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Something For The Weekend – Educational Rap

October 1, 2010
Featured, Free Music
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So it’s finally over. If today’s gloomy greyness is anything to go by it’s fair to assume that the summer has been and gone. As someone who finds summer massively overrated I’m totally okay with this. I appreciate I am in a minority group here, and with what looks like a wet and cold weekend looming towards us and preventing any kind of outdoor activity I’ve searched this here internet for some audio treats that will not only entertain you’re simple minds but also get some knowledge into your bonce.

Educational Rap is an American organisation that is trying to tread that all too familiar (and usually desperately embarrassing) ground of making education cool for young people. I went in thinking I was going to laugh and cringe my way through their SoundCloud page, but to my immense disappointment I actually enjoyed the music and learned something I had previously been unsure about regarding grammar.

Have a little listen to the embedded examples below and if you like what you hear give their SoundCloud page a visit, there’s plenty on there to keep you going for absolutely hours.

Until next time.

If you have discovered something blog worthy then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or on twitter @monkeyhotel

50 States, 50 Capitals by educationalrap

Grammar Goodies by educationalrap

Jamie Foxx Ft. Soulja Boy and T.I. – Yep That’s Me

Jamie Foxx, Soulja Boy and T.I. have teamed up to create some great beats. Im really not too sure about Jamie Foxx rapping though. Probably shouldn’t quit his day job.

Jamie Foxx – Yep Thats Me (Feat. T.I. and Soulja Boy) by RouteNote

Monday Morning Rap Battle

Here’s something fun to settle you into both your Monday and indeed your week; a rap battle between two people who seem confused as to what a microphone is.

Astonishingly this was filmed in 2005, which makes one wonder what the hell kind of equipment these jokers were shooting their production with and who on earth was funding this obvious community project.

This is one of the most absurd videos I’ve ever seen, and hope it brings you as much joy as it did for me.

Have a nice day.

Dr. Dre To Release Instrumental ‘Planets’ Album

Yesterday Dr. Dre confused the world’s music press by announcing that he was working on an instrumental concept album. He told a reporter “I want to call it ‘The Planets’. I don’t even know if I should be saying this, but fuck it. It’s just my interpretation of what each planet sounds like, I’ve been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. I’ve been doing this for about two years now just in my spare time so to speak. I wanna do it in surround sound. It’ll have to be in surround sound for Saturn to work.”

Sorry, Dr. Dre releasing an instrumental concept album on what he thinks the planets sound like? What the hell, is this some kind of joke? Who does he think he is – some kind of street Gustav Holst? What happened to you Dre? You used to be so cool, this has to be the most tenuous concept for an album I’ve ever heard.

Having said that, Dre is a genius and I am a poxy blogger who wishes I could make music like Dre. The album will probably be brilliant and I’ll be exposed as the moron I certainly am.

In case this album does turn out to be the bowl of toss I’m expecting it to, let us all remember that Dre is beyond real criticism and be thankful that one so great chose to walk amongst us. Here he is at his absolute best in 1993, laying down some G-Funk for a certain Mr. Dogg, who I expect one or two of you will be familiar with.

Die Antwoord Is Not Necessarily The Answer

February 3, 2010
Digital Music News
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South Africa has a vibrant, varied and sometimes incomprehensible, as this video evidences. No, Die Antwoord not a spoof, although I bet The Lonely Island guys are teary eyed in admiration. Imagine Vanilla Ice’s weedy cousin, dressed entirely from the Salvation Army’s 10p bin, and his vertically challenged girlfriend rapping with thick South African accents over bouncy “Next Level” European Techno beats, or possibly a nice bit of Donk. I don’t know if it’s good, but it’s different, and quite stunning – I just hope and pray they know about irony in South Africa.

“If you don’t like funerals, don’t kick sand in a ninja’s face.”

The Sometimes Happens On A Friday Playlist

January 22, 2010
Playlists
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How much sample makes a cover? Some of the biggest selling rap songs do little more than add lyrics to great songs someone else has written. I don’t want to detract from the achievments of the superbly successful rap artists in this playlist, success is hard to argue with. On the contrary, it’s just interesting to hear the songs that they’ve given a second shot at the charts.