Freeload/Gen F: Lil Wayne f. Nicki Minaj, “I Get Crazy”
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Totally unsurprising that Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj made such a literal, perfect and bananas interpretation of the phrase “I get crazy.” Nicki, whose distinct voice and powerful/aloof rap style is one of our faves right now, jams super fast about how she runs shit, then Wayne goes in like the mic is his punching bag, all over a Bomb Squad-y alarm sample. Major. What if Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj had a rap baby? It would be super cute and by the age of 12 its voice would sound like Condoleezza Rice with a pack a day habit, regardless of gender. They would name it something random like Apple but not stupid like Bronx, and we would pay actual money for all its albums. After the jump you can read Felipe Delerme’s Gen F on Nicki from FADER 60.
Download: Lil Wayne f. Nikki Minaj, “I Get Crazy”
Video/Gen F: Trai’D, “Sex Pill”
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“That’s real life situations…when you keep it real and your fans can say, I actually did that or I actually been through that, then they like, Damn this is some real ass shit. They relate to it and therefore they love it. If you was around me late at night, you’ll see what it is, I mean, the freaks come out at night. ” This is what Trai’D told us about “Sex Pill” and man, can we ever relate. After the jump, you can read more real talk in Felipe Delerme’s Gen F on Trai’D from FADER 58.
Video/Gen F: Illa J f. Guilty Simpson, “R U Listenin’”
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Illa J’s “R U Listenin’” is the perfect song to warm us up in freezing weather. The beat is vintage Dilla backyard bbq music. Although the songs on Illa’s Yancey Boys mostly work better as a group, this one is a perfect solo offering of sunny mid-’90s good vibes rap. We’re not ones to throw out the idea that older is better very often, but can you imagine The Pharcyde on this beat? Jam City. It should be noted that Illa J and Guilty Simpson are no slouches, but can we dream for a minute? After the jump read Sam Hockley-Smith’s Gen F on Illa J from FADER 58, on stands as we speak.
Freeload/Audio: Radioclit and Mumdance Remix “Township Funk”
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If you are reading this, we are assuming you are at least moderately interested in music and have hopefully heard DJ Mujava’s “Township Funk” by now. We have put it up several times but most recently in the FADER 58 podcast. Why? Because Mujava is in the Gen F section of that issue and his song sounds particularly ill blended into No Age’s “Teen Creeps.” Read the Gen F story after the jump, but first, listen to a couple new iterations of “Township Funk” from our buddies Radioclit and Mumdance. Radioclit’s is a remix you may have heard bouncing around. The Mumdance joint, with assists from Jammer and C. Gritz is less a remix than a club jam loosely wrapped around “Township Funk.” The trio made it to promote their recent live collaborations in and around London.
Download: Mumdance f. Jammer & C. Gritz, “Samir’s Township”
Download: DJ Mujava, “Township Funk (Radioclit Remix)”
Freeload: Little Boots’ Computer Fairyland Mix + Gen F
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We have been completely enamored with Blackpool, England’s Little Boots since the day we heard her debut single “Stuck On Repeat”. We expressed our affection by signing up for her mailing list, and she frequently returns the favor with links to her new blog, her corny YouTube covers and occasionally a stellar mix like this one, which, much like her own music, can be used for either dancing or staring out the office window. You can buy Lil Boots’s next single, “Meddle” (co-produced with Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, just like “Stuck on Repeat”) right now as 7-inch at Pure Groove (vinyl comes with “fantasy tattoos”), or wait until November and buy the Arecibo EP, coming out on Iamsound Records which features “Meddle,” “Stuck on Repeat” and remixes from Fake Blood and Ebola. Also, you could take the free stuff below and be on your way. But know this, after reading our sweet little Gen F piece on her after the jump, you will feel pretty terrible for taking and not giving from this girl.
Download: Little Boots’ Computer Fairyland Mix
Stream: Little Boots, “Meddle”
Download: Little Boots, “Meddle (Acoustic Version)”
Freeload: Music Go Music, “Reach Out” + Gen F
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When we put up Music Go Music’s first 12″, “Light of Love”, the band was shrouded in mystery and a protected by several dozen layers of ABBA references, but they were on Secretly Canadian, a label we’ve come to respect for many reasons. Our curiousity led us to write a story on them in the Issue 56, which you can read after the jump, in which we not only discovered that they were somewhat normal but also like vegetarian nachos. Small world. They are now releasing their second single, and there is hardly a hint of ABBA, just gigantic riffs, chugging rhythms and a little bit of disco. Or as one of their mom’s says in the story, ““the overture in a ’70s musical that I missed but would have loved.”
Download: Music Go Music, “Reach Out”
The War On Drugs Expands Internet Operations
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Scared you didn’t we, pothead? Don’t worry, the DEA is probably only slightly more internet savvy than John McCain (he’s “getting on” soon), but we are speaking of Philadelphia’s The War On Drugs, the band, anyway. We have spoken about them before which you may not remember (you are a pothead), and put them in the Gen F section of the magazine. And now they have a new video, directed by Mark Shonenveld, for “Needle In Your Eye” off their excellent debut Wagonwheel Blues that makes us oddly wistful for childhood road trips through the expansive American West, though it is presumably a statement in visuals about the white man’s desecration of sacred lands. Either way, read the Gen F from FADER 54 after the jump.
Freeload: Charles Hamilton, “Jeezy Hamilton” + Gen F
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After listening to Jeezy’s Recession in full, we fully support any youth who wants to role-model Jay Jenkins, especially if it inspires him to make songs this good. To be fair, semantically, it should be Cheezy Hamilton, but we realize that doesn’t sound so tough, and we know for a fact that Charles is a tough kid. We talked to him for FADER 56, out on newsstands shortly, and he revealed himself to be Harlem’s version of Good Will Hunting. He also dropped a total gem in explaining his love for the color pink (Hint: it has to do with anatomy). Read it all after the jump and stay ready for Charles’ Interscope debut coming soon.
Download: Charles Hamilton, “Jeezy Hamilton”
Video: Fleet Foxes, “White Winter Hymnal”
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There’s something vaguely religious and impenetrable about Fleet Foxes, but there is also something romantic and safe about them. So in this video for “White Winter Hymnal,” when bearded clay people control the stars with the wheel of a ship that every so often starts going too fast, it makes total sense. What doesn’t make sense is when claymation beards move with minds of their own, each individual strand wiggling in the wind. Creepy. After the jump check out Sam Hockley-Smith’s Gen F on Fleet Foxes from F54.
Live: Sahra Motalebi In A Weird Theater With Seats And Not Much Light
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Sahra Motalebi wears a lot of black and wiggles her toes before songs. Last night at the Clemente Soto Velez Theater in New York’s Lower East Side she performed shrouded in sheen and fretless bass. She sings like a calm banshee, little whirls and twirls, finger details and summoning. She has a sense of slow drama uninjected into much modern music, stern and unshakeably so, unfancy and deep. It’s warming to see that. Her songs are bizarre, hand drum and violin voodoo chants. Someone told us recently that he was happy art was moving in a direct that favored a little bit of unfinished fringe. That’s chill, but a little polished serious is nice, too. Check Sahra Motalebi’s Gen F after the jump, along with some of Gabriele Stabile’s photo outtakes.
