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Lil B White Flame

There’s two possibilities for why I like Lil B and his new mixtape “White Flame” – 1) I’m getting dumber, and years of DJing have harmed my ears, or 2) Lil B is actually really good [sometimes], and is better at entertaining than rapping.

The number one question I get from my friends when I introduce them to Lil B’s music is “does he write?” Really not sure, but what’s clear is that Lil B has issues, or is great at pretending like he does. He often sounds paranoid, delusional, and grandiose, but he’s about to release his second “Illusions of Grandeur” mixtape so perhaps he’s really just fucking around.  Better crazy than boring – just look at Charlie Sheen. People love to see celebrities with problems, and there hasn’t been a borderline-mainstream rapper as visibly eccentric as Lil B since….?

We’re talking about a rapper who received death threats for naming his album “I’m Gay,” refers to himself as a “pretty bitch,” and tweeted to Kanye West “If Kanye West refuses to work with me I’m going to fuck him in the ass next time I see him.”

And remember that Lil B is 22. He’s part of the generation that has always had the internet. The generation that had Adult Swim in high school. I hope that no one assassinates him and that he keeps putting out mixtapes like “White Flame” for a long time. TYBG -

Lil B – Surrender To Me

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Lil B – Poppin V

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Back In Shanghai//Love Bang #13 This Weekend

Jet lag can feel like a giant bird’s wing pushing down on my shoulder, forcing me down into an inevitable deep sleep. Not a mean-spirited bird, but an invincible one nonetheless. Even at like 3PM, Jet Lag > Coffee x 10,000. Thought I beat it when I stayed out till 7AM on Friday after Tsu Sing’s Stockholm Syndrome party at Dada, but no. That party was great though. I walked in at 2:20AM and acid house was just pounding through the subs. Nice to see people playing house music that doesn’t suck. And a little bit of hip hop got dropped too..yes.

Such a necessary trip back to America. Shanghai can hit you much harder than jet lag..and for all the late nights, the peanut smoothies, the cheap cabs, the ability to do just about anything at anytime, there’s no home-cooking from mama, no blue skies with purple sunsets and stars, no cheap breakfast cereal (Cinnamon Toast Crunch is over $10 a box at CityShop), and no driving around listening to rap music. True, you can keep CDs in your bag and ask your 司机 to put them in the deck while you ride through the grey city in that $2 cab, but it’s not quite the same.

Here’s some of what I was listening to, cruising around Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Three 6 Mafia – Baby Mama

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Project Pat – You Know The Biss

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dat heatwolves top ten albums of 2011, in no order.

Just saw the homie Drunk Monk’s top ten list over at Sub-Culture and had to do one of my own.  Will do the top ten EPs in the next few days.  Hope u hv a VPN.

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#THA_COLONEL

stayed out way too late last night thanks to the ROM crew and my main homeboy Colonel Sanders.  about to be a big weekend..love bang #12 tmmr and my first chinese wedding on sunday evening.

i need serato – burning CDs is ruining my social life. hate turning friends down for dinner and house parties because i “have to make CDs.” it’s also ruining my diet cause i just holler at my boy THA COLONEL.

and this sunday..basically a young Colonel Sanders cause he spreads so much love – Xiao Zhong from PAIRS, one of my favorite Shanghai rock bands, is throwing an AFTERNOON show at Yuyintang from 2PM – 5PM. it’s only RMB20, which is like, not even a Spicy Chicken Breast Combo.

plus, all the bands are made of at least 50% university students. peep the whole article with MP3s over at SmartShanghai

so if you love live music, get up out of your sunday love nest and get down to YYT. shit’s important for the scene.

these are some rap tracks, because Xiao “Extra-Crispy” Zhong sometimes sings Tupac’s “Ambitionz of a Ridah.”

G-Side - Im Sorry :( (feat. P.H.)

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G-Side - Came Up (feat. S.L.A.S.H.)

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and as i vented on Harvard Connection.. Shanghai Fun – please stop sending me texts or I’m finna have THA COLONEL go holler @ u, and no one wants that. not interested in your cleverly-themed parties at Bar Rouge. actually i’m offended.

happy friday ya’ll.

