Two Bun B Draped Up Remixes and One Party Announcement

Maaaan quick post today. First of all I got two extra live remixes of Bun B's "Draped Up" recently and I had to post them.

First is from my man Mozell here in Houston. He basically remixed Bloc Party's "Banquet" and mixed it with Bun's vocals. Not a mash up though, Mozell did his thing. Would love to know what you think.

Download Rob Mo's Bloc Party vs. Bun B Draped Up Remix Here

Then my man CHOPS has the new "It's Goin' Down 3" coming out complete with a DVD that features Rapid Ric's performance at South By Southwest last year when Magno and Ryno and Chalie Boy joined him on stage. This shit is fire. You need it. Here's a sample.

Download the CHOPS Remix to Draped Up Here

Jammin' that Whut it Dew 3 right now, hosted by Trae. Man, upon first listen, this bitch is straight fire. Not sure when it will be available commercially.

And it looks like this is the next event I'ma be a part of. I tried to bring my Christmas set to New York for the holidays but Roxy thought it was a stupid idea. Young uns...

But these young uns in H-Town are so ready for it.

10 Kegs fools.

Things I have forgotten to post

First up here's last week's Damage Control. We had a dude named Belly on there from Ottawa in Canada who talked down on Kardinal Offishal for some reason. He commented on the fact that so many rappers in Canada make their videos and release their records with "borrowed money," ie: government grants. Well, I live in a country where you can barely get funding for music and art programs in public schools cuz we spend all of our money on war, death, destruction and Halliburton,and he's complaining about his country that actually helps young artists get their work out to the public.

Yes Canada GIVES RAPPERS money to make videos, and he says that's a bad thing. I think "Canada's first gangsta rapper" needs to get an apartment in 5th Ward for a while. I'm not hating, the music is good and he was a cool guy and he's down with my man Jokaman and he brought Sickamore to the studio, so I'm not trippin', but shit man, come live in our hustlin' ass country for a while and see how it really is. I'd like to do the same. I been considering spending some time in Canada. As cold as it is, the people sure are nice and the government doesn't hurt my bleeding heart.

Download Last Weeks Damage Control HERE.

And here you can hear a special from the BBC's 1Xtra on Chopped and Screwed Music - a genre I personally like to call "Houston Music." I'm interviewed throughout and I think they did a really good job.

Check out the BBC's Special on Chopped and Screwed Music Here.

And there's two new websites dedicated to bashing the hip hop magazines. One I cut for 100% - The Bible of Hip Hop, another I don't really dig, called Bitter Vibes as it takes swipes at Mimi Valdes, the editor in Chief at Vibe Magazine.


The Bible of Hip Hop in name is an obvious dig at The Source, a magazine that owes me $1,600 and will probably never pay. In fact they owe a lot of my friends in this writing game money, and need to be taken to task for it as they wither away. Merry Christmas Source Magazine, the Bible of Hip Hop is FOR YOU! And all of us...

Bitter Vibes is admittedly interesting as it is written by an anonymous Vibe employee who talks all sorts of inside personal shit about what happens at their office. I think that Vibe does a better job covering urban music than any of the other major hip hop magazines (except Ozone and I'ma keep my hopes up for Down to keep doing good thangs, but its quite early in the game) so I can't really trip on them. I really don't give a fuck if Mary J. Blige didn't like her cover shot. Inever liked one picture taken of me ever.

And fact is, back ten years ago when I just started getting my internet on, I tried to start this online weekly "Hip Hop Business" chat on AOL when only about 15% of the hip hop biz had internet capabilities. Mimi Valdes was like, literally one of my only supporters. Like I'd send out email invites and then the time would go to be in the chat room and it'd be just me and Mimi. So admittedly I have a soft spot in my heart for this woman I have never met or even sen for that matter. Let her dress however she wants you gossipy little bia...

