Just Blaaaaaze!

Letterman's Top 10 George Bush Moments

This takes me back

Biz Markie - Just a Friend

Happy Chanukah

So drink your gin and tonica, and smoke your marijuanica
if you really really wannica, have a happy happy happy happy chanukah

MPC work at its finest

Exile flips Lil Wayne's A Milli and some other beat too. Absolutely insane.

Ryan Leslie - How It Was Supposed To Be

I picked this up today. Verdict: Dope!

Notable tracks:
Universal Mind Control
Gladiator
Announcement
Sex 4 Suga
Inhale

Any of these sound familiar?

Common dances to UMC

A very random, candid moment of Common dancing to Universal Mind Control. Note: the beat playing under the vocals is actually Planet Rock.

Jay-Z feat. Santogold - Brooklyn (Go Hard) (video)

Produced by Kanye West.

Top 5 songs from 808's and Heartbreak

1. Amazing
2. Welcome to Heartbreak
3. Heartless
4. Love Lockdown
5. Say You Will

Jamie Foxx feat. T.I. - Just Like Me (video)

Jamie Foxx is back with a new single from his upcoming album Intuition which is set to be released in mid-December.

Ryan Leslie does it again!

Keri Hilson - Turnin Me On (video)

Keri Hilson's newest video featuring Lil Wayne. The song is a banger and was produced by Polow da Don.

Big L and Jay-z Freestyle

This is just sick. Proof that 1. 90's rap is the best and 2. Big L and Jay-z are two of the best rappers. The fact that this is a freestyle puts to SHAME all these so-called rappers today who can't even compare when they had time to actually write rhymes.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - White Lines

The ORIGINAL conscious rap song, White Lines, about the effects of cocaine. This was especially important in it's time cause the song came out during the crack epidemic in the 80's. However its credited to Grandmaster Flash, he actually has no involvement in the song and never received royalties from the use of his name.



The track below samples the hook from white lines, and is all about white girls. This was the type of track that would play on BET after midnight (along with tip drill).

Geto Boys - Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangster

This song is probably best known from the printer scene in Office Space. I especially like the knowledge Scarface drops in his first verse. It puts all the ego-tripping gangster wannabes in their place.

"Real gangsta ass niggas never run their fuckin mouths, cause real gangsta ass niggas don't start fights"

And for the hell of it.. my other favourite Scarface song - My Block

Dj's of the Week

These following videos are so sick. Some of the best dj's ever, just showing off! Grandmaster Flash, Kid Kapri, Jazzy Jeff and Dj Premier (second video).

Dope!

Dope freestyles from De La Soul, will.i.am, Mos Def and Nas with DJ Green Lantern spinning at the G.O.O.D. Music after party in London,UK.

Classic Material: Warren G - Regulate

A classic joint from Warren G with the hook sung by one of the greatest featured artists ever: Nate Dogg. What ever happened to that guy anyways?

Nardwuar vs. Common

Man's Best Friend...

Re-mixed and re-mastered: Heartless and Love Lockdown

Speak of the devil. Kanye decided to re-master and re-mix these tracks so that they're more hard-hitting in the clubs.

Heartless
Love Lockdown

Kanye West interview in Singapore

Kanye does an interview in Singapore while touring in Asia for the Glow in the Dark Tour. He talks about his upcoming album, his new music and being a performer.

Kanye West - Heartless (video)

Directed by Hyped Williams.

Congratulations to Barack Obama, the next president

I made this to celebrate Obama's victory yesterday...

Producer of the Week - Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones is a world renowned composer, musical arranger, trumpeter, conductor and, last but not least, record producer. As a conductor, Jones was part of the band Bossa Nova, which had huge success with its song Soul Bossa Nova, which can be heard as the theme for Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies and was later sampled for Ludacris' song Number One Spot.

As a record producer, Q is best known for producing Michael Jackson's sixth studio album Thriller, which is the highest selling album in history (104 million copies world-wide). Jones previously produced MJ's Off the Wall in 1979 and would later produce his 1987 album Bad.

In addition to working with Michael Jackson, Q has worked with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Rufus & Chaka Khan, Celine Dion and Ray Charles (a long time friend).

Jones has also composed and arranged the movie scores for numerous movie soundtracks and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Movie Score for the 1967 film In Cold Blood. He was also the first African-American to be musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony.

In the 50 years Jones been in the music industry, he has earned 79 Grammy nominations, 27 Grammys and a Grammy Legend award in 1991.

