a friend was telling me about times they ran in to trouble with the best friends gang in the early nineties. sounded crazy so i looked them up on google and found this. shits crazy.

“these stars wanna blow their brains to venus.
and die inside the club be the next river phoenix.
i mean correction. i mean heath ledger.
who would think an olsen twin would deal the deadly pleasure.”

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Download audio file (Bishop-Lamont-feat.-Xzibit-Hallelujah-_Produced-by-Dr.-Dre_.mp3)

Bishop Lamont feat. Xzibit – Hallelujah _Produced by Dr. Dre_

graphic designer Logan Walters did a redesign of some classic wu-tang/associated artist albums, but with a blue note twist. the designs pay homage to classic blue note album covers from the 40s and up. i personally think these are really cool and feel like they would look great printed/framed/up on my walls…

[link] Wu-Note Project on Flickr

so here’s a few random songs by wu-tang clan and friends;

Download audio file (06-Wu-Tang-Clan-Winter-Wars-Classic.mp3)

wu-tang clan – winter wars classic

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method man & redman – dis iz 4 all my smokers

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raekwon – house of flying daggers (feat. inspectah deck, method man & ghostface)

oh, and i just read that mr. walters is from ferndale. sweeeeeet.

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Blace Icewood – Icewood

so apparently the song “girl from ipanema” was written about this girl named Heloísa Pinheiro from rio de janiero in ‘64. shit’s crazy. it’s so weird having a face put to the girl from ipanema, youknow?? but yeah, she was also in playboy. with her daughter. in playboy. naked and stuff. so weird…

here’s the most popular, and my personal favorite version of the girl from ipanema.
performed by stan getz on sax, joão gilberto on guitar and his wife astrud singing

read more about this history of the song here

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stan getz, joao gilberto, astrud gilberto – girl from ipanema

i probably shouldn’t be posting this. for a number of reasons. mostly personal reasons, morals, respect, youknow, things like that. but i’m posting this anyway. because the damn ‘anyone but him’ lyrics get stuck in my head all day and i find myself singing it out loud when nobody’s around. because i still have hope for kanye. even though he probably just got a huge boner when he heard mr. hudson’s awesome autotune skills and decided he needed to be a part of whatever the fuck this is. because that’s what he does. so fuck me. here’s a song or two by mr. hudson. and one two three of them features mr. west…

i’ve seen “mr. hudson ft. kanye west” and i’ve seen “kanye west ft. mr. hudson” and i’m not sure which one is correct. i don’t really care very much/at all, but i just wanted to point that out. thanks.

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mr. hudson ft kanye west – anyone but him

Download audio file (11-Kid-Cudi-Everything-Is-Broken-Feat.-Mr.-Hudson.mp3)

kid cudi ft mr. hudson – everything is broken

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kanye west ft mr. hudson – paranoid

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mr. hudson ft kanye west – supernova

here’s a few tracks i’ve been bumpin’ the past few weeks. all off of cam’s 2009 release crime pays. (except cocaine)
good shit.

Download audio file (16-camron-cookies-n-apple_juice_ft._skitzo_and_byrd_lady_produced_by_skitzo.mp3)

camron – cookies n apple juice

Download audio file (17-camron-my_job_produced_by_skitzo.mp3)

camron – (i hate) my job

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camron ft. vado – cocaine

Download audio file (08-camron-get_it_in_ohio_produced_by_araabmuzik.mp3)

camron – get it in ohio