à la défense d’une culture

This dropped on Dec. 24th…and I totally forgot to get my blog on. I’m currently freaking out about Raekwon’s OB4CL2 hopefully coming out this decade, and the two or three songs from it all have our dude Tony Starks Ghost Deini Wallabee Champo on them. Steez.

From Rhett’s MySpace circa 12/24/08;

Peace Everyone,

It’s the day of Christmas Eve and I just wanted to give y’all one more treat for the holidays.

This particular mix is called “36 DEADLY DARTS”….it’s the official “Ghostface Killah Doll” Mix CD; well, it’s supposed to be. Amish from 4Cast Unlimited reached out to me last year to make a mix with a collection of Ghostface songs that would be an accompaniment to the limited edition doll. A least 1,000 CDs were made; half Amish would pass out during the clothing trade shows such as Magic, the other half, I would sell while I was on the road. There were actually some Ghostface dolls made (and btw, they look dope, considering how expensive it was…i think retail was going for $200. The doll had a real Gold Chain.) The last time I heard, it was in production.

Anyways, there was a buzz for the doll and I actually got a thumbs up from Ghostface for the mix, but for some reason, I don’t think the official doll ever came out, nor the mix CD. It’s been over a year and I haven’t heard anything official of the release of the doll or the CD, so I decided, why not share it with you good peoples…..I really like the mix and I really put some work into this. It would be nice to have people actually hear it. If some of you good peoples actually have the official Mix CD with the official artwork and all, consider yourself lucky!

So everybody, download the mix, share it with your friends, post it up on your music blogs (sorry Shake, 4Cast did the mixtape in conjunction with HipHopGame when it was supposed to come out, that’s why you hear those HipHopGame drops….), & hopefully yall would like the mix.

Thanks for peeping out this mix as well as the KDAY mixes and the Khrysis mixtape. Happy Holidays peoples…see you in 2009!

Rhettmatic
Beat Junkies
Visionaries
myspace.com/rhettmatic

Rhett, Prince Po, and Ghostface

Click here to get beamed to the mix. I suck for not posting this sooner.

Hip-Hop/Rap, Music

Just added my Google Calendar embedded in the “Calendar” page. Heck yeah. Updates using Microsoft Exchange from my phone…so you can stalk me and all that nonsense.

Internet

Check out http://rhymesayers.com/neverbetter for the freshness!

Internet, Music, Rhymesayers

I haven’t even listened to it yet. Crap. [EDIT: Listening to it right now. Great stuff.]

http://www.myspace.com/metricband

Music, Other

Go cop it. Blast it. Cry to it. Laugh to it. It’s a great album.

Buy at:
Fifth Element Online
Amazon
Best Buy
…and iTunes.

Make it happen. Rap music.

Hip-Hop/Rap, Music, Rhymesayers

In my sound design class (MU students: Take Brec 121!) we watched these videos…pretty cool. In case you don’t know, our school is a Jesuit institution…and a powerful one at that. For someone (me) who isn’t religious..at all…it’s still a great place to be year round. Anyway, watch the videos.

I can’t embed the next video unfortunately. Made by Row27 studios of Minneapolis, MN, this one really hits hard. Music is powerful, as are the images. Great short. Click here to watch it, and buy some tickets to the UCONN vs. MU game too! It also gives a link to the MUTV Sports blog, so you can check out the athlete interviews that I helped produce.

Internet, MarquetteUniversity