Video: Kia Shine f. Young Dro + Maino, “Checkin’ My Fresh”
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Pretend for a minute that this isn’t the fifth version of “So Krispy”, skip to Dro and his Lou Ferrigno reference, then watch as Maino smirks through the entire last minute. Good enough, Kia Shine!
Freeload: Maino, “However Do You Want It”
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We were feeling pretty old after realizing the source of this sample, Soul II Soul’s “Back to Life”, and the movie scene that forever cemented it in our cultural memory, the Belly title sequence, are twenty and ten years old, respectively. But then we perked up knowing Maino is just now hitting his stride after what seems like ten or twenty years of trying to break—okay three or four—with a solid, and hopefully less trend-inspiring, follow-up to “Hi Hater.”
Download: Maino, “However Do You Want It”
Video: Maino, “Hi Hater”
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How is it that we ride past Grand Army Plaza like 19 times every day and NEVER get to be in a rap video? How is that even possible?! Whatever. Get the mp3 of this song here if you like rappers who are too good to have us in their videos.
Freeload: Maino, “Getaway Driver” (From GTA IV)
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Just as we were posting the triumphant return of Maino last week Enuff dropped this into his Friday afternoon slot on Hot 97 and the office went slightly bananas, partially due to the song and partially due to writing drink reviews for the magazine. And just as we were about to put its piano-plinking knock up, dudes started jamming “Road to the Riches” across the hall. It’s like an episode of Rap Lost in here. Get “Getaway” and some other GTA IV goodies over on Xclusives Zone and don’t feel too bad for the pilfering. That game made half a billion dollars already.
Download: Maino, “Getaway Driver”
Freeload: Maino “Hi Hater”
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It’s been a particularly rough few years for the three then-rising stars of F35’s New York Rap feature. Stack Bundles was killed last June, Papoose got dropped from his million-dollar major label deal (and has been making more noise with his prison nupitals than with any actual music as of late), and Maino—our personal favorite of the bunch—has simply been AWOL, emerging every so often with a signing rumor or internet banger only to sink back into the fog of BK rap anonymity just as quickly. So you can imagine our collective elation to hear Maino over a classic Jimmy Spicer breakbeat on his new single “Hi Hater.” Yes, an actual single! On the radio! It hit NYC airwaves last week at the same moment as our long-delayed springtime, and the backstory can’t help but make “Hi Hater” feel even more triumphant. “You see me!” You’re gotdamn right we do.
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posted on May 2, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags freeload, hip hop, Jimmy Spicer, Maino, New York Rap, springtime
