Video: Young Dro f. Yung LA, “I Don’t Know Y’all”
- story Peter Macia
Sadly, it still says on Young Dro’s MySpace that his P.O.L.O. album, which we wrote about in our Summer Music Issue a few months ago, is coming in August 2009. It’s November 2009. But they’re still giving him and Yung LA money to make videos so that has to be a good sign right? Even if the videos have a crazy filter on the camera and a weird Black Sheep interlude in which an old man steals a dollar from a child? That might actually be a sign of great confidence from a label at this point, who can tell? We’re definitely rooting for Dro either way.
Young Dro, R.I.P. Mixtape
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
When Young Dro asks How many different kind of flows y’all gonna make me have? on “Y’all Niggas Funny,” nothing seems more true. The Dro we’ve seen in recent months is different from the Dro we remember from “Shoulder Lean,” content to make lighter, more playful songs, sometimes abandoning his bulldozer baritone in favor of something more playful. We can only assume that a portion of the songs on here come from the still unreleased P.O.L.O., and if releasing the songs across a series of mixtapes is what it takes then we’ll take it. It should be noted that Dro sounds great over “Mo Money Mo Problems” (if only he was rapping back then), sounds blasted out of his mind on “Best Pill Ever Had,” and should probably have stayed away from rapping like Cudi on “Day N Night.” Looks like we’re going to make you have as many flows as you think are necessary dude!
Download: Young Dro, R.I.P. (via Cocaine Blunts)
Ricco Barrino f. Young Dro, “Stupid Problems”
- story Felipe Delerme
Swag music kind of went the way of the two-toned durag this summer, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t, and better yet, won’t still yield some serious jams. The man who provided the choruses for a large share of those very same summer jams happens to be Ricco Barrino, Grand Hustle’s best kept secret and brother to American Idol winner and beacon of adult literacy, Fantasia Barrino. Now we’d long known Ricco’s singing ability, but apparently he can also rap, and is now ready to share this with the world, along with his problems, the foremost of which is the fact that he’s too good at cooking up drugs.
Download: Rico Barrino f. Young Dro, “Stupid Problems”
Rich Kids, Money Swag Mixtape
- story Felipe Delerme
In addition to recording a gang of raps, some of which we’re told were meant to eventually be actually rapped by the ever-elusive Dr. Dre, T.I. signed some super cool high school kids to Grand Hustle. They have fancy haircuts, expensive man bags and, like their dear Uncle D’Juan, they love Polo. Rich Kids strike some strange balance between a 2009 New Edition and even younger Young Dros and Yung LAs. Earlier this year they dropped “Partna Dem” and we got excited for this mixtape, but then they were kind of stagnant. Unless you count graduating from high school and shit. But Money Swag is here now and its all the backyard birthday cookout sheen we’ve been waiting for.
Download: Rich Kids, Money Swag mixtape
Jap f. Young Dro + Big Kuntry, “How We Get” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Lisa Wiltse (FADER 62)
So Many Shrimp nailed it when they said that Young Dro bites Yung LA shamelessly on this song. And why shouldn’t he? Dro is the father of many current rapper’s styles, but LA is Grand Hustle’s style killer, rapping in a helium-voiced uptalk that dominates almost every song he’s on by sheer passive force. He’s not on this one though, so Dro takes a swing at soft sounds over Zaytoven’s ultra-positive bird-chirp synths.
Download: Jap f. Young Dro + Big Kuntry, “How We Get”
Freeload: The FADER Issue 62 Podcast
- story THE FADER
We and you and everyone we know has been trumpeting the Summer Of Love 2009, and it was our mantra as we put together FADER Issue 62. We scoured the universe for the summeriest, most barbecuey music this year and came up with an issue that, if you scratch-and-sniff it, smells vaguely coconutty like Hawaiian Tropic (not really). As such, this issue’s podcast, presented by Bacardi B-LIVE, is about as clear a definition of what we think you should be listening to in the coming months as we could possibly make. It’s got songs from every artist in the issue from cover stars Phoenix, Major Lazer, Maluca, DJ Sega and Popo; featured power-bros Young Dro, Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, Crocodiles, Family Time Records fam, Gen Fers Omega, D-Lo and Sleepy D, Esser, CFCF, and like a trizillion more people! Download it below and listen while reading the issue, scorching hot like the sun on newsstands right now. And come back to TheFADER.com in two weeks for the free issue PDF that you can save on your computer until the robots take over.
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posted on Jun 23, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Amadou & Mariam, CFCF, Crocodiles, D-Lo, DJ Sega, Esser, FADER 62, freeload, Jenny Wilson, Major Lazer, Maluca, Omega, Phoenix, podcast, Popo, Sleepy D, Twin Lion, Wavves, Young Dro
Freeload: Young Dro “On Fire” MP3
- story THE FADER
For our summer issue, now on newsstands, we went down to Atlanta to roll with Young Dro in his banana yellow Corvette and find out the deal on his upcoming album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once). This new song, produced by Jim Jonsin, is apparently on the album and we are apparently going to listen to it for the rest of the day, though not in a vehicle that matches our socks.
Download: Young Dro “On Fire” (via DGB)
Video: Kia Shine f. Young Dro + Maino, “Checkin’ My Fresh”
- story THE FADER
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!
Video: Young Dro f. Yung LA, “Take Off”
- story THE FADER
EEEEEEYYYERRRRRROOOOOWWWWWWNNNNNN. Haha. If you are not pulling for Young Dro already, this new video with TI sighting might convince you. Definitely also take note of LA’s checkerboarded neck and make sure to pick up that Black Boy White Boy mixtape which you can listen to in its entirety below.
Freeload: Ace Boon Coon f. Rick Ross & Young Dro, “Fruity (Got Me Gone)”
- story THE FADER
As of late, Ace Boon Coon’s “Fruity” has transformed more than a few Atlanta night spots into alternate shooting locations for “Thriller,” smoke seemingly emanating from the walls, party goers wandering around the club zombiefied. Over a beat that sounds like a spaceship’s doors opening to dock a scout ship, Ricky disses British cigarettes and to our surprise, affirms a love of vegetables. But when Dro says, “Stupid stupid stupid, fruity fruity fruity,” is he talking about weed or is that just his swag? Or is it both? Either way, that is how you start off a verse ladies and gentlemen.
Download: Ace Boon Coon f. Rick Ross & Young Dro, “Fruity (Got Me Gone)”