[press start]

when i was eight, my parents wouldn’t let me hang out at the arcade by myself because of all the pedophiles hanging around there. seems like back then, people could smoke cigs in the arcade (they still can in china). one day, someone stole all my tickets, which i had stuffed into an empty ant-farm container. that’s when i realized there are bad people in the world.

also, after standing in line for Killer Instinct for forty minutes, I realized and accepted that I would never be great at video games.

when i was twelve, my parents wouldn’t let me go to the skatepark because of all the derelicts hanging around smoking cigs there. later that year, my assistant basketball coach gave me a pack of Marlboro Reds. still can’t figure out why.. either he was a pedophile or he just wanted to get me addicted so he could sell cigs to me.

this is the second cig/stuffed animal claw-game i’ve encountered here. this one was just chillin on the corner up in north jing an. bringing families together?

here’s some songs from my “BLURRRRRRD” folder that remind me of the arcade

Hayzee – Press Start

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Samiyam – Where Am I

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Slugabed – Sun Too Bright Turn It Off

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we’re so lucky that both Samiyam and Slugabed have played at Shelter in the last two months. 2012 gwan be huge.

fuck i’m still awake it’s 7am

been drawing all night to meet the January press deadline..hollered at boi ronald to hit me off with some double cheese and coffee bout midnight plus my colored pencil game is so on point. tried to listen to BasedGodVelli but i’m really starting to suspect Lil B is schizophrenic. He’s the L. Ron Hubbard of rap.

@Kinko’s – I expected more. So much more..why would you make a 24/7 store but then close it randomly on some nights? unacceptable. how would Juicy J handle that?

Fucking love this mixtape, I can’t wait to be home in two weeks and drive around the countryside listening to rap music.

Juicy J – Stoners Night pt. 2 ft. Wiz Khalifa

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Juicy J – Get Higher

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fun with foods/what are the ten treasures???

ate some soup last night cause i’m sick. i couldn’t afford the double boiled deer penis with ten treasures but was assured that it would “enhance masculinity,” i.e. it’s “good for man.” But honestly I ate some “good for man” soup one time (cow balls…) and I had sex like four times that night so I don’t necessarily doubt this.

some Friday tunes for you.

Das EFX – The Real Hip Hop (Pete Rock Remix)

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Sepalcure – Breezin (this track gets so good like four minutes in)

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Das EFX are coming to Shanghai next Friday (Mao Livehouse), supported by an 11-piece orchestra (!!) led by Theo Croker and my good friends MC One Consciousness and Ceezy. More info here.

World AIDS Day

People love to fuck in Shanghai. Sometimes people act like condoms aren’t necessary and that’s fucked up. Think about all the people who come in and out of Shanghai everyday on planes and trains from who the fuck knows where, and with what history. Think of the bros who fuck hookers in Cambodia then come back here and sleep with their girlfriends like it’s all good. And the girls who let random dudes bust in them cause they’re on the pill or plan on taking some day-after meds. And all the mutual friends and how interconnected this place is.

You prlly know someone in Shanghai with an STD, even if they don’t know it. AIDS is on the rise in Shanghai, where it’s on the decline in other parts of the world. Not just AIDS but Hep-C and lots of other viruses that will kill you or at the least make it so you can’t have sex anymore or have to take lots of medicine every day.

I’m lucky that my mom worked at an AIDS clinic when I was four or five. I met a lot of her patients and saw them die, and my parents told me why. A lot of office ladies have bowls of choco on their desk – my mom always had a big bowl of condoms. Not everyone’s lucky enough to go to a school with good sex-ed.

So use condoms, and don’t sleep with people who don’t think they’re important cause they prlly do that on the reg. It’s like Snoop Doggy Dogg said, “ain’t no pussy good enough to get burnt while I’m up in it.” I would love to quote a female rapper who said something similar but nothing comes to mind..

Here’s some songs about STDs.

Javelin – STD Fury

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Lil B – I Got AIDS

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Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – Jack The Mack

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sleep.

Internets really been fucking up lately. I heard networks get hacked frequently here, like there’s some program called “password get” or something and shady types just cop dat mima and eat your bandwidth. not chill.

Saw mogwai at mao livehouse last night. Had never heard any mogwai songs before but people made them sound life-changing so i said fuck it and went in with a totally open mind.

It reminded me of how when i DJed at Shiva that one time, i had to find the most boring house tracks on my computer and people went nuts for those, like “..so goooood.” mogwai do the whole play-really-chill-then-explode thing, but when they did [kinda] rock out, i couldn’t help but think back to seeing Tool when I was sixteen and how much harder they rocked.

