TezzysWorld: 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Mixtape Of The Month

* 1.I Am Mixtapes - 40 Th Birthday [listen] download
* 2.Lil Wayne - Roger Dat Feat Nicki Minaj [listen] download
* 3.50 Cent - Freestyle [listen] download
* 4.Young Jezzy - Make Money [listen] download
* 5.Young Money - She Is Gone [listen] download
* 6.Lloyd Banks - Freestyle [listen] download
* 7.Jim Jones - Freestyl [listen] download
* 8.Game - Make Money [listen] download
* 9.Fabolous Red Cafe - Freestyle [listen] download
* 10.Pretty Girls - Feat Pretty [listen] download
* 11.Styles P - Empire State Remix Feat Cnn Raekwon [listen] download
* 12.J.R Writer - Freestyle [listen] download
* 13.Clap Cognac - Ransom [listen] download
* 14.14 Young Jezzy - Freestyle-DjLeak [listen] download
* 15.Gucci Mane - Sex In Crazy Places [listen] download
* 16.Game - Fresstyle Feat Busta Rhymes [listen] download
* 17.Lil Wayne - Drop it Feat Eminem [listen] download
* 18.Young Jezzy - Freestyle2 [listen] download
* 19.Nas - Complete [listen] download
* 20.Rawdoggz - Smash Your Wife [listen] download
* 21.S-Shata - Stand Up [listen] download
* 22.Sgt War - Traphouse [listen] download
* 23.Tommy 2 Face - Run for Your Life Feat Johnny Hansum [listen] download
* 24.Diamante Exotic - East Coast Hot Boy [listen] download
* 25.Pop Blue and Red - Unsigned Artist of the Week [listen] download
* 26.Trish Barnes - Freestyle Feat Camille [listen] download
* 27.Shawty Lo - Bricks [listen] download
* 28.Young Money - Where Wayne [listen] download
* 29.Joell Ortiz - Soilder [listen] download

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Album Of The Month

1. American Star feat Shanell aka SNL
2. Prom Queen feat Shanell aka SNL
3. Ground Zero
4. Da Da Da
5. Paradice
6. Get A Life
7. On Fire
8. Drop The World feat Eminem
9. Runnin feat Shanell aka SNL
10. One Way Trip feat Kevin Rudolf
11. Knockout feat Nicki Minaj
12. The Price is Wrong

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Mixtape Of The Month

1. Whats My Name - B.G.
2. My Darlin' Baby - Lil' Wayne
3. Bed Rock - Lil' Wayne
4. Hands On You - Juvenile
5. Shawty Got Me - Juvenile
6. My Money Dont Fold - Juvenile
7. The Same - B.G.
8. Pussy Nigga - B.G.
9. Be Alright - Lil' Wayne
10. Uptown - Lil' Wayne
11. I Paid 'Em - B.G.
12. Blow It - Lil Wayne
13. Sacrifice - Lil' Wayne
14. Friends - Juvenile
15. Stay Strapped - B.G.
16. Trigger Play - Juvenile
17. We Ride - Lil Wayne
18. Grammar - Lil Wayne
19. Back Against The Wall - Lil Wayne
20. Beat It Up - B.G.
21. She Got It - B.G.
22. Drop It Low - Juvenile
23. I Get Crazy - Lil Wayne
24. Im So Fly - Lil Wayne
25. Back Back - Juvenile
26. Show That Work - B.G.
27. New Shit - Lil Wayne
28. Alright - Juvenile
29. Trickin' - Juvenile
30. Go Hard - B.G.
31. Injection - Lil Wayne

Friday, December 4, 2009

Group of The Month

LMFAO BiographyLMFAO: Blu and Foo already rocked the beat as experimental Djs, who had a knack for rockin' the show by bringing electro into the commercial club scene. With their own musical aspirations, they continued to produce their own hollywood brand of hip hop and electro while constantly bringing that old school house party atmosphere.

In 2007, the duo showed up at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, and real talk, the trip's non-stop partying and feel-good vibe they experienced in South Beach ended up being the source of their musical and creative style.

“We came back to LA and things were different,” Redfoo says. "There were a couple of days where it dropped down to 55, 60 degrees and people were like, ‘Why are you wearing shorts you idiot It’s cold.’ We replied with a pimps bottom lip "No stress baby, I'm In Miami Bitch!!!!..."

