Sending, Sending, Can't Stop Sending...

Dunno who Weezy is talking about on the EXCELLENT Drought 6. Wish I'd heard this line before I interviewed him!

"All about a dollar, Fuck 2 quarters
Bitch, I pour syrup in that Vitamin Water
I hope you die ugly, and tonight gonna be gorgeous

UK BET Cipher

Are these lot all jetlagged or summin?

The energy is lower than low. Weird...

Too Nite

Skream, Sinden, Frankmusik.... wow, wow, wow

Lil Wayne - Drought Is Over: 6

Hope it's better than Dedication 3 (sorry Drama, but the best bits of that are Weezy talking)...

Taken from Nah Right, download HERE










1. The Reincarnation
2. I’m A Monster
3. Red Magic Ft The Game
4. Nina
5. Best Thing Yet
6. First Place Winner Ft Swizz Beatz, Curren$y & Mack Maine
7. Gorilla
8. Louisianimal Ft Lil Boosie
9. Down Here Ft Rick Ross
10. My Office
11. I Feel Me (Produced By Mental Instruments)
12. Put Me In The Game
13. Different Girl Ft Nu Jerzey Devil
14. Blinded
15. Forever Ft Chris Brown
16. See It For Myself
17. Tell Everybody That You Know Ft Kanye West
18. Whatever You Like Ft Jae Millz & Young Gutta
19. Shootout
20. Dick Pleaser Ft Jae Millz
21. Street Life
22. Drought Is Never Over

Might As Well Make It Kanye Day...

Kanye on Angie Mar's Hot 97 show...

Real Talk. Oh and note the Pastel jacket he's rocking, line out next year apparently...

A Moment Of Silence Please....

Number 11 in the charts?

Number 11?

Huge, massive RESPEKKKKKK (*said in Ali G type tones*) to Faze, Dappy and Tulisa for going No.11 in the UK album charts on Sunday.

To do this after being dropped by a label, losing their father/ uncle and overcoming so much hate is no small achievement.

It goes to show how hard work, persistence, planning, and giving kids what they want can result in such huge success.

I don't know N-Dubz really well, but I'm genuinely proud and pleased for those guys.

Ohh-na-na-na ALL DAY!

Here's a link to a great piece on the trio by ma boy Priya, in last weeks Times newspaper

This One's For Me Though...

Flipping love Amazing, one of my fave 808 tracks...

Plus, if I were a rapper and stuff I would SO have done a version of Put On. Might have been hard to decide which city I Put On for, mind you...

This One's For Akuma Too...

One of my favourite singles of 2008.

Not so great live on Conan though. Kanyeezy looks like he needs a wee and has a cough.

Still an ace track though

This One's For Akuma...

I'm a bit meh about Ryan Leslie about from Diamond Girl, obvs, but this is pretty interesting.

Ryan Leslie chops it up on the 'joanna' to Heartless, despite never having played it before. That's some real musician talent shit right thurrrrr....

In a related story, I appear on 'Ryan Leslie TV' apparently. He filmed me interviewing him when we did the P. Diddy cover shoot for i-D a couple years back. Um, so there you go.

Ahem, anyway, onto the video:

You know if you Mess With Newham Generals?

(D.E.E, Cordy House, 2008)





You'll get left in Newham General, right?

Er, anyway, new vid from (who who, me me) D Double and (its) Footsie (again)...

(Snatched from Semtex's blog)

This looks a pretty darn timely track

Wayne The Sports Blogger - Who Knew?

So I was asking Wayne about his ESPN tattoo (ESPN TATTOO!?!?) and he told me he actually blogs for them. Just another random fact in the insane world of Weezy F Baby...

Check it:Wayne Blog

Jay-Z With Angie Mar

Didn't know Angie had a TV show, but I guess she does now.

This is a pretty good interview - gotta love Jay's whole, I don't want to use swag cos that's too played out, but his confidence, persona, humour and general demeanor...

Daniel Merriweather: Massive for 09

Obviously we all know about the Merriweather. Old-heads will remember him from Here Comes The Fuzz and a couple of ill-fated singles. New heads will know him from Stop Me and of course Cash In My Pocket.

But trust me, everyone is going to know about the Melbourne singer next year. His new music is SO DAMN GOOD. There's a live clip of him performing Stop Me below, but go to his MySpaceto hear three new tracks. One of my favourites, Red isn't on there, but the single Change and the ace country-ish Cigarettes is.

All produced by Ronson, even Mark-haters will like this music I reckon.

SO GOOD!

Wiley: Cash In My Pocket

Late on this I know, I know...




Shout out the Atlantic peeps (below) busy doing work as ever, clearly (!). Watch for the RWD version coming soon. Anyone that does a version has a chance of winning £1000. RWD are TAKING that CASH and putting it in our POCKET!

Don't Get Too Close To my Man, Now!

One word: Haiiiiiiiir. WTF?!?!

Peter Dean Rickards Don't WRAP UP!!!

Check photographer Peter Dean Rickards getting a few friends to chop down a Banksy in Kingston, JA. This is the same dude who basically exposed Banksy's identity in Vice, XLR8R or Fader or one of them magazines a few years back. He's now selling giving the piece of wall away FOR FREE to the highest bigger who pays for the accompanying photographs of the wall taking a tumble. Ebay biddig is starting at $100,000 for those with a chunk of change...

