OK tv interview: Reflection Eternal

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"Everybodys Nobody" XV

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Broken Headphones: QuESt

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So I was Up, listening to The Roots while I work on something on Illustrator and I was checking my fav. blogs since I couldn't sleep. I came across this mixtape/ album? on 2dopeboyz.com and I never herd of him. I've seen them post some of his stuff on the site but never investigated any further. But I wish I did. I think this dude is sick. On track 5 and Haven't even thought about changing it. Keep in mind people don't like everything. So I'f you listen to it keep and open mind. Cuz on the site there's a few douche bad haters. Saying it sucks. I don't agree but that's me. CHECK IT OUT





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LAAAAAND OF The KINGS!!! [video]

U-N-I is dope!!! LA stand up. Keep it up.


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Recently Played?

• Radiohead
• The Shins
• The French Kicks
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Killers
• Lupe Fiasco
• Pac Div
• Cold Play
• The Roots
• Nas
• Cold War Kids
• Bat for Lashes
  
• U2
• MGMT
• The Office(Love that show)
• 88-keys
  

Was a chill day(not the temperature just the mood of the day)....Loving that In Rainbows album, Wish I got it back in 07. Some of my fav. songs have like 4 plays or 1. But that isn't because I don't like it or listen to it, I'm just an impatient listener..NAY I'm just always changing my mind of what I wanna listen to, or the songs almost done so I just change it...BTW is it me or 07 seem sooooo far away. It seems like it was 07 yesturday. Just a thought.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of LUPE THE GENIUS and when I listen to other Hip-hop artist it falls short..LUPE IS MY SECOND NAS!!! aka my boi. That dude who I would listen to none stop, defend to the death(not that far, but it sounds hardcore). I grew up(middle school days) on NAS. And now I'm Growing up on LUPE(Adult life). LUPE your a Genius. You need your own Class like PAC R.I.P.





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EPIC SOUNDING MUSIC!!!!

MY Fav. songs that to ME sound epic!!!!

• Black Republican-Nas Feat. Jay-Z
• Flashing lights-Kanye West
• I can-Nas
  
• Spaceman-The Killers
• Get By-Talib Kweli
• Ballad of Dead Soulja-2Pac
• White Shadows-Coldplay
• in my place-Coldplay
• Viva La Vida(the album)-Coldplay
• Food & Liquor(the album)-Lupe Fiasco
  

I was Bored and was looking threw all my CD's and was thinking of my fav. song's that are moving. In what ever way possible. Your body, your soul, your mind etc. These are just a few of my mind shuffling favorites.




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I AM BLU!!!

BLU... we're to begin. This dude is becoming my fav. "freshman" on the XXL cover. He is lyrically the best in that class. And he doesn't get as much shine as others. Wale look @ Blu before you bitch about people not taking your pictures. Blu's music is so calm and soulful. It seriously touches souls and makes you feel good about hip-hop. I kinda wish he would have his own website(I can help =]) or do some stuff to get out there and kinda show people what his music is all about. Because I truly feel that his music is toooo dope for people not to listen to. If your reading this and haven't herd of Blu yet. Let me introduce you to a great MC with a lot to offer to music and your ears. Blu is simple amazing and a great artist. Buy Below the Heavens, Johnson & Johnson, and there's some other Ep's on iTunes that you can buy I haven't got them yet, but I will. Check out some of my favorites.


LOCAL LEGEND.


"So(ul)Amazing"


Just another day


City of Los Angeles "LA LA"



No Greater Love


Dancing in the Rain


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Name on the cloud-WIZ

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B.J. the Chicago Kid. . .

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This mixtape is real soothing and cool. You've seen him on Maestro Knows videos touring with Anthony Hamilton. I'm loving it right now.. check it out, and listen to some dope music.



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FAME

This dude is pretty cool. has nice lyrics. I'm liking it. Was checking out Levi Maestro's blog over @ Hypebeast and I saw him post this song, I'm listening to right now, and I thought it was definitely iTunes material. So after I got that song called westside story, I Googled him. I didn't find much, so I went to my LAKER Fam, over @ 2dopedoyz. And found another song of his. was really cool. The name of his upcoming mixtape is called "Horns or Halos". I'm digging the name.
check out the songs over @ there site.
>> 2DopeBoyz
>> Maestro's Blog


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Quote of the night/Morning. . .My intro to Hip-Hop

one of my fav. NAS Quote's

"The whole, city is mine, prettiest Don
I don't like the way P. Diddy did Shyne with different lawyers
Why it's mentioned in my rhymes? Fuck it, it's just an intro
Hate it or love it, like it bump it or dump it
Writing, across the stomach spell GOD son"
NaS-Purple

I agree I don't like the way P.diddy did Shyne. smh punk ass.
get your NaS on people.

