This is a fast moving track from Olu Maintain from his upcoming sophomore album entitled "With All Due Respect, PRESS PLAY" which will be released July 27 2009. The beat is tight obviously aimed at the clubs. Not a bad track, something to tide the Olu Maintain fans over till the arrival of the album. Does anyone know the name of the Hausa guy? His flow is quite mad.
This Backpack is a limited edition collaboration between Eastpak and Raf Simmons. Featuring a nice combination of denim and leather, this backpack is both seriously stylish, spacious and comfortable. Spacious because it is over-sized so you can put your mac inside it protective casing and put it in the backpack without worrying about losing space. Originally at £160 pound when it was launched, it is now be reduced by a whopping 50% to £79.99. So hurry and rush over to get one online at URBAN OUTFITTERS or you can make your way down to the Eastpak Carnaby Street store where they have the complete range all at 50 percent off. My connect told me Kate Moss is a fan of one of the bags in the range which funny enough is the one I bought. That Kate Moss!
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The Arctic Monkeys' first single of their third album HUMBUG was released this morning on iTunes. Obviously I had to buy it (just 79p) for it seemed iTunes beat other retailers to it...as usual. It is frigging hot having a good quality as opposed to having the whack quality I "secured" some months ago lol. HUMBUG would be released 24/08/2009 so set your timers folks as this album is looking pretty dope.
Click here to buy a copy (Redirects you to the iTunes store)
You can also buy it on PLAY.COM at the cheaper price of 67 pence but it says it is released on the 13/07/2009. Did iTunes just muscle an agreement that they get to sell it a whole week earlier before other retailers at 79 pence? It looks to me that way as I cannot find any other digilet selling this single. Apple can be so aggressive and militant!
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug Tracklisting
01. My Propeller
02. Crying Lightning
03. Dangerous Animals
04 Secret Door
05. Potion Approaching
06. Fire and the Thud
07. Cornerstone
08. Dance Little Liar
09. Pretty Visitors
10. The Jeweller's Hands
This is highly recommended.
The Blaps, Rhymes & Life compilation series continues, as the blapmaster Illmind and Dub MD bring you Volume 3 as yet another exclusive free download. Blaps, Rhymes & Life Vol. 3 is jam packed full of more classic !llmind production as he showcases his music with a mix of mainstream and underground artists, in this volume he collaborates with mainstream artists like 50 Cent, Scarface, Young Buck, and Marsha from Floetry, and keeps the balance with underground artists and rising stars such as Termanology, Wale, D-Black, Skyzoo and Torae to name a few. Also included is an official remake of 88 Keys' single "Stay Up!" featuring Alchemist, Evidence and 88 Keys himself on the rhymes. Master Shake from Adult Swim's hit TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force also makes an appearance!
As always Illmind is working on multiple projects, as he hits the studio to put the finishing touches to the debut album with his group Fortilive consisting of Illmind, Slo-Mo and Mushmouf, which is due out sometime later next year through Myx Music, aswell as executive producing albums for Pumpkinhead, D-Black and Naturel. For more information and updates on him and the series, check out the new launch of the official Blaps, Rhymes & Life website at www.blapsrhymesandlife.com, www.illmind.biz, and follow him on twitter at www.twitter.com/illmindproducer.
In addition to that lookout for Dub MD as he presents projects from various artists including the likes of Junclassic with "Southside's Savior" out July 13th, the Nametag follow-up "Classic Cadence Vol. 2" out August 10th and a whole host of others including Judah, Karniege, Dominique Larue and more. For more information and updates follow him on twitter at www.twitter.com/dubmd84.
Sometimes my spam filter does not know where to draw the darn line. Was filtering through my spam when I came up with this sent recently. Argh. Nakim is from GFCnewyork. Jim Jones, well you know Jim Jones.
We have been supplied some fresh tracks that would be coming up on the upcoming album sampler by Nyja. We have two tracks for you guys which you can download below.
Download
1. Party People (hook done by Nyja and David Evans)
2. Pay Me My Money feat. Ezzie produced by Tazzy B (Hook done by Tazzy B) Skit performed by Nyja and Ezzie
Watchout for the next half coming next week. The EP "Pay Me My Money" shall be released soon via online digilets like iTunes.
You notice how Ezzie's name has been popping around frequently around here. Yeah.
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. Theophilus London is on tour with A-Track. Check out A-Trak's blog for more info.
I was filling out an application form with my iTunes on shuffle on my Naija playlist (as yours should be) when it randomly brought up GT The Guitarman's Osima Gbomi track. This is such a beautiful track. I have been meaning to feature GT in the WFNB artiste watch profile but I have not found much on him until I received some really good info in the inbox some days ago so watch out for a nice Artiste watch piece on him. I basically regard Mr Gt as the male Asa. Armed with an acoustic guitar, I am pretty sure you guessed that from his name, he serenades his listeners with his beautiful, gentle and melodic voice while he belts out excellent well written Yoruba lyrics with enough reason and proverbs to make 9ice smile. Consider him a Nigerian version of Bilal if you would.