But I have to admit, it's fairly juicy, like some horrid reality TV show you can't stop watching even though it's the most retardedly ridiculous thing you've ever seen. Bitter Vibes is my new Paradise Hotel or whatever that catty fucking show was called.

Anyway, I'm taking Eva to her friends house and whatever, you don't care about that. Enjoy Damage Control, the BBC and these two new websites...

Devin the Dude Live in Houston - Amazing.Houston young taggers kill a good thing

IT WENT DOWN Last night in Houston, Texas. Devin the Dude, the Chicharones - Josh Martinez, Sleep, DJ Sest, Jokaman, Lower Life Form, PKT and Witnes basically killed it. Nice crowd, nice vibes, $2 Heinekens... it went down.


Witnes held it down above and beyond the call of duty all night.


The Dude by Article. He's been making these amazing portraits and selling them at shows lately. Shit is off the chain.


PKT on stage


PKT with T. Piper and crew


Coughee Sistaz Erica Marlin and Sista Green


Josh Martinez orders a double rum and coke or some shit


Karijimis!


Lower Life Form, Ish, Phd and Brew all killed it too


Tom is a future Congressman from my district and Bubba is a big time record label mogul


Jokaman tore it up for sure.


They got it live




Governor Good Grief in the house. He saved the day with a CDJ when Sest's began to smoke on stage.


Domo


The Chicharones were off the chain. The crowd was all over them, for real. They had 'em.






Then your boy hit the stage at like 1:23 or some shit. Stayed there till 2:30 with the Odd Squad, Erika Marlin and even a vocoder (or whatever that thang is) in tow. Shit was wild.




The vocoder and Erika


Coughee Brothas were in full effect. Shit was crazy






Jugg Mugg


Rob Quest and Devin. Rob dropped me some solo shit off last week. Tune in to hear some of it on Damage Control this week


Odd Squad did it accapella at the end


MAAAN HOLD UP! B-Boy Craig, Devin, Article and friend


K-Rino was in the house. Lookout for the HoustonSoReal K-Rino Texas mini-tour in January.


Magno even showed up. Lookout for Magno on the moon. That man is finna blow.

I didn't really take as many photos as I should have. Ir eally didn't know a lot of the people there last night. It was a wild crowd man, but real chill...

Save for some little tagger fools and toys who stuck all these 8.5 X 11 BAD SEED stickers EVERYWHERE. I'm talking about they destroyed the mens and ladies rooms hard with tags and these fucking huge stickers. Shit that meant nothing. Like I was trying to decipher the tags so I could figure out who these fools are, but I couldn't read shit. The shit was wack like 6 times over on every wall in the bathrooms.

These little toys fucked me. The tone of thenight went from "Hey Matt youthink youmight want to do every Sunday here?" to "Hey Matt this shit is totally fucked." Real quick. And with good reason. Like, I would be, and am, mad as fuck about that shit. If someone tagged the shit out of my nice restaurant - yes they hit the walls and tables in the restaurant part of Havana - I'd be pissed too. It was messed up.

Somebody even stole the huge 6 foot lit up inflatable Heineken bottle. We had $2 Heinekens for most of the night till they ran out. Somebody took that, but I made some calls and got that back today. No big deal.

But the tags were fucked up and I'ma be looking for you toys, that shit was fucked up. That shit takes hard work to put together and execute and gain the trust of the venues and there you little bitches (and I heard some of the taggers were girls) go and turn a good thing to shit just so your corny tag can be up on a wall for 10 minutes. They make this shit called Goof Off you tard. Your shit was gone less than 15 minutes later you corn balls. You succeeded in making me and a few other good people very angry, that's it and that's so stupid.

But anyway, my goal for January is to have a huge birthday jump off with a couple of my favorite DJ's and then book some shows with K-Rino, Young Bleed and Money Waters through Texas, get Devin back to Canada, and hopefully to Europe too. Hopefully I can still do the Houston events at Havana, but I doubt it and don't blame them.

Shit.

But other than that, all the groups were off the chain, the crowd was stellar and we shall proceed.