BEATS AND RHYMES
Too $hort has it made. The guy has like four hundred gold and platinum albums and is only 29 years old. He gets more bitches than your top five rappers combined, and probably has a house in every city in the US. Somebody just got the bright idea to make a documentary about his life, which I would totally watch if I wasn’t in one of those ghetto situations where I have a DVD player and no television. Check it out:
www.grassrootsentertainment.com.
Kid Koala’s got it made. He’s a cute little Asian dude with a sense of humor and bad-ass DJ skills. All kinds of girls must love him, but he’s probably got some girl-next-door girlfriend he’s been going out with since he was five that he’ll never cheat on. His record collection probably puts mine to shame, and—fuck—he can draw, too. He just put out another stupidly good record with another stupidly good comic book thingy.
www.ninjatune.net
Aesop Rock has it made. He put out a bunch of underground CDs that all you net-heads memorized all over the place, then got down with Def Jux when they were first starting out, so now he probably gets money and bitches, too. His new album is even better than it’s supposed to be. It’s called Bazooka Tooth, but you knew that already, didn’t you smartypants?
www.definitivejux.net
The Last Emperor has it made. He did that whole “independent buzz” thing back when that could get you a record deal (just ask Defari, or Planet Asia), and it did. So he got signed to Aftermath and dropped, or let go, a couple years later. That’s what I’d do if I got a record deal. Take the advance, buy a house, then make a shitty album and get dropped. You still have your street cred, you can still make music and tour. Nothing’s changed, except now you own a house. I wish I’d thought of that.
www.raptivism.com
Styles of Beyond have it made. They pulled some magic shit out of their hats with the whole “break up” thing, just making heads fiend for the new shit, and now you’re all over it. Pretty smart, eh? Well, you know how the old saying goes: Don’t hate the players, hate the game. And buy their album. It’s the best one out this month.
www.spytechrecords.com
The Oddities have it made. They’re like a boy band but they don’t suck—part thug, part nerd, part freestyler, part mack, part pretty boy, part graffiti. It’s like how big companies put together fake “real” punk bands and shit, if you wanted to manufacture a fake “real” rap group, this is what you’d come up with, but they came up with it on their own, and it’s dope as fuck. They have a cool-ass manager, too.
www.battleaxerecords.com
Here’s a list of other people who have it made, and the thing’s they’ve recently made: themselves: the no music of aiff’s (
www.anticon.com), Various: Block Radius (
www.soundincolor.com), Six Feet Deep: Chico Rap Shit (
sixfeetdeepmusic-@yahoo.com), Listener: Whispermoon (
www.dirtyloop.com), Modern Sleeping: Positions & Practices for Better Living (
www.crystaltop.com), Dark Circle: Civilians (
www.jazzfudge.com), The Prunes: Red Moon (
www.jazzfudge.com), Babbletron: Mechanical Royalty (
www.embeddedmusic.net), Vishuss: Battle Rhyme (Oblivion), Rasco: Escape From Alcatraz (
www.coupdetat.tv), Joe Good & Miles Bonny: SoundsGood (
www.lawrencehiphop.com), Backwoodz Studioz: Camouflage, 8.Bliss: A Train of Events (
www.omnipresentrecords.com), Impervious: Machine Gun Raps (indie), The Strange Fruit Project: “All The Way” (
www.kajmeresound.com), Nicknack: “Mustard Seed” (
www.crowdcontrolrecords.com), Belles in Monica: “Smoke Filled Rooms” (
www.belles.demon.co.uk), Show Me The Money: “Ride Out” (861 Productions).
FRITZ THA CAT
Send music, drugs, and hope to: fritz tha cat, c/o Vice, 383 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON M5V 2A5 Canada, fritzthacat@viceland.com, www.fritzthacat.com, fritzthacat-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Top Nine (in no particular order)
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1. Styles of Beyond Megadef (Spytech) 2. Oddities The Scenic Route (Battleaxe) 3. Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth (Definitive Jux) 4. Too $hort Life Is… DVD (Grass Roots) 5. Kid Koala Some of My Best Friends Are DJs (Ninja Tune) 6. Dark Circle Civilians (Jazz Fudge) 7. The Last Emperor Music, Magic, Myth (Raptivism) 8. Sunspot Jonz Don’t Let ’Em Stop You (Battleaxe) 9. The Prunes Red Moon (Jazz Fudge)
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Date: Dec 25 2004 08:59:06 AM
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Subject: me & Divine Styler
Date: Apr 09 2004 02:40:01 PM
Author: Mr. Wonka?!
first off, where's Divine Styler???
