ALIFE Fall/Winter 2010
ALIFE has dropped a preview of their Fall/Winter 2010 collection, which features their typical run of crewneck sweatshirts and logo-based shirts. Additional pieces include a button-down, a 5-panel cap, and an dope ALIFE-branded varsity jacket that round out a subtle and stylish season from the NYC-based sneaker boutique and apparel line. While I'm not wild about their footwear, their apparel line is looking sharp for the colder months. Look for this collection to drop later this summer at their NYC location as well as select retail accounts worldwide.
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Gorillaz: "Sweepstakes" featuring Mos Def & Hypnotic Bass Ensemble
I'm pretty certain this whole album will be on the web in the next couple days. I just got my advance copy, and leaking music like that is not my thing, but it is very much the thing for other people/sites. Anyway, here is a radio rip of another Gorillaz song featuring Mos Def.
Download it here.
via 2DBZ
Reflection Eternal: "In This World"
About time Kweli used his famous Jay-Z shoutout...
It's always a great day when new Reflection Eternal ends up in your inbox. Today we are given "In This World", which is a "look around you" type of joint with signs of the times lyrics by Kweli and a classic soul sample and humming drums from Hi-Tek. Listen below.
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K. Michelle: "Fallin'"
Here's something new to lighten the mood. K. Michelle's "Fallin'" is climbing up the Billboard charts, and since it's currently number 66 and I can do 66 pushups at a time, I felt it's the perfect day to post this one up on RH. Check it out and download it here.
Souls of Mischief: You Might Just S**t Yourself
Imagine yourself in a cabin somewhere deep in the San Francisco woods. You have no phone, no TV, no internet, and basically no connection to civilization. Also imagine that you've relocated to this cabin on the beckon call of one of Hip Hop music's most formidable producers, Prince Paul. Now imagine that you aren't you, but the mighty Souls of Mischief, and when left with no other choice or activities, are set to musically run free under the guidance of said legendary producer. Well, we can now stop with the imagining, because that was exactly the scenario for the Souls' most recent release, Montezuma's Revenge, an album recorded over a 6 week period at a cabin in the wilderness. The location was not initially a choice made the by crew, but by Prince Paul who wanted to attain the maximum amount of focus on the music, as Souls of Mischief's A-Plus tells us, "Prince Paul wanted us to have the same working environment that we had early in our career when we really just were around each other all the time recording. Getting a house out in the boonies in seclusion accomplished that. In hindsight it was a great idea..."
We expound on the great idea that was recording with Prince Paul, the historical significance of the collaboration for Hip Hop culture, as well as their feelings on "'93 Til Infinity". While some groups may view their biggest hit with annoyance, it's a concept the Souls just can't understand as Tajai said, "That’s kind of a crazy concept to say the song people love you for is a curse. When you look at other people, I could see how Milli Vanilli’s biggest song is a curse because they didn’t make it. I could see how if you make a song and say, ‘this song is stupid, but people are going to love it’ and that becomes your biggest song, then yeah, I could see how you could get tired of it. But we were making a song about our regular life and it says so much to increase and enrich our regular life that it can’t possibly be curse."
Check out the full interview below.
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Dave Coresh: "Keep It Movin'" Video
If you're late to the Dave Coresh train, I suggest hopping on before being left at the station. I've been telling you guys about DC since '08 when I linked up with him for Vol. 2 of his Boy Wonder mixtape series. Here's the newest DC video for "Keep In Movin'", check it out below.
Look for the RH Presented: Formal Introduction coming soon.
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Aleon Craft: "The Way You Do The Things You Do"
Atlanta's Aleon Craft follows up his symphony collaboration with "The Way You Do The Things You Do". SMKA produced the track and had this to say about everything:
"The Way You Do The Things You Do” was originally written, for Motown Records, in 1964 by Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rodgers. The lyrics of the song were created during a game the two played to pass time on the tour bus. The song later become The Temptations first chart topping single (#11 on Billboard top 100), after many other attempted flops. It can be said that it was this song that propelled The Temptations into the national spotlight, and music history. As a fan of Motown, Aleon Craft ‘s 2010 version of “The Way You Do The Things You Do,” is the Solar-Hop ode to The Temptations, produced by 808 Blake (of SMKA). Aleon Craft laces the track with his harmonies and a 16 bar verse. This imaginative rendition transforms the Motown standard into a southern, Solar-Hop banger."
