This song is the exact thing you need if you’re starting to feel low in the post-Olympic days.  See the video below the jump.

The attempt to send Lil’ Wayne to jail has been amusing to watch.  First, Wayne decided that he needed to prep for a year in jail by shooting nine videos in one weekend.  That way we’ll all see a lot of the tear-tatooed rapper even when he’s serving time.
But that wasn’t enough.  Before he could go in, Wayne also underwent eight root canals in one day.  Pitchfork also says that Wayne had his diamond-encrusted teeth fixed up before he went in.  Those procedures delayed his sentence for a couple of …

For one week only, over on NPR, you can stream the entire new Gorillaz album called Plastic Beach.
It’s a great opportunity to check it out and see if you love it.  NPR has this to say about it
Plastic Beach unites Albarn and Hewlett with a huge list of guests, creating yet another well-crafted and dance-friendly set of songs. Here, Albarn and company’s songs demonstrate a genre-bending collection of glitchy club beats and hip-hop grooves, augmented by brass, glitzy synthesizers and Asian- and Arabic-tinged orchestral harmonies.

They’ve got a whole bunch of …

My goodness, this is tragic news.
According to BoingBoing, Guru (one half of the legendary Gang Starr) collapsed after an apparent heart attack.  He’s now in a coma in New York.
While it’s always an awful thing to hear, I find it especially tough because Guru (on the right in the picture at the top of this post) was a huge influence on my love for hip hop growing up.  I can’t even count the number of times I listened to the Moment of Truth album on my discman.  The news is …

Not much to say other than this is a pretty decent video.  It’s also the exact type of thing I hope I would do if trapped in a room for that long.  (this guy was apparently quarantined with TB for several weeks).

So Pitchfork is reporting that Definitive Jux Records, the amazing indie hip hop label, is going on an indefinite “hiatus”.  To make matters worse, El-P is stepping down.
While it’s true that they’re not exactly over, they’re also not planning on releasing any new music on physical media.  Hopefully this still means some digital distribution, and may actually lower their operating costs a lot.  However, it also means that a lot of dope hip hop will no longer be found on vinyl.
Despite assurances that Def Jux isn’t shutting down and is …

So…in the law school world hip hop is not that crazy a thing.  There’s a lot of amateur tracks and mashups, trying to make a good impression.  But Andrew Black over at the law school at the University of Windsor (in Canada) has been making some serious waves.  After interviews on the CBC and some other media outlets, and plus re-posts on tons of sites (including Maclean’s magazine and some law blogs), this thing is really taking off.
Considering how much I’m not down with Pharell, I can honestly say this …

What? You’ve never heard of BK-One and yet you call yourself a beat fiend? Okay, maybe you don’t call yourself that, and I don’t actually blame you for not knowing about him.
BK-One is probably most famously known as the dj of Brother Ali.  And he just dropped his own album featuring a whole slew of guest artists.  Brother Ali, Murs, Slug (from Atmosphere, if you don’t know) and a veritable who’s who of the indie hip hop scene.
The album, titled Radio Do Canibal and is supposed to be heavily influenced …

For some reason or another, in the last couple of weeks, Gizmodo has had a lot of posts dealing with vinyl and the gadgets that work with it.  I thought I’d do one big post with all of this stuff to help condense it all, and hopefully you find it a little interesting.
Make your own Vinyl

If you’re looking for the chance to make some low-fi records at home, then this may be the product for you.  It’s cheap, too.  Only $170 + vinyl.  Giz says that “To record your own …

Not much to this post beyond some pretty fun and easy Flash games by the Bell Brothers.
Record Tripping
It’s a strange mashup of deejaying, Alice in Wonderland, and puzzles.  But it’s a good way to spend 5 or 10 minutes of your day.  It’s hard to explain what actually goes on, beyond the fact that your mouse (a scroll wheel is required to play) allows you to scratch what sounds like an audio recording of Through the Looking Glass or something