I survived the second leg/weekend of the tour! I't’s going pretty well but the hardest part is keeping up with anything that is not directly related to traveling or performing. This also includes keeping up with new music but I’m gonna do my best to track the last week’s releases so I don’t forget them.
SHOWS
Mar 5 - Dallas - Majestic Theatre w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 6 - Austin - Bass Concert Hall w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 7 - Nashville - Ryman Auditorium w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 13 - Orlando - Hard Rock Cafe w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 14 - Ft Lauderdale - The Parker w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 15 - Houston - Bayou Music Center w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 16 - Brooklyn - Frankenstein’s Baby - Union Hall
Mar 20 - Washington DC - Warner Theater w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 21 - Washington DC - Warner Theater w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 27 - Egyptian Room at Old National Center w/ Michelle Buteau
Mar 28 - Cincinnati - Taft Theater w/ Michelle Buteau
NEWS
GOOD: I had a ball hosting the Ambies with Wyatt Cenac. It was such a fun gig and all of the winners really enjoyed the music cues that I cooked up for them. The show is up on Youtube now so if you wanted to watch it you can by clicking HERE. Embedding is disabled
BAD: Both the NAACP Image Awards and SAG Actor Awards have had a name change of sorts. We used to call the NAACP the ‘N Double A C P’ and it is now pronounced N-A-A-C-P. It’s subtle but very noticeable in clips of people saying the organization’s name. The SAG Awards are now The Actor awards and the reason is that the actual statue is called The Actor. This is kinda cool because winning a Saggy does sound kinda weird. *this isn’t really bad but i just needed some bad news. lol
UGLY: The way that BAFTA handled the non-editing of that Tourettes outburst was very bad and I’m not gonna go to far into it here but the more you look into it the crazier it is.
ALMANAC OF RAP
The Almanac of Rap is back and our first guest is Cupid. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation and I learned a lot about the world of line dance music and how his music is rooted in Zydeco. He also detailed his time on the chitlin circuit and even showed me how to do the line dance for his song ‘The Cookout’.
Also really hype to announce the show broke the top 10 chart for music shows on Apple podcasts. It’s available everywhere so please subscribe to the show and like or comment on the episodes when you listen! Trust me it means a lot.
The Jake One episode is dropping on Thursday!
VIDEO
DE LA SOUL ON TINY DESK!!!! I haven’t seen this yet but I am VERY excited about it.
T.I. is about to drop a new album so he’s dropping some music. He tapped Hype Williams to direct his latest video and if that wasn’t enough of a roll out he has fully engaged 50 Cent in a beef of some sort. I’m not sure what is going on between them but I do know that damn near his entire family has diss tracks aimed at 50.
His son Domani dropped the more interesting diss out of all his brothers and it honestly makes me interested in hearing more music from him.
King Harris dropped one and it’s the a pretty standard issue rap record and sounds exactly like you’d expect it to.
The most unexpected of the bunch is the Buddy Red joint that is a rock song. I am not mad at it but it absolutely threw me for a loop cus hearing him sing ‘you got shot 9 times, let’s make it 10’ is crazy.
T.I. has dropped four of his own as well and they are War, The Right One, Lessons and What Bully. 50 Cent hasn’t (and probably won’t) respond via song.
ALBUMS
I heard most of this album and really enjoyed it.
I haven’t heard this but Mathien makes jams.
Shouts to my guy Quelle for sending this over to me. It’s pretty dope.
I haven’t heard this yet but I know it’s dope.
I haven’t heard this yet but I’m just hanging it here so I don’t forget to listen to it.
Gorillaz tracklists be having some wild ass combinations. One day I’m gonna do a deep dive into their catalog and concepts but for now I’ll just have to look for a Youtube explainer to see what is going on in their universe.
SONGS
Gnarls Barkley back. I haven’t heard this yet tho.
Blu and Exile are such a good pairing.
Nolan the Ninja is dope.
This was a cool record.
New Tom Misch? Okay!
I like 79.5 and I hope an album is coming.