Without a doubt, Q is one of the greats of the music industry.

Q-Tip shows some love for the NY Knicks

I dunno if this is played before Knicks home games start at Madison Square Garden, but it should be. Q-tip delivers a pretty solid track to show some support for the franchise that's been terrible for the last 5 years or more. They're off to a decent start this year with the new coach...I hope they do their best not to make Q-tip a liar.

Pope Sean John the first lol

Here's Diddy gettin his Halloween on. Notice the right hand sitting a little low on Cassie's waist...

DJ of the Week - Premier

Dj Premier is, hands down, one of my favourite musicians. He's not a just a DJ, he's also a producer. Not just any producer, he's one of the BEST producers. His music is so distinct, that when you hear a primo beat, you KNOW it immediately.

His production style remains the same with throwback methods from when hip-hop first started. Sampling from old blues records, with stripped down, heaving hitting beats. Another signature of Premier's is the scratching voice samples for the hook.

Premier has worked with some (probably most) of the greatest names in hip-hop, as well as being 1/2 of the legendary Gangstarr. The video below is snippet from the DJ documentary SCRATCH with Premier dropping some education.

Hip-Hop Is Dead

I came across this video on Illdoctrine's website. I love this guy cause he's smart, sarcastic and he genuinely loves hip-hop.

Dirt Off Obama's Shoulders

I found this awesome fan made Obama clip on youtube. It includes the clip of him brushing his shoulders off during his speech in Raleigh North Carolina earlier in April. If a candidate can quote a Jay-Z song on national television and make it look good... he definitely deserves my vote.

The Lebron Six's

Lebron channels his inner lady's man for this new nike commercial with Nicole Scherzinger.

Ha! I saw that one coming

The top 5 worst rappers...

John Legend - Evolver in stores now!

John Legend's new album from G.O.O.D Music, Evolver, hit stores yesterday. I have yet to listen to a song other than "Green Light" or "It's Over", but as the title of the album explains, his musical style is always...evolving.

T.I. - Live Your Life (video)

The video for the T.I.'s "Live Your Life" debuted today. This song was co-produced by Just Blaze (one of my favourite producers) and Canei (who?). The sample for this song was lifted off O-zone's "Dragostea Din Tei", or as most people know it, the Numa Numa song. I like that they put in Rihanna's verse from the album version of the song into the video.

I've also included the video for "No Matter What", which is one of my favourite songs from Paper Trail. The song was produced by Nate "Danja Handz" Hills.

Mitch Hedberg - Sesame Seeds

This is too funny. Granted its nothing to do with music, dj'n, production, hip-hop.. it's still good for a few laughs.

Everyday Normal Guy

This song is just too funny, and surprisingly good too. I know it's old, but hey.

When I go to the club, I wait in line, muthafucka

Universal Mind Control - Artwork

Here is the cover for Common's upcoming album, Universal Mind Control, formerly known as Invincible Summer. This album was supposed to drop in the early summer but now the word is that it's coming out on December 8th. I guess good things can't be rushed.

They Can Kick It !!!!

Here's an old school clip of Tribe rocking a party back in the day when hip hop was still good. These kinds of videos make me wish I grew up in the 80's, but at the same time I'm still grateful I got to see them perform atleast once.

Big ups to The Meaning Of Dope for posting this... click on the link for some more of these videos.

Another new beat

Dj of the Week - Grand Master Flash

Joseph Saddler aka Grand Master Flash is my choice for kicking off the "Dj of the week". One of the main reasons is that I just finished reading his autobiography The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash. The book details his entire life from toddler to now. I always had an idea of how hip-hop started, with dj's playing breakdowns of records and emcee's rhyming over it, but to read about how it ACTUALLY happened was incredible.

Realistically, Grand Master Flash is best known for being a pioneer. Is he the best dj out there? Probably not. Is the richest or most successful? Probably not. But he was the first! He was the poor soul that got robbed by the industry, so hip-hop artists could learn about business through his mistakes. (And yet some still haven't learned).

Oh and, his group, GMF and the Furious Five were the first hip-hop group to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame.

Notorious...coming in 2009

Check out the trailer for the movie about B.I.G. starring Jamal Woolard as the Notorious B.I.G. and Derek Luke as Puffy.