NaS's ILLmatic itroduced me to my love for Hip-Hop. BEfore we found each other I was listening to nothing really. just random stuff and music my Dad listened to on our daily commute to school and work like JaZZ(which I love btw). But other than that wasn't listening to anything I was into. Remember it like it was yesturday. MY cousin was talking about NaS and I said who's that?? and I just stood there looking @ my cousin have a face of "I'm doing my duty to stear my cousin in the right hip-hop path" lol If you get the picture. So my cousin reaches in his backpack and gives me his walkman and gave me a Red Disc and tells me to listen to this album. And I kid you not I herd that album like 7 times straight and I instantly fell in love with NaS. And I found my self searching for more artist like Nas. aka Lyricist. That's the Hip-Hop I know and Love.

Fav. NaS songs

• one love
• memory lane
• we will survive
• Rewind
• Heaven
• I can (awesome message)
• Sly Fox
  
• made you look ( they shooting, remember scaring people up in arrowhead with that one. lol)
• the world is yours
• plus so many others....
  

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U-N-I: LAND OF THE KINGS

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Reflection Eternal take 2. . .

“We got a whole song in auto-tune, but it’s a like Kweli and Hi-Tek kind of auto-tune song,” says Talib Kweli, one half of the musical duo known as Reflection Eternal. As this statement was muttered from the lips of an MC who has contributed to underground Hip-Hop’s rebirth in the late 90’s, one could only think, “Has it really come down to this?”

But before a follow up question seeking clarification could be asked, Reflection Eternal’s leading mouth piece burst into laughter, and remarked, “Nah I’m just f**king with you.” The warm feeling of relief that shot up my spine was almost as satisfying as when Fiddy (Curly) greeted Tia at JFK airport.

“There ain’t nothing wrong with auto-tune just like there’s nothing wrong with gangsta rap, underground rap, etc. But anything that is overdone becomes corny and everybody is doing it. All these underground Hip-Hop fans getting mad at auto-tune, stop it’s not auto-tune’s fault! I’m a fan of T-Pain’s music, and I think he gives a great lesson with what he did with his career. But if you ask me if auto-tune is played out? At this point, yes!,” says Kweli as he tries to explain and reiterate his previous comical statement.

Refection Eternal fans need not worry though, after keeping the masses waiting for nearly a decade, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek are on deck to release their sophomore LP and put some fun and true lyricism back in the scandal ridden and WWF-esque game known as Hip-Hop. “I don’t believe I’m the best rapper alive but I think I might out work and have more ambition than a lot of the dudes who came out with me,” talks Kweli from the Warner Music building. Fresh off the international “Rock The Bells” tour and after rocking two consecutive nights at NYC’s legendary Jazz club the Blue Note, Reflection Eternal took some time to give AllHipHop some insight on their new train of thought.

AllHipHop.com: It’s been nine years since the last Reflection Eternal album, what’s different about your mentalities now opposed to when y’all recorded the first album?

Hi-Tek: Musically and business wise I’ve grown a lot, but when it comes to actually going back in the studio with Kweli, it just feels like going back to right where we left off. I realized our sound is one of [the] voids in Hip-Hop right now, and the game needs Reflection Eternal.

AllHipHop.com: Some fans have the perception that you guys haven’t been working together…

Hi-Tek: It’s a difference between “kicking it” with each and actually being in the studio together versus me just sending Kweli beats through email. It’s just not the same thing.

Talib Kweli: I agree, the process is totally different with the Reflection projects, and it’s going to reflect in the sound. I’ve done plenty of records with Hi-Tek from “Back Up Off Me,” “Work it Out,” and he did the title track on Beautiful Struggle. And I heard people saying that Beautiful Struggle was a departure from my original sound, but every one doesn’t [know] Hi-Tek did the title track to the album. But really this new album is about us as Reflection Eternal.

Allhiphop: With Hip-Hop in the state that it’s in right now, what’s the agenda you guys have with this album?

Talib Kweli: My agenda for the first Reflection Eternal album was to prove that I was worthy for the position I have. We were like underground Hip-Hop royalty at the time from Rawkus and Black Star. People just acknowledged us in a certain way because of our association with Mos Def and Rawkus as a powerhouse and not because of our talent. And I think we set out to prove that we had the talent with the first album.

