Kind of random, but uh, wow.
Also.. here’s a link to Timbaland/Nelly Furtado/JT’s latest:
Give it To Me. Hot beat, good chorus, lots of dissing… :]
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November 23, 2006
October 16, 2006
CNN just published an interesting article on DJ Rekha [asx movie], a South Asian who was recently nominated for Best DJ by New York Magazine. Her real name is Rekha Malhotra — but in the US she’s pretty much known as the Queen of Bhangra. I went to NYC a year ago and my uncle and I went to SOBs. It’s a jazz/hip hop/R&B club in the heart of NYC that hosts a wide variety of popular artists every night but is known for its Basement Bhangra party every first Thursday of the month. If you ever learn about the popularity of bhangra/fusion in the U.S., Basement Bhangra will always be mentioned — and DJ Rekha founded it. It’s pretty cool to see South Asians (or anyone for that matter) coming from a traditional culture and pushing their cultural boundaries to do new and influential things in a completely different environment.. but still keeping that traditional flavor (in the case of Rekha it’d be bhangra mixed with house/reggae/hip hop). I … probably couldn’t do anything like that as a software engineer, but in anything else.. well, that’s an inspiration.
June 11, 2006
It rocks. Anyone else listen to it? If you have iTunes or Windows Media.. er, a computer — check it out: http://www.somafm.com. You will love it. My favorite stations are Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Illinois Street Lounge, and Beat Blender.
January 20, 2006
I gave my mom a CD for mother’s day a while back. It was ‘50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin”.
All I can say is that it was a gift from the heart.
I’m no expert, and hip hop definitely isn’t my favorite genre, but it just seems like the state of hip hop is sort of degenerating into this primordial ooze of cliche beats and stupid lyrics. With the exception of people like Kanye, it seems like people don’t even put thought into the newest songs; they just pump out something that has the “latest” effects. Twista’s “Hit the Floor” is a Frankenstein-ish song that starts out with the intro of Ying Yang’s “Badd”, kicks in with the ridiculously overplayed reggaeton beat, and continues through the entire song with a hyperactive version of David Banner’s “Play”s synth sound. It’s probably the next horrible thing to “Hollaback Girl” just because it sounds like something a kid could put together in a basement home studio. Twista has some crazy skills though, so I guess that makes up for it.
Through all this mainstream sludge there’re a few dedicated artists who could still pump out a damn good song. The latest soundtrack to NBA2k6 has some of the best in alternative/underground hip hop from some of the coolest artists — Aesop Rock, Common, Aceyalone, The Roots, Blackalicious. Good stuff..
