today We Living (Produced By Nottz) 13.) Fred Knuxx - Air 'Em Out (Produced By Hi-Tek) 14.) Laelo Hood - Extra, Extra! (Produced By DJ Khalil) 15.) Supastition - Sound Of Reform School (Produced By Black Milk) 16.) Black ELement - Feel The Hunger (Produced By DJ Scratch) 17.) Droppin' A Message (Interlude) 18.) Zero Star - On My Backpack Shit (Produced By Large Professor) 19.) Little Vic - Let The Dollar Circulate (Produced By Ayatollah) 20.) Cymarshall Law - This Is The End (Produced By Salaam Remi) 21.) Donnan Linkz - Buzz Kill (Produced By Oh No) 22.) Cy Yung aka Cyrano - OK Corral (Produced By Madlib) 23.) Tislam The Great - Once Again (Produced By Questlove) 24.) Faro - Love Me Or Hate Me (Produced By Scram Jones) 25.) Arsun F!st - I'm In Here (Produced By Marco Polo) 26.) Sense-I - Sense-I's The Name (Produced By Nicolay) 27.) Wordsmith feat. Kontact & Black Knight - Signing Day (Produced By Pete Rock) 28.) Journalist 103 - Til' The Trumpets Blow (Produced By Illmind) 29.) Clap Cognac feat. Jedi Knight - Chosen Ones (Produced By Havoc) 30.) City Scholar - The Rebirth (Produced By Evidence) 31.) Detroit Red - Hip Hop Redefined (Produced By Buckwild) 32.) D.V. Alias Khryst feat. Retsam Da Prince - It's Da Govarmynt (Produced By Marley Marl) 33.) Nametag - Champagne Bottle Flow (Produced By Ski Beatz) 34.) Panama aka Da Spanish Kid - Born Ready (Produced By RZA) 35.) Hi-Coup feat. Spectacula - My Father Told Me (Produced By M-Phazes) 36.) Preach Jacobs feat. N'telligence - Mic Check (Produced By Rockwilder) 37.) The Exodus (Outro By DJ Unexpected)
I have been officially taken out of my Dj retirement home to participate in a Charity event this coming December. Well… all’s for a good course and I hope people will support such events…
THIS IS SOME HOT REMIX MIXTAPE ONE IS SURELY NOT TO MISS... I KNOW MY CONTENT IS CRAPPY RIGHT NOW BUT BEAR WITH ME ON THIS ONE....
HERE IS THE OFFICIAL TRACKLIST OF THE MIXTAPE:
the stars (intro) produced by The Rebbi Live MC Heather B: Produced by San, the Instru-monumentalist Classic Kanye West, Nas & KRS One: Produced by Dharma Bums Born of Music (skit) Produced by Myth How we do Big Rapper Noyd Ft Trez: Produced by San, the Instru-monumentalist One Love Nas: Produced by SubZero Allure Jay Z: Produced by J-One Interlude Produced by Dharma Bums Backwards Mobb Deep: Produced by San, the Instru-monumentalist The setup Nas: Produced by Myth the haunting (skit) Produced by Biz-Ark human Teach the children Freddie Foxx: Produced by Alias Get this money Slum village: Produced by Cymtom What i did Wordsworth: Produced by The Rebbi Triumphalism (outro) Produced by J-One
the team:
San Alias Cymtom Lyrical TiP kalibre 10 Anonymous The Biz-Ark Human Sub-Zero DJ Peewee Myth Rebbi J-One E.K.K.S Phil the Kritik Dharma Bums D. Cha
and cuts by DJ MATCH...
to be hosted by JosepH Meeger of the group REal LIfe Raps
Illa J pulls out the funk and soul for "Strugglin'," off his freshly dropped album, Yancey Boys. Over one of Dilla's more minimal beats, Illa J raps (and shows off his singing voice a bit) about an artist trying to make it in the biz. As he says in the chorus, "I'm 'bout to take you on a ride / of a struggling artist / It ain't no easy slide / You gotta hustle the hardest." With a brother like J Dilla, Illa had a good model to look up to, but that doesn't mean it was smooth sailing trying to get his message out there. With a fierce dedication to his music and lyrical skill that he continues to hone, Illa J delivers his art on Yancey Boys, saying "Let me tell you my mission / I'm here to inspire / to bring together the earth, wind and fire."
