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Hellthy: Hip Hop
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This Is Hellthy: Hip Hop, promoting great hip hop and rap acts and their labels and is dj'ed by Nat Guy out of Brooklyn, NY. Hellthy channels are podcasts/mp3 blogs/desktop radio stations promoting great artists that want to be promoted. It offers the best damn legal mp3s from around the web released by the artists and their labels themselves.
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23-Dec-2004 |
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Hellthy: Hip Hop Episodes - | Hellthy Introduces Guest DJ Series | MP3 5 She Artist The Accorns Website Album Dropping From The Trees Buy NowLabel Candlewax Records WebsiteGenre Hip Hop Music PodcastMixing it up: I'm introducing the Hellthy Guest DJ series. If you are a podcaster who loves great music, and want to get your name, your podcast and the music you love in front of Hellthy drop me an email at nat@hellthy.com to become a Hellthy Guest DJ. Hellthy listeners don't want no junk. Email me - I'd love to hear from you.So first up is Nashville Hip Hop producer Johhny Brickhouse who runs The Nashville Music Podcast. It's a mostly Hip Hop and Rock show with the occasional funked-out grab-bag sound collage and skit. It's a really good show. ... and hell yeah. I'm listening to episode 23 as I write this. Starts off with a crackling, potty-mouth voicemail message and resolves to - ahh - Bill Wither's classic Lovely Day. Great song.So for his Hellthy Guest DJ spot he's playing DC-based underground Hip Hop act on Candlewax Records: The Acorns. The song is 5 She from their album Dropping From The Trees. Mad Squirrel has a super-laid back and honest delivery with a slight, endearing lisp. This is underground Hip Hop of the collegiate, backpack variety rather than the gold-plated "convinging-you-I'm-more-dangerous-than-I-probably-am" variety. I like both types myself. And I dig this. So thanks JB for introduing them to me and to Hellthy.So visit his site: www.JohnnyBrickhouse.com and if you like what you hear subscribe to his podcast.And if you want to be a Hellthy Guest DJ drop me an email. And this ain't rocket science. You can do this too. As long as you are passionate about something: music, food, fighting... something. If you want to make your own Hellthy Enterainment check out my Big Contact www.BigContact.com. Post your audio or video anywhere on the 'net you want and Big Contact will do the rest.Cheers. | Get at Short URL | Download Hellthy Introduces Guest DJ Series | Play in Popup.
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| Junko Yanagida - Flowers | MP3: FlowersArtist: Junko Yanagida WebsiteLondon's Concrete and Clay brings us some creeped-out Japanese surrealism blending Japanese (and Japanglish) spoken word with classical samples (I'd say Dvorak but I'm a Classical jack-ass) over a simple hip-hop beat. Junko's Japanese text is darker than her English - and if it was in English it would probably sound unbearably overwrought: "If I can forget everything, I want to forget everything. If this is my decision I cant blame it on anyone else. Everything I can see is messed-up and makes me puke. I want to throw it all away but I can't runaway from it. I need help but no one will help. Damnit! I want to do something. Kill. Damn!" The Japanese are so dramatic with their entertainment. Then Junko switches to English and the flower talk. This is a very creepy, cool track that, if done by a native English-speaker, would probably sound like garbage art-school schlock. Wait for that chorus to hit. Call me a sucker for 1) anything Japanese, 2) classical music and 3) hip-hop (ha) but this short track is currently one of the favorites I've posted here. Content courtesy of Big Contact Open Channel. | Get at Short URL | Download Junko Yanagida - Flowers | Play in Popup.
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| BadR - Smoke Yourself to Death | MP3: Smoke Yourself to DeathArtist: BadR WebsiteLabel: Concrete and Clay WebsiteMan finding full hip-hop tracks that hip-hop artists release themselves as mp3s seems like a very rare thing... Something about the genre being more single-driven than the indie rocker genre I assume - though in the underground I would think this wouldn't matter as much...I did have some kool rare stuff from Kool Keith that I wanted to show ya'll, but there was something up with the files. I'm working on that... and this channel in general. Man, I don't like being so lax here. If you are a hip-hop artists or label or management and you think you have hot shit - post it to the Big Contact Open Channel. I'll get it... Speaking of that: Indie French hip-hop from London-based artist BadR was found on the Big Contact Open Channel. | Get at Short URL | Download BadR - Smoke Yourself to Death | Play in Popup.
