After a rough week Whoasick is back on track. Moving into september, there will be a whole lot more of a diverse selection of great music featured on the WS. This being that after listening to both the new Young Jeezy and Game records, I have fully become disenchanted with hiphop. These are artists who have delivered great/classic records and have both succeeded to put out two of the most mediocre albums of the year. So for now since my girlfriend moved across the bridge to Brooklyn, I've extended my hand into some excellent hipsterish sounds so I can fit in better when I leave my Manhattan enclave for her Brooklyn abode.
This leads to Empire of The Sun - Walking on a Dream... WOW. I wish I heard this record at the beginning of the summer, but it will allow me to keep summer going through the fall. When the crowd gets rowdy on a night where I'm DJing, I am gonna drop this record and keep it moving. Enjoy this record during the last few days of summer we have left. Empire of The Sun - Walking on a Dream
As if we already weren't providing you with extremely sick content already, one of the hottest artists in Brooklyn decided to let whoasick have an exlclusive track to debut this week for the readers. Sha Stimuli, 2008 UMA Lyricist of the year and creator of the already classic Hotter Than July mixtape, is on a roll heading into the 4th quarter. Sha will be performing at the National Mall for the Million DJ March (August 29th-30th) alongside Saigon, Joell Ortiz & many more. So if you are close to the nation's capitol dont miss this serious line-up! Now enjoy some exclusive greatness from one of Brooklyn's finest. Get the fire below!!! Sha Stimuli - Roll Model
I recently had the distinctly sad experience of watching Soulja Boy scoot around his characterless suburban home on a Segway Personal Transporter. The video is entitled "Rich Nigga Shit Part 1" and is utterly disgraceful.
I initially thought that Ice-T was off base about Soulja's singlehandedly killing hip-hop. I even thought that he was out of line notifying Soulja that the latter was more than welcome to "eat a dick." I have to say that, after watching this travesty of a youtube vid, I'm swinging more toward Ice-T's side of the issue, however I believe that, rather than hip-hop's singlehanded murderer, Soulja Boy is more of a coconspirator in the disordered plot to do in that venerable art form.
This month has seen a string of excellent new artists so I extremely stoked to see the return of a member of one of my favorite rap groups of all time; Buff 1 of the Athletic Mic League. He drops an album called "There's Only 1" out of no where and its a SERIOUS classic. The production is handled by the Lab Technicians (in the top 5 most slept on producers) and is excellent from start to finish but what is so great about the album as a whole is that it FEELS like a hip-hop record but it doesn't fall into the usual trappings of the underground in trying to sound like a hip-hop record. Get put on to Buff 1, the sickest artist right now creating that classic hip-hop.Do not sleep on this song. Top 10 Sickest of the year. Buff 1 - Dream Streets
Buff 1 - Beat The Speakers Up
I cant tell if this is a white southern midget rapping or not... check it at blvdst
OK, so nah right broke this bitch first, but I felt that WhoaSick readers absolutely needed to hear about possible big things poppin' in Atlanta... Goodie Mob (all 4 members-- no monkeys attempting to stop the show here!) reunited last night onstage at Tabernacle in their hometown of ATL, at a Nelly concert, of all things.
If this reunion sticks, this is possibly the SICKest A-Town hip-hop development of 2008.
This city needs the Mob back, and apparently the Goodie boys have realized this undeniable fact. Cee-Lo damn sure knows it, as he is quoted on HipHopDX as saying: There’s no [Goodie Mob] anymore, no one else brave enough to pick up that torch and carry it even further. And [southern Hip Hop] is suffering because of it. But it’s suffering on such a scale that they even recognize it themselves. You may not even have to call their names out. I may not even have to do it because they do realize what a travesty it all is.
One particularly enlightened comment on the HipHopDX post admonishes "Southern ringtone rappers" to "[w]atch out" because "[t]he Mob is back." Indeed, the aforementioned ringtone rappers are, in WSS's opinion, the perpetrators of what Lo aptly termed a travesty-- at their hands, the state of Atlanta and southern hip-hop in general has fallen into such disrepair that we need Goodie Mob to come fix it.
So, laptop gangsters, in your nightly prayers for ATL, be sure to mention the Mob. I know I will.
And here is some Youtube diesel if you don't believe me... Goodie Mob comes onstage at around 8:15...
Ok, I know I'm supposed to be bringing you good people new stuff (and this isn't that-- the Ratatat Remixes: Volume 2 mixtape was released in 2007) and Suth-ren shit (and these talented remixers are from Brooklyn), but I just couldn't help myself... These remixes are just too SICK; protocol can be relaxed.
Without further ado, I present to you WhoaSickSouth's selection of the finest tracks on the mixtape:
There are many more tracks on the Volume 2 mixtape, and there is an earlier mixtape, both available, along with other SICK shit, at the RATATAT website, so go get it, go-getters. BOOM.
Empire of The Sun - Walking on a Dream
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