Wes' Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup | (Aug 16, 2006)

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Wes' Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup | (Aug 16, 2006)

Wes is back with the second edition of the Hip Hop News Roundup...

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DifferentKitchen points to these streams from from DJ Shadow's new album The Outsider: "Enuff" ft Q-Tip & Lateef and "You Made It" ft Chris James

Soldier's Ride (video at YouTube) features a faux Neptunes beat and has no-name Big J sandwiched between the two members of the best group in current Hip Hop: Clipse. Big J is out of his league, as Clipse...well...eclipses him on his own track in this indie-feeling video. (Also: watch Clipse freestyle with Mr. Quotable and fellow Virginia native Skillz live on Power 92.) (Via PoloFleece/JesusPiece)

Andre 3000 of Outkast speaks on which albums/artists appear on the soundtrack to his live. Eric B & Rakim, Kraftwerk, Funkadelic and more are included, and he namechecks Squarepusher.

Saigon, the Just Blaze-backed hope for conscious, yet street based hip hop, is risking becoming the 'rapper that cried wolf' if he doesn't drop the much delayed and long awaited The Greatest Story Never Told. Stream first single "Pain In My Life". (via NahRight)

Living legends EPMD will perform at BB Kings Blues Club in Times Square October 14th for their first NYC performance 8 years. (via AllHipHop)

Lil' Kim is fresh out of jail and attempting to 'free herself' from her Atlantic Records contract. Either that or she is being dropped depending on who you're asking. Lil' Kim album "Naked Truth" is the least deserving recipient of The Source's '5 Mics', hip hop's formerly golden standard for 'classic, must own' albums. (truth) (via IOL)

Fresh off his second wave of ventures in to pop music with Nelly Furtado and the upcoming Justin Timberlake album, Timbaland is producing a biopic on the life of Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. He claims it'll be bigger than the similarly themed classic "Scarface". (via ContactMusic)

Jay-Z meets up with Kofi Annan, no that is not a rapper, and collaborates with MTV and the UN, yes that UN, in an attempt to solve the world water crisis. Read about it here.

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Now check out Wes' Roots review, and his post from last week.....and since he mentioned Justin Timberlake, I might as well point out that Justin is playing "small" venues, and oh yeah - Lil' Wayne was arrested in Atlanta.

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Posted on August 16, 2006 5:06 PM

Comments (3)

First of all nice job, you covered the entire spectrum. Something that is rarely seen in any of the music that makes it to the radio waves. Ok ill go it order, to do so im goin to use a rifle not a handgun. Loading and now im ready bc I don’t necessarily want to get to close to some of this s**t. Yeah the new Dj shadow Cd is great nothing like the stuff from the 90’s but still nice. Only thing is he seems to try to move forward which is good but what about the mighty most, Common, Talib Kwali.Look at new music but don’t forget about the classics. That’s what both the s**ty clipse video, and that’s where the André 3000 thing comes in. I like the old blues, jazz, R&B mix it’s given off. Its chill but its still something you can have in the car and push loud to piss people off lol.

Posted by Will | August 16, 2006 10:01 PM

Props to Jay-Z for wearing appropriate attire for that meeting. You don't see Bono, et al dressed like that when they meet with government-types.

Posted by Barneys | August 17, 2006 1:30 PM

fuck hip hop!

Posted by Anonymous | August 17, 2006 3:20 PM