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We’re the Go Gettas, You Should Know Better

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Artwork by Danielle Zarrella

Artwork by Danielle Zarrella

Busy Friday, y’all.  Getting AMPED for the Shadowboxers worldwide release (still set for June 23rd, 2009 right here!).

To whet your appetite for The Slow Twilight, we’ve leaked anothet track, the break-up song “Stay Clean” built on an Elliot Smith sample.  This is the first time I’ve been lucky enough to be featured on 2 Dope Boyz, which is aces!

Over at Douglas’ blog, we have a freebie in honor of the new J Dilla album, the oustanding Jay Stay Paid.  The first song on the album, “King,” gets some freestyle burn as I spit this verse Douglas wrote upon the album’s release last week.  Dude is real wordy!  Didn’t want to go all Kweli on it, so I had to cut out a couple things here and there.  My verse is second.  Listen to it here.

Finally, you can catch some live footage from last Friday’s Hip Hop lives of Clean Guns performing “My Piano Freestyle” over on Nicole’s facebook page.  For some reason, Facebook wants you to DL Flash now, which is just rude.  Anyone, if you’re technologically skilled and have Adobe Flash already then you’ll be able to get a taste of what exactly Nico and I do on stage every time out!

People Treat Me Like Kareem Abdul Jabbar

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Here’s the Rap Pack Show review from last week’s performance at Wordplay: A Hip-Hop Video Game Charity Event.

And if you haven’t noticed in the upper right corner, I added a new box for Instant Rocca, a way for to follow me via Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.  No news yet on my profile on BlackPlanet.com or Friendster.

The Grand Finale (No Ja Rule): Feed the Beast Week 10

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“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending”–Lazarus Long

I gotta admit…I was getting a little dusty last week when Nico wrapped up our Feed the Beast promotion.  It started as a way to spread awareness of the debut album No Beast So Fierce (did we mention it’s for sale?) and evolved into this new showcase for Nico’s growing skills as an MC who can literally do just about anything on the microphone. 

He’s actually performed a few from this collection (“Cannon,” “Dey Know”) and will probably add a couple more to the repetoire (my vote is for “Whoa” and “Only You”).  I recorded about 80% of these songs but still listen to them from a fan’s perspective cause my homie just pulled out new blades each week to carve these beats up.  It’s been fun to watch people make requests, leave comments on MySpace and at 33jones, and give Nico the props he really deserves as one of the best MCs on the come-up.  So I wanted to use my little free computerized bloggin’ ass platform to thank EVERYONE who listened, commented, requested, inspired, loathed, ignored, obsessed, and discovered Nico through this quick little promotion that became much bigger than hearing some chicken parm eatin’ dude  from South Philly rap every week.  

Get all three songs (“Go Getta Freestyle,” “Love and War,” and “Passin Me By Freestyle” over at 33jones.com

And if you haven’t had enough of Clean Guns, you can head over to my MySpace page to check out the new song I put called “Nada.”  Produced by Jonathan Ogden impersonator and Beat Garden in-house monster Alex Wood, this was originally slated for my album Fall Back Friday  but fits perfectly on the wild-as-all-hell-and-completely-random mixtape Bring Me the Head of Zilla Rocca dropping in September!

“Nada” was actually recorded last summer, performed a couple times live, highlighted on 215hiphop.com and then re-worked, re-edited, re-recorded, forgotten, revitalized and re-mixed just a couple weeks ago!  Nico does some overdubs on the hook and DJ Jason Famous adds some key scratches.  Check it out!