Waddup y'all, fresh off a dope trip to Chicago for a Black Sheep show we rocked with Rhymefest and Brand Nubian, closing out the African Arts Festival this past Monday in the Windy City.  Shouts to all the cats that were there for the weekend, other acts included Special Ed, Lady Of Rage, Nice and Smooth and even an appearance from the godfather himself Afrika Bambaataa.  They love real Hip-Hop in the Chi. 

So based on some of the feedback I got from last week's post, I think I will up some rare joints that were featured on some of my older mixtapes.  These are direct rips from the cassette, not the original 12", to showcase some of the crazy gems people are always hitting me up about.  This week I have 2 joints from one of my very first mixtapes in 98:  Ras Kass "Music Of Business" which features Xzibit on the hook, never surfaced on anything that I know about, and it's a dope record, eerie piano sample beat and he speaks on the state of the record industry (before it got trendy to rhyme about those issues).  The other joint is the Naturel record, "Big Daddy Anthem" which was supposed to launch the label of the same name.  This is a rare 12" that you can probably find on a blog somewhere, but check it out, ridiculous posse cut featuring Shabazz The Disciple, Wicked Will, Mr. Eon and L-Fudge...with a dope BDK sample for the hook (Produced Vinyl Reanimators).  For a full download of the mixtape this was originally on,"Autobots", check out my blog www.truckjewls.blogspot.com.

Naturel, Shabazz the Disciple, Wicked Will, Mr. Eon & L-Fudge "Big Daddy Anthem"

Ras Kass "Music Business"

Remember when rap videos were similar to comic book stories?  Back in the day, there was a way to catch viewers to look creative and hardcore simultaneously, and intensely paralleling the song’s image. But hip hop has always been about empowerment and going for the gold (or platinum).  Here’s a few videos that have you can see with 3-D glasses (for only 25 and older that still use 3-D glasses).

Ghostface Killah- Mighty Healthy

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Well at least it's not like Floyd got it taken off him like Berg or Tyga.  Seriously you would have to be retarded to try to strong arm this dude.

7 million in jewelry... that is insanity. 

Nardwuar the Human Serviette catches musicians and bands while they are in Vancouver, Canada for extensive, interesting, yet awkward interviews. His moniker consists of a made up word, Nardwuar, and a table napkin, Serviette. He brings books, dolls, and vinyl records to each interview that have meaning to each musician he interviews. The Human Serviette is probably the most awkward interviewer I’ve ever seen, which makes for great entertainment.

Nardwuar vs. NERD

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I honestly feel bad for Juelz right now.  Dude has been riding the bench for the past couple of years, finally gets out of his situation with Cam and then gets robbed like 2 weeks later.  Taken from Nah Right?:

"It seems that Santana’s former manager got a couple of London promoters for 70K a couple of years back and ran off into the sunset like shit was sweet. So I guess these gentlemen got word that Juelz was in the country and saw an opportunity for getback.

And so the story goes that a large contingent of goons rushed Juelz’ hotel last night on some No Country For Old Men type shit. Long story short, Young Splashy Splash had to be escorted out of the place by police and checked into a different hotel. The aforementioned chaps eventually tracked him to the new hotel, ran up his new room and took all of those shiny baubles you see him flashing on hood DVD’s.

There’s more to the story, but I can’t even bring myself to put it out there. From what I hear, alot more information, and possibly even some video, should be trickling out of the U.K. over the next couple of days."

Another dope new interview for you to check here

DJ Revolution's King of the Decks is available at September 16, 2008 at Amalgam Digital.

From MTV.com:

"I was asleep the other day, and I woke up to a text message saying, 'Big Joe, what up? This is Game,' " Budden said Wednesday (August 27). "I was like, 'Oh, somebody is playing on my phone again.' I hit him back with a bunch of question marks, and he hit me back with 'This is Game.' Still, I wasn't convinced yet. Then I started checking my messages, and apparently he was on [a New York radio] morning show and asking if anybody had my phone number and [said] he was trying to reach out to me. So I eventually called him. We had a great conversation, talked about a lot of things. He invited me to come to his show, come kick it. I took him up on it."

Joey Jump-Off jumped onstage with Game on Tuesday night during the Compton slugger's concert at New York's Irving Plaza.

Budden and Game were embroiled in a back-and-forth on the mixtape circuit in the mid-2000s, but that was never quite settled — at least, not in the public's eyes.

"Me and Game never really had an issue," Budden said. "It was more so a Joe Budden vs. G-Unit thing — which, at the time, [Game] happened to be a part of. So, I mean, it wasn't anything personal between myself and him. And it was so many years ago, and I think we both grown and gotten past all of that verbal bashing. I thought [Tuesday night's show] was great for hip-hop."More...