On a mission to capture their party into a way of life, and get everyone else on the LMFAO wagon, they started making original dance songs in their studio apartment to play in the clubs. In true DIY (Do-It-Yourself) fashion, Red and Sky released their “I’m In Miami Bitch” song on myspace and branded their signature look -- wearing loud colors, rockin' glasses with no lenses and always stayin' fly with one of their own self-designed shirts. These boys are always on the grind touring constantly, and keeping fans updated daily with the LMFAO Dailys on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/redfoo). And just to add to the list of entrepreneurial projects, they keep it real with their 'do-it-yourself' approach by running their own label and clothing line, Party Rock (http://lmfao.bigcartel.com/).

Their enthusiasm and passion for creating an entire musical movement has translated in LMFAO being one of music’s most popular emerging acts on the independent scene. Sky Blu (his given name is Sky and the sky is Blu, after all) and Redfoo (the Red symbolizes his passion, and he acts a Foo.... in bed) make music that straddles genres (Electro, Hip-Hop, Club).

The group’s iTunes-released Party Rock EP features the duo’s most popular songs and they’ve enjoyed more than 2 million plays on their myspace page (myspace.com/lmfaouno). Party Rock serves as just a taste for their upcoming debut full-length album and has resulted in a loyal fan base of hyped up party animals, with over 20 fan videos!

Born and raised roaming the streets and surfin' the beach in Los Angeles’ West Side (Sky Blu is Redfoo’s nephew), the pair looks forward to achieving their objective: to give the people in the club what they want. “We want to make the earth a party planet,” Sky Blu says. “Our goal is to package this energy up and to spread it all over the face of the world,” Redfoo adds. “We want to throw the biggest party ever where everyone comes and has a blast, it gets us off. We’re trying to be the biggest we can, but with our own sound.” When asked if there was one thing they could say to the the ladies and fans out there, what would it be, they said in unison with out hesitation, "I am not a whore. But I like to do it."

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Artist of The Month

Most people sound-tracking their own break-up wouldn’t make an album as gleamingly epic as Straight No Chaser, the future-thinking pop album from Mr Hudson. But most people don’t have Kanye West throwing down the gauntlet to make a classic, stadium-filling pop record. G.O.O.D Music / Mercury Records artist Mr Hudson is a multi-talented singer/songwriter from Birmingham, UK with a heart for major hooks, soaring melodies, bright new-wave synths and crushing beats, so his break-up album is a document of misery that sounds like total joy; from the gravity-defying anthem “Supernova,” to the dubwise banger “Anyone But Him” to the utterly spare headphone-jam “Instant Messenger.”

Written in just two months in the spring of 2009 after a whirlwind of touring the UK, flights between London, Los Angeles, and Hawaii (where he worked with West on 808s and Heartbreaks), Hudson was in a weird headspace upon his return to his tiny flat in North London. “My room was full of guitars and keyboards, there wasn’t even enough room for a bed,” says Hudson. “So I got my landlord to sort out a mattress for me, and I’d put it up against the back wall, it was really good soundproofing. When I’d finished recording at like three AM, I’d throw it down on the floor and jump in my sleeping bag. It was a very low point in my life—I’d thrown everything away. I’d moved out, I left my girl, I had nothing. So I had to make this album work.”

Hudson set out to make an album that both reflected his diverse musical background (raised on the piano and records by The Police, he can “sort of” play any instrument he picks up) and his then-emotional truth. “It’s about not fiddling around, not over-complicating the message,” says Hudson. “People have got busy lives out there, they don’t want to be bothered by every idea you have squeezed into an album. It’s great, it’s fresh. I think we’re at a stage now where it’s all just pop music. There aren’t any rules—it’s just like let’s have fun and entertain people.” So he pared down his ideas and got on his grind. He expanded his vocal ability, singing in higher and breathier ranges than he had on A Tale of Two Cities, his somber, glitchy electronic album from 2007.

For Straight No Chaser - executive produced by West - Hudson plugged in an expanse of drum sounds, tweaking hip-hop, new wave and reggae influences together for epic rhythms. Deep beats, irrefutable piano melodies and vast vocal harmonies take a record steeped in dire emotional circumstances and launch it into something else entirely: ubiquitous, melodious pop. “It wasn’t so much tapping into the emotion of the breakup,” says Hudson, “as the pipes bursting, so you grab a couple of buckets and try to collect the water. I’m not recommending to anyone to break up with someone in order to write a good album… but if you do, make sure you get into the studio shortly after.”

That such deep sorrow translates into such a massive record is really only right: it’s been the emotional undercurrent in all of Hudson’s influences – from stadium-sized rock to Motown soul, from plaintive reggae chants to R&B balladry. “To admit to the chinks in your armor, to admit to your sorrow, is actually the most gangster thing you can do,” he says.