Video: Devin The Dude, “I-Hi”
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While perusing our usual pre-release digital music haunts for a copy of Bun B’s II Trill (relax, just cause we absolutely need to hear it this second doesn’t mean Best Buy won’t have fifteen of our hard-earned American dollars next Tuesday) we noticed that a Greatest Hits collection for fellow Texan Devin The Dude just dropped. And who on this green (wink) earth is more deserving of such a compilation, even if it’s just a quickie single disc cash-in from his former label? One of the greatest storytellers of the past 15 years! Star of the best/worst FADER cover combination of all time*! But why is Devin’s single “I-Hi” nowhere to be found? DJ Domo’s wheezing double-time beat sounds as fresh as it did in 2002, and – come on! – the song is The Dude’s gotdamn superhero origin story (Adventures of Cougheeman, Issue #1!). Rap-A-Lot, can we do an mp3 Iran-Contra and swap the Sean Kingston song off Bun’s album for a new Devin tracklist? Arms for hostages!
Devin N Damon
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One night into SXSW and it’s already shaping up to be xtra ridic. The Cribs and Lou Barlow (nice Ratt cover dude!) ripped it up at the FADER/Levi’s Trading Post, along with a grip of other bands and ill selector Chicken George.
After that thoroughly rocking afternoon/early evening, we grabbed some quick fries and margaritas for sustinance, then brought our pals Damon Albarn and Sean Reveron out to the Back Room to see Devin The Dude and Bun B absolutely kill it (props to Matt Sonzala for setting that show up). Damon kicked it with the Odd Squad, and Devin wrecked a greatest hits set – complete with random audience member coming onstage to dance along to “I just wanna fu-uh-uh-uck yooooo….”. Right after that, Bun and the MDLFNGRZ ripped up the Timbaland instrumental to “Put You On The Game”, and kept the show going long after last call and the house lights went up. Somehow, we drove back to the hotel in one piece.
More ruckus tomorrow!
