Seconds, Please 006

November 20, 2011 7 comments

We’ve already done this six times? Second helpings from Jon B., Soul Khan, Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire, ScHoolboy Q, Lil Bow Wow & more. Leave a comment telling us your favorite pick and we’ll ship you some stickers.


CRAIG


Jon B. – Calling On You

Take Care is out. I like it. If you don’t, then “toodles to you bitches.” It’s an oversized moody mess of a record, yes, but I think that even people who have issues with the guy frowning on the cover can agree that there’s some ace production work on this thing. What’s more, the samples used are wide ranging and great. Drake and 40′s dueling love for Southern rap and sketchy turn-of-the-millennium R&B made for a really interesting sample settracks by DJ Screw, SWV, Gil Scott-Heron, and more into its depressive sprawl. One of the weirder bits of Take Care source material is found on the late album Lex Luger-produced “Cameras”, whose beat borrows whole chunks of a track by the hammy, lesser known, and preternaturally sharply goateed singer Jon B. “Calling on You” is dope. I forgot dude had songs like that. This week’s gonna be all late 90s, early 00s R&B everything.

LLOYD

While Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire made waves a few months ago with his Lost in Translation mixtape, it didn’t exactly catch enough fire to hearken the grand resurrection of New York rap. So, on his remix of the drunk driving, debauchery laden, orgy promoting “Huzzah”, he invited a few of New York’s current underground heroes: Despot, Das Racist and El-P; with Detroit’s own Danny Brown to add to the grittiness.

“The Last Huzzah” is par for the course with nearly everything on the stellar mixtape, but what has me revisiting the track is none other than the God himself, El-P. His verse speaks for itself:

“Straight shots of the Sterno plus
Wick stuck in the bottle empty
3 blocks to the target we light it and lob it hard at centry
4 pigs of the oinking variety guard the market entry
5 minutes of flames and then aim the whistle my father lent me
6 oclock we meet up and divi the shells among the youngins
7 continents in the shit and smoke like its fuckin London
Just before they 8 up the funds our harmony love was bumpin
Now government issue 9′s are pointed where your blood is pumped in
Ten(d) to mop up these muttering zombies talker pieces
El’ll ven(t) on you harder than Fukashima breezes
In the end when a dozen or so adjourn to reason
You’ll find the verdict return corrupted in murderous seasons
With inverted 31′s and other unlucky omens
Thats why I chugg 7 and 7′s till im fuckin homeless
And every time you think my 15 minutes of fame are up
I spit another 16 and prove to the world I fuckin own it”

‘Nuff said?

FRED

Lupe Fiasco – Twilight Zone

Let’s be real here: Lasers sucked. While I’m glad Lupe Fiasco is working on a new album, I’m
disappointed that he’s following the trend of rappers naming their album “My Best Album Part 2.” At
least he’s making Food and Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album instead of Lasers 2: The Great
American Drink Coaster. If the album has anything like “Twilight Zone,” possibly my favorite ode to
anthropomorphism in hip-hop history, I’ll stop making comments about his need for a haircut.

NAH REZ


kills chopped and screwed by joel rampage by joelrampage

Oops I’m cheating and posting an entire mixtape. A man by the name of Joel Rampage (yikes) chopped & screwed the jj Kills mixtape for Sincerely Yours. I wasn’t able to pick out a single track to share because when I listen to it I tend to zone out and not notice when one track ends and the next one begins. I’ve never delved that far into the world of chopped & screwed music so I am no expert on the technique displayed in the mixtape, but I do know I like what I hear. And if you don’t have it already I highly recommend downloading the original jj-kills mixtape as well, a simple google should work for that.

BAUCE SAUCE

Soul Khan – Lord Knows Freestyle


Bitch say I’m hating… So electrical, they selecting Soul in place of Raiden
I’m getting impatient waiting; so if it don’t happen soon, the dude gone be where the in-patients laying.

Gigantic fan of Soul Khan. He dropped this a few days ago and just blazes Just Blaze’s instrumental. Purportedly, he recorded this while he was hopped up on cough syrup (medicinal purposes, not recreational) and you can tell he sounds a bit under the weather… BUT THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S SO FUCKING SICK!!!!!! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA ROFLCOPTER DO YOU GET IT? I MADE A JOKE. DOUBLE ENTENDRE DON’T EVEN ASK ME HOW!!????!!! But in all seriousness, everything a Brown Bag Allstar touches is gold. Enjoy this “How to Rap Properly” clinic that Khan Almighty blesses us with.

THE BLACK KEVIN ARNOLD

2 Chainz – K.O. ft. Big Sean

“I’m in and out the pussy—drive-thru. ” -2 Chainz

Best way I can describe this song is smooth ignorance. Tity 2 Chainz obviously isn’t an elite lyricist, but often times he does just enough to get me to nod my head and make the “I approve of this” stank face. “K.O.” also features the best rapper to ever step foot on this planet, my homie and yours—Big Sean, and he kills it. I think the contrast between 2 Chainz and Big Sean displayed over this FYE-ass KB & Josh Holiday beat is actually what makes this song so dope. It’s like a Canadian ham and pineapple pizza — it just works.

RAJ

If And 1 had a music video, this would be it. RIP NBA Season..

jamarcus note: lol, raj. lol.

MARC

ScHoolboy Q – There He Go [Prod. By Sounwave] by Mixedbyali

I saw Kendrick Lamar the other night and the show was incredible. Not only was A$AP ROCKY there, but Busta Rhymes debuted his verse for the ‘Rigamortus’ remix. Not to mention our homeys TiRon & Ayomari had a great set (get that album). ScHoolboy Q really impressed me though. And this song has been stuck in my head since. ‘Y’all actin’ like that TDE don’t run LA.’ That’s the new NWA. I know ScHoolboy impressed Dr. Dre as he looked on the other night. Q has been getting better with every track lately.

JESSIE

Body Language – Holiday (RAC Remix)

Thank Jamarcus for “Seconds, Please” or this song would be LOST on the island of MJF wordpress drafts. Brooklyn group Body Language is known for releasing wonderous pop jams that make you want to move. The Remix Artist Collective obviously recognized this and on the remix, enhances the song by emphasizing the pop and making it more occupy the dance floor-friendly. Enjoy RAC junkies!