Or to pick a more recent example, Shackleton last Friday at the Shelter. Obviously it’s one dude and not a whole band of museum pieces (Mogwai dude’s banter did not go past “hi, we’re from Scottland. Thanks, xiexie…” and if that’s post-rock protocol, ok fine, not mad), but his live performance also lacks singing and deals heavily in restraint, though his “down times” are far more interesting. Shackleton builds really complex [and danceable] rhythms from strange percussion, unsettling vocal samples, and other hypnotizing elements – no big basslines or kicks – and then after ten minutes and a bit of silence, drops just punishing bass. My friend was like “I never felt speaker make my ass move before.” Really like “wtf, this rhythm is mental…” The encore, through a monotone computer voice, told the story of a dragon than had to be slayed.

At that show, totally sober, I didn’t leave my spot next to the subwoofer for like an hour and a half. I wandered outside during the Mogwai show and left early to flyer outside and wasn’t upset that I missed the encore. On the front stairs, I gave a girl our mixtape and hope she listened to it; hope those dudes from Suzhou found some noodles or KFC too… Also thought Mogwai’s show would have been wayyyyyyy weaker without their contemplative videos looping in the background, and that says a lot about the music. I can’t remember any visuals or VJ at Shackleton; I don’t even think the booth camera was on.

So for me, one dude brought it much harder than a whole band. Just sayin. These are also the only two shows I’ve spent money on recently, another reason for the comparison.

The one and only Three 6 Mafia…

“Don’t sleep at night we comin through your motherfuckin windowpane….”

Triple Six Mafia – Sleep

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Latin Jams

First off, wanna thank everyone who came to Love Bang #11 on Saturday. Was our biggest party yet; the place was packed by 10:30. Thanks to DJ Cavia for warming up the dance floor, my Super Ayi Cleaning Team fam, and all the old & new friends who came through and danced. We’re doing it again on Dec. 17th.

Also played at Dada on Friday. Strictly Latin jams for three hours…

I guess the last time I listened to Latin music was in 11th grade, in Spanish class with my teacher Mr. Braun. He always seemed a bit off, telling tales of his wild times in Mexico (which i can totally understand now, after living in China for four years).

One Sunday afternoon I saw my Spanish teacher in Barnes and Noble with our class president, a really pretty girl with lots of problems. I thought that was weird. Later, I heard rumors that she came over to his house and his Windows 98 desktop background was an enlarged photo of her eyes. Really weird. I quit Spanish around the same time, but not because of that.

So for three years of DJing I totally ignored Latin music, except Baile Funk. When the homie Sal invited me to play at his Popasuda party last Friday at Dada under the pretense that I could only play Latin jams, I had to do a lot of digging. Glad this happened though cause I found some great reggaeton, cumbia, and more. Big up to Don Vic, the sister Mache, all the cats on a certain web forum I frequent who helped me out, and that lady at the CD market who sold me those dancehall, roots, and booty compilation albums.

latin jams = girls on the dance floor.

Here’s some of the tracks I dropped:

Sabo – Kuff Kumbia

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Big Punisher – You Came Up

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Las Rakas – Borracho (Culea)

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Arcangel – Pa Que Pases Bien

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That “Borracho” track comes from a blog I recently discovered – Mixtape Riot. Great site by a dude who also produces some serious heat under the name Captain Planet.

bag up that weight.

Just a real quick post on this cold tuesday morning – some hip hop gems from back in the day. Really weird knowing that there’s kids out there now who didn’t grow up listening to “Doggystyle” or “Ready To Die,” and possibly haven’t even heard those albums. So these are for the seeds.

Nas – Life’s A Bitch

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Mobb Deep – Shook Ones Pt. II

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hangzhou with <3

The Super Ayi Cleaning Team loves you Hangzhou. Had so much fun playing at Code Space last night. Big up to Tam, DJ Seen, Stephen, and the rest of the Elements crew, my Super Ayi Cleaning Team fam, Cici at Codespace, the homegrl Jodi, the boi D Roc, and everyone who came out and danced.

Tonight, after I finish this “boy gotta eat” gig at a really intense club my friend described as full of “factory owners and models” + birdcages, I’m headed to Shelter for the ROM album release. Peep one of the tracks here, and catch my interview with Ice Nine over at Shanghai 24/7.