Featured Artist - Kid Sister

Kid Sister (aka Melissa Young) is a Chicago rapper signed to Downtown Records. Previously, she was signed to DJ A-Trak's label, Fools Gold and is also dating A-Trak, who is Kanye West's tour DJ.

Kid Sister has been MC'ing since 2005 and has been considered by some to be one of Kanye West's protege's. Her music can be roughly categorized as club rap, because of the up-tempo music, with influences from house music and other club genres. All in all, it's a refreshing mix considering how the music industry is so saturated with hard-hitting, serious rap music these days.

Her most prominent single to date was the late 2007 hit "Pro Nails". The original song caught the attention of Kanye, who eventually jumped onto it for a verse and appeared in the video.

*side note: this song totally grew on me after a while me and my buddy whiled out to this song like crazy haha.

Since "Pro Nails", she has released a few other singles, including "Family Reunion" with David Banner and most recently "Get Fresh", which I'm totally feelin. (Props to J-Swing for the song.)

Get Fresh

Her debut album, Dream Date, is set to be released this November and it will feature production by Trackademicks, Spank Rock's XXXChange and many others.

808's and Heartbreak - album art, Robocop + What It Is (unreleased) and Coldest Winter (mastered)

Word is that this will be the album cover to 808's and Heartbreak...I know, it's the same as the artwork for Love Lockdown.

First up: "Coldest Winter". This song is dedicated to the memory of Kanye's mother, Donda West. It follows a similar formula to Love Lockdown with heavy drums and lots of auto-tune.

Coldest Winter (mastered)

Next up are 2 songs that didn't make it to the album. The first is named after one of my favourite movies from the late 80's, "Robocop". It has some...interesting sound FX in it.

Robocop

The second is "What It Is" and no, it's not related to the early 2000's song by Busta Rhymes and Kelis. This beat sounds really familiar to me for some reason...I can't figure out why. It probably didn't make it to the album because there's not enough auto-tune on it haha.

What It Is

Props to Hypetrak and 2dopeboyz for these tracks.

Some of the biggest names in sports x Guitar Hero

This seemed too good to be true when I saw the title. A-Rod, Tony Hawk, Michael "Mr. Gold Medal" Phelps and Kobe rock out to the newest Guitar Hero game.

Mark Wahlberg talks to animals hahaha

Andy Samberg gets his Marky Mark on in this SNL skit.


Marky Mark responds...

New beat!

Made this on Oct 13th if you couldn't tell.

Featured Artist - KERI HILSON

If you don't know who Keri Hilson, first of all, crawl out of the rock that you've been living under for the past 2 years and then read the rest of this post for a quick lesson on who she is.

Keri Hilson is a singer/songwriter signed to the Mosley Music Group and has only recently began a career as an solo artist. She grew up in the ATL and has been writing songs for others since 2000. In fact, she's probably the person that wrote lyrics to some of your favourite songs. Some of her writing credits include Avant - "4 Minutes", Britney Spears - "Gimme More" and "Break the Ice", Ludacris - "Runaway Love", Mary J. Blige - "Take Me as I Am", Omarion - "Ice Box", Chris Brown - "Young Love", Ciara - "Ooh Baby", Pussycat Dolls - "Wait a Minute" and Usher - "Love in This Club, Part II".

In addition, her vocals have been featured on:
Lloyd Banks - "Help", P Diddy - "After Love", Timbaland - "The Way I Are" and "Scream", Rich Boy - "Good Things" and Xzibit - "Hey Now".

Sound impressive? It is.

Keri's debut album is called In a Perfect World and will feature production by Timbaland, Danja, Polow da Don, Eric Dawkins, Tank and others. And for the first time, Keri will get to write songs for herself instead of other artists. The first single from the album was "Energy", and was received fairly well, being that it wasn't a super-upbeat pop/hip hop/rnb song. I always felt that she needed to release a more club-friendly single to propel herself into the limelight and low and behold, one has just arrived.

Here's Keri Hilson's newest video for the "Return the Favor" featuring Timbo. I'm really diggin this song and the visuals too. Timbo does little more than act like furniture though...just sittin in his big ol' chair.

Also, I've included a rare Keri Hilson and Justin Timberlake collabo. They trade verses to LL Cool J's "Headsprung" (produced by Timbaland) off the album The DEFinition.

So there you have it, that's Keri Hilson in a nutshell. If ya didn't know, now ya do. Be sure to spread the word about her and buy her album when it comes out because artists of this caliber are a dime a dozen these days.

