Big Boi - “Royal Flush” (feat. Raekwon & Andre 3000)

Off of Big Boi’s solo, Left Foot. Who’s still wishing for Cuban Linx 2? Whatev. Song’s fire though. Three Stacks once again in murk mode.

Ghost confused me …like the Bible.

Scooped from The Village Voice.

First Starks says how he respects Hov for creating the first full Adult Contemporary Rap Album with Kingdom Come and his perspective of his work:

…You gotta start talkin’ about more adult things. You talkin’ about kilos all day, it’s like, ‘C’mon, man.’ I gotta start talkin’ about—help savin’ the babies, man. And getting these women to be a real mother to they child, and getting these guys to start fuckin’ lovin’, respectin’ my women. You gotta grow—development. And your fans’ll get mad at you and shit, but they gotta understand too, man. That this is your life, man; this ain’t they life. I done gave you what I could give you when we was all livin’ in that world, but we ain’t doin’ that no more. You know what I mean? — [ Source ]

Then he speaks on his disagreement with Rza’s evolution and that evolution’s incorporation into 8 Diagrams. Rae made that same point to Miss Info.

…He wanna do what he do, when we trying to tell him, like, ‘Yo, man, do this or do that.’ His music wasn’t sounding like how it was when we first came in. And it’s hurting us. People want that old Wu-Tang shit, but you tryin’ to make new shit—tryin’ to play live instruments, instead of just goin’ to the crates and just do what you do best. You still a master at what you do, but right now you ain’t lookin’ like that master, ’cause you tryin’ to do other stuff. We were just upset with the way things was comin’ out.

Rob Harvilla (writer) recognizes the slight contradiction

…”We just need to go back to what we been doin’…If we not gonna go back to what the people — if you tryin’ to get somethin’ new, then do it right…Not just a beat with a bunch of rhymes goin’ different types of ways, and the beat’s not even all that, but you want everyone to sing on it.

The new single for Hi-Teknology 3 which drops on December 11th. The song is hot. Hi-Tek is THAT dude. The widget below is a flash app in auto play so it’s under the jump. I’ll update when I get the mp3. Wait There's More

Pimp C snaps on this banger from Icewater’s Polluted Water.

Let me say, I’ve been blessed to have been listening to very good music lately. Icewater’s Polluted Water is nice. Strong Arm Steady’s Deep Hearted is insane. And I’m diggin’ Talib Kweli’s efforts mentionned below. Dilated Peoples‘ The Release Party stays on rotation. Remy Ma gets her props too. besides Shesus Khryst, what seems to be a disc full of tracks left over from her Terror Squad days has hit the net entitled The BX Files.

On the flip, that cover is quite trash. Send me $100, and some high resolution photos, I’d hook it up.

Icewater - Knuckle (feat. Raekwon & Pimp C)