FACT presents The Count & Sinden In The Mix

Here's a dope mix The Count & Sinden rocked for FACT's website re-launch. Nice mixture of Hip-Hop, Dubstep and other Club treats, perfect to cap off the weekend:

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Tracklist:

1. Lil’ Wayne - A Milli [Cash Money]
2. Erykah Badu - Honey (Seiji Remix) [Universal Motown]
3. The Count and Sinden - Stinging Nettle (VIP Mix) [Domino CDR]
4. DZ - Down [True Tiger CDR]
5. Skream - Fick [CDR]
6. The Count and Sinden - Beeper (D1 Remix) [CDR]
7. Ricky Blaze - Cut Dem Off [CDR]
8. DJ MP4 - The Book Is On The Table [CDR]
9. Pretty Titty - James Brown Is Dead [Fools Gold CDR]
10. The Count of Monte Cristal - B-More Forward [Cheap Thrills]
11. Jonny L - O Yeah (Remix) [CDR]
12. Stuffa feat. Mapei - Pretty Girls (Sinden Remix) [Trunk Funk CDR]
13. Machines Don’t Care - How You Like Me [Machines Don’t Care CDR]
14. Action Man - Alarm Bell [Cheap Thrills CDR]
15. Fake Blood - Mars [Cheap Thrills CDR]
16. Young MC - Bust A Move (Dom Rimini Remix) [Delicious Vinyl CDR]
17. Malachi - Snowflake (Herve Remix) [CDR]

Via Discobelle.

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[video] Radiohead "All I Need"

Made for MTV's Exit Campaign:

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[video] The Making Of Pay Jay

This is like a year old, in terms of when it got upped to YouTube, but I just saw it, and it's relevant, considering, so props to my nigga Good Blah for this one:

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KING Interview: Nas

This interview is taken from the Stacey Dash issue. Actually some pretty insightful stuff. Check out Part 1, then bounce to Part 2. Props to Eskay for the heads up.

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The Making Of "Royal Flush"

MGG has a new post over at his XXL Blog, chopping it up with the Royal Flush production duo behind Big Boi's "Royal Flush", a banger that woke the sleeping internets a month or so ago. Here's an excerpt:

So walk us through the making of “Royal Flush.” Was it a matter of hours, days, months?

Rick: It was one night between 2:30 am and 4:50 am. Jeron had to work the next morning. We had just cut up a sample. I was playing it in my iPod one night and Big heard it, he said it was dope and it went from there. That was the first song he completed for the solo album. It was on MLK weekend matter of fact.

Jeron: The beat came with ease, it was an old sample. “Harlem Nocturne” which is a jazz standard. Joe Harnell did it too, so it had an epic sound to it.

Rick: After that everything started coming together with everybody adding their own flavor to the track. Even with Dre, how can you say “I don’t want this on my song.” He blessed us with the “ch-ch-ch” sounds. It’s like watching your Grandma cook Thanksgiving dinner, you don’t know what goes in it, but the final product tastes great.

The beat itself has a lot of elements in it.

Rick: Yeah, listening to the verses explains how things were added. The Isley Bros. sample came in because of Big’s verse. When he says “Billy Ocean mighty potent, take a voyage to Atlanits.” He’s saying just like in the song “I’ll always come back to you.” That means Hip Hop, it’s embedded in everything we do now. You always come back to the elements.

Jeron: Hip Hop is the blues of today, you hear it in everything now.

How did you feel when people said the song sounded like some old Outkast? Even inferring that the song was actually old.

Jeron: That’s a blessing. It’s an honor to hear people say it has a classic sound to it. A lot of the stuff they did in ‘93 still jams to this day.

Rick: By people saying that, it’s like having a kid, the birth of something new. People that hit us now say they want a track like that, you can’t duplicate that. You can’t do it, once you try to redo something it’s like a retro. Like the Jordan’s that’s been coming out. People say they got the retros, but I got the real Jordans. My attention span too short to duplicate stuff anyway.

That beat still has me open. Plus, any excuse to use that pic again is something I will hop on, early.