As I took some time out to quickly burn time by perusing through facebook, what started out as a finding-out-what-Sauce Kid-is-up-to session ended up with me landing on a note written by GT The Guitarman. The note is review of his new album and I hope he would forgive me for my brazenness in lifting it to share with you guys his review about his own album, THE TRUTH. I really hope you guys read his personal review below as its an excellent insight into what was behind his tracks. Next best thing to a man-o-man interview.
Thanks for the patience guys...the hour has finally come...my 8 man band are fully
prepared and the album is ready for grabs.STORM IN THE BUILDING!
Would like to give you my own review of the album so you know wat to expect or
basically wat was going through my mind when i was writing these songs
1.TRULY-some years back i thought of writting a yoruba love song with an english
hook and i came up with this beatiful song called truly,recorded it 2 years ago and even
shot a video for it,wasnt satisfied with the response it got so i hit the studio again,
you just have to like this one! - reproduced by DMM
2.BELIEVE-this songs talks about forgiveness in a relationship....and reassurring
your spouse that their mistakes are not enough to turn off your feelings...even when
friends and families dont see a reason why you keep going back to someone that
keeps hurting u but u know that when u weigh life with and without her you'l rather forgive than live with
the pain of seeing them leave-produced by dmm
3.HUSTLE-wrote this song while i was waiting for this album to be released..lol was
loosing fate in me but i had to look at myself and tell me "hey!!! you cant afford to
fail"produced by dmm
4.JUST FINE-your friend walks in,tells u your wife's been cheating but didnt believe until
an undercover agent showed u pics of her in the act.Then u realised its so easy for someone
to look straight in your eyes and lie to u that they love u.so u locked her out of your life
and told her u will be doing just fine!written by g.t the guitarman produced by dmm
5.MAGA-was just having fun in my mini-studio at home thinking of how to get into the club..boom!
won fe so mi di maga....for those who love to rip where they ve not sown..ladies who wanna take all my money,
police wey wan take 20 naira roja and politician wey dey lie...won fe so mi di maga!written
by me and produced by dmm
6.OSIMA GBOMI-My sister inspired this song!She made some derogatory statement about my career which
she said only out of anger and couldn't have meant them but hey! words are like eggs
once they drop....so this song is dedicated to all who critize unconstructively..before u run
your mouth around,you need to walk in my shoes,osima gbomi!-produced by dmm
7.DREAMER i wrote this song years ago,the night i was denied citizenship of uk despite that i was
born there..like every young man of my age,the norm is that there is a goldmine waiting outside,
where i dont have to strive for things we have in abundunce,a place where dreams
come true....thought of where to start from as my life was built around this "beign british obsession" i thought i
was lucky to be born there but after beign denied and looking at how much i ve accomplished operating
am so happy i didnt loose my african heritage which am so proud of now.If you still think dreams dont
come true in Africa...you need to look at people like,2 face idibia,Asa,wole soyinka,mikel who withstanding
of the negativities around have made something out of there lifes and if you need a practical example you can
watch me grow..-produced by ty mix
8.I DONT WANNA ft naeto-at times you wonder...No matter what i say about the epileptic power situation,
security,bad roads,poverty.....it can never change a thing..cos you are definately not the first and you wont
be the last..i can recall greats like tai solarin,fela kuti,dele giwa,abiola who fought for the people and hope
for a better future for us but fast forward to the future they fought for-now and you tell me if it was worth it.We
are definately the cause of our problems and not the pigmaent of our skin..it feature the award winning naeto c
on this beautiful consious rock song- produced ty mix
9.KINIMATISE -Wrote this song for a friend of mine who almost lost the love of his life cos he cheated on her am
so happy the song helped them make up-produced by ty mix
10.UR LOVING-this song is dedicated to all young couples..your papa no fit stop us now...my mama no fit stop us now
its official! you ve been given the liscence to f**k..lol dont mind me o-produced by ty mix
11.NA U-had to this for jah jehovah...cos WHO AM I not to praise him! And am praising him in a ragga stylee-reproduced by dmm
12.OSIMA GBOMI REMIX-we just had to do a remix of this song and this one is more danceable remix produced by xela
13.DREAMER REMIX-had to do a remix of this song too..had my home boi,world famous naeto c on this one again..
it has a hip hop feel-produced by ty mix
14.WETTIN YOU SAY? ft sauce kid-this song is massive...and i personally think you should watch out for sauce kids part cos he killed
it!it talks about the harsh reality of beign a man..it talks about the obvious..
15.champayne ft dmm,sean terro,uzee bee,menis-dmm(my producer)made this banging beat that and wrote the hook for the song..at first
i didnt see myself doing it cos it didnt defined me..then later began to love it...this song is was built not to make sense..but i
assure you that it will move you!aside from sean terro all guys featured on it are upcoming artists which will make u mavel at
the quality of talent we have in this country
G.T THE GUITARMAN
As with all anticipated albums by good artistes, the hypes builds up by guessing which album cover that pops on on the internet is going to be the real deal. So here we go. Spotted this over at Defsounds. Is it the real deal? I don't know if that would be the final album cover i just care about that album. Ever since the emergence of the internet, the interest in album cover has dwindled though some hardcore fans still look forward to dope album covers. Most artistes do take the album cover to be extensions of their creativity e.g. Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. 