Ludacris ft. T-Pain - One More Drink

Here's the filming of Luda and T-Pain's One More Drink. Check T-Pain getting his Michael Jackson on...first he ditches the vocoder and now he's dancing?! I didn't know he had it in him.

Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris - Dance Wiv Me

Dizzee Rascal is an MC from the UK. This song was featured at the beginning of the latest episode of Entourage. It's an upbeat track and it's pretty catchy. As per usual, hip hop from the UK is...different from hip hop over in North America. Diggin the song though.

Kanye visits Big Boy's Neighbourhood

Kanye talks about making his upcoming album, 808's and Heartbreak.

New Ryan Leslie Video!

Ryan Leslie has finally released another video on his YouTube channel. Apparently, there's been a lotta leaked songs from his album hitting the internet so he decided to revamp them in the studio so that the final album versions will be fresh. Smart idea. Also, R-Les is pushing the release of his album back until February so that he can gain more exposure on the charts before the album drops. This guy is gonna be the next big thing, so do your part and spread the word!

I've also included a video for the song I-R-I-N-A. In my last Ryan Leslie post, this was the first song that he was working on in the studio when Ant Boogie walked in. Pretty dope.

VANS TH ROWLEY SHAMBLES HI

Every once and a while a dope new look comes out that catches my eye, and these Vans are it. Taka Hayashi is the designer and damn did he do a good job. His style is different but in a good way, hopefully a way that will sway others from carbon copying 80's shoes to actually designing something new.

808's and Heartbreak Album Art

Here is some album artwork Kanye West's upcoming album 808's and Heartbreak courtesy of Hypebeast. This is the same outfit he wore when he debuted Love Lockdown at the MTV Movie Awards a little while back. In case you didn't know, 808's and Heartbreak will be done completely in auto-tune, with Kanye doing less rapping and more singing than he's ever done. From the 3 songs I've heard so far, (Love Lockdown, Heartless and Coldest Winter) this album seems much more personal and stripped down production-wise than Kanye's previous albums, especially Graduation. This album will probably appeal more to Kanye's die hard fans and not so much to the general public like Graduation did, but I got a lotta respect for his change in direction and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does. 808's and Heartbreak hits stores on November 25.

Nailing your wife hahahaha

You might recognize the guy in this video as Nathan Fillion from Serenity and the old TV series Firefly.

More Politics - Jumpoff Street Battle: Palin vs. Biden

So after the boring and un-necessary Canadian election (which resulted in the same minority government as BEFORE) we can turn our heads back to the more entertaining Armerican election. This video is mock-up emcee battle between Palin and Biden, and its funny as hell.

McCain on Obama

A witty video from my favourite video blogger. Yes, video blogger. Illdoctrine is my favourite way to pass the time. Just incase you don't realize it, it's not ACTUALLY a McCain add.

Roc Raida @ Lamplighter

The Legendary Roc Raida was at the Lamplighter a few weeks ago and tore the roof off. Big ups to Dj Pick for filming this.

Nike Football Commercials

I saw this commercial on Hypebeast. It's directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, The Game) and Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men) and is fittingly entitled "Fate". It follows the pre-destined fates of LaDanian Tomlinson and Troy Palamalu from their pre-birth ultra-sounds until their current successes in the NFL.


Also, if you haven't seen it before, this commercial is entitled "Leave Nothing" and is directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice). It features Shawne Merriman (San Diego Chargers) and Steven Jackson (St. Louis Rams) with music from the movie score of The Last of the Mohicans. It's hands down one of the most intense sports commercials I've ever seen.

The coldest story ever told

Kanye's shared his new single Heartless via his blog. It also has some pictures of random naked women with it too...which is...different. I like the song though.

Heartless

Bike-Fu?

Even seen a gang of girls on bmx's kick ass?

Elevator Dance Party!!!

Every elevator ride should be a dance party !!

Ryan Leslie - Quicksand

This is one of the lesser known Ryan Leslie YouTube videos. He made this song earlier this year for this dance competition he was heading up called the Ryan Leslie Dance Project. As usual, R-Les never ceases to amaze.

Sophia Fresh ft. Kanye - What it is (produced by T-Pain)

Brand new ish... no vocorder action from Kanye on this one!

Sophia Fresh ft. Kanye - What it is

A Millie - Obama remix !!

I usually don't pay much attention to all these new "a milli" remixes, but this one was too funny to overlook.

