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— Shaheem Reid, with
additional reporting by Rahman Dukes, Corey Moss and Bridget
Bland
Artists: Boot Camp
Clik
Representing: Vintage '90s
hip-hop
Independent Album: The Last
Stand
411: Buckshot has finally restored
order in his camp. Rock from Heltah Skeltah has found his way
home after several years away from the crew — just in time for
the family's third album, The Last Stand. Da
Beatminerz, the production team that's worked with the family
since 1993, gave up beats for the LP, as did Pete Rock, Large
Professor and 9th Wonder. Buck and 9th are actually working on
their second LP, The Formula, which will drop in '07.
Meanwhile, Rock and Sean Price are working on the next Heltah
Skeltah LP, D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team). Some
members of the camp hit Mixtape Monday up all the way from
their European tour to explain the project.
Joints
To Check For:
- "Don't You Cross the Line." "The session was beautiful,"
remembers Tek, who has a new tattoo on his left cheek, which
he says is a symbol for the word "warrior." "My man Sean
Price picked the beat, and Buckshot came up with the hook.
[Our current tour] is going pretty good. I whipped Sean
Price with a mic cord last night while he was performing and
then threw water on him to cool him off. He almost stopped
the show to whoop my ass, but we kept it going."
- "Here We Come." "It feels great, feels like I'm back in
college," Rock said of his return to the Heltah Skeltah
crew. In the few years he was gone, he recorded a solo LP
called Monstah Musik and plans to start a clothing
line. "[Recording 'Here We Come'] was like a sleepover at
your favorite aunt's crib with all your brothers and
cousins. I picked that beat because it felt like the
beginning of the movement all over, an opener ... revisiting
what it was, what it is and what it's going to be from here
on."
- "Yeah." " 'Yeah', produced by my man Marco Polo, it's an
impactful single," Buckshot said. "We had all the members
represented, and the chorus sums it up best: 'Is Boot Camp
the best to do it?' The answer to us is, 'Yeah.' The
recording sessions are a family affair. We definitely
weren't on some, 'You come in and lay down eight bars and
then I do it the next day.' We managed to have everyone in
the studio together vibing off one another, smoking,
drinking, just hanging out and having a good time."
Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections
This Week
- Ali Vegas' The Best Of Ali Vegas
- Big Mike's Cruel Summer 2K6 Pt. 2
- D-Block's D-Block: The CD/DVD Mixtape
- Dexterity's Beenie Man: The Official Best Of Mix
CD
- DJ Cipha Sounds' Happy Land Social Club: Introducing
Daytona
- DJ Juice's The Best of DJ Juice
- DJ Warrior's God Bless Mixtape 2006
- Killah Priest's A Prelude to the Offering
- Raekwon's The DaVinci Code: The Vatican Mixtape Vol.
2
Click
here for more of Mixtape Monday ...
'Hood's
Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
- Fat Joe - "Clap and Revolve"
- Freeway (featuring Jay-Z) - "World War III"
- Lupe Fiasco - "I Gotcha"
- Rick Ross - "Push It"
- Trick Daddy - "I Pop"
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Marlon and Shawn Wayans give praise to Eddie Murphy, Richard
Pryor, Benny Hill, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as their comedy
favorites, and when it comes to musical families who hold it
down like their clan, they name a few as well. "Of course the
Jacksons," Shawn said. "The Jacksons inspired us to do what we
do." "The Osmonds," Marlon interrupted. "They are so
wholesome. I gotta give the Winans some love. I gotta give
DeBarge some love too. They were light-skinned with pretty
hair."
The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From
The Underground
A chorus that goes,
"Chicken Noodle Soup, with a soda on the side," might sound
like straight gibberish to you, but DJ Webstar and
Young B's "Chicken Noodle Soup" has the kids in uptown
New York dancing harder than when the Harlem Shake was en
vogue. The two new dances? The Chicken Noodle Soup and the Toe
Wop.
Meanwhile, Diddy is giving his own ode to
the dance craze that's sweeping Harlem with "Get Off." Puff
said "getting off" simply means to dance
uninhibitedly.
