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Is John Legend “Lost For Words”?
Posted on July 7, 2009 by jordimack
This morning’s seven o clock sample has brought me back to one of my favorite “surprise sampler” John Legend. Legend’s “Once Again” album teams the R&B crooner with such great producers as, Will.I.Am, Raphael Saadiq, Craig Street, Sa-Ra and Kanye West. West offered up a fantastic sample for the 12th track on Legend’s [...]
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Summerfest Journal: Interview, Malik Yusef
Posted on June 29, 2009 by Tarik (aka the Architect)
As some of you know Lupe Fiasco is performing tonight at the Miller Oasis Stage at 10pm at Summerfest. However, at 8pm a multi-talented artist also from Chicago is performing. His name is Malik Yusef. He is a spoken word artist, MC, and actor. He has been featured on Def Poetry Jam and played [...]
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808s and Nina Simone BREAKS!
Posted on March 31, 2009 by jordimack
Today’s 7 o clock sample is from one of my least favorite albums of 2008. LOL!
Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreaks didn’t do much for me. Sarah F and I had numerous conversations about this album. It wasn’t that the album was bad, it just wasn’t my flavor. Anyways, as usual Kanye sampled [...]
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Video: Common x Kanye West x Erykah Badu Live @ SXSW
Posted on March 25, 2009 by Tarik (aka the Architect)
So I missed another SXSW, and by all the the tweets it was really good. I have to figure to get our station to send me down next time. To be honest, I was getting sick of all the SXSW tweets though. However, this video of Erykah, Common and Kanye performing “The [...]
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Common’s Ghetto Child
Posted on March 17, 2009 by jordimack
Today’s seven o clock sample comes to us from Common’s 6th studio release BE. This critically acclaimed record was viewed as many , as Common’s come back record. After receiving mixed reviews about his ELECTRIC CIRCUS project, he teamed up with Kanye ( and Dilla ) for a boom bap heavy album.
Here is [...]
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Artist KAWS proves that Graffiti is an Legitimate Art Form.
Posted on February 16, 2009 by Tarik (aka the Architect)
I was really interested in the post that Jordan did on the graffiti issue that is going on in Milwaukee. With schools around the country cutting music and arts programs and politicians making it hard for the youth to find places to be creative, this country will lose its edge as [...]
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Kanye Loves Steely Dan
Posted on December 18, 2008 by jordimack
Yo!
So today’s 7 o’clock sample is kinda obvious. If you’ve ever heard this Kanye West track you may have said to yourself… Wait I know this song.
( I couldn’t blog the “official music video” because Kanye West is a hater… So head over to his site to view it. It’s [...]
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Don’t Sleep On: N.A.S.A.
Posted on December 11, 2008 by Tarik (aka the Architect)
The Spirit of Apollo Mini Documentary
What do get when you put Method Man, MIA, Santogold, Lykke Li, Kanye West, E40, David Byrne, Chali 2na, Z-Trip, RZA, KRS-One, Lovefoxxx from CSS, Sizzla, Amanda Blank, George Clinton, The Cool Kids, Spank Rock, Scarface, Tom Waits and Kool Keith on one album, probably [...]
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Freebie: Colin Munroe, “The Unsung Hero” Mixtape
Posted on December 3, 2008 by Tarik (aka the Architect)
88Nine first brought you Colin Munroe with his amazing track “I Want Those Flashing Lights“. Early this week he just dropped his highly anticipated mixtape called “The Unsung Hero”. The mixtape features Baltimore’s Blaqstarr, Wale, Izza Kizza, and more plus production by Detroit’s Black Milk, Dallas Austin, and Colin himself. You can grab the mixtape [...]
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