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This month's issue of Mixmag comes with a free mixtape by De La Soul's DJ Maseo. For a freebie from a magazine, this mix is pretty good. There are a couple of tracks from Camp Lo (who recently put out a mixtape of their own), some De La Soul and a bunch of underground acts that I'm not too familiar with. Here are two of the highlights from the mix:
Butta Verses -- Work
Camp Lo -- Gimme Dat
There doesn't seem to be any place to buy the mixtape on its own, but you should be able to find the latest issue of Mixmag, with the free cd, in stores now. Here is the full tracklisting for De La Soul's Hip Hop Mixtape.
Some other stuff on my mind:
Do you think Ozone magazine told Lil Wayne and Baby their cover photo would be used on Ozone's annual Sex Issue? Odds of this also being the cover to Gillie's next mixtape: 50/50.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been getting a bunch of emails from Lupe Fiasco and his promo team announcing that he's got a new, "official" account on youtube. This is the same rapper who's legal team was threatening any website that posted links to his videos on YouTube just a few months ago. Now that all of the momentum that Lupe had at the beginning of the year is completely dead, Atlantic Records finally figures out they can use the internet as a way of promoting Lupe? The only record label that could have done a worse job promoting Food & Liquor would probably be Jive.
Speaking of Lupe Fiasco, DJ Semantik dropped some knowledge on the original sample, a Filipino song, used in Kick, Push. Listen to it over at CrateKings.
By now, you've no doubt seen Common's commercial for The Gap. Maybe its just me, but for a cat who's been vocal about his opposition to interracial dating, The Gap seems like an odd choice for him to sell out to. If there's one company whose ad campaigns have fully embraced the idea of miscegenation, it would seem to be the Gap. As I've said before, I think Common's unenlightened views on the subject are ridiculous, but I would have more respect for the man if he actually stuck up for his beliefs and didn't sell out at the first opportunity. Remember these lyrics from Common Sense's I Used to Love H.E.R.:
Told her if she got an energetic gimmick
That she could make money, and she did it like a dummy
Now I see her in commercials, she's universal
She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle
Now she be in the burbs lickin rock and dressin hip
And on some dumb shit, when she comes to the city
Things done changed.
12/14/2006 10:52:23 AM posted by Fresh