Mike Posner – Bring Me Down (Featuring Big Sean & Freddie Gibbs)
The epic intro to this Mike Posner track, featuring Big Sean and Freddie Gibbs, samples the 2001: A Space Odyssey theme song. Both featured artists spit impressive verses on what is easily the best hip hop track off Mike’s latest mixtape, One Foot Out The Door.
Big Sean takes the first verse, and delivers a very Drake-esque performance, making me wonder if Sean has decided to change his flow and delivery. Whatever the case may be, I now know Big Sean could be Drake’s voice double!
Even the lyrics put forth by Sean are similar to Drake’s regular topics:
“I need the best drinks,
I love the best hoes,
I roll the best weed,
And blow the best smoke…
I’m doin everything I planned to,
I’m with a girl that’s just too much for you to handle…
Respect a nigga doin everything that you can’t do,
Bitchhhh.”
No shots at Big Sean – dude’s a very talented lyricist, but the similarities to Drizzy on this track are too close to go unnoticed.
Freddie Gibbs kills his verse by bringing a lot of raw energy to the track, while talking about guns, drugs, and being too thug for the radio.
“Clip full of chips, and a blunt full of skunk,
25 to life charge in my trunk…
Baggin up the heiron, servin rocks,
Got my grandma house so hot,
More money more problems,
But I’d rather have the problems Puffy got,
Don’t want to be struggling like my dad,
Take a look back at this life I had,
The hood I threw up,
So when I grew up,
I knew I’d be Jordan, Michael, Fred.”
Those verses from Big Sean and Freddie Gibbs, coupled with Mike Posner’s hook, make this track ridiculous!
In case you’re not familiar with Gangsta Gibbs, peep our interview as he’s an artist you’ll want to keep an eye on. Freddie has already dropped two of the year’s best mixtapes, and doesn’t plan on slowing his hustle any time soon.
Lupe Fiasco – Turnt Up (Freestyle)
It looks like during his last trip to Atlanta, Lupe Fiasco was introduced to the music of ATL’s hottest new group, Travis Porter. The Chicago emcee has made it known that he’s a big fan of southern hip hop, specifically Houston rap, and this freestyle furthers that notion.
Lupe has fun on this track, while reminding us of his upcoming album.
“I am on my Mmmm Hmmm, they are on they Ohhh Nooo,
I am really in here, they aint real like soul glo…
Find a Master before you come back into the Dojo,
Lupe got his mind right,
Nigga this is my mic,
And I’ve come to take it all back, like Miller High Life.”
It feels good to hear dope lyricism over crunk beats.
This freestyle made Lupe fans even more anxious for the upcoming release of his third studio album, L.A.S.E.R.S. (Love Always Shines Everytime Remember 2 Smile).
Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
This is the hottest song on the internet right now, as Jay Electronica and Just Blaze have done it again. “Exhibit C” features the sick production and unique lyrical style that we have come to expect from everything Jay touches.
An example of Jay Electronica’s dope lines is, “Transforming with The Megatron Don spitting out flames/Eatin wack rappers alive, shittin out chains.” In case you didn’t know, @TheMegatronDon is Just Blaze’s Twitter handle. Similar to “Exhibit A,” this track is a must-listen for any hip hop fan!
Jay Electronica has built his reputation around spitting the weird, smart rhymes that will have you rewinding the track and sharing verses with your friends.
Check out all the lyrics to “Exhibit C” below.
“When I was sleepin on the train,
Sleepin on Meserole Ave out in the rain,
Without even a single slice of pizza to my name,
Too proud to beg for change, mastering the pain,
When New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame,
But then jackin our slang.
I used to get dizzy spells,
Hear a little ring,
The voice of an Angel,
Telling me my name,
Telling me that one day Imma be a great mane,
Transforming with The Megatron Don spitting out flames,
Eatin wack rappers alive, shittin out chains,
I aint believe it then,
Nigga I was homeless,
Fightin, shootin dice, smoking weed on the corners,
Tryna find the meaning of life in a Corona,
Till the five percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him.”
That you either build or destroy, where you come from?
The Magnolia projects in the 3rd ward slum,
Hymmm, it’s quite amazing that you rhyme how you do,
and how you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru.
