Author: YN

Kanye West “Paranoid” Video
Posted By: June 3, 2009 @ 10:31 PM EDT News

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OK, let’s balance B.Dot’s Gay Fish bashin’ (Hey the kid’s from Southside Jamaica, Queens—he ain’t got no boss) and post what appears to be the final version of the “Paranoid” video. Again, I think this joint had summer hit potential, but the video goes in a whole other direction. Nice try but…

Props: Nah Right

Sidebar: SeanTheRobot got good ears. It does sound re-mastered. That I like and appreciate.

Birdman Salutes Master P
Posted By: June 3, 2009 @ 6:27 PM EDT News
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Who says Nawlins hustlin’ big bosess can’t get along? In today’s V60, Weezy’s poppa gives it up to Mr. Miller.

Baby: I mean, shit, to me, Master P was one of the best hustlers to ever do this shit. He did it big—35 albums in one year, bruh. Ain’t nobody ever did that. I think he did it one of the best. I think Master P accomplished something nobody ever did and probably nobody will ever do, too. To where today that seems damn impossible. I just stayed focused on what we was doing. I ain’t never wanted to be what the next man was doing. I respect what they accomplished.

Cosign: I was workin’ at The Source during No Limit mania and it really was insane. Barbara P had an advance CD like every other week for the kid. I still got my custom leather jacket somewhere. Yeah, YN witnessed a movement or two. Or ten. Or fifteen. Or 20. Ha!

The Making of De La Soul’s “3 Feet High And Rising”
Posted By: June 3, 2009 @ 4:02 PM EDT News
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I thought I saw something like this floatin’ around the Internets earlier this year, but Rolling Stone got the brothers from Long Island to give a track by track account on the 20th Anniversary of their classic debut. Yup, you could say YN knows a thing or two about the makin’ of stories.

Acknowledge Your Own History © Jungle Brothers

Bonus: The following is a cool idea that’s never gonna happen.

To mark 3 Feet’s two-decade anniversary, De La are putting together a tour, a book and a album including remasters and remixes of the original tracks, along with some “re-interpretations”: In 1989, when the LP was released, samples were a new frontier and many on the album were used without clearances, which would prevent the tracks from being re-released. But De La has an electrifying idea about how they can release those songs.

“We’ve been in conversations with Warner Bros. to explore re-recording some of the songs with some of the people we sampled from,” says Mase, a.k.a. Vincent Mason. The discussions are still in early stages, but the trio is hoping to cut “Say No Go” with Hall and Oates and “I Know” with Steely Dan, among other tracks. “It’s real cool to know that we have lasted this long, people appreciate what we do,” adds Posdnous, a.k.a. Kelvin Mercer.

Andre 3000’s Concerned About His Future
Posted By: June 2, 2009 @ 9:00 PM EDT News
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3 Stacks continues to annoy me with his humility.

VIBE: Are you concerned about the future of your career?

Yup. Always.

Why?

Because the times are changing. You can’t run from time, no matter what you think. Some of the greatest people in the world, whom I love, time caught up with them. No matter how great they are, time catches up with you. And you have kids that grew up listening to you, that have learned and studied what you do, and perfected it, and took it to other levels—that’s what we’re here for.

I was influenced by somebody and, hopefully, I influenced somebody else. And then somebody get influenced by them—it’s steps. You almost got to make a way for what’s to come.

No you don’t. You gotta make dope shit and keep influencing them. Get in the studio and make the solo album we’ve all been waitin’ for. I’m gonna make some new T-Shirts: Veteran Rappers Need Teaching Too.

Props: V60