Surfing the mainstream chum so you don’t have to:
- Koch changes name to E1 Music (allhiphop.com)
- Grammy Awards winners list (grammy.com)
- Shepard Fairey tussles with AP over famous Obama “Hope” poster (breitbart.com), arrested in Boston on vandalism charges (boston.com)
- Cheo Hodari Coker follows up B-movie Notorious with Run-DMC biopic (allhiphop.com)
- Kanye West plans deluxe book/DVD Glow in the Dark (hiphopdx.com)
- Lil Wayne capitulates in battle with the Rolling Stones over The Carter III track (hiphopdx.com)
- Surprise! Lupe Fiasco “postpones” retirement, announces new projects (sohh.com)
- Ticketmaster, Live Nation move towards merger (reuters.com)
- LRG celebrates 10th anniversary (complex.com)
- Stupid rap beefs plague hip-hop (sorry, no links provided)
Internet downloads: Illmind’s Blaps, Rhymes and Life (mediafire.com), J-Rocc’s Dilla set, recorded shortly after Dilla passed (stonesthrow.com), Co$$’ Tomorrow’s Yesterday (2dopeboyz.com), Mick Boogie & U-N-I’s Before There Was Love (okayplayer.com), 2tall’s The Space Race (myspace.com), Capital Peoples’ Amazonica (myspace.com), live Jaylib performance from 2004 (stonesthrow.com), Dujeous’ No Clearance: The Mixtape (myspace.com)
Gonne be honest I really wanted to hear LupEND, but was nervous about the concept and 3 Album format. There is enough examples of double albums that have too much filler in hip-hop, let alone a 3 CD album.
I hope Lupe sticks to rapping though because he is hands down one of the best out there. Leave the sideprojects to Weezy and Kanye.
lupe really is the best mc out there right now next to chicagos common he can throw down tracks .so i really hope he stays in the game because he inspires so many kids and teens to expect better from themself.