Question fourteen, Muslim lesson two, dip diver, civilize a eighty fiver,
I make the devil hit his knees and say the Our Father.
Abracadabra,
You rockin with the true and living,
Shout out to Lights Out, Joseph I, and Chewy Bivens,
Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond,
While y’all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians,
I was on Cecil B, Broad Street, Master, North Philly, South Philly, 23rd, Tasker,
6 Mile, 7 Mile, Hartwell, Gratiot, where niggas really would pack a u-haul truck up,
Put the high beams on, drive up on the curb at a barbeque and hop up out the back like “what’s up!”
Kill a nigga, rob a nigga, take a nigga, bust up,
That’s why when you talk that tough talk, I never feel ya,
You sound real good and you play the part well, but the energy you givin off is so unfamiliar,
I don’t feel ya.
Nas hit me up on the phone, said “What you waitin on?”
(Q)Tip hit me up with a twit, said “What you waitin on?”
Diddy send a text every hour on the dot saying, “When you gon drop that verse nigga you takin long.”
So now I’m back spittin that heat, could pass a polygraph,
That Reverend Run rockin Addidas out on Hollis Ave,
That FOI, Marcus Garvey, Nikki Tesla,
I shock you like a eel,
Electric Feel,
Jay Electra,
They call me Jay Electronica,
Fuck that!
Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElectYammahkah,
Jay Electramadaan, Muhammad Asalaamica, RasoulAllah Supana Watallah through your monitor,
My uzi still weigh a ton, check the barometer,
I’m hotter than the muthaphuckin sun, check the thermometer,
I’m bringin ancient mathematics back to modern man,
My momma told me never throw a stone and hide your hand,
I got a lot of family, you got a lot of fans,
That’s why the people got my back like the Verizon man,
I play the back, and fade to black and then devise a plan,
Out in London, smoking, vibin while I ride the tram.”
I hope Jay Electronica drops an album soon!
Artists Tagged
Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs
Label: Unsigned
Hometown: Gary, IN
After being kicked out of college and discharged from the military, Freddie Gibbs found his home in gangsta rap. The Gary, Indiana native uses his lyrics to vividly portray stories of his home town's crime infested streets. This talent was quickly noticed by Interscope, who signed Gibbs to a record deal within his first year rapping. Despite showing him early love, Interscope kept Freddie Gibbs' music shelved for years.
Now that Freddie Gibbs has been released from that contract, he's already dropped two of 2009's best mixtapes in The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs and Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuisk and is prepping for 2010's Str8 Killa, No Filla release. It's only a matter of time before the labels come knocking on Gibbs' door.
Mike Posner
Mike Posner
Label: J Records, RCA
Hometown: Southfield, MI
In March of 2009, Mike Posner released A Matter of Time, one of the year’s biggest mixtapes, from his Duke dorm room. The impressive project, hosted by DJ Don Cannon and DJ Benzi, helped land the emerging artist his current record deal with Sony Music Group.
Mike Posner aims to make a name for himself in pop music, while staying relevant within hip hop circles, similar to Justin Timberlake. This goal is not too far fetched, as his fans already enjoy the artist’s feel-good, pop-rap music and smooth hooks.
Since graduating from Duke at the end of 2009, the talented artist and producer, has been working on his upcoming 31 Minutes to Takeoff album, set to be released in the fall of 2010.
Travis Porter
Ali, Strap, Quez
Label: Porter House Music Group
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Quez, Strap, and Ali make up the hottest independent rap group in the country, Travis Porter. In just over a year, Travis Porter has accomplished more than most emerging artists with over twenty million Youtube views, a single on the Billboard charts, and a music video in rotation on MTV Jams.
The large buzz surrounding this group of 19 year-olds helped to give the boys two Twitter trending topics and placed them as the eleventh most searched term on Google following the release of their most recent mixtape, Proud 2 Be A Problem. The major labels are currently in a bidding war to acquire MySpace’s #1 unsigned group!
1) So now i’m back spittin that “He could pass a polygraph” (truth)
2) Call me Jay Elec-Hanukah, Jay Elect-Yamulke,
Jay Elect-Ramadan Muhammad Asalaam-ica, rasoulallah subhanahu wa ta’ala through your monitor