But things are just different now, T.I. and Lil Wayne are at the top of the game, and that’s not to disrespect them. I’m just saying the game is changed a great deal since we came out with the Black Star album. Now I‘m only interested in making timeless music. I didn’t want that early in my career, I just wanted to make you think I was the best MC.

AllHipHop.com: I heard the album is going to be self titled, why did y’all chose to do that for your 2nd album?

Talib Kweli: Actually, I don’t know about that but it might be a good idea because actually the correct name of our group on paper is Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek like on iTunes or in stores. But our fans know Reflection Eternal as what we call ourselves as a group. So that might be a great idea to do actually…

Hi-Tek: I always felt like that’s something you do for your first album.

AllHipHop.com: Is there a particular underlying theme or concept you stuck to?

Talib Kweli: I think there’s a theme in the music and sound but there isn’t one concept that we stuck with.

Hi-Tek: To be completely honest, we just letting the music create itself, and I think that our chemistry makes everything just come out so naturally between us. Even with the first album I never thought that any of those songs would have the effect on people that they did. I mean, I always put everything I got into the records, but I always second guess myself because I’m a perfectionist.

AllHipHop.com: The first song released from the album is the Bootsy Colins assisted track “Internet Connection”, and honestly the sound kind of confused a lot of fans, how’d did that record happen?

Hi-Tek: Bootsy is from my hometown of Cincinnati, and every once in a while we’ll kick it in the studio, so we have a relationship. And I always just loved that sample, shout out to my man Dave who came up with the concept, but we just wanted to show people how to have fun again on records. “Internet Connection” shows our personalities.

Talib Kweli: The sound of that record is exactly what Hi-Tek said it was, it’s not, “Oh we going to go in and make our first single,” but it was just us having fun. And I enjoy the fact that some fans were thrown off by the record because there’s a lot of pressure of having to come up with an album as great as Train of Thought. For me I just wanted to alleviate some of that pressure (laughs). I just read a 50 comment argument online about the record, so I’m happy with the response it’s receiving. It creates a discourse, and wait until you hear the next record. Then you’ll really have something to say.

AllHipHop.com: Did you guys work with Mos Def at all? Any chance we’ll ever get another Black Star album?

Talib Kweli: I would like to work with Mos on the album, but we haven’t yet…the songs decide themselves, which artists should be on them. But we don’t have a Mos Def record yet on the album, but he would be a welcome addition, and there isn’t going to be a lot of guest features.

Hi-Tek: “Yo Mos, what’s up man?” It’s your boy Hi-Tek, let’s do this man!

Talib Kweli: How about that joint he just played for us last night; Mos Def, Just Blaze, Jay Electronica, T.I., and Jay-Z on a track together. Mos got some crazy joints about to come out man, I promise you.

AllHipHop.com: How do you guys feel about the climate of the game right now, is there room for Souljah Boy and Reflection Eternal on the same 106 & Park countdown?

Hi-Tek: Well, our music is going to speak for itself, the marketing just has to be right. First and foremost, we on a major label now. Like with the last album Rawkus had major label budgets, but they still were considered an independent label and presented themselves that way.

Talib Kweli: We just need the balance with artists out now like Maino and T.I., they at the top of their game. They both have huge records with T-Pain and Rihanna, and really those records are pop records with somebody rapping on them. And more power to them, not to say I wouldn’t do it either, but I just can’t with the Reflection Eternal album because we are creating a particular sound that makes us who we are. If we are thinking like, “In order for us to compete with Souljah Boy, we got to make a record with a dance to go with it…” If we did that, that means we lost our cause and integrity as artists.

AllHipHop.com: Is Mr. Chapelle making any appearances this time around?

Talib Kweli: Dave’s going to be on the album definitely. And the reason why he was all over the first Reflection album was because Dave was in the studio sessions with us every single day. He was living in New York at the time, doing little comedy clubs in the village, and before he would go do his sets, he’d come to Electric Lady [Studios] and just sit in all our sessions. Dave is a part of that album, for real.

I remember I met Dave through this girl that I was going out with and she had just broken up with him. He used to come over to the house every once in a while, and they used to get into arguments, so I used to not like him. And then one day she left me and got back with him, then I really didn’t like this muthaf**ka! (laughs)

AllHipHop.com: What year was this?

