Scene 2 from Goddess Girl: The Movie + Song 2 from Goddess Girl: The Soundtrack!
Famous – Screwface Rap (Produced by Burd & Keyz).
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We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming for a sneak peak into the making of the music video “GENDER BENDER” feat. Eternia & Miz Metro. A lead single off J.J. Brown’s forthcoming album “Connect the Dots”, “GENDER BENDER” is a playful look at gender roles in Hip Hop & on the road. J.J.’s album also features Gym Class Hero’s frontman Travis McCoy, rap legend Craig G., Reef the Lost Cauze, Poison Pen, Louis Logic & more! In Stores Nov. 10, 2009!
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By Jonathon “Bizz” Brown
Have you ever noticed how many popular songs employ the “I Love New York” archetype? Of course you have, it’s the most amplified, glorified, and personalized metropolis in the world, the perfect pillar for a song about a single city the whole world can embrace. “Empire State of Mind” is the latest in the looong line of hip hop songs dedicated to the lights, camera, action of the biggest apple we’ve got. And as I drove down the 401 the other day and Alicia Keys belted out the chorus to radio’s new favorite song, it occurred to me just how cool it is to say “New York”. There’s something inherent in merely mentioning the city in music that gets the masses attached. Being the Toronto-centric individuals we are in my circle sometimes, Bishop Brigante and I started discussing how difficult it seems to envision a time when “Toronto” could connect in any comparable way.
Now, it’s not as if it’s a secret why “New York” resonates to strongly with music fans. New York is a wordly city, it hosts a ton of visual and cultural representations in the media, and it’s long been synonymous with adventure, stardom and potential. Frank Sinatra, Alice Cooper, Kurtis Blow, John Mayer, The Beach Boys, Sex Pistols, Neil Diamond, John Lennon, 50 Cent, Nas, Jay-z, Fat Joe, and every other rapper from the 5 boroughs has capitalized on New York’s sexy auditory appeal and perpetuated it’s mass cultural pull in doing so.
With this being said, it’s easy to understand why Toronto doesn’t work on the same level. Even though it’s on a much smaller scale, Toronto is a lot like New York in many ways, but not in this way. Toronto doesn’t have the artistic, cultural or commercial groundwork of New York so it can’t expect to hold the same top of the mind awareness. But what about just a little bit? Other cities have had their shine; you’re telling me nobody here can associate Toronto with feelings of opportunity, enlightenment, power, diversity and freedom? It’s one of the most interesting cities to navigate and nobody can verbalize it well enough to garner any level of attention?
Well for this I have no solution, but instead a challenge. And it’s not to the artists, but instead to the regular people reading The Fine Print: spread the word about the cityscape, about the laughter, about the festivals, about the lights, about the education, about the cleanliness. Tell the people what’s great about the place we call home. And then tell them what we live through that makes us appreciate it all even more. Tell them about the transit strikes, about the taxes, about the smog alerts, about the traffic, about the snow storms and the erratic weather. Just tell them about Toronto and sooner or later, somebody somewhere will successfully verbalize a song that makes “Toronto” mean to the world what it means to us.
That’s The Fine Print.
Via NR:
“Kyla is one of my favorite cuts on ‘Armed To The Teeth’ and I know the Swollen fans will feel it as well,” commented Prevail from Swollen Members. “The track is named after a very good friend of ours who plays an electric violin on the song. Her style and approach to violin is well studied but at the same time purely instinctual, which gives her a unique sound. Having her play on the track added symphonic power to the track and our music.”
Armed To The Teeth hits stores October 27th. And if you missed the Warrior video peep it here.
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From Billboard.com:
With his knee nearly healed from a July stage injury, Drake says he’s ready to get back to work in earnest on his debut album, still tentatively titled “Thank Me Later” and due out in February.
“I’m able to walk around, so I’m working very hard on the album,” the singer-rapper-actor tells Billboard.com, adding that his rehab period impaired his writing as well as his mobility. “I’ve been out of the scene for so long because I’ve been off my leg,” explains Drake, who’s planning to head out to Los Angeles on Oct. 11 for more writing and recording. “Sitting at home in your apartment and having a doctor come over every day and eating healthy and going to the gym — there’s not much of a rap album to be made off that. I have to get my inspiration and start seeing things and going to dinners and meeting people again and just finding stories to tell for this album. I’m trying to make something timeless.”
Drake — who’s EP, “So Far Gone,” debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in September -is planning to release the album’s first “story,” the single “Shut it Down,” in the near future, though it might not come out until January.
Drake describes the track which, as first revelead on Billboard.com last month, features The-Dream, as “an R&B song…It’s sexy. It’s slow, but there’s an energy to it. I rap on it. Me and Dream both sing on it. It’s cool.” It also has a “message that’s never really been explored by male singers,” he says. “This song is sort of like an anthem for women, like pre-the club. It’s like an anthem for you to be at your house with your girlfriends getting ready, what you listen to before you get there. It’s a song for the non-famous woman to make her feel special and just to let you know that even though I’m up here and have the option to mingle wtih these ‘upper-echelon’ women, if you will, that sometimes I’d rather be with the girl from back home or a student or a girl that works at Wal-Mart. They don’t have to be a star or rich or anything like that; that’s kind of the gist of the song. It’s an empowering song for all women.”
As he prepares to get back to the album, Drake says Jay-Z, Kanye West and his Young Money label chief Lil Wayne are still slated to be on it, and he promises “a couple of guest that may be very much surprises for a hip-hop album. I just want to give people a musical experience. I like to open up the minds of the fans in my genre.”
But even as the highly anticipated album looms, Drake is also plotting his next acting move. “I’m working on that right now,” the “Degrassi: The Next Generation” star confirms. “One of my best friends in this industry is Jamie Foxx…so hopefully we’ll get to do a movie together. And I’m a big Judd Apatow, comedic timing fan. I love all those movies that they do. So, yeah, I really want to get back into acting. It’s definitely something I’m interested in and always will be.”
Directed by Chillaa/Seriuz Films.
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Jr Lu, Kaydee, Chillaa, Izzy, Black Kidd & Crush flip the Wayne line and give it a ‘Sauga twist.
Chillaa does double duty on beat and visuals.
This here is proof that there are new movements building in this city even we aren’t up on.
Never heard of these dudes but there’s something about their presence in the video that makes you pay attention.
Download the joint HERE!
“Watchin Me” by King Avalanche feat. S.Davis. Produced & Mixed by Qing Que. Directed by The Vision.
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