YES for more hot weather in San Francisco
ergo
The Bake Sale
we need
The Cool Kids
The Cool Kids - What Up Man from The Bake Sale (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)
http://www.myspace.com/thecoolkids

I’m going to do you a favor today and help you get that Master P taste out of your mouth.
How am I going to do it? With the best-named crew in rap and a female MC named Pebblee Poo.
Today’s post is brought to you by a 29-year love affair with old-school hip-hop.
Masterdon Committee - Funk [...]

Here’s a little story that must be told…
I was cooling it in this chocolate cafe (that’s right) reading a book, and I couldn’t help but overhear the couple sitting at the next table. They were talking about music, and I heard the woman say how much she liked an album by a Somali rapper. She [...]

“I have a bunch of thrift-store gear, and I like to turn on some red lights and just make some sounds. I guess it’s just the sound of really cheap equipment, listening to a lot of records, and goofing off.”
My man.
Too $hort - I Ain’t Trippin (James Pants ruff remix)
http://www.myspace.com/jamespants
http://stonesthrow.com/jamespants/
[quote from this interview at XLR8R; [...]

I hope the weather where you are is anywhere near as spectacular as it is in SF right now. Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city, so it’s time to buss out one of the kings of summertime jams.
One whole day to play!
De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” from [...]

This one’s for the folks who enjoyed the video I posted Friday, but haven’t heard the Masta Ace song it was built around.
That was my story — I’m still discovering great hip-hop from the mid- to late-nineties, a period when I was up to my teeth in banjo music and God knows what else.
There’s nothing [...]

I can’t bear to leave for the weekend on a sad note, so here’s a video that is especially appropriate since I’ve been bass-crazy kickin’ Low End Theory mp3s around my block all week.
It’s by Kidz In The Hall (I keep accidentally typing New Kidz On The Block), and it’s built around a Masta Ace [...]

Come and step in brother’s temple, see what’s happenin’. Gather ’round the fire for the scroll that I deliver. Come into my oven, devils, come and you burn. Chilly and Magilla. Chocolate and vanilla. How could polar bears swing on vines with the gorillas? Please. Deeper than the sea floor traveled by the mantis. What’s [...]

Today’s post is in appreciation of being able to ease my blog back.
There are many real things to appreciate about Critical Beatdown, but my favorite thing is something that probably exists only in my head (and that of MC Doodle, with whom I discovered this).
It’s how whenever Ced Gee comes in on a rhyme, [...]

Online record shops are great resources for finding out about new music. Mrs. H hipped me to using Other Music for that purpose. And just the other day my very own bro sent me the link to 360 Vinyl, which looks like a cramtastic place for underground hip-hop. I haven’t had the time to [...]