What the fuck is Lil Wayne Talking About?!

If I hear one more person/blog/publication extol what a lyrical genius Lil Wayne is then I am going to get all Suge Knight on peoples asses. The kid just doesn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever and the more I listen to his garbled 16’s the more certain I become that he is suffering some sort of mental impairment. Don’t believe me? Then read over some Weezy lyrics cause they really speak for themselves;

“I’m an extension cord, I’m a lightning rod /
I’m a lion roar, I’m a dinosaur.”
- from ‘Don’t Touch Me (Remix)’

There are so many levels of retardedness in this lyric I never know where to begin. So Wayne conducts electricity? Fantastic! Good to know I can plug him into the powerpoint so that I’m able to vacuum the car on Sunday afternoons. But wait he is a dinosaur too! Raaaaar! For my money I reckon he would be a Stegosaurus – the dinosaur with the littlest brain mass per body weight. Scientists were surprised the Stegosaurus could even feed itself with such a miniscule brain, much like how most hip hop heads are amazed that Lil Wayne can even walk and talk at the same time.

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23 April 2 Permalink

Maundz & Bias B’s “Take It Back” gifs

There isn’t much more we can say about the latest Maundz track “Take It Back” that hasn’t been said already. Whether praising Wik’s beat as an instant classic that could sit comfortably next to Pete Rock’s work in the mid-90’s or saying Maundz just gets better and even betterer with every verse he lays down or that Bias wearing that tracksuit and ponytail is the best thing that has happened in a filmclip since Reason was being drunk in a flannel with Def Wish - everybody has already gabbed on about it relentlessly.

So fuck it! To celebrate one of the best songs and filmclips of this year and so we don;y have to come up with some sort of colourful fucking language to describe how dope this track is, we present to you the best moments of “Take It Back” in gif format! Enjoy and stay tuned for Maundz’s new LP Zero out later this year. 

9 April 3 Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Force

G-Force, Forkie, Force, Gareth - whatever you want to call the bespectacled MC and DFTC Records ringleader, everybody admits he is fucking top bloke. Since this top bloked actually helped out drop our fucking long awaited mixtape by bailing us out of a Burmese prison we shot him one of our patented quizzes.

Future Is Now or Violent by Design?

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Source: peakstreet.com

2 April 1 Permalink

The 93 Mixtape (mixed by Dazed) - A Peak Street x DFTC Project

In Peak Street’ Magazine’s humble, yet godddam correct, opinion - 1993 was a vintage year for hip hop. 36 Chambers, Doggystyle, Midnight Marauders, 93 Til Infinity, Bacdafuccup, Slaughtahouse, Black Sunday, Lethal Injection, Return of the Boom Bap, Enta Da Stage and Buhloone Mind State are just a hint of the classic albums which hit speakers in the nine-trey. Timeless music.

To pay homage to this most awesome of hip hop years, Peak Street put a call out to all Australian MC’s to drop some bars over some classic beats from the year 1993 for a mixtape. All heads had to do was track down an instrumental to one of their favourite joints that was dropped in that year and then lay down some bars worthy of it.

Some of the finest lyricists, both established and underground, answered the call with a huge number of tracks being submitted. After much careful deliberation from a panel of esteemed judges consisting of Chad Mann (Peak Street Designer), Ronan Hamill (Hippopotamus Rex Radio Presenter), Jim Steps (blogger from allaussiehiphop.com) and Shane Scott (Hip Hop journalist), the Peak Street Editor disregarded all their advice, gave the dopest tracks to Dazed to go and mix and then fled to Cambodia to meet Pegz and start a south-east Asian drug syndicate.

This new career move didn’t quite pan out though so months later he has returned and teamed up with Down For the Count Records to drop the best mixtape of this year. 

DOWNLOAD LINK

http://dftc.bandcamp.com/album/93-mixtape

TRACKLIST

1 April 4 Permalink

Peak Street 93 Mixtape Live Today!

