Shad

Shad

One of the only things that come close to the impact rush of discovering a great new act is finding someone else who can actually rap and this guy is the best rapper i've stumbled upon since Mr. Shaodow. His flow reminds me of Deltron 3030 in the late 90's. It's seemless, effortless and passionate. Best of all- he's canadian!

His sound is encompassed by three key points; a great beat, a masterful flow and ingenious lyricism. There are so many more layers to his rhymes though. There's the usual name dropping that you get in rap but they aren't there just for the sake of it, those big names fit around his rhymes. Then there's his honesty,

"When i'm writing I repeatedly edit words and rework tracks, i'll admit i'm like the Raptors- I got weak first drafts", O.K, get over the brilliance of that simile and compare it to Lil' Wayne's "I don't write shit cos I aint got time", Oh little weezy you do, you write a hell of a lot of shit; i've not heard as much shit as your latest album since i roomed with Robert Coultrane...

The two tracks i've put here have both been given coveted 4 star ratings on my ipod. You're missing out if you don't check this guy out-

I don't like to
Compromise

Lil Wayne- Drop the world Ft. Eminem

Lil Wayne- Drop the world Ft. Eminem

It's actually quite interesting how the little wayne album leaked. What a huge mess up. Good to hear more from Eminem too, I haven't listened yet so maybe it's crap like the other two that leaked a bit ago, man they were not good at all. Anyway check it if ya want.

Lil Wayne Leak- Da Da Da

Lil Wayne- DaDaDa

A few weeks before Lil Wayne's self proclaimed "rock influenced" album The Rebirth drops the first track from it leaks and yeah it does start with a guitar riff so I guess there you go that's all the evidence you need right?!

I was looking forward to this album as much as anyone until I witnessed little weezy try to play guitar at the camden roundhouse and ending up looking like your 10 year old cousin trying to play silent night after christmas lunch and everyone being too polite to tell him to stop embarassing himself.

Hope he gets some lessons or something cos it would be kind of cool... I suppose.

lil wayne...

has tatoos on his eyelids.

Last.fm

I just realised I haven't done a post on what I think of as my ipod's long lost sister who turns out not to be his sister and their love can be requited! O.k that sounds weird but last.fm is brilliant. I'm going to try post my chart on here, like maybe every 5000 tracks (i'm on 11000), my ipod doesn't scrobble everything and obviously i've had my ipod longer that i've had it but it's still fairly representative.

Add me if you have one- last.fm/purplexxxion

The problem is of course, which chart to post. Problem is i've already posted a lot of it on this blog! It's all been taken down obviously so maybe there's no harm in doing it again? Let me know what you think on reupping things and if you want anything put up just let me know and i'll do it.

Apart from the charts the most amazing thing is the radio station, add your friends listen to what they're listening to. Really the only way you'll appreciate last.fm is by using it yourself.

The main point of this post is to make people aware of last.fm and it's cataloguing potential. I'm just going to post a few tracks it shows i've been digging of late-

Paul Mccartney- Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Lil Wayne- A milli
Giant Drag- Kevin is Gay
Pete and the pirates- Eyes like tar
The Beatles- Tomorrow Never Knows