It's rather impossible to catch
every awesome album that comes out, but I am kicking myself over missing the
release of Black Milk's latest effort, Popular Demand. The disc
dropped last month courtesy of Fat Beat Records, and from what I am hearing,
it is Mr. Curtis Cross' best yet. The Detroit rapper is as old as I
am, 23, but has already managed to become an accomplished producer and
emcee, whereas I have this blog. Clearly, it doesn't quite equal out
but I am happy to say that my site does have a nice color scheme and a half
ton of badass music. Anyway, I think Curtis is pretty much the new Mos
Def and will inevitably take over the underground hip hop world in no time.
I doubt that I could possibly recommend a bandwagon to jump on more than
his. Enjoy.
:Black Milk - Pressure:
"If greatest had a sound I would sound exact." Curtis has a knack for
throwing out some high quality lyrical gems, and to be honest there is some
part of me that wants of me to just transcribe the whole damn song in this
space. I'm not entirely insane though, so I won't. You just need
to make sure you download this as quick as possible.
:Black Milk - Sound The Alarm (Featuring Guilty
Simpson):
I believe that this was the first single released off the new album.
It's a raucous track that has big fun beat and Curtis lets loose a bit since
he wants to make sure you get out of you chair when it comes on. On
the other hand, how could you not get up and move around with a chorus like
"Hands to the sky/Get em' high/Call out for help/This shit is wild."
On a grindhouse related side
note, I
watched Death Race 2000 this
weekend. The movie featured David Carradine, as the scarred
Frankenstein, and Sylvester Stallone, as the bat-shit crazy Machinegun Joe,
in a road race where you kill people for points. I think it was one of
the most bizarre things that I have ever seen, especially since it was
essentially about reality TV gone awry.
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