Author: YN

RR Video: Common Shines Light Down On All Of His Peers

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Get out the way Cudi, the Chi-town express is coming! I don’t even like this piss-poor Pharrell track but even I was hoppin’ up and down. I never seen Com so animated. Maybe he was so amped because he knew a reunion with his ex-boo was on deck.

RR Video: Full Kid Cudi Set

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Is this gonna be the star of the XXL cover pack? Time will tell. But “Sky Might Fall,” sounds like a pretty good second single to me. Click on further for that song you can’t escape and Cudi’s collabo with Cons over a Tribe classic.

RR Video: Some Kanye West SXSW Screw-Ups

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As amazing as the G.O.O.D. music show at SXSW was, it was not without fault. Peep the sound bwoy burial worthy “We Major” and, after the jump, check out a constant problem of the night, Mr. West flubbin’ and often forgettin’ his rhymes.

Old School Salute: Fearless Four “Rockin’ It”

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“And don’t forget the Puerto Rican niggas.”

How bout a lil old school for your Wed morn? And I’m not talkin’ 90’s throwback. I’m talkin old school. The real old school. The YN was in 3rd grade makin’ his mom go to J&R Music World to cop this silver and black 12-inch old school. You down with MP3 yeah you know me. But I still dig me some vinyl as the staff at the RR Mansion can attest. 

Anyways, here’s the Mighty Mike C!, MC President. If you only know this song from the way it was butchered on Jay-Z “Sunshine,” then you lost. Pardon my back!

Props: And it’s still Grand Good

Tribute To Ursher’s Classic Confessions
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The homie Sha from MTV is at it again. He just put a tribute up of the last great R&B album. Has it really been 5 years since Usher changed the game with Confessions? Shit the first half of that album is still undisputed. “Yeah.” “Throwback.” “Confessions 2.” “Burn.” “Caught Up.” SMH. You can’t even compare it to the last train wreck he put out last year. As a wise man once told me, that shit was “difficult.” But shit, let me step out of the way and let Mr. Reid reflect:

Usher’s Confessions Still Holds Up After Five Years

Sidebar: Number #1 is racist!

DJ Drama’s Gucci Mane Interview

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I love it, who needs a radio station to do a radio show. Watch DJ Drama get his Clark Kent on and try to make sense out of the mumblings of Gucci Mane. Can’t believe Mr. Thanks gassed this nigga to think he’s top 5 of anything. Big, Pac, Jay, T.I. and… Gucci? Niggas please.

True story: I’ve been breakin’ Joey IE from Asylum’s balls (no homo) for some exclusive content. So when Gucci came up to Asylum he got him on the phone with B Dot but the convo was so terribly boring, we decided not to run it. This ATLien needs some media training. Mike Jones got more personality than this guy. He must be a killa.

RR Video: Kanye West SXSW Live: “Gone”/”Drive Slow” & “Spaceship”

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Ok I know there’s a lot of video out there from the G.O.O.D. Music showcase but I decided that with all the shit I shot I’m just rollin’ out my highlighted moments in order of the actual show. For those who don’t know the homie Semtex snatched the set list which is pretty close to accurate. 

Here Kanye and crew run through one of my favorites “Gone” (damn to one day to see it with Killa. Say never). The GLC-assisted “Drive Slow” and, after the jump, the unquestionably long-lasting jewel from album number one.