Muscle Car Chronicles Trailer/Thoughts

Well now. Another rap/rock project out of Dame Dash's workshop. Blakroc proved it can be done really fucking well, so it'll be interesting to see if lightning can strike twice with 72ways favorite Curren$y. It seems to me that the success of any rock oriented rap project is that the basic elements of rock really need to be refined in order to not over power the vocals. It can't be overproduced an glossy. Its gotta have that knock to it, thats so crucial to hip hop. Leave the double time stuff to Girl Talk Tapes.

The drums gotta have a punch to them like a beefed up break beat. The riffs need to sound like samples and loops. And more imporantly its gotta shape itself around the rap. They gotta play nice together. And given Curren$ys versatility as a rapper and the snippet shown on the trailer, I think we might just be in for a treat here.

Also whats up with him signing to Warner Bros? I thought that was like purgatory for rappers like him. Might aswell have signed to Jive...

24 Hour Karate School

At this point in time it seems like 72waystosuckatdancing is spending most of its time yelling about promised projects that have fallen off the radar. And in that vain we continue today with Ski Beatz' 24 Hour Karate School tape. This particular project was formed in the dungeons of Dame Dash's DD172 complex with Ski Beatz working with which ever rappers happened to be passing through, which usually include Mos Def, Jay Electronica, Jim Jones, the current Cheech & Chong of rap; Curren$y & Wiz Kalifa, S.T.A.L.L.E.Y and The Cool Kids.

Everything that has been let out from this tape has been absolutely banging. Prowler 2 is simply one of the best posse cuts I've heard in yonks, with Jay Electronica staggering all over the beat like a drunken master and Jean Grey simply tearing the track to shreds. New leak scaling the building has one of the catchiest beats in a while too plus the very hot right now Cheech and Chong combo that worked so well for the How Fly Tape.



Problem is this tape was hinted at for ages and promised to all on March 30th. That day came and went with a general air of confusion on the internets as there was no sign of it and the eventual excuse came of sample problems. New work on the street according to Nah Right is Sept. 7

Ski Beatz - Scaling the Building (ft. Currensy and Wiz Kalifa)
Ski Beatz - Prowler 2 (ft. Jean Grey, Jay Electronica, Joel Ortiz & Mos Def)