David Banner & 9th Wonder ft. Lisa Ivey, “Something Is Wrong” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Alisdair McLellan (F28)
Following on from Nas’ open letter and Killer Mike’s recent, stirring blog post regarding the senseless murder of Derrion Albert, the always outspoken David Banner steps up to address Albert’s death in song. Banner uses the tragedy as a launching pad to rap about many modern problems—violence, racism, sexism and abuse—and in turn, at least somewhat, responds to the criticism that hip hop is not taking a large enough roll in confronting the issues that led to Albert’s death. To Mike’s point though, last year over 30 students were murdered in Chicago alone and this was not an anomaly, either geographically or statistically. It is not something new to many who have grown up in area’s like the south side of Chicago. So that Derrion’s death and the boys responsible for it were caught on tape, that he was an honor student and they were not, that he did not deserve to die and they now apparently do, are all things that have motivated these three artists to speak is powerful. Whether it motivates anyone else remains to be seen.
Download: David Banner & 9th Wonder ft. Lisa Ivey, “Something Is Wrong”
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Freeload: Wale + 9th Wonder Back to the Feature Mixtape (Mixed by Nick Catchdubs)
- story THE FADER
At the beginning of this primarily 9th Wonder-produced mixtape, Wale says, “People be like, ‘Can you put the fucking tape out, Wale? You’re lazy…’” We’re definitely not calling Wale lazy, but dude needs to get an album out as soon as he can. Until then, we can make do with this mixtape, which is awesome enough to carry us for a couple months. We’ve had not-so-nice words for 9th Wonder’s production before (“His snares sound like someone slapping a wet cardboard box” etc), but Wale and his guests, who range from Beanie Sigel to Freeway to Daniel Merriweather to an excellent verse-for-verse tradeoff song with Bun B, make us forget all about the past. And of course the guiding hand of FADER-fam and awesome dude Nick Catchdubs, who has mixed all of Wale’s tapes to date, deserves some credit, too.
Download: Wale + 9th Wonder, Back to the Feature Mixtape
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posted on Jun 22, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
