Protons and Electrons Always Cause Explosions

During Saturday’s Double Entendre, Curly Castro and I debuted a cut off our upcoming Wu-Tang Pulp project (dropping next year) titled “Monty Hall Expo”, a flip of Ghostface’s “Mighty Healthy”.  You’ll be seeing and hearing more about the Wu-Tang project for sure in ’11, but the basic premise is working with some of our friends and favorite artists in recreating seminal Shaolin finger jabs from the samples on up to film dialogue while adding a neo-noir hit from the ski’d out Optimo.

Here’s a little teaser assignment I bodied from the overlooked Ghost Dog soundtrack:

Raise your sword up
This is the long cut
Raw shit pick it up when I call you (da-da-ding!)
Duck the law y’all
Fuck the long talks
Put your hammer down, better raise your sword up (sching!)

Hello it’s me again, your neighborhood detective
Quite reflective, my preference a cocktail dress
With no protection, the alley way pen glider
All night assigments,  my night vision spy shit’s priceless
Actually on consignment. I copped that at Cosmi’s
On 9th and Spring Garden before they shut that shit down
Warpaint on the face just like Samoans
I never touch the stage without my holsters
I never drove a Cobalt, Beretta with the locks by the window
Hang rappers like missletoe
Pulling up with twinkletoes, seated in the front
She’s a tall drink of water, and I’m thirsty for a cup
While my office collects dust unlike new producers
Never heard a record, and they never bought a record
And they never skipped a record, so they can’t be the future
Nickel Night at the Medusa, on Chestnut
For 5 dollars, I’m kissing fish but I’m dressed up
Swimming drizzy pissy cabs that’s necessary
You either get inside my pocket or you’re getting buried
Better hurry, I’m automatic Stephen Curry

Raise your sword up
This is the long cut
Raw shit pick it up when I call you (da-da-ding!)
Duck the law y’all
Fuck the long talks
Put your hammer down, better raise your sword up (sching!)

The RZA, The Razor, Hit Me With The Flavor

Maaan….

A few months back, the good folks over at Metal Lungies asked me to participate in their Beat Drop series to dissect my five favorite Neptuns productions.  This month, it’s THE RZA, who I can safely say is 63% of the reason why I make beats to begin with.  To even isolate my five favorite RZA productions is like Shawn Kemp picking his favorite child out of wedlock–close to impossible (or completely unkown in Shawn’s case–I keed, Reign Man was ill).  So I decided to monkeywrench myself and pick 5 mostly non-Wu beats because I could write a 15,000 word syllabus on “Winter Warz,” “Triumph,” “Glaciers of Ice,” “Bring the Pain,” etc.  Also, Ciz thought it would be cool to do that. 

Here’s my picks:

“4th Chamber” GZA f/ Killah Priest, Ghostface, RZA (had to do it)
“Put Your Hammer Down” Funkmaster Flex f/ Wu-Tang Clan
“Stand Up” Charli Baltimore f/ Ghostface
“Stroke of Death” Ghostface f/ Solomon Childs, RZA
“Unpredictable” Wu-Tang Clan

This month’s Beat Drop includes write-ups from the usual suspects (Brandon, Flood) and some revered luminaries from the production/DJ field, such as Statik Selektah, DJ Eclipse, Marco Polo, 88 Keys, and Aeon.

Read the Beat Drop: The RZA over at Metal Lungies HERE.

Free Music Week Day 3

Right now, my knuckles are scuffed and covered in dirt and grease. 

My palms are sore and cracked.  My shirt is caked in sweat. 

My back is barking like a Doberman in Fishtown.

In other words, I had to change a flat tire on my car during my lunch break.  And surprise surprise, someone *cough Pep Boys cough* switched out the lugnuts the last time I had a flat, so the current lugnuts were stripped.  I could only get one lugnut off in the 30+ minutes I spent trying to unleash my inner Hulk. 

The best I can do to alleviate the annoyance of having to put the lugnut back on, call a towtruck, spend $60 to have my car towed approximately 3 blocks to the nearest Goodyear, and then have them tell me the tires I need are sold out and won’t be in until the morning…is to play this mean ass shit:

“State of Grace Freestyle” (produced by RZA supposedly off of Cuban Linx 2)
rapped over by Zilla Rocca for the mixtape Bring Me the Head of Zilla Rocca