Willie Isz – Georgiavania

Willie Isz – Georgiavania

Willie Isz is the collaboration album between Khujo Goodie from Goodie Mob and producer-rapper Jneiro Jarel (aka Dr. Who Dat? [my bad, this is getting hella obscure]). It’s a side project in the same vein as Gnarls Barkley but on first listen, sounding less pop-conscious (both in terms of music and marketing ploy) and a little more focused. I ain’t mad.

I don’t really do this ever but I think the usual bootleggers are still sleeping on this, even now five days after its official release. Also, it looks like the record label was hella trash on the distribution end of it. I went to Best Buy and it was the weirdest thing where the store had definitely ordered it for the June 30 release date but for some reason, the shipment never came in. It kinda reminds me of the days when I was rocking the Sega Saturn. Towards the end of its short lifespan, Sega started dropping really classic games like Panzer Dragoon Saga (literally the best RPG ever) and Shining Force III but only shipping them in painstakingly small amounts (for Panzer, try 8,000 copies for the entire North American territory). My brother had pre-ordered the game and STILL had to wait until a second shipment came in weeks later.

I couldn’t say yet whether Georgiavania is classic but it’s good. It definitely deserves to be heard by those few people who are actually checking for it but just can’t drive 60 miles to the nearest retailer to get a copy yet (you can also pay for the digital download somewhere but why the hell would you ever pay for an album without liner notes and cover art?).

That said, this is entirely for promotional purposes. If you like this album and have some easy access to it (to my LA friends, there’s probably no excuse with Amoeba down the block), you better buy this. Hell, if you bootleg as much as me, you better buy one out of respect for the fact that it didn’t leak like everything outside of Korean-language rap does. If anyone from Lex Records reads this and would like me to take it down, I will do so gladly. Also, if anyone from Lex Records reads this, please step your distribution game up.

Proof of purchase after the jump. Yes, more fold-out liner notes except this also doubles as what should be the jewel case.

Hurricane Chris performs ‘Halle Berry’ at Lousiana State Legislature

Yeah so this actually happened. This makes me want to vote even less now. Who thought this would be a good use of taxpayer money? I’m late to the party but please spread anyway.

The Mad Real World: Wale

Rangerbob is back to keep it real, mad real. Well, sorta. This time around, rangerbob does this Eminem circa Relapse thing (ooooh, shots from within the same blog post! Whatchu know ’bout post-modern beef, son?!?!) of talking about child molestation and dick-slapping. He also reveals a sweet crush of Lady Gagantuan proportions, an abhorrence of puns, and a penchant for spilling science. Oh yeah, and he goes in on blog-rapper, Wale.

Hello children. In today’s installment, we’ll be discussing everyone’s favorite irrelevant MC, Wale. Now if you’re from this particular rapper’s hometown, the District of Columbia, and were offended by that, I would simply pose the question: why aren’t you more worried about getting stabbed by a pregnant crack whore that someone has clearly attached a saddle to? Or, what those d-bags in suits acoss town are going to do to your neighborhhod in the name of gentrification. (That’s right kids, cheap shots in the form of pseudo social awareness. SHEA!)

So the most notable thing that Mr. Olubowale Victor Akintimehinhas has done was a verse on the last track on The Roots album, “Rising Up (Rising Down)“. You know when you’re listening and say to yourself “That’s not Black Thought”? Which is usually great and possibly opens you up to something new.

But theres a problem. Hes just not that good. Terrible? Hardly. I’m not actually disgusted in anyway (like when I found out about my brother’s involvement in a donkey show held in Joe Biden’s house). Which is saying something since I am constantly consuming hate and broken dreams every day of my life. Ruining someone else’s day is the only thing that gives me a break from the inevitable: mediocrity. Unfortunately, our friend Wale falls under such a category. He’s not bad enough for me to lay down a verbal dick slap. But not interesting enough for me to take a shot in the mouth and dick ride off into the sunset. Though for the sake of informed analysis, here we go ……

Dave Chappelle, Michael Jackson, and government cover-ups

At the 1:32 mark:

“The timing of this Michael Jackson shit is what makes me doubt it. Everytime war is going out of control or the economy is bad or something is wrong with the world-at-large, it’s always these moments in history that Michael Jackson concidentally ….. jerks off a kid.”