Crips and Bloods Unite!!

"Then we gave each other a hug"

Weird Al - Whatever You Like

This is just too funny not to post. I used to listen this guy all the time when I was five years old.

My chick can have what she want, at Walmart she can pick out anything she want

How We Do It Over Here Remix

Here's a remix of a Busta Rhymes and Missy collabo from The Big Bang that I cooked up a few days ago.

Timbaland - Talk (final version)

Timbo finally drops the finished version of Talk. Last time we posted this song only it was just Timbo and T-Pain on the track, but Missy Elliot has been added to the roster for this one.

Love Lockdown Video

Kanye debuted this video on Ellen...kind of a weird place to do that if you ask me.

LMAO!

Jesus survives haha!

Common - Universal Mind Control

New-ish music from Common. I've been sittin on this song for a while and it still hasn't picked up... but maybe the music video will turn some heads. Oh, and the Neptunes produced it. Enjoy

T-Pain vs. his vocoder

We all know that the vocoder is the new hotness in the music world these days. T-Pain has used it so much that his name is pretty much synonymous with vocoding now. Anyways, a friend sent me this video and I thought it was hilarious, so I had to share it.

Live Stock Block Party

On Sept 14th was the annual livestock block party. The event is held outside of the Gastown location (on Abbot between Water and Cordova), and the entire block is closed off. Gman and Rizk always have some of the best Dj's in Canada spin, Dj battles, and a skateboard ramp. The best part of the event is that anyone and everyone involved in the scene shows up. It's like an annual reunion for the industry. Check out the movie below, a time-lapse of the entire day.

Red & Meth - Two Weeks Later

A few weeks ago, Dj Pick and I went down to Plush Nightclub to watch two of our favourite rappers. These guys ripped it up during the 90's and even early 2000. Everyone listened to them in high school, and we all knew the words to Da Rockwilda. This show was so sick, the way a hip-hop show should be. None of the new age rappers can fuck with these guys, nobody rocks a party like the old school. Wu-Tang Clan still aint nuttin to fuck wit.

Rock The Bells - A Month Later

It's been almost a month since Dj Frisk and I drove out to the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington State. It was about a 5-6 hour drive there (and back) to watch some of hip-hop's legends. On the bill for Seattle was The Pharcyde, De La Soul, Mos Def, Nas and of course Tribe Called Quest! The concert was sick! The Gorge is also the best outdoor concert venue I've ever seen, because it's built into a canyon, you can pretty much see the main stage from ANYWHERE inside the concert grounds. It was definitely worth the drive and camping onsight for this! Here are some pictures.

De La Soul

MC Supernatural (sickest freestyle I ever heard)

Nasty Nas
Dj Green Lantern

Q-Tip and Mos Def

Phife Dawg and Ali

Sick Catch!

This is hands down, one of the best catches I've ever seen. I jacked it from Nation Of Millions

Dj Domination

I realized that I haven't posted many deejay specific articles, so here is the first of many to come. It's a clip of Dj Domination pulling out some body tricks of the likes I've never seen. Big ups to Dj Pick for finding this.

RIP Jay Part II

Here is another song I felt was appropriate given what today is. Live in the Sky by TI featuring Jamie Foxx. It is off his King album and it is dedicated to those he's lost. RIP Blondie.

RIP Jay Louie - The Years Fly By

A year ago Vancouver lost a special person. My colleague and friend Jay Louie was taken from us September 24th of last year. He was the nicest person you'll ever meet. He was also full of energy; Jay was the kind of person who could turn a boring night upside down (usually with a bottle of JD). Which is fitting, because he's best known for being a co-executive of (now debunked) Xtscene promotions (night club promoters) and had been involved in the industry for years.

It was only in the year before his passing that I really got to know him, and I never realized how many people he touched until he left us. It wasn't till his funeral that I realized how many people truly cared for him, and all I can say is that when I pass, I can only hope to have as many people will care for me as Jay had for him.

As this is a music blog, I posted Crossroads by Bone Thugs. Although this might come as a cliche, I don't care, it will forever be a great song. Rest in peace bro.

Hold My Breath - Paper Chase Music Video

This music video is apparently a year old, but it's new to me. In case you don't know who Paper Chase is, he's an underground rapper in Vancouver with, in my opinion, a lot of potential. He's probably the last person you'd expect to be a rapper though, and I would know, because we went to elementary school together. This guy was wearing Nirvana t-shirts and somehow transitioned to hip-hop. Either way, he's made a name for himself in this city. Another reason I posted it is because my cousin, Chris Goldade, worked on the filming of the video (watch the credits at the end of it).

