Long before he sold 50 million records worldwide — and before he appeared alongside Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune magazine, accumulated 10 Grammy Awards and became the CEO of his own record label — Jay-Z was living with his mom in the Marcy Houses housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just trying to survive day by day.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142506767/jay-z-decoded-the-fresh-air-interview
Podcast from the current British Library exhibition on the English language: Saul Williams on hip-hop, rap and spoken word poetry. Amazing.
Tagged with rap hip-hop saul-williams spoken-word british-library
Cosmological History for the MTV Generation.
Lyrics here: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~dhw/Silliness/rap.lyrics
01) major lazer x joker - hold the line (skream’s purple refix) 02) ital tek - massive error 03) mahanee - no joke ting feat. solo banton 04) mark pritchard ft. om’mas keith - wind it up 05) rustie - bad science 06) smut - badman place 07) bonecrusher - never scared (mrk1 remix) 08) mahanee vs von d - s.a.g.e 09) mochipet - in da streets (remix) 10) mochipet - pt blow horns 11) outkast - b.o.b. (mochipet remix) 12) terror danjah - zumpi hunter 13) noah d - seeerious 14) starkey - gutter music ft. durrty goodz 15) didjelirium - test u.s. 16) disrupt - echobombing 17) snowman - street corner music 18) harmonic 313 - dirtbox 19) j dilla - lazer gunne funke 20) antipop consortium - shine 21) raekwon - black mozart ft. rza & inspectah deck 22) tokimonsta - latenight 23) mos def - auditiorium ft. slick rick 24) low limit - inspirational jumpsuit 25) blahzay blahzay - pain i feel 26) ras g - hella grimey 27) rootah - holy mount part 2 28) dizz1 - clocks 29) nosaj thing - fwd 30) jay dee - last donut of the night
http://subnav.com/2009/12/01/free-the-wax-sub-culture-mix-by-blaise-deville/