The Background:
When Jay Dee passed away from complications relating to lupus in February 2006, he left behind an extraordinary legacy of production work, including hits for Common, Janet Jackson, and Busta Rhymes. One mother lode of previously untouched beats dates from his time working on the Pharcyde's sophomore album, Labcabincalifornia (Delicious Vinyl, 1995). As Delicious Vinyl owner and founder Michael "Mike Floss" Ross explains: "From '95 through '98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, tracks as good as anything he'd done, only they never got used. When I finally met Illa J last year, I gave him a CD containing those unreleased beats."
In a case of pure serendipity, 21 year-old Illa J had just relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles and constructed a studio built using Jay Dee's recording equipment. He dubbed it Yancey Boys Studios in tribute to their fraternal bond. "Dilla was 12 years older than me," Illa J says. "So back in the day in Detroit I was just a little kid, sitting on the stairs in our house, watching him make those first beats for Slum Village. I always felt my brother's tracks and had an instinct for what I wanted to do over them." When Illa J set to work in early '08 recording the album, the project flowed quickly as he entered the proverbial can't miss zone. The name of the studio rightly became the title of the finished album, Yancey Boys, available online and in stores everywhere on Delicious Vinyl Records.
Contact Michelle if interested in speaking with Illa J.
Please post buy links if you can! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=293350507&s=143441 Streams
13 Week Marathon Plug has started and you wont wanna miss that... Hakeem has come out wit blazing gunz pointed at anything getting in front of him - a preparation for his forth-coming album "Pens and Swords"... this Marathon is said to also run on selective radio stations. So start doing the collection now...
The Song:Keelay & Zaire, master production duo, hit audiences hard with the first single off their debut LP, Ridin High. The track, entitled "The Times," is a motivational social commentary on the current state of things that is lit on fire by the vocal stylings of guest emcees Slo-Mo, Nino Moschella, and Blu (all ofSoul Vibe). The offer some sound advice against the injustices and tribulations of modern culture: "Tryna maintain and build me a strong foundation / as I mash, plottin' around town patient / Growin' in the mind and gaining tools to use / against those with opposite views who choose to abuse." The passion behind the lyrics is reinforced by the wistful production that serves as a eulogy to an era when life was uncomplicated. The Background:Keelay & Zaire are a bi-coastal team that operates with only one concrete rule; creating music with unlimited range. Complementing each other's styles with precision, Kee & Zee work as a sole production machine that spawns gritty classic hip-hop, soulful R&B, and any other medium that requires an exclusive sound from the team. With Keelay out West in the Salt Lake City region, and Zaire in the East, holding it down in Virginia, the two have almost unlimited resources from which to draw talent and inspiration. In their debut LP Ridin High, the pair's versatility takes center stage, backed up by a talented cast of emcees and singers including Slo-Mo, Mario Dones, The A.V.E., J.Fish, Phonte of Little Brother, Supastion, Blu, Cali Agents, Darien Brockington, Tash of Tha Liks, Torae, Saafir, Khizman, Fortilive, Jonathan Moore, Emilio Rojas, Surreal, Jony Fraze, and Tiffany Paige. Keelay & Zaire's Ridin High will be released in early 2009 byMYX Music Label.Please contact Michelle if interested in talking with Keelay & Zaire Streams:Keelay & Zaire - "The Times" featuring Blu, Fortlive and Nino Moschella
Hakeem and Ondaground performed amongst an army of local up-coming artist the past "Rainy" weekend... To represent mid-CapCity (Sunnyside), the two were joind by RAS (aka R-to-tha). The performances were held outside the Atteridgeville Community Hall and the crowd was not disappointing at all despite the freezing horrible wet weather. Anyway... here are the clips taken by HHH resident camera man/Mc/businessman (lol)!!!
I wasn't gonna post this until I had pretty sure clearification that this was a legal download... although this kinda old... lemme take a moment and put you on Rashid Hadee... Download after the jump!!!
