Young cats love hot girls that play video games and blow trees. Man, I’m off that. Non-profit, post-colonial literary geeks are my grown-man BI. I kid, though, there’s always room for the juvenile. Sam Lachow’s “Hash Muffins” clip is weed rap playfully sex-ified.
What I want to know is how does Detooz Films manage to get around so much these days? Oh, right, human cloning.
206UP.COM has already sung the praises of Malice and Mario Sweet’s EP Happy 2 Year. It was simply one of the best R&B projects to come out of Seattle in recent memory. Emotionally and creatively heartfelt, it drew a straight line between the city’s bustling hip-hop scene and the more in-the-cut R&B landscape where there remains greater room still for expansion. Today, Malice and Mario offer this reissue of Happy 2 Year, a Deluxe Edition that includes the new track “Love and Friendship” and three remixes.
In time for Halloween, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis just released the video for “And We Danced” (from 2009’s The Unplanned Mixtape). The cast of this epic clip has single-handedly ensured the financial health of all Seattle-area Value Villages for the next five years. Here’s to hand-me-downs.
Peep the visuals for “Zeused Up,” Notion’s god-of-the-summertime anthem.
John Harry Baluran of Detooz Films directs his best video yet for the homies J. Bre, Luck-One and Grynch. “Memories” takes a simple concept (T.R.O.Y.) and draws out a wealth of emotions with poignant images related to hip-hop, social issues and pop culture. One of the best Town videos of the year.
Unlike Logics, Jake One (?) and IHOP, I hate it when my friends pay me in Kit Kats. Makes me feel like I’m 10 years old. F-ckers. Sometime-Seattle MC Sez Batters gets away with it here, the candy bar (get it?) presumably allegory for that dope rap sh-t, of which this is only a moderate example. Detooz Films behind the lens again.
And now for a more benign video concerning a lady’s shortcomings. It sounds like DTC made this song on Garageband which, of course, makes me like it even more. This video makes me hungry, makes me dance, makes me yearn for simpler times in the Fall when the most critical thing on my dome piece was choosing what color pencil erasers to put on the end of my #2’s.
Also, this gem:
If P Smoov were standing right next to OL’ Small would you be able to tell the difference? Certainly not in a hazy, strobe-lit club, the locale that Small’s music is specifically designed for. This earnest young rapper with booze, beats and babes (sorry, I couldn’t avoid the alliterative opportunity) on his mind just dropped a new single, “Back to the Future.” The track does, in fact, feature production by P Smoov, and the accompanying video is directed by Mike Folden. It’s all pretty kitschy and nostalgic to 80’s babies (of which I am one). I can’t say I didn’t find myself smiling at this.
This is some heinous sh-t. Violence against women is either insinuated or blatantly represented in 99.99% of all forms of entertainment, so Nacho Picasso isn’t alone in his abomination. Still makes me cringe, though. I’m more disappointed in the artist than angry, especially since this clip was derived from an album I enjoyed quite a bit. Dude should be given a chance to explain the deeper meaning behind these visuals, women especially are entitled to one.
I just saw Allen Stone perform this song on Conan. My girl was like: Who is this guy? Me: One of those new white dudes who sings retro-soul music. He looks like Andy Samberg a little, right? Girlfriend: He looks like Andy Samberg playing a white dude who sings retro-soul music in an SNL skit. Me: Dude’s kinda filthy, though. Then we both nodded our heads.
Also, where the f-ck is Chewelah???
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