Articles Posted July 2011
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The Robert Glasper Experiment Ft. DOOM & Masta Ace: Live @ The Montreux Jazz Festival
The Robert Glasper Experiment brought out some interesting guests during their performance at the prestigious Motreux Jazz Festival. Valentin Augsburger was in the audience and captured some footage. The first video is a live rendition…
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Big Shug – We Miss You (Produced by DJ Premier)
Big Shug – We Miss You Guru would’ve turned 50 yesterday. Now I know this has been doing the rounds online for a couple days (which roughly translates to around the time of the Byzanthine…
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WTF Is A Spotify? (A Beginner’s Guide)
Spotify has finally become available to American audiences, hopefully ending their seemingly indefinite legal troubles in bringing the possible future of the music industry to US shores. But what is Spotify, and why should you…
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New Artist Alert: Mahd
Few things in life are more depressing than sifting through hundreds of artist submissions and finding none worth giving a dook about. Experience has taught me that the shit is almost always guaranteed to be…
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Nas - Nasty Ft. Raekwon (TRU Shaolin RMX)
Raekwon decided to hop on the instrumental to Nas his new joint to promote JD Era, his new signing to the Ice Water H2O label. That’s cool ‘n all, but when The Chef jumps on…
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Better Late Than Never: Black Rob On Duck Down
If you think Black Rob is a talented dude but have always felt he was the odd one out on the Bad Boy roster then let me tell you, we’re on the same page here.…
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Women of the 2011 ESPYs
The only reason to watch the ESPYs is to see super athletic women and model types strut their stuff in the purrtiest things money can buy. Sure enough, there was plenty of optic candy on…
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Lil Wayne – Sorry 4 The Wait (Mixtape)
The Carter 4 ain’t around the corner just yet and Weezy’s been complaining about producers slacking, but he still found enough dope instrumentals on other people’s projects to compile his first official mixtape since he…
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David Bowie: WTF is a Jay Electronica?
Earlier this week, Jay Electronigga thumbed a string of tweets about his mildly anticipated Roc Nation debut, Act II: The Patent of Nobility (The Turn). Among them was claims of collaborations with Jay-Z and David…
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Shabazz Palaces Live At KEXP
We’ve been hyping these guys pretty thoroughly (and deservedly so), but so far I haven’t heard any why don’t you change your name to the “The Shabazz Up”? complaints like when we post something by…
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Illegally Tapped Phone Conversations By Rappers
With all the hullabaloo around the phone hacking scandal with Rupert Murdoch and the demise of British tabloid News Of the World you’d almost forget the real victims. We at TRU HQ don’t condone these…
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DOOM & Ghostface: It’s Actually Happening After All
Back in 2006 I was at a Ghostface show where he was asked when the ‘Swift & Changeable’ album he was working on with DOOM (back then still with the MF) was gonna drop. He…
