MP3

Download Two New jj Songs, Featuring a Sample of The xx and a T.I. Cover

By Joe Coscarelli Fri., Nov. 12 2010 at 4:00 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, MP3, jj

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Mysterious Swedish duo jj have released a new single entitled let them via Sincerely Yours, featuring two tracks in the group's signature airy style, complete with semi-cheeky hip-hop influence on the A-side, an interpolation of T.I.'s "Let Them Talk." The B-side, "I'm the One/Money on My Mind," which lays vocals over a loop from The xx's "Intro," was first debuted as a section of the fantastic radio session "5 Minutes With jj," which also gives the band's female-fronted pop treatment to Akon's "Troublemaker." Hear it after the jump and download the two new tracks for free. Plus, a message from the band's label:

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Watch: M.I.A.'s Murdered Redhead Reappears in a Video For Sleigh Bells' "Riot Rhythm"

By Joe Coscarelli Fri., Nov. 12 2010 at 1:16 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Sleigh Bells, Video

Ian Hamrick was only 12-years-old when he was shot in the head during M.I.A.'s extra-NSFW, banned from YouTube video for "Born Free," but something about the music from Maya Arulpragasam's N.E.E.T. Recordings is working for him.

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Art

Artists Fashion Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ten Crack Commandments" Out Of Actual Marble

By Joe Coscarelli Thu., Nov. 11 2010 at 4:52 PM
Categories: Art, Joe Coscarelli, Notorious B.I.G.

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Animal New York points us to the hip-hop-inspired art of Swyndle & Hawks, self-described "thieves" who "acquire...icons" only to "degenerate them from their exaggeration and leave them to their insignificance." One piece from this year, entitled "10 Crack Commandments," features the lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G. classic from 1997's Life After Death chiseled into marble, no Moses. Commandments include, "Never let no one know how much dough you hold"; "Never let em know your next move"; "Never trust nobody," and so on. A close-up photo and the song after the jump...

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Announcements

Nas, Diplo, Pete Rock, Cee-Lo and More Playing Secret NYC Show For Free

By Joe Coscarelli Thu., Nov. 11 2010 at 3:14 PM
Categories: Announcements, Joe Coscarelli, Upcoming Shows

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The Heineken Inspire Encore show on Saturday, November 13 will feature an all-star lineup including Nas, Diplo, Pete Rock, Cee-Lo, Roxy Cottontail and a special guest. The location is so far secret and will be announced the morning of the event via text message. Best of all, it's free!

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Gwyneth Paltrow's "Country Strong" is Maybe Kind Of Good

By Joe Coscarelli Thu., Nov. 11 2010 at 2:13 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Singing Actors, Video


Gwyneth Paltrow's voice and stage presence have come a long way since Duets in 2000. Sure, it was a movie about karaoke, but her creepy, um, duet with her film-father Huey Lewis was a little bit hard to watch and not just because they were singing about one night stands. Last night, Paltrow redeemed herself with a performance at the Country Music Awards, doing the lead single "Country Strong" from the forthcoming movie of the same name. It doesn't actually sound as bad as it sounds!


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Nicki Minaj

Hear a Seven-Minute Sampler of Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday

By Joe Coscarelli Thu., Nov. 11 2010 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Leaks, Nicki Minaj


Although one of the year's most highly anticipated rap records leaked two weeks early, there's another notable 2010 hip-hop record that's still a veritable mystery. Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday is out November 22, and though some have questions about its ultimate quality, its overall sound has been hard to suss out. Low on leaks, today's seven-minute album sampler (above) provides a few clues. Tracklist after the jump.


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Shyne Insists the Torah is Fine With Lamborghinis

By Joe Coscarelli Wed., Nov. 10 2010 at 9:50 AM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, Shyne, What The

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"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn rapper Shyne, noted for his vocal similarities to the Notorious B.I.G., but most famous for his role in a 1999 club shooting also involving his Bad Boy mentor Puff Daddy and Jennifer Lopez. Shyne, just 19-years-old at the time, would go on to serve nine years of a ten year prison sentence. Upon his release in the Fall of 2009, Shyne was deported to his native Belize. Now, he's really serious about Judaism.

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Liz Phair

Liz Phair Reviewed Keith Richards' Life

By Joe Coscarelli Tue., Nov. 9 2010 at 7:31 AM
Categories: Books, Joe Coscarelli, Liz Phair, Rolling Stones

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As it turns out, Mick Jagger did not pen a response to the new Keith Richards autobiography, Life, and accidentally send it to a journalist, who published it on Slate. That was a joke (though the writer now calls his facts "fairly incontrovertible"). But Liz Phair, whose canonical album Exile in Guyville is famously (and arguably) a song-for-song reaction to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, really did write about the new book!

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What's Beef?

Nicki Minaj vs. Lil' Kim Beef is Tearing This Family Apart

By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Nov. 8 2010 at 4:58 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Nicki Minaj, What's Beef?
The above clip is of the headache-giving variety. In it, a woman raps, speaks and cries (loud tears) about the recently widened rift between female rappers Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj. Kim, the woman says, is like her mother, Nicki is like her step-mother and rap music is her father; she just wants them all to get along, lest white women steal hip-hop (?). At times it's lucid and earnest -- "I expected more from y'all/ That's why this game is male dominated/ Look how black women are/ We quick to hate each other," etc. -- but mostly it's hysterical and seemingly exaggerated. The growing animosity between Nicki and Kim, meanwhile, is very real. More »
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Don't Forget To See Odd Future Live Tonight!

By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Nov. 8 2010 at 3:18 PM
Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Odd Future, hype

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Maybe for some reason you forgot, but tonight, as in Monday, the 8th day of November, marks the New York City debut of the Los Angeles teenage hip-hop collective Odd Future, a.k.a. OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) at Webster Hall. The show is sold out and Craigslist is more "WANTED!" than anything, but ringleader Tyler, The Creator claims to have you covered with $20 tickets at the door.

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