Shetttt! The "don't jealous me" don drops this sweet funky house yoruba mix for us. Need to get my hand on a copy use it as a mad warm up into a sick funky house set. Shettt!
Klaus Hammerschmidt, entrepreneur (retired), 73 years old, picks up his 135th car at the BMW Welt: the brand new BMW M6 Competition Package. His first BMW was a 1800ti from 1963. Altogether he had 26 cars from BMW M, 29 BMW Alpina and 80 other BMWs.I burn with envy as I type these words for he just picked up the one BMW that has always struck a chord with me. I am a Mercedes fan. One hundred and thirty five BMWs at 73 is simply astounding. Now that is customer brand loyalty.
This morning I was alerted to this article by "Chairman, Editorial Board, Guardian Newspapers" Reuben Abati. My reaction during and after reading this article was one of shock, disbelief and yes, shock again. Never have I come across a journalist/columnist so pompous and self-assumed of knowledge of an article in which he clearly has no anchor point. I believe he should be relieved of his job instantly. A "Chairman, Editorial Board, Guardian Newspapers" clearly does not respect his readers enough to conduct a solid piece of research into the subject matter before approaching with the biggest brush on his writer pallet and smearing the entire generation of young Nigerian artistes with baseless and utter nonsense. A very credible response was written by Banky "Willington" (as Mr Abati referred to him as in his article) on his blog which covered every aspect I had in mind on Mr Abati's atrocious article and I hope The Guardian will print Mr Wellington's response in their paper as an apology to the young generation slated unfairly by Mr Abati. Failing this, a retraction should be in order.
Here is "Chairman Editorial Board, Guardian Newspaper" article.
Here is the link for Banky W 's excellent response.
You should follow Banky's blog as well: http://bankyw.blogspot.com/
As we all know, summer is that time to crack out the nice tees. Whether fitted or loose, your tee game has to be on point. The tee fashion has moved from having mad slogans on your t shirt to now having nice block funky plain colours. The art of the slogan has been overdone but I just discovered a website that makes it cool to witty slogans emblazoned across your tee. Let me introduce you to Im Starvin Like Marvin clothing. The concept really remains the same. They produce excellent slogans mostly inspired by all things Nigerian coupled with excellent illustrations. You can also upload your design and they get it printed for you. Below, I have put up some pictures of their t-shirts. The sizes available are S, M, L and XL. Available in Male and female at around $30 for each tee. Whatever your taste, you are bound to find a superb design to fit your mood or occasion. Failing that, you can just upload your own fresh design and they make it for you.
Starvin' Like Marvin Clothing is the one stop shop for all your Naija Urban needs. The clothing line was actually started today...i mean yesterday...okay okay it was created recently doesn't matter when right? OKAY! we will tell you ...Originally launched in 2007, Starvin' Like Marvin Clothing (SLM Clothing) started as a subsidiary of Lylas & Company Ltd, now 3 years later, its own entity, SLM has stepped onto the scene with colorful and stylish yet functional apparel that was made to turn heads. SLM fused a mix of lifestyles crossing over blogging, hanging out, skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, car culture and most importantly MUSIC. Taking a non-traditional approach to design and marketing, SLM utilizes an internet based VIRAL ad campaign. The concept behind the brand name “Starvin' Like Marvin” is to show the void of a clothing line like this, our customers are literally "STARVIN' for something NEW! ......anyways...We are a primarily Nigerian Clothing Company, and we make the illest ishhh soo....BUY BUY BUY!!!
I decided to pop into Albam on 23, Beak Street to have a gander at their new season stock. More than impressed. The prices are a bit dear as most of the items are made in England but it makes up for it on the quality. The Classic Fishermen Cagoule is an excellent example of this. At £160, the quality is solid and worth every single penny. It is a beautiful jacket that looks better with time. It is waterproof and the fitting is excellent. I did not have my camera on me so I had to make do with the blackberry Bold camera.
Above: In Cobalt Blue Madras Check, a slim cut detachable hooded workwear jacket.
Above:Navy Madras Work Jacket
On "model", Jacket:Albam Classic Fisherman's Cagoule (Apple Green)
This is just a tip of the iceberg. To see the complete line of the new season, head over to the Albam website:
Pic from The Rap-Up
This came through my inbox while I was driving home and literally increased pressure on the accelerator just to get home and listen to this. The beat is serious. This is the first I have heard of the "Distant Relative" album the duo are working on. The way Nas and Damian trade the lines really does come correct like the D-Block trio Jada, Style and Sheek on a track. Correct. The album was supposed to be out late June. I don't know how hard they intend to stick that plan. Enjoy the download.
