Dilla Ghost Doom: Sniperlite

In late 2005 Ghostface Killa and MF DOOM were both recording over tracks from J Dilla's instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface's Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla's passing. Two of these tracks, “Sniper Elite” and “Murder Goons,” are presented here for the first time. The two are taken from two sequential songs off Donuts, meant to mix together. We are presenting the two songs unmixed, plus the two mixed together as a bonus track.
Listen to samples and/or buy individual MP3s (360 kbps, non-DRM): Exclusive digital releases: 99¢ x 3 tracks.


+First time on MP3, vinyl & CD many of the following albums are available:

Toney P. Sigel: Barrel Brothers

Not the:

• Kansas L7’s
• Movie
• MySpace nor
  
• Root Beer

+Toney P. Sigel:

• Toney: Toney Starks AKA Ghostface Killah
• P.: Styles P AKA Ghost and
• Sigel: Beanie Sigel

+Funky Tongue: Street Rhymes nd the Roots of Rap: Rochester City Newspaper

Big Doe Rehab

Ghostface (Killah): The Big Doe Rehab (cover)
(Island/ Def Jam, Dec. 4, 2007): ASIN: B000XK7P6Y

The Wu-Tang Clan's most recognizable personalities returns with his 7th solo album.
Ghostface has maintained visibility in the marketplace by touring the country on his own headlining tour, the Wu-Tang Reunion Tour, and many music festivals. He continues that visibility with the Adult Swim College Tour in October and The Hip Hop Live Tour featuring Rakim in November. Though touring, Ghostface has made time to give his fans another dose of the raw hyperbolic lyricism.
This December, The Big Doe Rehab is sure to have fans and "smart-dumb-ni&&ers" satisfied with their next fix of Ghostface.

+Book: The World According to Pretty Toney (MTV Press, Nov. 1, 2007): Amazon l Dusty Groove
+Top 20 Verses: Ghostface Killah Ft. Cappadonna: Winter Warz: AHH
+The Ghostface Killah: Doll

American Witchdoctor

Ghostface Killah: Wise (Remix)
From: J-Love - Street Savior Pt. 6 (Hosted By Ghostface Killah)

Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah (born Dennis Coles) will take an animated route to his fans as he headlines the Adult Swim Hip-Hop tour. The rapper will release his new album Diary of an American Witchdoctor Oct. 23 on Adult Swim's Williams Street record label.

For the full article see AHH: Ghostface And Witchdoctor Team With Adult Swim For Tour

+Ghostface Killah: Def Jam l MTV l MySpace l Rollingstone
+Ghostface Killah: Doll
+J-Love: Official Site l MySpace

+Tickets: Visit

Cookie!!!

Left most image courtesy of Monkeys For Helping

Ultramagnetic MC's: When I Burn (Prod. by Ced-Gee)
From: Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau, 1988)

Brother Soul: Cookie
From: Disco-Funk (RCA, 1975)

Today, I have an artlessly guileless pining: I want to listen to my favorite Hip-Hop album: Ultramagnetic MC’s Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau, 1988). However, this urge is dimly indistinct relative current events where:

• relationship break-up messages are furnished for a fee,
• scientist use fungus in elephant dung to decompose cellulose (fibers, wood, etc.) for biofuel,
• Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a dead head in the latest Rassmusen poll (there’s a two point difference/four point margin of error) and
• Dick Cheney plans to bomb Iran.

I have no plans of meeting anyone who would nominate Ultramagnetic MC’s Critical Beatdown (CB) as their treasured Hip-Hop album as I presuppose they do not exist.
My other supposition is: Black barber shops are the litmus test for popular “Black” opinions (give or take a mofo(s) with a Planet of the Apes lobotomy or as phraseologist Ghostface Killah labels: “smart-dumb-ni&&as”).
I treated the 8^th Avenue “Blend Kings” barber shop between 125 and 126 Streets in Harlem New York City, between the years 2000 and 2002, as my remote home. It was there that almost weekly I saw Ced-Gee producer (and emcee) of the entire CB album except “Give the Drummer Some” which is produced by the late Paul C. (born Paul C. McKasty) (Paul C. taught the Large Professor formerly of Main Source how to use the Akai MPC sampling drum machine). Thereupon, seeing Ced-Gee without restraint and without regard to frequency I yelled “Critical Beatdown!!! (which I sometimes closed with “the greatest Hip-Hop album ever!!!”)” which always drew obtusely angled brow raises from Ced-Gee.
In a sentence, Ced-Gee’s production on CB exceeds genius. CB and the Beastie Boys Paul Boutique (Jul. 25, 1989, Capitol) produced by the Dust Brothers are two albums that venture to use virgin samples that became Hip-Hop mainstays without compromising content and thus intent.
In a word CB and Ced-Gee for his production is historically, “unfuckwithable”.
Have a cookie (have one for Brother Soul he deserves it).

In other unrelated news:

Jon B speaks earnestly with EURweb:

"This is kind of racist, very racist," Jon said with pause: "it's even harder for black musicians to cut through in the game being that this is their music-R&B-black music-and it's hard for a black person to cut through in black music now than it is for a white person, which is absolutely ridiculous. That's kind of why I've fallen back from the game in a sense."

I'd Go To Bat For You

Hip Hop made comic relative:
Ni**as gonna fuck around and get their balloon popped! (Ghostface Killah: Bulletproof Wallets (Intro))
I ain't a killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pu**y (2Pac: Hail Mary)
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge (Grandmaster Flash: The Message)