Tag: biggie
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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Party Like it’s 2003: Part 1
“Well, Daddy, don’t you know that things go in cycles?Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael” Very true, and seemingly very true in the world of mashups which was called Bastard Pop back then, Must say I wasn’t expecting the return of the Hampster Dance [sic] so soon in this WAP mashup by…
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RC 282: Ladies First
This is a response to the frankly whack Guardian listicle about the greatest female rappers that James (hi!) sent to me and Kirk. 4/10 – that’s not only my ‘see me after class’ score, it’s also the paltry amount I agree with. Ladies first, well last in this case. It reads like some bored intern…
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R2D2PAC: Star Wars Gangsta
When I saw the video of the spooky Tupac hologram at Coachella, I KNEW something like this would shortly hit the streets…very good! Although Star Wars has kinda got there before. Yes Star Wars is pre-parodying itself, as we saw in my previous post… As I said online though, I never really got the whole…
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Biggie does Brahms – classical mashup
Dan Krieger takes Biggie pellas (GOT B1GG1E PELLAZ? LOL – GYBO in joke – even made it onto the cover of the latest podcast ;-)) and combines them with old skool G’s like Brahms and Chopin and Beethoven…I think he’s doing this live? Anyway it works surprisingly well..despite the Biggie 😉
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30 years of Hip Hop; 1 hour; 538 tunes
The ‘how many tunes can you cram into a mini?’ challenge continues – well this went out earlier in the year but I missed it – Jaguar Skills mixing 30 years of hiphop in one hour…it’s a total nostalgia fest for me, especially as my interest in bootlegs coincided with hiphop & RnB getting it’s…