Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Hova, The Collabs, and The Mr. Do-It-Alls

HOVA IS BACK!
The man who is commonly claimed to be one of the greatest rappers alive has released the first single for his upcoming album, The Blueprint³ . This will be his eleventh studio and it will be released on September 11, which is the same date of the release of the first album of the Blueprint chronicles. The new album will contain the charttopping singles Swagga Like Us and Brooklyn Go Hard. Kanye West will help produce The Blueprint³ and has said it will sound like 808s and Heartbreaks, but no autotune will be on Jay-Z's album. This was made very apparent on Jay-Z's first single Dead, which was released on Hot 97 this past Friday. In the song he attacks the prevalence of autotune in rap songs as well as "ringtone rappers", rappers who sing, tight jeans, and colored jeans. After such a song that calls out a lot of the changes in the hip-hop industry, I am unsure if he he is asking Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy to be on the remix of this song or if he is suggesting that they should change their behavior. I also was confused that Jay-Z confronted autotune and skinny jeans, which are two of Kanye West's trademarks, even though Kanye produced this song.

Has Jay-Z made a song that will be appreciated by the hood and suburbia?
Has Jay-Z changed since the first Blueprint album?
Is autotune an actual problem in hip-hop music?
Does skinny jeans affect your credibility as a rapper or are skills the only factor?

Jay-Z -- D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune) (mp3)


The Autotuned and The Spaced Out

Mary J Blige feat. Drake -- The One (mp3)

Sa-Ra ft. Erykah Badu -- Dirty Beauty
(mp3)

The Mr. Do-It-Alls of DG Entertainment
In New Orleans, Blair Taylor is definitely a well known guy for those who are in the music industry. He has worked with great artists like G-Eazy, Rantz and 3rd-Shift. Another New Orleans crooner is Yuri, who is also an accomplished song writer for R&B musicians and combines R&B, hip-hop, electro and alternative music in his songs.

Blair Taylor -- Dead (mp3)

Yuri -- Spotlight (mp3)
See Yuri at Howlin Wolf in New Orleans on June 14th
Get tickets HERE

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