C.R.A.C Music

As of late I've been trying to keep up with the music blog over at Fader magazine, which happened to be formerly edited by RTS fave Nick Catchdubs. Anywho they put me on to a couple of new artists one of whom is C.R.A.C. Knuckles. Now from what I discover through about 15 minutes of research is that the band is two rapper/producers named Ta'Raach & The Lovelution (yes thats one person?) and Blu. Long story short they have a band, a new CD April 22 called "The Piece Talks", and a song (single?) entitled "Buy Me Lunch". Its pretty light on the rap and heavy on the old school RJD2 style funk. Give it a listen and if you like what you hear check out the respective C.R.A.C. members myspaces for a bunch of other free tracks from the new CD.

C.R.A.C. Knuckles - Buy Me Lunch

Lil Wayne Wednesday #2

Welcome to Wednesday!!! If there's one thing that I have a passion for its my theory of the relative quality of rap music. It seems more and more true that the quality of rap music is entirely dependent on how good a beat is. You could take the poorest rapper and put them on a good beat and they would sound great, while you'd need the best rappers to make a bad beat a good song. Lil' Wayne's "Shooter" from the "Carter II" albuum is a shining example of the truth of this theory. Despite Weezy's self proclaimed status of "greatest rapper alive" he couldn't save the song with his rhymes, and JT wannabe Robin Thicke sure didn't help. It seemed like all was lost... until DJ Nick Catchdubs got his hands on it. Catchdubs, producer of Wale's kickass "100 miles and running" mixtape, takes a stinker and makes it real hot shit. As it turns out rap sounds better over nasty bass rather than crap... who knew.

88 Shots (Nick Catchdubs Remix) - Lil' Wayne ft. Robin Thicke

PS: Catchdubs' "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E." was the best remix of 2007 ... 

yeah i said it, seriously, cop "100 miles and running"

PPS: Black Lips at Wow Hall in Eugene tonight... go see it.