Gucci Mane was one of 2009th hottest in US rap. Diplo musta felt that way too, so he put together a remix Mixtape with constributions by himself, Flying Lotus, Douster, DZ, Mumdance, Benzi, Brodinski, Bird Peterson, Emnyd and others.
I didnt really pay attention to Guccis stuff in 2009. To me, Dirty South got a lil uninteresting cause it [...]
- January 14, 2010, 3:26 am by Toxik Kargoll
The best tracks and albums of 2009, point blank. Ha! Or hm. Tell me what I forgot.
Thaught Ill give ya some year end lists I did for two magazines. Some links added, the rest is for you to search if you missed it in the 1st place. Electronic styles and pure rap stuff. Have fun.
Electronix
1. Buraka [...]
- December 31, 2009, 9:13 pm by Toxik Kargoll
I’m in New York at the moment and had some other shit on my mind than blogging, sorry you had to bridge the time of my urban safari with reading our very good archive. While I was looking for some partys to go to I found the new Uffie video: Pop The Glock. Yeah, right. [...]
- October 8, 2009, 9:54 pm by Toxik Kargoll
Pursuit of Happiness, produced by Ratatat and featuring MGMT is Kid Cudi’s third single from the upcoming album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day. Before only a radio rip was available. Hey, they still got radio in th states. So nineties.
As hipster as it gets. An alternative rock group, electronic producers and [...]
- September 6, 2009, 7:00 pm by Toxik Kargoll
Just got this one facebooked by former XXL mag god Elliot Willson. The tune is fresh, at least it doesnt sound exactly like everything else thats around at the moment. plus its pretty gudda. refreshing. that makes a medium track worth mentioning.
even more worth mentioning is the crazy ass video. Putting some crack heads in [...]
- June 26, 2009, 12:03 am by Toxik Kargoll
Okay, this one is anti-uptempo. Drake performing on a DJ Screw joint (”June 27th“). The screwed beat sounds a lil like the old Ghost Dog soundtrack RZA did..
I really rock with that original Screw sound, so props to Drake. The song is called “November 18th”, Drakes mixtape is called “Best I Ever Had”. Chuck Inglish [...]
- April 14, 2009, 12:58 pm by Toxik Kargoll
“Lost” is the first single from Gorilla Zoes last album “Dont feed the animals“. The original version is produced by Drumma Boy. Next to the original theres a version with Lil Wayne, never a bad thing. D-Money did a great rework, decide on your own which one you prefer. Here we go with all three of [...]
- April 13, 2009, 10:26 am by Toxik Kargoll
Just found out Three Six Mafias DJ Paul is doing a solo joint, Scale-A-Ton. Sounds good, so far. Not as good as it could, though. Three Six is one of my favourite groups, but the last album was allready a little disappointing. Boring on first glance and okay after listening to it for the fourth [...]
- April 5, 2009, 8:56 pm by Toxik Kargoll
Prince is not a bad rapper himself.. still he called up Q-Tip for assistance on his new electro pop rap song Chocolate Box.
Not hard enough for the podcast player beneath, but deff worth mentioning. Hey, both is pretty famous and stuff.
If you liked this one, buy me a beer proll ;) thanks!
- March 31, 2009, 2:50 pm by Toxik Kargoll
Bmore club is one of the genres that been around for years and get their earned attention back now, over the course of all the new dance rap coming out. Bmore Club legend DJ Class took that chance when he released “I’m the Ish“, featuring Kanye West, this winter. It was his first release since [...]
- March 31, 2009, 12:49 am by Toxik Kargoll