Mitchy Slick – Mojo

October 27, 2011 by Quan Vu 7 Comments


Mitchy Slick “Mojo” [prod. DJ Fresh]

Aaaaaand I just realized that I never posted the full version of “Mojo.” This beat is so ill. There’s this hyphy tweeker shit that gets smoothed out by the sweeping synths and vibrating, bleeding bass or whatever that is. Mitchy relates his first-hand experience dating and dealing with a dopefiend chick, which, come to think of it, might be the first time I’ve heard that concept done in a song. Has any other rapper ever talked about dating a dopefiend? Too Short maybe? Honest question.

Off Feet Match The Paint with DJ Fresh. Coming soon, but clearly not soon enough.

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Video: Mitchy Slick ft. Sean Deez, Phil Tha Agony, King Trub – New BMW

October 27, 2011 by Quan Vu Leave a Comment

It’s not really touching “Mojo,” but the fact that this video’s been released means that Mitchy x DJ Fresh Feet Match The Paint just inched slightly closer to reality. The beat’s on some smooth R&B tip, real clean.

Shouts to the Wrongkind blog.

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SD CityBeat: Album Review: Treali Duce – The Flesh

October 26, 2011 by Quan Vu Leave a Comment



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I reviewed Treali Duce’s The Flesh over at CityBeat this week. To sum up, Treali has a ton of heart and enough skill to go with it. I might’ve said this before, but he reminds me of Z-Ro, who is like if Bun B could stand on his own and who is also one of my personal favorite rappers. Get a snip below and read the full article at CityBeat here (hah, as if it’s long enough to tease just a snip).

Before Treali Duce would call himself a rapper, he would probably identify himself as a man of God. Thankfully for us, that makes for more compelling music whether or not you’re a God-fearing man. The Flesh is Treali’s follow-up to last year’s emotional A Man’s Heart, which garnered a San Diego Music Award nomination. The title employs the Biblical concept of “the flesh” to add moral weight to the proceedings.

What follows is 41 minutes of gangster rap tempered by Treali’s Christian outlook. If most rappers are imitating Tony Montana from Scarface, Treali would be more like Leon from Leon: The Professional. He’s a conflicted character, a “bad guy” fighting to redeem himself.

Listen to “Addiction” above and watch “Crash Dummie” after the jump. The Flesh is available at Fam Mart and at Kunaki. Read more of this post

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Waka Flocka Flame ft. Eldorado Red, Mitchy Slick – Gold And Platinum

October 26, 2011 by Quan Vu 2 Comments


Waka Flocka Flame ft. Eldorado Red, Mitchy Slick “Gold And Platinum“

I would’ve liked to have heard an ad-lib showdown between Waka and Mitchy (“Baow baow baow baow!” vs. “Klack klack klack klack”???) or at least a huge “Wroooonnnngkiiiinnnnd!!!!” shout. But this is still hard as hell. I wanna get in a moshpit to this.

Produced by Southside On The Track, though it might as well have been Lex Luger. Off Waka Flocka Flame’s Lebron Flocka James 3 mixtape. Southern mixtapes have the most hilarious names.

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Blame One – The Children

October 26, 2011 by Quan Vu 2 Comments

Occupy San Diego
Blame One- The Children prod Lexzyne by BlameOne

Blame gets it in on the #OccupySoundcloud movement. The beat either sounds like 80′s pop or sounds like a rap song I’ve heard before that samples 80′s pop. Either way, it sounds urgent and even fire-and-brimstone-ish with the choir.

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Bazerkowitz & Black Mikey – Heavy Hitters x Burn Dem Down

October 25, 2011 by Quan Vu 4 Comments

Bazerkowitz and Black Mikey
Bazerkowitz & Black Mikey ft. Damu, Orko Eloheim, Kount Villa “Heavy Hitters” [prod. Mr. Ridley]
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Bazerkowitz & Black Mikey ft. Ebola, Kevlar Core “Burn Dem Down” [prod. Mr. Ridley]
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As promised, here’s that one posse cut I mentioned last time with Black Mikey, Bazerkowitz, Damu, Orko, a dude named Kount Villa, and a sample of Mr. Ridley from “Verbal Assassins” off The Awakening EP working as a sorta chorus.* I like the slightly looser structure of this compared to other posse cuts. Bazerkowitz kicks off with a quick four bars before Mikey, Damu, and Bazerk again spit eight bars each. Orko comes it with ten before sharing a couplet with Villa. Villa spits three and Bazerk caps it off again with one last bar. It’s meshes just a little bit more, feeling slightly more like one unit of rappers instead of a bunch of individuals trying to out-rap each other.

There’s also a second posse cut with a couple rappers named Ebola and Kevlar Core, who are not at all nerdy like I thought they’d be from their names (why did I think of Def Jux when I read those names?). Mikey goes reggae on the hook, which is a good thing. Kevlar kinda kills it actually. Ridley’s banger sounds vaguely like something I might have heard off Killafornia Infection. Maybe B.B. Kingz is what Killafornia eventually morphed into?

*How funny is it to produce a song that samples yourself, right? Like, “Yo, I heard this sick song that would be great to sample. Whose is it? Mine.” Though of course, he’s not the first to do it. Nas pretty notoriously samples himself seemingly because of ego. J-Live samples himself because it’s really cheap to clear samples from your own catalog.

