Premiere: French Montana, “Nutin 2 Meee” + “Married To The Streets” MP3
- story Felipe Delerme
- photo Bryan Derballa (outtake from F63)
This is just unfair at this point. When Akon signed Frenchie, we could’ve assumed they’d be collaborating at some point, but we also happen to know that French already has a vault full of Dame Grease bangers to choose from for his proper debut. And now he’s convinced Akon to climb out of his Auto-tomb to bind French’s verses on some New York “Soul Survivor” shit? Have people stopped playing “New York Minute” already? They shouldn’t have—although it’s a bit more understandable as French continues, with startling consistency, the onslaught he and Max began together. Fresh off his Gen F profile in the current issue, French also recently sent over “Nutin 2 Meee,” which will probably get buried in one of his mixtapes, among a bunch of other great mixtape music, but we’d happily advise more people to release mixtape music untagged if it hit as hard as this does.
Download: French Montana, “Nutin 2 Meee”
Download: French Montana f. Akon, “Married To The Streets”
Cassie f. Akon, “Let’s Get Crazy” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
Schnipper was playing this from his computer sneakers when Felipe asked if it was the new Britney Spears single. Which is pretty harsh, no offense to Brit or Cass. Download “Crazy Tonight” below and check their iChat rundown of the song from Cassie’s upcoming album Electro Love after the jump.
Download: Cassie f. Akon, “Let’s Get Crazy”
Freeload: Mor Thiam, “Ayo Ayo Nene” MP3
- story THE FADER
From Egon’s blog of Madlib’s European Tour:
Meanwhile, we got to browse through Gerald’s frighteningly diversified collection and peep the entire Mor Thiam album alongside Mehr Pooya’s Iranian album – including his 10 minute cover of Dennis Coffey’s “Scorpio.” Madlib ended up with one of his most wanted albums – Stefano Torrossi’s “Feelings,” and I ended up in the same place I was last year – with the Mor Thiam album on hold, and not a trade closer to getting Akon’s dad’s debut in my greedy palms.
While it is mindboggling to imagine how rare and expensive Madlib or Egon’s most wanted records actually are, they were kind enough to post up this classic song by Papa Thiam from the brand new and totally excellent Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz from the Undergound, 1968-77. We highly recommend this comp for those times when officemates/roommates/random grumps are wild salty. Dilute the salt with powerful positive vibery!
Download: Mor Thiam, “Ayo Ayo Nene” (via GvsB)
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posted on May 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Akon, Egon, freeload, jazz, Madlib, Mor Thiam, Stones Throw
Freeload: French Montana The Laundry Man EP
- story THE FADER
For a while we were sure French Montana was this sort of Slash to Max B’s Axl Rose; stand around and look cool and give people a break from Max’s drunken lullaby. Then we heard the Coke Wave mixtape and got really excited about someone from New York who wants to sound like they are actually from New York. French released the The Laundry Man EP as a follow up to his Macaroni With The Cheese mixtape, which if the titles alone are to be believed, both prove that he really likes money. What you’ll have to listen to discover is that he also enjoys abusing Dame Grease beats and reintroducing Akon as a thoroughbred chorus horse.
Download: French Montana The Laundry Man EP (Via Nah Right)
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posted on May 26, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Akon, Dame Grease, freeload, French Montana, hip hop, Max B
Ghetto Palms: Afrostuff / Chief Boima / Descendants United / Akon Redeemed
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
For a while now I have been bugging left coast DJ Chief Boima to put together a mix of all the afro-stuff he has been educating me about via email correspondence ever since he cold-called the editorial@thefader.com inbox with a message headed “African remixes from San Francisco” back around the time of the Africa issue. This is the week it all came together and I won’t comment much since the Chief can put things in better context himself (his notes are in italics next to each track), but I will say this: I have had in the back of my mind for years the idea of making a “Black Atlantic” mixtape, connecting dots between the various threads of the African diaspora described in the Paul Gilroy book of the same name and now I can’t because this mix is basically it.
Video: Worlds Collide! Award-Winning FADER Contributor Directs a T-Pain Video
- story THE FADER
Ever since we saw T-Pain wearing a bejeweled Aqua Teen Hunger Force medallion, we were like What is that guy’s deal? It turns out that his deal is that he was giving a bit of free promotion to Adult Swim executive Nick Weidenfeld (who’s Silver Jews feature from F31 also appeared in the 2006 edition of Da Capo’s Best Music Writing series). Weidenfeld, along with Jacob Escobedo (collaboratively known as Bank Head), is responsible for the entire album packaging behind T-Pain’s upcoming album Thr33 Ringz, as well as the video for “Karaoke,” which features T-Pain in full battle rap mode. Also included: DJ Khaled intimidating old white people by yelling so close to their faces that he spits into their mouths, and Akon going nuts on the bongo drums and looking really proud of himself.
Freeload: Kardinal Offishall f. Akon, “Dangerous (Soca Mix)”
- story THE FADER
We’ve been jonesing for a proper copy of this mix ever since Kardi performed it on his lighters-up 106 & Park appearance. The original tune was cool enough as a Summer radio jam slash guilty pleasure but this new take is an earworm on sterioids, with synth steel drums (straight out the the Optimum Online reggaeton commercial!) that somehow manage to make Kardinal’s propulsive chanting and Akon’s Lionel Richie-worthy hook that much catchier. Resistance is futile, people! It’s a soca world and we just live in it…
Download: Kardinal Offishall f. Akon “Dangerous (Soca Mix)”
Freeload: Akon, Ace Hood, Trick Daddy, Boosie, Lil Wayne, Plies & Rick Ross, “Out Here Grindin’”
- story THE FADER
We had a mental debate with ourselves over whether or not to post this, but then we decided we should because we’ve never been ones to keep Akon from the people. At this point, DJ Khaled has almost single handedly resurrected the large posse cut, overdone it and then destroyed it. BUT! Like clockwork, as we’re approaching summer he’s getting ready to drop another album that will probably make us continue to envision Miami as one huge production line of smiling rappers stacking money from a conveyor belt on a yacht. Also in this vision DJ Khaled would be the foreman of the whole operation and he’d be a really unfair boss but as long as you were getting money he’d be cool.
Download: Akon, Ace Hood, Trick Daddy, Boosie, Lil Wayne, Plies & Rick Ross, “Out Here Grindin’”
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posted on May 8, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags a million guys, Ace Hood, Akon, Boosie, freeload, hip hop, Lil Wayne, Miami, money, Plies, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy
Video: Kardinal Offishall f. Akon, “Dangerous”
- story THE FADER
It is warm outside and it is Cinco de Mayo so we are imagining how dope it would be to kick it with Kardi and Akon on an island (or a beach or wherever) during the making of this video. We would sit with them in some sun chairs and drink Margaritas and then we would go to the carnival and get our pictures taken on fake covers of magazines, like they do with the video chick in this joint. Only instead of King magazine, we would all be on the cover of Monocle together and we’d have an in-depth discussion about the socioeconomics of Indonesia and how it affects the global dollmaking market, as seen through the lens of free-trade textiles post-NAFTA, as influenced by the US sanctions on Cuba. Then we would have a dance off.
Video: Akon f. T-Pain, “I Can’t Wait”
- story THE FADER
Akon, T-Pain, matching gullwing Lambo and grand, old cellphones, crane shots, rain-soaked streets, giving flowers to nice looking girls. This video is the Large Hadron Collider of things that makes us super jazzed on a Monday morning. And while it may not create tiny black holes through which time travel is possible, there will definitely be an episode of Lost that heavily pivots on this song at some point next season. WE’RE CALLING IT.
