MJ R.I.P.

Damn, damn, damn. Most of you know by now Michael Jackson has passed away. All Draggan members grew up on Mikey's music and we're all huge fans. So many of his tracks inspired us and we would be a completely different band if it wasn't for Michael Jackson. It makes me sad to think that Michael wasn't given the opportunity to peacefully part with this world. I wish could have retired and lived on some island where nobody would be bothering him for the rest of his days.

You left us with a tremendous amount of good music which will never die and will inspire many generations to come. Draggan salutes you! Rest in peace.

My heart goes out to his family, especially his three children.







For more vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/michaeljackson

Damn, this really sucks. We love you mike.

Rhyme & Reason

I wanted to share one of my favourite hiphop documentaries: Rhyme & Reason. The documentary is set in the mid-nineties, hiphop was growing rapidly and was about to enter the mainstream. The video is described as: "This movie came out on the tail end of the Hip Hop Golden era". This movie covers many aspects of the hiphop culture such as: DJ-ing, breakdancing and MC-ing. Many hiphop-legends share their views like: KRS-One, Chuck D, Heavy D, Ice-T and Dr. Dre. There's a segment in it about the 'Jack the Rapper' festival where many hiphopartists come together to network, talk, discuss, party and smoke weed. It's my favourite part cause for some reason I feel this is no longer possible this day in age. I mean if I watch the 'Beef' docu's 1 through 4, I see two nobodies without skills nagging, bitching and acting tough to each other. Their sole qualification to be part of hiphop is the fact that they have...beef. Who doesn't? Get over it and get back to or start making some...music.

The entire 90 minute video can be streamed from google video.



This is the url to the video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6821011409594651929&q=rhyme+and+reason&total=629&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

It's really a must see if you love hiphop. Enjoy!!!

Slaughtering Hip Hop

Listen up!

Here are some tracks from Slaughterhouse. Slaghterhouse is a collabo between Joe Budden, Royce Da 59, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I. They had a single called 'Move On' which sparked my interest because I hardly hear lyricism lately. I'm getting really sick listening to a 3 minute track consisting of a minimalistic beat (lacking rhythm), maybe two 16 bar verses (if your lucky), and some chick who can't sing or a different moron who also can't rap repeating the one-line chorus about a 1000 times. People, people, I don't have to like every hiphop track but at least put some effort in it. It's pathetic how many piles of horseshit you have to go thru before you find a decent hiphop-act. It's like Chris Rock said I wanna be able to 'break down intellectually' why I love hiphop. So I'm glad to hear these tracks from Slaughterhouse, their self-titled debut album will be released on July 7th.

Wack MC's (listen to the intro-sample):



Fight Club:



Onslaught:



Enjoy!

Ali update

It's time to share some hiphop, check it out, it's good.

Two of my favourite rappers: Brother Ali & Slug



Brother Ali - Good Lord



Brother Ali - Little Rodney



In case you're wondering what Ali sounded like on his first EP in 2000. Here's 'Ali Boombaye' from 'Rites of Passage', initially a cassete-only EP.



Check Ali's myspace for more new tracks:

http://www.myspace.com/brotherali

Enjoy!