Wise Intelligent - I’m Him
Taken from Wise Intelligent’s ridiculously enjoyable new album,The Talented Timothy Taylor, due out July 17. If you’re an 80’s baby like me, you probably remember Wise from the legendary Poor Righteous Teachers.
Trife is on fire. Literally.
Rizoh’s Radio is fresh off hiatus and back by popular demand. Say what you want about the rest of the songs in this installment, but that new Kurupt is as refreshing as it gets. The EP will only be available for 48 hours, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Tracklist:
1. Hood Surgeon - Daddy Was a Doctor (produced by Dr. Dre)
2. Kurupt - Mystic River (produced by Battlecat)
3. Papoose & Busta Rhymes - Drop It (producedd by Dr. Dre)
4. Smitty & Robin Thicke - Died in Your Arms Tonight
5. Swizz Beatz and Cassidy - Come & Get Me
6. Trife & Termanology - Trife & T
(Major props to Ivan)
::America’s Most Wanted (Rappers).
(Today’s Cuban Linx was compiled by The Rap Up guest blogger Hurricane Ivan)
Can you guess which one is the mom?
Today, I’m exceptionally grateful to my mom for teaching me about justice (“one day you’ll have kids and they’ll repay you all the hard time you gave me”), logic (“if you fall off that table and break your legs, you’re not going to church with me”), and protocol (“if you’re going to kill each other, please do it outside. I just finished cleaning the living room”).
Hey, I’m not in the minority here, even the toughest mobster has a soft spot for mom.
•CNN International gets Bush and Blair mixed up for 12 seconds.
•Lily Allen likely to face charges for attacking a stalker-azzi .
•Crazed fan straddles the Purple One before being pulled away by security.
Def Jam will release The Definition of X: Pick of the Litter–a collection of X’s most ridiculous hits–on June 12.
DMX - Definition of X: Pick of the Litter Tracklist
1. Prayer II
2. Ruff Ryders Anthem
3. Get At Me Dog
4. Stop Being Greedy
5. How’s It Going Down
6. What These Bitches Want
7. Black Out
8. What’s My Name
9. Where The Hood At
10. Party Up
11. X Gonna Give It To U
12. It’s All Good
13. Who We Be
14. The Rain
15. Here We Go Again
16. No Love For Me
17. We Right Here
18. 1 More Road To Cross
19. Slippin’
20. Prayer I
Somewhat related: A glance at DMX’s soundscan numbers over the years reveals an interesting pattern.
• It’s Dark & Hell Is Hot (1998) - 4.607,812
• Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood (1998) - 3,366,895
• And Then There Was X (1999) - 4,912,860
•The Great Depression (2001) - 1,854,963
• Grand Champ (2003) - 1,192,335
• Year Of The Dog…Again (2006) - 315,878
You see, the only time X failed to crack platinum (or gold for that matter) was when he took advice from Pastor Ma$e.
Today is National Apology Day in the U.S.
-Akon apologizes for humpty hump flap. [CNN]
-Rush apologizes for calling Obama a ‘mouse’. [About]
-Master P makes up for years of profiting from ‘explicit lyrics’ by launching a profanity-free label. [AHH]
-What does Boo Boo have in common with the Kufi Smacker? [Miss Info]
-Island Def Jam lays off 40 employees. Nope, Method Man is not one of them. [Billboard]
-25 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums. (Glad to see ALL my favorites listed.)[Straight Bangin']
-”Grown and sexy is dead,” says Complex magazine fashion editor Kanye West. [Complex]
-Dipset members deny rumors of Cam’ron and Jim Jones fighting over the last piece of chicken. By the way, Dipset More Than Music…vol 2 is in stores now. [HHDX]
Phew! I can’t believe it’s been two years since I launched The Rap Up. What started as one man’s rant-land has now turned into a hip-hop hive.
I remember back when I would spend hours updating the blog only to end the day with a total of, say, 50 unique visitors. 850,000 visits and 1.6 million pageviews later, I can’t thank those 50 readers enough.
Shout out to everyone who has ever stopped by or bookmarked T.R.U. Whether you found us through a friend’s blogroll or via a Google search for ‘Stacy Dash Playboy pics’, your visit is appreciated. I’m also enormously grateful to all the bloggers who inspired me to add my voice to the discussion back when hip-hop blogging was the new new–O-Dub, Hashim, Clyde, Ian, Jay Smooth, etc–and all the ones who still inspire me to step my game up everyday (read: almost everyone on my blogroll).
Now, tell me, how did you first find out about The Rap Up?
