oh sweet paycheck

I just got my first vacation paycheck and it lit the fires of shopping. So I left to The Beat to go spend some of my sweet kiddash on some imports and hard to find singles, I found little of both and settled for 4 albums that ended up being 75% trash. Honestly this was under Dj Muggs in the used hip hop section and if it is Dj Muggs then his career must have tanked something horrific cause this album is such crap I got physically angry.
It's worthless. If anyone knows who this guy is please do us all a favor and tell him to go back to school or something. I got another Beastie Boys single (Sure Shot), the Lifesavas newest album, and The Grey Boy Allstars new shit. Lifesavas last album Spirit in Stone was really good and so it this one, the only real fault is they decided to make this a 'concept album' in the form of a lost Blaxsploitation soundtrack complete with dialogue and narration. This kinda thing can be pulled off to where it could enhance an album, unfortunately it just gets in the way of some great hip hop. For reals they should just let their tracks speak for themselves. This is one of the least spoiled of the tracks (again not that any of them are at all poor the whole narrative of the 'movie' just gets annoying). They're beats are always sick and original and Vursatyl and Jumbo the Garbage man are good mc's.

The Warning

The Greyboy Allstars are awesome. I find it odd that amidst the whole New Soul thang that's going on with Amy, Sharon Jones, The Breakestra, and everyone else Greyboy Allstars are overlooked. They do tend to be more jazzy at times and this especially goes for their newest but still, they made a whole album with Fred Wesley for godsake where's the fuckin propers? What Happened to Television is their first album in 8 fuckin years and I think they lost some of their initial momentum in that alot of it sounds really like modern jazz, but there are some really strong funk tracks. V neck Sweater is very akin to their older stuff with Karl Denson doing a Bootsyish thing that sounds so right.

V Neck Sweater

Their first album West Coast Boogaloo was done with Fred Wesley the infamous trombone from the JB's and Parliament, this album is so dope I can't even tell you. Fred has always been known for making the most out of a limited instrument, he can be repetetive but you really don't care cause it sounds so buttery. Soul Dream is a sick one and Fried Grease lets everyone tear it up as they choose and listen to the guitar at the end, man so nice.

Soul Dream
Fried Grease

This song is a live recording, I forget if it's off their live album or it's done with some jack ass and a tape recorder, thankfully the sound isn't so shitty as most of the crowd recorded crap out there.

Ain't it Funky

Greyboy Allstars were originally from San Diego of all places (them and like what Blink 182?), they were signed by Dj Greyboy and apparently adopted his name for some reason. But before releasing West Coast they worked heavily in tandem with said Dj, with Karl Denson aiding with Maceo like deftness over spacious beats (Maceo's still more on it though), this one has that beat from Dr. Octagon...where's Kool Keith btw? Haven't heard any half assed albums from that guy in forever. Seriously, Kool Keith Dr. Dooom was fucking hilarious, but I expect to see you on 'to catch a predator' any day now. I'll have a Kool Keith post to make up for that off color joke that none of you laughed at.

Whirlwind

oh and Hawaii was off the chain:




Pseudorca crassidens, False Killer Whale pictured below, apparently some Dr. Moreau motherfucker made one of these things mate with a dolphin in captivity and produced the only cross species offspring that is fertile, it's called a 'Wolphin', what assholes.