The Celts SHUT DOWN the Lakers, Extra P, and Jesus Shuttlesworth I loved it all! ALL Kobe / Jordan comparisons need to STOP! Michael Jordan NEVER folded in the Finals like Kobe did. Kobe is an insanely talented player, and maybe the best in the NBA right now, but he is not on MJ’s level, not even close.
Great playoffs though, much funner to watch when the unbelievably boring Spurs aren’t out there flopping and crying. At least Vujacic kept up the strong European crying game for Ginobili. See you next year (maybe sans Sonics but I hope not)
The disc is called Lay it Down. You’d think coproducer Ahmir Thompson, a.k.a. ?uestlove of the Roots, would do up old-school master Al Green in neo-soul mannerisms: weirding him out with muted-and-multitracked trumpets and boom-bap drumming. Instead, on Lay It Down, he’s created a natural-sounding album with occasional horns and strings, taking cues directly from Green’s best old records. It’s much more Memphis ’72 than Philadelphia ’99. Beyond Green’s wriggly, giggly, purring-to-screaming magnificence (as well as two smoking support vocals by young acolyte Anthony Hamilton), this is an album of intricate groove. You can put your head inside Thompson’s carefully placed drumbeats—he has studied Al Jackson, the best of Green’s old drummers, microscopically—and bassist Adam Blackstone’s superb, weird rhythm-girding phrases. Song quality tapers off at the end, but the album’s already made its point: Funk is in the details.–Reviewed by Ben Ratliff
Some new stuff up on the page for listening, go check it, this stuff is next level. Production, and Rhymes, are all on point. There is a track featuring a hook from Darius Wilrich that is butter smooth, but my favorite right now is Follow The Leader, the drums are good, and the Rakim vocal loop if SICK! I wrote about this before, but I am still waiting for that Bean One beat the looped up The Game, that he dropped about a year ago at a Red Bull beat battle. Keep an eye on these guys, I have a feeling some real good shit is about to start happening…
So when we first launched the Dirty Future site last summer one of the first people that somehow found us on the interwebs were these cats from LA called INVERSE, I had never heard of them, but really like the Beats and Rhymes I was hearing, and I have been checking in on them on their BLOG and MYSPACE ever since. They were kind enough to link us up on their blog and we did the same.
Well I am glad to say that things seem to be moving in the right direction for these guys. They recently got a great review on OKAYPLAYER, and then this week they are on the front page of MySpace Music. Nice work!
So go check it out you won’t be disappointed, right now “Remember The Name” is my favorite track… INVERSE is deffinitely DF Approved!
Download it for free on their page, BUT, then go cop INVERSE - So Far (The Collection) at iTunes below
Never heard of this guy until today over at Frank 151, but he is pretty nice on Akai. I like it, definitely DF approved, there are some heavy riffs happening with some serious low-end, this is the formula for the goods. Go check it Big BEATS! the track Disconnected Pt 2 is really nice.
