As a gift to his fans, Action Bronson took to social media to announce that he will be dropping some new music on our heads in early 2016.
I know I haven't dropped new music in a minute but *The Human Highlight Reel* is coming real early next year. #It'sMe
— MR. WONDERFUL (@ActionBronson) December 25, 2015
The Mash Out Posse and Onyx have launched a Kickstarter campaign for a collaborative album produced by the Snowgoons that they call the “hardest hip hop album ever.” The campaign is looking to raise $30k to release the album independently in 2016. Here’s some excerpts from the Kickstarter page.
What if the hardest step into the arena against the hardest? What if its done on a powerful soundscape by the hardest producers out there? What if 2 legendary crews step in the ring for a battle of words?
What if there is an Onyx vs. M.O.P. album produced by the Snowgoons?
To bring the hardest hip hop album ever to life, we need all of you fans to support. We need Hip Hop to support.
We are taking no shortcuts, so we have to do it the right way: Ruff Rugged & Raw. That means we have to do it Independent.
Billboard recently published a ranking of the 10 greatest hip hop beats of all-time. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message,” Produced by Ed Fletcher, Clifton “Jiggs” Chase and Sylvia Robinson, took the top spot. Coming in at #2 was the Nasir Jones and DJ Premier collaboration on “NY State of Mind” off of Nas’ classic Illmatic. Here’s the description below.
DJ Premier is arguably the best hip-hop producer of all time, and this may he his finest beat, and the one that represents him the best. He was raised in Texas before moving east, but his mid ’90s work — particularly on Nas’ flawless Illmatic debut — basically exemplifies the classic New York underground sound that folks like Joey Bada$$ idolize to this day. It’s been called “boom bap,” and the drums that start this classic Nas highlight (arguably the best album opener of all time) could very well be the inspiration for the term. It features also another Premier signature — one of his weird, unidentifiable monotone chirps, sampled from who knows where — and then the piano riff fades in, as sinister as the darkest Queensbridge stairwell. There’s no escape from the street scenarios it inspired Nas to describe — or this unforgettable beat once it gets into your nodding head.
You can check out the rest of the list here.
The Rosenthals waste a little time with Jadakiss by discussing everything from meeting Ma$e outside battling in a pair of Nike sandals, the infamous refrigerator interview and departing Bad Boy to his feud with 50 Cent and his Top 5 Dead or Alive album.
While in Alaska shooting an episode of “F*ck, That’s Delicious,” Action Bronson was rushed to the hospital in need of emergency surgery. No details as to what the surgery entailed but it appears that Bam Bam is in good spirits after he posted on his Instagram.
The highly anticipated and long overdue Jay Electronica album has been lingering long in the minds of hip hop heads everywhere who have been awaiting a full body of work from the emcee. However, during a performance in NYC for CMJ, Jay Elec said the following…
“I was just backstage talking about that with [Jason] Goldwatch. We were talking about the delete button.”
Wait, what? After all this time? He could be teasing us but you never know with Jay Electronica. With the project being so old, perhaps he’s wanting to scrap all the older material in favor of something new.
Is it RIP Act II?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
Just Blaze takes on the feline version of Run The Jewels’ “Oh My Darling” and, of course, the results are ridiculous.
Late last week, Royce Da 5’9″ appeared on the hip hop, boxing, MMA and pro wrestling podcast “The Corner” to talk about Floyd Mayweather’s supposed final fight (Nickle is a huge boxing fan) but also revealed a ton of news regarding his upcoming work with DJ Premier (PRhyme 2), Slaughterhouse, two solo projects, Bad Meets Evil and finally getting Eminem on a DJ Premier track. The interview starts at the 1:00 mark and go to the 1:27 mark for the hip hop conversation.
On the new Slaughterhouse album…
I gotta go to NYC on the 15th of this month and go over these last mixes for the Slaughterhouse album. Just Blaze is mixing right now. We’ll tighten up whatever we have to tighten up and we’re handing the album in.
It’s really introspective and vintage slaughterhouse. Just Blaze is a great executive producer with a lot of great ideas. He has this shit sounding like a movie. I think people are going to be really impressed. A lot of complaints that people had with the last album, which I was able to go back and catch in retrospect. Sometimes, man, as a creative person, you don’t catch everything. You don’t hear it the same way because it’s a situation will have you excited and at that time we had so many people talking like we couldn’t make records. So we were going in making these big ass records and I don’t know how all of them ended up on the same album. I don’t even remember. I think with that album it was the song selection. We had a bunch of songs that just didn’t make the final cut. We’re really conscious of that this time. People will be impressed and it will exceed expectations.
On dropping 4-5 projects in the next year…
Once I get back from this quick Slaughterhouse tour I’m going to get back to work on this solo project I have for a new series I’m starting. It’s kind of like how I did the Bar Exam series. Right after I’m done with that I’m jumping into the PRhyme 2 album and then I’m taking my other solo project, that’s not part of that series, probably to a major.
I’m looking to put out the Slaughterhouse album, the PRhyme Deluxe album, which is done right now, my solo album, that series and maybe something else within the course of the next year. I’m making up for the time I sat out the past two years.
On new Bad Meets Evil material…
The Bad Meets Evil stuff we look forward to doing it. I’ve gotta be in Detriot long enough and he has to be free then we just kind of have to be hanging out to do it because that’s how we did the last one. I had some songs he liked that he rapped on and he had some songs I liked. We just put them all together and did some more stuff and put the album out. When you’re friends with somebody who has their own label and they can do whatever they want to do that’s how it goes. It’s always a possibility. I haven’t spoken with him about that lately but I am supposed be going to see him soon and play him some music. I have a lot of music that he hasn’t heard so we just gotta kind of get together and update each other on everything.
On getting Eminem on a DJ Premier beat…
Em is the type who’ll say “why didn’t you ask to get me on this?” I don’t want to bother him. I try not to abuse friendships and make him feel like he has to rap on shit just because I’m doing it. That’s why I didn’t ask him to be on the first PRhyme album. Maybe the second one. That’s all I’m hearing. Everyone wants to hear him on a DJ Premier track so that’s definitely possibility.
Joe Budden’s All Love Lost drops on October 9th and the emcee serves up the artwork and his unique way of handling the tracklisting for the album. The tracklisting is placed in a letter where the title of the songs are in all caps. Check it out below and make sure to cop it when it drops.
Is ALL LOVE LOST? Maybe our foundation BROKE while we were PLAYING OUR PART, but when I fell no one noticed there was a MAN DOWN. Before that I felt IMMORTAL. Telling everyone I LOVE, I’M GOOD. Afterwards I didn’t think I’d MAKE IT THRU THE NIGHT. I Felt ppl just wanted to SLAUGHTERMOUSE. So to keep busy I’ve been listening to what those hoes say while deciding WHERE DO WE GO from here. The UNNECESSARY PAIN is constant. I still got LOVE FOR YOU.