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| Crown City Rockers - Fortitude | www.Hellthy.com Presents:Artist: Crown City Rockers feat. Gift Of Gab from Blackalicious WebsiteSong: Fortitude Download MP3 From Album: Earthtones Buy AlbumI happened across a mag called Mugshot in a little Japanese-run, uber hip arty Manhattan shop on Orchard Street I think it was. I can't remember the name of the shop but they had an incredibly cool custom-designed, Tokyo-made bike and a bunch of arty design books mixed with arty Japanese porn books. So I wanted to give credit to Mugshot where I came across Crown City Rockers and a handful of other jazz-tinged, live musician-based, backpack hip-hop - an often pretentious subgenre of music that seems so easy to do badly. This is pretty good though. So here is CCR - buy the album if you like it - just ignore, if you can, the stupid over-dubbed talk they added to this mp3 to get you to buy the album. With Gift Of Gab from Blackalicious. | Get at Short URL | Download Crown City Rockers - Fortitude | Play in Popup.
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| R.A. the Rugged Man - Lessons | www.Hellthy.com Presents:Artist: RA the Rugged Man WebsiteSong: Lessons (Clean) Download MP3 From Album: Die, Rugged Man, Die Buy AlbumLabel: Nature Sounds WebsitePoor white rappers have so much to prove. Remember when British white kids did their best to mimic black American blues musicians? The limey singers tried their best to ape the inflections and lyrical content of orignal black, bluesmen singers. But eventually blues-loving honkies morphed into their own thing, allowing themselves to break away from blue's true past. Seems like we are still in the early days of white appropriation of Hip Hop where white rappers feel like fakes if they say "Earth" instead of "Erf" and put pictures of themselves on album covers in black and white, sepiatone or duotone manipulations meant to downplay their whiteness. Times have changed. A handful of generations ago many black albums, at the insistence of their labels, had random white guys and gals on their covers meant to encourage sales. One-time Biggie collaborator R.A. says "this is who I be" and "I'm sticking to shit I'm livin'" and I don't doubt it. R.A. would say that his whiteness and his nonconformity has something to do with his inability to become more successful. The music is self-centered, self-loathing, myopic hip hop - the same ingredients for another white hip hop boy - the clown Eminem. So why is Eminem a money-ed star and R.A. still cruising the underground? R.A. says he won't bow to the "white boy needs a black boy to win" biz mentality. And I'd say Eminem without Dr. Dre would be even more unlistenable without Dre's skills adding a little sex to Eminem's catchy, bitchy, sexless whining.So blues and jazz were both huge cultural and musical changes yeah? Rock n' Roll too. And most recently Hip Hop which is still working its shit out. All black American creations by the way - later to be changed and morphed by folks of all different races and nationalities. Does the future hold yet another seismic musical creation like those others? What will Hip Hop turn into next? | Get at Short URL | Download R.A. the Rugged Man - Lessons | Play in Popup.
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| Aesop Rock - Basic Cable | www.Hellthy.com Presents:Artist: Aesop Rock Website | Buy The Album Song: Basic Cable Download MP3 Label: Mush Website "So I heard you all want to float". This is underground New York white rap (representing about 4 years ago). From Aesop's first full length which he released on the Mush label before heading to Jux. I'd love to put some Jux artists up too for you all to check out but they seem to be mp3 unfriendly. Check out Mush for a bunch of downtempo stuff and: "Mush originally started as a downtempo instrumental label, but has grown to include other types of underground music that we make and love - abstract hiphop, jazzy grooves, turntablist compositions, and even some music influenced by indie rock." | Get at Short URL | Download Aesop Rock - Basic Cable | Play in Popup.
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