Jay-z - American Dreamin' (LIVE)
Happy birthday Jiggaman. I remember making Mike Swift's Legendary album - we did a track entitled Get Jay-z and Dre For Me - which is a song of pitching Dr. Dre of our services and our brand of hiphop, which also spawned the now cult classic "GET JAY-Z FOR ME" - google it, To The Billboard all day!! Now we have so far closed a Beats By Dre partnership which allows us to get the Join The Quest CD to Andre Young this January, thanks Boss Wilson!!; and my chance meeting with Sony BMG Philippines to help with their 2011 Roc Nation campaign, starting with Willow Smith. I'm also currently reading Decoded, and I say go and get it - the demeanor of a winner can be read throughout the book, winning despite circumstances; and the soul and conscience of a drug dealer is a common narrative throughout the book. But what shines is Jay-z's in depth view on hiphop and nurturing it amidst everything thats going on then and now.
FROM DECODED: Since rap is a poetry and a good MC is a good poet, you can't just half listen to a song once and think you've got it. Here's what I mean: A poets mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. For instance, a poet makes words work sonically - as sounds, as music. Hiphop tracks have traditionally been heavy on the beats, light on the melody, but some MCs - Bone Thugs'n Harmony, for example - find ways to work melodies into the rapping. Other MCs - think about Run from Run DMC - turn words into percussion: cool chief rocka, I dont drink vodka, but keep a bad of cheeba inside my locka. The words themselves dont mean much, but he snaps those clipped syllables out like drum beats, bap bap bapbap. Its as exciting as watching a middleweight throw a perfect combination. If you listened to that joint and came away thinking it was a simple rhyme about holding weed in a gym locker, you'd be reading it wrong: The point of those bars is to bang out a rhythmic idea, not to impress you with the literal meaning of the words.
Will share more in the future.
DOWNLOAD JAY-Z LIVE x SOULFIESTA EXCLUSIVE HERE.
LISTEN TO JAY-Z x QUEST "MY FIRST SONG" HERE.
DECODED x GUCCI JACKET
FROM DECODED: Since rap is a poetry and a good MC is a good poet, you can't just half listen to a song once and think you've got it. Here's what I mean: A poets mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. For instance, a poet makes words work sonically - as sounds, as music. Hiphop tracks have traditionally been heavy on the beats, light on the melody, but some MCs - Bone Thugs'n Harmony, for example - find ways to work melodies into the rapping. Other MCs - think about Run from Run DMC - turn words into percussion: cool chief rocka, I dont drink vodka, but keep a bad of cheeba inside my locka. The words themselves dont mean much, but he snaps those clipped syllables out like drum beats, bap bap bapbap. Its as exciting as watching a middleweight throw a perfect combination. If you listened to that joint and came away thinking it was a simple rhyme about holding weed in a gym locker, you'd be reading it wrong: The point of those bars is to bang out a rhythmic idea, not to impress you with the literal meaning of the words.
Will share more in the future.
DOWNLOAD JAY-Z LIVE x SOULFIESTA EXCLUSIVE HERE.
LISTEN TO JAY-Z x QUEST "MY FIRST SONG" HERE.
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