That is right motherfuckers! After we spent the last few months unsuccessfully trying to get former Death Row Records artist Tray Deee out of prison and resurrect his rap career, we gave up and are now ready to drop The 93 Mixtape.

Thanks to some hard work and hustle from Dazed and Down For The Count Records, and us at Peak Street now attending our AA meetings on a regular basis, the mixtape is done and we’re gonna play the whole thing on Goonbag Radio today at 6pm regular Australian time. Tune in to hear me talk a gang of shit and to listen to some of the best rappers in Australia smash some of the best instrumentals from the year 1993. Can’t get much better than clasic beats and Australian hip hop together right?

Tracklist and download link will go live here after the show. Spread the word.

1 April 1 Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Purpose

Pagen Elypsis MC and young go-getter Purpose has got bars to spare. Plenty of them. Like more than Pentridge and Barwon combined. But does he have answers? We decided to throw him our patented ‘I Got 5 On It’ quiz and see what happened.

Frank Ocean or The Weeknd?

Tough one, I’m a Frank fan but I’d have to say The Weeknd. Put a lot of quality music out last year, enjoyed all of it. Dude can sing his ass off.

“Dead Presidents I” or “Dead Presidents II”?

“Dead Presidents II’. Original is good but Pt 2 is just classic. Reasonable Doubt is one of my all time favorite albums and that song is a big part of the reason why. 

360 or Kerser?

In the battle? 60. It was a good battle, but 60’s experience just rapping/clarity won it for me.

Deafness or Blindness?

Woooooow another tough one. Damn. Uh…. I think I’d go with Blindness. There’s so much in the world to see, but music can paint a clear picture in the minds eye. Plus then when I bump into people they’ll just feel bad instead of us fighting to the death.

Big L or Big Pun?

Big L. Both were amazing writers but me and my boys probably know all the words to every Big L song.

Purps just dropped the third installment in his If The City Had A Voice mixtape series which you can grab HERE. Be on the look out for his debut LP this year too.

Source: peakstreet.com

11 January 43 Permalink

FBI file of Ol Dirty Bastard makes Wu-Tang look more gully.

So some awesome motherfucking kids over at gun.io have just nabbed Ol Dirty Bastard’s FBI File thanks to the Freedom of Information Act that allows for the release of FBI files if that dude is deceased. And since ODB is as dead as Common’s diss game, they dropped the files.

Skimming through the info, it seems that the Wu-Tang Clan were clearly nothing to fuck with. Hell just check page 5, and I quote;

“The WTC (Wu-Tang Clan) is heavily involved in the sale of drugs, illegal guns, weapons possession, murder, carjacking and other types of violent crime.”

Protect your neck kid!

The document connects the Clan to a couple of murders, a shoot out with the New York Police Department and the Bloods Gang. It also outlines Ol Dirty’s being robbed and shot.

Tell us if you find anything else interesting rap nerds. 

Hmmmm… I wonder if I can get criminal histories of Aussie rappers. Any ideas of which local heads would have the best rap sheet?

Source: gun.io

11 January 11 Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Dialectrix

If I could steal anyone’s flows and cadences in the game, it would most probably be from Dialectrix. Unfortunately I would waste all that amazing talent spittin about Burger Rings, Macgyver re-runs and longnecks. We decided to throw some questions with out ‘I Got 5 On It’ quiz.

Chester P or Jehst? 

Damn! Thats hard right off the bat! This to me all comes down to timing. Had I been asked this 3-4 years ago it probably would have been Jehst. Like many younger MC’s in this country High Plains Drifter was one of those seminal records that all those young ‘lyrical rapity rappers’ liked and I was definitely one of those dudes, yet I hated a lot of the dudes who overrated Jehst as they were usually pretentious hippy wankers for some reason.