Talib Kweli: Right after like Nutty Professor came out [1996]. But after all that I went to a De La Soul Concert in Ohio in the same town that Dave lives in. And he’s a huge De La fan and, we run into each other at the show, so we start chopping it up, and I’m like, “Me and you have history.” He didn’t even know what I meant, it ending up being a conversation like, “Oh you know her too? How?” (laughs) That goes back to making the first album, two years after meeting in Ohio, I see Dave again walking down the street in New York. I just told him to come and kick it with us, and Dave loved it he said he always wanted to see how an album was made. He ended up coming every day after that, so when you hear Nelson Mandela, Rick James; that’s Dave Chapelle.

Hi-Tek: I remember that, he was half baking us too! (laughs)

AllHipHop.com: After traveling the world, and working with an array of different artists, Kweli you’ve worked with artists who are so different than you like Fabolous and Justin Timberlake. Hi-Tek, you produced joints for Estelle, and remixed artists like Gym Class Heroes. Do you still feel the urge to half to satisfy the backpackers and your core fan base?

Hi-Tek: That’s what this album is about, in my opinion. We also want to teach through our music too though. I always been a hater of the word “backpacker” because you got people who think they are so called Hip-Hop purists that try to teach you what they think a record should sound like. With this album we are just giving you Hi-Tek and Kweli, and nothing else.

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BIG SEAN "OKAY" (FEAT. CHIP THA RIPPER & GLC)

track: OKAY Feat Chip Tha Ripper & GLC



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U-N-I: A LOVE SUPREME

This album is sick, I would of seriously paid money for this album.... but it's free so support good music and get your album today .. DL ALBUM here

01 My Life
02 Windows
03 Supreme
04 Hollywood Hiatus
05 Lately
06 Pulp Fiction Part 1 f. Fashawn
07 The Grudge
08 Voltron
09 Stylin
10 Hammertime
11 Calendar Girls
12 Lauren London
13 Black Sky
14 Halftime
15 A Love Supreme

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N.E.R.D.:whaaa??? GYT? updated<<<

is this a name of there next album or something??
?????

.GET your ticket
.Gear your trunk
.good yellow truck? lol probably not
.Georgia young thangs
.gov. yells territory

"we're mind melting,we're mind melting"

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MOS DEF- a fan of DOOM!!

damn this video got me to actually look into DOOM's music.. ima B real, when I first herd of him I was interested in checking him out but then I saw him w/ that mask...that shit was fucking weird to me. I wasn't keeping my mind open on that one more like closed the F shut, lol. But then I realized that if he's just different and maybe on the Crrrazy side but if his music dope I def. can't deny it. and I herd MM...Food online...smh omg that Album was RAW!!! crazy. I'm def. gonna buy it. So im hooked like a trout on lake cachuma(inside info, that's were I would go camping/fishing with the fam)
It's nice to see an artist all excited about another artist like all of us get when we really like an artist.. pretty cool sight. MOS you the man..


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Q-Tip "WeFight/WeLove (RMX)" feat. Kanye West & Consequence

KanYe:"WEEEEEEE'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!! ME, TIP AND CONS!!!! WE ALL IN THE LAB AGAIN AND THIS IS THE NEW BEGINNING. LIKE CEASE CEASE AND KIM SAID, "HATERS BE QUIET, MY NIGGAS BRING THE RIOT!"
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I loved this song already but now that Tip made a remix w/ YEE and Consequence, it just makes the song that much better!! stay up fam


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88-Keys "Dillastyle"

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Japanese Cartoon : Crowd Participation

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Hello there my fellow human beings. Percival Fats here with updates and news! Alright, so lets just get on with it then.

Firstly new music! A new song has been added to the player. This one is entitled “Crowd Participation” and was one of the final songs recorded for “In The Jaws Of The Lords Of Death.” Touches on the power of mass demonstration. Heavy tune. One of my personal favorites.

Second. A website is in the works. ALLSABOTAGE.com should be online in the coming weeks. Its promised to be chocked full of tasty bits and pieces of Japanese Cartoon skullduggery. Stay Tuned.

Thirdly, The music video for “ARMY” is 99.9% complete and is scheduled to debut exclusively at ALLSABOTAGE.com.

Fourthly, the music video for the JC’s 1st single “Heirplanes” is in the late planning stages and guarantees to be quite the engaging cinematic experience.

Fifthly, I have been on a diet of Black Sabbath and Pocky and its everything you never thought it would be.

Sixthly, As promised a limited number of Japanese Cartoon T-shirts have been put to the presses and shall be available shortly. The t-shirts were done in collaboration with Boss Lupe’s (JC member by default and public pressure) clothing company Trilly & Truly. A plethora of etceteras are in the works for the future betwixt the two. A visual example is in order if I may be so obliging:




"No Shackle, No Sugar. All Sabotage."
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