...i don't think he's no longer in L.A.(though, i could be wrong).
...next to The Ramm:Ell:Zee, Divine's one of the hardest M.C.'s(NOT "rapper"....for there's a grand difference in the two.....for true!) to get ahold of.
second off, for all y'all screwheads(i.e. those who like to bang & bump those tunes which are slowed-down & chopped-up) out there, if you're tired of hearin' the same old songs gettin' leaned & chopped, then look no further than Mr. Wonka?!
....i slow & chop(a.k.a. "Chopped & Screwed"...or, as i call mine:"Jacked & Hacked") practically any genre of music under the sun!!!
...this is all actual-factual talk, here, folks..
you want rock?......i got 'cha!
you want rap?.......i got 'cha!
you want reggae?....i got 'cha!
...ect., ect., ect.
yeah, this is a hardcore plug, but fuck it!
...i'm out to elevate & celebrate...ya' diggeth?;)
Mr. Wonka?!
*sippin' lean with a crazy straw, y'all!!*
Subject: Lovezooka
Date: Apr 01 2004 01:38:49 AM
Author: SHAPE on the real
fuck bazooka tooth for real. iiiim mad druk. no skillz. ppeeeppeeeppz tgekiveiziijjasgut,
Subject: typo
Date: Nov 21 2003 01:40:58 AM
Author: -hellb0und- the jibb smoking fuckshow.
change that find to fiend.. hehe yes i am a fiend hhehe ask steph & courtney they kno about my drug abuse hehehe
Subject: ?
Date: Nov 02 2003 05:40:16 PM
Author: !@#$%
what would the 3rd installment of the Invasion serious be. Aftermathm, DJ. Grnlntrn
or am i alone of that one...
Subject: Out of All the Emcees
Date: Oct 26 2003 08:30:18 PM
Author: Mystic Gunns
I'm just sitting hear reading the Beats & Rhymes thinking to myself, Styles of Beyond are entertaining, the Last Emperor is mediocre, Aesop Rock is borderline average, The Oddities have no hope, & Too $hort and Kid Koala have proven to be able to do their thang. But has everyone one forgotten about Shomori Pass?!?!? All these references to these (some would say underground, I call it innovation) artist, And there's nothing on the illest emcee out, Shomori Pass. What's up wit that!!! Shomori Pass has the rhyme ability of all these emcees combined plus Cannibus!!
Subject: Impervious
Date: Oct 23 2003 05:40:26 PM
Author: tuna
Impervious "Machine gun raps" is out now on www.mondriansound.com ,available at fatbeats nyc, sandboxautomatic
Subject: wuttup cats?
Date: Oct 15 2003 03:14:34 PM
Author: fritz tha cat
hey cats, thanks for reading this shit and hitting back with your feeback... yo, i gotta peep that airborn audio shit... where can i get it? y'all need to look out for my shit too (since one of you asked about it...) check out www.fritzthacat.com and get on my email list if you want... my album's gonna be done at the end of the year... peace!!!!
Subject: backwoodz studioz
Date: Oct 12 2003 08:17:30 PM
Author: gwb
yeah backwoodz studioz - cop it! good lookin out fritz
Subject: fritz the cats musics
Date: Oct 11 2003 02:41:34 PM
Author: Aiko
whhy not the guy who write this not talk about himself? he is good at the raps also, so why he not write anything say check out my shit it is new and good also?
Subject: keep an eye out
Date: Oct 11 2003 01:47:54 PM
Author: on some next
Airborn Audio = M. Sayyid and High Priest, formerly of Anti Pop Consortium
Subject: the main course ,of course!
Date: Oct 10 2003 02:00:58 AM
Author: drunk trumpeter
kid koala got what you need!
Subject: SoundsGood
Date: Oct 09 2003 06:50:44 PM
Author: george haker
SoundsGood is dope. http://www.yourfavoritegroup.com
Subject: Oddities are for real
Date: Oct 07 2003 03:12:21 PM
Author: Nealy...not Nelly you fuckin' faggots
They opened for Blackalicous on their Canadian tour and ripped it up, but I'm leary (of a MTV' veejay named Rainbow) if you want any credability! Gift of Gab and Lateef are the best live act going! Peace
Subject: Poop
Date: Oct 01 2003 06:49:50 PM
Author: Wiley R.
Last Emp's New album is pure shit
Subject: sob
Date: Oct 01 2003 04:55:48 PM
Author: pearl
styles of beyond broke up?
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