…and RJ removing Elzhi from half of the songs on the album. Shady shit to me. It’s hard watching groups you looked up to growing up fall apart. Ironically, Little Brother has a song on the album. What a way to taint the legacy. Hit the link below to peep the interviews.

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Pharrell’s crazy for this. New generation Quincy, ya’ll.

Movie comes out on Friday, I ain’t missin it…

Okay, maybe the end of that tweet wasn’t there before. But rumors of his death swept across the web today. This has to be the third time he’s died in a car accident. They updated wikipedia and everything. Good to know it was false.

*Pops pill, goes into trance*

To mark my valiant return to the blog, I thought I’d grace you folks with this video about how the artist, Girl Talk has utilized over 300+ samples in  his records and has managed to avoid being sued. I’m assuming that the majority of our viewers are sample based producers, so this should be some good information to know. Enjoy!

UPDATE: Thanks to Logas for the correction, my valiant return to the blog has been a subpar one at best.

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Even though the title of this video is “9th Wonder Says Wonder Years May Never Come Out”, the subject of “The Wonder Years” is not the focal point of this video. 9th Wonder, who introduces himself as “Grammy-award winning producer, DJ, and intellectual” in the beginning of the vid, discusses where he wants to be in the future, and his thoughts on his position within the world of hip hop.

Quote to Dwell On:
“I’m trying to get the It’s a Wonderful World of Music group running, so when it’s time for me to walk away, I can walk away. This game is not built for me, in a way, because there’s a lot of terrible people in this game. Phonte always said, ‘Never meet your heroes, because your heroes let you down.’ For me, I just want to set it up for my team, and be the silent partner. I want to teach.  Man, to have sanity in my life, I will teach kindergarten.  My mom was a kindergarten teacher for 40 years; I’m trying to get her to retire now, she won’t quit for nothin’.”
-9th Wonder

Interview The Thizzler did with Hieroglyphics’ MC, Casual. This is what they had to say about it. Hit the jump to catch part 2.

Hiero ya’ll! Hieroglyphics member Casual sat down with Em Dub in the cuts of Oakland and spoke on how he got into hip-hop, the formation of Hieroglyphics, his favorite beat that he ever produced, and more!

Part 2

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Roger Linn, the designer/innovator of the MPC-60, introduces his new musical instrument, which is seemingly unnamed as of now but is commonly being referred to as the “LinnStrument” around the web. From what I’ve read, he wanted to keep this thing under the radar and away from public eye until its completion but is currently in need of funding to get this prototype moving along to the next step. Looks like you could get some wild ambient effects out of this thing, it will be interesting to see where/what this ends up becoming. Kinda crazy to see that the innovator behind the revolutionary hip hop sampler is an old white dude that I feel like I’ve seen chillin’ at a Starbucks somewhere.