Ice Nine – Interface

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will try to post some birdcage photos after tonight…

hood dreams in hangzhou.

What up though. Hangzhou we are coming this Friday night – our first time doing Love Bang outside of Shanghai. So pumped to throw down at Code Space, one of the better venues I’ve seen in China. It’s a renovated warehouse with glass floors and a train that actually rolls around through the club. You can ride the train.

Big up to Elements for bringing us out there. I went out to their Halloween party (same venue) a few weekends ago and they got 350 people out on a Sunday night (!!!)

It’s DJ Caution, MC One Consciousness, and myself rolling out there on Friday evening. If you wanna make the trip to Hangzhou with us, holla at me – we’d love to have some friends from Shanghai join us.

If you don’t know what a Hangzhou is, it’s a “small” city (still like 6 million + i think) about 45 minutes from Shanghai by high-speed train. Round-trip train will cost you about RMB175 and you can get a cheap hotel or even stay in a bathhouse for less than RMB100 a night (with massage!). People say West Lake in Hangzhou is one of China’s most beautiful places, but the lake is too dirty to swim in so I don’t understand this..but regardless, the city is chill, and not a bad place to spend a much-needed weekend outside of Shanghai.

Some rap for you this Monday, starting it off with the second track from Slugabed’s set last weekend at the Shelter. When he dropped some Dipset I knew it was on. Produced by Araab Muzik.

Dipset – Salute

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And a track off the new Drake album. Haters gonna hate, whatever. Drake comes pretty correct for a commercial rapper and I feel like he’s got a lot of creative control for a major label artist (he’s got Jamie XX producing one of the tracks, The Weeknd on a couple others..) Dude sums up his attitude pretty well in this Just Blaze-produced track when he says “Know that I don’t make music for [dudes] who don’t get pussy/so those are the ones that I found diss me or overlook me,” which goes pretty well with my friend’s comment “the biggest ‘get the fuck outta here’ goes to kids who act like rap died in ’96.” Fuck the backpackers.

Drake – Lord Knows (ft. Rick Ross)

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welcome back

finally got all the computer drama sorted.

so much great rap coming out these days. bad economy = good rap music, so it seems. not the case for that Soulja Boy/Lil B mixtape…so bad.

but this kid from Harlem, ASAP Rocky, is bringing it for real. crazy how his style changes up so much even within one verse. plus he’s got the best new producer behind him – Clams Casino.

peep this then search the interwebs for that LiveLoveASAP mixtape real quick.

ASAP Rocky – Bass (produced by Clams Casino)

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DJing at the world’s biggest skatepark on Saturday. my 14 year-old self would be like (!!!)

come correct @ shelter tonight

seems there’s a lot of confusion about what hip hop is, because there’s a lot of wackness in this city. a lot.

i really feel bad for people whose first introduction to hip hop is through something like, say, Hip Hop Hijack or Double Victory Entertainment, because that isn’t hip hop – it’s bullshit. Or when a club like Muse/M1NT has a “hip hop night” but actually it’s some cunt like DJ Spenny playing mashups of e.g. Journey x Beyonce.

luckily, my friends are starting a new weekly hip-hop night at shelter tonight. dudes running this night will not play mashups, and will not clear an entire dancefloor by shouting “booty booty booty booty booty booty!” a la Double Victory Entertainment.

the homeboys playing tonight have been DJing hip-hop for like ten – fifteen years each, from LA to SF to Japan. dem came up in the pre-Serato era; they know the deal. expect hip hop, g-funk, breaks (hip hop breaks, not techno breaks), soul, and more. i may drop a few tunes too.

originally this party was at Panic Room but that place is fucking wack and I bet it will close within three months. shit management + painful soundsystem = not a good place for a hip hop party, or any party.

so now it’s at the one and only Shelter. can’t think of a better place to do this.

Doors @10PM, free until 11PM, 5 RMB after. (5!!)

some tunes to get you in the mood – i never get sick of these

Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

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Warren G – This DJ

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oh, and any MCs are welcome to come down and kick some rhymes. but if you come with some bullshit we will initiate mic control procedures.

kickin the fly clichés

seriously the most on-point and relevant sculpture in all of Shanghai. this city is a fucking time warp. was this random or just some really cheeky architects? this is right downtown like a block from Jing An temple.

some music for the day – the masters of the sample, Wu-Tang Clan, sampled by one of my new favorites, Mosca, who just dropped two free tunes to celebrate 5,000 followers on Twitter. He flips the classic Wu joint into a nice deep house tune.

