So you’re bored with hip hop and your real dream is to create streetwear. Cool. You feel like after three albums you’ve had enough of the industry and you would have achieved all that you came to do. Cool. You like to ruffle feathers on internet message boards and you had a very public moment during the tribute of a classic group that you didn’t care to listen to¹. Still cool. But you throw on a British accent change your name to Percival Fats and do your best Gnarles Barkley impression? Really? “Thanks for the hack you stupid bastards?” Really Lupe?! Really. Experimental session gone public maybe, but a British accent? REALLY?!?! Only time will tell if this is the evolution of Lupe or just studio fun. Hit the jump for links and to hear Lupe do his thing.

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1. Ironically, it sounds like Lu hired the lady from Midnight Marauders for the beginning of “Invaders Must Die”. I knew you listened! [↩]

Episode 2 is uploaded and ready for your listening pleasure. This one features Naledge, Mikkey Halsted, Jean Grae and even some old Kanyeezy. This episode is short, but will get you to work or through a work out. Track submissions for the next Momscast should be sent to holla@yamoms.com (links only please!). Tracklisting after the jump.

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I am not a Dj. I don’t even play one on TV. However, I do download stuff from the innanets¹, slap it into a playlist and listen throughout my day. Why not share these gems with people who don’t have the time to scour the dark alleys of internet music? Remember when we would sit by the radio and hit record when the song we had been waiting two hours for finally comes on? Remember the caller just before the play who’s voice is on your tape? How about how the tape starts abruptly with no intro or warning? This is kinda like that, only 2008². Heres a dirty melody of various things I’ve downloaded so far this month³. Expect more and expect them to get better. Tracklist and sources listed after the jump.

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1. legally of course [↩]
2. What is a mixtape anyway? [↩]
3. as if [↩]

I know I’m late to the party, but so what…this isn’t a gossip blog. But Really Matty? Writing credits for this song when its unmistakably the same song? Really. Oh, she changed the words a bit, so she should get cred for “writing.” Really? I guess “Ice Ice Baby” and “Under Pressure” are worlds apart too? Did we not learn anything from Dream Girls? Poor Kid. Industry rule #4080.

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Protools smotools. FL Studio is for kids. All the cool kids have FourTrack in their pocket. Details after the jump.

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