Swagga Like Puff!

Diddy is f'in hilarious. I laughed long and hard after watching this one.

Version 1


Version 2 (link)

Ryan Leslie - Addiction (2 videos) + Making of the Song

Super-producer Ryan Leslie has finally released videos for his single Addiction. I've also included the video of him creating the song in his studio. This guy blows me away every time he's in the studio. It's a shame that he's still working with Cassie, because her lack of vocal talent is always overshadowed by his production on her songs. I have the feeling that she'll be the next artist to join the Auto-tune fad in her music (i.e. Ciara, Rihanna, Kanye). To be honest, I think that the only reason she's still in the music industry is because she's a pretty, marketable face. Granted...a very, very pretty face.

Addiction - Original Version (link)

Addiction - Alternate Version

The Making of Addiction

Ya...she's hot.

Nas - The other virgo

As you might already know, yesterday was my birthday (thanks to the previous post), but what you might not know is that on the 14th was the birthday of one of hip-hop's greatest emcees. To this day I frequently listen to illmatic, which is considered one of the best rap albums ever made. And to add to that, I attended Rock the Bells at the Gorge (outside of Seattle) and witnessed Nas perform several songs from this debut album. So as a tribute to him, his birthday and one of my favourite albums, here is the "10th Anniversary Platinum Series" disc of illmatic (cause I know you already have the original). Enjoy!

DJ Goldade is 23 years old

Happy Burfday, boy. Hope you had a good one. Here's to another great year...hopefully :p

T.I. - Hurt

Since TI's new album, Paper Trail, is due out at the end of the month, I began listening to some old TI tracks. I re-discovered this track from TI vs. TIP. It's definitely one of the best songs on the album and guess who produced it? Danja Handz. That guy is ridiculous and is probably one of the most versatile producers out there. I mean, the guy produced half of Britney Spears' Blackout.

New hotness *updated*

A beat I made yesterday. I'm a pretty modest guy, but even I think it's dope.

More Beats

2 beats from a week ago. The first one happened by accident after messing up a previous beat. The second one was something that Goldade started and I finished.

Love Lockdown

A remake of Kanye West's latest single, Love Lockdown.

Timbaland feat. T-Pain - Talk

I heard Timbo play a clip of this track in a club on YouTube a little while back. I've been waiting for it to drop ever since. Once again, Timbo proves why he's one of the best, if not the best producer out there.

We'll Never Forget You, Aaliyah

I know it's a few days since Aug 25th ( the anniversary of her passing), but I thought I'd post the first Aaliyah song I ever heard. I was in grade 8 when it first came out, and I always remembered it because of the "baby" noises in the background.

New Mixtape from Van City's Finest!

Click on either image to download.

Old school joint for y'all

So I was watching an episode of The Office today (funniest show ever)...the one where Michael hosts the Dundie awards and he makes his grand entrance to this song as he tries to act hood haha.

Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover

I'm sure a lot of people in Canada know of Nardwuar and how strange he can be. He's also well known for his depth of knowledge, this interview is no exception. Check out how impressed NERD is with this interview! I think MuchMusic should pay this man more money!

New beats

Some beats I made last week...

Pemberton 08

I recently attended the first annual Pemberton music festival. It was a three day event with tons of acts, such as: Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty, Tragically Hip, NERD, Coldplay, and of course, JAY-Z! I, however, only purchased the sunday ticket, which was the day NERD, Jay-z and Coldplay were performing.

The first act we saw was NERD, who brought more energy to the crowd than I've ever seen from a hip-hop show. There were people moshing, crowd surfing and all kinds craziness you would expect from a rock concert.

Then after a rather boring set from Death Cab for Cutie, me and my friend Sana crept as close to the front as we could. After a while of suffocating in the crowd, Hova took the stage! I can definitely say it was worth the money!! He put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. To begin with, he had a full band! He did almost every hit single since Vol 2. THATS RIGHT, HE SANG HARDKNOCK LIFE! The crowd response was incredible too, after his first song, he just stood center stage while 40 thousand people threw up the dynasty sign and chanted "HOVA HOVA".

Here are few pictures, and footage from the event. Note the 5 minutes Jay-Z takes to connect with the crowd.