All that aside I’ve always respected Jehst as a wordsmith. He’s got the ability to make me focus on his imagery rather then get lost in his word flow which is a rare and talented gift I reckon and his influence on Australian rappers is huge. Having said that Chester takes this in my books. He can be equally as convoluted and as esoteric as Jehst yet Chester has been more prolific and is far better at hitting home with conscious subject matter and has more of a sting to his bars when he’s passionate about what he’s talking about. To me Chester P is a mans rapper Jehst is more of a boys rapper and unfortunately I’m turning into an old man.

Streetfighter of Tekken?

KILLER INSTINCT!! CO-CO-CO-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!! Um….. yeah…. Streetfighter hands down. My big bro is a die hard Tekken head and he’s swayed me over the years but Streetfighters unfuckwitable (unless Killer Instinct is involved!)

The Beatminerz or The Beatnuts?

I have more respect for the Beatminerz ‘cause of their crazy catalogue of history yet I’ve got more sentimental attachment to the Beatnuts as they were one of the first groups that got me into rap heavily and I copped their shit when it dropped rather then checkin them retrospectively like a lot of the earlier shit from the 90’s. If I was offered a beat by the two I would pick the Beatminerz though

Stress: The Extinction Agenda or Clear Blue Skies

You’re an arsehole! Shiiiiieeeeeet! Breeze and Pharaohe are both in my top 5. This is bullshit! As albums I would have to go with Stress.. overall but I think there are moments in Clear Blue Skies that I think are better. That “Damn-it-to-hell-again-I-feel-my-brain-swell-like-meningitis…” flow Breeze does is one of my favourite verses of all time and the album as a whole is stoopid! But Stress to me is more consistent with more classic tracks as a whole but… it would depend what mood I’m in I guess.

De Niro or Pacino?

Pacino’s done less cheese. He fucked it with the coffee ads but. Taxi Driver is one of my all time favourites and I like it better then Scarface that must make me an emo punk or something I’m just going to say De Niro on that alone fuck it.

Go make sure you vote for Dialectrix in the Triple J Hottest 100. He has his awesome Like a Version of “Buy Me A Pony” and the track “Priceless” with Pegz and Joe New. CLICK CLICK.

Next up is Adelaide’s Purpose.

Source: peakstreet.com

9 January Permalink

Oz Hip Hop’s Sexiest Man of 2011

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Source: peakstreet.com

8 January Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Vents

So we’ve started this new quiz called ‘I Got 5 On It’ which is basically 5 random questions where we give heads two options to choose from. They can answer any damn well way they please. First up is Golden Era heavy hitter and Stevan Segal of Australian hip hop - Vents.

Hit Squad or Def Squad?

Did Hit Squad even put out an album? I only heard the first Def Squad album and from that I only really played one song a lot (checkin me out?) so they win off that. Plus, Eric.

John Rambo or Rocky Balboa?

Rocky. Did you know Sylvester Stallone wrote and directed all of these? (thanks, Dr Bind) 

Coffee or Cigarettes? 

Well, I started smoking when I was… what? 10? 11? And I only got addicted to this other wonderful legal and incredibly addictive psychoactive drug CAFFEINE in the last couple of years. So, durrys.

Vin Rock or Phife?

Wow. Phife. Did you know Vin Rock is Mike Tyson’s cousin? And Treach is married to Pepa from the group Salt N Pepa? Or maybe they divorced by now. Is this the kind of ranting you were after, Dave? As long as the conversation stays on Reagan era cinema and 90’s rap, I can keep going like this forever.

Only Built for Cuban Linx or The Infamous?

Fuckkkkkkkkk. Shit; both really original, heavy, classic albums. I love both of these equally and it would be unfair to place them in a competition. But, since we’re doing that… shit… fuck… Infamous. Actually, Cuban Linx. No… Infamous.

Don’t forget to vote for Vents Uno in Triple J’s Hottest 100 by simply clicking HERE.

Source: peakstreet.com

7 January 6 Permalink