Li-Li-Live from New York: Has-Lo & Zilla Rocca in Brooklyn SATURDAY 2/25
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Category Archives: Wrecking Crew
Indie Rap’s Like a Chinese Fingertrap: “Pulp Banga 101″
Artwork by Dr. Quandary for Memetic Supply Co.
If you can list all the comic book references in my last verse, I’ll send you a Nights & Weekends t-shirt.
Hummingbird Science: “Full Spectrum 2″ with Has-Lo & Open Mike Eagle
Artwork by Dr. Quandary for @memeticsupplyco
Via Passion of the Weiss:
“Bug eyed monsters clutching swooning heroines. Grassy knolls and brazen adventurers. Blue Beatle butterflys. Murder scenes swept with neon green urgency before tops are turned Ron Burgundy. What’s a Golden Gopher to a taxiderm? Zen koans by Zilla Rocca.
Skies stained the color of ash and Tiramisu. Tarnished crowns and lacquered hair. Gold not bronze. Gazebos the color of ginger. Blu Cantrell doppelgangers and blind eyes. Has-Lo, the hard-boiled hallucinator.
Corner cramped, tattoo covered girls, mother of pearl eyed girls, long legged flamingos, mouth leaking magenta, lights no white polar bears, nights over. Open Mike Eagle, sardonic and scoping the albatross. Everything finishes with bass. What? The fuller spectrum.”
All Flavor, Slight Pulp: New Wu Freestyle
Bigger is Better: Small Professor “Gigantic Vol. 0″
The latest loaded chopper from Wrecking Crew beatsmith Small Professor with some choice remixes of our favorite crew records from last year, along with glass pieces from Elzhi, Phat Kat, Deal the Villain, and our Lessondary Crew brethren. Get atomized.
Ain’t Worried About a Concept, I Already Killed One: “Bad Weather Classic” feat Mally & Curly Castro (Dr. Quandary Remix)
Artwork by Dr. Quandary for @memeticsupplyco
“Earlier this year, Zilla Rocca made his World Around debut with the dark and stylish Bad Weather Classic EP, which served as a perfect soundtrack for the waning winter months. For the third round of our bi-weekly single series, Dr. Quandary hooked us up with his remix of the title track, which features visionary guest verses from Minneapolis rising star Mally and Zilla’s Wrecking Crew associate Curly Castro.
Contrasting the driving rhythm and epic vibe of Face One’s original beat, the Dr. Quandary version is violently ethereal, with the drone of heavy bass and plaintive guitars washing up against jagged, dusty percussion. A rough edit of the song first appeared on a compilation by the French label DEZORDR this fall, but this is the first time that Quan’s original final mix has been made available.
Bad Weather Classic (Dr. Quandary Remix) is available as a free download on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. We’ll be back later this month with another World Around Wednesday on December 21st, followed by our annual year-end compilation. Stay tuned!”
My Rap Flow’s FANTASTIC: Curly Castro Video Premiere
Curly Castro
“They Call Me Castro”
Produced by Blueprint (Rhymesayers/ Greenhouse)
Off the LP Fidel
Directed by Joe Castro (no relation)
Shot on location at Occupy Philly
Fidel drops in 2012.
Beats and rhymes from Has-Lo, Georgia Ann Muldrow, Small Professor, Open Mike Eagle, Ralph Rip Shit, Zilla Rocca, and many more.
Listen To My New Piece of Glass: “Scallops” off Wu-Tang Pulp
Hand drawn illustration by Will Macey. Cover design by Dr. Quandary for Memetic Supply Co.
“Check his history: Zilla Rocca’s been a beast. In just 16 bars, no other rapper could seamlessly namedrop the futility of the Seattle Pilots, Neruda, Hemingway’s love of daiquiris, Medellin, Omega 3′s, chicken nuggets, and Southern Comfort while flipping the beat to Tony Stark’s “Fish.” When the Wrecking Crew co-founder first floated the idea of a Wu-Tang Pulp project, I thought it was totally superfluous. Vintage Wu-Tang songs can’t be improved, but what Zillaknew and I didn’t, is that they’re the perfect jump-off — spring boards for creativity that manifest in “Scallops,” the second leak from the project.
Enter the Wrecking Crew. ZR with the unfadeable Has-Lo and Curly Castro, both of whom have been snapping on tracks like emaciated men ripping shells off a platter of bottom feeder seafood. As Has points out, the only thing left to do is go to Red Lobster. Or if you’re in LA, get the shrimp burrito at Senior Fish.
Either way rappers, this is how you tastefully reference the past without cranking out empty nostalgia. If you didn’t think that yesterday’s selection of RZA as the #1 producer of all-time was crackpot, you will want to hear this song. (And probably the J-Zone remix of Has-Lo’s “Light Years” that also dropped this week).” – Passion of the Weiss
Live Tonight: Open Mike Eagle x Has-Lo x Curly Castro
- Design by Dr. Quandary for Memetic Supply Co.
Hellfyre Club & Wrecking Crew together again
