Posts Tagged ‘Philly’

The Roots’ daily gig as the house band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon doesn’t keep them from playing huge shows in Prospect Park or DJ-ing in Williamsburg. Melena Ryzik reports. Pretty good profile piece on a day in the life of The Roots.

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Fresh off his critically acclaimed cameos on The Roots’ How I Got Over, STS linked up with Honey to showcase the two loves of his life: women and sneakers. The Sole Music EP includes 5 new songs plus the O.G. version of “Sole Music” from STS’ Demand More 2 mixtape. The Sole Music Remix was blessed with a guest verse from fellow sneaker-head Donwill of Tanya Morgan and production on the EP was handled by Parafino, SB Charles, Kenny Beats, Harry & Alex, and Count Justice.

1) Sole Music (prod by Parafino & SB Charles)
2) Oniomania (prod by Count Justice)
3) Brown Babies (prod by Brian Leahy)
4) Take Me To Hadley St (prod by Harry & Alex)
5) Is You With Me? (prod by Kenny Beats)
6) Sole Music Remix ft Donwill (Prod by Parafino & SB Charles)

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One of my favorite singles and songs of the year. The vibe, the chorus, the lyrics. Just love everything about it. Rik Cordero puts an unexpected twist on the song by releasing this war-themed music video. My thoughts on the song were a little more literal, but this gives a different meaning to “The Fire.”

Oh, and that white box is supposed to represent the “key to survival.”

I’m usually pretty indifferent when it comes to tracks from Cassidy, but I actually like this song as his single for his upcoming album.The instrumental sets it off, in my opinion. Good stuff.

Cassidy – Get My Paper Up

Nowadays it usually goes:
1) Behind the scenes pics
2) Behind the scenes video
3) Music Video Trailer
4) Music Video

But I’m happy we are seeing some visuals for “The Fire,” which is one of my favorite singles at the moment. Not what I imagined to be, but this looks like sort of an epic vid from Rik Cordero. The Roots do not appear in the final cut. How I Got Over in stores now.

J. Cole performs ‘Last Call’, then begins ‘Roc the Mic’ and brings Freeway out.Freeway performs ‘Roc the Mic’ and then goes into ‘What We Do.’ This is at the Heineken event, which is touring the country. I believe Wale and J.Cole are performing at the NYC leg in a weekend or two.

RapUp just posted the official cover for the Legend & Roots collaboration project, called Wake Up! Really looking forward to this, even though it’s covers – but how can you deny John Legend and The Roots taking on classic records??? If you didn’t see, The Roots, John Legend, Common, and Melanie Fiona were shooting a music video the other day for the album. Also, here is the tracklist.

ALSO – John Legend took a moment to talk to the Huffington Post’s Samantha Zalaznick about why they decided to do this album:

We were kinda inspired by what was going on with the election and all the increased levels of activism and optimism, and we wanted to make an album that captured that sentiment. It came together as something that’s really soulful, really timely and really reflective of the moment that we’re still in right now, I think, because it reflects a lot of the frustrations as well as the optimism of this moment. Look at the song ‘Wake Up Everybody,’ which is the first single from the album. The main subjects it addresses are the education, the environment and health care, and as we all know those subjects are still quite relevant and contested territory.

Full intv here.

I noticed ?uestlove tweeting some pics early this morning, but I finally got a chance to check out what he had been talking about. Looks like they’re filming a music video for their “Wake Up Everybody” 2010 cover off of their cover album, Wake Up! Both Common and Melanie Fiona are involved in this music video shoot (and song). A bunch of pictures from the set after the link:

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Fresh off the release of How I Got Over, The Roots and John Legend are set to release their collaborative cover album, Wake Up!. The album will be a cover of songs, mostly from the 60′s and 70′s with one brand new track, “Shine.” We’ve already gotten a taste of what’s to come with “Our Generation,” but below is the full tracklist:

1. Compared to What
2. Hard Times
3. Little Ghetto Boy
4. Wake Up Everybody feat. Common and Melanie Fiona
5. Our Generation
6. Love the Way It Should Be
7. Hang On in There
8. I Can’t Write Left Handed
9. Wholy Holy
10. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
11. Shine

Finally Jakk’s mixtape drops, giving the world a bit more flavor from the Philly kid. Thanks to Sermon for passing it along.

1. Nitemarez (produced by Benja Styles & Young Cab)
2. Throw it Up
3. Chasin Doe ft Chelsea Lynn (produced by 100 miles)
4. Holla at Me (produced by Don Cannon)
5. Mr Frosty (produced by 100 miles)
6. Green (produced by Supernova)
7. Wait (produced by Supernova)
8. Dozens of Flavas (produced by Vitamin D)
9. Blinded (produced by Supernova)
10. Get Your Mind Rite (produced by 100 mile)
11. Fast Life ft Chelsea Lynn (produced by Jahlil Beats)
12. Puttin in that Work ft Waka Flocka & Peedi Crakk
13. Spoiled
14. Breathless (produced by Detroit Red)
15. Smiling Faces (produced by Supernova)
16. Shot Dem Dead ft Chelsea Lynn (produced by 100 mile)
17. Champions ft Tana Da Beast and Star Mina (produced by 100 mile)
18. How you Gonna Handle the Drawt (produced by 100 mile)

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I think of a much more uplifting theme when I hear this song, but I’ll reserve full judgment until I see Rik Cordero’s music video for my favorite song right now, “The Fire.” Apparently it’s a World War II themed video that The Roots don’t appear in. This track is off of The Roots’ How I Got Over album and features John Legend.

Additional pics via Okayplayer after the link:

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The bearded guy from Philly releases another jam via HHU friend Sermon. I’m not sure if Frost will really achieve mainstream success, but for what he does, I think he makes some quality music for the 2-1-5. Jakk of All Trades mixtape coming soon.

Jakk Frost – Chasing Doe

In part two of our Intv with Chiddy Bang, we get the low down on a potential collabo with a historic British punk band member, the origins of the word “swelly,” some exclusive info on the debut album, and much more.

Thanks to Taylor, Chiddy, Xaphoon, Kisha, Sascha, Sarah, and Z

If you missed it, check out Part 1 Below:

TheHipHopUpdate.com’s Taylor sits down with Chiddy Bang in LA to talk about a number of subjects. The guys talk headlining their own tour, the importance of their show at Swarthmore College (PA) and Kanye’s “Power” single. Additionally they speak on why they love sampling/remixing music put out by UK artists and Xaphoon’s basketball incident.

HHU has been supporting Chiddy Bang ever since I was introduced to them by some HHU twitter followers right as the site relaunched back in March. In fact, their Ellie Goulding remix was one of the first tracks I posted.

Similar to what I set out to do when I was one of the first to feature Kid Cudi, Wale and Wiz Khalifa music (it’s just a fact), I hope to help spread the good word in the Chiddy Bang movement. After one missed attempt (Thanks Diego), HHU’s resident LA intvr Taylor got a chance to catch up with the guys.

TheHipHopUpdate.com’s Taylor sits down with Chiddy Bang in LA to talk about a number of subjects. The guys talk headlining their own tour, the importance of their show at Swarthmore College (PA) and Kanye’s “Power” single. Additionally they speak on why they love sampling/remixing music put out by UK artists and Xaphoon’s basketball incident.

STAY TUNED FOR PART 2!

Like I said on twitter yesterday afternoon…pick the album up now!