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Video: De La Soul Feat.The Spirit Of Wu Tang “Get Away”

soulrocks — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:29:44 +0000

The official video of De La Soul’s "Get Away” Feat. The Spirit Of Wu Tang. Directed by Lenny Bass & Kris Merc.

Audio – Maseo (De La Soul) + Mac Miller “I Bring The Soul & He Brings The Funk”

soulrocks — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:58:34 +0000

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanian emcee Mac Miller teams up with Maseo on this infectious joint “I Bring The Soul & He Brings The Funk”.

soulROCKS minitape pt4

soulrocks — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:35:12 +0000

Track listing
1. Tonight’s entertainment
2. Gorillaz/De La Soul – Super star jellyfish
3. Mark Ronson – Circuit breaker
4. De la soul – Return of the DST
5. Mark Ronson – Bang bang bang
6. Mndr – Club/fade to black

soulROCKS minitape pt1

soulrocks — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:13:13 +0000

Track listing
1. Lenny Kravitz -Lady
2. N.E.R.D – Don’t You Worry About It
3. Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
4. Gnarls Barkley/ The Raconteurs – Crazy As She Goes
5. The Roots – The Seed 2.0

A Tribe Called Quest

soulrocks — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:41:14 +0000

Without question the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s, A Tribe Called Quest was formed in 1988, though both Q-Tip (b. Jonathan Davis) and Phife (b. Malik Taylor) had grown up together in Queens. Q-Tip met DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad while at high school and, after being named by the Jungle Brothers, the trio began performing. Tribe’s recording debut came in August 1989, when their single, “Description of a Fool,” appeared on a tiny area label, they signed to Jive later that same year. They released their first album, “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm”, one year later. Much like De La Soul, Tribe looked more to jazz as well as ’70s rock for their sample base “Can I Kick It?” plundered Lou Reed’s classic “Walk on the Wild Side” and made it viable in a hip-hop context. No matter how solid their debut was, second album The Low End Theory outdid all expectations and has held up as one of the best hip-hop albums of all time. Tribe cemented their support of the rap community with 1993’s “Midnight Marauders”. Though impossible to trump Low End’s brilliance, the LP offered several classics including “Award Tour” and “Electric Relaxation”. Returning in 1996 with their fourth LP, Beats, Rhymes and Life, Tribe showed signs of wear; it was a good album, but proved less striking than “The Low End Theory” or “Marauders”. While touring in support of 1998’s “The Love Movement”, the group announced their impending breakup.

Website www.atcq.com

Gorillaz

soulrocks — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:46:18 +0000

Conceived as the first “virtual hip-hop group,” Gorillaz blended the musical talents of Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Blur‘s Damon Albarn, Cibo Matto‘s Miho Hatori, and Tom Tom Club‘s Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz with the arresting visuals of Jamie Hewlett, best known as the creator of the cult comic Tank Girl.Nakamura‘s Deltron 3030 cohorts Kid Koala and Del tha Funkee Homosapien rounded out the creative team behind the Gorillaz quartet, whose virtual members included 2-D, the cute but spacy singer/keyboardist; Murdoc, the spooky, possibly Satanic bassist and the brains behind the group; Russel, a drummer equally inspired by “Farrakhan and Chaka Khan” and possessed by “funkyphantoms” that occasionally rise up and provide some zombie-style rapping; and last but not least, Noodle, a ten-year-old Japanese guitar virtuosa and martial arts master. The group’s website, www.gorillaz.com, showcased Hewlett‘s visuals and the group’s music in eye- and ear-catching detail.

Gorillaz debuted in late 2000 with the Tomorrow Comes Today EP, which they followed early the next year with the popular Clint Eastwood single. A self-titled, full-length debut album arrived in spring 2001. Gorillaz was a massive worldwide success and achieved platinum-level sales in the U.S.; worldwide, it sold over seven million copies. The group’s Svengalis were quick to capitalize, and released the B-sides collection G-Sides, the Phase One: Celebrity TakedownDVD, and the dub-inspired remix album Laika Come Home in 2002. The project soon went on hiatus, however, as Albarn resumed work with Blur for their seventh album, 2003’s Think Tank.

When he was ready to begin the next Gorillaz album, Albarn turned to Danger Mouse (the DJ behind The Grey Album, the infamous mash-up of the Beatles‘ White Album and Jay-Z‘s Black Album) and a host of other collaborators, including De La Soul, Shaun Ryder,Debbie Harry, Dennis Hopper, and Martina Topley-Bird. Although Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Nakamura did not return, 2-D, Russel, Murdoc, and Noodle were all present and accounted for on Demon Days, another Top Ten hit, which arrived in spring 2005. The album went double platinum in America and enjoyed even more success in the U.K.; it also received a host of Grammy nominations, a sign that the band had secured critical as well as commercial approval. Gorillaz broke ground for a new album in 2007, but the project wasn’t released until 2010, when Plastic Beach marked the band’s third studio effort.

http://gorillaz.com/