"I was inspired by the hyphy movement
and the crunk movement," Diddy said. "I was like, 'Yo, New
York has a movement that's been going on here for a long time
that maybe people don't know.' It's like the sista of that.
Like how crunk is the brother to hyphy, we got a movement. ...
When kids hear something, they gotta release and get off and
do their thing. This right here is that next-level,
high-octane, that uncut, raw [version] of that. So what you
seeing, that Chicken Noodle Soup, you seeing all that. This is
something that's been going on in Harlem for a long time. This
is the uptempo version of that. Get your sweat on, get off."
...
When you hang
around Diddy long enough, his hustle ethic is going to rub off
on you. Cassie sings and dances in her video for "Me
& U," and in her follow-up clip, she rocks the mic in
another fashion.
"My next single is 'Long Way to Go,' "
the beautiful Bad Boy princess recently said in L.A. "I'm
rappin' on the record, so look out for that one. We're
probably doing the video in the next two or three weeks, so
look out for it. The song is about a guy that's trying to get
with me, but he's got a long way to go." ...
Honorary G-Unit
member Lil Scrappy is putting out a sequel to 50
Cent's "How to Rob" — and he's holding up the music
industry.
"I'm jacking everybody," Scrappy said. "Even
50 and [Lil] Jon — they getting it
too.
"At first I wasn't into talking about anybody,"
Scrap added later, "but I remember back in the day when a
n---a ain't had nothing. He would do anything to get a little
paper. I want to be where real hip-hop is. A lot of people say
hip-hop is dead. Well, I'mma kill it for 'em. You gotta think:
I'm a dude who can get crunk and spit."
Coincidentally,
Scrap is getting ready to film a movie with Mekhi
Phifer and Stacey Dash that centers on a crime mob
that robs rappers and basketball players. They begin filming
in late August in L.A.
Scrappy's Bred 2 Die, Born 2
Live comes out in late September, and he has two mixtapes,
G 69 and Keepin it G, coming soon. Also, expect
a Scrappy mixtape tour this summer. ...
After 10 years in
the game, Cham is a baby no longer. The Kingston,
Jamaica-born reggae star is actually starting to get
recognition in the U.S. with "Ghetto Story," an underground
smash that gives a snippet of his life's hardships. Cham's
struggles have resonated with the people, and he's getting
spins on MTV, BET and radio.
"It's my biggest hit
ever," Cham, who smoked the clubs three years ago with the
dancehall classic "Vitamin S," said from Jamaica. (Click
here for photos from the video)
Even some of
the biggest names in the music industry have become Cham fans.
Alicia Keys recently laid down vocals for a remix of
"Ghetto Story," as did Akon on a separate
version.
Cham said working with Akon was meant to be
because the two struck up a friendship years ago when A was
supposed to be on the "Vitamin S" remix. At one point, Cham
was even considering signing to Akon's Konvict Music imprint.
But for the Grammy Award-winning Keys to get on his record was
a welcome shock.
"Yo, that's like a giant," Cham
marveled. "That link, I was on the road with Dave
Kelly, my producer and close friend. He told me, 'Yo,
you're going to get Alicia Keys on the "Ghetto Story" remix.'
I was like, 'Are you sure?' Because she doesn't get on any and
every project." Keys obviously kept her promise and sang on
the record.
"What she's singing about surprised me," he
said. "That's real respect, 100 percent. I think she loved the
record for real. You can hear it in her voice and what she
went through as a kid. If you came through struggles, you're
gonna feel it. You can hear the punch, the pain. It's a
beautiful thing. She's saying she ate white rice and honey. I
never heard of that before, but I'm going to try it. In
Jamaica, when we had no meat to eat with the rice, we ate
white rice and butter."
Cham's LP, Ghetto Story,
comes out August 15 and also features a guest appearance from
Rihanna. Cham and Keys just finished the video for the
remix in Jamaica. ...
Lastly, look for Pharoahe
Monch to be coming back this year. He worked on Diddy's
upcoming LP, Press Play, and has Puff spitting like
never before. Monch also just signed a deal with SRC/
Universal to release his next LP, Desire.
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