The 144 ELiTE

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Speaking of last nights Damage Control.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE AND JAM THE FUCK OUT OF THE ENTIRE THREE HOURS CUZ EVERY SECOND OF IT IS THOWED EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF SONGS I HAD NO CONTROL OVER BUT YOU CAN FASTFORWARD THOSE BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE TECHNICALLY ADEPT LIKE THAT PLAYA.

It was a great show last night though. DJ Chill is in South Carolina so I held it down all night playing beat cds from Norway (The Skrins and Nasty Kutt WHASSUP!) and nothing but hard ass music for the most part. Peep the third song of the evening from DJ Konphused. Dude says something like "90% OF YOU REPUBLICAN NEO CONSERVATIVES ARE GAY!"

It's awesome, that's exactly what I want to hear in a rap song. Actually I mean, as long as the gays ain't mad at him for saying it, I ain't. Push them boys buttons Kunphused. I'ma write his name on the next ballot for president. Thank God for him.
Knowm sayin'?

Madd Hatta aka Mista Madd also came through and that's always a good time. Some people might think we represent different sides of the spectrum cuz I'm this weirdo underground late night cuss playin' white boy goof and he's like the most respected commercial radio personality in Texas. But thing is, Madd Hatta had this city on his shoulders way before I ever got down here. He's the man and his new record is tight. It's got everybody on there. You'll hear a couple cuts on the show and you'll also hear our discussion on the state of music.

He says i am hard on artists, but truth is I think I'm pretty easy. I don't really blast on fools, I try to keep it to myself while bigging up things I think deserve to be bigged up. Nuff people are riding for the major label cats, they don't need me, obviously.

Which is cool cuz man... see I don't talk bad about people. But man, I might have to. Have y'all been listening lately? I have and it's fucking sad.

Where's the second string when you need them?

The 144 Elite coming for that ass.

Anyway, we had a great discussion man and I'm glad we did. We need to talk more openly about such things more often. Definitely download last nights show and let me know what you think.

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Sorry for the delay in putting up the Hawk Tribute show, but sometimes at 4 a.m. when the uploads are not uploading and the computer is playing tricks with my mind I have to step away and go home and promise myself to come back the next day and get it right. That being said, I left for Europe shortly after the Hawk Tribute and now three weeks later I finally got it up.

DOWNLOAD THE HAWK TRIBUTE SHOW FROM MAY 3RD 2007 HERE AND THEN LISTEN TO IT AND THEN GO AND BUY THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ALBUM!

Then last night we had our 5 Year Anniversary Show of sorts. Bun B was in the building along with K-Rino, Black Mike, Lil Head, A.P., Rapid Ric, Lil J, Grit Boys, Xxzotic, The Low Ends, SWAT Product and more. As evidenced by the photos below. We didn't do a huge on-air blow out like we should cuz to be honest I haven't got the time during the day to call every rapper in town like I used to, Chill wants no part of that, and I have no intern to do such things. Maybe I need one, but alas and alak, fuck it. We been doing this shit for 5 years every Wednesday night from midnight till 3 a.m., they know where we are and could come down if they wanted to.

That being said my biggest pet peeve is when a rapper asks me "Y'all still doing the radio?" Yes motherfucker and we played your shitty single last week. Naw, I ain't that salty, I'm happy to have made it. Seems like just yesterday that me and Zin walked into the studio for our try out show with special guests Chamillionaire, Devin the Dude and Bandit and Marcus from MDDL FNGZ.

A week later we had a weekly show. Maybe we will continue the celebration next week. Maybe we will wait until the big benefit show in June. Looking for a proper venue right now and it looks like the headliners are gonna be the Coughee Brothaz featuring Devin the Dude and K-Rino and the South Park Coalition featuring the 144 Elite (dopest new group in Houston).

Anyway we shall see.

DOWNLOAD LAST NIGHTS SHOW HERE NOW AND JAM IT ON DOWN PLEASE.

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THE 144 ELITE
AGREEABLES vs DISAGREEABLES
Black Book International

www.myspace.com/the144elite

This album is what hip hop has been missing for a while, hard hitting conscious rhymes over trunk rattling speaker blowing beats. A lot of the production is done by Dope E so if you're a fan of the South Park Coalition and Rap A Lot Records you know you're getting quality.  The group members are K-Rino, Dope E,  JusTice AllaH, MJ, Mayadia, but the cd also features Klondike Kat,  DirtChile, Ranus, Rick HoTep, KUWAIT, Soul Provider, Big Duece, DJ Kong, DJ Domonation, and G-Sharp. There is a track on here that is absolutely timeless called "7's UP" which ive had on repeat all week, K-RINO come's with these killa bars  "Just when you thought it was all about flashing and basking in the glow of diamonds -- We come crashing -- In -- like the laws at the crack house -- We blasting -- We trying to keep the devil out - you keep letting his azz in....."I first heard this song on youtube the video to it is sick. You can check it out on their myspace page which is www.myspace.com/the144elite you can also order the album from there or buy the individual tracks for your ipod. For more info on 144 Elite you can also log onto http://www.southparkcoalition.com/ Well Recommended.

