DJ Muggs Beat Making

Hot Sugar - I Don't Wanna B Judged feat. Haleek Maul

A hot track and video directed by the homie Efrin. Salute!

The Baby From Ready To Die Cover

Is this guy:

Rubble Kings

Hip Hopera

Prince Paul's concept hip hop album is very dope. Prince Paul is also responsible for awesome shit such as Gravediggaz, De La Soul, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and Stetsasonic.

1999 - Prince Paul's "A Prince Among Thieves" Full Album

97 was a good year

if you only watch a little of this make sure it is around 4:15

Different Swords

This is a pre-Wu-Tang effort by the RZA. Under the moniker Prince Rakeem he had a deal with Tommy Boy Records, but due to legal problems was never able to complete the deal or the record. The content and style of his rap is very different from a couple years later as the abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan.


"That was more label-directed. I did it, but it wasn't like me being me. I definitely love women, and that rap was a true story, too. Every girl I named was a girlfriend at one point, and some of them were my girlfriend at the same time when I did that song. I probably had three girlfriends when I made that song. When I was writing it, I was like, "I got too many ladies. I got to learn to say no to these motherfuckers. I don't need all these girls." - RZA

Sumthin' to fuck wit'

This here is a documentary of the Wu that was released on bet early this year or maybe last year. Bet played it like twice and I was only able to see the 1st half until now. It's by a dude that grew up with the Wu so there's some pretty amazing footage that has never been seen before. DOPE!



look out for ODB's drunk flow at the beginning of part 7

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5XhLBpyudo
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59gKs5I1frk
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAADoWQGsNY
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gktiK0k35g
Part 6 - Fuck it. YOU find the rest

Raekwon - Cuban Revolution - Memory Man

This is a Mixtape by Memory Man that was released in anticipation of the sequel to the classic Only Built For Cuban Linx, and its pretty fuckin solid, so snatch it up at HHIR.



http://hiphopisread.blogspot.com/2009/08/raekwon-cuban-revolution-download.html

A lil somethin somethin

This is the next book by the RZA. It's been guaranteed by the some 6 review I read to have many unreleased stories and insights into the formation of the Wu. I'll post some links too, but here's some of the nuggets I stole from the reviews I read:

*RZA says that in 1991, Ghost was very into trying rip off a Brinks truck.

*Ghost used to call Old English “Wu juice,” and RZA used to call Ballantine Ale “Shaolin.”

*In 1989, RZA showed some of his friends Eight-Diagram and says some of them started crying because it’s so real.

*RZA used to ride the subway wearing a Big Daddy Kane-style gold cable, a book of 120 lessons, and a .38 revolver.

*If you see Method Man on the street and yell out “Shaquan!” he’ll probably turn around.

*A sampling of RZA’s early production tools: 1982, Technics SL-6 turntable; 1985, Roland 606 drum machine; 1988, Casio sampler.

*RZA used to live in a basement below some family members of Prince Po from Organized Konfusion; Po used to come visit him and watch him make beats.

*RZA once hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio, right after Titanic came out. They smoked cuban cigars together and Leo recited some Wu-Tang lyrics.

*RZA holed up at Trump Tower while working on the Bobby Digital album; for fun, he used to hang out on the front stoop of The Plaza, drinking 40s, smoking weed, and watching the celebrities come and go.

*Method Man, the group's most recognizable voice, was nearly killed before the band formed, Wu-Tang's chief producer, RZA, writes in his forthcoming memoir.

Meth was walking to buy marijuana at 160 Park Hill Avenue in Staten Island -- the house in Wu-Tang's "Protect Ya Neck" video -- when RZA saw him across the street, he writes in the book.

"Come over here, yo!" RZA beckoned, according to "The Tao of Wu" (Riverhead). "He stopped and came running over. A few seconds later -- pow-pow-pow-pow-pow! -- a guy started shooting up the front of 160. A buddy of ours, Poppy, an innocent, school-going, nice guy -- he was shot and killed right there."

*"The 36 Chambers needs to be on Broadway, baby!" - The RZA

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930280,00.html#ixzz0X1PgGb2d

*RZA writes in the book that he once witnessed ODB force his own son to watch him do drugs. RZA tried to leave, he writes, but ODB wouldn't let him

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/12/rza.tao.wu.tang/index.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2009/09/22/the-tao-of-the-wu/

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930280,00.html

I Suggest You Get Familiar

Gravediggaz is one of hardcore hip hop's hidden gems. They combine the genius of RZA of Wu-Tang, and Prince Paul of De La Soul, as well as two other MC's from Stetasonic.

Get high. really high. and put on the the record 6 Feet Deep.

enjoy

It's A Place To Be

If you know what's good for you, you'll visit 5 pointz.