Music Download of the Day

DillMatic - Nas + J. Dilla (Click HERE to Download)

Dilla and Nas? I can't complain about that one.

Music Download of the Day

Nas & Damian Marley - As We Enter (Click HERE to Download)

Now I know we've been waiting on this album for a while. I've been checkin up on it ever since they announced they were going to work together over a year ago. I can't even remember how far back that is now, since it has been so long. Nevertheless, I've been looking around for whatever I could find, and this is what I got.

RTB After Party

Rock The Bells after party at WET in SJ. Lets go!

Damian Marley & Nas

Damien Marley x Nas. RTB 2009 from Jazzy. on Vimeo.

Not only are they headlining Rock The Bells this year. They're also working on a CD together. That's gonna be pretty dope...

Check out the RTB line-up on Certified Fresh

Kenzo Digital - City of God's Son

This seems pretty nuts. Check it out at cityofgodson.com. I wonder how they put it all together, cause mos def, these artists didn't take time out of their busy schedules to get this done. Nas, Jay-Z, Ghostface, Samuel L., Delroy Lindo and more? I'm still waiting for my copy to download from the site, so go get yours.

Stussy x NaS x NexusVII

The legendary Nas recently performed a one night only show at ZEPP Tokyo on December 12, 2008. In celebration of this historic night and his latest album, Nas along with Stussy and Nexus VII have come together to create this set of limited edition tees. These tees feature iconic Nas images and song titles ("Make the World Go Round", "Black President" and "World is Yours). The tees will be available tomorrow.

Nas @ the Warfield

Nas has a show on Nov 28th at the Warfield. I don't know if I can even make it to this, but damn! I want to go. Nas is by far one of the best live performers out there. I remember seeing him perform a few years back at Rock the Bells and he killed it.

We'll see who wants to roll.

Nas: Barack the Vote

Jim Jones - Not on My Level

I know I was just talkin about beef earlier, but let me set some guidelines. Pac and Biggie, they were both on the same level. Lyricists to the highest degree. That's why that beef pulled weight. Now on the other hand, there are people that just say some dumb ass shit. Here it goes:

Take that Boston hat off homie, you're not a champion. I was reading an article, where they were talking to Jim Jones about T.I.'s Swagga Like Us track. Essentially what he went on about in the article was that

1. He doesn't see anyone in the hood, saying, "I want to be like T.I, Kanye or Jay-Z" but I guess he's heard people from the hood say they want to be like him.
2. That Nas, has not and never will be on his level.

It may seem like I took it out of context, but go look the original interview up. In a nutshell, that's what he said. So let me discuss these situations.

1. In the song, no one ever said that they were looked up to. They only said, that no one else had "swagga" like them. And if you look it up in the dictionary, it's not going to be there. But the way that I understand it is this. "Swagga" has nothing to do with people from the hood wanting to be with you. It has to do with the way you walk, the way you talk and the confidence in your stride. So homie, I don't need people to look up to me to have "swagga" It's something you just have.
2. Nas is not on your level? Yeah homie, he'll never be on your level because he won't ever come out with tracks like Ballin. So maybe he hasn't sold out, but that's why he's saying that hip-hop is dead, because if rappers like you. Ballin? homie please, you act like your the shit, when you're trying to come out frontin Jay-Z. Check this out, you don't make half the money Jay-Z does, and you don't come out with half the substance Nas does. So when you get to either of those levels go ahead and start calling people out.

Stay in your league homie, you should be wearin a Kansas City Royals hat son.

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