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The Concrete Project ft. Parker Edison – Louie Kang

October 24, 2011 by Quan Vu 4 Comments

If you thought that Concrete Project sucked because the group is rarely mentioned on this blog, you’ll have to forgive me. There are a few things going on here that’s working against them, the main one being that their natural strength as a band–their energetic, fluid live performance–is hard to translate into a non-live setting*. That means not just to a blog setting but even to recorded music. I was talking about it with Wes at some point and we still couldn’t really figure it out. Maybe we just got it completely fcked up and, as rap fans, we’ve grown up loving MPC’s way more than actual instruments. But yeah, what works really well live (and let’s be clear: they are probably better than your favorite rapper in their live show) does not work quite as well on wax (um, or on mp3, I guess).

Fortunately, “Louie Kang” does work well because it sounds like regular ol’ rappitty rap. It’s weird. It almost sounds like the band recorded four bars of playing and then went back and sampled/looped itself, as if taking a page from The Roots, who has been known to do exactly this. The beat lays back and the rappers don’t have to compete with it or make room for it or whatever. They’re free to rap their asses off. And thankfully, Caleb happens to rap his ass off, plain and simple.

*The other thing going against them is that I hate going out to live shows and being even remotely social. I would totally rather watch bad rapper movies at home and blog about songs on Bandcamp.

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Video: Parker & The Numberman – The Babysitter [prod. Room E]

October 19, 2011 by Quan Vu 4 Comments

There’s still about two hours left so Happy 1019 Day. Google has failed me in my search for the meaning behind “1019″ but it might have something to do with Indian numerology, according to Wikipedia.

Whatever it may mean, 10-19 The Numberman has decided to celebrate the occasion by releasing a video for this P+T song produced by Room E. Room E was mentioned in CityBeat’s last Great Demo Review for his excellent instrumental hip-hop music. Now that we know he’s a skinny Asian dude, Nosaj Thing comparisons are inevitable but I’ll hold off on the racism for now. Room E’s beat here is dark but in this deceptively light way. It feels light–probably from the singing chorus–but as you listen, there’s something not quite right about it. And I think I mean this in a good, “art should be ambiguous” way.

Parker makes numerous hip-hop references only to spit some “it’s bigger than hip-hop,” real life shit. Numberman gets super-duper cryptic which probably makes sense for a rapper who names himself after a concept in numerology. But he does get this in: “Patience is a virtue, no time for patience, occupation’s tryna hurt you.”

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Mitchy Slick – Michael Vick

October 13, 2011 by Quan Vu Leave a Comment


MICHAEL VICK by mitchyslickbiz

The hook’s a little deceptive and it caused me to write this off at first as just general shit-talking. Then all of a sudden I paid attention during the second verse and I was like, “Oh, he’s actually saying some shit.” Message to the ladies: don’t live like your life a ho-bag. If you’re not sure how a ho-bag lives her life, refer to the aforementioned second verse.

“Michael Vick” is produced by The Futuristiks. It’s an interesting choice of beat for Mitchy. I’ve never heard him on something like this and I’m still trying to figure out if I like it or not. The song comes from Mitchy Slick’s Gang Intervention. Not sure when any of his albums are coming out. But hopefully, Feet Match The Paint sees the light of day very soon.

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Bazerkowitz (of Anti-Citizens) & Black Mikey – B.B. King Kong x Sacrificial Slaughter

October 13, 2011 by Quan Vu 1 Comment


Bazerkowitz & Black Mikey “B.B. King Kong“
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Bazerkowitz & Black Mikey “Sacrificial Slaughter“
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I couldn’t find a photo of the two of them together because Bazerkowitz is too busy making energy drinks to exist online and Black Mikey doesn’t take pics with white people (KIDDING!). This is the best I could find from Google. ANYWAY!

Black Mikey and Bazerkowitz from Anti-Citizens are currently at-work on a collaboration album called B.B. Kingz (not to be confused with Mikey’s collaboration with the other Anti-Citizen, Killafornia Infection, which is godknowswhere????!?!?). Bazerk was cool enough to give me a sampler before we got into random rap trivia like how the other dude from Company Flow discovered MF Doom.

“Sacrificial Slaughter” is pretty standard Anti-Citizens fare, meaning it’s the sound of Death reaching through your TV set a la Poltergeist. But I’m posting it more as a point of comparison for “B.B. King Kong.” “B.B. King Kong” sits at some midpoint between Poltergeist and reggae, which helps Black Mikey explore his reggae leanings and rock the sing-songy flow. It gives him this relaxed feeling that makes him sound cocky in this casual, nonchalant, laughing-at-you-crumbs sort of way. The beat switch-up for Bazerk’s verse is a good look too as the rawer feel matches Bazerk’s more direct flow.

B.B. Kingz is due out early 2012, hopefully before the world ends. Black Mikey also sent me cover art for something called The Big Homie and he mentioned dropping the Cold Summer EP sometime soon. Bazerk is working on several projects but I’m not real sure how much I’m at liberty to reveal so I’ll keep it quiet for now.

P.S. I have a posse cut with Mikey, Bazerk, Orko, Damu, and this other dude whose name I’ve forgotten. Unfortunately, it’s an unfinished version. As soon as Bazerk hits me with his other version, I’ll post it up.

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