After King Fantastic declared summer dead yesterday with their “Death of Summer” EP the question is how do you end August the best way? You party with your pussy out of course! Let the summer go out in style so to speak…

Yes, here’s finally one crazy collaboration I’ve been looking forward to, the one between Andy Milonakis and everyone’s fave party girl Chippy Nonstop called ‘Spaghetti (aka Party With Your Pu$$y Out)’ . This lil’ banger (that could easily been THE smash hit for the summer) is produced by Party Animal & Grizz Lee and the video is directed by Max Albert:

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Yes, I guess when it’s only 13+ degrees Celsius outside it’s time to change the hotpants to leggings again and start to realize that the summer is over for this time.

Yes, the summer is dead but that doesn’t have to be all bad, no far from as Killer Reese and Troublemaker of King Fantastic’s long awaited EP “Death of Summer” drops today on Hollyrock.

I’ve already featured the lead single ‘Locals Only‘ and Troublemaker’s Noisia-flavoured edit of the same, but the EP also features these three nasty goodies:

King Fantastic – ‘?Cual es mi Nombre, Nina? (Daddy Baby)’

King Fantastic – ‘Break His Motherfucking Back’

King Fantastic – ‘Locals Only’ (Knight Riderz Remix)

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Stream the release below but first have a look at the official video directed by Lazlo:

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Spoek Mathambo & Cerebral Vortex “Drunk Like That” (original)
Spoek Mathambo & Cerebral Vortex – Drunk Like That (Nightmare Juke Squad Remix)

DL the Douster-edit over at RCRDLBL here.

After numerous delays, the day is now here when the ninth studio album and the fourth chapter of Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter”-saga lands.

Let’s start at the end of this record, on track 15 with the Willy Will-produced ‘Outro’. After a great verse from Bun B, an okay one from Nas and one that’s absolutely HORRID from Shyne (seriously is he ill or something? He sounds like he could drop dead any second), Busta Rhymes wraps it all up with the following: “Tunechi, thanks for giving us a whole another classic with Tha Carter IV“. Well, Busta, I really don’t know about that.

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Well, “Tha Carter IV” is not a bad album. far from. It got great productions from everyone from T-Minus to Timbaland, Weezy’s lyrical game is as sharp as ever but the problem is that it feels a bit tired and forced from time to time. The tunes are great as singles but album = classic? No. “Tha Carter III” is a straight classic. This chapter feels a bit like one of those many movie follow ups with a slimmer budget. Sure, the album got many high peaks but Weezy is also out on some deep waters sometimes.

One of the peaks and one of best tracks is the Diplo-produced ‘Two Shots’ which is one of the four added bonus tracks on the deluxe edition:

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Another one is ‘Blunt Blowin’ produced by DVLP of RedOne Productions. ‘President Carter’ and ‘Megaman’, the production (which is of-course signed Megaman) is mental and it has sort of the same feel like when Weezy went on Doe Boyz-’Fireman’ on “Tha Carter II” six years ago:

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Somewhere in the middle lies tracks like ‘How to Hate’ which is produced by Nappy Boy’s Young Fyre and it’s the other part of the dichotomy that becomes one with the third single off the album: ‘How to Love’. T-Pain’s feature on ‘How to Hate’ is one hot mess on auto-tune and it becomes quite clear that dear old T-Pain suffers from the R. Kelly-complex. However, as a male version of Beyoncé’s ‘Best Thing I Never Had’ it’s a solid, nice witty track with punchlines hard as Chris Brown’s fists.

Let’s talk about the rest of the features then. While Tech N9ne shies on the ‘Interlude’ the rest sadly make the tracks bad. Besides Rick Ross’ gruesomely annoying fatso-breathing on ‘John’ and Shyne’s feature on ‘Outro’ are the ones by Jadakiss and Drake on the Cool & Dre-produced ‘It’s Good’ and the John Legend-featured ‘So Special’ very disappointing. Even if Weezy’s shots aimed for Jay-Z on ‘It’s Good’ are well put the features that sounded so good on paper sadly doesn’t translate well into reality. The Bruno Mars-assited ‘Mirror’ is so emo it’s sad, wish it was just the instrumental signed Reo of the Soundkillers. And yes, while I’m on topic I have to address this, on the whole album of 19 tracks (bonus-tracks included), there’s not a single woman to be found. Hey Weezy, where’s Shanell? Nicki Minaj? I mean, not to feature one single female, not even the ones from your own label, what the fuck is up with that?

So in conclusion, “Tha Carter IV” is a bit uneven with great singles like ’6 Foot 7 Foot’ ft. Cory Gunz, ‘She Will’ ft. Drake but in comparison with “Tha Carter III” it’s not a masterpiece nor a classic. Instead it’s an album that is solid and it lives up to the expectations even if it doesn’t impress much. I miss the Swizz Beatz-produced ‘Dear Anne’ that got scraped. I rather would have had an old track like that on instead of a bunch of tunes that are so-so.

Lil Wayne may claim the greatest rapper title to his left and right all he like, however, “Tha Carter IV” is not the album of the greatest rapper alive.

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Artist: Lil Wayne Title: “Tha Carter IV“	Label: YM/CM/Universal: 29/8-11
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As you all know, I’m not the silent type in these cases, I’ve tried to raise my voice. Ask around. Why? Why they don’t appeared in documentaries and radio-shows? Hardly ever get and printed media coverage? The reply I’ve gotten so far is that I’m the rabid feminist. Okay… No one from the Swedish hip hop-media community was present or wanted to be involved in Popkollo Hip hop, a branch of the music summer camp for girls of the age 13-18. No one. That sort of speaks volumes. I was there with Gnucci Banana and Silvana (will post more about Silvana in October as she gonna do something huge, stay tuned). And let me put it this way, it gave me life.

Then a couple of weeks ago I stumbled over this girl called Rawda on the great streets of Internet by accident. 15 years old, hailing from Botkyrka, the same hoods the legendary Latin Kings more or less formed the essence of Swedish hip hop in the early days. Rawda made my heart do a lil spin on the F1-track:

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Among the other nominees the only worth mentioning are Rebecca and Fiona that really made their career kick start for real when their series begun to air. Pick one of them and vote here.

Who I voted for? These two of course:

‘Etno’:

‘Strap-on’:

‘Pensionen’:

‘CookieLeaks’:

Kakan & Julia.

Propers to Yardie.

Giggs hops on Kreayshawn’s ‘Gucci Gucci’-boat for the official UK-remix of the smash hit.

However, this is not my fave take on this track, even if I appreciate that this one is dirty as most all other edits have been clean but what does Giggs really bring to the table? How do you guys feel about it?

Kreayshawn ft. Giggs – ‘Gucci Gucci’ (Official UK Remix) ↓ Hulkshare
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Let’s not sugar coat shit, me and Abel Tesfaye aka. the Weeknd are not very compatible. I dunno, I get put off by soft guys like that in real life and that correlates well with my life music wise so yeah… Think I like his graphical point of view more than the music?

However, The Weeknd’s last mixtape “Thursday” that dropped the other week at least featured one song that I actually enjoyed a bit more opposed to all his previous ones. Yes of course I’m talking about ‘The Zone’, that features his fellow Canadian, Drake, even if it took forever for the Drake-feature to actually pop up.

That said, you all know what I feel for Young Live’s work (read the interview here) and especially when he works his magic dubstep spin on on things and this is no exception as it’s way better than the original cut.

Enjoy!
The Weeknd (Feat. Drake) – The Zone (Young Live Dubstep Remix) | ↓ YSI