No shots at MJ or anyone mourning his death or celebrating his life. Hell, I’m listening to De La Soul’s Maseo mixing up all MJ right now. But tomorrow, let’s not forget that for the past two weeks or so, #Iranelection was the top trending topic on Twitter. And also, North Korea looks ready to nuke us. And the unemployment rate in California is more than 11%. Not that I ever do anything about any of those issues, myself (besides changing my Twitter location to Tehran and my time zone to GMT+03:30 to confuse Iranian government Internet blockers). But I would hope more responsible, change-the-world types got my back in those respects and leave the crying about musicians to me.

The Parent ‘Hood Sure-Shots

I actually managed to think of two different Father’s Day posts. The first, which I threw up @ Examiner, collects tracks that rappers make with their kids. But a few of those are kinda lame. Here’s some good music centered around parenthood in some way, though one of them isn’t about a father exactly. But yknow, Ghostface can get away with that:

Lil Wayne “How Can Something“
The mixtape Weezy details love, divorce, and the loss of his daughter in the aftermath of that divorce. I can’t imagine anyone, even staunch Lil Wayne haters (who still exist), not feeling this track and not acknowledging that Wayne is a huge talent.

“My babygirl thought I was fuckin every little freak
But darling, I was raised by a woman, that ain’t the real me
Still she managed to spill out a little me
Watched them doctors wipe the blood from her little feet.”

Just as important as the lyrics are Wayne’s pained, stressed, perpetually on the verge of breaking down delivery (the same delivery from “Duffle Bag Boy” and “My Life“) that sells it.

Mid-week Monchables*: Pharoahe x Talib x Amsterdam

DJ JS-1 ft. O.C. & Pharoahe Monch “Ridiculous“

Just throwing this up to connect some dots. You’d think from the song title that it might be another Gucci Mane song but it’s not (though I wonder if it’s trying to make a comment on Gucci at all). It’s just a dope battle track from long-time rap friends O.C. and Pharoahe. As usual, Pharoahe kills it and does so with a bunch of ‘M’ alliteration. Bonus points for classic literary devices. The track comes off DJ JS-1’s upcoming album, No Sellout, due next week and boasting a long list of dope guest rappers.

If the beat sounds at all familiar, that’s probably because you remember the same sample being used on Talib Kweli’s “This Means You (ft. Mos Def)” off the Reflection Eternal LP. Well, come to find out that the original (I think?) goes back a few years before that even. The Amsterdamian (or Amsterdamanian, Amsterdamman?) rap group above released that song in 1999 and if the amount of Youtube comments is to be believed, it looks like it was kind of a big deal. Someone let me know if this is definitely the right sample.

via Steady Bloggin, my current favorite rap blog simply because they have great taste.

UPDATE: DJ Tanner Shantanu comes through with the O.G. sample, illustrating my ignorance regarding all things Indian Native-American. Redbone was an all Native-American band from the 1970’s. “Clouds In My Sunshine” comes from their 1974 album, Wovoka.

*You didn’t think I could alliterate Pharoahe Monch’s name in the middle of the week, huh? I guess I’m just a classical rap thesaurus addict like that (……).

Playboy Tre steals Internet

Best vlogger alive (and yknow, pretty great rapper) threatens his neighbors for not paying their Internet bill so he can jack their wireless signal. He also mentions “love purse.”

I’m that much quicker

I missed this when RapRadar first posted it more than a week ago. Around the 1:40ish mark, Quik breaks down how Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield birthed gangster rap. I love BlaQKout so much, I wanna take it behind my middle school and get it pregnant.