GLC f. Cold Hard, “A Gangstaz Nature” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
With all the wishful thinking about sunshine and relaxing in the music being released this year, you’d think dudes would get a clue and start exploring GLC’s back catalog, which is full of clever, slurred verses over languid organs and spaced out samples perfect for hammock-chilling. This is no different, except for the surprising inclusion of Crucial Conflict’s Cold Hard who jumps in to cut through all the plodding keys and slow-talk with a brief, crazily hyperactive verse.
Download: GLC f. Cold Hard, “A Gangstaz Nature” (via Dirty Glove Bastard)
Video: Kanye West f. GLC & Consequence, “Spaceship”
- story THE FADER
GLC posted this five year old unreleased video on his blog and called himself, Kanye and Consequence “young dreamers.” It’s an apt description of the song from Kanye’s first album, which is about some head in the clouds hope to get out of working at the Gap. Though this is only the video of GLC’s verse, you can see Kanye foggily folding clothes in an anonymous mall clothing store. It feels like a different planet from this to this.
Freeload: GLC f. Kanye West, “Big Screen”
- story THE FADER
We’ve actually been waiting for this to free itself ever since we saw the “making of” video above. “Big Screen” is a perfect example of Kanye production that succeeds with or without an actual chorus. GLC himself should still be riding high off his I Ain’t Even On Yet mixtape, but this song kind of sounds like someone would feel after actually getting on. Maybe that’s why we get sad when it ends? Songs like “Big Screen” (along with videos like this) are why we can’t wait for Gangsta L. Crisis’ impending debut Love, Life & Loyalty.
Download: GLC f. Kanye West, “Big Screen”
Freeload: We Just Listened to Four Mixtapes in a Row
- story THE FADER
The last time we actually sat down and listened to a bunch of mixtapes that all came out on the same day, we had a beautiful apartment in Manhattan, a carton of cigarettes cost a dollar and dudes actually still sold mixtapes on Canal Street. Now we share a wall-less storage space in Bushwick, beg loosies off publicists and get our songs one at a time. But yesterday reminded us a little bit of that ol’ special feeling as Google Canal Street gave us a handful of new mixtapes from GLC, DG Yola, Charles Hamilton and that surprisingly crazy Jay-Z/Coldplay project from Mick Boogie, all of which we thoroughly enjoyed listening to in their entireties. Get them all below… we’ll be downstairs buying two dollar rainbow keffiyehs.
Mick Boogie and Terry Urban present:
VIVA LA HOVA
DJ Geno Presents GLC: I Ain’t Even On Yet The Mixtape
DJ Panic & DG Yola: Still Standing
Charles Hamilton: The L Word Mixtape
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posted on Oct 29, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Charles Hamilton, Coldplay, DG Yola, freeload, GLC, hip hop, Jay-Z
Video: GLC, “I Ain’t Even on Yet”
- story THE FADER
Man, we had the weirdest dream last night. It was 2008, Wall Street had collapsed, Kanye was singing, a scary lady was running for vice president, Obama beat Clinton (ha!), Apple had made a phone that worked by rubbing on it (pause) and we had gotten soooo fat! Cold sweats for real. We woke up and our legs were doing that little half-running thing. Shit was crazy.
Links:
GLC’s MySpace
Kanye West’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape
Freeload: GLC, “Ridin By Yourself”
- story THE FADER
Our version of this song says Lil Wayne is on it, but he more or less is not. A whole verse would probably sound good, but you know what? We don’t even need Wayne this time around. He’s probably busy anyway. About a year ago, Kanye dropped a mixtape with a bunch of Graduation previews and also GLC ultra banger “I Ain’t Even on Yet.” That song occupied our ear canals for the entire summer and then we didn’t hear that much from GLC again. Now that Summer is here so is GLC’s Chicago drawl, oozing over Texas-sized organs, a comforting reminder of how awesome the next couple months are going to be.
Download: GLC, “Ridin By Yourself” (via Fake Shore Drive)