MIXTAPE: Rashid Hadee - Change Gon Come (2008) Tracklist:
01 Big Pooh Intro 02 “A Change Gon’ Come” 03 “Pushers” 04 “You Can’t Hide” 05 “High Wednesday” Feat. Primeridian 06 “Heart Beat (Freestyle)” 07 “Back to Business” Feat. Melatone of Chapter 13 (Prod. By J-Dilla) 08 “What is it” Feat. Astonish & Jay Vega 09 “Fresh” Feat. Visual 10 “Explode” (Prod. By Analogic) 11 “Dreams (Interlude)” 12 “Dreams” Feat. Little Brother 13 “Feels Good” (Prod. By Dj PHD) 14 “When We Rock” Feat. Abstract Mindstate & Iomos Marad 15 “We Roll (Freestyle)” 16 “Watchin’ My Moves” 17 “Standing for Something” Feat. Thaione Davis (Prod. By Madlib) 18 “Duck, Duck, Duck’ Feat. Young Valentine 19 “You Never Know” Feat. Furlee of The Landlords 20 “Getting’ It In” Feat. Donwill of Tanya Morgan 21 “Black Sunday” Feat. Augustine & KING 22 “Fallin” Feat. Abstract Mindstate & O-Type Star 23 “Surrender” 24 “Surrender (Brand New Remix)” Feat. Rita J. 25 “Focused” Feat. F.O.O.D. (Decay & Selfish) 26 “Flyin’ High” Feat. Abstract Mindstate 27 “Oxygen” Feat. Pugs Atomz (Prod. By Pete Rock) 28 “All Day” Feat. Skinny Kenny 29 “Glam, Glitter” Feat. Cap D of All Natura l30 “How Long” Feat. KING 31. Outro 32 “My Life Story”
I understand the concept of mixtapes a whole lot more cuz after years of research and listening to hip hop, you come to terms with words and phrases used for/in music.
But I just heard a term that is new (honestly) to me concerning releases... "pre tape"!
Like WTF???? What happened to Ep's?? anyway... Black Moss has released digitally "The benchmark vol.2 pre tape"
Be good and enjoy the pre tape of The benchmark vol.2
Here is something saddening to the musical industry world wide I picked up on my way to work:
South African singer Miriam Makeba dies in Italy
ROME (AFP) — South African singer Miriam Makeba has died aged 76 after being taken ill near the southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert, ANSA news agency reported Monday.
She died overnight after taking part in a concert for Roberto Saviano, a writer threatened with death by the Mafia, the Italian agency said.
Miriam Makeba, known as "Mama Africa", was the legendary voice of the African continent who became a symbol of the fight against apartheid in her home country.
She died just after having sung for half an hour for the young author of "Gomorrah" at Castel Volturno near Naples along with other singers and artistes.
She was taken ill and was quickly taken to a clinic in Castel Volturno where she died of a heart attack, ANSA said.
Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932. She made an international farewell tour in 2005.
Born from a Swazi mother and Xhosa father, Makeba captured international attention as vocalist for the South African group, The Manhattan Brothers, while they toured the United States in 1959.
The following year, when she wanted to return home to bury her mother, the apartheid state revoked her citizenship and later also banned her music. As a result she spent 31 years in exile, living in the United States and later in Guinea.
She became the first black African woman to receive a Grammy Award which she shared with folk singer Harry Belafonte in 1965.
Two years later her fame sky-rocketed with the recording of the all-time hit "Pata Pata" (Xhosa for "touch, touch" describing a township dance) although she unknowingly signed away all royalties on the song.
She hit an all-time low in 1985 when her only daughter, Bongi, died aged 36 from complications from a miscarriage. Makeba did not have money to buy a coffin for Bongi, and buried her alone barring a handful of journalists covering the funeral.
But she picked herself up again, as she did many times before, like when her father died at a young age, or when she recovered from cervix cancer, or her many unhappy relationships, or unfounded rumours of alcoholism, according to her biography.
She returned to South Africa in the 1990s after Mandela was released from prison but it took a cash-strapped Makeba six years to find someone in the local recording industry to produce a record with her.
She since released "Homeland" which contains a song describing her joy to be back home after the many years in exile in which she spoke out against apartheid and testified twice before the United Nations.
"I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising," she said in her biography.
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