I will never tire of seeing hip hop acts on Yo Gabba Gabba

Whatever, this is my favorite thing in the universe.



(and a Mos track to justify it, I guess. with the Love Supreme intro/outro and isht...this sort of sums up a lot of his career, I think, but this works better than some of his other attempts to be a really artsy motherfucker. I mean, the actual track, but...the Love Supreme thing, too. whatever, go watch that Yo Gabba Gabba clip again. straight rockin the jheri curl.)

Blakroc - Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)

This is a fun album in spite of the fact that Ludacris (I just don't like him, okay.) makes an appearance.




I am also posting this little thing because it makes me happy.

KMD- Peachfuzz; Madvillain- All Caps

I've thought of doing a MF DOOM post before, and I figure I might as well do it today, as I've not really had any ideas for a while now.

First off, here's the video that sort of got me thinking on this a while ago. It's Mos Def talking about MF DOOM, and it's led to about a bazillion (wow, it recognizes bazillion as a word) posts on various hip hop message boards calling for a Mos Def/DOOM collaboration.



And then here's a KMD video. This was when DOOM was known as Zev Love X. If you want, look up some stuff about this group, as it's sort of interesting. Basically, this is a pretty standard, meaningless popish track, but they also did the whole five-percenter thing, and their second album (Black Bastards)was pulled because of a controversial cover/message



And then here's a track from "Madvillainy", a collaboration between DOOM and Mad Lib. Anyway, there's no real point to any of this, and that's why I'm not really explaining anything here, but I just sort of wanted to point out that this dude has had a weirder career than just about anyone I can think of. Going from pop-rap, to five percenter rap, to weird humorous villain persona in-which he's created a whole narrative that necessitates the mask, is pretty fucking bizarre.

Mos Def ft. Slick Rick- Auditorium

Alright, here's something pretty new. Off "The Ecstatic", which I'm quite fond of.