Tagged: Mavado
Stream: Snoop Lion f. Mavado and Popcaan, “Lighters Up” (Prod. by Dre Skull and Major Lazer)
Snoop Lion taps FADER #42 cover star Mavado and Popcaan for “Lighters Up,” his latest outing in reggae pop. The unity-promoting track was produced by Dre Skull and Major Lazer, clearly the Dr. Dre to … read more »
Stream VP Records’ Strictly The Best Volumes 44 and 45
Strictly The Best is the longest running (officially sanctioned) reggae compilation series ever, gathering the most-massive Jamaican hits at the end of every year since 1990. Stream all 31 tracks from Strictly The Best‘s 2011 … read more »
Stream: Mavado, “Delilah (Diplo Remix)”
The bombastically insistent back-beat of Mavado’s “Delilah,” remixed by Diplo, while not exactly ideal for easy listening, is perfect club fodder. Diplo’s version takes a decidedly more aggressive approach, reworking the original by adding layers … read more »
Diplowatch 2011 #12: Is Diplo’s New DJ Mix Technology Cool?
Diplo is selling a new 40-minute mix, called Mad Legit, via a recently developed platform that allows DJs to circumvent the expensive, laborious process of clearing samples. The technology, called Legitmix, allows beatsmiths to legally … read more »
DJ Khaled and Everyone Make a Rap Video, Cam’ron and Vado Also Make a Rap Video
Used to be that posse cuts were a fun way for a bunch of friends to get together and rap about fun stuff and then get a lot of press and money and possibly a … read more »
Video: Mavado, “Star Bwoy”
In which Mavado examines his life as a star, which mostly involves a lot of traveling, performing, buying some shoes and hooking up with a nice lady in a hotel room.
DJ Khaled f. Ludacris, T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, Mavado, Twista, Birdman, Ace Hood, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Bun B, Game & Waka Flocka, “Welcome To My Hood (Remix)” MP3
The beauty of this song is that it can exist in different iterations until the end of time. DJ Khaled wandering the earth like a troubadour finding new rappers to get on a forever extending … read more »
Premiere: Douster’s Tour Mix For FADER
Honestly, the amount of mixes we listen to in a single day is somewhere around a thousand (four at a time, two per ear usually), so you could say that we’re usually skeptical when another … read more »
GP 125: Special Guest Selector Tasha Rozez / 2010 in Dub
I wanted to do something special for this first Ghetto Palms of 2011. I’ve been rapping with Tasha “the wickedest lady DJ ‘pon the road” Rozez of Toronto’s Gunz n Rozez soundsystem about doing a … read more »
TGIF News Rally: Keri Hilson is Not Sorry About Being A Small Percentage Of A Freak
** Last week at our auntie’s house we learned most of the dances from the “Pretty Girl Rock” video with our girl-cousins by watching it over and over. We were thankful for that opportunity to … read more »
