Saturday, June 14, 2008

EDOTS presents... Hip Hop's hottest collaborations you probably slept on, as voted on by me! In no particular order.

1. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, and Method Man, 'Yolanda's House' (Big Doe Rehab)

2. The Roots, Dice Raw, and Beanie Sigel, 'Adrenaline' (The Roots, Home Grown)

3. Slum Village (the original group w/ J Dilla) and Common, 'Thelonius' (Fantastic Vol 2 and Like Water for Chocolate)

4. Outkast, Lil Wayne, Snoop, 'Hollywood Divorce' (Idlewild)

5. De La Soul, Mos Def, 'Big Brother Beat' (Stakes Is High)

6. XClan, Christian Scott (Jazz trumpeter) 'Prison' (Return From Mecca)

7. KRS-One, Nas, Kanye West, Rakim, 'Better Than I've Ever Been' (DJ Premier Remix Project)

8. The Talking Heads, Trick Daddy, Ludacris, Cee-Lo Green, 'Sugar on my Tongue' (Arthur King's Pop Shit)

9. Talib Kweli, Norah Jones (Jazz Vocalist) 'Soon the New Day' (Eardrum)

10. The Roots, Big Daddy Kane, 'BOOM' (The Tippin Point)

NOW, THE HOTTEST HIP HOP COLLABORATION THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY SLEPT ON....

...YOU BETTER GO OUT AND GET THIS ONE....

....DON'T BOOTLEG IT!!!!!!

9th Wonder, Jean Grae, Mos Def, Memphis Bleek, 'Crooklyn Dodgers 3' (Dream Merchants Vol 2)


BONUS!!!!!!!!

Common, featuring...Omar, Cee Lo, Bilal, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu and Lonnie "Pops" Lynn "Heaven Somewhere" - ("Electric Circus")

EDOTS!

Two Words...OK, one letter / one word

R. Kelly,

In case you were under a rock you missed one of the most significant stories in our community...other than the untimely passing of one of this countries greatest political journalist, Tim Russert, anything relevant to Barack Obama, the continued senseless murders of young black men in Baltimore and DC, or the fact that oil is still trading high and now Exxon wants to get out of the retail business.

The self proclaimed "King of R&B"...lets see what Bobby Brown has to say about that, was acquitted on all 14 charges of child pornography. Now, let's see. R. Kelly. Ya'll remember the tape right? I mean, ya'll saw it right? OK. The jury said the believed it was in fact R .Kelly on the tape but could not be sure if it was the young lady who the prosecution said it was, and since the young lady refused to testify, the jury had no victim. WOW! But the jury BELIEVED it was him according to Nancy Grace (CNN Reporter who has made a career prosecuting and now reporting on such cases) who is PISSED. OK, ya'll saw the tape right????? Reminder, this is my opinion. Feel free to comment. WHAT THE FCUK!!!!!!!! Now the law is the law and it had to be proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was guilty of the charges...but c'mon. What about personal responsibility, child endangerment, or just plain...child pornography charges. If it WAS him...he was with SOMEBODY'S CHILD!!!!!! How stupid was the prosecution or the grand jury not to have considered charges that DID NOT involve that young lady on the tape? We all knew he had the ability to make it "disappear". Plus, he was being prosecuted in Illinois. Surprised, no. Did you see the people outside of the court house? They love Kelly. Its like the neighborhood drug dealer. The one that has poisoned someone from everybody's family on the block. But has employed many others, given away free turkeys at Thanksgiving, and even sponsors the youth football and basketball teams...sh!#, he might be the coach. They all love him and Kels...go figure. Holla Back!!!!!!!