Review by LATE
www.myspace.com/latewolftown

www.myspace.com/spcukwolftown

(SNIPPET)There’s not a lot of “Real Talk” going on in the industry right now. You got wanna be politicians and so called “leaders” blasting rap music for its content. A couple weeks back a group of folks protested outside a record store on the north side of Houston. Man, first of all, why you gonna protest a record store? The record store is a victim in this too. They used to be the backbone of this industry, now they are struggling to stay alive. They may sell a few titles that these protestors find offensive, sure, but these protestors need to ask themselves why the market is so hot for this material. It’s because the radio and Viacom and the major magazines are only presenting a limited scope of what this hip-hop shit really is.

So why didn’t they protest the radio stations? Why’d they go after one store, in one hood, when they could have gone after the root of the problem? And shit, forget about protesting, why weren’t they out there holding signs promoting the new Common album, or Kanye’s upcoming record, or some underground Christian rap that nobody knows about, or The 144 Elite? Why can’t they go out and try to promote something positive and uplifting, rather than screaming about records they deem offensive, but probably haven’t even listened to?

What records were they protesting anyway?

This shit is getting real one-sided and the industry is fucking off an entire culture. Meanwhile, the folks who are out there still holding the ideals of hip-hop really true, and pushing the limits, are being shut out. Real talk. This music business has always been about money, but in this day and age it seems to be solely about money.

Fuck the poetry. Fuck the art. Fuck the realities. Fuck your cousins who are dying in Iraq. Fuck $3 gasoline. Fuck murders in our schools. Fuck killer cops. Fuck the environment. Fuck our water supply. Fuck the future of our children. All that shit be damned, cuz there’s a party tonight. Sponsored by Universal Records and Crunk-Hyphy-Rockstar Juice mixed with Hennessey. (That being said, I’m all about corporations sponsoring parties and actually putting their money back into the music).

Hey, I like to party, I love to party, this site is chock full of photos from parties I have thrown and attended. I also like money, I love it in fact. I want a lot of it in fact. I’m with it, but straight up, I don’t have my hands out begging like so many of these pseudo industry muckrakers. I can make my own, and you can as well. I mean straight up, if you know like I know, you know who is winning right now. It’s not the MC, or the Producer who’s out there changing the game, bringing new sounds to the table, or “keeping it real.” It’s the dudes who are affiliated with the dudes who have the most money.

These “artists” and “labels” are spending more money on their posters and fake radio spins in imaginary markets than they are on production. They’re copying what they think they are supposed to be doing, and they are selling out the game at all new levels. The major labels are pissing on this music and the independents that want to join their ranks are following like scared little puppies in a rainstorm. It’s goofy, it’s goofy as fuck.

And yes I know that I am old, I’m 35 years old. I never wanted to be the dude to say “Hip-hop ain’t what it used to be.” But real talk, it’s not. Don’t get me wrong, I remember people talking back in 1994 about how hip-hop ain’t what it used to be. I know, I know the deal. But fact is, in 2007 this shit is getting run into the ground.

Bavu Blakes asked me a question yesterday. He said, “What’s gonna happen to a lot of these rappers when grills aren’t cool anymore? When substance once again triumphs over image? What will they do? What will they rap about?” And I just laughed. The cream always rises to the top. They can fight the real all they want, but the cream will once again rise to the top.

They want to talk down on the south. The media says Houston is finished. New York rappers are sick of our swaggar and have things to say about it. But they haven’t heard Z-Ro, they haven’t heard Trae, they haven’t heard K-Rino, definitely haven’t heard Money Waters, they forgot about Young Bleed, they haven’t heard Gerald G., they don’t know about the female movement in Houston, and they don’t care. They just want to talk down, and fuck it, it’s time to throw it back in everybody’s face.

I love this art, if I gotta be the only one to talk real about it, then so be it. WHAT YOU THINK I’M NOT GONNA SAY IT? I’MA SAY IT! (Word to Bizzy Bone).

So anyway, I ran a bit long and turned in too many words, so it got a little bit edited, so below here’s the actual article that I turned in in it’s entirety.

AND HERES THE LINK TO THE ARTICLE ON HOUSTON PRESS.COM.

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