I cant embed from Facebook, and it's not on YouTube, so check the video HERE


Here's what he had to say about why he did it:


"It was a non-eventful day when he actually drew them. He bought some construction paper from a local pharmacy and cut the stuff out. Then he drew this stencil of a girl on an exterior wall and some rabbits on the inside the pub itself. I kind of just stood there taking his picture because it was something to do. I had already captured his face back at a local music studio where he had done some other stuff so this was just extra. I didn’t really think much of it. I mean I live in a place where people get shot for marking up people’s walls (usually with a paintbrush), so a few sprayed stencils on the wall of a pub didn’t strike me as particularly interesting.

Later when I heard how much his stuff was selling for, I contemplated going back and chopping the wall down. It was there for years and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought about doing it. Mona road is heavily travelled by a lot of foreign students on their way to the university so people from all over the world would often mention it, but nobody ever took the steps to cut it down…till this last August when I got a email from someone asking about my knowledge of the locations Banksy had tagged.

That’s when I figured I should probably go get it before someone else did.

The wall is the last remaining tag that he did in Jamaica that can be seen in public. It’s also the only remaining stencil that has the tag BANKSY on it. The other ones were:

A bridge in Charleton gully which was painted over.
A rusting old ship near the airport (a stencil of a skull, crossbones and the signature ‘Banksy’has since faded)

Buju Banton’s studio in Kingston ( where there is another ‘balloon girl’ and some flying insects).

The wall is 60 inches by 55 inches and about 7 inches thick. It weighs like 2000 pounds though that is just a guess. I spent the day getting a bunch of drunk guys to cut it down and raise it onto a flatbed truck tied to one of those sealtbelt-type industrial straps.

I was amazed that it didn’t smash to pieces which would have really been an incredible waste of energy and patience. All the guys in that video (including me) had no real idea how to cut the thing down (much less move it) and were completely impaired by the time we actually got it tied to a backhoe (borrowed from a nearby construction site).

Ironically, the damn thing almost fell on me in which case there would be a much funnier headline : Jamaican who revealed Banksy killed by falling artwork.

So now I have this wall sitting in a garage here in Kingston and the guy who owns the garage is pissed because the back part of his car doesn’t fit into the garage properly anymore (it’s a very small garage).

I was going to put it on display at Miami Art Basel this year but then it occurred to me that it would cost about 10k to ship over there and I really wouldn’t know what to tell customs as a value price…so instead, I’m not going to sell it.

Instead I’m selling the photographs of the excavation and giving the wall away to whoever buys the set. Since it has no declared value, you can get it out of here at the estimated value cost of $0.01 and then hoist it onto your wall at your mansion and have a big party with lots of coked-up models and invite the BBC."

808 & Heartbreak London Paper Review

Some may call it a 'shit sandwich', others (The Times etc) may give it a 5/5. Here's my verdict in full, as seen in the London Paper this evening:




Kanye West
808s & Heartbreak
Def Jam
4




It’s been a tough year for 31 year-old rapper Kanye West and boy, does it show on this, his fourth album. Deep, dark and depressing, this is a lonely, desolate West, one who is clearly struggling with the loss of his mother, the break-up with his fiancée and the increasing pressures of fame. “There is no Gucci I can buy… to get my mind out of this hell,” he emotes on the album closer, while on Welcome To Heartbreak he notes, “My friend showed me pictures of his kids/ All I could show him was pictures of my cribs.”

Yet within the doom and gloom, there are glimpses of, dare we say, genius (no doubt Kanye will if we don’t). A brave, bold album, what impresses most is West’s willingness to break the rules. Let alone the fact he barely raps on the record – he leaves that to star guests Lil Wayne and the excellent newcomer KiD CuDi - he over-populates 808s with the drum-machine of the same name and autotune, a vocal effect popularised by Roger Zapp. Yet thanks to the inventiveness and intricacy of the production on tracks like Heartless, Coldest Winter and Amazing, the 12 tracks thrill rather than bore.

Steeped in melancholic metaphors and minor chords it may be, but this could just be West’s finest moment yet.


PS: I will say this - Robocop is truly a shit sandwich.

PPS: The best review has to go to Styleslut. 'One-word: Bi-Curious' is their succinct summation.

While I'm on The Subject...

Lil Weezy has some new piercings I think. Seeing as it was 5AM I wasn't on my sharpest game and didn't, duh, ask him, but check out the lip bar and the eye one too (I think he's had the eyebrow one for a bit).

Dude is really getting his rockstar on...

Kanye Gives It Away...

I told Wayne last week that Kanye had said he (Kanye) didn't deserve the EMA for Best Urban, that Wayne should have got it. The Lil Fella got all coy and chuckled, 'No, he crazy, that's Kanye's award, that's all his."

Wonder what Weezy will say about this:

Wiley - She's Glowin'

I'm so over videos shot in da club - it's BORRRRRRINGGGG!!!

Wiley, Kano and Ghetts (plus a few other faces you might recognise) join forces for the video to his [i]other[/i] single, [i]She Glowin[/i]. This track will be released on Eskibeat, while [i]Cash In my Pocket[/i] is released on Asylum records. For Wiley's opinion on that, check the RWD Forum!

For a behind-the-scenes of the shoot, including interviews with Will, Kano, Ghetts, Scorcher, Bless Beats and Wretch 32, check out Raj's report HERE on RWD.

Anyway, here's the video:

Amazingness Bethnal Green Style

Always liked Rapid as a producer and Slix too.

And, hey, any song about my hometown (adopted albeit) has to be good. This is the most severe change in musical direction from the Ruff Sqwadders though - it's just wow.

Props to Ain't Hard To Tellfor passing it on

Brittttterrrrzzzzzz

Ok, I had to take this player off. I hardly go on my own blog, and it was annoying me with its auto-start-up self.

Good album though, pop pickers...