jazzamatazz

Funky DL’s portable hard drive must be busting at the seams. The man churns out top quality freebies like the world’s coming to an end! This time Nas gets the remix treatment and the result is quite something indeed. anyone who doesn’t check out this mans back catalogue, after checking out this release deserves a right tellin’ off. Enjoy

Jazzmatic: Funky DL Remixes

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What the people say about Elzhi’s Elmatic

“People called Nas the new Rakim and before that, Rakim was hailed as the Melle Mel… Fortunately, I never had to sit thru Nas’s version of Follow The Leader or Rakim’s version of The Message. Not that they wouldn’t have been dope, but I just think there’s a line between honoring what came before and being derivative. I guess because all these cats are from my era and I’m old enough to lap eras, this feels a little unnecessary. Maybe I’d feel different if I had a couple of solo Elzhi albums before this.”

“This is dope, my only complaint is I wish he didn’t switch the original beats up. If it had the original beats this would be incredible, I just think that kind of made this lose a couple of points considering it’s an ode to Illmatic.”

“So happy he switched the beats up…. Illmatic is hot but we’ve heard it. Time for something. Also Ill-Matic tributes are dead. Didn’t Fashawn do a whole illmatic mix about a year ago. Stop switching up the album.”

“Listened once and deleted it. I'm not able to listen to this without thinking about Nas rhymes, they just stuck in my head over the years.”

Heads up!!!

my man G over at HHHead put together this lil Nas compilation. You’ll know all the tracks, but it’s always nice to have some of his best in one place eh peepz. Click the pic & enjoy!

1. A Message To The Feds, Sincerely, We The People 2. Queens Get The Money 3. Thief's Theme 4. No Idea's Original 5. You're The Man 6. Take It In Blood 7. Nas Is Like 8. The World Is Yours 9. Shoot 'Em Up 10 .Get Down 11. I'm A Villain 12. Come Get Me 13. Purple 14. Live Nigga Rap 15. One Mic 16. Money Over Bullshit 17. Undying Love 18. Just A Moment 19. Dance 20. War 21. You Can't Stop Us Now 22. N.Y. State Of Mind 23. Back To The Gril l24. Hope

Oh he who could be King?

I wasn’t gonna post this but i found myself listening to Nas’ interview during the Takeover /Ether saga when he spoke out against Hot 97 so…. anyway it’s a remake of ‘If I Ruled The World featuring a Nice hook from Marsha Ambrosius (drop the album already). Enjoy!

Nas – If I Ruled The World ‘09 feat. Marsha Ambrosius

Visual wizardry

This right here is the visual equivalent of Carlsberg.
probably the best music video in the world.

edit: Jay Electronica has already stated that he did not have anything ot do with this vid. If not then who the hell did? does the maker not realise that his is a work of genius? I know the chances are slim but if you read this, drop me a line/email bruv!!!

Sounds Good So Far

DJ khalil aced this test no question. Apparently Nas just sent him the accapella & Khalil did the rest. If this is the outcome he should do it for the rest of the album too, being sure to send the acc's to the right producers obviously.

The N Word

Apparently people, this is the new album cover. It's easily gotta be the boldest statement ever made on a major album release on any genre (and i say album release for 2 reasons, Fuck The Police & Cop Killer). We can talk all day about the sexual content in songs & on videos these days (which being a red blooded male, isn;t all bad) but Hip Hop was always meant for bigger things. This cover hasn't been confirmed yet by any means but if he does go with this i think it does make an interesting statement. Think about it. A... actually not just A word, Thee word that is bound by history to the pain & suffering of black people across the globe is emblazened on a black & white picture of a black man sitting underneath a white light sitting in a pose that is so often asscociated with the White middle/upper class societies of the world. It also smacks of someone sticking 2 fingers up at the system to me. I mean look at the size of the album title. It's about as big as he could get it without obscuring is face. 

I say do what you think needs to be done, Nas. It shows the growth of a man when he can do what he's done on the mic, both good and bad. and come out a better man on the other side. Love him or hate him he always got a statement to make on his albums (Destroy & Rebuild, These Are Our Heroes, Black Rebuplican etc). And don't forget, although his beat choices have, at times, been questionable, lyrically he's on his A game. Lets wait and see what he has to say on the album before we decide whether The Whole Nigger thing it was just a publicity stunt or not. I for one don't think it is. But i could be wrong.

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