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Cherish The Truth: Cover+Tracklist

This quartet of sisters has their sophmore album, The Truth, dropping on May 13th; here's the tracklist, with producers included:

1) Killa - Produced by Don Vito for Don Vito Productions
2) I Aint Trippin - Produced by Tricky Stewart for RedZone Entertainment
3) Amnesia - Produced by J-New for Crown World Entertainment
4) Notice - Produced by Don Vito for Don Vito Productions
5) Framed Out - Produced by Tricky Stewart for RedZone Entertainment
6) Before You Were My Man - Produced by Eric Hudson for Just E. Production Group/SupaNova Management Inc.
7) Super Star - Produced by Jazze Pha for Futuristic Entertainment
8) Only One - Produced by Bryan-Michael Cox for Blackbaby, Inc
9) Love Sick - Produced by K Fam for Stay Tuned Productions/Woodland Ent. & Adonis for Phoenix Ave Productions/Woodland Ent.
10) Damages - Produced by Neff-U
11) Like A Drum - Produced by Jazze Pha for Futuristic Entertainment

For you ladies, you can enter a sweepstakes in conjunction with Mandee.com to receive a FREE $250 gift card; and don't forget, the BET Access Granted featuring their video for "Amnesia" is premiering on May 7th at 7:30PM. MySpace will be streaming The Truth in its entirety on May 9th, and the sisters will also be on MTV's TRL on May 13th. You ready for The Truth?

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Unkut Interview: Pete Rock

Robbie always has dope interviews; check this latest Q&A with Pete Rock. Check out Mecca's thoughts on Dilla:

There was an interview that Kanye West did in Scratch magazine where he was talking about ‘I’ll sample drums off a Pete Rock instrumental if they’re open’. That was kinda funny to me.

I believe it! I hear my snares out there, and I’m like ‘Wow, that’s fuckin’ crazy, man!’ I feel like that’s lazy shit. You obviously don’t love it as much as I do, because for you to not go out there and find it on your own…you’ll find so much if you just take the time out to go dig, man. We do all the hard work so y’all can just snatch our records up and listen for open snares and kicks? That’s some wack shit. I respect cats that come with their own sound. Like Dilla was the master at that – having kicks and snares. I just recently learned that he always two-tracks his beats – he never gave-up any separate sounds, which is a great idea I think. He didn’t want to put his kicks and snares out there so people could steal ‘em.

You mentioned Dilla. His passing must have been….

Devastating.

So you knew him personally?

Yeah, man! I knew him for a good three or four years before I knew he was sick! I was blown back by that, man. I never knew he was sick – he always kinda hid it from me. His music will always be alive and well, and I will make sure to that. He was one of the greatest, man. He was the greatest to ever do it, for the new cats. And for his mother to tell me that I was his favorite producer – I was like ‘Wow, that’s dope, man’. He really took it there. He kinda broadened me and opened my eyes again, and got me standing up straight on my toes, ‘cos that dude was really serious with it.

The fact that he was still working on music in hospital…

Making beats in the hospital! Yeah, man. That’s beautiful.

Timeless.

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Bow Wow "Pole In My Basement"

Bow Wow "Pole In My Basement": Bow Weezy - we don't believe you, from the Auto-Tune to the "we gonna make it storm" to the "I'm gone on Patron". Like, I just don't see Bow Wow knowing fuck all about skrippas, nor do I believe he has a pole in his basement (no matter how much Elucid tells me these niggas be trickin'). Just, no. No belief in this shit at all.

"For all my girls out there in the club getting their grind on"... yeah, you really give a shit.

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[video] Spider Loc "Blutiful World"

Bonus Beats: Spider Loc "Blutiful World" [radio / instrumental]

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FOTM: THUGSTEP #12

Black Rob Vs. Virgo "Whoa (DJ Nappy Rough THUGSTEP Refix)" [mirror]: Y'all remember "Whoa" right? Probably one of the hypest cuts ever committed to wax. So it only makes sense that Nappy threw some equally intense, pulsating Grime right underneath it and bring it to that next level. Those booming horns in the intro kill me, everytime. Fits so well.

Oh, and major props goes out to Nick Evelation; he's set up hosting for some projects he's working on, and is allowing these refixes to be hosted with direct linkage! In the coming weeks, I'll be sorting out everything that's leaked, THUGSTEP-wise, and will be uploading it. More news on that when it goes down.

As per usual, any DJs looking for THUGSTEP, hit me up: khaldub@gmail.com.

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