Wes' Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup | (Jan 02, 2007)

January 2, 2007

Hot on the heels of his controversial “Top Hip Hop Records of 2006” post, Undisputed Wes is back with the weekly Roundup….

Download a great and FREE 9 song Talib Kweli/Madlib EP here. Read what Talib says about “Liberation”. Is it better than Talib’s regular albums? I have to say yes.

Nahright links us to Paul Rosenberg interviewing Pharoah Monch. Recommended.

Read AllHipHop’s 2006 round-up Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Brother ?uestlove pays tribute to James Brown and lists his favorite uses of a JB sample in Hip Hop.

DJ Jaguar Skills mixes 800 hip hop songs from 1979 to 2006 into a single downloadable MP3.

Legend Too Short is interviewed about giving back to the community.

Jay-Z @ Radio City was Status Ain’t Hood‘s favorite live show of 2006.

GNARLS BARKLEY @ USC Galen Center | DEC 31, 2006 (CRED)

Cat Power, The Flaming Lips and Gnarls Barkley helped ring in the new year at USC in Los Angeles. Pics here.

Will 2007 be the year Saigon releases an album? Allegedly so! Watch the video for the lead single.

Lil’ Scrappy introduces G’s Up TV.

Papoose is interviewed, and you can watch the video for Alphabetical Slaughter, which is cool, but I’m not as impressed with it as I want to be.

Faithful hip-hop group uses crunk to hook followers

A blast from the past! Watch a who’s who’s of early 1990’s Hip Hop paying their respects to Arsenio Hall during his last broadcast (in the video below). Features Yo-Yo, Mc Lyte, Naughty by Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, Fu Shnickens, Cl Smooth, Gangstarr, Das EFX, GZA, Method Man, KRS-One, and Madd Lion…