Wu-Tang Clan – Can It Be All So Simple

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Mosca – The Way We Were

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new tracks coming soon…got something special cooking…

purple dirty sprite 4 lunch

finally back chillin in Shanghai. did three cities in three days (Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Suzhou) and brought dat fire to two music festivals. i still don’t know what the first music festival was called, and even though there were only like 11 people at the dance stage, i had a blast. i made some aunties and little kids dance and that makes it all worth it. ate some BBQ that was probably cat but did not care at that point.

really the only bad aspect of both music festivals – Snow Beer. truly believe this company is behind a campaign to reduce fun at Chinese music festivals. it’s fucking 2.1% alcohol and just tastes like bad water. luckily the kind folks at the Strawberry Music Festival hooked up with Absolut and were selling bottles for RMB300. shit got crunk. upset that no one played any dubstep and that one french girl just played shitty electro on Ableton, out of what seemed to be her built in Macbook soundcard. For real girl, u are at a festival, you need to bring some shit. Step your game up. Also mad at that weak-sauce electro remix of “How Deep Is Your Love” getting played instead of the [outstanding] original. Don’t be scared to drop that shit just because it isn’t quantized. Still love you Dawei.

I’m sure Blaise and Drunk Monk came correct the next day, but I was already in Suzhou, getting kicked off rooftops and petting strange dogs.

did u spend a considerable amount of time driving around the suburbs listening to three 6 mafia on blast? you’d think dem dudes would be dead by now, but oh no.

Juicy J coming seriously correct on his latest mixtape – Rubba Band Business 2

Juicy J – A Zip and a Double Cup

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Juicy J – Stoners Night

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Oh, I also added all the art from all the Love Bang and Beat Buffet parties under the new “Some Art” tab – check it out yo.

new track by MC One Consciousness/other rappers get the sauce face

ya’ll know the boi MC One Consciousness (Charles) is the best rapper in Shanghai, foreign or local.

he’s rapping with DJ Caution and I tmmr night at Dada for Love Bang #10, so I threw him a couple beats to flow on and naturally he picked the Clams Casino beat (originally from Lil B’s “Motivation”).

Motivation (MC One Consciousness) by HeatWolves

that’s just a taste of what we’re dropping on this sunny Friday. we got the Love Bang #10 mixtape coming up later in the afternoon. Getting mastered as we speak..honestly no one is fucking with our mixtape game in this city, just wait. it’s full of original remixes, edits, and more.

THE BIG SHOW

so much going on this weekend…if you’re in Shanghai on Friday, you need to be at Mao Livehouse. The homegrls Cha Cha, part of the Subculture/Uprooted fam, and Cookie, manager of OTAKREW, put together a series of shows showcasing the best Chinese hip hop acts from all around the country. This is the final episode in the three part series – The Big Show.

I went to the first show a few Fridays ago at The Shelter, and honestly I haven’t had a night like that at Shelter in probably two years. Just huge vibes and great music (H20 on some crazy beatbox looping and live Korg action…hBd back-to-back with LJ….Cavia with the late night rock set that had people taking their clothes off…)

This Friday sees The Connection at a much bigger venue – Mao Livehouse. They need it, because one of the hip hop producers from Guangzhou is bringing his 12-piece band (!!!) Lots of other MCs, DJs, and producers, all Chinese, plus the homie Ceezy on the decks. They got cats from both the north and the south – really different places, perhaps even more so than east coast vs. west coast in the states.

I don’t recommend other people’s events much on this site. With that said, DO NOT SLEEP on this one. Tickets are RMB80 pre-sale or RMB100 at the door (remember, they’re bringing artists from all over China for this…it’s a good deal).

So don’t be on some lame bullshit and go to M2 or M1NT to listen to “I Got a Feeling,” because The Big Show is the state of hip hop in China, 2011, and it’s really good. Holla at’cha boy I will be there for sure.

 

hood music for the streets.

sucks to see people living where they work when there’s sawdust and paint fumes everywhere, and that’s life for a lot of people around the world. what’s worse, being a poor migrant worker in China or being a poor minority in the hood in America?

Some music for the hoods across America..

Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame – Young Niggaz

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